Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts I've seen over the past couple weeks. Given the current state of business today and how much has changed because of COVID-19 and calls for racial justice, I'm continuing to use the Weekly Round-Up as a place to share some of the best resources I'm seeing to help leaders and communicators navigate these challenges with their teams. 

This Week's Round-Up of Leadership and Communication Blogs:

• The New Workplace: How 2020 Changed HR Forever
  By Tara Ataya via Human Resource Executive (@HRExecMag)
  
  Hootsuite's chief people and diversity officer lays out 3 trends that have become critical to the HR function.
  
  “We’re living through a redefining era for leaders across all business functions, and HR is no exception. The COVID-19 pandemic continues to shift our understanding of “normal.” and we’re in the midst of a movement toward social justice not seen for a generation...”
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Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts I've seen over the past couple weeks. Given the current state of business today and how much has changed because of COVID-19 and calls for racial justice, I'm continuing to use the Weekly Round-Up as a place to share some of the best resources I'm seeing to help leaders and communicators navigate these challenges with their teams. 

This Week's Round-Up of Leadership and Communication Blogs:

• Communication and Courage: The Top 5 Corporate Leadership Lessons from 2020
  By Katherine Thompson via Fortune Magazine (@FortuneMagazine)
  
  Business transformation and organizational change management expert, Katherine Thompson, provides her top 5 corporate leadership lessons she learned in 2020.
  
  “Even as the world ramped up to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, corporate leaders would find other insurmountable challenges waiting in the wings—such as an economic downturn, racial unrest, and one of the most important elections of our time...”
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Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts I've seen over the past couple weeks. Given the current state of business today and how much has changed because of COVID-19 and calls for racial justice, I'm continuing to use the Weekly Round-Up as a place to share some of the best resources I'm seeing to help leaders and communicators navigate these challenges with their teams. 

This Week's Round-Up of Leadership and Communication Blogs:

• Top Internal Communication Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities for 2021
  By Tim Vaughn via Poppulo (@PoppuloSays)
  
  What lessons have you learned in 2020 and what are the challenges and opportunities for 2021? Over a dozen internal comms experts weigh in.
  
  “A year on, as we know too well, everything has changed. Not least the world of work, and how over the past 10 months employee communication has proven itself to be an invaluable trust-creator and business-critical function during a traumatic pandemic...”
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Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts I've seen over the past week. Given the current state of business today and how much has changed because of COVID-19, I'm continuing to use the Weekly Round-Up as a place to share some of the best resources I'm seeing to help leaders and communicators navigate these challenges with their teams. 

This Week's Round-Up of Leadership and Communication Blogs:

• 2021 Workplace Trends Show an Emphasis on People, ADP Studies Say
  By Sheryl Estrada (@SherylEstrada via @hrdive), HR Dive
  
  Based on a compilation of 2020 ADP research, here are the workplace trends for 2021. Flexibility will remain at the top of the list.
  
  “The COVID-19 pandemic, an economic recession and calls for social justice prompted many companies to begin workplace transformations in 2020. Many lessons learned from the crises — such as maintaining a focus on the well-being of employees, the importance of inclusive work environments and keeping abreast of compliance matters — are also some of the workforce trends for 2021, based on a compilation of 2020 ADP research...”
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Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts I've seen over the past week. Given the current state of business today and how much has changed because of COVID-19, I'm continuing to use the Weekly Round-Up as a place to share some of the best resources I'm seeing to help leaders and communicators navigate these challenges with their teams. 

This Week's Round-Up of Leadership and Communication Blogs:

• Leadership Behaviors During the New Normal: Envision and Engage
  By Robert A. McDonald (@Bob_McDonald75 via @SmartBrief and @SBLeaders), SmartBrief
  
  Retired Procter & Gamble Co. Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Robert A. McDonald, explains how and why leaders need to make a deliberate plan to engage – more so now than ever before.
  
  “While the purpose and values of an organization don’t frequently change in this world and, in fact, are often the antidote, the behaviors of leadership should change. One of the biggest challenges in the current environment is the social distance required to ensure safety in the coronavirus era. This distance makes leadership more difficult. I remember in 1991 when I was living in Manila and leading Procter & Gamble's business in the Philippines, I was also tasked with leading P&G’s Hair Care business throughout Asia...”
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Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts I've seen over the past couple weeks. Given the current state of business today and how much has changed because of COVID-19 and calls for racial justice, I'm continuing to use the Weekly Round-Up as a place to share some of the best resources I'm seeing to help leaders and communicators navigate these challenges with their teams. 

