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To Improve Your Team, First Work on Yourself

Harvard Business Review: “The good news is that internal self-awareness can be learned. To start, you — as a leader of the team or a teammate — can pause, reflect, and consider your responses to these questions when you find yourself in challenging or emotionally-charged scenarios.”




Business Management: Enhance your employee experience

The Southern: “The employee experience can create a culture. Be aware of this fact. You should be strategic in your culture creation. Do you give thought to what your employees experience in a day and how they experience it? If you don’t, you should. Right now, they can probably go somewhere else and get treated better. This should be an impactful thought.”



Author Douglas Rushkoff On Why Humans Are Being Devalued In The Digital Age And How We Can Stop It

The Future Organization: “This week’s guest is bestselling author, Douglas Rushkoff. Douglas has written twenty books, including his newest one, Team Human, which is the main topic of our discussion. Join us as we discuss why humans are being devalued in the digital age, Douglas’ problem with Facebook, Twitter and Google, why being human is a team sport, what he would change about the school systems and much more.”



45 HR Trends and Predictions to Watch Out For in 2019

CAKE HR: “The HR is changing again but the goal remains the same: to help businesses succeed.” “Below are the 2019 HR trends and predictions we’ve compiled from all over the Internet.”



The Role of Storytelling in Delivering Effective Feedback

Globoforce: “Stories can help with the feedback process. Stories turn feedback, which makes us ruminate, into contextual feedback that helps us learn and grow. Stories add an emotional element that provides clarity.”



The HRBP as People Analytics Evangelists – Are They Ready – No! Can They Be – Yes!

Analytics in HR: “In early January 2019, a headline on the McKinsey Leadership and Organization blog caught my eye – “The critical importance of the HR business partner.” A key point made in the piece is that HR continues to struggle to deliver effective talent strategy. The disconnect centers on the lack of capability of HR business partners (HRBP), those who counsel managers on talent issues. The article remarks that the value of great HRBPs remains unquestioned. However, a great HRBP is hard to find and the structure of the HRBP role requires re-engineering.” 



The “Great Culture” Fallacy

Women of HR: “As important as company culture is, it’s also a broad, fuzzy, wide-ranging concept.  The extremes are easier to identify, but the middle ground not so much.  But I also believe that successful HR professionals and business leaders need to be able to learn to identify the good, bad, and ugly and work to improve what and where they can to remain competitive now and into the future.”



Another Side of #MeToo: Male Managers Fearful of Mentoring Women

New York Times: “Men attending the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this year were worried about a lot of things. A global economic slowdown. Threats to cybersecurity. Populism. War. And, several acknowledged at the meeting this past week, mentoring women in the #MeToo era.”



LinkedIn Report: These 4 Ideas Are Shaping the Future of HR and Hiring

LinkedIn Talent Blog: “Today we’re thrilled to release LinkedIn’s annual Global Talent Trends 2019 report, which explores the four big trends fueling this transformation and how they will impact your workplace.”



8 Influential Employee Engagement Trends for 2019

Bonusly: “In this article, we’ll review 8 important employee engagement trends that you can leverage this year and share quotes from successful organizational leaders along the way.”




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