July, 2025

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Take 5: Making Communication Work … at Work

Kellogg Insight

Effective communication is critical to the success of many organizations and for the day-to-day responsibilities of working individuals. But the ideal form of communication can change dramatically from one situation to another. The optimal way for bosses to communicate strategic plans to their team, for example, likely differs from the best way for two coworkers to discuss a point of contention.

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A Free Communication Self-Assessment for Your Team

Leadership Freak

Strong leaders energize conversations. Poor communication drains teams. Use this self-assessment to reflect on how your communication impacts the people around you. Even small adjustments can lift engagement, clarify expectations, and fuel forward momentum.

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How To Measure Employee Engagement: 11 Metrics To Track

AIHR

Most companies know employee engagement drives success. In fact, disengagement costs the global economy $438 billion, and if all employees were engaged, there’d be a $9.6 trillion boost in productivity. However, measuring engagement can be tricky. What does an engaged employee look like? And if you can’t define that clearly, how can you track it? This article discusses the importance of measuring employee engagement, the metrics to track when doing so, 11 ways you can measure engagement, and how

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Why Constant Structure Changes Don’t Deliver Results

AlignOrg

In today’s rapidly shifting business environment, it’s easy to believe that the secret to agility is reorganizing your structure. But too often, organizations fall into a pattern of restructuring by default, not by design. The result? Constant organizational churn, unclear roles, lost productivity and frustrated employees. At AlignOrg Solutions, we call this overreliance on org charts “boxology.

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Why Equity-Driven Talent Strategies Are The Competitive Advantage You Need

Speaker: Anise Wiley-Little

In today’s rapidly shifting workplace landscape, this presentation explores how Human Resources professionals can lead the transformation toward inclusive, equity-centered practices that don’t just align with organizational values but drive innovation, retention, and long-term profitability. Framed through the concept of the economics of belonging, we’ll examine how inclusive design across hiring, development, and leadership pipelines creates measurable value for both for-profit and nonprofit or

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Fixing Miscommunication at Work Starts with Clarity

Chris LoCutro

Miscommunication is fixable, I promise. You finish explaining the task, feeling confident. A few days later, it’s done—wrong. Now you’re frustrated. You thought you were clear… so why didn’t they get it? This happens to leaders all the time. Here’s the problem: We think we’re communicating. But what we’re actually doing is assuming. And when you assume people understand what you meant, what you value, or what success looks like, you’re setting them up to fail.

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4 Proven Steps Leaders Use to Build Conflict-Solving Teams That Thrive | Leadership Espresso Shot 75

Tanveer Nasser

For most leaders, workplace conflict is something you should avoid at all costs. While this might sound good in principle, the reality is this mindset limits your team’s ability to reach its full potential. In this Leadership Espresso Shot , I share a framework of four proven measures that will allow you to create a workplace environment where your employees can effectively transform conflict from emotionally driven disagreements into productive, team-building breakthroughs.

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7 Signs Your Culture is Toxic

Leadership Freak

Talent is defeated by toxic culture. Healthy culture is never an accident. Toxic cultures are the result of ignorance, distraction and neglect. Ignorance of the importance of team dynamics. Distraction by focusing on problems and short-term metrics. Neglect because of failure to address destructive behaviors, poor communication, or misalignment. MORE.

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Recruitment and Retention: How To Build Stronger, Longer-Lasting Teams

AIHR

Recruitment and retention are two critical drivers of a company’s long-term success. Effective recruitment and retention strategies help organizations improve employee morale, minimize hiring costs and productivity losses, and boost their employer brand and reputation. This article discusses the connection between recruitment and retention, defines what each involves, and walks through actionable recruitment and retention strategies your HR team can implement to attract, engage, and retain top t

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The Most Underrated Moment in Transformation: When People Start to Believe

AlignOrg

Years ago, I was in the middle of a major transformation at a company I cared deeply about. New strategy. New structure. All the signs that something important was underway. I remember sitting in a meeting shortly after the announcement, trying to make sense of what it all meant. I wasn’t overly concerned about my own role but I was proud of what the company stood for, and I didn’t want that to get lost.

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my husband doesn’t want anyone I work with to know we’re married

Alison Green

A reader writes: My husband is a notoriously private person (for example, he has social media profiles but doesn’t share content). He is also very strict about keeping his private life separate from his professional life, and has been very clear that he expects the same from me. The problem is that we both work in the same field, and he regularly works with some colleagues of mine.

