Fri.Dec 09, 2022

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Do You React or Do You Reflect?

Peter Winick

Transcript. Hey there! It’s Peter Winick. I’m the Founder and CEO at Thought Leadership Leverage. So today, I wanted to share with you a thought, or an idea I had based on a few interactions that have happened over the last couple of weeks. And it’s this. As an expert, as a subject matter expert, as a thought leader, as someone that has been practicing what you practiced for a long, long time and seen various situations and such, I think there’s a habit that we’ve d

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Deck the Halls: Lessons from Classic Holiday Movies

Refresh

‘Tis the season to be merry—and even more, to enjoy merriment through one of our favorite pastimes: watching holiday movies. From cult classics like A Christmas Story to heart-string-pulling prose like It’s A Wonderful Life to laughter-inducing irreverence like Christmas Vacation , enjoying holiday movies with kith and kin can not only be a wholesome experience but can also be a great excuse to learn some leadership lessons from your favorite holiday movie characters.

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Are Productivity Paranoia and Lack of Trust the Real Obstacles to Hybrid and Remote Work?

SHRM Organizational Development

Do bosses trust employees to be productive when working remotely? Not according to a new survey by Citrix of 900 business leaders and 1,800 knowledge workers - those who can do their job remotely. Half of all business leaders believe that when employees are working “out of sight,” they don’t work as hard. Yet this belief contradicts the facts. Similarly, Microsoft released a new study, where it found that 49% of managers of hybrid workers “struggle to trust their employees to do their best work.

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Brittney Griner, Paul Whalen Or Nothing? Why The Biden Administration Chose The Black Woman

Forbes Leadership

Not everyone is thrilled that the Biden Administration prioritized the release of a Black woman, two-time Olympic gold medalist in a prisoner swap with Russia.

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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 To Avoid The Five Empathy Traps

Chief Executive

As we experience the holiday season, empathy is one of the most important gifts we can give someone who is struggling. But as we’re reminded of empathy this time of year, we should reflect on why we don’t show it often enough throughout the year. Empathy is the ability to emotionally understand what other people feel and to imagine yourself in their place.

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A Computer Can Now Write Your College Essay — Maybe Better Than You Can

Forbes Leadership

We fed ChatGPT, OpenAI’s new natural language tool, college essay questions for the 2022-2023 academic year. Here’s what it wrote.

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The Millionaire Maker: How Unique Markets Powers Small Businesses To Go Big

Forbes Leadership

Unique Markets is unique as a leader in the “shop small” movement, helping small businesses grow big “I think we’ve worked hard to not be seen as ‘just a shopping event’ but really as an incubator for entrepreneurship and creativity.

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Do You Have Quiet Quitters? You Won’t If You Change The Employee Experience  

Chief Executive

The Great Resignation has proved problematic for many employers. Meanwhile “ quiet quitting ”—where employees do the bare minimum as a protest over feeling underappreciated—has become a big issue. But the solution for both really isn’t that elusive or far away. If leaders of those affected companies changed their approach and focused more on the employee experience, they would likely see The Great Retention instead.

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15 Email Etiquette Rules That You Should Know

BetterUp

Jump to section. What is the difference between formal and informal emails? What is email etiquette, and why is it so important? 15 rules of email etiquette. Start emailing with confidence.

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A Food Science Expert Shares Avocado Hacks To Reduce Food Waste

Forbes Leadership

Adored by the masses, avocados have a lot of nutritional benefits to offer. Here, a food science expert shares tips for properly storing avocados plus tips for prolonging freshness and optimizing ripening to help you maximize enjoyment and reduce food waste.

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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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it’s more Friday good news … this time with updates

Alison Green

This post, it’s more Friday good news … this time with updates , was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s more Friday good news — this time with updates. Here are three updates from people who shared good news here in the past. 1. The working actor (#3 at the link). Do I love my job? Sometimes. Do I want to throw my laptop into a lake?

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Chloé Arnold Spreads Holiday Cheer As Lead Choreographer For Apple TV+ ‘Spirited’

Forbes Leadership

Sometimes exclusion from certain arenas propels a person to create opportunities for themselves that otherwise would not be given to them; such is the case of Emmy-nominated choreographer Chloe Arnold.

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Webinar | Burnout: The Science Behind Sustainable Solutions

Agile42

Every year, as we approach the year-end, our coaches find themselves having more conversations about burnout. It’s a concept we’ve been hearing about for decades, so why is it still such a big problem? . In this webinar, Regina Martins and Pascal Papathemelis tackle this concept. They share their personal experiences to cover why burnout happens and how we can spot the signs in both ourselves and others.

