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This week’s 5 for Friday rounds up five stories about the latest trends in HR leadership.
5. Your Employee Is an Online Celebrity. Now What Do You Do? Wall Street Journal: …

The breadth of communications options is similar to the workplace communication landscape. The structure of performance reviews, types and frequency of management communication with employees, as well as accessibility for employees to give feedback to their superiors.

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Leadership is the most studied of all psychological phenomena – a reality that puzzles researchers of more quotidian behaviors. I believe this owes to the fact that some part of us believes that we can be a leader, even if our current behaviors and station may do little to suggest that latent potential.

Don’t sell any deal until you know what can and should be sold. Listen with your ears instead of your mouth, and don’t interrupt. Also listen with your body and your mind. Challenge your assumptions and take note to see what’s missing. After you listen be Sherlock. Prepare to respond to questions that you do not want to answer. Prepare to say no and explain why. Provide solutions, not just problems. Remember that how you say something can have more impact that what you say.

As organizations increasingly expand across the nation and globe, remote work arrangements have become a common part of day-to-day business. This poses a challenge for managers, who are often left struggling to engage employees they cannot see. In my book The Virtual Manager, I detail the benefits of targeting the Key Drivers of Employee Engagement with initiatives tailored for the remote workforce. Here are a few of my top recommendations:

Think about a time when you’ve started in a new role. Does this sound familiar? You have good people, and good values, but something isn’t working. How do you preserve what works and still drives the company forward? One of the biggest challenges can be building a brand—and intertwining your personal brand with your company’s brand.

The perceived shortcomings of Millennials are well documented: we’re know-it-alls, arrogant, pushy, and want to get hired higher up the ladder than the bottom rung we deserve. There’s a perception that social media is the silver bullet for reaching Gen Y candidates and consumers, but paradoxically, these online networks seem to be the launching pad for perpetuating these myths and stereotypes.

As HR and recruiting professionals, we are constantly looking for “silver bullets” when it comes to hiring. We’ll pretty much try and do almost anything it we think it’s going to bring our organizations better talent. This is why I’m perplexed at the one huge miss most organizations are not fully invested or under-utilizing when it comes to talent acquisition: hiring veterans.