HMM - Release Notes

Updated July 17, 2025 00:20

March 2025

New COURSE: LEADING WITH GENERATIVE AI

Generative AI is reshaping industries and transforming how we work. Discover how to use it to drive innovation and enhance efficiency while confidently guiding your team through an ever-evolving landscape.

We are excited to release a new course, Leading with Generative AI, with our latest release. This course includes four new lessons:

Help Your Team Harness Gen AI
Experiment and Innovate with Gen AI
Guide Gen AI for Better Results
Manage Gen AI’s Risks

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November 2024

UPDATED COURSES: STRATEGIC THINKING and STRATEGY PLANNING AND EXECUTION

We have translated Strategic Thinking and Strategy Planning and Execution to Chinese, French, Portuguese, and Spanish.

OTHER CONTENT UPDATED IN THIS RELEASE

Translated Admin Documentation for Strategic Thinking and Strategy Planning and Execution courses.
Updated remaining Discussion Guides and translated them to Chinese, French, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Updated the HMM Deeplinks and Resources to include Cafes.

BUG FIXES AND PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS

Discussion Guides are now search-able.
Added a table to Process Improvement Course Lesson 3 to show flow chart symbols for non-English courses

July 2024

UPDATED COURSE: STRATEGIC THINKING

To help position you, your team, and your organization for long-term success, you need to think strategically. Discover how to add value by broadening your perspectives, challenging your assumptions, and identifying challenges and opportunities.

We are excited to release an updated Strategic Thinking course with our latest release. This course includes four updated lessons:

Understand the Big Picture
Explore Key Trends
Challenge Your Assumptions
Anticipate Opportunities and Threats

UPDATED COURSE: STRATEGY PLANNING AND EXECUTION

To be successful, your organization needs a smart strategic plan that differentiates it from the competition. Know your role in putting strategy into action to help your organization meet its goals. This course includes five updated lessons:

Understand Strategy
Develop a Strategic Plan
Create Detailed Action Plans
Execute Strategic Plans
Evaluate and Reward Performance

OTHER CONTENT UPDATED IN THIS RELEASE

Updates to all Admin Documentation for Strategic Thinking and Strategy Planning and Execution courses
Updated a number of the discussion guides across all courses to match our updated look and feel
Added a table to Process Improvement Course Lesson 3 to show flow chart symbols
Updated Completion Certificates for all locales
Updated Learner’s Guide for all languages

BUG FIXES AND PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS

Removed unintentional formatting symbols
Spaces are now saving in Action Plan titles
Fixed typo in DIB Course Lesson 2
Changed label in Process Improvement Course Lesson 2

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June 2024

UPDATED COURSES

We have translated the following courses into French, as well as their corresponding Admin files:

Business Case Development
Business Plan Development
Crisis Management
Ethics at Work
Global Collaboration
Marketing Essentials
Meeting Management
Performance Appraisal
Performance Measurement
Process Improvement

OTHER CONTENT UPDATED IN THIS RELEASE

We have removed ads in all podcasts in HMM. The change is live, with no configuration adjustments needed to receive this new feed.

All episodes of the After Hours, Coaching Real Leaders, Race at Work, and the Anxious Achievers podcasts have been retired in HMM. We have updated any impacted HMM lessons with applicable replacements.

BUG FIXES AND PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS

Following a series of accessibility enhancements, we are pleased to announce that HMM now adheres completely to WCAG 2.1 AA requirements.

January 2024

UPDATED COURSES: FEEDBACK ESSENTIALS and PERSUADING OTHERS

We have translated Feedback Essentials and Persuading Others to Chinese, French, Portuguese, and Spanish.

OTHER CONTENT UPDATED IN THIS RELEASE

Small and impactful changes to make our content more inclusive in 17 courses in Chinese, French, Portuguese, and Spanish

BUG FIXES AND PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS

Minor correction to “Saying No at Work” video transcript and "Position Your International Team for Success” abstract.
The "What Allyship Looks Like" video has been replaced by "What You Can Do to Advance Equity"
Lesson kit labels are now translated
Expected Discussion Guides are appearing for Digital Intelligence course in French language
Accessibility improvements
- Seek backwards and forwards buttons now have descriptive text
- Hidden elements are no longer focused on and announced by the screen reader
- Color contrast between gray text and background is now above 4.5:1

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July 2023

UPDATED COURSE: FEEDBACK ESSENTIALS

Feedback fosters learning and leads to stronger relationships and higher performance. Discover how to give and receive meaningful feedback that can help you—and your team—succeed.

We are excited to release an updated Feedback Essentials course with our latest release. This course includes four fully updated lessons:

Why Feedback Matters
Get the Feedback You Need to Succeed
Give Effective Feedback
Encourage Feedback on Your Team

UPDATED COURSE: PERSUADING OTHERS

Boost your ability to persuade others to get the buy-in you need to accomplish your goals. By learning the art and science of effective persuasion, you build credibility, earn trust, and increase your influence.

