Career & Leadership

What will it take for you to create career that you want? Here are ways to develop leadership and cultivate other essential skills, plus hacks that can make a big impact on anyone's day-to-day work. And we look at ethics — how do your colleagues draw the line on everything from freebies to food waste?

One Key to Preventing Your Team’s Burnout

Work can be difficult, but it shouldn’t be difficult all the time, shows new research from a management professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Executive Education.

BY Michelle Russell October 24, 2024

What Makes a Great Place to Work

Responses to Convene’s Annual Salary Survey 2024 confirm the qualities of a healthy workplace culture recognized by workplace culture company Great Place to Work.

BY Michelle Russell October 24, 2024

People on the Move

Your colleagues are on the move, find out who is going where.

BY Casey Gale October 23, 2024

News for Professionals: Career Advice and Ideas

How knowing your stress personality type will help you manage your stress at work That and other advice in this week’s roundup of workplace news and trends curated by the editors of Convene.

BY Convene Editors October 23, 2024

For Women, Workplace Gains Are ‘Fragile’

McKinsey & Company’s tenth “Women in the Workplace” study reveals that there’s still a lot of work to be done to gain gender parity.

BY Casey Gale October 23, 2024

A New Way of Thinking

One key connection between DEI and sustainability is a shared commitment to challenging the status quo. While technology can help us solve some issues, it alone isn’t enough. We need to think and act in new ways.

BY Sherrif Karamat October 18, 2024

Salary Survey 2024: It’s Not You, It’s the Company Culture

What’s the difference between planner respondents to this year’s Salary Survey who are happy in their jobs and those who are not? It doesn’t seem to be how they feel about the intrinsic nature of the role — which, even the most satisfied planners said, is challenging and demanding. It’s the organizations they work for.

BY Magdalina Atanassova and Michelle Russell October 17, 2024

Using the Pull Method — and Post-its — to Combat Work Overload

Here’s how a team of IT professionals used a spare office wall and sticky notes to prevent individual team members from getting overloaded — and to move projects along or kill them off. Also: how you could do the same.

BY Michelle Russell October 17, 2024

News for Professionals: Career Advice and Ideas

Here are some respectful ways to decline an invitation to that meeting no one wants to attend — plus other advice in this week’s roundup of workplace news and trends curated by the editors of Convene.

BY Convene Editors October 16, 2024

People on the Move

Your colleagues are on the move, find out who is going where.

BY Casey Gale October 16, 2024

Architects of Connection

Planners share how they are being more intentional about helping their event participants make more meaningful connections.

BY Convene Editors October 11, 2024

People on the Move

Your colleagues are on the move, find out who is going where.

BY Casey Gale October 9, 2024

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