Insperity

JUNE 17, 2025

In today’s fast-paced work environment and ultra-competitive labor market, many small- to mid-sized businesses grapple with these issues: Managing growth and scaling up in a sustainable way Dealing with a multitude of laws and regulations, especially as businesses expand in size, scope and geographic reach Controlling employee-related expenses, particularly health care costs Finding and recruiting the right people Improving the employee experience to keep team members engaged and productive, and

Payroll 113

Payroll Software Insurance Technology 113

Success

JUNE 17, 2025

While some organizations are scaling back diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts, others are maintaining their efforts. There’s also still a growing focus on DEI and inclusive company culture in the workplace, especially in corporate and startup companies. The shift toward diversity and inclusion in the workplace isn’t just a moral imperative–it can be a strategic advantage.

Leadership 103

Leadership Onboarding Creativity Reporting 103

Mad in America

JUNE 16, 2025

T here’s a myth still floating around in therapy rooms: that we, as clinicians, should remain politically neutral. That talking about politics is “biased,” “inappropriate,” or “outside the scope of practice.” That myth is not only outdated — it’s dangerous. Because in 2025, politics is personal. It’s in the couple fighting over whether their kid deserves access to gender-affirming care.

Government 125

Government Supervising Healthcare Training 125

Work Life

JUNE 19, 2025

In high-stakes meetings or chaotic team moments, the person who stays grounded often becomes the one others follow. And this outcome isn’t about status or rank—it’s biological. Human groups are wired to seek cues of stability. In uncertain situations, people scan for behavioral signals of calm, control, and composure. Those who project these signals can influence group dynamics in powerful ways, whether or not they hold formal authority.

Influencing 98

Influencing Controlling Leadership Training 98

Speaker: Chester Santos

Forgetfulness is costing you time, money, and a ton of missed opportunities. In the age of automation, it’s easy to underestimate the power of a well-trained human mind. But memory isn’t just a parlor trick, it's a strategic edge. Human memory is one of the most underrated business skills. Whether you’re managing people, leading sessions, or having high-stakes conversations, remembering names, details, and concepts can be transformative in building trust, absorbing knowledge, and driving perform

Creativity

Office Snapshots

JUNE 20, 2025

OZ’s office expansion unites its entire team under one roof for the first time in 60 years. Located in the heart of RiNo, this adaptive reuse project honors a historic industrial building while evolving the space into a dynamic, collaborative workspace that reflects OZ’s commitment to innovation, technology, collaboration, sustainability, and community engagement.

Manufacturing 71

Manufacturing Technology Creativity Prioritization 71

Success

JUNE 20, 2025

“Build a duck.” Those three words sound simple enough, but when I look at the six Lego pieces in front of me—two square, one with an eye, another rectangular and two flat red pieces—I pause. How could I make a duck out of these seemingly irrelevant shapes? And then, I think to myself, “What would Salvador Dalí do?” The question wasn’t completely out of left field.

Creativity 103

Creativity Problem-Solving Learning Training 103

Work Life

JUNE 19, 2025

Are you ready for reinvention? Our rapidly evolving world is demanding more from us as leaders than ever. Market challenges and opportunities used to come from competitors, economic conditions, and the quality of our products and operations. This “fast-moving” world once required responsiveness, an eye for detail, and efficiency. But the age of AI is introducing a competitive threat at a faster clip than we’ve ever faced before.

Equipment 98

Equipment Leadership Influencing Technology 98

AdminDroid

JUNE 18, 2025

Client secrets might seem like a quick and easy way to authenticate applications, but they come with hidden risks. These secrets are often stored in plain text, hardcoded in scripts, or forgotten entirely, turning into silent security risks waiting to be exploited. With attackers constantly scanning for exposed credentials, relying on client secrets is like locking your front door but leaving the key under the welcome mat.

Security 91

Security Controlling Flexibility Flexibility 91

Success

JUNE 19, 2025

Visualization might sound like a regular mental practice, but it’s much more than that. It’s the process of creating a vivid, well-detailed image of a desired outcome. One way to think of visualization is mentally rehearsing a process before it happens. Whether you’re working toward a personal milestone or aiming to overcome a challenge, visualization can help you reprogram your thoughts to see possibilities and take purposeful action.

Controlling 104

Controlling Decision Making Training Creativity 104

Eat Your Career

JUNE 16, 2025

Years ago, when I was working as an Executive Assistant, I found a conference designed specifically for administrative professionals and, being a lifelong learner, I was eager to go. Excited, I brought the idea to my Operations Manager, hoping she’d support me in attending. Her response was surprising and deflating. She simply said, “You don’t need that.” It stopped me cold.