We are excited to release an updated Persuading Others course with our latest release. This course includes five fully updated lessons:

The Power of Persuasion and Influence
Persuasion Begins with Credibility
Prepare to Make Your Case
Persuade with Logic and Emotion
Overcome Resistance to Your Ideas

OTHER CONTENT UPDATED IN THIS RELEASE

Small and impactful changes to make our content more inclusive in 17 courses
Removal of 3 videos in these courses:
- Global Collaboration: Three Ways to Think About Cultural Differences and Bridging Two Kinds of Cultural Differences
- Project Management: Prioritize Risks in Project Management
Updated Learner’s Guide for all languages
Updated Completion Certificates for all locales

FEATURES INCLUDED IN THIS RELEASE

Updates to sizing on infographics across all courses.

BUG FIXES AND PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS

Update to subheading for Business Case Development L1 - Portuguese
Fixed typo in Leading People L2
Updated instances of topic to course

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June 2023

Content Updated in this Release:

Updated Learner Video in Admin Console
Updated Learner’s Guide to include Profile Page updates
- Updates to translated Learner’s Guide coming soon

Features Included in this Release:

Integrations: Change to support long client url parameters being received in auth flow and returned in user course completions

Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements:

Accessibility

Transcripts for podcasts
Add tooltip to “Card View” and “List View” options on courses
Improve how carousels communicate state to users
Add role and state to Click and Reveal activities
TAB focus for Quiz Options and Poll Activity
Screen Reader Fixes
- The screen reader does not identify the selected state of the navigation same page links.
- 'Create an Action Plan' button now associated with its respective skill for the non-sighted users.
- The screen reader now announces this status message automatically.
- Screen reader now announces Harvard ManageMentor On the Job

Bug Fixes

Update to fix full screen for video player
Update to fix Picture-In-Picture mode for videos
Update to fix issue with Admin console videos not playing
Update to fix Profile Settings section showing if profile settings not configured for user
Update to fix issue with Story Board component
Subsections of the Vertical navigation menu now get highlighted when the user scrolls down on the page.
Update to allow an admin user to save the company message
Redirect error message (English Only)
Added registered trademark symbol after “Harvard ManageMentor” in the certificate text
Removed link to Quick Reads in search for courses that do not have a Quick Read

May 2023

Release of Updated Decision Making and Difficult Interactions Courses in Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Simplified Chinese.

Updates to Decision Making Course

Smart decisions are key to business success. Boost your decision-making skills by learning how to avoid common pitfalls and use an effective process to spark innovative thinking. Discover strategies to get the most out of group decisions and apply data to answer important questions and evaluate your options.

We are excited to release an updated Decision Making course with our latest release. This course includes five fully updated lessons:

Make Better Decisions
Overcome Decision-Making Traps
Four Steps to Effective Decisions
Manage Group Decisions
Use Data to Guide Your Decisions

Updates to Difficult Interactions Course

Conflict is inevitable, but it doesn’t have to be unmanageable. Discover how to effectively handle – and coach members of your team in handling – disagreements through careful preparation, good communication, and a focus on solutions that work for all parties.

We are excited to release an updated Difficult Interactions course with our latest release. This course includes five fully updated lessons:

Respond to Conflict with Confidence
Prepare for Difficult Conversations
Talk Through a Disagreement
Resolve Conflict Successfully
Help Your Team Deal with Conflict

FEATURES INCLUDED IN THIS RELEASE

We have updated the Profile Page to create a more engaging and easier to navigate experience for our learners. On the redesigned Profile Page learners can:
- View accomplishments and in-progress learning.
- View key statistics about time spent in HMM.
- See what their organization requires to complete an HMM course and receive a badge and certificate.
- Manage their profile settings.

BUG FIXES AND PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS

We have removed Quick Reads for courses that do not have them. Currently these courses have Lesson1 showing up as the Quick Read.
Accessibility Improvement: We updated the TAB focus so it does not shift to blank areas before traversing to the next option.
Accessibility Improvement: We added keyboard focus for the social media links (Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook).

February 2023

THREE HMM COURSES RETIRED

We’ve retired the Hiring, Retaining Employees, and Team Creation courses from HMM.
- These courses will no longer appear on the Courses page.
- These courses will no longer appear in Search results.
- Badges and Certificates for these courses will no longer display on the Completions and Achievements page if earned prior to March 1^st, 2023.
- Admin can still view topic activity and progress and completions reports for the 3 retired courses in the Admin Console.
If learners have access to the original URLs for Hiring and/or Retaining Employees, they will be redirected to the Attracting and Cultivating Talent course instead in English only. Support for redirects in localized languages will be available in the March 2023 update when we release the translations for Attracting and Cultivating Talent in French, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, and Portuguese.
If learners have access to the original URLs for Team Creation, they will be redirected to the Team Management course instead, in all languages.

