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By Mandi Simeone
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- Leadership Development
Organizations that want stronger leadership cultures must measure more than output. They must measure how leaders lead. That begins with defining observable leadership behaviors, integrating those behaviors into evaluation systems, and creating mechanisms for meaningful feedback. The leadership competency no one wants to measure may be the one that matters most.
- Leadership Development
Crucial conversations is a dialogue style that teaches you to calm your emotions and stick to the heart of the matter during high stake, highly opinionated conversations. For civility, this tool is a game-changer. Help your teams learn to express controversial topics with respect for one another.
- Leadership Development
Learn how to help new managers in Micheal D. Watkins' Virtuous Cycle for new managers in his International Bestseller, The First 90 Days. The Virtuous Cycle and The Vicious Cycle are two cycles that forecast the success or failure of hiring a new manager.
- HR Profession
"Dear Ellie" is an advice column from someone "who’s been there, and done that". Navigating tough workplace dynamics? Feeling like your company’s not aligned with your values? Exhausted, overwhelmed, and in need of a fresh perspective? Ask a seasoned HR pro, Ellie.
- News & Compliance
The Latest includes a brief update on federal and state level news.
- Leadership Development
We keep trying to help managers through workshops, coaching, and competency models. But this isn’t a skill problem, it’s a design problem. Managers fail because our infrastructure fails them.
- Talent Management
Small- and medium-sized businesses need to evolve their talent strategies to reflect a changing labor market. That shift starts with thinking not just about how we attract people but about how we help them advance. Investing in people and encouraging them to take advantage of development opportunities and career advancement paths will help them find purpose in their lives and prepare them — and our enterprises — for the changes the future will bring.
- Employee Engagement
Gratitude is instrumental in effective communication, personal wellness, healthy work/life balance, solving conflict, and encouraging team connection. Learn how you can infuse it in your culture.
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The Latest includes a brief update on federal and state level news.
- Employee Engagement
Quiet cracking doesn’t happen overnight. People aren’t necessarily unhappy. They’re just done pretending to be inspired. They’re clocking in, meeting deadlines, answering emails, but the light’s gone out behind their eyes. And the scariest part? They’re not saying a word about it.
- Talent Management
Annual reviews feel outdated because they are. They delay feedback instead of driving it and feel more like paperwork than performance management. Performance management should not be a formality scheduled once a year and ignored the rest of the time. In modern organizations, it must be agile, responsive, and aligned with how teams actually work.
- News & Compliance
The Latest includes a brief update on federal and state level news.

