• The leadership scaries — what’s holding back your leadership pool may surprise you

    Learning and development leaders seeking to build a robust leadership pipeline face a two-fold challenge. Not only must they identify and cultivate employees with leadership potential, but they must also understand what attracts or discourages budding leaders from these roles. While higher pay and other perks can serve as incentives, employees increasingly factor in the perceived risks that a leap to leadership might entail. For L&D leaders, insight and information into these perceived risks...

  • Leadership change

    It has happened many times in the history of Congress, so it was no big surprise that Juan Miguel Zubiri was replaced yesterday as Senate president.

  • Jabil Announces Leadership Transitions

    Jabil Inc. (NYSE: JBL) (“Jabil” or the “Company”) today announced a number of senior leadership transitions that are effective immediately. Michael Da

  • Workplace wellness is within your grasp

    Do you ever check in with yourself at the end of a work day when you’re on your way home to get an idea of how you truly feel from a wellness standpoint, beyond basking in the gratification of accomplishing things at work? Chances are, if on a normal workday you exercise before work after […]

  • Misgendering Is Now Considered 'Harassment' in the Workplace

    The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission published harassment guidelines late last month indicating that it would be a punishable offense to misgender someone. Yup. Now, if you don’t call a person who wants to use “ze/zir” pronouns by those made-up pronouns, it would be considered harassment in the workplace. The new rules note that prohibited harassment includes “repeated and intentional use of a name or pronoun inconsistent with the individual’s known gender identity (misgendering)...

  • Misgendering Is Now Considered 'Harassment' in the Workplace

    The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission published harassment guidelines late last month indicating that it would be a punishable offense to misgender someone. Yup. Now, if you don’t call a person who wants to use “ze/zir” pronouns by those made-up pronouns, it would be considered harassment in the workplace. The new rules note that prohibited harassment includes “repeated and intentional use of a name or pronoun inconsistent with the individual’s known gender identity (misgendering)...

  • It’s Time to Reclaim the American Workplace

    Several reports from Silicon Valley describe some of America’s most storied workplaces as now cold, dark, and lifeless spaces.

  • Meta is shutting down its Slack rival 'Workplace' — here's why

    A 2-year in advance warning from Facebook's parent company as it continues to focus on its AI and Metaverse projects.

  • Deploying purposeful thought leadership during an acquisition

    A thoughtful thought leadership strategy can win the hearts and minds of employees during change. During Ragan’s Employee Communications and Culture Conference in Chicago last month, BMO Financial Group Director of Corporate Communications Ali Duncan Martin shared how the organization deployed a purposeful thought leadership strategy following an acquisition to win the hearts and minds […]

  • Is Westminster leading a workplace revolution? The noes have it

    After MPs voted to ban politicians who’ve been arrested from parliament, Westminster has gone further than the law dictates, so should other employers follow suit? Asks Simon Neville Earlier this week MPs voted to approve new rules that would see politicians banned from the Parliamentary estate if they are arrested for a serious sexual or []

  • 7 Tips for Empowering Mothers in the Workplace

    Moms make up an important and large segment of the workforce, yet too often have been overlooked in the development of company culture. In this article, we explore seven ways that companies can empower mothers in the workplace, through the lens of my own experience as a mom and CEO.

  • Needs-Based Salaries Are Upending Workplace Norms

    Anthony Jarrett has worked for Public Interest Research Centre (PIRC), a Wales-based charity where he oversees finance, governance and IT, since 2009. He is also, despite his 30 years of experience, the lowest-paid member of staff. That’s because of PIRC’s “socially just pay policy,” designed to “recognize different needs and