Former IHOP CEO Julia Stewart has a list of life goals that she created after graduating high school and has updated every decade since. The goals focus on Stewart's personal life, career and philanthropic objectives, with early goals focused on responsibility and accountability and post-CEO goals centered on helping others develop in their careers. Stewart says three parts of her list have always been present: "Take care of my mind, body, and soul," "paying it forward" and "always be learning."
Before R. Barbara Gitenstein, president emerita of The College of New Jersey, turned to a career in college administration, her education as an opera singer taught her many of the leadership skills that she utilized throughout her career, she writes. Through music, Gitenstein learned resilience, how to separate herself from the performance of her role, the importance of the ensemble or team and how to tailor her communication for different audiences, she writes.
Lighthouse Consulting founder Larry Robertson asserts that the intelligence required for teaching should be celebrated in the workforce as one of eight key forms of human intelligence proposed by psychologist Howard Gardner. Leaders should remember that although "more traditionally emphasized forms of intelligence matter a great deal, teaching is the connector intelligence," Robertson writes.
Employers that onboard employees in a hybrid work environment should ensure the employees spend in-person time with managers and teams, according to research by Microsoft's Dawn Klinghoffer, Karen Kocher and Natalie Luna, who recommend giving people who are new to their careers more time in the office to learn what's expected of them and experience the workplace culture. "What's needed is for managers to be intentional, provide structure, align on job expectations, set up their new hire with an onboarding buddy, establish onboarding milestones, give frequent actionable feedback, and provide a list of resources," they write.
Private payroll growth for May was slower than anticipated, increasing by only 152,000 jobs, indicating a cooling labor market. This was the slowest pace of job creation since the beginning of the year and was notably below economists' expectations. The slowdown was particularly evident in the manufacturing sector, where there was a significant reduction in factory payrolls. The data comes from the latest report by ADP, underscoring concerns that the robust job growth experienced in recent years is beginning to decelerate.
With just about half of small business employees feeling "emotionally drained" or "used up" at work, according to a Society for Human Resource Management report, employers can utilize summer hours to bolster morale. Companies should think about how they want to structure summer hours, such as letting employees leave early on Fridays or staggering time off to meet necessary deadlines -- and then put it in writing so everyone is aware of the expectations and policy.
Irish pubs worldwide often bear names like Murphy's and Kelly's, a tradition rooted in 19th-century English legislation that mandated pub owners to display their names, aiming to regulate alcohol consumption. The practice spread to the US during the Great Famine, embedding names like O'Neill and Finnegan in American culture. It is believed that more than half of US-based Irish pubs still use these names. Although the law is defunct, the tradition persists.
My favorite pub: Connor's Pub, tucked in the Broad Ripple area of Indianapolis. Can you guess which family owns it? -- Janet Connor Kahler, editor of Your Career
