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The Layoff Letter Blueprint: 10 Ways to Write A Polite Layoff Email to Employees

HR Digest

In this article, we’ll present 10 polite ways to write a layoff email to employees – each of these layoff letter templates will help you ensure that when they do happen, the redundancy feel fair and the company and the affected workforce are set up for success. Research shows that bad layoffs rarely help the leaders accomplish their goals.

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Successful Negotiation: 5 Effective Techniques for Better Negotiation

Strategy Driven

Remain professional , polite, and friendly throughout the discussion and maintain open body language to signal your receptiveness. Informed by science and strengthened by experience, the negotiation training program offered by Shapiro Negotiations has helped businesses improve their negotiating skills for more than twenty years.

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What’s Behind the Leadership Deficit? My Interview with APQC

Great Leadership By Dan

Given that, every organization needs to put a different emphasis on critical competencies that are needed to achieve their business objectives. It’s a “connect the dots” exercise: Business strategy X requires leadership competencies A, B, C, and D. In practice, it’s not that easy.

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Businesses Don’t Fail – Leaders Do

N2Growth Blog

In today’s post I’m going to toss out the politically correct story-lines and reveal the top 15 reasons that leaders fail… . If your company doesn’t possess the talent it needs to achieve its business objectives no one is to blame but leadership. Yes; but it goes with the territory.

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Organizational Transformation Requires Leadership at all Levels

Great Leadership By Dan

Transformations are typically cross-divisional, cross-functional, and intended to make significant changes to the business. The business need for proactive leadership across all the impacted organizational areas and from the beginning to end of organizational transformation is critical.

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Ignoring Evidence Affects UK’s Ability To Respond To Major Challenges

The Horizons Tracker

According to the research findings, this “evidence-neglect” arises from the incentive structures that reward politicians for setting ambitious policy objectives while simultaneously discouraging the implementation of necessary measures to achieve them. Overcoming the flaw The author proposes two key measures.

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The Guru's Guide to Creating Thought Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Zeitgeist, German for "spirit of the time," is the complex interplay of economic, technological, political, and social forces that can determine which ideas will flop and which will fly in a particular moment. Tune Your Idea to the Zeitgeist. Underneath the varied thickets of research and rhetorical styles, some universal truths persist.