This Week's Round-Up of Leadership and Communication Blogs:

• Irv Grousbeck: The Power of “I Don’t Know”
  By Bill Snyder (@BSnyderSF via @StanfordGSB), Stanford Business
  
  As a C-suite executive, you might think you always have to have the answers, but thinking that way can be a mistake. H. Irving Grousbeck, an adjunct professor of management at Stanford Graduate School of Business and the cofounder of Continental Cablevision, explains why.
  
  “If you’re a top-level business manager, admitting that you don’t know something can be difficult. After all, anyone who has clambered to the top of the corporate food chain is expected to exude certainty and self-confidence. In short, you’re supposed to be the person with all the answers...”
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Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts I've seen over the past couple weeks. Given the current state of business today and how much has changed because of COVID-19 and calls for racial justice, I'm continuing to use the Weekly Round-Up as a place to share some of the best resources I'm seeing to help leaders and communicators navigate these challenges with their teams. 

This Week's Round-Up of Leadership and Communication Blogs:

• 3 Surprising Advantages of a Remote-First Workforce
  By Lindsay Kohler via Forbes (@Forbes)
  
  These advantages from transitioning to a remote work environment from behavioral scientist, Lindsay Kohler, may surprise you.
  
  “Recognizing that Covid-19 has opened up our eyes to the fact that remote working works en masse, and also recognizing that the pandemic won't last forever, what advantages could there be to transitioning to a policy that assumes the workforce will all be remote where possible, versus office-based?...”
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Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best leadership and communication blog posts I've seen recently. Given the current state of business today and how much has changed because of COVID-19 and calls for racial justice, I'm continuing to use the Weekly Round-Up as a place to share some of the best resources I'm seeing to help leaders and communicators navigate these challenges with their teams. 

This Week's Round-Up of Leadership and Communication Blogs:

• Culture 500: Introducing the 2020 Culture Champions
  By Donald Sull and Charles Sull (@CultureXInsight via @mitsmr), MITSloan Management Review
  
  A recent analysis of companies by MITSloan Management Review and Glassdoor using the Culture 500 Methodology, created by Donald Sull and Charles Sull, reveals a set of 21 organizations that lead their industries when it comes to cultural excellence.
  
  “The Culture 500 measures and compares more than 500 U.S. companies across nine cultural dimensions, by narrowing in on employee data to examine what makes company culture distinctive and effective. The interactive index allows us to see how companies perform across the cultural values that matter most to employees, such as respect, collaboration, and diversity...”
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Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts I've seen over the past week. Given the current state of business today and how much has changed because of COVID-19 and calls for racial justice, I'm continuing to use the Weekly Round-Up as a place to share some of the best resources I'm seeing to help leaders and communicators navigate these challenges with their teams. 

This Week's Round-Up of Leadership and Communication Blogs:

• 9 Mistakes That Sabotage Collaboration and Destroy Trust
  By Karin Hurt and David Dye (@LetsGrowLeaders and @davidmdye), Let's Grow Leaders
  
  Talking about these common problems can help you find a better path forward to more effective and productive teamwork and take everyone’s performance to the next level.
  
  “You’re working hard and want to win. So do your co-workers. You think, 'we’re all on the same team, so why does everything we do seem to sabotage collaboration?' Ironically, it’s usually the well-meaning, high-achievers that inadvertently sabotage collaboration. When you’re that focused on winning, it’s tough to remember that the competition isn’t in the guy in the left Zoom window, it’s mediocrity...”
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Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts I've seen over the past week. Given the current state of business today and how much has changed because of COVID-19 and calls for racial justice, I'm continuing to use the Weekly Round-Up as a place to share some of the best resources I'm seeing to help leaders and communicators navigate these challenges with their teams. 

This Week's Round-Up of Leadership and Communication Blogs:

• Lessons From the Front Line: What Communicators Can Learn From the Unrest in Minneapolis
  By Paul Omodt, ABC, APR, Fellow PRSA, MBC, SCMP (@PGOmodt via @IABC), IABC
  
  Paul Omodt and his team of communicators offered a plan and recommendations to the Minnesota governor's office after he noticed a lack of communication from the local and state levels in the days following George Floyd's death. Their plan laid out 10 simple concepts in crisis communication.
  
  “The eyes of the world turned to Minneapolis on Monday, 25 May 2020, and witnessed the shocking murder of George Floyd. This was not the first time the ugly face of racism and a city’s inability to address a systematic problem appeared. What followed were days of large and mostly respectful and peaceful protests, as well as riotous behavior that saw hundreds of Minneapolis buildings burned and destroyed. As a Minneapolis native, those first few days and nights after George Floyd’s murder were a mix of emotions ranging from anger to sadness to disillusionment. And from my perspective, as a communication professional, Minneapolis and the Minnesota state government needed to make significant improvements in communicating direction, management or strategy in the days after Floyd’s death...”
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