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Elon Musk Sparks Controversy with Drastic Reduction of Twitter’s Parental Leave Policy

HR Digest

Elon Musk, the CEO of Twitter, has recently made a controversial decision to slash the company’s paid parental leave policy. The move, which reduces the policy from 20 weeks to just 14 days, has received backlash from employees and the general public.

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Training and Development: Top Ten Lessons Learned

The Practical Leader

Waayyy back in the early days of my career, I was a young door-to-door sales rep and then sales manager with Culligan Water Conditioning. I took Dale Carnegie sales, public speaking, and management training courses and got turned on to personal and leadership development. That got me reflecting on decades of my journey in this field.

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A Leader’s Guide To Work In An Age Of Upheaval

Eric Jacobson

Taylor, the CEO and President of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), shares his personal experiences and candid, compassionate and practical thoughts on how to transform the way to select, retain and train employees in today’s, post-COVID and radically changed business environment. Taylor, Jr.

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Divulging the Role of HR in Terminating an Employee

HR Digest

The HR managers oversee the termination while processing documents to legally sever the employee-employer relationship. The HR manager only manages the process and is rarely the decision maker for the firing. The decision to terminate an employee mostly always comes from their manager or supervisor.

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How Leaders Can Fix a Negative Company Culture

Great Leadership By Dan

If it’s managers or staff who tend to reject requests or new policies, take some time to set firm boundaries and expectations: We expect you to accept new assignments, protocols, or crunch-time duties. Whether you’re setting new policies or monitoring the status quo, ask your people for their opinions frequently.

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Five Ways Leaders Turns Doubters into Doers

Chart Your Course

s fledgling CEO Marissa Mayer made her first misstep. was changing its telecommute policy. How could she possibly hope to retain and/or attract top talent with such draconian policies? Mayer enacted the policy because Yahoo! Part of being a leader is managing change. s new telecommute policy.

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Preview Thursday: No Ego by Cy Wakeman

Lead Change Blog

My entry into Reality-Based Leadership started with the Open-Door Policy. For the first time, I would be leading a team, which got me a free ticket to the Human Resources boot camp for managers. Not only was I going to have an Open-Door Policy, I was going to ace it! Shut the Conventional Door. That was easy.

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