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New Texas Bill Would End Tenure For College Faculty

Forbes Leadership

The assault on college tenure advanced last week with a bill filed in the Texas Senate that would prohibit that state’s public higher education institutions from offering tenure or “any type of permanent employment status” starting on Sept. 1, 2023.

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What if the future of our businesses depends upon our ability to be un-business-like?

Thought Leaders LLC

Why are memorial services celebrating the life of a loved one who has passed always convened around candlelight, music, and poetry and not around bright lights, PowerPoint presentations and spreadsheets? Today’s guest post is by Dr. Robert H. Lengel, author of A Place For T: Giving Voice To The Tortoise In Our Hare-Brained World (CLICK HERE to get your copy).

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3 Survival Questions From My Therapist To Ask Your Business

Forbes Leadership

At the core of every healthy and sustainable relationship is honest, open communication. So when it comes to corporations, it’s not just relatable for them to be open about identity, it’s good for business. Here are three questions every business should ask itself if it wants to succeed.

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Make Your Return From Paternal Leave Work for You

Zenefits

Paternity leave has long been considered a way for new fathers to bond with their newborns and support their families during a crucial time. Yet for many, their return from paternal leave back to the job can be a difficult and stressful experience. A variety of factors can influence the success of a new father’s return to work. These include the degree of support of their employer, the workplace culture, and their ability to balance work and family responsibilities.

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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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5 Productivity Myths Ruining Your Life

Nir Eyal

Every time I hear a productivity myth described as fact, I cringe as if listening to a snake oil salesman peddle his cures. Let me tell you, when I was writing my second book, Indistractable, I endlessly researched productivity and time management. I tried a lot of recommended methods and techniques myself. Some of them can be so incredibly helpful in controlling your attention and managing your time.

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Challenging The Hype: Why A Four-Day Work Week Won't Solve Burnout

Forbes Leadership

The four-day work week may appear to be a creative solution to job satisfaction and work-life balance, but this short-term, superficial response fails to address a much deeper problem.

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How Chicago Scholars Is Changing The Lives Of Young Men Of Color

Forbes Leadership

Due to systemic discrimination and attacks on affirmative action, college enrollment for Black men has dropped by 14.8%, and Latino men's enrollment decreased by 10.3%. The Chicago Scholars, works to solve these decreases in enrollment with their newly launched program, Young Men of Color.

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5 Leading Edge Ways to Enhance Your Customer Service

Mark Sandborn

Leading edge companies are constantly looking for ways to improve the customer experience and create positive emotions for their clients. One of the key ways they do this is through the use of technology. Technology. AI-powered virtual assistants are an example. These tools allow companies to provide 24/7 support to customers, answering their questions and addressing their concerns quickly and efficiently.

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Blockchain, NFTs, And The Future Of The Perishables Supply Chain

Forbes Leadership

Global supply chains are growing at alarming rates, opening the door for new and innovative technology solutions to tackle some of the industry’s most challenging problems. What’s on the horizon for our supply chains, what solutions will garner mass adoption, and what will be left behind?

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Sales Teams Need to Stop Focusing on the Customer Funnel

Harvard Business Review

Instead, build an “experience chain” that aligns the customer journey across physical and digital channels.

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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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16 Expert Tips To Help Coaches Deal With Imposter Syndrome

Forbes Leadership

When coaches struggle with feelings of inadequacy and doubt their abilities, it can impact not only their confidence, but also their effectiveness in their work with clients.

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The Role of an Organizational Development Specialist

AIHR

In today’s fast-paced business environment, organizational development specialists are extremely sought after because of their role in shaping an organization’s ability to improve operational efficiency through planned change – which is crucial to remaining competitive. Here’s what an organizational development specialist does and how you can become one.

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Why Economic News Affects Your Personal Finances—And How To Get Informed

Forbes Leadership

The following tips have helped me understand and navigate economic news and make better money decisions, and I believe they can help anyone seeking to better understand economic issues.

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Prioritizing Professional Development for HR Leaders

15Five

Professional development is essential to the personal and professional well-being of today’s human resources leaders. And yet, far too many of them are out there right now spending countless hours advocating for more professional development in their organizations—while not getting access to those growth opportunities themselves. It goes without saying that the HR leaders of today (and tomorrow) need the necessary people skills and industry knowledge to be effective.

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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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Reinvent The Government Workforce

Forbes Leadership

Governments around the world are struggling to modernize. The starting point? Put citizens and civil servants at the center of digital transformation.

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How Will Generative AI Disrupt Video Platforms?

Harvard Business Review

The technology will change what content is produced, how it’s produced, and who it’s shown to.

