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What To Say In An Interview When You’ve Been Laid Off

Forbes Leadership

Interviewers will invariably ask you, “Why were you let go?” One of the biggest challenges throughout the job search process is figuring out what to say when interviewing. It's hard for people who’ve succeeded most of their lives to suddenly feel like a failure, since they’ve been laid off.

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11 Ways of Celebrating International Women's Day At Work

Vantage Circle

When we talk about workplaces, we often discuss great leaders like Bill Gates or Warren Buffett. But somehow, we forget that there have been and are great women leaders as well. Some of them include Marry Barra, CEO of General Motors, and Whitney Wolfe Herd, founder of Bumble, and the list continues. They have made a name for themselves through hard work, perseverance, and passion for becoming the best.

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Leading Thoughts for February 2, 2023

Michael McKinney

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. Robert Kaplan on learning to ask the right questions: “Fortunately, the key to managing and leading your organization and your career does not lie in ‘having all the answers.’ The key lies in making a conscious effort to regularly step back to reflect, and then identify and frame the issues that are central to leading your organization effectively into

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How Social Media Influencer ‘Supa Cent’ Launched A $50 Million Cosmetics Company

Forbes Leadership

Enterprising, innovative, trailblazer, overcomer, charismatic, and supportive are a few adjectives that flawlessly describe Raynell "Supa Cent" Steward, owner and founder of Crayon Case, a $50 million cosmetic brand.

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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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A Better Method For Qualifying Leads

Chief Executive

Is this Netflix show worth the time commitment? Should I order takeout from the new restaurant across the street or cook dinner at home? Do I schedule a third date with the person I’m talking to or break it off? Every day, we weigh information to help us decide whether an opportunity is worth pursuing or not. This is called qualifying behavior, and it’s something a sales team has to do (and do well) every day.

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Ad-Free or Ad-Full? Streaming and the Media Diet Dilemma

UVA Darden

Ad-Free or Ad-Full? Streaming and the Media Diet Dilemma burtonc Thu, 02/02/2023 - 12:44 27 January 2023 Marketing & Sales Strategic Marketing Digital Transformation Caroline Newman Before the advent of streaming services, television advertisers could purchase timeslots and be fairly certain — barring too much channel surfing — that their ads would play for their target audiences watching at home.

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Busch Light Scores With Sarah McLachlan And Busch Guy In Super Bowl Ad

Forbes Leadership

Busch Light's 2023 Super Bowl ad featuring Sarah McLachlan is the latest in a series of positive moves Anheuser Busch has made to build the brand.

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Are You Aware of What Happens When You Walk in the Room?” Asks The Wonderful Company’s CFO and EVP, Human Resources, Stephen Howe

Chief Executive

“As a senior executive, I’m often guided by this legend: long ago, an ancestor was out gathering shoots and berries on the savanna and heard the distant roar of a lion,” Stephen Howe shared. “As the roar grew ever closer, he sped up his work and, when the lion appeared nearby, made for the cave as fast as his bare feet would carry him.” Fast-forward to a meeting room in an office near you, and the same hard-wired fear that saved our ancestor from constant real threats continues to arouse us agai

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CEO Go-To-Market Warning: Avoid the Blind Spots That Cause Products to Miss the Mark | Part 5

Chief Outsiders

Part 5: Only Teamwork Can Make the Dream Work We have become a nation of isolation. COVID-19 taught everyone how to use technology to carry on safely. Though Zoom, Teams, and other tools have made communication more efficient, we’ve never felt more distant from our colleagues. Through this “together, but apart” mindset, many businesses feel pressured to enable remote work and grant greater autonomy.

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What Your Working Parents Aren’t Telling You – And Why Not Knowing Is Costing You

Forbes Leadership

Working parents are staying quiet and it is costing organizations. Here's what they aren't saying and how companies can support them.

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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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How AI Will Transform Project Management

Harvard Business Review

Steps you can take now to prepare for the future.

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Sei Less Founder Dara Mirjahangiry Reflects On Restaurant’s First Anniversary

Forbes Leadership

Specializing in Asian Fusion cuisine, the New York City staple has quickly picked up steam over the last year since its inception.

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why do hiring managers ghost me after promising they won’t?

Alison Green

This post, why do hiring managers ghost me after promising they won’t? , was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I’ve had a few terrific interviews that I thought went really well. The hiring manager and I have had great discussions, insightful questions were asked on both sides, and it seems like the role is a great fit for me and my experience.

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Three Strategies For Adding More Coaching To Your Leadership

Forbes Leadership

Great managers, like great coaches, bring out the best in their teams. That’s the foundational tenet of Art Harding’s leadership style as Chief Operating Officer of People.ai. The second might be that great coaching attracts and retains great talent.

