Thu.Sep 08, 2022

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The Two Sides of Being a Coach | Michael Wenderoth

Peter Winick

Managing the practice and the business of coaching. An interview with Michael Wenderoth about helping people find and ethically leverage their power. The words power, politics, and leverage typically have a negative connotation. They bring to mind times when good people have been oppressed and mistreated. But what if you could leverage power and politics ethically?

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my male colleagues wait for me to set up all our meetings (even meetings I’m not in)

Alison Green

This post, my male colleagues wait for me to set up all our meetings (even meetings I’m not in) , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I am a senior manager at a nonprofit. I am also female. I do not have an assistant. Increasingly I have noticed that my male colleagues at other organizations or divisions, equal to me in stature (and even people I consider close friends), are deferring to me to schedule meetings for them.

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Top 2022 Employee Complaints and How to Address Them

Zenefits

The past few years have been rough for businesses and employees alike. The COVID-19 pandemic has upended many people’s lives, both in the workplace and at home. It’s safe to say that things may never be the same. Many businesses shut down for months at the height of the pandemic. Others transitioned to a fully remote work environment to accommodate health and safety protocols.

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Never Stop Challenging The Conventional Wisdom, And This Nobel Prize Winner Shows Why

Forbes Leadership

If innovators had not fought against conventional wisdom, we wouldn't have televisions, personal computers, coffee, or in the case of this Nobel Prize winner, white LED lights.

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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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How CEOs Can Benefit By Thinking Like An Ultra-Endurance Runner

Chief Executive

It is said that to truly understand someone, you must first “walk a mile in their shoes.” I’ve gone one better—I have run in them. For years I was a senior-level executive, and now I’m at the helm of a leadership development company that helps thousands of senior-level executives reach their peak performance. I am also an ultra-endurance runner.

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How Companies Mislead And Take Advantage Of Job Seekers And Employees

Forbes Leadership

Companies pretend to be concerned about the well-being of workers when it’s a hot job market and top talent is in high demand. When the need to hire subsides, businesses immediately lay off employees, enact hiring freezes and dump all the extra work on the remaining people.

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Fresh CMO Insights: Why an Industry Outsider Might Give You the Inside Track

Chief Outsiders

By Paul Sparrow and Atul Minocha. If you’re a CEO who paints the world with a well-worn brush and the same old can of flat white, this blog is for you. If you’re bemoaning the headwinds created by your industry and wondering why the same-old marketing plan (or lack thereof) has you stuck on “go,” read on. We would like to open your eyes to a way to improve your marketing effectiveness that only comes if you’re willing to try a fresh roller—and some new shades of opportunity—to color your balance

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Data Analytics: The Ugly, But Crucial Step CEOs Can’t Ignore

Chief Executive

Today’s C-Suite leaders have high expectations of data. They want to be able to whip out their smartphones and bring up beautiful visualizations of trends that give them actionable insights into the business at a granular level. That’s the dream anyway. In reality, many businesses are failing to get the most out of their data even though they’re collecting a lot of it.

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Don’t Hate the Quiet Quitters: Lessons for Managers

Mind Tools Team Management

The term “quiet quitting” has been generating a lot of debate online. Originating from a TikTok video, the term has been interpreted in different ways, and has divided opinion. What Is Quiet Quitting? Quiet quitting is not what it might sound like. It doesn’t mean quitting your job, slacking, or “checking out.” It’s about performing your role but staying within your contracted hours, and “quitting” anything beyond your contracted duties.

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Mother's Equal Pay Day 2022: How The Pay Gap Impacts Families

Forbes Leadership

Forty percent of women are their families’ primary breadwinner, and Black mothers are twice as likely as white mothers to be their family’s primary breadwinner. Here is how the wage gap affects families—and some solutions to close the gap.

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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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11 Welcome Gifts for New Employees You Should Consider

AIHR

Thoughtful welcome gifts for new employees help your organization make a great first impression as an employer and make new team members feel welcome. It sets the tone for a positive employee experience. It also reinforces the company culture from the get-go. Moreover, pictures of these gifts make for excellent employer brand advocacy content. Or it could be part of their testimonials or feedback when they post their employee reviews on Glassdoor.

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Are Schools A Waste Of Time And Money? Only If You Have A Time Machine.

Forbes Leadership

If we could fast forward through our lives and know exactly what we were going to need, then perhaps we could design a perfectly efficient educational program.

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Alexa, Should My Company Invest in Voice Technology?

Harvard Business Review

Researchers looked at how three different kinds of offerings helped — or hurt — stock prices.

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15 Agencies Share Their Best Methods For Procuring Marketing-Qualified Leads

Forbes Leadership

Having a system in place to attract and keep track of MQLs can help your sales team capitalize on these opportunities and convert them into buyers.

