The Must-Read Articles for Talent Professionals This Week
This is the week we make promises to ourselves: To lose weight, to drink more water, to read War and Peace, to jump out of an airplane (with a parachute, of course).
Oscar Berg, a senior consultant at Exobe, a Swedish IT services firm, has a New Year’s resolution he’d like companies worldwide to make: Treat employees “like the capable, responsible adults they are.”
For Oscar, this would flow out of embracing flexible work options, sharing information openly, and empowering decision-making at all levels. Companies that choose to do that, Oscar says, will find that “amazing things happen.” What kind of amazing things? Well, among others, he says, engagement will soar, innovation will flourish, productivity will thrive.
To learn more about why Oscar says we should make 2025 “the year we ditch micromanagement,” read his post at the top of our list below of must-read articles for talent professionals. And further down our list, you can find out why Bonnie Dilber doesn’t think working parents should be singled out for special consideration (“we are all deserving of support and flexibility,” she writes); how women are lagging in AI adoption; and what mistake one manager made years back that is still haunting his sleep.
Here are the must-read articles for this week:
1. New Year, New Mindset: Treat Your Employees Like Grownups (Oscar Berg on LinkedIn)
2. Fun with AI: Reimagine ‘I Got Out of Bed Today’ in the Parody Style of ‘LinkedInese’ (Glen Cathey on LinkedIn)
3. Spicy Take: Working Parents Don’t Deserve Any Special Accommodates or Accolades (Bonnie Dilber on LinkedIn)
4. 10 Questions to Determine If a Training Request Is Worth Your Time (L&D Must Change)
5. Your Guide to Meaningful Inclusion in 2025 (Lead with Inclusion)
6. Design Work to Prevent Burnout (MIT Sloan Management Review)
7. What to Do About the AI Adoption Gender Gap (Time)
8. Why Being Asked to Achieve More with Less Isn’t Necessarily a Bad Thing (Raj Ghir on LinkedIn)
9. A Management Mistake I Made a Few Years Ago I Still Lose Sleep Over (Luke Eaton on LinkedIn)
10. The Charts That Help Make Sense of 2024 (Harvard Business Review)
Here is the must-listen podcast for the week:
Co-Creating with AI: Creative Friction, Trust, and Transparency (Transforming Work with Sophie Wade)