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4 HR Priorities for 2025 to Supercharge Your Employee Experience

Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

Forget predictions, let’s focus on priorities for the year and explore how to supercharge your employee experience. Join Miriam Connaughton and Carolyn Clark as they discuss key HR trends for 2025—and how to turn them into actionable strategies for your organization. In this dynamic webinar, our esteemed speakers will share expert insights and practical tips to help your employee experience adapt and thrive.

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How DISC Personality Styles Can Transform Your Leadership

Chris LoCutro

What are personality styles? Let’s say you walk into the meeting already frustrated. Your project manager seems irritated. The usually talkative team member is quiet. Halfway through, someone misreads your tone and shuts down completely. You leave the room wondering, “What just happened?” It’s not that you’re a bad leader. It’s that no one ever taught you how to lead different people differently.

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How Inaction Leads to Increased Employee Disengagement

15Five

When employees are actively engaged, they become champions of your company culture and collaborate actively across departments in innovative ways. But employee engagement isn’t a binary; it’s a spectrum. Employees can be actively engaged with their work and your organization. Or they might not be engaged at all, meaning they’re still getting their work done, but they won’t go out of their way to innovate or take on additional tasks.

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“Crazy Busy” is a Trap

Leadership Freak

Frantic busyness is expected in some organizations. In some, it’s a badge of honor. Busy all the time is crazy. Labor to enter rest. Schedule it. Plan it. Execute on a rest initiative. The “fire fighter” leader misses the point. The busier you are the less fulfilling your life becomes.

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People Analytics Dashboard: How To Build One That Works for You

AIHR

A people analytics dashboard can help you better understand and nurture your most valuable asset: your people. Despite spending a small fortune on HR software, only 10% of companies monitor their workforce as closely as they do their other operations (e.g., supply chain or customer retention rates). To avoid or change the above scenario at your company, you need the right people analytics dashboard.

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How to Make The Best Benefits Decisions for 2025's 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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Smart Corporate Training Programs

LSA Global

How to Build Smart Corporate Training Programs That Actually Work We know from training measurement research that check-the-box corporate training does not work. Smart corporate training is not about trendy technology or flashy keynote presentations — it’s about equipping people with the right skills and mindsets to drive real business outcomes when it matters most.

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my coworker started hitting herself during a meltdown

Alison Green

A reader writes: One of my coworkers, “Shannon,” has very poorly managed anxiety and depression. She clearly hates 90% of her job duties. She shines at 10%, but her repeatedly dropping the ball on the other 90% is causing all of her coworkers serious problems, and customers have made a lot of comments about her grumpy, unhelpful, hostile attitude. Last week, she had one of her weekly breakdowns before she was supposed to lead a program (a core job duty) and, in addition to crying and screaming a

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634 | The Cost of Doing It Alone

Chris LoCutro

Somewhere along the way, leadership became associated with carrying everything on your shoulders, alone, proving your worth through stress and silence. But that mindset doesn’t build great businesses. It builds burnout, bottlenecks, and broken communication. In this episode of The Chris LoCurto Show , we’re exposing the hidden cost of trying to do it all alone.

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Identifying the Early Warning Signs of Employee Turnover

15Five

Do you know the warning signs of employee turnover? According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics from January 2024, an employee’s median tenure with their company is 3.9 years. Employee turnover describes any situation where an employee ends their tenure for one reason or another. Some turnover is voluntary, meaning employees choose to leave for retirement, to pursue other opportunities, and for other reasons.

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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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Beyond Rewards: Celebrations that Work

Leadership Freak

The Vagrant About Partial Client List Contact Leadership Freak Leadership Freak Empowering Leaders 300 Words at a Time Beyond Rewards: Celebrations that Work July 3, 2025 Leadership’s fascination with results misses the point. Behaviors drive results. Celebrations need to focus on behaviors. “Know what to reinforce, who to reinforce, when to reinforce, and how to reinforce.” ( This is What Leaders Do ) Celebrations that Work Reward behaviors you want repeated.

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HR Strategy Presentation: An HR Leader’s Template & Guide 

AIHR

An effective HR strategy presentation is a critical bridge between HR and the broader business agenda. Yet according to Gartner , only 32% of HR leaders say their HR strategic planning process is fully integrated with the business’s planning process. This disconnect can result in missed opportunities, misaligned priorities, and HR being perceived as reactive rather than strategic.

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6 Qualities and Traits of a Bad Leader (+ How to Be Better)

David Grossman

Bad bosses are one of the most pervasive problems for employees and companies alike. You’ve likely heard about much of the research pointing to this reality: people don’t necessarily leave bad jobs. Rather, they leave bad bosses. A study by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) found that 84% of U.S. workers say poorly trained managers create a lot of unnecessary work and stress.

