Tue.Sep 20, 2022

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How to Effectively Resolve Interpersonal Conflicts in the Workplace

Lolly Daskal

Show me any workplace and I’ll show you a place with interpersonal conflict. Every enterprise that brings people together is bound to run into differences at some point. That’s just part of life. And it means that for a workplace to thrive, its leaders need to know how to resolve conflict. Here are some of the fundamentals I go over with my leadership coaching clients: Coach your team effectively.

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Employee Recognition: How Can It Help Counteract The Effects Of A Crisis?

Vantage Circle

A simple "thank you" can make employees feel more appreciated and help boost retention rates. If your employees aren't recognized for their work, they'll take it somewhere else. In this article, we'll explore what The Great Resignation is and ways you can mitigate its impact on your workforce through meaningful employee rewards & recognition programs.

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Why Headhunters Incessantly Hound You Or Rudely Blow You Off

Forbes Leadership

Both active and passive job seekers feel like they have a precarious relationship with headhunters. Some recruiters will not leave you alone and will pressure you into going on an interview. When you desperately need their help, the headhunter ignores your calls, emails and texts and ghosts you.

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How to Leave Them Loving Your Successor

Chief Executive

Never say never! That is a mantra that every leader knows in their heart about their leave-taking. Not only may the leaving be hard on the individual, particularly a CEO, but it can also be very hard for the organization, particularly if that leader is respected. In addition, employees crave certainty, and when the top person leaves, that disruption can create a sense of uncertainty.

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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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Microbes Went To Space Thanks To Guatemalan Scientists

Forbes Leadership

Guatemalan Biochemist and Microbiologist Katherine Herrera-Jordan has already worked on projects that ended up on the International Space Station — now she is helping to promote the space sciences as a career option in her home country.

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How CEOs And Their Teams Can Prepare For 2023’s Newest Cyberthreats

Chief Executive

If you think the last few years were bad for cybersecurity breaches, take a deep breath before you consider what’s coming in 2023. Our existing defenses may not be ready for what’s in store. Bad actors are honing their existing attack vectors and opening new ones that many companies have barely started to think about. For example, artificial intelligence technology is found in everything from autonomous vehicles to voice assistants, home security, and medical devices; attacks on these technolog

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96 Questions to Ask Your Manager During Your One on Ones

Get Lighthouse

Do you struggle with what questions to you ask your manager during your one on ones? What do you talk about in your one on ones? What about one on ones with managers that report to you? It's important to understand that your one on ones– with individual contributors reporting to you– should be treated differently from those you'd have with the managers under you, and even moreso with the one on ones you have with your boss.

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Bosses Are Winning The Battle To Get Workers Back To The Office

Forbes Leadership

Kastle Systems, a key-card property management company that tracks entries into office buildings, indicates that office usage was 47.5% of early 2020 levels for workers in the office over the five business days from September 8 to September 14 in 10 major metro markets.

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Ask An Advisor: Can Employees Accrue Paid Leave During FMLA Leave?

SHRM Organizational Development

This week I received an interesting question regarding the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). Does an employee continue to accrue paid leave while out on FMLA leave? The answer is: It depends! If an employer’s policy allows for continued leave accrual while an employee is out on an unpaid status, like FMLA, then the answer is yes. However, if an employer’s policy does not allow for continued leave accrual, then the answer is generally no.

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3 Personal Branding Mistakes Job Seekers Must Avoid

Forbes Leadership

Branding isn’t just for major companies; it can also help you succeed during a job search. A strong personal brand makes you stand out and shows why you’re the best fit for the job—if you avoid these common mistakes.

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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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my coworkers are sick of me having cancer, replying to late-night messages, and more

Alison Green

This post, my coworkers are sick of me having cancer, replying to late-night messages, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. My coworkers are sick of me having cancer. I am living with Stage 4 breast cancer. I’m doing well and working full-time in an outpatient healthcare setting.

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Astonishing Business Growth? It’s As Easy As 1-2-3!

Forbes Leadership

How do you measure astonishing business growth? Revenue, sales, customers, or all three? Are you stressed just thinking about it? Walk with me. Chances are, you have a lot going on in your business. You also have a mounting list of professional goals.

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Growth or Waterfall?—?which methodology to use and when?

Growth Hacker

Growth or Waterfall?—?which methodology to use and when? Waterfall Vs growth methodology Regardless of which methodology description you choose, all of them are basically systematized frameworks intended to organize a team around a specific goal, facilitate its productivity, its tracking, execution, and management. However, when to apply each may not be crystal clear at first sight so we will break it all down the similarities, differences, and when each methodology should be applied.

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5 Black Women Share What Equity Means To Them

Forbes Leadership

September 21st is Black Women's Equal Pay Day. For every dollar that white men make, Black women are paid 58 cents. Any workplace that wants to achieve equity most prioritize the needs of the most marginalized. This article outlines how workplaces can better support their Black women employees.

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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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What is the Role of HR in a Recession?

