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The Innovator’s Journey to Thought Leadership | Karen Hold

Peter Winick

Getting your audience’s attention, and investing them in your thought leadership. An interview with Karen Hold about her experience going from a consumer goods company to being a thought leader and author. What does it take to become a game-changer in your industry? We are constantly bombarded with products and brands seeking our attention and money.

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Future-Proof Your Strategy: Competitor Analysis

UVA Darden

Future-Proof Your Strategy: Competitor Analysis. burtonc. Thu, 07/21/2022 - 12:48. 20 July 2022. Strategy. Leadership & Management. Aine Doris. Strategy is critical. It is every organization’s North Star, regardless of industry, market or customer base; it sets your direction. It determines your priorities, the allocation of your resources and the myriad decisions that you make every day.

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ClassDojo Won Over Classrooms. Now It’s On A $125 Million Mission To Bring Kids To The Metaverse

Forbes Leadership

Valued by Tencent at $1.25 billion, ClassDojo is rolling out its own virtual space for kids this August — putting it on a collision course with Meta, Roblox and others to bring education to the digital world.

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15Five Raises $52M in New Funding to Drive the HR Transformation of Where, How, and Why We Work

15Five

I am excited to announce that we’ve received $52 Million in Series C funding, led by Quad Partners with additional funding from our previous investors Next47, Origin Ventures, Edison Partners, Matrix Partners, Point Nine Capital, and New Ground Ventures. This latest funding round validates our proven approach to human-centered talent management and strengthens 15Five’s role as a foundational layer in a new world of work, enabling strategic HR leaders with innovative ways to attract, develop, and

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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It’s Time To Up Your Social Media Job-Search Game

Forbes Leadership

Social meida is a great way to brand yourself and gain attention from prospective hiring managers, human resources professionals, recruiters and others who may be of assistance in finding you a new job. You can also get a deep sense of a company’s culture and values through its online presence.

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The Problem With Traditional Business Benchmarks

Chief Executive

Benchmark: “Something that serves as a standard by which others may be measured or judged,” according to Merriam-Webster. As necessary as benchmarks are, in my opinion, the modern business world has become entirely too fascinated with them. Don’t get me wrong—all businesses need to monitor success, failures and progress. Benchmarks can absolutely help you do that.

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Here Comes The Fun

Chief Executive

Summer has been a literal bucket of fun at Arketi’s headquarters in Atlanta, where each week an employee has plucked a paper slip at random from a sand pail and kicked off the company’s next voyage into amusement. They have included “Bark-eti Day,” when staffers brought their pets to the office, and a “Bar-keti Day” during which the alcohol flowed freely, as well as an on-premises mini-golf tournament and a “Crazy Hat Day” that also involved the remote-working members, as the staff of 25 donned

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New Vest Simulates Hot Flashes And Aims To Get Employees Talking About Menopause

Forbes Leadership

The MenoVest was created to help raise awareness, empathy and male allyship for women going through menopause at work. Heated pads in the vest simulate the experience of a hot flash, allowing anyone to feel one of the most common symptoms of menopause.

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Building Agile And Dynamic Leaders

Chief Executive

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. – John F. Kennedy. In the past, leaders were expected to have deep knowledge in one specific area. However, today’s business environment is much more complex and demanding. This means that leaders must possess a broader understanding of multiple industries and global influences to be truly successful.

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Employers Could Do More To Protect Workers From Severe Weather: New Survey

Forbes Leadership

As a record-breaking heat wave continues across the U.S., the results of a new survey found that many employees think their companies could do more to help protect them against severe weather.

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Change Management 101: A Practical 3 Part Guide

Implementing new tools or business processes in your organization? Lemon Learning put together a practical 3 part guide to prevent the pitfalls of change management. Drive a successful change management project from diagnosis through to measurement.

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my coworker left her baby in the car while she worked, ads that want a “bubbly personality,” and more

Alison Green

This post, my coworker left her baby in the car while she worked, ads that want a “bubbly personality,” and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. It’s four answers to four questions. Here we go…. 1. My coworker left her baby in the car while she worked. I work in a reception/secretarial position in a busy office setting.

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Financial Abuse Is Domestic Violence

Forbes Leadership

Financial abuse is one of the methods used by abusers to keep a survivor trapped in an abusive relationship. Survivors report that worry over their ability to provide financially for themselves and their children is one of the top reasons given for staying in or returning to an abusive partner.

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Mortification Week: the winter party, the wet socks, and other stories to cringe over

Alison Green

This post, Mortification Week: the winter party, the wet socks, and other stories to cringe over , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. It’s Mortification Week at Ask a Manager and all week long we’ve been revisiting ways we’ve mortified ourselves at work. Here’s the final installment — 17 more mortifying stories people have shared here over the years. 1.

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Disability Pride Month: Autism, Empathy, Altruism And Leadership

Forbes Leadership

The evidence that Autistic people are less empathetic is shaky. The evidence that Autistic people are less dependent on passing opinion and more likely to stick to their values is developing. These traits are useful in a strong, diverse leadership team. They are traits in which we can have pride.

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Is Training the Right Solution?

Speaker: Tim Buteyn

Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.

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updates: the pay cuts, the terrible ex-friend, and more

Alison Green

This post, updates: the pay cuts, the terrible ex-friend, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. Here are three updates from past letter-writers. 1. Do I have to tell my boss where I’m going when I quit? I wrote in back in March asking if it was okay to lie about who your new employer is to your problematic boss who is known to reach out to future employers to try mess things up for people resigning.

