Success

MAY 30, 2025

Preboarding (Before Day 1) The preboarding process can feel daunting, as this stage typically involves processing a large number of legal documents and getting ready. Gather Legal Documents Make sure that the new employee has signed an offer letter or submitted a formal written acceptance email. State and local tax forms (e.g.,

Onboarding

Workplace Insight

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Effective leadership, employee engagement, and sustainability depend on these qualities – qualities that AI, for all its power, cannot replicate. Without these guardrails, ethical dilemmas, transparency gaps, and legal uncertainties remain unaddressed. Back to hybrid AI’s role in workplace design and management is a complementary one.

Problem-Solving

Work Life

JUNE 16, 2025

A workflow bug might frustrate your end user but never reach leadership. Give customer-facing teams a clear path to share feedback with product, legal, operations—whoever can actually solve it. A missing report might annoy your buyer, even if it doesn’t block usage. Categorizing feedback by persona—technical user, business buyer, etc.—helps

Problem-Solving

Work Life

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Getting feedback regularly shows leadership that you want to meet expectations and have room to contribute more. Russ Johnson , CEO and finance expert, Linx Legal Accept the human aspects Unless you want to work with robots, realize that favoritism is a human trait. Ask for specific examples and actionable advice.

Construction

Work Life

JULY 22, 2025

Could the advice ever veer into unethical, biased, or legally gray territory, and how do we ensure that doesn’t happen? Instead, it trained me on the future of learning, leadership, and the very soul of coaching. I found myself constantly asking: • Is the model drawing from my most current content? Does it sound like me?

Coaching

C-Suite Assistants

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Coordinator : An EA in a family office oversees daily operations, requiring strong leadership. The legal aspects and the breadth and scope of these are increasingly complex as well and a specialized background check company can best advise you. Your recruiter can conduct these for you or you may choose to do them.

Bookkeeping

Work Life

JULY 17, 2025

Vivian Acquah CDE , Certified Diversity Executive, Amplify DEI Showcase MultiLingual Staff for Inclusive Service As the CEO of an award-winning, woman-owned legal practice, I stand proud in advocating for the prioritization of diversity, equity, and inclusion in every facet of business operations.

Legal

Minding the Workplace

JULY 25, 2025

The Ubisoft case, however awful, pales in comparison to the 2019 moral harassment law conviction of France Télécom executives, pursuant to a widespread, directed campaign of workplace bullying that became associated with several dozen employee suicides. I wrote about that terrible case here.

Logistics

Attendance Bot

AUGUST 11, 2025

For example, an enterprise might invest in global leadership pipelines, while an SMB focuses on cross-training to stay agile. Common Enterprise-Level HR Practices Leadership development programs: Identify high-potential employees and ready them for executive roles. Both are valid—but they’re tailored to different contexts.

Onboarding

Fellow

DECEMBER 18, 2024

These bots record and store meeting data, raising major concerns for IT departments and leadership alike. If your meetings deal with sensitive information that falls under HIPAA, that could even open you up to legal consequences. The solution, however, is simple.

Security

Work Life

JUNE 12, 2025

They challenge leadership to define proof-of-concept milestones, KPIs, and risk thresholds. Beyond traditional finance and legal literacy, durable boards now include: – Digital natives who understand AI, cloud infrastructure, and cybersecurity. Trust isn’t a constraint; it’s an accelerant.

Government

Work Life

JULY 15, 2025

Convene a cross‑functional review team (legal, ethics, domain experts) to sample outputs, trace decisions back to design choices, and recommend course corrections. The Leadership Imperative Every AI tool comes bundled with values. Run a quarterly philosophical audit.

Training

Minding the Workplace

AUGUST 11, 2025

The topic of belonging at work has been raised by the American Psychological Association (Kirsten Weir article here ), Center for Creative Leadership (Stephanie Wormington article here ), and A Great Place to Work (Tony Bond article here ), among others, so it’s already part of the conversation about workplace cultures.

Legal

Insperity

JANUARY 7, 2025

An effective HR team also serves as a strategic bridge between employees and leadership. Reduce HR-related compliance risks: From changing labor laws to workplace safety regulations, HRs role in maintaining compliance protects organizations from costly fines and legal issues. Define roles, responsibilities and success metrics.

Leadership

Go Burrows

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

LEADERSHIP QUOTE Every woman’s success should be an inspiration to another. Serena Williams CONNECT WITH CHANDRA Chandra on LinkedIn ABOUT CHANDRA Chandra Severin has over 3 decades of experience working as a trusted right hand and executive assistant to Senior Leadership and CEO’s. .

Networking

Attendance Bot

JULY 4, 2025

It’s deeply customizable, endlessly extendable, and used by everyone from software teams to legal departments to run projects, streamline processes, and make sense of chaos. Build Cross-Team Dashboards to Show Off the Good Stuff Want to impress leadership or track multiple projects in one place?

Payroll

Success

JULY 15, 2025

When developing a leadership pipeline, be it the CEO position or other major role, securing the support of these integral members of your company will ensure your plan runs smoothly. Typically, things like voting control, the purchase of shares outstanding and management are clearly and legally defined,” Penix says.

Planning

Work in Confidence

JUNE 23, 2025

Financial and Legal Consequences Unchecked misconduct can lead to costly investigations, regulatory fines, tribunals, or even criminal charges. Leaders Miss Out on Vital Insight When people stay silent, leadership loses visibility of what’s really going on in their company. Silent cultures can cost millions.

