The 5 most-clicked links in SmartBrief on Workforce this past week:
- How to proffer praise
- Leading without official authority
- Keeping the clever people happy
- In defense of people skills
- Networking secrets of CEOs
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While you wait for your SmartBrief on Workforce, check out these additional links we found this morning:
- When the interview subject takes control
- How Jim Collins puts “no” to work
- Debating the moral angle of layoffs
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Today’s outtakes from the SmartBrief on Workforce include the results of a study on the impact of workplace hostility. You can’t control everything — “HR will never be able to get everyone to eat lunch at the same table or go on coffee breaks together,” as one expert put it — but that doesn’t mean you should overlook grossly inappropriate behavior.
- Why you should reign in hostility
- Debates without division
- Where money comes in when making an offer
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Last week’s SmartBrief on Workforce poll: Do businesses have a right to know how employees portray themselves online?
- No, 52%
- Yes, 48%
Social media continues to erode the boundaries we once assumed existed between personal and professional life. Our readers were equally divided on how much poking around employers should be doing in their workers’ online lives. My take? Workers should assume anything they share on a social networking site will be seen by their supervisors and colleagues — and that goes for material hidden behind privacy settings. At the same time, managers should be judicious about how they use any information they come across online. Much of what is shared on personal social networking sites is simply irrelevant to someone’s competence at their job.
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I love Marshall Goldsmith, especially when he’s being a little bit contrary, like in this piece in Talent Management magazine. Don’t coast during your last few months before retirement, he says — or worry too much about your image. “It’s an opportunity for an experienced executive to make those, tough, unpopular decisions that he or she knows are good for the company.” Check out his article, as well as these other extras we found while searching for your Smartbrief on Workforce.
- Marshall Goldsmith on the power of the “lame duck”
- The trouble with lifetime job guarantees
- Why employee happiness matters
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