15Five

How HR Can Contribute to Business Growth In the Midst of Economic Instability. The last few years have certainly been a rollercoaster, and HR professionals have been tasked with managing the ups and downs — from the massive shift to remote work amidst the COVID-19 pandemic to the Great Resignation and beyond. Now, we find ourselves at the precipice of a potential recession.

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How Tamron Hall Has Created Her Own Career Path In Television

Forbes Leadership

When asked how a show walks the fine line between creating an entertaining show and highlighting issues as they have, Ms. Hall responded, “We talk about the joys of life but also the struggles of life. We laugh together. We cry together, and I know that sounds cliché, but that's what life is about.”.

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Larry Fink at BlackRock: Linking Purpose to Profit

Harvard Business Review

What role should investors play in urging business leaders to take environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues more seriously and enforcing compliance?

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World Gratitude Day: The Not-So-Secret Key To Engagement

Forbes Leadership

September 21 is World Gratitude Day. World Gratitude Day is a moment to kick off (or reinforce) the message that the organization is also a community, and thus it is a place where values are practiced every day.

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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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Crisis: 5 Ways to Fuel Progress When the Lights Go Out

Leadership Freak

Never trivialize crisis with frivolous optimism. Smart people roll their eyes at Pollyanna leaders. Acknowledge bad and work toward good. The danger of crisis is magnetism.

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Inflation, Supply Chains And Globalization In 2022 And 2023

Forbes Leadership

Did globalization bring down inflation in the 1990s and 2000s, and will de-globalization push inflation up in the coming decade? De-globalization could affect inflation, but only if the Federal Reserve and world’s other central banks fail to see what’s happening.

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It’s Time to Fine-Tune Performance Management

Harvard Business Review

A conversation with Harvard’s Heidi Gardner about incentivizing collaboration and long-term customer value.

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Chouinard’s Donation Of Patagonia Is Big And Bold, But Not New

Forbes Leadership

Yvon Chouinard, founder and majority owner of Patagonia, dominated the headlines last week for doing something that no other billionaire has: donating almost all his wealth at once. His move is bold, but not entirely new.

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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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The Psychological Toll of Being the Only Woman of Color at Work

Harvard Business Review

In the face of systemic bias and discrimination, it’s critical to prioritize your well-being.

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Student Loan App Sparrow Raises $7 Million For Bid To Simplify Private Borrowing

Forbes Leadership

Federal regulations deter many colleges from helping students take out private loans. Startup Sparrow hopes to assist where financial aid officers often cannot.

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Ten Reasons You Should Have a Peer Coach

Scott Elbin

Consider this post a public service announcement. If you don’t have a peer coach, you need to go recruit one. It will be one of the best things you do this year for yourself and your newly recruited peer coach. How do I know that? Because I’ve had scores of leaders tell me so. As I’ve written here before, peer coaching is an important component of just about every leadership development program we offer at the Eblin Group – whether it’s the Next Level Leadership® group coaching program, the Next

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Building Civic Power For Community College, MSI, And HBCU Students

Forbes Leadership

For the upcoming 10th anniversary of National Voter Registration Day, Pizza to the Polls, the nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) nonprofit initiative that delivers snacks to people engaging in civic participation, will bring its food truck program - which in 2020 visited 29 cities through early voting period.

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How To Show The Value Of Your Work

Eric Jacobson

Today brings a new book and step-by-step guide for specialists, professionals, managers and independent contracts who want to achieve success in their work. Specifically, the book teaches how to demonstrate the value of your initiatives, using a simplified version of the ROI Methodology. Patricia Pulliam Phillips and Jack J. Phillips , authors of the book, Show The Value Of What You Do , developed the ROI Methodology in the 1970s and refined it in the 1980s when their first book describing the p

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University Of North Carolina Receives $25 Million Gift To Establish Suicide Prevention Institute

Forbes Leadership

William and Dana Starling have made a $25 million commitment to the University of North Carolina to establish the UNC Suicide Prevention Institute.

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How to Talk to Your Boss About Mental Health, Let’s Sit Down and Chat

BetterUp

Jump to section. Addressing the elephant in the room: What is mental health? Why is it important to talk about mental health? Go ahead, speak your mind. To talk about it or not talk about it. Prioritizing your mental health for the future.

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How To Build Resilience Within Your Organization

Forbes Leadership

In the early 2000s, leaders at the Michigan-based electricity provider Consumers Energy decided to confront a long-standing safety challenge for utilities—the expected number of workers who could be involved in accidents each year.

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How to Handle an EEOC Investigation

Zenefits

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) enforces the nation’s federal workplace anti-discrimination laws. Last year, employers paid more than $484 million to settle over 61,000 formal charges. This year’s enforcement numbers could be higher. Earlier this year, the federal agency announced its plan to hire an additional 200 employees amid a $14.5 million budget increase.

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How To Overcome Impostor Syndrome Applying These 10 Tips

Forbes Leadership

Especially if you are new in the company, new in a country or state, or part of a minority group, impostor syndrome seems to be even more common. Learn these 10 tips to find ways to overcome it.

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