Mon.Dec 12, 2022

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Shrinking Airline Seats Could Be Unsafe For Older Travelers, But FAA Study Excludes Them

Forbes Leadership

Comfort and flying have become oxymorons. Smaller airline seats and tighter rows may be more than a comfort issue for older consumers. They could be a safety issue, too.

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How To Develop Winning Learning and Development Strategies

AIHR

Learning and Development (L&D) strategies impact an organization’s business decisions by highlighting the development of the specific skills required to expand to new markets or remain competitive within your industry. Training can be costly for the business and takes away time from employees doing their daily tasks. As such, it is essential to align your L&D strategy with your organization’s overall strategy for maximum ROI.

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vote for the worst boss of 2022

Alison Green

This post, vote for the worst boss of 2022 , was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s time to vote on the worst boss of the year! Today we’ll vote for the worst boss in each of four match-ups. On Wednesday, the winners will go head-to-head with each other. On Friday, we’ll vote on the finalists. The winner will be crowned next Monday.

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Guild Education Names Former Patagonia Executive Dean Carter Chief People Officer In ‘Expansive’ New Role

Forbes Leadership

Carter will taken on a newly redesigned role that both works on internal human resources and leadership development issues as well as acts as an externally-facing resource for Guild's employer partner CHROs.

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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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CEOs Predict Better Business Conditions By End Of 2023

Chief Executive

After two months of decreasing optimism, CEOs are once again looking to a brighter future by the end of 2023 and reflect that in their outlook for Chief Executive ’s latest CEO Confidence Index. The leading indicator now stands at 5.9 on our 10-point scale, up almost 4 percent from the November reading, with our America’s chief executive’s now projecting recovery and even growth by the end of 2023.

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FedEx Founder Gives Record $65 Million To Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation

Forbes Leadership

Fred Smith, a Marine veteran and the founder and former CEO of FedEx, has given $65 million to the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation (MCSF). The gift is the largest ever received in MCSF’s 60-year history.

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10 Basic Employee Needs And How To Meet Them

Vantage Circle

When looking for employment, employees are looking for a paycheck and a job that meets their needs. These employee needs may vary from person to person, but the basic needs remain the same. Suppose we follow A Theory Of Human Motivation by A.H. Maslow. In that case, humans have 5 basic physiological, Safety, Social, Self-esteem, and Self-actualization needs.

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HR Fast Facts: Portland Multnomah County Preschool for All Tax

Zenefits

Portland Multnomah County approved a measure to establish a tuition-free preschool program, Multnomah County Preschool for All (PFA). The PFA program will be funded by personal income tax via employee payroll deductions which went into effect voluntarily on January 1, 2021, and mandatory beginning January 1, 2022. Zenefits supports this tax per agency requirements effective January 1, 2022.

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updates: the no-tattoos policy, the working mom with little kids, and more

Alison Green

This post, updates: the no-tattoos policy, the working mom with little kids, and more , was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s “where are you now?” month at Ask a Manager, and all December I’m running updates from people who had their letters here answered in the past. Here are four updates from past letter-writers. There will be more posts than usual this week, so keep checking back throughout the day. 1.

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Biotech Leader Shares How Rocket Pharmaceuticals Is Working To Eradicate Rare Diseases In Children

Forbes Leadership

COO and President of Rocket Pharmaceuticals, Kinnari Patel’s, shares how the company is using gene therapy to eradicate diseases in children.

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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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Creativity Does Not Make Innovation Happen. Execution and Leadership Does.

Thought Leaders LLC

When it comes to innovation, focus is way more important than creativity. Today’s post is by Alex Goryachev, author of FEARLESS INNOVATION: Going Beyond The Buzzword To Continuously Drive Growth, Improve The Bottom Line, And Enact Change (CLICK HERE to get your copy). I often hear that innovation is primarily about ideas and creativity. With over 20 years of speaking with top innovators around the globe, I am biased to disagree.

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Why Marketing Yourself As A Product Is A Must

Forbes Leadership

These three assets — your resume, LinkedIn profile and interview presentation — will help you market yourself and get the career you desire.

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update: how long will it take to change the culture at my new job?

Alison Green

This post, update: how long will it take to change the culture at my new job? , was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s “where are you now?” month at Ask a Manager, and all December I’m running updates from people who had their letters here answered in the past. Remember the letter-writer asking how long it would take to change the culture at their new job ?

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How Businesses Get Diversity Wrong And 5 Ways To Make Better Progress

Forbes Leadership

If many businesses have accepted that diverse workplaces are more productive, why haven't diversity programs been more effective? It's not just about the numbers. Here are five strategies that will help your organization be both diverse and 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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On the Frustration of Waiting

Leadership Freak

Your relationship with waiting impacts the quality of your life. Life is long periods of waiting punctuated by moments of completion. Waiting turns me into a caged animal.

