Mon.Jul 15, 2024

article thumbnail

Workplace Communication: Stop Asking “Do You Understand?” (and do this instead)

Let's Grow Leaders

High-performing teams invest in clear workplace communication by ensuring shared understanding. When your organization or team communicates effectively, you’re nimble. You can respond to change quickly. But if your organization doesn’t invest in effective workplace communication, you’ll face a constant series of misunderstandings that waste time, create conflict, and drag down everyone’s performance.

article thumbnail

What Are Transferable Skills and Why Are They Important?

Lead from Within

Transferable skills are the core competencies that individuals carry with them between jobs, industries, and various life roles, forming the backbone of adaptable career paths. As an executive leadership coach, I emphasize the critical role these skills play in not only securing employment but also excelling in any professional environment. With continuous industry changes and technological advancements, the capacity to transition skill sets is more crucial than ever.

Skills 178
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Workplace Communication: Stop Asking “Do You Understand?” (and do this instead)

Let's Grow Leaders

High-performing teams invest in clear workplace communication by ensuring shared understanding. When your organization or team communicates effectively, you’re nimble. You can respond to change quickly. But if your organization doesn’t invest in effective workplace communication, you’ll face a constant series of misunderstandings that waste time, create conflict, and drag down everyone’s performance.

article thumbnail

WHAT ARE THE SIX LEADERSHIP LANDMARKS

CEO Insider

Being a leader is both challenging and draining. To survive, all great leaders have “secrets” to keep them healthy, sharp, agile, in the move towards their best selves. As their coach for 20 years, I have had access to their secrets and would like now to share them to help executives overcome obstacles and be […] The post WHAT ARE THE SIX LEADERSHIP LANDMARKS appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

Sharpe 111
article thumbnail

Reduce Bias in Hiring: Structured Interview Questions for Employers

Structured interview questions are a valuable tool for reducing bias in hiring. They help: Ensure all candidates are asked the same questions in the same way Level the playing field so all candidates have a fair chance of being successful Improve credibility, reliability, and validity Download the guide to get the most out of your interview questions!

article thumbnail

The Impact of ACA Compliance Costs on Small Business Finances

Strategy Driven

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has had a profound impact on the healthcare landscape in the United States, including significant implications for small businesses. ACA compliance is a critical concern for these businesses, as it involves adhering to various regulations and requirements designed to ensure employees have access to health insurance. While the intention behind the ACA is to provide better healthcare coverage, compliance can be a financial burden for small businesses.

article thumbnail

Far From Over—NSEU Announces Indefinite Strike at Samsung

HR Digest

NSEU union workers at Samsung are on an indefinite strike in Hwaseong, South Korea, uniting in their demand for better benefits. The National Samsung Electronics Union had attempted a one-day strike last month and then announced a three-day strike earlier this month. Samsung union workers have attempted to initiate negotiations with the company over pay and benefits but the tech giant has been reluctant to come to the table to discuss the conditions laid out by the workers on strike.

Report 105

More Trending

article thumbnail

The Risks and Traps of Decision-Making

Skip Prichard

Decision Risk In the realm of decision-making, the most overlooked risk isn’t tied to economic shifts, technological advancements, or climate challenges. It’s the risk inherent in human decision-making, made worse by our tendency to tune out the critical voices around us. This insight is at the heart of Nuala Walsh’s latest book, Tune In: How to Make Smarter Decisions in a Noisy World.

article thumbnail

Does AI Dull Our Decision Making?