Logistics 82

Logistics Problem-Solving Learning Leadership 82

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

Decision Making

Work Life

JUNE 20, 2025

Ever find yourself mentally drained before lunch—even when the day’s barely begun? That’s not laziness. It’s decision fatigue, and it’s very real. From the moment you wake up, your brain starts spending mental energy to make choices: what to wear, what to eat, how to respond to emails, whether to speak up in a meeting, and more. Over time, each of these micro-decisions chips away at your cognitive bandwidth—until you’re running on fumes by 11 a.m.

Problem-Solving 96

Problem-Solving Decision Making Controlling Influencing 96

McKensey

JUNE 18, 2025

In a disrupted world, public sector leadership is getting harder. New McKinsey research shows how excellent leaders are rising to the challenge: They make purpose their engine and character their compass.

Leadership 119

Leadership 119

Success

JUNE 17, 2025

Good leaders can possess a variety of traits, from confidence to charisma. But whether you’re leading a small business, a big corporation, a class of students or a family, effective leadership often comes down to having the ability to inspire others to achieve certain outcomes. That means learning how to delegate and manage challenges along the way.

Delegation 70

Delegation Problem-Solving Controlling Small Business 70

Office Snapshots

JUNE 19, 2025

Cooper Carry designed the interior fit-out of the old Werthan Mill Warehouse into speculative office suites as part of a redevelopment project in Nashville’s historic Germantown neighborhood. The warehouse has a rich 100-year history. It was originally used to produce paper and burlap bags and later for manufacturing cat and dog food bags. The large open space of the building posed leasing challenges, making it difficult for potential tenants to visualize the space as functional offices.

Real Estate 59

Real Estate Manufacturing Food Training 59

Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street

In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.

Technology

Work Life

JUNE 19, 2025

Including women in corporate boardrooms does more than diversify leadership —recent research shows it can also lead to safer job sites, potentially saving companies from costly safety incidents. Companies with more women on their boards tend to have fewer workplace safety incidents—especially when these women hold positions of power within the board, according to an analysis of workplace safety at 266 companies between 2002 and 2011.

Leadership 95

Leadership Decision Making Learning 95

McKensey

JUNE 18, 2025

While your strategic goals may be the right ones, is the organization built to achieve them? New research reveals a dynamic system that creates value in the face of volatility.

Decision Making 102

Decision Making 102

Success

JUNE 18, 2025

The shift towards sustainability is impacting businesses in every industry. No matter what your business focus is, sustainable leadership is something to think about. Many consumers, employees and investors are seeking companies that prioritize sustainable and eco-friendly practices. This desire for sustainability isn’t just about reducing your carbon footprint or recycling.

Leadership 67

Leadership Supplies Prioritization Reporting 67

fm:systems

JUNE 19, 2025

Explore strategic office space management techniques that boost productivity, enhance employee satisfaction, and adapt to evolving work patterns.

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Work Life

JUNE 20, 2025

Difficult conversations are something we tend to avoid at all costs. Whether it’s about underperformance, conflict, a personal issue, or an unsuccessful job application, entering any difficult conversation triggers fear within ourselves and the person on the other end. Our brain’s flight or fight mechanism is triggered, with emotions taking the lead, and we frequently find ourselves in defensive mode looking for a win.

Retail 80

Retail Communication Controlling 80

Attendance Bot

JUNE 16, 2025

The idea of a four-day workweek has evolved from radical to realistic and is rapidly gaining momentum. Whether it’s employee feedback, a CEO’s curiosity, or the pressure to compete for top talent, more tech companies are testing the waters. Running a 4-day week pilot HR leaders can stand behind isn’t just about shifting schedules. It’s about proving, through data, that productivity isn’t lost when hours are reduced.

Leadership 52

Leadership Customer Service Flexibility Flexibility 52

Success

JUNE 19, 2025

Going after goals takes more than just a desire to change—it takes discipline, resilience and a willingness to get uncomfortable. It means showing up on the hard days and working through the challenges. What gets in the way often isn’t lack of ability, but fear—fear of failure, of judgment and of not being good enough. When you read through these “reach goals” quotes, you’ll likely find a few that inspire.

Mentoring 113

Mentoring Consulting Planning Learning 113

Workplace Insight

JUNE 19, 2025

A new report from Leesman claims that the sharp reductions in office space seen in last five years may now be levelling off. According to the Focus Forward study, which draws on data from 132 senior corporate real estate (CRE) leaders worldwide, the majority of organisations have already reduced their real estate footprint – but the pace of office downsizing is slowing.

Real Estate 52

Real Estate Sales Reporting Influencing 52

Work Life

JUNE 19, 2025

Before you hit send on your next email, pause for a minute. If you’re like the average employee, you draft 112 emails a week, spending about five and a half minutes writing each one, according to this survey by Slack. If your messages go ignored or if the recipient requests clarification , you might want to consider how you’re showing up in their inbox.

