Suzi McAlpine

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Chances are, by the time you read this blog today at work, you’ve already had to deal with a problem or two. Solving situations, diffusing disagreements, fighting fires. These are par for the course as a leader. You might have encountered a big, strategic problem like how do we ensure our business is futureproofed when… The post Three simple ways to tackle problems better as a leader first appeared on Suzi McAlpine | The Art of Leadership.

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Lolly Daskal

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Many of my executive clients complain that they spend all day in meetings, often with little to nothing to show for it. We’ve all been there, suffering from unproductive meetings that waste our time and energy. You may not be able to control other people’s meetings, but you can make sure that the ones you lead are worth attending. This five-step plan will help you make your meetings more effective and more likely to yield better results.

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Forbes Leadership

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

A new analysis by the Grand Canyon Institute, a “centrist think tank” in Arizona, finds that the new system is no longer focused on helping poor students escape “failing” schools.

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Benefits Education 135

Peter Winick

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

How much value does your thought leadership, models, methods and frameworks deliver to your clients? How important is it that you be the exclusive or primary “delivery” vehicle? The post The Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich Question appeared first on Thought Leadership Leverage.

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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

Scott Elbin

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

A common dilemma for the leaders I work with is that, in spite of their best intentions to operate at a big picture strategic level, they find themselves regularly getting pulled into the weeds of day-to-day details that really aren’t the highest and best use of their time and attention. Honestly, sometimes they just go there – no pulling required. That leads to an age-old question: How do you stay out of the weeds?

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Forbes Leadership

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

A new survey shows that more than 80% of U.S. bachelor-degree granting institutions will not require applicants seeking fall 2023 admission to submit either ACT or SAT standardized exam scores.

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Education 111

Forbes Leadership

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

According to author of The Mom's Guide to a Good Divorce, Sarah Armstrong, it is up to us to change the narrative about divorce. She shares tips to make this outcome the best possible for the entire family.

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Rhythm Systems Growth

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

For many team leaders, HR professionals and individual contributors, the performance review process is one of the most dreaded exercises there is. HR leaders hate nagging managers to complete them, tracking who has done what when, and following up to ensure compliance. Team leaders hate being nagged; they often find the process cumbersome with the conversations perfunctory or awkward, and the ensuing results feel disconnected from the real work of the team.

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Forbes Leadership

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Prof Jim aims to make it cheap and easy for textbook publishers to create videos narrated by famous avatars, complete with slides and pop quizzes.

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Education 105

Alison Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

This post, I get angry when I’m praised for doing work I don’t like , was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: Sometimes when receiving positive feedback, I feel irrationally angry about it. This is always when I’m doing a task I dislike. This, of course, causes problems at work when I’m doing a task I didn’t want to do in the first place and a supervisor tries to give me some encouragement.

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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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Forbes Leadership

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

On a recent episode of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, the host perpetuates the dangerous diversity/merit binary myth. Many workplaces are plagued with this destructive "diversity hire" mentality that suggests that diversity and merit are mutually exclusive. They're not.

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Alison Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

This post, I’m missing out on a lunch break because I’m vegetarian, coworker calls his girlfriend during projects, and more , was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. I’m missing out on a lunch break because I’m vegetarian. Once a month my office has an all-hands meeting that ends around 11:30, then my team has our monthly team meeting at 1:00.

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Forbes Leadership

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Social entrepreneur Rosanne Haggerty on new tools and mindsets that help communities tackle homelessness and other complex social challenges.

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Small Business 104

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

These immersive, true-to-life scenarios help people practice skills in situations that replicate job conditions.

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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.

Engineering

Forbes Leadership

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

In a challenging professional landscape, and with changing dynamics of in-person/hybrid/virtual work, managing people has become challenging. Connecting an organization's people strategy to the core strategy of the business is essential in building an effective workforce and business.

