Mon.Mar 20, 2023

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Stagnation in Leadership: How to Avoid Getting Stuck in the Weeds

Lolly Daskal

As an executive leadership coach, I have firsthand seen the price that companies pay when their leaders become overwhelmed in the details or preoccupied with the specifics that they fail to see the bigger picture. This stagnation not only affects the leader’s own leadership, but also the teams they lead and the entire organization. Some consequences of stagnation in leadership include: Decreased employee morale: When a leader is buried in minutia, it leaves employees disengaged or frustrat

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HR’s Complete Guide to the Employee Handbook 

AIHR

An employee handbook should be the backbone of any organization to provide guidance and clarity on all HR-related items. Every HR team spends significant time and energy answering employee HR-related questions. With a well-crafted manual in place, not only do you have a reference point for employees to turn to when they have questions or concerns, but it also helps create a more streamlined, efficient HR process.

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Want To Be An Entrepreneur? Think Like A Pilot

Forbes Leadership

While you don’t have to be a member of the Mensa Society to command an aircraft, you do need a combination of some unique traits if you are to get through the rigors of flight training. Those traits mirror ones required to be an entrepreneur.

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Team Conflict: How to Manage a Disconnect Between Members of Your Leadership Team

SME Strategy

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans. Our strategic planning services offer guidance on how a strategic planning facilitator can provide support in constructing an effective strategic plan that ensures your strategy is communicated and implemented across your entire organization.

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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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More Than Half Of College Students Believe Using ChatGPT To Complete Assignments Is Cheating

Forbes Leadership

Over half of college students believe that using artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT to complete assignments and exams is cheating. That's one of the key findings from new BestColleges survey of 1,000 current undergraduate and graduate students, conducted this March.

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Culture is the Way: 5 Steps to Building a World-Class Culture

Michael McKinney

Y OU CAN CHANGE the results your organization is getting by changing its culture. And every organization has a culture whether it is by design or by default. “Whether an organization has a world-class culture or a toxic one, its future depends on how much attention and focus it puts on growing its culture,” writes Matt Mayberry, the author of Culture is the Way: How Leaders at Every Level Build an Organization for Speed, Impact, and Excellence.

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Figuring out the best growth team structure.

Growth Hacker

Before we start, let's all agree on the fact that there are successful growth teams in all possible structures. There's no right or wrong team structure. There is, however, the most likely to work for your company for that specific moment in time. The moment in time is a reflection of three main decisions: The Stage of the product/project; The same company can have different projects/products in completely different stages.

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Microsoft AI Move Is Exactly What MBA Students Need, Employers Want And Slumping B-Schools Dread

Forbes Leadership

Everyday AI accelerates the future of work, upends business education and spurs goliath innovation needs. Which MBA programs will adapt, survive and thrive?

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High-Tech Touchpoints Are Changing Customer Experience

Harvard Business Review

As technology becomes more powerful and affordable, your company is only limited by its imagination.

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Why There’s Nothing “Micro” About Microaggressions

Forbes Leadership

Most of us think about implicit bias once a year during our annual HR training, but stopping microaggressions takes more than that. Because microaggressive statements are so deeply ingrained in our culture, we need to actively seek to untangle them from our everyday conversation.

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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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5 Strategies to Empower Employees to Make Decisions

Harvard Business Review

Leaders often want to give workers autonomy, but struggle to give up control.

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Cybersecurity Is No Longer An Issue Reserved Strictly For CIOs And CISOs

Forbes Leadership

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed new rules on cyber-risk management, strategy, governance, and incident disclosure are coming. A plethora of data indicates that most boards are not ready to meet these new standards.

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Research: What Happens When Private Equity Firms Buy Hospitals?

Harvard Business Review

A study of 42 leveraged buyouts produced surprising findings that should guide policy reforms.

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From The Motor City To New York City: Detroit’s Young Designers Shine At New York Fashion Week

Forbes Leadership

One group of creatives climbing those same ranks are up-and-coming fashion designers who traveled to New York last month for New York Fashion Week.

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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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4 Powers of Surrender for Leaders

Leadership Freak

You’re dead if surrender is easy. How can you tell if a person is a control freak? They’re breathing.

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Human Resources And Recruiters Are Getting Axed

Forbes Leadership

A pattern has emerged: recruiters and HR professionals are let go when companies lay off personnel and enact hiring freezes. If there isn't hiring taking place, there is no need for this function.

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6 Steps to Creating an Employee Engagement Plan

15Five

Everyone wants better engagement. A motivated, inspired workforce means better retention, productivity, and innovation — outcomes every business leader is striving for. But clearly, just wanting it isn’t enough. As of 2022, the number of actively disengaged workers rose to 18% , indicating that pandemic-related hurdles weren’t the only thing stopping people from living their best lives at work.

