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Digital Marketing Mastery: A CEO's Roadmap to Competitive Advantage

Chief Outsiders

In today's digital-driven business landscape, CEOs can no longer afford to take a hands-off approach to their company's marketing efforts. With over 80% of the modern buyer's journey happening online, a solid digital marketing strategy has become critical for driving growth and staying competitive.

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The Real Profit Behind Business Books: Key Findings from 350+ Authors

Peter Winick

How Thought Leaders Turn Books into Revenue Powerhouses with Speaking and Consulting Peter Winick and Bill Sherman sit down to discuss some of the intriguing findings from the Book ROI study they’ve been involved in for the last several months. What’s the ROI of a business book? Peter Winick and Bill Sherman dive into this game-changing question in the latest episode of Leveraging Thought Leadership.

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Stay Interviews: Best Practices, Questions, & Template

David Grossman

No matter the industry, losing great talent is one of the toughest challenges for leaders and employees. Not only is there the question of trying to fill that person’s role, but the associated work of training and onboarding a new team member, plus the potential for disruption to the business and added work for those who remain. In some organizations, when departures are widespread, the challenges are naturally greater – and even harder to overcome.

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How to Use AI to Build Your Company’s Collective Intelligence

Harvard Business Review

When done right, AI can not only improve short-term productivity of organizations but can also increase their long-term performance by expanding the space of opportunities the organization considers by supporting learning, increasing intellectual diversity, and enhancing organizational culture. That is, it can increase the organization’s collective intelligence.

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How to Make The Best Benefits Decisions for 2025s Workforce: An HR and Total Rewards Guide

Speaker: Kaitlin Ruby Carroll

Retaining top talent in 2025 means rethinking benefits. In a competitive job market, fertility benefits are more than just offerings - they are a commitment to your team’s well-being. Gain critical insights into the latest fertility benefits strategies that can help position your organization as an industry leader. Our expert will explore the unique advantages and challenges of each model, share success stories from top organizations, and offer practical strategies to make benefits decisions tha

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Avoid These 7 Common Feedback Mistakes for Better Results

Lolly Daskal

Feedback is a crucial aspect of personal and professional growth. It helps individuals identify their strengths and areas for improvement. As an executive leadership coach, I have helped leaders develop the skills necessary to provide effective feedback. However, even well-intentioned feedback can backfire if not delivered properly. Here are 7 common feedback mistakes to avoid: Inserting your own bias: Be aware of your personal biases and how they may influence your feedback.

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Are you encouraging self-selection?

Peter Winick

Transcript Hi there, it’s Peter Winick. I’m the founder and CEO at Thought Leadership Leverage, and here’s the idea that I’d like to share with you today, and that’s this: make it easy for clients and prospects to self-select—easy for them and easy for you. What do I mean by this? If you find, often in conversations with folks reaching out to you to learn more about you, particularly to potentially engage you, hire you, etc., and you spend a lot of time having to co

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Why Workplace Well-Being Programs Don’t Achieve Better Outcomes

Harvard Business Review

By 2026, global corporate spending on wellness programs is set to top $94.6 billion, yet anticipated improvements in well-being are not being realized, and, in fact, mental health needs are continuing to rise around the world. Drawing on a large body of recent research, the authors argue that well-being programs are failing, in part, because they focus on individual solutions rather than the broader systems that affect workers.

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Top 6 Leadership Traits In High Demand For The Future

Lolly Daskal

As we navigate an increasingly complex and rapidly evolving business dynamics. The skills and traits required for effective leadership are also changing. The future demands leaders who can adapt, innovate, and inspire their teams to thrive in the face of unprecedented challenges. As an executive leadership coach, I have helped leaders develop and hone the essential skills needed to succeed in the future.

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5 Keys for Managers on How to Start One on Ones with Your Team

Get Lighthouse

What's true for trees is also true for starting one on ones. If you aren't having one on ones with your team, you're missing out on an incredible motivating, problem solving, pressure relieving opportunity to help and grow your team. But even if you're totally bought into starting them, it can be intimidating to actually get started. Like the first time for many things, when you start one on ones, it's easy to feel unsure what to do.

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The Path to Power for Servant Leaders

Leadership Freak

You didn't wake up thinking, "I want other people to run my life." Healthy people want power to make decisions. Normal people want a voice. Dominance perverts a healthy urge for power. Servant leaders lift themselves and others. Your superpower is servant-power. Here's how.