ACCESSIBILITY IMPROVEMENTS

We’ve added a Skip Navigation button to every page in HMM. Learners who rely on keyboard operability to navigate through the site will now be able to skip to the main content of each page.
We’ve added the Admin Console as a destination for the HMM notification banner. If you would like to create a custom notification banner for your instance of HMM, please contact HBP’s Product Support team.

January 2023

UPDATED COURSE: DECISION MAKING

Smart decisions are a key to business success. Boost your decision-making skills by learning how to avoid common pitfalls and use an effective process to spark innovative thinking. Discover strategies to get the most out of group decisions and apply data to answer important questions and evaluate your options.

We are excited to release an updated Decision Making course with our latest release. This course includes five fully updated lessons:

Make Better Decisions
Overcome Decision-Making Traps
Four Steps to Effective Decisions
Manage Group Decisions
Use Data to Guide Your Decisions

UPDATED COURSE: DIFFICULT INTERACTIONS

Conflict is inevitable, but it doesn’t have to be unmanageable. Discover how to effectively handle—and coach members of your team in handling—disagreements through careful preparation, good communication, and a focus on solutions that work for all parties.

We are excited to release an updated Difficult Interactions course with our latest release. This course includes five fully updated lessons:

Respond to Conflict with Confidence
Prepare for Difficult Conversations
Talk Through a Disagreement
Resolve Conflict Successfully
Help Your Team Deal with Conflict

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COMING SOON: RETIREMENT OF HIRING, RETAINING EMPLOYEES, AND TEAM CREATION

On February 28^th, 2023, the Hiring, Retaining Employees, and Team Creation courses will be retired from HMM. When the courses are retired, all lessons and assets associated with them will no longer be available in the product – including your Certificate or Badge.

If you would like to keep your Certificate or Badge after February 28^th, you will need to complete those courses prior to the retirement date, and either download your Certificate, or add your Badge to LinkedIn if you have not done so already. If you’ve already completed these courses, please download the Certificate prior to February 28^th so you can keep this record of your learning!

October 2022

UPDATES TO ON THE JOB:

The On the Job feature has been updated to match the rest of Harvard ManageMentor’s new look and feel. As before, learners can rate their proficiency in relevant skills and identify which skill(s) they want to prioritize in an action plan; add, edit, or remove details from those action plans; submit action plans; and reflect on their progress after completing an action plan.

UPDATES TO 15 COURSES IN SPANISH, PORTUGUESE, CHINESE, AND FRENCH:

Various “Practice” and “Reflect” activities have been added or updated to 15 courses in Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, and French languages. Those courses include:

Budgeting
Business Case Development
Business Plan Development
Customer Focus
Decision Making
Delegating
Difficult Interactions
Ethics at Work
Feedback Essentials
Finance Essentials
Goal Setting
Leading People
Marketing Essentials
Strategic Thinking
Stress Management

BUG FIXES AND PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS

Fixed an issue where the On the Job feature, if turned ON, showed both the “Act” and “React” elements as active in the HMM user interface, even if a client admin had one or the other set to OFF.
Fixed an issue where learner responses in Reflect Activity components, when tagged for the On the Job section, did not reflect in the On the Job feature.
Fixed an issue where, upon completing an Action Plan tagged to a specific skill, that skill remained available for learners to create another Action Plan.
Fixed an issue where learners received a "View Action Plan" call to action on the Course Landing Page even when they had not created an Action Plan.
Fixed an issue where the "Back to Course Details Page" text only appeared in English, even when the user's language was set to something else.
Fixed an accessibility issue with keyboard navigability for the new Lesson Navigation.
Fixed an accessibility issue where Poll Activity results were not announced by screen readers.
Fixed an accessibility issue where Reflect Activity results, when saved to the Lesson Kit, were not announced by screen readers.

July 2022

NEW COURSE: SHARPENING YOUR BUSINESS ACUMEN

How can you best help your organization thrive? By developing your business acumen—knowledge of how organizations operate, create value, and gain competitive advantage. Take your career to the next level by learning business and finance basics and developing an enterprise mindset.

We are excited to introduce a brand-new Sharpening Your Business Acumen course with our latest release. This course includes five lessons:

Why You Need Business Acumen
Learn What Makes Organizations Thrive
Build Your Financial Skills
Understand Business Models
Know Your Organization’s Strategy

NEW COURSE: ATTRACTING AND CULTIVATING TALENT

As a manager, you play an important role in creating a fulfilling work experience for the people on your team. Discover how to attract, hire, develop, and keep talented people who will grow and thrive throughout their employee journey.

We are excited to introduce a brand-new Attracting and Cultivating Talent course with our latest release. This course includes five lessons:

Shape a Positive Employee Journey
Attract the Talent You Need
Hire and Onboard Team Members
Engage and Keep Employees
Manage Team Transitions

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June 2022

We’re excited to share several enhancements to Harvard ManageMentor’s design in order to make learning easier throughout the product.

