
Recognition Programs Boost Employee Value and Business Performance
Driving Value for Employees and for the Business through Recognition Programs - CX Journey™ https://t.co/X1fPzibLgE #employeeexperience #recognition https://t.co/wO9Ib1TvqG

Managing Managers Requires Different Rules Than Managing Teams
Going from IC to manager is hard… But becoming a manager of managers is next level. You’re no longer managing the work. You’re managing the people who manage the work. Throw your vanilla management advice out the window. Instead, focus on these...

Building AI‑Ready Teams for Future Success
#TimTalk - Building Teams for the AI Era with Daria Rudnik https://t.co/VEKVXCzT37 via @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Leadership #ArtificialIntelligence #FutureOfWork #Strategy #Culture #Motivation #Inspiration #Success #Mindset #Entrepreneur #Business https://t.co/IsR8o8XtEA
AI Redefines Executive Roles and Future Work
I explore how #AI is reshaping senior leadership and what it means for the future of work. Learn more by tuning in live at 12 pm CT at: https://t.co/ykUbRecoZO #TPSS #IoT #sustainability #5G #cloud #edge #digitaltransformation #PeggySmedley #podcast
Leadership Means Honestly Letting Underperformers Go
The hardest thing I do as a leader? Let people go. When you take other people’s money, you have a responsibility — you build the best team possible. And if it’s not working, you fix it. That means being honest, even when...

Consultative Selling Boosts Recruiting and Team Performance
🎙️ Jim Stroud & Dr. Deepak Bhootra discuss how consultative selling can transform recruiting, strengthen candidate relationships, and build high-performing teams. Great insights for recruiters, #HR leaders & CHROs on smarter hiring and leadership. #recruiting #SalesTraining https://t.co/7nd77l0pDm
C.E.O. Council Links DEI to Declining Productivity
Advocates claim DEI helps companies outperform financially. Trumps' Council of Economic Advisers says the opposite is true. In a new study, they say starting around 2016, a rising minority share of managers correlated with lower productivity /1 https://t.co/tJW1hx8ygl
Mislabeling Strategic Skills as VA Fuels Hiring Mismatch
Ugh i have SUCH BEEF with the "I need a VA" problem. Two reasons that both cause and feed the issue: - People are hiding exceptional strategic skills under the term VA because it is what will get them hired (and...

Leaders Use Influence to Boost Productivity and Engagement
RT @JoeContrera Visit the Extraordinary Leadership Blog for the latest insights on how leaders leverage influence to achieve higher levels of productivity and employee engagement. https://t.co/rftDWCLf5N #leadership #leadershipdevelopment #leadershipspeaker https://t.co/SivILf1XLL
More Work After Hiring? Update Your Processes.
If hiring support gives you MORE work, its also a sign that your processes need some updates.
Black Women Build Their Own Seats at the Table
Black women are out here getting degrees, certifications, and experience — And STILL getting overlooked. This page exists because we deserve a seat at the table. And if they won’t give us one — we’ll build our own. 🖤💻 Welcome to the community.
AI‑exposed Early‑career Jobs Drop 16% versus Peers
A graph of headcount trends in high AI-exposure jobs for early in career (age 22-25) annotated with big AI model releases. Among workers age 22-25, employment in the most AI-exposed occupations has fallen roughly 16% relative to the least-exposed (after...
Mentors Boost Career Growth: 10 Essential Benefits
10 Concrete Reasons Why Everyone Needs a Mentor at Work https://t.co/Vk9vERxDp3 #mentoring #career #lifehack #SuccessFormula
Britain and EU Take Different Paths on Pay Transparency
Pay Transparency: Britain and the EU on Divergent Routes @Korn_Ferry https://t.co/OBH49z18YZ #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #HRTech #CHRO #FutureofHR
Public Sector Pay Outpaces Private Sector Awards
And yet public sector pay awards are well above those in the private sector - make it make sense
Gig Economy Forces Talent Acquisition to Rethink Hiring
The Invisible Workforce: How the Gig Economy Is Reshaping Talent Acquisition https://t.co/498lrfSDM9 The workforce is not disappearing. It is disengaging from traditional hiring systems.
New Framework Helps HR Tackle Projected Helplessness
Projected Helplessness: A Practitioner #Framework for Understanding and Responding @ABPsychologists https://t.co/lWnLaUpHU4 #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #HRTech #CHRO #FutureofHR
Embracing Leaner Teams After Difficult Goodbyes
Yesterday was not an easy day. Parting with excellent people is hard, and so is announcing it. What's next? Leaner teams, focused on clear goals.
AI Creates as Many New Jobs as It Replaces
Hot take: Businesses will need just as many new hires to manage, update, and babysit the constantly evolving AI systems as the ones it's displacing. Corporate America isn't exactly built for speed. Good luck with that.