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16 Tips For Leaders Who Want To Author A Book While Running A Company

Forbes Leadership

Some of the world’s most successful business leaders have written and published books that share insights into their careers and wisdom based on lessons learned while they’re still at the helm of their companies.

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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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Green Flags in Relationships: Find Out If You’re In The Right One

BetterUp

Jump to section. What does “green flag” mean? What are some relationship green flags? The value of a red flag. Wave that green flag high.

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Four Things You Can Do Now To Prepare For A Job Search In 2023

Forbes Leadership

As we quickly approach the end of another year, it’s time to start getting ready for the next one. For talent in transition, this period of self-examination has suddenly become more urgent. Wherever you are in your career, here is some practical year-end advice to help make the most of a job search.

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weekend open thread – December 10-11, 2022

Alison Green

This post, weekend open thread – December 10-11, 2022 , was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. This comment section is open for any non-work-related discussion you’d like to have with other readers, by popular demand. Here are the rules for the weekend posts. You may also like: all of my 2021 and 2022 book recommendations all of my 2019 and 2020 book recommendations all of my book recommendations from 2015-2018.

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13 Common Missteps To Avoid When Creating An Internal Newsletter

Forbes Leadership

While creativity is essential to the development of an effective internal newsletter, as comms pros know, some approaches and types of employee-facing content are less engaging than others, and knowing what not to do is essential.

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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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Efficiency is the Enemy of Humanity

Leadership Freak

I started complaining about back-to-back meetings six years ago, but change is slow. I came across research that proves it’s not efficient. Intoxicated with self-importance: I feel important when I rush.

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As Recruitment Gains Urgency, Luxury Hospitality Executives Want You

Forbes Leadership

Luxury travel is booming. And it's exposing a human resources crisis, something familiar across many industries but especially problematic in a segment where the front-line workers are essential to the customer experience, and in fact are often the most memorable part of the product – good or bad.

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U.S. Railroads and the Pitfalls of Systematic Understaffing

Harvard Business Review

An obsession with efficiency and low costs at the expense of workers is bad business — in any industry.

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Why Robots Are Taking Over The World - And That's A Good Thing

Forbes Leadership

Robots and automation are not "taking jobs" in this latest economic downturn but are instead doing the work that few people want to do — from weeding fields to cleaning floors to stacking boxes.

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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 to Fix Collaboration Overload

Harvard Business Review

It’s on both employees and employers to solve the problem.

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Bradley Ward Brings His Brand Of Culture Surveying Art To Miami For Art Basel

Forbes Leadership

The year 2022 featured many memorable events, but not many were in the realm of the 20th anniversary of Miami's Art Basel.

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The Best Public Speakers Put the Audience First

Harvard Business Review

Focus on what they need to hear — not on what you want to say.

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How Colombian Hummingbirds Are Linked To The Plants They Feed On

Forbes Leadership

Colombian researcher Mónica Ramírez Burbano turned a fascination with looking at hummingbirds into a project to look at how these birds interact with the plants they feed on.

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Trust & Inspire Leadership

Michael McKinney

A COMMAND & CONTROL leadership style comes naturally to us. And we resort to it far more than we think. What has always worked better and is required for successful leadership in this day and age is something Steven M. R. Covey calls Trust & Inspire leadership. Trust & Inspire leadership is about “trusting people to do the right thing and inspiring them to make meaningful contributions.

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Mindset Matters: A New Year, The Latest Trends, And The Growth Of The Disability Economy

Forbes Leadership

This column begins to explore critical trendlines around the Disability Economy that is worth paying attention to. It also provides a peak into some of the themes that the column will lookout more deeply in the coming year.

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it’s your Friday good news

Alison Green

This post, it’s your Friday good news , was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s your Friday good news! 1. “After sending a question to you in May (which you didn’t publish, no worries), I realized that writing to an advice column might be a sign that it was time to look for a new job. I identified a large organization that I would like to work for that was posting lots of remote positions.

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Here’s How Forbes Got The ChatGPT AI To Write 2 College Essays In 20 Minutes

Forbes Leadership

Included is a copy of Forbes' full conversation with OpenAI's newest language model, ChatGPT, about college application essays.

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open thread – December 9-10, 2022

Alison Green

This post, open thread – December 9-10, 2022 , was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s the Friday open thread! The comment section on this post is open for discussion with other readers on any work-related questions that you want to talk about (that includes school). If you want an answer from me, emailing me is still your best bet*, but this is a chance to take your questions to other readers. * If you submitted a question to me recently, please do not repost it h

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How Will Widespread Tech Layoffs Impact Next Year’s Job Market?

Forbes Leadership

Widespread layoffs in the tech industry have shifted us back into the unprecedented times we thought were only reserved for pandemics.