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Meet One Of The Best Consulting Firms You’ve Never Heard Of

Forbes Leadership

In a field of titans, ghSMART has quietly become one of the most diverse, selective, well-paying and highest-scoring consultancies for job satisfaction.

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7 Light-Weight Leadership Practices that Deliver Heavy-Weight Results

Leadership Freak

Tiny is huge. “Manny” Yarborough held the Guinness World Record for the heaviest living athlete. He exceeded 800 pounds before his death in 2015.

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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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College Rankings Withdrawal

Forbes Leadership

It took nearly a century for institutions to realize the limitations and inequities of standardized tests as we know them. Will it take even longer for a critical mass of colleges to publicly acknowledge the flaws of commercial rankings?

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Research: How Anti-Asian Racism Has Manifested at Work in the Pandemic

Harvard Business Review

Researchers interviewed professionals in the U.S. and Canada about their experiences in a variety of industries.

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Secrets To Be A Better Speaker Like Oscar Winners Michelle Yeoh And Jamie Lee Curtis

Forbes Leadership

You might not get to give an acceptance speech at the Academy Awards, but you might get a moment in the spotlight accepting an award.

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Toxic Productivity: How to Spot and Prevent It

BetterUp

Jump to section Signs of toxic productivity What causes toxic productivity?

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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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Whether It’s The Notable Silicon Valley Bank, Meta Or Google, Your Job Isn’t Safe—It’s Time To Look After Yourself

Forbes Leadership

The economy has become too volatile, and workers are no longer safe. You need to cushion your career by creating an action plan to prepare for if things take a terrible turn at your current company.

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Internal Social Channels Not the Preferred Source for Company News, According to Employees

David Grossman

A common and consistent point of feedback we hear from employees when auditing a company’s internal communications can be distilled into just two words: “email overload.” Across industries and sectors, companies large or small, employees are often quick to share that they feel they receive too many emails. And yet, emails are among the most selected preferred way to receive time-sensitive, relevant information.

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Regaining What Was Lost: Program Creates Pathways To The Financial Sector

Forbes Leadership

For years, financial services companies have worked to increase Black representation but Black workers hold only 3% of the senior-level roles in the sector. The Greenwood Project uses the power of social capital to help Black and Latinx people achieve success where pervious efforts have struggled.

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Today’s Organizations Are Outward Bound

Michael McKinney

T HE TERM “outward bound” was originally used to describe ships departing their home port for foreign destinations. Later, it came to be associated with a nonprofit that provides youth with adventures in nature. Now it needs a third use, for organizations. For much of the last century, the most prominent strategies of large corporations were vertical integration and diversification, pursued within their traditional boundaries, or inward bound.

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14 Tips For Building Successful Agency-Client Partnerships

Forbes Leadership

The success of the partnership largely depends on the client’s understanding of both their role and the agency’s role in the process.

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Some Crises Build Character. Others Reveal It.

Ed Batista

Something bad happened, and there was a crisis. There are still many risks, and the situation could yet turn worse, but at the moment, catastrophe has been averted. If approached correctly, this can be a fruitful learning experience for you and the people around you. It may seem too early to learn from the crisis, but don't wait too long. Nobel-prize winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman notes an important distinction between our experience and our memories : The experiencing self is the one that

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The Silicon Valley Bank Collapse Disproportionately Impacts Underbanked Founders

Forbes Leadership

It’s well known that the shutdown of Silicon Valley Bank was the largest US bank failure since the 2008 financial crisis. What is less talked about is the disproportional impact this has on women founders and founders of color, who have historically been underbanked.

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The Only One-On-One Meeting Template You Actually Need

Niagara Institute

As a leader, the last thing you want an employee to think when you send an invite for a one-on-one meeting is, “what have I done wrong.” This can happen, though, if you treat this type of meeting as a report card of everything an employee has done right and wrong. It can also jeopardize the potential trust, credibility, and respect that can be built during one-on-ones and instead plant the seeds of fear, anxiety, and doubt.

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Alix Guerrier, CEO, DonorsChoose: The Changemaker Interview

Forbes Leadership

A former teacher, educational technology innovator, McKinsey consultant and giving platform CEO, Alix Guerrier took the reins in 2022 at DonorsChoose, a nonprofit platform that enables teachers to post classroom needs and individuals and organizations to fund them.

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Influence and Organizational Change: Getting Your Way the Right Way

Wendy Hirsch

Key Points Six influence tactics are good bets if you want to foster the cooperation necessary to enable organizational change: rational persuasion, inspirational appeal, apprising, collaboration, ingratiation, and consultation. Pressure is one tactic to avoid because it has been found to be counterproductive to both timely task completion as well as fostering strong work relationships.