SmartBrief on Leadership's most-read blog posts of 2021 | 14 actions leaders can take to be more flexible | Does your office close the week between Christmas and New Year's?
SmartBrief on Leadership's most-read blog posts of 2021 Each year, we round up the most popular blog posts of the year and see what lessons we can learn. This year, it's slightly different: There's the top 10 most visited posts overall, but also the top 10 posts clicked on by you -- the readers. Take a look, and check out any posts you missed! Full Story: SmartBrief/Leadership (12/16)
Flexible leaders seek to engage their employees in every aspect of the business, including defining acceptable behaviors, treating them as peers instead of subordinates and occasionally letting them choose how to run meetings, writes Kate Nasser. "As you show them it's good to question traditional ways of working, you lift their morale with the possibilities of change," Nasser writes. Full Story: Kate Nasser (12/19)
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Does your office close the week between Christmas and New Year's?
A Gartner survey found 8% of employers are requiring employees to get COVID-19 booster shots, and Gartner research chief Brian Kropp says the percentage likely will go up as the Omicron variant spreads. While some states also are starting to require boosters for public employees and many colleges are following suit, the CDC has not yet said the booster is needed for a person to be fully vaccinated. Full Story: CNN (12/22)
Why the increase in pay isn't as big as it may seem Wages may appear to have gone up dramatically, but the increases are far less when adjusted for inflation, write ECA Partners' Atta Tarki and TalentCompass' Eli Castle. "It's difficult to predict if these wage increases will make up for the cost of inflation in 2021 or 2022 as both wages and inflation predictions have been a moving target in the past few months," they write. Full Story: Harvard Business Review (tiered subscription model) (12/22)
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Talking to strangers is beneficial It turns out talking to strangers can be a positive experience because people find themselves interested in what a stranger has to say and unafraid to reveal things they might withhold from someone they know. "So the next time you share a space with a stranger for a prolonged period of time, ask them about their lives and try not to resort back to your default weather commentary," writes Conor Feehly. Full Story: ScienceAlert (Australia) (12/19)
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Some of the parallels between the two decades are striking: ABBA is releasing new music, people are still talking about "Saturday Night Fever" and space travel is once again newsworthy. Does this mean bell bottoms will finally come back in style? Full Story: The Christian Science Monitor (12/22)
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