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Challenges Facing Women Negotiators

Leading Blog

H ISTORICALLY, women have faced significant hurdles in employment negotiations. Heres what we know about these barriers, plus strategies leaders can use to improve fairness in the workplace. The Barriers that Women Face In 2006, Carnegie Mellon University professor Linda Babcock and her colleagues published research showing that women tend to initiate negotiations, particularly salary negotiations, significantly less often than men do.

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Stop Copying Successful People – Do This Instead

Leadership Freak

Just because successful people reach the peak it doesnt mean they know the best way up. Successful people blind us with want. We assume success means wisdom. We think money equals insight. We believe fame proves virtue. Lies one and all. Fools become influencers because we believe success equals universal competence.

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Identity How to Build Trust in the Workplace

The Center For Leadership Studies

How to Build Trust in the Workplace If you want your organization to succeed, there must be a foundation of trust. Trust may be an intangible concept, but you can see it in action every dayespecially in the workplace. As the core element of leadership, trust enables leaders to foster a positive, productive and engaged community where employees feel more satisfied, motivated and committed to their work.

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What It Really Takes to Lead Public Service Initiatives

Women on Business

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8 Pillars of Leadership Development

Great leadership development is the key to sustainable business growth. Are you ready to design an effective program? HR can use Paycor’s framework to: Set achievable goals. Align employee and company needs. Support different learning styles. Empower the next generation of leaders. Invest in your company’s future with a strong leadership development program.

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Why So Many Smart People Are Foolish

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell When I lived in Moscow, my gym was just a five-minute walk from my flat. So rather than use a locker, I would just run over in my shorts and a jacket no matter what the weather was. The locals thought I was crazy.

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What It Really Takes to Lead Public Service Initiatives

Women on Business

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Timeless Principles To Improve Your Management Of Individuals, Teams And Yourself

Eric Jacobson

I read many books about leadership and this new book is one of my favorites. Its The Psychology of Leadership by Sebastien Page. It offers a fresh take on leadership through the lens of groundbreaking research in positive, sports, and personality psychology. Like exercise strengthens your body, practicing positive, sports, and personality psychology will make you a better leader, says Page.

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Get Clearer, More Actionable Feedback

Harvard Business Review

The higher you advance in an organization, the more ambiguous the direction you receive becomes. Here’s how to ask for specifics.

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More Than a Chat: How to Make Your Career Conversations Count

Let's Grow Leaders

This Practical Planner Could Change Your Career Conversations Lets talk career converationsand how to get the support you need to make them more meaningful. Your manager can be one of your most powerful career allies. They can open doors, connect you with opportunities, and help you build the skills and relationships you need for whats next. But even the most well-intentioned manager cant read your mind.

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5 Levers for Building Your Desired Culture

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Building the culture you want is a matter of modeling the right behaviors, investing in your people, training your team, and communicating the culture effectively. Todays guest post is by Soyini Coke, Managing Principal at Annona Enterprises. In over 130 interviews with high-performing CEOs, across a wide variety of industries, culture was almost universally cited as the single most important factor contributing to company success.

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The Hidden Skills That Separate Good Leaders from Great Ones

Speaker: Chandra McCormack, CPA, MBA, NACD.DC

Technical degrees might open doors—but it’s the soft skills that keep them open. In the face of disruption, evolving workplace dynamics, and rising expectations of leadership, soft skills like communication, emotional intelligence, and presence have become core business essentials—not nice-to-haves. Inspired by stories from her father coupled with her own career journey, seasoned executive Chandra McCormack breaks down how to lead with impact, connect with purpose, and cultivate a workplace cult

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2025 IRS Tax Deadline FAQ: When Are Taxes Due, Extensions, and More

HR Digest

You know its tax season when your Twitter and Facebook feed are filled with tax extension and when are taxes due . If you have questions about the 2025 tax deadline , IRS extensions, and how to file on time, youve come to the right place. This FAQ-style guide answers all your burning questions in a clear, concise way, based on the latest information available.

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Study Suggests Doctors Are Optimistic About AI

The Horizons Tracker

More than a quarter of UK doctors (29%) used some form of artificial intelligence in their practice in the past year, and over half (52%) are optimistic about its future in healthcare, according to a recent survey by The Alan Turing Institute. But despite AIs growing presence, most doctors report they dont use AI regularly, and more than half (54%) feel the technologys potential isnt fully tapped.

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Tech layoffs in 2025 spark fresh starts

HR Digest

The great reset is here, and it wont spare the tech industry in 2025. Headlines since the start of the year paint a grim picture. Tech bloodbath, Jobocalypse in Silicon Valley. The numbers are sobering: an estimated 45,656 jobs cut so far, according to layoffs.fyi. Giants like Meta, Google, Amazon and HP have trimmed their workforces, cited efficiency and shifted allegiance towards AI.

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Hiring People With A Criminal Record Helps With Reintegration

The Horizons Tracker

Hiring those with criminal records can play a big role in helping them reintegrate into society while also addressing labor shortages in hospitality, according to research from Penn States School of Hospitality Management. The researchers designed a framework to guide hospitality businesses in breaking down biases against hiring these individuals. Three key stakeholder groups emerged from their analysis: the employees themselves, those within the correctional system who oversee rehabilitation, a

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How to Set Better OKRs and Drive Results

Before you can achieve success, you have to define it. Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) give you the framework to do just that. Paycor’s free guide includes a step-by-step process leaders can use to work toward – and achieve – their loftiest business goals.

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Minimum Wage for Federal Contractors Cut Down from $15 in 2025

HR Digest

A new executive order just cut the minimum wage for federal contractors, rescinding an existing executive order that has set it at $15 per hour. With adjustments, the federal wage policy had set the minimum wage at $17.75 for the year, but the requirement has now been eliminated. The wage rollbacks in 2025 will set the minimum wage for federal contractors at $13.30 per hour from here on out.

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Study Shows The Biases That Undermine Medical AI

The Horizons Tracker

That AI suffers from biases is well documented. The scale of those biases is reflected in a couple of studies from the University of Michigan, which show that Black patients are less likely to receive the kind of medical tests that could detect severe diseases than their white peers. This then means that Black patients are more likely to be assumed to be healthy, even when they’re not, with this mistaken data being used to train AI systems and therefore perpetuate the situation and underes