AI Rejects Your AI‑Crafted Resume for AI Job
rejected by Al after using Al to tailor the resume to a job description written by Al
Choosing Between Career and Executive Coaching: What Matters
I’m thinking about hosting a webinar on career coaching vs. executive coaching… A lot of folks seem unclear about the difference, which one they need, and what the investment levels are for each one. As someone who has done...
Find Remote Opportunities Here When Jobs Seem Elusive
I hear from people every week who want to work remotely but can not find the right opportunities. This is where I send them first. https://jupiterhr.myflodesk.com/remotejobboard
Southwest Hires Low‑ego Staff, Rejects Rude Senior Candidate
.@SouthwestAir CEO Bob Jordan at @semafor event in DC: "We hire people who are low-ego." He notes that a candidate for a senior job who did well in an interview was rude to a reception and not hired

Thriving Companies Stay Curious, Learning From Employees & Customers
Why Great Organizations Never Stop Learning https://t.co/jnOSQiEP9D Companies that thrive are the ones that stay curious. They continuously learn about and from the people who experience the business most directly, i.e., employees and customers. #learning #leadership #learnthings https://t.co/OtTo7esXXf

Great Leaders Prioritize Safety by Shouldering Responsibility
Good leaders make you feel safe. They make their employees feel secure. But in creating this environment, it means taking on more responsibility. Comment “HABIT” and I’ll send you an article I wrote not the 12 habits to become a high-performing manager. I think...

Hiring Freezes Risk Massive Experience Gaps Despite AI Hype
Your AI talent planning algorithm is common sense https://t.co/388dvPCeTb Your talent pool is running dry as you freeze hiring, cut workers and worship at the altar of agentic AI utopia. If not careful, enterprises are going to find themselves in...
Let Social, Not HR, Run Employee Advocacy
My hot take: the reason a lot of employee advocacy programs fall flat is because they're run by HR Employee advocacy — turning employees into brand ambassadors on social — should be run by the social team. Social people know what...
Start in Silicon Valley, Scale in Secondary Talent Hubs
I think Silicon Valley is a gr8 place to start a company, but a tricky place to scale a company. The talent is very expensive and hard to keep around when the inevitable bumps come. I'd pick a 2nd city...
Join the Nation's Strongest Government Cyber Talent Pool
I’ve already recruited over 100 people from @USTechForce 🇺🇸 It’s likely the strongest pool of technical talent ever assembled in government. 2026 is going to be a big year for cybersecurity. If you want to work on high-impact cyber problems,...

High-Impact Managers Prevent Becoming the Forgotten Middle
Here’s what high-impact #managers do to avoid becoming the forgotten middle or to turn the situation around if they already feel stuck. How Middle Managers Can Avoid Becoming the Forgotten Middle (or Turn It Around) https://t.co/q7haZmgvKH #management https://t.co/EC7zM9YCeR
Empower Smart Talent: Let Ideas, Not Hierarchy, Lead
It does not make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do. You have to be run by ideas not hierarchy. The best ideas have...
Unprecedented Employee Benefits Redefine Work-Life Balance
A few benefits manifestations for my company - maternity/parental leave paid at full-time for 1 year - 100% healthcare coverage including dependents - $10,000 funded HSA - 3 days off per month for cycles - 3 day work weeks - $300/day to...
Great Chef, Bad Business: Cooking Skills Don't Ensure Restaurant Success
A friend of mine was an excellent chef turned failed restauranteur. He loved cooking. Was excellent at it. Had friends over often and really enjoyed cooking for them. He would get told by everyone who tasted his food "You should open...

Culture, Not Slogans, Is the True Behavioral Guardrail
When Guardrails Fail, Systems Break - and the Golden Thread Snaps - CX Journey™ https://t.co/xswAvo5LuK #Culture is the guardrails. Not values posters. Not #leadership slogans. And not what leaders say they value. It’s what constrains and enables behavior when trade-offs...

