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Success Requires Intentional Career Management
Stories about successful business leaders provide us with diverse pathways to our professional achievements. Such tales have a common thread – these leaders did not leave their careers in the hands of fate. Certainly, destiny may have played a part, but these people...
Three Rules for Leadership in the Era of Endless Anxiety
The Wall Street Journal recently published an article titled Sending Smiley Emojis? They Now Mean Different Things to Different People. The article recently appeared in the "A-Hed" section, usually reserved for offbeat or amusing content that brings some lightness to...
Need for Leadership Coaching On the Rise
Conducted between late June and mid-July 2021, Sounding Board partnered with Chief Learning Officer (CLO) magazine to explore how companies use professional coaching for leadership development and measure the business impact. Feedback from more than 450...
Study: Workers Split on Benefits of Remote vs On-site Work
ADP Research Institute released a study on Thursday capturing the insights of 9,000 full-time US employees working remotely and now on-site. The survey was emblematic of the varied debate over the merits of remote work versus office work. Both remote workers and...
Rating Algorithms on Freelance Platforms Making Gig Workers Paranoid
In some corner of the Internet, you've likely already been rated. These ratings help all kinds of businesses make decisions, like where to take risks and how to improve their operations. But how are ratings affecting the people who are being rated? New research from...
How to Plan for Retirement in a Gig Economy
Being your own boss. Making your own schedule. Taking control of your career. Those perks and others—including not worrying about being downsized by your company—drive professionals into self-employment all the time. In fact, the gig economy keeps growing year after...
A Blessing for the Future of Women and Work
In May 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 lockdown, our research team, including collaborators Yana van der Muelen Rogers, Elaine Zundl, and Sevinc Ulu, conducted a survey of working adults. We found that the early months of the pandemic ushered in an unforeseen...
The Future of Workforce Development
The novel coronavirus pandemic has moved most public employees to remote work situations. But the pandemic has not stopped the need for workforce development and government has had to adjust to a new world of online training and learning. Agencies have had to pivot to...
