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Leadership Development Tactics for Effective Succession Planning
17 Jul 2019
From the junior to the executive level, it’s natural for our teams to be thinking about “what’s next” for their career. While it’s great to have ambition about your personal goals, there seems to be a disconnect when we think about how the future looks for our companies. The lack of a strong [...]
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6 Smart People Strategies to Manage Leadership Transition During Succession
10 Jul 2019
As the American workforce ages, succession planning has become a very real challenge for organizations of all sizes. Succession is a major event with exceptionally high stakes. There is far more involved in a successful transition than handing over the keys—and yet most organizations do not [...]
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7 Inspiring Leadership Podcasts to Add to Your Listening List
19 Jun 2019
When you’re the one your team looks to for guidance and inspiration, who do you turn to? We should all have a few mentors in our lives – but for everyday inspiration, it’s nice to bring in some outside perspectives. Recently, podcasts have grown quite a bit in popularity. What I like about this [...]
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Can You Fix a Toxic Work Culture Without Firing Your Team?
12 Jun 2019
We’ve all been there in our careers. One day, you look around and realize something just feels wrong. The tension between employees can be cut with a knife. The tone of certain people’s voices seems strikingly insincere. The mood in the office seems joyless. In my career, I’ve experienced a [...]
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6 Powerful Lessons From TED Talks About Leadership
22 May 2019
We all need a little inspiration from time to time. On mornings when I feel like a cup of coffee won’t cut it, I’ve found that watching a TED Talk can really energize me for the day. While it’s easy to let an hour go by with these quick and powerful presentations, a few of […]
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Surprising Leadership Lessons from Jazz
15 May 2019
No two ‘regular days’ in any organization are truly the same. As leaders, it’s part of our job description to expect the unexpected—resignations, lost clients, critical errors, even situations we never imagined possible. Organizations are living things, and as with all living things, change is [...]
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How People Analytics Can Change Process, Culture, and Strategy
24 Apr 2019
When you read ‘people analytics’, does your heart sink? Often, when we talk about people analytics we think of the missed opportunities. Turnover rate, exit surveys, and disengaged employees often take up more than their fair share of space in these conversations. As tools for collecting [...]
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4 Digital HR Trends Shaping the Workforce
9 Apr 2019
The world as we know it has gone digital. The proof sits before you as your eyes scan over this page. Yet, over three decades into this digital revolution, many of the core processes of established organizations remain analog. There are times when this is appropriate. We might agree that a [...]
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It’s Time for a New Discussion on “Women in Leadership”
20 Mar 2019
While most companies claim that gender diversity is a high priority, statistics tell a different story for working women. Globally, women have more access to education and more social mobility than ever before. If education and ambition were the sole indicators of leadership, every second [...]
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ETG’s Top 10 Must-Read Books About Women in Leadership
8 Mar 2019
From the #MeToo movement to exciting shifts in political leadership, the past year has been groundbreaking for women. The gender dynamic, while still imperfect, feels a little different than it did just a few short years ago. Slowly but steadily, we seem to be moving ever closer to gender [...]
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