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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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I don’t want to eat lunch with my boss, can I file a complaint about my spouse’s manager, and more

Alison Green

This post, I don’t want to eat lunch with my boss, can I file a complaint about my spouse’s manager, and more , was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s four answers to four questions. Here we go… 1. I don’t want to eat lunch with my boss so frequently I have a good manager. He is friendly, supportive, and very flexible with letting me leave early to pick up my young daughters.

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New Catalyst Research Finds That Racism, Colorism, And Texturism Impact Women’s Workplace Experiences

Forbes Leadership

Catalyst recently published a report examining women’s workplace experiences. The research indicates that racism, colorism, texturism, cissexism and heterosexism were pervasive issues that women experienced at work. This article unpacks the research and provides recommendations for leaders.

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Are Internal Hires a Company’s Best Move for Open Positions?

Zenefits

The efficiency of the hiring process can determine whether a company is well-staffed with quality employees. Companies use two hiring methods when selecting new candidates for open positions: Promoting from within Recruiting new, external talent Before deciding whether to promote someone internally or hire someone new from an externally qualified candidate pool, Human Resources personnel should understand the pros and cons of internal and external hiring processes.

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How To Introduce Pay Transparency To Help Close The Gender Pay Gap

Forbes Leadership

Pay transparency aims to help employers and employees avoid discrimination in discussing, disclosing or inquiring about compensation, which ultimately could eradicate the current wage gap based on gender.

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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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3 Ways to Find Enjoyment Today

Leadership Freak

A coaching client said, “I want a learning plan for myself that’s fun. I don’t need another job.” All learning plans should be fun.

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Beyond When And Where: Doing More With Less And Driving Growth Through Investments In Iteration And Innovation

Forbes Leadership

In an era of uncertainty, executives are mandating that teams do more with less and drive business growth. But these strategies are premised on legacy thinking and outdated processes. Executives must think beyond when and where to innovate and grow.

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What Is the Interactive Process Under the ADA?

Zenefits

Participation in the interactive process is an important element of complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The ADA prohibits workplace discrimination against workers with disabilities and requires that employers provide a reasonable accommodation that will allow workers with disabilities to do their job. To determine a suitable accommodation, courts and the ADA favor an informal “back and forth” — the interactive process — between the employer and the employee.

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6 Steps To Reform Sustainability Reporting

Forbes Leadership

Current ESG metrics are inconsistent and at times misleading. And perspectives on sustainability reporting are as varied as the stakeholders in the conversation. What is clear is the urgent need to shift from talk to action and from a voluntary system to a globally consistent regulated framework.

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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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When You’re Doubting Your Leadership — and Others Are, Too

Harvard Business Review

Seven steps to take when you’re in need of a comeback.

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The Future Of Learning Is ‘On The Floor’

Forbes Leadership

While the future of learning is on the floor and in the flow of work, the future is already here for many leading organizations. To close the knowing-doing gap and increase learner engagement, take learning out of the classroom and put it in the flow of work.

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Professional References: What They Are and How to Ask For One

BetterUp

Jump to section What are professional references?

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Data Security & Privacy Trends For 2023

Forbes Leadership

After turbocharged digital transformation and a rapid data shift to the cloud in recent years, sensitive data is all around us and is more available than ever. While this is good news for data-driven organizations’ analytics initiatives, it also brings increased risk.

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7 Small Ways to Be a More Inclusive Colleague

Harvard Business Review

Practice them until they become habits.

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The Impact Of Mass Shootings On Working Parents: Tips To Cope And Focus At Work

Forbes Leadership

If you find yourself sitting at your desk, worrying about how safe your children are at school, here are some tips to help you calm your anxious mind.

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Critical Questions To Ask New Hires

Eric Jacobson

In Paul Falcone ’s book, 75 Ways For Managers To Hire, Develop And Keep Great Employees , he recommends asking new employees the following questions 30, 60 and 90 days after they were hired: 30-Day One-on-One Follow-Up Questions Why do you think we selected you as an employee? What do you like about the job and the organization so far? What’s been going well?

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SpamBrain: How Google Keeps Spam Out Of Search Results And What It Means For SEO

Forbes Leadership

There will always be hackers, scammers and spammers who want to leverage spam for their nefarious purposes. SpamBrain, however, will remain at the front lines.

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Understanding the Difference Between Service Animals and Emotional Support Animals in the Workplace

Zenefits

According to Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act , employers may not discriminate against a qualified person because of a disability. On top of that, they must provide reasonable accommodation to an individual with disabilities so they can perform their essential job tasks. Therefore, In the spirit of fostering a more inclusive work environment , more workplaces are updating their policies to include the presence of service animals.

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Supply Chain Resilience: Reorchestrating Whole Capability Value Chains

Forbes Leadership

Countries large and small have prioritized various supply chain resilience efforts to help protect critical supply lines and products like reshoring and friendshoring, or leveraging allies and close partners.

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