The Horizons Tracker

With Microsoft and Google rolling out gen-AI supported assistants this year, the hope among the tech industry is clearly that these tools will turn us into smarter decision makers. Is that really the case, however? A few studies suggest that AI may actually make our decisions less effective. For instance, research from Northwestern University looked at how the use of the AI-powered HawkEye system in tennis affected how officials made decisions about whether a ball was in or out.

article thumbnail

LEVERAGING REPUTATION MANAGEMENT ACROSS THE ORGANISATION: A CEO’S PERSPECTIVE

CEO Insider

In today’s hyper-connected world, maintaining a positive reputation is crucial for businesses to thrive. As the CEO of a leading reputation management software company, I’ve seen first-hand how a comprehensive reputation platform can enable organisations to improve operations using consumer data. A full-featured solution goes well beyond managing business listings, soliciting reviews, and tracking social […] The post LEVERAGING REPUTATION MANAGEMENT ACROSS THE ORGANISATION: A C

article thumbnail

Do Beautiful People Really Get Ahead In The Workplace?

The Horizons Tracker

A few years ago research found that students tended to be taught by attractive teachers. The study also found that attractive economists tend to do better once they graduate as well. Previous research has broadly shown that good-looking people tend to have an easier time of it in life. They get paid more , receive better job evaluations , and are generally more employable.

article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

Three Keys to Unlocking Your Success as a Business Owner

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

James Harold Webb shares his top three tips for becoming a successful business owner. Today’s guest post is b y James Harold Webb, author of Redneck Resilience: A Country Boy’s Journey To Prosperity. Growing up poor in a rural community in the South, I learned early in life that if I wanted more than just food on the table and clothes on my back, I had to earn it myself.

article thumbnail

How Workplaces Are Biased Against Introverts

The Horizons Tracker

Passion and enthusiasm are oft-sought qualities in job adverts, with employers craving the kind of energetic workplaces that are perhaps the norm for the extroverted among us. For introverts, however, not only are such workplaces horrible places to be, but it can often be difficult to display the kind of characteristics that employers seem to want. Research from Harvard Business School highlights how extroverted employees are generally more likely to be viewed as passionate than their introverte

article thumbnail

CEOs Embrace Sustainability as Key Growth Driver in 2024 According to Gartner Survey

CEO Insider

A recent survey by Gartner, Inc. reveals that 69% of CEOs regard sustainability as a significant business growth opportunity for 2024. Kristin Moyer, Distinguished VP Analyst at Gartner, highlighted that as CEOs reevaluate their long-term strategies, environmental sustainability remains a critical competitive factor. Despite past instances of corporate greenwashing and potential cynicism due to economic […] The post CEOs Embrace Sustainability as Key Growth Driver in 2024 According to Gart

Survey 52
article thumbnail

Crafting a Future-Ready Workforce With Upskilling and Reskilling

The Center For Leadership Studies

The post Crafting a Future-Ready Workforce With Upskilling and Reskilling appeared first on Situational Leadership® Management and Leadership Training.

article thumbnail

The HR Leader’s Survival Guide

HR leaders drowning in paperwork struggle to meet C-suite's strategic expectations. Burnout and high turnover plague the field, with 95% feeling overwhelmed. This guide explores how the right tools can free HR from admin tasks and empower them to become the strategic leaders they’re meant to be.

article thumbnail

The Uneven Distribution of AI’s Environmental Impacts

Harvard Business Review

The training process for a single AI model, such as an LLM, can consume thousands of megawatt hours of electricity and emit hundreds of tons of carbon. AI model training can also lead to the evaporation of an astonishing amount of freshwater into the atmosphere for data center heat rejection, potentially exacerbating stress on our already limited freshwater resources.

Stress 25
article thumbnail

How to Equitably Assign High-Profile Work

Harvard Business Review

Working with researchers, four companies used a data-driven approach to balance who was doing the office housework and who was getting promotion-making assignments.

How To 24
article thumbnail

How to Get the Most Out of Your Relationship with a Career Sponsor

Harvard Business Review

Synthetic sponsorship programs are built for action, designed to catalyze moments of advocacy and advancement. But the most effective sponsor-sponsoree pairs start out slow to go fast. In this article, the author shares four strategies that sponsorees can use to maintain momentum in synthetic sponsorship pairings. Especially for pairings where the bond is built mainly through virtual interactions, such as in companies that have adopted hybrid work models or those with dispersed global workforces

Bond 23