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The Diversity Reckoning: Can HR Survive Without New Perspectives?

Speaker: Jeremy York

2024 has tested every organization, and 2025 promises no less - the warning signs are everywhere. If you’re relying on superficial approaches to diversity, you might find yourself scrambling to catch up. Thought diversity - the fuel for new ideas, fresh perspectives, and disruptive innovation - is more than a buzzword. It's a survival strategy. And if you’re not building it into your workplace culture right now , you’re heading for trouble.

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Why Marketers Are Spending Less on Social Media

Harvard Business Review

A bi-annual poll of U.S. marketing leaders found that social media investments have declined to their lowest level in seven years. An analysis of poll data suggests that lack of strategy fit, weak returns, and new competition from retail media may help explain this dip. Researchers leverage their findings to offer suggestions to marketers on how to overcome past strategy misalignment in order to continue to benefit from social media’s immediacy and pervasiveness, including through the use of Gen

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our new hires keep quitting after their first week

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: Several times recently, we’ve had new graduates accept a job at our company, then quit after their first week with no notice. Should I say something about how unprofessional this is, or let them learn the hard lesson on their own? Or can we do something during the hiring profess to make it clear this isn’t acceptable?

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Using Technology to Enhance Leadership-Driven Recognition Programs

Vantage Circle

Reviewed by : Saurabh Deshpande - People Culture Expert Key Takeaways The New Age of Personalized Recognition. How you can bridge the gap betweeen distributed teams and enhance transparency and fairness. Building a Recognition Ecosystem with Integrations and Gamification and Interactive Recognition. The Future of Recognition and How AI will play a crucial Role.

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12 Questions Leaders Must Answer

Leadership Freak

Say what people need to hear before you say what you need to say. Answer emotion before dealing with issues. You can’t strengthen relationships, for example, while people are red in the face.

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Recognition Powers High-Performance — If You Do it Right

Speaker: Radhika Samant and Todd Wuestenberg

Employee recognition has often been deemed a "feel-good" initiative, tied closely to rewards. While we understand its importance, we tend to associate recognition with intangible outcomes like engagement and sentiment, rather than direct impacts on retention and high performance. In today’s workplace, the true ROI of recognition lies in its ability to regenerate tangible, business-driven results.

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Is Your Career Heading in the Right Direction?

Harvard Business Review

In our busy lives, it’s hard to find enough time to pause and reflect. But if we never make the time, we may just end up running fast in the wrong direction — and this is especially true when it comes to our careers. That’s why, once a quarter, it’s useful to run through this three-step exercise, or do a “career detox.” The first step involves turning inward and asking yourself a series of reflective questions focused on whether you’re still happy with your current path.

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coworker’s wife works remotely from our non-remote office

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: Weird thing just came up at my work that I’d be curious to hear you weigh in on. I work at a university that is 100% in-person, on-the-ground. My colleague Fergus has an office in an obscure little corner of the building. We rarely see him come in and out, and he tends to be around for odd hours.

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Employee Promotion: Your 7-Step Guide on the Types & How To Promote

AIHR

Employee promotion is an effective way to retain employees and spur business growth. In fact, 33.63% of employees have sought new employment due to a lack of career growth opportunities in their current positions. Additionally, this statistic is split quite evenly between men and women workers, with 32.19% of men and 34.92% of women seeking new jobs for the same reason.

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Transforming Anxiety into Engagement

Leadership Freak

I sent a note to several leaders, “People are often nervous when the boss shows up. How do you put people at ease?” The desire to please the boss causes anxiety. People may pretend they aren’t nervous. But authority makes people scamper on the inside, even when working side-by-side.

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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.

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Research: Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Have to Stress Workers Out

Harvard Business Review

Pay-for-performance (PFP) is considered one of the strongest tools to motivate employees, yet despite its popularity, it can sometimes create stress for workers that results in decreased performance, creativity, and engagement. New research suggests that how employees view their supervisor has a role in determining whether workers view PFP as a motivating challenge, leading them to achieve new heights, or a stressful threat that impacts their work.

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the company I want to work for employs a guy who’s abusive to women on dating apps

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I have a tricky situation involving prior sexual harassment/creepy behavior by a potential future coworker at a job I’m applying for. A year ago, I matched with a man on a dating app who works in my (very small) field. The conversation was pleasant but we never met up and eventually lost touch.