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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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The 3 Secret Blunders Leaders Make

Leadership Freak

The most damaging blunders leaders make are the ones they ignore. A blunder you DON’T notice leads to a dead-end. The 3 secret blunders leaders make: #1.

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Millie Raises $4 Million Seed Round And Opens First Clinic To Redefine Maternity Care

Forbes Leadership

Millie, a new kind of maternity clinic, “built by moms and care providers who’ve been there,” is reimagining the standard of maternity care in the United States.

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5 Steps to Restore Trust in U.S. Health Care

Harvard Business Review

The pandemic exposed major weaknesses and undermined public faith in the system.

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15 Ways To Help Coaching Clients View Themselves Objectively

Forbes Leadership

It might feel like second nature to observe, analyze and conjecture on the actions and behavior of others; when it comes to seeing the truth about ourselves and our own situations, however, the picture isn’t always so clear.

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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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Keeping Employees Safe from Extreme Temperatures in the Workplace

Zenefits

A cool breeze that pleases one person sends chills through another. While some people bask in the sun’s rays, others scramble to get out of the heat. Temperature preferences are definitely personal. In the workplace, employees usually find ways to adjust to temperature preferences, such as putting on a sweater to keep warm or taking off a jacket to cool down.

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A Producer Since She Was 15, This Artist Is A Creative Dynamo

Forbes Leadership

Rachel Helson directs films for Lifetime, co-created a nonprofit to help empower children, and is the youngest person to be nominated for a Tony award.

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Why Feedback for Coworkers is So Important and 5 Ways to Give It

BetterUp

The workforce is a collaborative, team-oriented environment.

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Congress And IRS Need To Focus On Those Backlogged Employee Retention Credit Claims

Forbes Leadership

A recent Treasury Inspector General report on ERC claims underscores the need for IRS to prioritize taxpayer services and processing with the new funding Congress has provided.

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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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6 Downsides to Working From Home — and How to Manage Them

Zenefits

The COVID-19 pandemic forced a rapid adoption of remote work for companies. At its peak, nearly 45% of full-time employees worked remotely at least some of the time. While offices have reopened, it’s still projected that about a quarter of all professional jobs will be done remotely this year. While studies consistently show improvements in productivity for remote work, there are also downsides to working from home that employers must be aware of.

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Staying Top Of Mind When Working Remotely

Forbes Leadership

Being visible and top of mind has always been critical in optimizing your career opportunities. But, now, with a significant percentage of the workforce working remotely part or full time, does the old in-person playbook still work?

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These Executive Summary Examples Help You Bring Your A-Game

BetterUp

Attention spans are woefully short nowadays. There’s too much information competing for our attention, and it’s all cleverly designed to pull us away from whatever we were doing before. So how do you get an message across when you have — by some estimates — less than eight seconds to make an impression ?

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UNICEF & SAP Turning Today's Youth Into Tomorrow's Tech Leaders

Forbes Leadership

UNICEF and SAP have teamed up to provide young people in India, Turkey and Vietnam with the hard and soft skills they need in a changing global economy.

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Teamwork Statistics: 10 Facts About Working as a Team

Niagara Institute

Teams are found in every industry and across every function. From medical scientists coming together to find a cure to experts at NASA creating the latest robotic space exploration technology to project managers working with internal groups and external partners to fulfill a client project, teams are the backbone of success in any organization.

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Playing It Safe On Social Issues? Here’s Why Neutral Is Not The Way To Go.

Forbes Leadership

It’s clear that what brands say and don’t say can have a direct impact on their sales, as well as on people’s personal brands. Audiences have sometimes criticized companies in the past for refusing to engage in social debates. Can being Switzerland hurt your personal brand?

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European workers are lonely and have a 74% stronger intention to quit.

BetterUp

Jump to section. European employees don't feel connected. Interaction doesn't equal connection. How disconnected workers and teams are hurting your business. The impacts of connection on attracting and retaining talent. Get insights into how to improve connection.

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At Fashion Week, The Apparel Industry Needs To Redefine ‘Sustainability’

Forbes Leadership

Global brands need to do more to prevent worker exploitation and human rights abuses if they expect their claim to “sustainability” to be taken seriously. This should be a focal point for NYFW and for those who are committed to creating a sustainable business environment for the fashion industry.

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Music Relaxation for Stress: Listen Your Way to Calm

BetterUp

Jump to section. How can music help you with stress? How to meditate with music. What type of music should you listen to relax? Music and positive affirmations. How to use music to improve your well-being. What is the downside of using music as a mood booster? Level up: How to use music to relieve work stress.

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Global Impact Leaders Chair Matthew Bishop?: Collaboration Is the Key to Addressing the World’s Greatest Challenges

Forbes Leadership

Matthew Bishop, Inaugural Chair of the Sorenson Impact Center’s Global Impact Leaders, says building our capacity for effective, large-scale collaboration is our most urgent task if we hope to address the existential crises facing our world.

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