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ARC Reads May 2025 Edition

This Month: How The Best Leaders Master Their Communication, Should You Record That Meeting?, 4 Styles of Coaching, The Many Benefits of Managed IT Services & More

Spring is in full swing, and fresh ideas are blooming! In this May edition of ARC Reads, we’re diving into the latest tech and business insights that have caught our eye.

What We're Reading This Month

How the Best Leaders Master Their Communication with Confidence - Mastering communication isn't just about talking — it's about connecting, inspiring action and building trust to drive real, lasting change in leadership and innovation.

Should You Record That Meeting? - Using meeting-recording and transcription features has become standard in many workplaces as we seek to better manage the ever-increasing volume of things we must do and keep track of Generative AI tools that also create meeting summaries that highlight key themes and assign to-dos are also increasingly common. While these tools can save time and effort, it's critical for leasers to recognize that they affect the social fabric of meetings - particularly psychological safety and engagement. Over time, these effects can stack up, and leaders who take psychological safety and team dynamics seriously need to give some thought to whether, how, and why to use these tools.

4 Styles of Coaching—and When to Use Them - People often believe they're coaching when they're actually just giving instructions. So what is coaching and how do you get better at it? Effective coaching involves knowing when to ask questions and guide your employee and when to step back and let them own the decision-making. To help mangers navigate their coaching journey, the author created the Coaching Styles framework based on "push" and "pull" concepts from sports that helps managers choose a coaching style that works for them and the situation. Find more about the styles here.

How the Most Resilient Companies Adapt to Disruption -Global risks are rising, and many companies are struggling with how to adapt. The World Economic Forum’s 2025 Global Risks Report makes it clear that challenges like escalating global tensions and conflicts, climate change, economic instability and supply chain disruptions are interconnected and build on one another. And they’re here to stay, how to build resilience.

The Many Benefits of Managed IT Services -For most small and many midsize businesses, it makes more sense to contract with a service provider for their information technology needs than to try and meet them themselves. When these services and applications are provided in utility-like fashion through the cloud, they’re known as managed IT services. Find out the benefits, cons and the bottom line.

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ARC Reads May 2025 Edition

This Month: How The Best Leaders Master Their Communication, Should You Record That Meeting?, 4 Styles of Coaching, The Many Benefits of Managed IT Services & More

Spring is in full swing, and fresh ideas are blooming! In this May edition of ARC Reads, we’re diving into the latest tech and business insights that have caught our eye.

What We're Reading This Month

How the Best Leaders Master Their Communication with Confidence - Mastering communication isn't just about talking — it's about connecting, inspiring action and building trust to drive real, lasting change in leadership and innovation.

Should You Record That Meeting? - Using meeting-recording and transcription features has become standard in many workplaces as we seek to better manage the ever-increasing volume of things we must do and keep track of Generative AI tools that also create meeting summaries that highlight key themes and assign to-dos are also increasingly common. While these tools can save time and effort, it's critical for leasers to recognize that they affect the social fabric of meetings - particularly psychological safety and engagement. Over time, these effects can stack up, and leaders who take psychological safety and team dynamics seriously need to give some thought to whether, how, and why to use these tools.

4 Styles of Coaching—and When to Use Them - People often believe they're coaching when they're actually just giving instructions. So what is coaching and how do you get better at it? Effective coaching involves knowing when to ask questions and guide your employee and when to step back and let them own the decision-making. To help mangers navigate their coaching journey, the author created the Coaching Styles framework based on "push" and "pull" concepts from sports that helps managers choose a coaching style that works for them and the situation. Find more about the styles here.

How the Most Resilient Companies Adapt to Disruption -Global risks are rising, and many companies are struggling with how to adapt. The World Economic Forum’s 2025 Global Risks Report makes it clear that challenges like escalating global tensions and conflicts, climate change, economic instability and supply chain disruptions are interconnected and build on one another. And they’re here to stay, how to build resilience.

The Many Benefits of Managed IT Services -For most small and many midsize businesses, it makes more sense to contract with a service provider for their information technology needs than to try and meet them themselves. When these services and applications are provided in utility-like fashion through the cloud, they’re known as managed IT services. Find out the benefits, cons and the bottom line.

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