Security

Mad in America

MARCH 25, 2025

Understanding the Trieste Model The Trieste model, developed in the 1970s under the leadership of psychiatrist Franco Basaglia, revolutionised mental health care by rejecting the traditional asylum-based system in favour of community-centred support.

Healthcare

Workplace Insight

JUNE 16, 2025

The most commonly cited areas where directors felt confident in their boards to make clear, timely, and well-informed decisions without external consultants were corporate finance (including M&A) and legal and compliance (both selected by 33 percent of respondents). Digitisation and technology strategy (32 percent) followed closely.

Finance

Work Life

JULY 28, 2025

” Urso added that a lack of such protections contributes to the gender pay gap and causes women to lose leadership opportunities. For some, those symptoms can be severe, however, until now, no state has legally acknowledged the condition in the workplace.

Legal

Success

JULY 15, 2025

When advanced AI systems started offering sophisticated legal analysis, I decided to put one through its paces with a hypothetical scenario based on common industry disputes. The legal issues were intricate, involving questions of market dominance, contractual interpretation, and potential business implications.

Legal

Work Life

JULY 28, 2025

It’s the hybrid world, where transactions blend multiple intelligences, and where leadership requires convergence. Leadership Is Multi-Dimensional Chess Running a company was complicated; now it’s complex. Hybrid Leadership: Navigating Paradox “The test of a first-rate intelligence,” said the American novelist F. We were wrong.

Government

Work Life

JULY 16, 2025

Great product leadership isn’t about avoiding these tensions—it’s about navigating them without losing sight of our purpose or compromising our values. Legal wants to minimize risk. It’s essential leadership. Internally, we’re constantly balancing conflicting roadmaps.

Leadership

Work Life

JULY 28, 2025

Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from conversations with executives and entrepreneurs, and from the pages of Inc. I also use AI for reviews of legal documents and researching HR and regulatory topics, which would otherwise require outside counsel.” Hello and welcome to Modern CEO!

Coaching

Vantage Circle

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Establish mentorship programs to guide career growth and leadership development. Include legal assistance programs for estate planning, contracts, or other personal matters. Other Benefits Additional benefits can make a big difference in employees' lives. Employee Needs: We can’t assume we know what our team values most.

Small Business

Mad in America

APRIL 12, 2025

A Holistic Approach to Mental Health Reform, Grounded in Social Justice The WHO guidance is organized into five policy areas in need of urgent change: leadership and governance, service organization, workforce development, person-centered interventions, and addressing the social and structural determinants of mental health.

Promotion

Ask a Manager

JULY 18, 2025

I have to write to “agency” voices – some are technical, others are leadership, and AI or an LLM cannot grasp those nuances. Of course you have to address this immediate problem, but overall, you (heck, pretty much every company and org these days) need something to guide usage and address legal/copyright issues as well.

Legal

Mad in America

JUNE 19, 2025

Colorado’s approach importantly emphasizes natural medicines in their fungal and plant forms rather than synthetic compounds and allows for multiple pathways for legal use. We wrote a blog about women’s leadership in the psychedelic space as an essential part of doing power differently.

Healthcare

BMT Office Administration

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This may make sense for things like new HR policies that your legal team and finance department may need to review. Flat or horizontal : This is a flatter organizational structure with fewer senior leadership levels. Do items have to go through a long chain of people to get approved?

Retail

Vantage Circle

MARCH 18, 2025

Ensuring workplace safety isn’t solely the responsibility of leadership; employees must also be actively involved, and together, they can help create a safer environment. Engage Leadership and Get Buy-In Leadership involvement is pivotal to the success of any safety program.

Manufacturing

Mad in America

AUGUST 2, 2025

Many of those 51 recommendations can be loosely grouped by themes: strengthened legal due process; more options, and better data. Experts like Jim Gottstein have estimated that proper legal representation alone could reduce commitments by as much as 90 percent, because so many are unconstitutional.

Reporting

Mad in America

AUGUST 11, 2025

As was the case with Hunter Whitley, a legal review of Connor’s records found that the VA failed to discuss the FDA’s black box warning to monitor for suicidal thoughts and behaviors associated with the use of bupropion for young adults under the age of 24. We applaud Rep.

Healthcare

Work Life

JUNE 18, 2025

Under her leadership, Patagonia even sued the Trump administration after he issued a proclamation to shrink public land in two national monuments. How Michigan attorney general Dana Nessel is shaping the legal resistance to Trump Nessel has emerged as a formidable figure in the legal resistance to the Trump administration. “In

Legal

Work Life

JUNE 18, 2025

Cities tend to run deep with disagreements about everything from infrastructure to drug legalization—just look at any local Facebook group or subreddit. The next phase is for volunteers to communicate the project’s findings to county leadership so the results can help shape the city’s development.

Government

Insperity

JUNE 21, 2022

A company may be an inanimate legal entity, but it’s made up of humans and behaviors. In coordination with executive leadership, these committee members set the overall CSR strategy. It’s the same thing with companies. Corporate social responsibility defined. How to create a CSR program and report.

Reporting

Insperity

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Every organization should work to prevent disparate impact and disparate treatment of its employees, to create a healthy workplace culture, attract the best possible talent and avoid legal consequences. As employees move up into higher levels of leadership, they may face different kinds of practices that cause disparate impacts.

Legal