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NCAA Division I’s 14-Sport Minimum Rule Is Ripe For Antitrust Challenge

Forbes Leadership

If college presidents and their allies continue to claim that the NCAA Division I 14-sport minimum rule is the reason why they cannot invest more into intramurual sports or pay their commerical athletes, it is time to bring an antitrust challenge against the NCAA Division I 14-sport rule itself.

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What It Takes to Be a Fair-Pay Workplace

Harvard Business Review

A framework to assess and improve your organization’s pay practices, rate of progress, and long-term goals.

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How To Reinvigorate Your Career During The Holiday Season

Forbes Leadership

The slower pace of the end season affords you the opportunity to express gratitude to loved ones and balance both appreciating all the wonderful people and things you have in your life, while also looking forward to what you want to achieve in 2023.

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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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What’s Keeping Your Employees From Resigning?

Zenefits

Retention has always been important to business, but these days, it’s mission-critical. Holding on to top performers used to be a top priority — today, holding on to even mid-range talent is imperative. While less-than-stellar performers may not be setting the world on fire, they’re doing the work necessary that allows top talent the time and bandwidth to do the heavy lifting.

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Leading The Global Fight Against Vaccine-Preventable Infectious Diseases Through Investment, Innovation And Partnerships

Forbes Leadership

Over the course of the past two years, the healthcare industry and U.S. regulatory bodies have moved swiftly to better understand SARS-CoV-2 and how to best combat the evolving virus.

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Research: When Mindfulness Does — and Doesn’t — Help at Work

Harvard Business Review

We all need to identify the most effective practices for our unique roles, routines, and minds.

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You Have More Potential Than You Think

Forbes Leadership

Success in your career – and in life overall – is heavily dependent on leveraging your potential to the fullest. And here’s the good news: You probably have more potential than you realize.

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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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how do I stop my employees from giving me gifts?

Alison Green

This post, how do I stop my employees from giving me gifts? , was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: My team has recently expanded. A couple days ago, one of the new employees gave me a book as a holiday gift. I have never given or received personal gifts at work and don’t want to start. How do I acknowledge the gift without encouraging repeat or treating my employees unequally?

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Johns Hopkins University Receives Record $100 Million Gift For Its Bologna Campus

Forbes Leadership

Philanthropists James and Morag Anderson have made a $100 million gift to the Bologna, Italy campus of Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). The university described the donation as the largest private gift ever made to a university in Italy.

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updates: the terrible game store manager, the emotional affair, and more

Alison Green

This post, updates: the terrible game store manager, the emotional affair, and more , was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s “where are you now?” month at Ask a Manager, and all December I’m running updates from people who had their letters here answered in the past. Here are four updates from past letter-writers. There will be more posts than usual this week, so keep checking back throughout the day. 1.

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Parenting The Disappointed College Applicant

Forbes Leadership

It is hard to know how to lessen the sting when we as adults may also be trying to make sense of our child being denied.

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HR Fast Facts: Can Employees Cancel their FSA?

Zenefits

As an employee, you can only change elections to your personal FSA during the renewal period or after experiencing a qualifying life event , such as a change in marital status or the birth of a child. If you have experienced an applicable qualifying life event, please contact Support. Please also include the date of the Qualifying Life Event, as well as what the event was.

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The Purpose Of “Purpose” Is Brand And Business Growth. That’s It.

Forbes Leadership

With negative consequences for both business and the world, too many marketers are confusing means and ends, and thinking about “purpose” as something other than a strategy for driving growth.

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Why Startups Fail: Six Issues to Avoid

Michael McKinney

T HE FACT IS most startups fail. More than two-thirds of them never deliver a positive return to investors. Tim Eisenmann is a professor at Harvard Business School, where he’s led The Entrepreneurial Manager , a required course for all of their MBAs. While he taught students how to build winning startups, he felt he wasn't giving them the full picture if he couldn’t identify why so many were failing.

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Entrepreneurial Effort Provides Innovative Payment System For Sustainable Goals In Africa

Forbes Leadership

According to the World Bank, Sub-Saharan Africa as a region is expected to grow at 3.9% in 2023 and 4.2% in 2024, with a recovery in global demand anticipated for 2023 as global shocks lessen as an impact.

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Best Interview Questions to Ask Job Candidates – Their Questions

Refresh

This is part 12 of a 12-part series. Creating a successful and productive team starts with finding great employees who fit your organizational culture. And while you may receive hundreds of job applications and interested parties, narrowing down the talent pool to hire the right candidate for the job goes beyond what hiring managers can surmise by reading cover letters and applicants’ resumes, especially when studies show 85% of applicants lie on their resumes.

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Business Lessons Learned From Phil Rosenthal

Forbes Leadership

Feeding the heart, soul, and even the stomachs of your employees makes good business sense. In the scheme of things, these expenditures are investments—not expenses.

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