A brand new look and feel: Harvard ManageMentor now features a visual design that incorporates a brighter color palette, updated fonts and layouts, and the intentional use of illustrations.

Enhancements to site navigation and wayfinding:

The Home page has been simplified to provide better insight into your key usage statistics, makes it easier to pick up where you left off from a previous session, and features your completions and achievements much more prominently.
A brand new Courses page that organizes all 42 courses into a single, consistent, easy-to-find location. From this page, you can see what courses are trending at you organization, filter courses according to criteria set by your organization, and inspect your progress towards completion through at-a-glance progress indicators.
Each Lesson includes a vertical navigation menu that supports your learning by making it easier to navigate within a Lesson, or navigating from a Lesson to another module in the Course.

Significant updates to lesson layouts: Previously, 147 lessons in HMM utilized the original “Learn, Practice, Reflect” format, where Practice and Reflect activities occurred on their own tabs on the Lesson page. We’ve integrated those Learn, Practice, and Reflect activities into a more interactive, compelling learning experience.

September 2021

TOPIC OVERHAUL: TEAM MANAGEMENT

Organizations are powered by teams: groups of people with a shared identity, complementary skills, and the ability to collaborate effectively. Whether you lead a team, are a member of a team, or influence teams, you can create immense value by knowing how to build and lead teams in ways that maximize everyone’s creativity and performance.

We are excited to introduce an all-new Team Management topic with our latest release. This topic includes six lessons:

Set Your Team Up for Success
Strengthen Team Collaboration
Achieve More of What Matters as a Team
Lead Your Team through Conflict
Navigate Team Transitions
Measure and Boost Team Performance

TOPIC OVERHAUL: PRESENTATION SKILLS

Effective presentations pay big dividends—for your team and your career—by inspiring, informing, or persuading your audience. You’ll practice what you learn about crafting a clear and compelling message, designing engaging slides, and the one simple thing that will help you deliver your next presentation with confidence.

Long one of our most popular topics, Presentation Skills is all-new. This topic includes six lessons:

Plan Your Best Presentation
Structure a Persuasive Presentation
Design Engaging Slides
Present Data with Impact
Prepare to Present with Confidence
Deliver a Memorable Presentation

TOPIC BADGES

This release also includes the addition of a new feature that will award you a digital badge for each topic you complete in HMM. View your collection of badges in HMM, and share to LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook. HMM topics cover valuable skills for today’s leaders, and now you can easily track and highlight your accomplishments. Along with the new badges, you will also notice quick, celebratory animations in the experience each time you complete a lesson or topic. These are simple moments to acknowledge your progress along the way and celebrate your commitment to learning.

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June 2021

Featured Content on Resilience

As we reflect on the challenges of the last year and the uncertainty that lies ahead of us, it is increasingly important that we nurture and build resilience to improve our overall well-being, increase satisfaction at work, and remain engaged and motivated.

To guide you on this journey and give you the tools you need, we have curated an array of lessons and videos on the topic of resilience. Take a look at the New and Noteworthy section of the HMM home page to get started

Improvements to the Interactive Lesson Design

New with this release: an improved experience of the interactive elements that are woven throughout many HMM lessons. You’ll notice:

A more holistic and cohesive design for all the interactives. Polls, checklists, quizzes, fill-in-the blank, and reflection interactives feature consistent language and visual design, making it easier to interact.
Improved accessibility using common technology means better access and a better experience for those using assistive technologies.

Updated Discussion Guides

The discussion guides for each of the topics below has been updated as part of this release, featuring a new design that includes the facilitator resources and notes directly in the PowerPoint deck, making it even easier to plan for and lead discussions! Check out the landing page for any of the topics below to preview the updated experience.

Innovation and Creativity
Innovation Implementation
Career Management
Coaching
Developing Employees
Change Management
Time Management
Strategic Thinking
Crisis Management
Stress Management

February 2021

TOPIC OVERHAUL: LEADING PEOPLE

Long the most popular topic in Harvard ManageMentor, Leading People has been completely reimagined for today’s ever-changing work environment. Learn how defining your values and vision creates the necessary conditions to helping others succeed. Bonus: a video featuring a Harvard ManageMentor learner appears in Lesson 5!

This updated topic includes six lessons:

How Will You Lead?
Define Yourself as a Leader
Lead with Emotional Intelligence
Build Mutual Trust on Your Team
Empower Everyone You Lead
Inspire Collaboration Across Distance

This topic is now in our more interactive and reflective lesson design. Don’t forget to save your reflections and commitment to action at the end of each lesson via the downloadable lesson kit.

TOPIC OVERHAUL: DIVERSITY, INCLUSION, AND BELONGING

Previously titled Diversity, this topic has been completely rewritten to reflect the importance of diversity, inclusion, belonging, and equity in building successful teams and organizations. Backed by research, learn what you can do to help create an environment where people genuinely thrive and feel valued for their differences.