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Kevin Eikenberry

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

If you’re a leader, you’re in the change business. And if you’re in the change business, you have to think about how you help people make the choice to change. If you want people to change, you need to be more influential. And so since leadership is an influence activity, we should work on getting […]. The post A Key to Greater Influence – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Change Management Manager 74

Forbes Leadership

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Women-owned businesses are on the rise. Women started 49% of new businesses in the US in 2021. It's important to note that these businesses often face challenges when accessing capital, which proves that crowdfunding can be a powerful tool for women.

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Association Now Workplace

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The Employee Benefit Research Institute’s survey found higher demand for financial benefits and dissatisfaction with current overall offerings. As open enrollment season continues, a new study has found that employers are hustling to satisfy increased employee demands for improved benefits. The 2022 Workplace Wellness Survey , conducted by the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) and Greenwald Research, is based on interviews in July with more than 1,500 U.S. full- and part-time workers.

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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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Forbes Leadership

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Tessa West, a psychology professor at NYU who has been studying human interactions for over 20 years, has written a new book about how to deal with jerks at work. Here, she shares five of her proven tactics for coping with coworkers who steal the spotlight, avoid work, or create other problems.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

“Just-in-time” only works as part of a comprehensive suite of strategies.

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Forbes Leadership

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

For the first time, a major sports team in the United States will have women operating the entire organization's day-to-day operations. Caroline O'Connor was named president of baseball operations for the Miami Marlins yesterday, almost two years after Kim Ng became the team's general manager.

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Alison Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

This post, my boss won’t let me move to another state — but I’m remote , was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: For eight years, I have been a fully remote employee. I am an outstanding employee, even winning Employee of the Year last year. After a year of great loss, I felt the need for a change of scenery and told the entire executive team that I was going to California to see if I wanted to live there.

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Travel Manager 72

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

Education

Forbes Leadership

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Leading with respect is a choice that reveals who you are and helps your teammates reveal who they are. It's a smart, bold choice that sets a path to success based on civility, hard work, and synergy.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

A conversation with LBS professor Herminia Ibarra on building authentic connections.

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Forbes Leadership

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The Office of National Statistics reported a rise of half a million people now considered “economically inactive” in the UK from 2 million in the spring of 2019 to 2.5 million in the summer 2022.

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BetterUp

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

There’s no denying it: real-time recognition just feels good.

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Forbes Leadership

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Imagine betting on human civilization: there’s a 51% chance it doubles, and a 49% chance that it disappears. Would you play that, double or nothing? The vast majority of us would not, but Sam Bankman-Fried is different.

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Assets Marketing 85

CMCrossroads

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The purpose of CI/CD security goes beyond identifying and remediating vulnerabilities—it also emphasizes keeping pace with other CI/CD processes. A secure CI/CD pipeline allows teams to find and fix issues without disrupting the overall CI/CD flow, achieving security without delaying or rolling back software releases.

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Software 52

Forbes Leadership

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

5G brings the capacity that smart cities need to connect—enabling the use of sensors, data, analytics, and more. Critical to the evolution of urban spaces into sustainable, resilient, and efficient entities, 5G quite simply is the key to the future of smart cities.

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Zenefits

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Human resource managers deal with many issues in the workplace. Most HR managers will tell you that the task that takes up the majority of their time is dealing with employee complaints. Resolving conflicts and handling employee complaints is, in essence, the job description of HR people. Employee complaints can look like many different things, from minor complaints about workload or coworkers to major reports of harassment in the workplace.

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Forbes Leadership

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

In the past several years, psychedelic medicine has gone increasingly mainstream many are advocating it as an alternative treatment for trauma, depression and other conditions. One emerging media company is going a step further by launching a course that mixes motherhood and psychedelics.

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Chief Executive

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

After a long stretch of undershooting investors’ expectations for Economic Profit (EP) growth and Total Shareholder Returns (TSRs), OEMs find themselves in an unfamiliar role: high performers. Automotive OEMs have historically struggled to deliver the typical profit growth expectations set for most industries. The automotive industry’s high capital intensity, narrow margins and long product cycles challenged companies’ ability to consistently grow EP. .

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