Correspondence 85

Correspondence Communication Consulting Coaching 85

Attendance Bot

JUNE 20, 2025

When your team is scaling fast and responsibilities are constantly shifting, traditional training programs often fall short. No one has time to sit through lengthy modules, yet everyone needs to keep pace with new tools, evolving workflows, and growing expectations. That’s where microlearning comes in—a flexible, focused way to embed agile training into the everyday flow of work.

Training 52

Training Onboarding Learning Project Management 52

Success

JUNE 19, 2025

Remember when the pandemic hit and everyone started working from their kitchen tables? That massive shift didn’t just change where we work—it also transformed how we approach work itself. As millions of Americans got a taste of autonomy and work-life integration, they began demanding workplaces that recognize their whole humanity—environments built to support resilience in a world where collective trauma and uncertainty have become our daily reality.

Decision Making 57

Decision Making Leadership Onboarding Flexibility 57

Workplace Insight

JUNE 19, 2025

Microsoft’s latest Work Trend Index Special Report, Breaking down the infinite workday , warns that the traditional boundaries of the working day have dissolved under a flood of emails, messages and meetings. Drawing on anonymised telemetry from Microsoft 365, the study argues that the contemporary knowledge worker now faces a “seemingly infinite workday” that begins before dawn and stretches deep into the evening.

Reporting 52

Reporting Communication 52

Work Life

JUNE 20, 2025

Picture this: On your way out of the office, you notice a manager berating an employee. You assume the worker made some sort of mistake, but the manager’s behavior seems unprofessional. Later, as you’re preparing dinner, is the scene still weighing on you—or is it out of sight, out of mind? If you think you’d still be bothered, you’re not alone. It turns out that simply observing mistreatment at work can have a surprisingly strong impact on people, even for those not directly involved.

Supervising 73

Supervising Creativity Controlling Reporting 73

Office Snapshots

JUNE 16, 2025

Perrigo is a leading provider of consumer self-care products and over-the-counter (OTC) health and wellness solutions. Based in Ireland, the organization has long had a presence in West Michigan, with more than 4,000 employees at facilities in Allegan and Holland. To augment its existing U.S. operations, the company sought to establish a new North American headquarters in Grand Rapids at the Michigan State University Innovation Park, a hub of research and healthcare organizations anchoring the “

Teamwork 59

Teamwork Healthcare Communication 59

Success

JUNE 14, 2025

Never before has the job market faced such a surge in fraudulent, fake and malicious applications. As employers increasingly rely on remote and digital hiring processes to reduce costs, scammers and unqualified individuals are leveraging AI tools to manipulate their way through the system. Greenhouse has partnered with CLEAR to launch new software aimed at stopping AI-generated resumes and fraudulent applicants before they make it to the interview stage.

Technology 62

Technology Security Interviewing Equipment 62

Workplace Insight

JUNE 18, 2025

The majority of Australian employees now work from home at least part of the week, with hybrid working becoming embedded in organisational culture, according to a new report from the University of Melbourne and Western Sydney University. The study, Navigating the Future of Working from Home in Australia , is based on survey data collected in late 2023 and charts how working patterns have changed in the years following the pandemic.

Flexibility 52

Flexibility Flexibility Retail Office Policies 52

Work Life

JUNE 19, 2025

Not long ago, a client of mine—let’s call her Maya—shared something that struck me. “I had a rare Sunday with nothing urgent on my plate. My kids were with their grandparents. My inbox was quiet. I could have done anything. Instead of feeling relaxed, I panicked. I literally didn’t know what to do with myself.” She laughed softly but tears were in her eyes.

Multitasking 92

Multitasking Logistics Coaching Creativity 92

McKensey

JUNE 16, 2025

Marketing has slid to the back seat at many companies, resulting in a loss of customer focus. Bringing the chief marketing officer up front and aligning with the CEO and CFO can reignite sustainable growth.

Sales 99

Sales Leadership 99

Success

JUNE 14, 2025

For many early-career professionals, the sound of a ringing phone sparks more dread than urgency. Faced with the unexpected pressure of a live conversation, some freeze, let the call go to voicemail or scramble to respond by text instead. As Gen Z enters the workforce, a quiet but consequential shift is taking place: More young employees are avoiding phone calls altogether—and it’s starting to affect the workplace.

Communication 57

Communication Coaching Onboarding Mentoring 57

Workplace Insight

JUNE 17, 2025

AgileAcoustics has announced the launch of hilo.work , the world’s first electric height-adjustable office privacy screen system, which debuted to great acclaim at the recent Clerkenwell Design Week 2025 in London. Crafted and manufactured in West Yorkshire, hilo.work empowers users to adjust screen height to suit focus, privacy, or collaboration, seamlessly adapting acoustic environments in real time.

Manufacturing 52

Manufacturing Controlling Flexibility Flexibility 52