Fri.Mar 25, 2022

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How To Stay Positive

Joseph Lalonde

In studying leadership, one of the most effective traits of a leader that I’ve seen repeated again and again is the ability to stay positive. We’re not talking Poylanna positivity or pie in the sky. We’re talking honest-to-goodness positivity that’s rooted in reality. When the leader is positive, the people will follow. It may take […].

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How to Mentally Prepare for Your Next Meeting in only 3-Minutes

Leadership Freak

People who run from one meeting to the next end the day wondering what they got done.

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AI Creates Job Disruption But Not Job Destruction

The Horizons Tracker

A common concern surrounding automation in recent years is that it will result in widescale job losses as the work previously done by people is taken over by technology. Of course, the reality doesn’t really support this narrative, and indeed, companies that invest in technology often end up employing more people as a result of the improvement in their fortunes heralded by the investment.

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The Eight Attributes Of High-Performing Teams

Eric Jacobson

Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez, author of the new book, Harvard Business Review Project Management Handbook , explains that high-performing teams have these eight attributes : The team has time to meet and get to know each other. All team members participate to establish team goals. Each team member can describe the team’s primary purpose and expected goals.

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How to Build the Ideal HR Team

HR doesn’t exist in a vacuum. This work impacts everyone: from the C-Suite to your newest hire. It also drives results. Learn how to make it all happen in Paycor’s latest guide.

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Covid Has Made Our Work-Life Balance Worse

The Horizons Tracker

The remote working that has become widespread during the Covid pandemic has had a well-documented impact on the work-life balance of employees, and especially of female employees, who have recorded working longer hours on top of additional domestic chores, such as homeschooling children and caring for relatives. It’s a narrative reaffirmed by research from the University of Turku in Finland, which highlights the blurred boundaries between work and family responsibilities during 2020.

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Is Being Busy at Work Making You a Bad Manager?

Niagara Institute

Every year a new study comes out that confirms what many already know - managers are incredibly busy at work. Between the daily 2.5 hours spent reading and responding to emails, the daily 6 hours spent dealing with interruptions, and the nearly 2 working days a week consumed by preparing for and being in meetings, it’s a wonder that managers get as much done as they do.

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Make Resilience Your Company’s Strategic Advantage

Harvard Business Review

It will ensure your company can absorb stress, recover critical functionality, and thrive in new circumstances.

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Here’s Why Pre-employment Background Checks Exist

HR Digest

How can you be certain that a potential new hire is honest and trustworthy – and at the very least, they are who they say they are? Easing those concerns is exactly what pre-employment background checks are for. A pre-employment background check plays an important role in allowing companies to save valuable time and money that could otherwise be spent on ‘bad eggs.

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Leading an Exhausted Workforce

Harvard Business Review

Make sure you aren’t causing unnecessary anxiety on top of what people are already dealing with.

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How Status Is Portrayed In Zoom Meetings

The Horizons Tracker

One of the more interesting gripes about the virtual nature of work during Covid was that executives had no way of visualizing their status in Zoom meetings where everyone’s box was the same size. Research from Lund University explores how power and status could be displayed within the seemingly equalizing environment of a Zoom call. The researchers used the high-stakes world of politics to explore matters, with the focus being on the G20 meeting in 2020, which went virtual for the first

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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5 Ways Managers Sabotage the Hiring Process

Harvard Business Review

We all have blind spots. Here’s how to keep them from undermining your recruitment efforts.

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Raytheon CEO Gregory Hayes: How Ukraine Has Highlighted Gaps in US Defense Technologies

Harvard Business Review

How does a company that gets two million hack attempts each week think about security?

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How to Make Progress on Your Long-Term Career Goals

Harvard Business Review

Even when you aren’t entirely sure where you want to end up.

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Does Your Organization’s Technology Support Your DEI Efforts? - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM POLY

Harvard Business Review

Sponsor content from Poly.

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The Complete People Management Toolkit

From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.