This updated topic includes five lessons:

What Diversity Is—And Why It Matters
Understand and Counter Bias
Lead Inclusively
Become a Diversity Advocate
Advance Your Organization’s Diversity Efforts

This topic is also in our more interactive and reflective lesson design. Don’t forget to save your reflections and commitment to action at the end of each lesson via the downloadable lesson kit.

IMPROVEMENTS TO THE USER EXPERIENCE

Look for these improvements as you explore the two topics:

Glossary feature: words that may be unfamiliar appear with a dotted underline. Upon rollover, a definition for that term will appear (found in Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging topic)
Discussion Guides: these bonus guides available from each topic landing page feature an updated design. They now include all facilitator resources and notes directly in the Powerpoint deck, making it even easier to plan for and lead discussions.
Redesigned graphics: infographics, spot graphics, and illustrations are sporting a new look and feel! The new color palette and illustration style reflects our commitment to making Harvard ManageMentor a visually engaging experience.
Sticky note appearance: the font for sticky notes has been adjusted so that it is more readable.

December 2020

NEW TOPIC: DIGITAL INTELLIGENCE

Rapid global technology development makes digital intelligence a requirement for all leaders today. This new topic is designed to help you build the skills you need to understand, embrace, and employ technology to make you and your team operate at the highest level. The topic covers:

Why You Need Digital Intelligence
Develop Your Digital Mindset
Lead a Digitally Capable Team
Draw Insights from Your Data
Act on Promising Digital Opportunities

You can check it out here.

July 2020

NEW LESSON DESIGN

Check it out! This release features a brand-new lesson design for two Harvard ManageMentor topics: Crisis Management and Stress Management. Not only have these topics been updated to feature exciting new content—they also have been redesigned with new interactive activities, videos, and tools!

TOPIC UPDATE: CRISIS MANAGEMENT

In light of today’s challenging times, we have completely revised the Crisis Management topic. This redesigned topic helps you and your team learn to:

Take quick, decisive actions in volatile situations and adapt plans as needed
Communicate clearly by managing uncertainty, dispelling rumors, and sharing what you know
Connect with and comfort your team during a crisis so they remain resilient and productive
Help team members recover after a crisis, capture lessons learned, and gain new momentum

TOPIC OVERHAUL: STRESS MANAGEMENT

Don’t let stress weigh you down any longer. Learn how stress affects you, where it comes from, and how you can control it:

Identify sources of stress and assess how it affects you and your team
Adopt strategies to manage stress as it occurs
Build resilience at work to combat stressful challenges
Cultivate well-being by practicing healthy habits for your mind and body, including mindfulness

IMPROVEMENTS TO THE USER EXPERIENCE

With this release, we made several improvements to the user experience:

Redesigned the left menu to improve navigation and show all topics at a glance
Added duration to the top of each lesson page, so you can see at a glance how long each lesson will take
Added links within some lessons to related content, so you can easily jump to other lessons that might be relevant
Included lesson table of content to show what’s covered in each lesson

April 2020

NEW LESSON DESIGN

Check it out! This release features a brand-new lesson design for three Harvard ManageMentor topics: Change Management, Time Management, and Strategic Thinking. Not only have these topics been updated to feature exciting new content—they also have been redesigned with new interactive activities, videos, and tools!

TOPIC UPDATE: CHANGE MANAGEMENT

Change is happening all around you, all the time. In fact, change may be the only constant in today’s organization. This updated Change Management topic helps you and your team learn to:

See change as an open door for opportunity
Identify and carry out opportunities for improvements
Make the case for change in your organization
Overcome the natural tendency to resist change

TOPIC OVERHAUL: TIME MANAGEMENT

Today, time management isn’t about cramming more into your schedule. It’s about making smarter, more purposeful choices with the hours you have. This redesigned Time Management topic shows you smart habits to:

Identify your peak hours and prioritize important work
Manage your environment to reduce distractions
Develop a toolkit of productivity strategies
Combat feeling “always on” and create balance

TOPIC UPDATE: STRATEGIC THINKING

Strategic thinking isn’t just a skill for high-level executives, it’s a vital tool you can, and need, to apply regardless of your role. This updated Strategic Thinking topic will help you:

Spot trends in and out of your organization
Overcome biases that stand in the way of creativity
Invite dissent and welcome new perspectives
See opportunities and threats before they occur

NEW AUDIO CONTENT

This release we’re delighted to announce that we have added over 50 podcasts across all of Harvard ManageMentor! Covering subjects such as how to deal with conflict at work to tips for managing a diverse team, there’s sure to be a conversation you’re interested in. Also, with this release, all podcasts in Harvard ManageMentor are now downloadable!

TOPIC LANDING PAGE REDESIGN

You’ll also notice that the landing pages for all of our topics have been redesigned to make what you’ll learn in each topic front and center! We’ve also made some other changes such as removing the topic introductory videos and making the Discussion Guides (formerly Develop Other) available directly from that page. We hope you enjoy the new design!

