Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2024

In today’s always-on environment, AI tools can help marketers optimize and personalize their campaigns quickly and efficiently. But AI alone won’t yield meaningful campaigns. Impact-driving work requires both human ingenuity and machine speed — a combination marketers can’t fully embrace without daily practice. This article discusses how one team experimented with used AI to complement their creative marketers on various tasks, and how it resulted in their most impactful campaign to date.

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Marketing 126

Tanveer Nasser

APRIL 10, 2024

“The real job of leadership is the chance to sincerely, passionately, excellently elevate human lives. And the best businesses are very mission-driven and purpose-centered.” This is just one of many brilliant and thoughtful insights Robin Sharma shares in this latest episode of my “Leadership Biz Cafe” podcast. I can’t tell.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2024

A survey of more than 130 HBR readers asked how they use rituals to start their days, psych themselves up for stressful challenges, and transition when the workday is done.

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Lolly Daskal

APRIL 10, 2024

Leaders bear numerous responsibilities in the pursuit of organizational success. Among these crucial duties, recruiting and coaching are often in the spotlight. However, there exists another equally vital and often underestimated ritual that leaders must prioritize: the practice of continuous self-development, both for themselves and their team members.

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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!

Benefits

Leadership Freak

APRIL 10, 2024

Even optimists know sunny skies grow dark quickly. Plans derail. Teams implode. Results disappoint. Talent moves on. Mistakes escalate. Crisis erupts. Skillful leaders turn challenges into opportunities. Here are the 10 simplest ways to turn challenges into opportunities that I can think of this morning.

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Leadership Development 98

BetterUp

APRIL 10, 2024

Feeling drained? Learning how to increase your energy and motivation is important. Here are 7 seven reasons why you may feel sluggish and 21 strategies to help.

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Energy 98

BetterUp

APRIL 10, 2024

Time blocking can be a helpful time management strategy. Keep reading for the best tips and tricks you need to organize your day for maximum productivity.

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Manager 98

Alison Green

APRIL 10, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. Here’s a round-up of posts about mistakes at work. what to do when you make a mistake at work you made a mistake at work — now what? how do I recover from a huge, fireable mistake at work? how do I handle a serious mistake on my self-evaluation? how big of a deal are mistakes when you’re new to a job?

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Manager 90

Thought Leaders LLC

APRIL 10, 2024

Use this common budgeting technique to set goals that are more relevant and actionable. When you’re setting goals, you can borrow a technique from a common budgeting process called zero-based budgeting. What you do is look at last year, forget about it, and then look at where you are today and what you can achieve going forward. Every dollar you’re going to spend in the budget is justified.

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Alison Green

APRIL 10, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. Is the kiss emoji appropriate at work? This is a low-stakes question, but I keep wondering: Is the kiss emoji 😘 ever appropriate in work communication? Most of our team are in our thirties and forties. Our work environment is fairly informal — few emails, but lots of Slack messages, so of course emojis are everywhere.

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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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Ascend

APRIL 10, 2024

When you’re selling, every word you write on your website, in prospecting emails or in newsletters matters. If you say the wrong thing, you won’t get results. Sounds pretty simple, but there are some phrases I constantly see that are a total turn-off to prospects. As a small business owner, I get a lot of people trying to sell me stuff. Almost all of them – way more than 50% - say pretty much the exact same thing.

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Alison Green

APRIL 10, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I’m hoping you can help me with this conundrum. This situation is complicated by the fact that this is a family business, and all employees are my relatives and/or their romantic partners, but we have virtual assistant team members (independent contractors or third party services) who are party to these conversations.

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Manager Operations 86

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2024

There’s no formula for the difficult moments managers face, but there are questions you should consider.

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Manager 94

AIHR

APRIL 10, 2024

As author Roy Bennett said, “There is no better investment than investing in yourself,” and that is certainly true when it comes to investing in a global HR certification that can unlock your earning potential and expand your career prospects. In fact, studies have shown HR professionals with global human resources certifications typically enjoy double-digit salary increases.

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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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2024

Sponsor content from Alteryx.

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Viima

APRIL 10, 2024

John Bessant has been at the forefront of helping educate us all on innovation for decades. Needless to say, it is a great honor to have John join Colin Nelson, the new co-host of The Innovation Room podcast, for this conversation. John has dedicated over 40 years to research and consultancy in technology and innovation management. John has advised various national governments and international organizations, including the United Nations, The World Bank, and the OECD.

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Banking Government Education Manager 59

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2024

If you’re navigating a merger, this episode is for you.

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Government Operations 84

Help Scout Leadership

APRIL 10, 2024

Learn what customer experience KPIs are, plus nine we think are worth tracking for almost any team.

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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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BetterUp

APRIL 10, 2024

Jump to section What are defense mechanisms?

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