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Technical experts don't often receive leadership development, but this can be a gamechanger for talent pipelines and business results, a people leader says.

The majority of leaders feel "pressured" and anxious about providing the level of flexibility employees now appear to expect, according to LinkedIn research.

Vulnerability is now a key skill for leaders, and it's changing performance management and driving results for a major pharmaceutical company, its people leader says.

Proven strategies for improving diversity are not being adopted at senior levels, a recruitment specialist says.

Connecting the dots between people and business strategies requires people leaders to become more curious about their organisation's other functions, HR executives say.

HR professionals often find themselves involved in business politics whether they like it or not, and building the skills to navigate this area is an important but overlooked factor.

The "complex role" HR plays when setting board pay and putting forward remuneration proposals is coming into the spotlight, an expert says.

Some troubling paradoxes are emerging with hybrid working but Microsoft's HR leader says there are six pathways to resolving them.

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It is one thing for an organisation to impose workplace harassment policies, but another to have leaders who are activists against gendered and s-xual violence, executives say.