NEW PERSONALIZED LEARNER EMAILS

With this release, we'll begin sending biweekly personalized emails to Harvard ManageMentor learners! Each email will contain three suggested lessons based on your previous activity in HMM. Our goal is to help you keep learning top of mind with tailored recommendations for content that is relevant to you! Emails will arrive in your default language. Please note that some organizations are not able to receive emails at this time. Also, if you would like to disable the emails, you can do so on the profile page in HMM.

October 2019

TOPIC UPDATE: CAREER MANAGEMENT

Too often, people assume if they work hard, their career will unfold the way they hope. But that’s not necessarily true. Managing your career means taking ownership by pinpointing specific professional goals and building an action plan to meet those goals. Take charge with techniques and tools to heplp you manage your career.

TOPIC UPDATE: COACHING

In a complex work environment, you can’t direct every decision. You need team members who can think, analyze, learn, and make smart choices independently. Through coaching, you help them build these skills. Coach more effectively with skills you can start using today.

TOPIC OVERHAUL: DEVELOPING EMPLOYEES

Think of employee development as your organization’s accelerator. When each person is learning and growing, you can anticipate business demands, not just play catch-up. Our Developing Employees topic has been completely rewritten to reflect the latest thinking and practices in this area. Check it out!

LESSON UPDATE IN RETAINING EMPLOYEES

One lesson from our Retaining Employees topic, “Tailor Retention Strategies” has been completely rewritten with a new title, “Personalize Engagement.” This new lesson reinforces that a “one-size-fits-all” retention strategy won’t work. You need to personalize your approach to ensure each employee is engaged and motivated.

MORE PODCASTS!

Episodes from three highly popular HBR series – Women at Work, Dear HBR, and HBR Ideacast – have been added to bring fresh perspectives in audio across many HMM topics.

LESSON KITS: YOU’VE DONE THE WORK – NOW TAKE IT WITH YOU

“You know what would be great? If I could get my ideas, answers, and reflections at the end of a lesson.” We heard that a lot after we launched the two newly redesigned Innovation topics and we're excited to rollout the new Lesson Kit in those topics as well as the updated topics listed above. You'll find it at the end of a lesson (like this one). Try it out and let us know what you think.

REDESIGNED COMPLETION CERTIFICATE

We are excited to offer you a completely redesigned, fresh and modern completion certificate. Check out the Completion Criteria page for and you’ll find all of your existing completion certificates are already available in the new design.

April 2019

NEW LESSON DESIGN

Check it out! This release features a brand-new lesson design for two Harvard ManageMentor topics: Innovation Implementation and Innovation and Creativity. Not only have both topics been overhauled to feature exciting new content—they also have been redesigned with new interactive activities, videos, and more! Explore the two redesigned topics and discover:

Integrated exercises for immediate practice and reflection
Videos sharing real-world examples and showcasing actionable techniques
New visuals to make the learning stick
Tools and podcasts to take the material outside of the screen

TOPIC OVERHAUL: INNOVATION AND CREATIVITY

Innovation. Creativity. They’re not just “special-occasion” skills, relevant to only a few high-profile departments. To succeed, everyone needs them to be part of their daily routine. The Innovation and Creativity topic has been overhauled to focus in on the critical four skills you need to be more innovative and creative:

Curiosity
Creativity
Risk-taking
Collaboration

Stop by the new topic and walk away with practical strategies to make the skills above a part of your day-to-day!

TOPIC OVERHAUL: INNOVATION IMPLEMENTATION

It’s time to turn your idea into a reality. The overhauled Innovation Implementation topic features new activities, tools, videos, and more designed to make innovating a tangible, actionable technique you can immediately put into practice. Through the new lesson material, you’ll take an innovative project from start to finish by:

Identifying opportunities
Prioritizing innovative ideas
Designing experiments to test your ideas
Building the support your ideas need to succeed
Learning from both success and failure

NEW AUDIO CONTENT

This release we’re also excited to announce that we have added over 30 podcasts across all of Harvard ManageMentor! Covering subjects such as how to become more self-aware at work to tips for dealing with office stress, there’s sure to be a conversation you’re interested in.

NEW TRANSLATED CONTENT

The three topics updated during our October 2018 release, Change Management, Goal Setting, and Stress Management, are now available in Simplified Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Latin American Spanish!