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Five most asked questions by Certified Scrum Product Owner training participants

Agile42

What level of participation does the Product Owner (PO) have in the Sprint Retrospective? This one is easy! The Product Owner is a member of the Scrum Team, hence they are a full participant in the Sprint Retrospective. The Sprint Retrospective is about reflection and improvement and because Scrum is rooted in the Toyota Production System (TPS), continuous improvement is an important value.

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Leading Thoughts for October 17, 2024

Michael McKinney

I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Alden Mills on attitude: “Your attitude is one of the single most important things you can control, and if you are not careful, you will let others influence and sometimes even control your attitude for you.

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How To Empower Your Workforce With Modern Fertility Benefits

Speaker: Andrea Wuchiski

In an era where a workforce spans multiple generations, HR managers and Total Rewards leaders face the unique challenge of designing benefits packages that cater to diverse employee needs. This session will delve into how comprehensive fertility benefits can bridge generational gaps, support employees’ health, and enhance workplace satisfaction. Join us for an insightful session that highlights the strategic importance of fertility benefits in today’s competitive job market.

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What Employers Get Wrong About How People Connect at Work

Harvard Business Review

Four important kinds of connection happen in organizations — but leaders usually only focus on one.

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we say grace at team meals, is it unethical to automate people’s jobs away, and more

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s four answers to four questions. Here we go… 1. We’re supposed to say grace at the start of team meals I work in government. Fairly new to job, first time in government. Been in private sector and higher education before this. Every time my department has a group meal, they say grace.

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The Leadership Imperative Every Leader Must Understand but Many Don’t

Leadership Freak

Understanding people is the #1 leadership imperative. There are four ways to understand people. Use the lens of aspirations, motivations, potential, and shortcomings. (AMPS) Learning to understand people transforms your leadership. Understanding a person AMPS their enthusiasm. Here's how.

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Signs Your Organization’s Culture Needs to Change

Michael McKinney

C ULTURE has the power to inspire and unite an entire workforce in the service of common goals. It can create meaning and purpose and a positive day-to-day experience while ensuring that the company is well positioned to meet its business objectives. But when an organization’s culture is negative and dysfunctional, it has the opposite effect. A study from MIT/Sloan found that a toxic culture is by far the strongest predictor of employee attrition.

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Behind The Curtain: How Todays Political Climate is Steering HR and DEI in 2025

Speaker: Hanh Nguyen

In today’s ever-changing world, HR professionals often find themselves juggling conflicting priorities - especially when external factors seem out of their control. As we traverse the unpredictable waters of the current political and economic landscape, we find ourselves at a crossroads. For HR leaders, understanding how these external forces shape our diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts is crucial.

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How Great Product Managers Facilitate Collaboration

Harvard Business Review

Five steps to help you enhance the discovery process and deliver products that meet both customer needs and business goals.

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my coworker does extreme sports when she’s out sick, asking to skip a performance review, and more

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. My coworker does extreme sports whenever she’s out sick I have a coworker, “Pattie,” who has a remote work accommodation due to a mental health diagnosis. For the past year, she has been chronically late to meetings, missed deadlines, and been difficult to reach.

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How to Improve Employee Engagement in Retail: Importance, Ideas & Solutions

Vantage Circle

A McKinsey study discovered that the turnover rate in the retail industry is 70% higher than in other industries. This alarming figure raises questions about the working conditions in retail sectors. Are retail employees truly motivated and committed to their workplace? What drives them to leave? Has this always been the case in the retail industry?

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Signs Your Organization’s Culture Needs to Change

Michael McKinney

C ULTURE has the power to inspire and unite an entire workforce in the service of common goals. It can create meaning and purpose and a positive day-to-day experience while ensuring that the company is well positioned to meet its business objectives. But when an organization’s culture is negative and dysfunctional, it has the opposite effect. A study from MIT/Sloan found that a toxic culture is by far the strongest predictor of employee attrition.

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Engage, Empower, Excel: Transforming Performance in the New Era of Work

Speaker: Radhika Samant and Adri Glover

The world of work has fundamentally changed. The series of waves that the pandemic began have rippled through the Great Resignation, quiet quitting, the Great Regret, and other eloquent phrases that boil down to the same thing: people aren’t engaged at work or enabled to perform at their best. The truth is that engagement and enablement is more important than ever, but how we do it is the critical differentiator for many organizations.