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New-year meeting ideas to jumpstart the year

A new-year meeting can shake off the new year nerves, reacquaint coworkers, and align the entire team on the company mission and goals for the upcoming year. 

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5 ways PI Design can help you build winning teams

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Management vs. coaching: What’s the difference?

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What is asynchronous communication and how to use it effectively

Businesses everywhere are learning more about how to work and communicate effectively not only across geographic locations, but also across days and even weeks.

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Evolving the scrum: Creating cohesive engineering teams despite distance 

The engineering field is resolute, assured of its abilities, even as modern scrum teams face challenges that force us to revisit some long-codified credos.

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People Management
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Building virtual leadership skills that last

Months into the COVID-19 pandemic, we’re still figuring out what virtual leadership looks like. Maybe your business is familiar with this sort of experiment: Face-to-face meetings were replaced with video conferencing in an attempt to replicate the office environment, but Zoom or Skype fatigue eventually set in.  You’ve started re-evaluating which meetings are truly essential….

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Leadership
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Growing trends for HR leaders in 2024

Being an effective HR leader today requires you to keep both an ear to the ground, and your eyes on the horizon, so that you can react to challenges, spot opportunities, and capitalize on both.

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Attracting top talent in 2023

Attracting top talent in 2023 There’s no denying it: The employer-employee dynamic has flipped—maybe for good.  If you’re a hiring manager or business leader, you’ve probably seen it firsthand. Good candidates for key roles are scarce. They left jobs during The Great Resignation in no hurry to return, or they’re taking advantage of sudden supply-and-demand…

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LinkedIn reacts to the 2022 CEO Benchmarking Report.

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OPTIMA22: 5 team-building strategies from today’s business leaders

Explore our OPTIMA22 recap, and unlock five team-building strategies, straight from today’s leading CEOs, HR leaders, and consultants.

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Five tips to create an organizational chart

Organizational charts play a critical role in the workplace. They display and communicate internal structure within the organization, allowing individuals to understand the hierarchy of teams, departments, and the organization as a whole. Top tips to create an organization chart Pick what type of organizational chart you’ll use. When it comes to creating your organizational…

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