November 2018

TOPIC UPDATE: GOAL SETTING

Time to start thinking ahead. We’ve updated the Goal Setting topic to include new tools, handouts, and videos designed to help you apply what you’ve learned. You’ll learn how to:

· Motivate individuals and teams by setting goals

· Identify characteristics of effective goals

· Avoid common pitfalls when setting goals

TOPIC UPDATE: CHANGE MANAGEMENT

Rethink how you and your organization handle change. Change Management is updated with new resources to help you tackle even the most intimidating change initiatives. Explore this updated topic and discover:

· What role you can play in three kinds of change

· The skills and mindset required when managing change

· Practices for identifying and addressing performance and opportunity gaps through experimentation

TOPIC UPDATE: STRESS MANAGEMENT

Are you prioritizing your well-being? Featuring new tools, handouts, videos, and infographics, the Stress Management update includes new sections on practicing mindfulness, building resilience, and more. Don’t stress out! Instead, learn to:

· Identify and address the triggers of workplace stress

· Calm down during stress flare-ups

· Manage your mindset using practical techniques

NEW PRACTICE EXERCISES

New video scenarios have replaced text-based practice exercises across Decision Making, Team Management, and Managing Your Boss. Are you up for the challenge? Test your knowledge with engaging, practical video scenarios in the following lessons:

· Manage a Difficult Boss

· Anticipate Decision-making Challenges

· Communicate and Implement the Decision

· Resolve Conflict

EDITOR’S CHOICE HAS BEEN REDESIGNED AND IMPROVED!

Editor’s Choice articles are now:

· Exclusive top-quality content from Harvard Business Review, with timely and insightful articles written by thought leaders from around the globe

· Organized at the end of each lesson, so you can easily find several relevant articles in one place

· Updated more frequently than ever before—check back often!

Visit the Resources page within any topic to see a full list of all Editor’s Choice articles available for that topic.

NEW TRANSLATED CONTENT

As of late August, the updates made to Budgeting, Decision Making, Managing Your Boss, Persuading Others, and Team Management during our April release are now available in Simplified Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Latin American Spanish!

April 2018

NEW HOME PAGE!

The new home page in Harvard ManageMentor has been completely redesigned based on feedback from learners like you. Get to the content you want more quickly and easily. Start by checking out the welcome video that highlights the many ways HMM helps you become a better leader.

Highlights of the new home page:

· Keep It Up dashboard: Find insights into the time you’ve spent learning with information about the number of topics and lessons completed, time spent, and a direct link to your completion certificates

· Your Recent Activity: Pick up where you left off in a topic

· New and Noteworthy: Find the latest leadership ideas

· Trending Topics: Check out what your colleagues find useful

· Pick a Topic: Like before, go directly to the topic you’re most interested in, or view by a category to narrow your focus

· Company Message: Front and center, so you have the information you need from your organization

As a reminder, you can always search for what you’re looking for, too.

NEW FEATURE: LEARNING REMINDERS

Make learning a habit! It’s challenging to find time to focus on learning with all the other commitments you face every day. Use the Learning Reminder link from the learner drop-down to set up a reminder to head back into HMM. Add the page URL to be brought directly to what you wanted to learn about.

TOPIC UPDATE: LEADING PEOPLE

To lead is to understand yourself just as much as those around you. In addition to new tools, handouts, videos, and From the Collection articles, this update introduces a new lesson, Define Yourself as a Leader, designed to help you:

· Thoughtfully respond to conflict, rather than react rashly

· Articulate your purpose to your team to make an impact

· Make your personal vision for your team a reality

TOPIC UPDATE: BUDGETING

Budgeting isn’t just balancing your books; it’s about managing the resources you and your team need to succeed. This update features an extensive update to the Budgeting topic, including:

· New material to help adapt your budgeting strategy to changing environments

· Several new videos, featuring speakers such as award-winning author Bjarte Bogsnes

· New handouts, empowering you to overcome even the most intimidating finance hurdles

TOPIC UPDATE: DECISION MAKING

This update, we’ve taken another look at the Decision Making topic, and have added a robust selection of new lesson content, videos, tools, and handouts designed to enable you to:

· Make key decisions across cultural boundaries

· Use data to become more agile in your decision making

· Analyze past choices to help inform tough decisions ahead of you

TOPIC UPDATE: MANAGING YOUR BOSS

We have also revisited the Managing Your Boss topic, and have provided an array of new resources to enable you to facilitate a productive and healthy professional relationship with your manager. This new material includes:

· Scenario-based exercises for immediate practical application

· Worksheets and infographics designed to help you understand your boss’s motivations

· Video aids featuring fresh perspectives from experts in the field

TOPIC UPDATE: PERSUADING OTHERS

Looking to hone your persuasion skills? We’ve updated the Persuading Others topic to include a new suite of tools and handouts, as well as new videos designed to help you apply what you’ve learned. Explore this new material and learn how to:

· Identify and overcome resistance while persuading

· Focus your arguments on the points most likely to sway the opposition

· Incorporate the perspective of your audience into your argument

TOPIC UPDATE: TEAM MANAGEMENT

Featuring new tools, handouts, videos, and infographics, the Team Management topic is your go-to source for creating, and sustaining, a collaborative and healthy team. This new content will empower you to:

· Strengthen your team’s sense of identity

· Resolve conflicts that inhibit your team from reaching its full potential

· Practice both convergent and divergent thinking to overcome organizational challenges

TAKE HMM ON THE GO!