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Study Shows Why Hybrid Work Will Triumph Over The Return To Office

Forbes Leadership

New study shows why the return to a traditional office schedule of M-F 9-5 will not be successful, and non-frontline employees will be largely hybrid in the medium and long term.

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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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Q&A: Recent Bank Failures Do Not Mean It’s 2008 All Over Again

UVA Darden

Q&A: Recent Bank Failures Do Not Mean It’s 2008 All Over Again burtonc Mon, 03/20/2023 - 09:14 16 March 2023 Global Economies & Markets Finance & Accounting Business & Public Policy Global Economic Outlook Bryan McKenzie Recently, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation — best known by its initials, FDIC — took over two banks a country apart after customers ran to get their money out in fear of their imminent closure.

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The Difference Between Evolving And Pivoting: Mindset

Forbes Leadership

Successfully pivoting takes both personal and professional development along with actions. With taking action, all you’re left with is intentions, which can hinder your progress.

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SVB’s Failure Reminds Boards To Prioritize Risk Management

Chief Executive

Coverage last week of Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse included numerous reports pointing to a host of contributing factors, including rising interest rates, aggressive investment strategies, lax regulations, flawed accounting and so on. Unfortunately, corporate boards don’t always get to use what might be legitimate reasons for their company’s difficult circumstances as an excuse for not being prepared or for not taking appropriate actions to prevent disaster.

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NBCU Academy Expands Its Reach To Help Diversify The Face OF Journalism And Media

Forbes Leadership

As part of NBCUniversal News Group's commitment to advance DEI efforts, under the leadership of Yvette Miley, NBCU Academy has expanded to provide greater access to the world of journalism and media to college students in a life-changing way — especially for those from marginalized communities.

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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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Peak Performance Management: An Essential Part of Successful Businesses

Rhythm Systems Growth

Performance management is an essential part of any successful business. It helps to ensure that employees meet their goals and expectations while providing feedback on how they can improve. Performance reviews offer an excellent opportunity for managers to give employees the recognition they deserve for their hard work and dedication. Regular performance reviews also help reduce employee turnover, costing companies tens of thousands of dollars per employee annually and draining your return on pa

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Perhaps The Most Disruptive Technology In History Is Coming And It’s Expected To Change Everything. Businesses And Marketers Need To Get Quantum Ready.

Forbes Leadership

We are entering the "second quantum revolution" and marketers need to begin to understand its future implications.

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Stretch Goals: How to Set Them (With Examples)

BetterUp

Jump to section What are stretch goals? What’s the difference between SMART and stretch goals? 3 benefits of stretch goals The importance of stretch goals at work What’s the stretch goal paradox? What’s the most likely consequence of setting unrealistic goals?

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McGill’s PIVOT Project Strives To Turn Climate Anxiety Into Action For SMEs

Forbes Leadership

McGill's PIVOT project promotes climate action among Canadian SMEs by creating an online community that promotes sustainable behavior and shares success stories. It aims to inspire a ripple effect throughout Canada to create a more sustainable future.

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Worried About Getting Fired? Here’s How to Cope

BetterUp

Jump to section What to do about the fear of being fired 4 ways worrying about job loss affects you Signs you might be getting fired It’s not the end of the world Take control of your career

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The Essential Playbook On CEOs And Cyber Resilience

Forbes Leadership

Ask any CEO to name the issues that keep them awake at night and cybersecurity risk is likely near the top of the list. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 37 global CEOs, cybersecurity firm ISTARI and Oxford's Saïd Business School reveal the findings of their joint CEO Report on Cyber Resilience.

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Explicit Knowledge: How to Create and Manage It

BetterUp

Jump to section What’s explicit knowledge? Explicit versus tacit knowledge Why’s explicit knowledge important for businesses?

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10 Reasons Companies Consider Using Big Data In HR Decision-Making

Forbes Leadership

Ultimately, the use of HR analytics can lead to a more strategic, data-driven approach to HR that significantly impacts the organization's success.

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Q&A: Recent Bank Failures Do Not Mean It’s 2008 All Over Again

UVA Darden

Q&A: Recent Bank Failures Do Not Mean It’s 2008 All Over Again burtonc Mon, 03/20/2023 - 09:14 16 March 2023 Global Economies & Markets Finance & Accounting Business & Public Policy Global Economic Outlook Bryan McKenzie Recently, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation — best known by its initials, FDIC — took over two banks a country apart after customers ran to get their money out in fear of their imminent closure.

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Banking Turmoil, Cost Cuts, Layoffs And More: How To Manage Through The Current Gloom And Doom

Forbes Leadership

It's hard to push forward on exciting and expensive new business initiatives when common sense suggests companies take it slow. Yet doubling down on future-focused plans is the best path forward.

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