Mon.Jan 08, 2024

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Sympathy, Empathy, or Compassion – What’s More Important

Leadership Freak

Sympathy and empathy are good. Compassion brings tangible value. Surprisingly, you don't have to feel other people's feelings to have compassion. What's the difference between sympathy, empathy, and compassion?

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How to Encourage More Courage on Your Team (Team-Building Activity)

Let's Grow Leaders

Remembering micro-moments of courage makes it easier to do the right thing next time. If you want your team to feel more courageous, remind them of times they’ve been courageous before. This team-building activity gives your team a chance to reflect on their micro-moments of courage. And, to share these moments with one another as they build trust and connection.

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Strategic, Simple, and Successful Guide to Managing Change for Leaders

Lead from Within

Leading change requires new mindsets, skills, and techniques. It’s more than managing budgets or metrics; the key lies in understanding and managing the people side of change. Here’s a simple, strategic, and successful guide for leaders to navigate change. Grasp what leading change entails: Leading change goes beyond strategic or logistical aspects.

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Leading with Questions: A New Approach to Business Restructuring

CO2

In the midst of a global pandemic, I found myself coaching a CEO of a prominent professional services firm. He was considering a drastic measure: eliminating his acquisitions team. This scenario is common among leaders I work with, who, under immense pressure, often default to a single question: “How do I cut costs?” This post will help you learn how leading with questions leads to great leadership that will change your business results.

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HR’s Complete 2025 Calendar of Important Dates

HR leaders can use this calendar from Paycor to track important HR and payroll tax dates. The 2025 calendar includes: Tax filing dates Federal reporting deadlines Bank holidays Links to relevant tax forms …and more! Get your 2025 HR calendar today!

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The Pros And Cons Of People Analytics

The Horizons Tracker

W. Edwards Deming famously remarked that while we may trust in god, everyone else should bring data. It’s a mindset that has underlined the recent desire to have data underpin decision-making. A recent study from Harvard Business School explores how people analytics has affected the workplace. The authors explain that while the practice has a lot of promise to uncover things like the best candidates for a role and how well people are working, it can also be used in nefarious ways, with emp

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Here’s Why the Workforce Analytics Market is Ripe for Disruption

CEO Insider

Earlier this month I met with an industry analyst who shared an astonishing fact: a Top 10 Fortune 500 company recently built an in-house workforce analytics solution — and had 7,000 employees assigned to manage it. That’s right, seven thousand. The question many people would ask is, why are they trying to build their own […] The post Here’s Why the Workforce Analytics Market is Ripe for Disruption appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Risky Business – How Do You Manage Risk?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Every business venture carries risk. Kim Wasson describes a straightforward process for determining what might go wrong and whether it’s worth worrying about. Today’s guest post is b y Kim Wasson, a principal at thought LEADERS and author of The Socially Intelligent Project Manager: Soft Skills That Prevent Hard Days (CLICK HERE to get your copy).

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Boards Are Biased Against Foreign-Born CEOs

The Horizons Tracker

A new study from researchers at Florida Atlantic University has found that CEOs who are not originally from the country they work in are more likely to lose their jobs if the company they lead is not doing well. The study looked at 1,500 companies over 18 years and compared the rates at which foreign-born and native-born CEOs were fired when their companies were performing poorly. “We wanted to look at this idea that if firms are appointing people born outside of the United States at the C

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The Most Difficult Decision for Pastors in Church Revitalization

Ron Edmondson

There is a difficult decision church revitalization we don’t talk about much – if ever. Yet, pastors think about it a lot. I know this from personal experience and from talking to literally dozens of pastors attempting church revitalization. I’m convinced it’s the hardest thing any pastor will face who wants to see a declining established church ever thrive again.

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Reaching for the executive ranks? Cultivate these five skillsets—part one, developing as a strategist

Art Petty

While today's career world for many is about something other than "The Climb," my coaching ranks and workshop programs are filled with individuals striving to scale their impact and, for many, gain a seat at the executive table. If you are motivated to grow your responsibilities and engage at a senior management level, you must cultivate your knowledge and skills in five critical areas.

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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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Alarming Trend of Employee Burnout in 2023 Signal A Need For Change

HR Digest

HR management platform isolved released its fourth annual trends report “Uncovering the Significant HR Trends of 2024 to Maximize Your Next- Best Step,” and the employee burnout statistics for 2023 require serious consideration. According to the report, the employee burnout statistics paint a pretty unfortunate picture of the status of the workforce today, the numbers indicate that 65 percent of employees suffered from burnout in 2023.

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Reaching for the executive ranks? Cultivate these five skillsets—part one, developing as a strategist

Management Excellence

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Is GenAI’s Impact on Productivity Overblown?

Harvard Business Review

We don’t know much about how LLMs change productivity at the firm level — and a close reading of recent studies suggests they can hinder as much as help.

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Why it Matters that "Authentic" is Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year

leaderCommunicator

I’m sure it came as little surprise to many that Merriam-Webster recently announced “authentic” as its annual “word of the year,” meaning it was a high-volume dictionary look-up and a concept that people were clearly thinking and writing about. According to Merriam-Webster, authentic has a number of meanings, including “not false or imitation,” a synonym of real and actual; and also “true to one’s own personality, spirit, or character.

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2025 Payroll Calendar Templates (Biweekly, Semi-Monthly, and Monthly)

Use these handy calendar templates to stay on top of payroll in 2025! Download them today to share with your HR team or post for employees. Whether your company has biweekly, semi-monthly, or monthly pay periods, Paycor has you covered. Get your templates today!

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How to Improve Your Soft Skills as a Remote Worker

Harvard Business Review

In the age of AI, soft skills are the hidden gems of the workplace, but they can be a challenge to build when you work from home. Without daily, face-to-face interactions with colleagues, learning the nuances of how to communicate and collaborate is just plain harder. So what are some practical steps you can take to develop soft skills when Zoom calls are your norm?

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3 Ways to Embed DEI Into Your Company’s AI Strategy

Harvard Business Review

While AI will reshape the nature of work, it will do so in a way that makes DEI both a baseline expectation and a critical requirement for companies seeking long-term growth. For that reason, businesses must focus on designing and developing AI systems that empower all their users by 1) embedding DEI into the design of your AI systems; 2) incorporating DEI into any AI-related upskilling programs; and 3) using AI as an opportunity to boost DEI.

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Reliable Data Is the Key to a Successful GenAI Initiative - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM SLALOM AND GOOGLE CLOUD

Harvard Business Review

Sponsor content from Slalom and Google Cloud.

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