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Top 17 AI Leadership Trends That Will Define Your Success

Lolly Daskal

The best leaders I work with aren’t debating whether AI will change how they lead. Instead, they’re already making decisions based on the reality that it’s happening right now. They’re positioning themselves to capitalize on it while others are still figuring out what AI means for their business. In my experience coaching executives, entrepreneurs, and founders across multiple industries, the smartest ones share one trait: they see the shift coming and they’re movin

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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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Why "I’m Sorry" Are Two of the Strongest Words for Leaders

Kellogg Insight

Something goes wrong—a mistake, perhaps even a serious incident. What happens next defines not only personal character for a values-based leader, but also organizational culture. This is the power of a sincere apology. As my good friend and former chair and CEO of Medtronic, Inc., Art Collins, observed in our recent conversation on leadership and character : “When you make a mistake or do something that you should not have done, are you willing to recognize that?

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The Impact of Regrettable Turnover on Your Business

15Five

Every organization experiences turnover. As much as you might want to keep top performers, train leaders up from within, and build better teams, people will eventually leave. But there are two key differences between regrettable turnover and other types of turnover: who leaves and whether you can do anything about it. With regrettable turnover, you lose a top performer because of something firmly within your control.

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How to Change Minds (Without Losing Yours)

Leadership Freak

Change minds by understanding how people think. It's not about your idea. It's about the way they think. The heart of influence is connection, not force.

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HR Value Chain: How To Link HR Activities to Business Impact

AIHR

There are plenty of HR stereotypes. That it’s just the department for paperwork and admin. That HR teams don’t understand the business or data. That they’re the fun police, focused only on protecting the company. It’s time to leave those myths behind and show the real value HR brings. The HR value chain can help do just that. It shifts the focus from day-to-day tasks to the bigger picture: how HR drives outcomes that matter to the business.

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The Upskilling Advantage: Transforming Your Workforce For Future Growth

Speaker: Brian Richardson

With a staggering 92% of CEOs prioritizing skill development, and 84% struggling with transformation, mastering upskilling is now more critical than ever. Drawing on extensive research and collaboration with hundreds of leading organizations, discover key hurdles and innovative best practices in workforce upskilling. You'll walk away with a deep understanding of how to build a culture of continuous learning, expert insights into assessing the current skills of your employees, and a strategic too

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633 | Lead Better. Live Better: What Happens When You Take Ownership

Chris LoCutro

Ownership: If you’ve ever found yourself stuck in a reactive cycle—putting out fires, wondering when you’ll finally feel ahead—this episode of The Chris LoCurto Show is for you. Yes, we’re talking about ownership. What it really means. What it doesn’t. And how embracing it can radically shift the way you lead your team, your time, and even your family.

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Making Better Business Decisions With The Science Of Human Personality

Eric Jacobsen Blog

In the book, Good Judgment , author Richard Davis , PhD , explains what the science of personality is and how it works, and how all of us can use it to improve our working relationships, careers, and lives. “Understanding the science of personality and how to utilize it is the key to exercising good judgment, shares Davis. “The ability to read others’ personalities quickly and accurately, overcoming biases and prejudices that might skew our perception, is critical when making decisions and manag

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4 Mindset Shifts That Separate High-Performing Leaders From The Rest

Chief Executive

As we move into a future defined by uncertainty and possibility, the leaders who rise will shift not just what they do—but how they think. The post 4 Mindset Shifts That Separate High-Performing Leaders From The Rest appeared first on ChiefExecutive.net.

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First Look: Leadership Books for July 2025

Michael McKinney

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in July 2025 curated just for you. Be sure to check out the other great titles being offered this month. G.O.A.T. Wisdom : How to Build a Truly Great Business—From the Founders of Beekman 1802 by Dr. Brent Ridge and Josh Kilmer-Purcell Have you ever wanted to create a business that's not only good but great?

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Is Your Background Screening Policy Built For 2025? What HR Leaders Need To Know Now

Speaker: Liz Charron

From evolving legislation to shifting workforce expectations, background screening is undergoing major transformation, and HR is in the driver’s seat. With new compliance requirements and growing scrutiny, today’s HR leaders must build programs that are not only audit-ready but outcome-driven. HR Management and Employee Relations Expert, Liz Charron, will delve into how HR teams can navigate the latest legal changes, connect screening to workforce ROI, and embed these practices into the very fab