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Tension On The Front Lines: Low-Wage Workers Want Higher Pay And More Training, Not Bigger Titles.

Forbes Leadership

A new report shared exclusively with Forbes found that employers place too high a premium on “intangible benefits” such as employee recognition, time off and bigger job titles, the last of which ranked among the bottom five priorities for workers but near the top for surveyed managers.

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You can’t beat burnout alone—but you can start here

Asana

Burnout is not a feeling. Burnout is a physiological and neurological condition that can take months to develop and months to undo. Throughout the working world, both burnout and imposter syndrome are pervasive: Asana’s Anatomy of Work research has found that seven in 10 knowledge workers experienced either burnout or imposter syndrome in the last year, with an average of 42% experiencing both.

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Dartmouth Picks Sian Leah Beilock To Be Its Next President

Forbes Leadership

Dartmouth College has selected Sian Leah Beilock to be its next president, succeeding Philip J. Hanlon, who will retire from the presidency at the end of the 2022-23 academic year. Beilock is the current president of Barnard College.

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.

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How much do social issues affect your workplace?

Thought Leaders LLC

Our reader poll today asks: How much do social issues affect your workplace? Significantly: We make major business decisions based on social issues 18.50%. Somewhat: We act on major social issues that directly affect our business 39.00%. Not much: Only in extreme cases do social issues affect our business actions 31.00%. Not at all: Social issues have no place in our workplace 11.50%.

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Third Way Updates Its Economic Mobility Index Ratings Of American Colleges

Forbes Leadership

Third Way has added several enhancements to its Economic Mobility Index, a measure of how well colleges and universities do in improving the economic prospects of their students.

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4 Ways to Activate Your Strengths Today

Leadership Freak

Anything that points you inward and leaves you there offends your strengths. Strengths based leadership goes astray when it makes success all about you. The world doesn’t revolve around you.

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How Comms Teams Can Support Organizational And Individual Health And Wellness

Forbes Leadership

Comms team members are involved in disseminating critical information about many aspects of their company’s culture and operations—including the health and wellness of the organization and each individual within it.

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Brain Fog HQ: Memory Enhancement Techniques for Professional Development

Speaker: Chester Santos – Author, International Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach, Corporate Trainer, Memory Expert, U.S. Memory Champion

In October, scientists discovered that 75% of patients who experienced brain fog had a lower quality of life at work than those who did not. At best, brain fog makes you slower and less efficient. At worst, your performance and cognitive functions are impaired, resulting in memory, management, and task completion problems. In this entertaining and interactive presentation, Chester Santos, "The International Man of Memory," will assist you in developing life-changing skills that will greatly enha

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Successful Leading Change — And What to Avoid

BetterUp

Jump to section. What is leading change management? How do I lead change? 6 examples of leading change management. 3 common mistakes when trying to lead changes. Your next steps.

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Josh Fabian Builds Metafy To Provide Platform For ESport Coaches And Players

Forbes Leadership

Metafy is an online coaching platform that enables video gamers to monetize their talent through coaching and courses. The Pittsburgh-based company was founded in 2020 by former nationally-ranked, competitive gamer Josh Fabian.

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Corporate Sustainability Pioneer Coro Strandberg on the Importance of Doing Good While Doing Well

Association Now Leadership

Here’s why associations must develop strategies for a sustainable future. Coro Strandberg, president of Strandberg Consulting. When I started working to help businesses become more socially responsible, it was 30 years ago and I was a pioneer in the realm. That’s when I started seeing that businesses could be a force for good—could have not only a beneficial financial or economic impact, but a positive social and environmental impact as well.

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A Framework For CEOs And CMOs On When And How To Enter The Cultural Conversation

Forbes Leadership

When human rights, equity and equality have become so politicized, deciding when brands and businesses enter the cultural conversation is fraught with risk. Can "safety" become the framework CEOs and CMOs need to do more good more often?

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The 11 Communication Skills Leaders Need

BetterUp

Jump to section. Why are communication skills so important? 4 ways to improve your communication skills. 11 effective leadership communication skills. 4 ways to highlight your leadership communications skills in a job application.

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Why Innovation In Insurance Tech Is Vital For Engaging Gen Zers

Forbes Leadership

Hamilton Insurance Agency created BeneBee, an insurance resource app for employers and employees alike to help Gen Zers take better advantage of their insurance benefits.

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How Leaders Can Escape Their Echo Chambers

Harvard Business Review

Six strategies to ensure your team tells you what you need to hear.

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Prime Day 2022 Delivered Despite Macroeconomic Concerns

Forbes Leadership

Consumers have committed to cutting back on just about everything, from dining out to subscription-based services to driving, so from an economic standpoint, it was unclear just how this year’s Prime Day would go. However, it was a record breaking year, yet again, as Prime Day continues to grow.

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Motivating People Starts with Building Emotional Connections

Harvard Business Review

Logic makes us think, but emotion makes us act.

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Blueprint For The Great Reset: Five Themes For Higher Education’s New Imperative

Forbes Leadership

For higher education, the post-pandemic era is here. What’s abundantly clear is that new strategies will be needed for college and university leaders to successfully respond to the types, magnitudes, and concurrent impacts and mutual amplification of crises they will face in the years ahead.