Source: forbes.com Whether you’re a leader or an individual contributor, chances are, you’re experiencing more conflict at work—at the same time you’re seeing less civility. This kind of experience can get in the way of your happiness, but also your productivity and peace of mind.

Source: forbes.com When you have a great organizational culture, you’re energized and so is the company. You get results for employees, customers and shareholders. But cultures can be elusive as well, with their complexity, nuance and power.

Source: forbes.com An organization is only as strong as its senior leadership team. In fact, a recent Bain & Company study of 1,250 companies found that organizations with highly effective executive teams achieve revenue growth, profitability, and total shareholder returns that are three times higher than the average. Yet, many executive teams fall short—often to the detriment of the entire company. According to a 2020 survey by the Center for Creative Leadership, 65% of senior executives feel their top team is ineffective.

Source: www.forbes.com If 2023 was the year of business acceleration, 2024 was the year of the tortoise with a haze of business lethargy we haven’t quite seen before. This malaise was likely spurred by a variety of reasons that go beyond economic headwinds to business paralysis instigated by global unrest and national uncertainty around the impending election.

Source: www.talentcanada.ca Before HR and C-suite leaders can mitigate social isolation in the workplace, they must understand what it is, why it’s beneficial to protect workers from it, and why they’ll want to alleviate it.

Source: www.cnbc.com One of the biggest challenges for any leader is figuring out how to hold people accountable for their mistakes without creating bad blood. In those situations, playing the blame game is always a losing strategy, according to leadership expert and bestselling author Michael Timms.

Source: www.cnbc.com “Eric” is a program manager at a fast-scaling tech company. He’s hungry for career growth and perfectly positioned to take on more responsibility. He’s eager for exposure to senior management and hopeful he’ll eventually advance to a director-level position. Yet despite his ambition and potential, Eric finds himself constantly repeating two toxic words: I’ll wait.

Source: www.cfib-fcei.ca Workers’ compensation boards and occupational health and safety regulators in Canada are increasingly concerned about psychological health and safety in the workplace. This shift reflects a broader understanding of the impact that mental health issues can have on workers and workplaces, including the realization that psychological injuries can be just as debilitating as physical ones.

Source: www.forbes.com A Highly sensitive person (HSP) is a personality identified by psychologist Elaine Aron. Present in 15-30% of the population, HSPs are employees with high levels of Sensory Processing Sensitivity reflected in a display of increased emotional sensitivity, stronger reactivity to both external and internal stimuli—pain, hunger, light and noise—and a complex inner life.

Source: www.forbes.com Getting feedback from employees may seem like the perfect way to keep them engaged, and it can certainly work well. But there are also pitfalls and mistakes you can make when you’re gathering feedback that will stand in the way of achieving the results you want.

Source: forbes.com Recent Gallup research reveals a stark reality: only 33% of U.S. employees are engaged at work. Since managers are responsible for at least 70% of employee engagement, there’s clearly a gap between what employees need and what leaders are providing.

Source: www.forbes.com When it comes to deciding what to include and what to omit from your resume, skills are a non-negotiable. Especially if you are applying for a promotion, making a career pivot, or transitioning into a different industry, skills are what make your resume count and hold weight in the eyes of employers, even more than merely listing out your education and experience. “Over 40% of companies on LinkedIn globally explicitly rely on skills to search and identify job candidates on LinkedIn (up 20% year-over-year),” says Rohan Rajiv, LinkedIn’s product lead on jobseeker, employer brand, and skills for LinkedIn Talent Solutions, speaking of the skills research tools that recruiters on LinkedIn use.