Peter Winick

MARCH 7, 2024

Creating Impactful Conversations in Today’s Landscape A conversation with Kate Bravery on creating thought leadership that speaks to internal teams and external audiences. In this episode, Kate Bravery, the Global Leader of Advisory, Knowledge, and Insights at Mercer, discusses the importance of thought leadership in today’s workforce. Kate, also a co-author of the book “Work Different: 10 Truths for Winning in the People Age,” shares insights into her roles at Mercer, in

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2024

One big challenge that leaders have when figuring out how or where their companies can grow is that a dearth of data about future problems and opportunities. In these situations, there are three techniques that leaders can employ to develop insights: look at customers and startups for signs of change, experience new technologies rather than just read about them, and practice “associative thinking,” which means connect two seemingly disparate concepts to develop a novel idea.

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Peter Winick

MARCH 7, 2024

Source: Smith Publicity Read Peter Winick’s latest blog post on Smith Publicity. He covers various strategies and tactics thought leaders can use to leverage speaking opportunities to grow their brand, increase their visibility, and ultimately make money. The post How Thought Leaders Make Money and Build Their Business Through Speaking appeared first on Thought Leadership Leverage.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2024

Staying positive and motivated is tough when your boss has a clear favorite. When you feel like you’re not favored, you may hesitate to proactively communicate with your boss, worrying that you might be a bother and worsen your relationship or that your attempts will be futile. However, a passive approach will result in missed opportunities for growth, clarification, and relationship-building.

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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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Leadership Freak

MARCH 7, 2024

Insecure people are conformists. Doubt produces caution. It’s easy to manage insecure people. Do you really want to enable boldness? Bold people resist being managed.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2024

Digital tools powered by relevant data can help to generate customer insights, better allocate sales resources, facilitate channel interactions, and improve brand value. But, like any tool, digital systems are only as good as their users. It’s not just data, but information relevant to sales and channel partners; and it’s not just information, but management and process initiatives that translate that information into marketplace results.

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Alison Green

MARCH 7, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s the Thursday “ask the readers” question. A reader writes: I’m currently in the running for a job that offers unlimited PTO. I am trying to find out if this company has a culture that actually allows people to use this “perk” (without abuse), or if people are afraid to take PTO for fear of the impression of abusing it and/or peer pressure to not use it.

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Manager 92

Michael McKinney

MARCH 7, 2024

I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Umberto Eco on leading by example: “I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.” Source: Foucault’s Pendulum II.

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Thought Leaders LLC

MARCH 7, 2024

Our reader poll today asks: How reliant are you on suppliers from other countries? Extremely: critical amounts of our inputs come from other countries 15.75% Very: we source several critical inputs from other countries 16.54% Somewhat: a few important inputs come from other countries 25.20% Not very: a few less important inputs come from other countries 9.44% Not at all: barely any inputs come from other countries 33.07% Protecting your supply chain.

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Alison Green

MARCH 7, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s four answers to four questions. Here we go… 1. I referred my friend to my company and she turned out to be an awful coworker I have a former coworker, “Sadie,” who I became decent friends with over the course of a year of working together at a former job. We both left for other opportunities around the same time.

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Compensation Software Manager Implementation 81

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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Niagara Institute

MARCH 7, 2024

Whether you’re praising a peer for a job well done or guiding an employee on a project that’s faltering, feedback is how those around you learn and grow. However, for feedback to be seen as valuable, you need to master how to give feedback in a way that the receiver is receptive to what you have to say.

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Alison Green

MARCH 7, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: We have a new C-level employee at my small nonprofit, Andy, who has been here for six months. I do not work directly with Andy terribly often but my boss, Jane, who is also not C-level but also does not report directly to Andy, has a lot of meetings with Andy and relays information and tasks to me that I need to do for Andy.

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BetterUp

MARCH 7, 2024

Jump to section What is a self-fulfilling prophecy?

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LSA Global

MARCH 7, 2024

The Importance of Culture for Mergers and Acquisitions Mergers and Acquisitions remain at the core of many executive team growth strategies. The appeal is quite clear. Smart acquisitions can provide immediate access to valuable new products, technologies, talent, intellectual property, clients, and geographies. But 60 to 70% of mergers and acquisitions fall short of expectations.

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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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Alison Green

MARCH 7, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. Here are four updates from past letter-writers. 1. Is it reasonable for our office to go so fragrance-free that we have to change every product we use at home? On the basis of your advice, I did raise the issue with my immediate supervisor, who felt that the guidance was clearly advisory rather than mandatory, and declined to raise the issue with the executive who had initially shared it.

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Ascend

MARCH 7, 2024

When sales and marketing teams align well, they achieve greater profitability and better annual revenue growth. Creating a solid partnership between sales and marketing requires a strategic approach that treats the two teams as critical partners in achieving a single revenue-generating goal.

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Vantage Circle

MARCH 7, 2024

An employee recognition strategy is more than just a “nice-to-have"; it's a cornerstone of organizational success. This strategy goes beyond mere acknowledgments, embedding a culture of appreciation that aligns closely with company values and objectives. In this blog, we will explore the goals, approaches, best practices, and more. We’ll also learn how to craft an effective employee recognition strategy step-by-step.

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