Pressure Tests Systems, Not People: Build Resilient Culture
Pressure doesn’t test your people. It tests your system. Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Issue #14: Root Resilience – What Happens to Employee Experience Under Pressure https://t.co/o3z7BtjoLP #employeeexperience #culture https://t.co/BQjmSCalzf
Dishwasher Shortage Hits Restaurants Hard
Restaurants Are Finding It Harder Than Ever to Hire Someone to Wash the Dishes https://t.co/R6XyfN0sju

Middle Managers: Weak Link or Secret Weapon?
#TimTalk - Are Middle Managers the Weak Link or the Secret Weapon? with Gary Cookson https://t.co/EHLT2Lyxs5 via @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Sales #SalesLeader #Leadership #Culture #Marketing #Success #Mindset #Entrepreneur #Management #HumanResources #HR https://t.co/cvXADAh94M
HK Government to Cut Over 10,000 Jobs by 2027
More than 10,000 posts in the Hong Kong government will be cut by the end of Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu’s current term in June 2027, with close to 60% of these deletions being junior roles and about 3% at...
Rising Health Costs Force Trade‑offs in Hiring
Rising #healthcare costs will increasingly force employers to trade off between compensation, benefits richness, and hiring volume, potentially slowing workforce growth or shifting roles toward lower-cost geographies and employment models. https://t.co/rOx2TUN5yM
Hiring’s Translation Gap: Visibility Grows, Recognition Stalls
Do we have a mass translation problem? Hiring managers: looking for a "future outcome" but writing JDs for "past specs." Candidates: taking their magic and compressing it into "credential language" no one recognizes. We scale visibility, but we've lost the ability to scale...
Gig Workers Surge as Unemployment Benefits Remain Limited
It’s the demographic divide I highlight. There are 80 millionUS gig workers because only one-in-four of the unemployed collect unemployment benefits (can’t cover the basics with what states pay). The cost of doing business for millions of these gig workers just...
Admired Leaders Excel Through Feedback, Behavior, Followership
Leadership is shaped by behavior, feedback, and followership. A conversation with Randall Stutman, founder of @AdmiredLeaders, on what admired leaders do differently, giving feedback, and the behaviors that drive results. https://t.co/UAyXtb5Nqq With thanks to @AlphaSenseInc, Canoe, and Ridgeline.

Eight Years Celebrated: Families as Our Company’s Backbone
We recently completed 8 years of CoinDCX and celebrated it at our company offsite. When @neerajKh_ and I started this journey in 2018, we had no idea where it would take us. This weekend, we celebrated 8 years but not in...
Scale Culture, Not Just Assets, for Sustainable Growth
Growth isn’t always about building more, it’s about spreading what already works. When you’ve built a strong culture, the next step is taking that impact beyond your own walls. Great companies don’t just operate well, they influence how others lead, manage,...

Unconscious Bias Fuels Incompetence, Groupthink, and Clone Hiring
“The effects of unconscious bias in #talentmanagement can grow into: 🚫 Promoting ppl to their level of incompetence (the Peter Principle) 🚫 Unwittingly inducing groupthink 🚫 Hiring/appointing org. clones. The org. #leadership must be alert to this.” https://t.co/ysdPb3UXGz https://t.co/xhON7iPFH5
AI Talent Costs Surge Amid HR Tech Updates
#AI talent is getting pricier. Plus, news from Tom Brady, SAP and more @HR_Exec https://t.co/OneuRTG5Jr #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #HRTech #CHRO #FutureofHR

AI Brings Learning Directly Into Slack and Teams
Learning in the Flow of Work: AI in Slack & Teams Training shouldn’t live in a portal—it should live where work happens. Employees don’t want to search a 40-minute course for one answer. Why it matters: • Delivers real-time answers without interrupting...
NLRB Settlement Thwarts Landmark Amazon Driver Responsibility Ruling
Scoop: Trump's NLRB general counsel is proposing a settlement defusing one of the agency's most consequential Amazon cases, averting a potential landmark ruling on the company's responsibility for contract drivers it claims not to employ https://t.co/nimIelUrQz
Bridging the Hiring Mismatch: Solutions for HR
#Webinar Hiring: The Great Mismatch and How to Fix It @Korn_Ferry https://t.co/2Af81P0GQn #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #HRTech #CHRO #FutureofHR
Streaming Bonuses Apply to Just 4.4% of Shows
Three years ago, Hollywood labor unions pushed for members to get streaming bonuses for hit shows. Last year, only 4.4% of programs would have qualified. Most of them were on Netflix. https://t.co/yCM7k2EnGb https://t.co/thdvInkmYh