Wed.Oct 04, 2023

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What’s Fueling Burnout in Your Organization?

Harvard Business Review

Many people believe burnout is driven by excessive work demands. In fact, it’s driven by a specific type of demand–work that requires too much collaboration between individuals or teams of employees. To reduce this collaboration overload, ask these four questions: Can we reduce structural complexity? Does our workflow make sense? Hasthe profusion of teams spiked employees’ microstress?

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Why Falling In Love With Your Title Is Bad For Your Leadership

Lolly Daskal

Leaders come in all shapes and sizes, and one of the most common ways they are recognized is by their title. Titles like CEO, manager, or supervisor are used to indicate a person’s level of authority and responsibility within an organization. However, it is important to remember that a title is not what makes a leader, it’s the actions and behavior of the person that hold the title that truly determine their effectiveness as a leader.

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Do You Understand Why You Catastrophize?

Harvard Business Review

Leaders who create doomsday scenarios out of everyday setbacks — what behavioral scientists call “catastrophizing” — risk spreading their anxiety to their teams. In this article, the author digs in to the psychological and physiological reasons behind this tendency to draw disastrous conclusions and presents several ways to address it: 1) Reflect on how you learned to expect the worst; 2) Create ways to interrogate faulty data; 3) Learn to regulate amid your catastrophizing; 4) Separate fears ro

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How to Overcome Proximity Bias: Building an Inclusive Workplace

AIHR

The term ”proximity bias” has been around since the 1970s, but with the rise of remote and hybrid work, it’s reaching new heights. So, what is it exactly? Proximity bias (or distance bias) is the tendency of leaders to favor workers who are physically present or closer to them. If left unchecked, it can put remote workers at a significant disadvantage.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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A Tool to Help Boards Measure Cyber Resilience

Harvard Business Review

During our research, we asked cybersecurity leaders, board directors and other subject matter experts about board cybersecurity discussions and the reporting given to boards in preparation for these discussions. All respondents had strong opinions about cybersecurity boardroom discussions. Generally, participants agreed that boards had a difficult time discussing cybersecurity at a meaningful level, the board needed different information, and a new approach was necessary.

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Remarkable Leaders Are Alike in One Powerful Way

Leadership Freak

Remarkable leaders share one common characteristic. They are NOT like each other. Why are you trying to be like someone else?

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The Importance of Celebrating Success

Thought Leaders LLC

Success and failure are part of running a team day to day. You need to recognize and promote wins, because it’s going to build momentum for the team and make them feel like they’re accomplishing great things. There are a lot of great ways to acknowledge success. You can give people bonuses, provide them visibility opportunities, maybe do some public recognition, give people increased responsibilities, and even promotions.

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Big Tech Takes the Stand

Kellogg Insight

Google may look like a monopoly, but is its power actually hurting consumers? A legal expert weighs in.

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6 Manager Effectiveness Metrics HR Leaders Should Be Tracking

15Five

Managers have an outsized impact on the outcomes that matter most to HR leaders, including employee engagement, performance, and retention. The more effective managers you have across the organization, the better your employees—and the company—will perform. But before you can make targeted investments in manager enablement, you must know how effective your managers are today and understand where they’re succeeding or struggling.

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What We’re Missing In The On-Going RTO-Remote Work Debate

Tanveer Nasser

Few issues have captured the attention and focus of leaders over the past few years as the ongoing debate over whether to allow employees to work remotely or demand they return to office (RTO). And because it’s a contentious issue, there’s invariably numerous articles and studies out there which are.

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Change Management 101: A Practical 3 Part Guide

Implementing new tools or business processes in your organization? Lemon Learning put together a practical 3 part guide to prevent the pitfalls of change management. Drive a successful change management project from diagnosis through to measurement.

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Personal SWOT Analysis: How To Conduct One (With Examples)

BetterUp

Jump to section What’s a personal SWOT analysis?

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The Secret to Compounding Business Growth

Rhythm Systems Growth

Growth doesn’t happen by accident. To achieve sustainable, profitable growth, organizations must become disciplined at working “on” the business, not just “in” it. The secret to business performance is developing the right habit of strategic thinking. This is one of the key principles in the Rhythm of Work that has helped thousands of companies over the last two decades.

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Questions to Ask at the End of an Interview

BetterUp

Jump to section Why should you ask questions at the end of an interview?

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The Secret to Making Difficult Decisions

Harvard Business Review

Ask yourself these five questions.

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Is Training the Right Solution?

Speaker: Tim Buteyn

Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.

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How to Write a Memo in 8 Steps (with Examples)

BetterUp

Jump to section What’s a memorandum?

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What Do I Need to Know About Workplace Etiquette?

Harvard Business Review

Keep your sense of humor and don’t forget to be yourself.

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How Well Do You Know Your Core Customers?

Harvard Business Review

Target your resources at the consumers who drive the most value.

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