Did you know HMM is fully accessible on your mobile device? We’ve updated the Learner Guide to include instructions for adding HMM to your mobile device so you can focus on your learning any time!

November 2017

NEW EDITOR’S CHOICE ARTICLES

Editor’s Choice articles have recently been updated across Harvard ManageMentor! These hand-picked articles from thought leaders and respected sources expand on core concepts presented in each lesson. Make sure to check them out for a fresh perspective!

October 2017

TOPIC UPDATE: CAREER MANAGEMENT

Career Management, one of our most popular topics, has been updated with a new lesson, “Develop Learning Agility.” Also included are new videos, articles, tools, handouts, and content updates throughout the topic that will help you and your team learn to:

· Navigate non-linear career progression

· Adapt a career path to changing circumstances

· Recover from a career setback

TOPIC UPDATE: COACHING

This release features a comprehensive update to the Coaching topic. In addition to a new lesson, “Promote Learning Agility,” Coaching now includes an array of new videos, tools, handouts, articles, and content updates to help you and your team learn to:

· Bridge differences in culture, gender, and generations when coaching

· Troubleshoot an unsuccessful coaching approach

· Integrate learning agility into everyday coaching practices

TOPIC UPDATE: STRATEGIC THINKING

In today’s complex business environment, strategic thinking is a continuous priority involving leaders at all levels. To support you in strengthening your strategic thinking skills, we’ve updated this topic extensively. Each of the five lessons includes new videos, tools, handouts, articles, and content updates that will empower you and your team to:

· Overcome cognitive biases and challenge assumptions

· Prime yourself to identify opportunities

· Predict and plan for future scenarios

NEW FEATURE: SEE WHAT’S NEW

Good news: After logging in, you can now tell if new content has been added by looking for the red beacon next to your profile icon. The See What’s New page provides you and your team with an at-a-glance look at the exciting new content and features being regularly added to Harvard ManageMentor®. If you have a question regarding any of these additions, please contact your local Harvard ManageMentor® administrator for more information.

NEW TRANSLATED CONTENT

As of late August, the new Leveraging Your Networks topic and updated Difficult Interactions topic from our April release are now available in Simplified Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Latin American Spanish!

April 2017

NEW TOPIC: LEVERAGING YOUR NETWORKS

The ability to build and sustain networks is a critical skill—it’s how work gets done in today’s connected environment. With this in mind, we have developed a new topic featuring a robust suite of new tools, handouts, videos, and articles. This six-lesson topic will help you and your team build and maintain effective operational, strategic, and developmental networks—and the relationships that are their foundation. The topic provides practical insights into such subjects as:

· How to establish and sustain lasting relationships within your networks

· The importance of reciprocity

· The value of mapping your networks to assess their strengths and weaknesses

· Strategies for strengthening your networks

TOPIC UPDATE: DIFFICULT INTERACTIONS

Difficult Interactions, historically one of our most visited topics, has been updated with new concepts, videos, tools, handouts, and articles to help you and your team manage difficult interactions with confidence. Be prepared to:

· Avoid cross-cultural and cross-generational misunderstandings

· Start a conversation about conflict

· Coach employees to handle difficult interactions

NEW FEATURE: PERSONALIZED PROFILES

Now when you log in to Harvard ManageMentor®, you will be greeted by name and have access to a personalized profile page featuring the following account information and functionality:

· Email address associated with your account

· Title or role within your organization

· The ability to change your password

· The ability to change your display name

At this time, you are only able to change the display name and password associated with your profile—please contact your local Harvard ManageMentor® administrator if further changes to your account are required.

NEW FEATURE: RESUMING YOUR PROGRESS

When you log in to Harvard ManageMentor®, you can now choose to return to the last viewed page of your most recent session or select from the list of all available topics.

October 2016

TOPIC UPDATE: CUSTOMER FOCUS

This release features a comprehensive update to the Customer Focus topic. The topic’s four lessons include new videos, tools, handouts, articles, and content updates to help you and your team learn skills such as how to:

· Map and improve a customer’s journey

· Build stronger connections with your customers

· Collaborate with your customers to innovate and co-create products and services

TOPIC UPDATE: TIME MANAGEMENT

While you can’t add more time to your day, you can always improve your time management skills. Check out the updated Time Management topic to view new videos, tools, handouts, articles, and content updates to help you and your team:

· Run meetings more efficiently

· Talk to your manager about work overload

· Manage your energy levels

· Prioritize weekly goals

TOPIC UPDATE: MANAGING YOUR BOSS

This release features a comprehensive update to the Managing Your Boss topic. The topic’s five lessons now include new videos, tools, handouts, articles, and content updates to help you and your team learn skills such as how to:

· Disagree constructively with your boss

· Manage multiple bosses

· Review your professional development with your boss

NEW FEATURE: COMPANY RESOURCES

With this release, we’ve added a new Company Resources feature, which your administrators can use to provide resources that will set the topic in your own organizational context and help you align your learning to your organization’s strategic goals.