Wed.Aug 31, 2022

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Creating a Flexible Change Management Framework

Association Now Leadership

Bolster your approach with a focus on people, not machines. By Marc Hehl, chief operating officer, Impexium. Leadership expert Robin Sharma describes change as “hard at first, messy in the middle, and gorgeous at the end.” And he’s right—implementing a digital transformation, for example, is difficult but worth the effort when it’s complete.

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Leveraging Behavior To Win Your Next Negotiation

Forbes Leadership

A world-leading Body Language Expert, Joe Navarro spent 25 years working FBI counterintelligence in addition to spending time in a small behavioral analysis unit. He shares his best advice for using body language to find success in negotiations.

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How to Lead a Staffer Who Doesn’t Want That Promotion

Association Now Leadership

Not every employee thinks of “promotion” the same way. For execs, that’s an opportunity to rethink how you assess staff and set goals for them. If you’re a leader, you want to get the best out of the people you lead. And it seems fairly obvious about how to go about doing that: Give employees opportunities to stretch, give them meaningful performance reviews, and offer incentives such as raises, bonuses, and promotions.

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Questioning the Quiet Quit - 4 Ways to Determine if it’s Really What You Want

Forbes Leadership

Four things to consider before deciding whether the quiet quitting moment will improve your career and your life. Make sure you ask yourself the hard questions about what you really want first.

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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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The 8 Stages of Life: What Can We learn From Each One?

BetterUp

Jump to section. What are the stages of life? The 8 stages of life. Other theories about the stages of life. How to navigate and thrive through the stages of life.

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How Netflix Is Resonanating With “Stranger Things” Fans Through Experiential Marketing

Forbes Leadership

Netflix is futher building brand resonance the wildly successful "Stranger Things" brands via experiential marketing. Series regular and noted actor Matthew Modine made a suprise appearance at the Stranger Things Experience yesterday in Brooklyn, New York, much to the delight of fans.

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Technology World Explores Impact On Student Health

Forbes Leadership

With the global EdTech market looking to reach $404B by 2025, according to HolonIQ’s research, schools will be facing even more demands in wireless technologies added to teaching models. The research community is exploring the impacts of device-driven classrooms on student physical health.

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2023 Annual Planning Meeting - 5 Step Process to Create an Annual Plan with Agenda

Rhythm Systems Growth

Did you know that nearly half of all companies fail to meet their financial targets? Much of this lack of success can be traced back to poor annual planning sessions. Perhaps you talked about the targets and set them, but you failed to create an action plan to get there. I understand - there is an amazing amount of work that goes into facilitating a winning planning session.

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The Next Time Your Boss Suggests A Horrible Idea, Try This

Forbes Leadership

Senior leaders can propose some ambitious, unrealistic project ideas that unfortunately evolve into nightmare projects. Fortunately, risk analysis can be a powerful technique for convincing a senior leader that their great idea may not be so great.

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pregnant coworker keeps saying awful things to my terminally ill sister

Alison Green

This post, pregnant coworker keeps saying awful things to my terminally ill sister , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: Hoo boy, this will be short but brutal. My little sister has terminal cancer — she has between 2-4 years left. No symptoms yet, so she’s still going to work every day. They’re a small company of 10 people (read: no HR dept) and one of those 10 is a woman apparently bereft of reason or empathy.

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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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The Founder Of Cotopaxi On How To Use Capitalism As A Force For Good

Forbes Leadership

Rather than companies placing profit above all else, leaders can also measure value by how their businesses benefit people, communities and the environment. Here are some lessons from Davis Smith, founder of Cotopaxi, about how to build a profitable business that gives back.

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Importance of a 2023 Annual Plan: 9 Reasons Why Annual Planning Matters

Rhythm Systems Growth

Leaders frequently ask me about how to build a performance culture focused on personal accountability, employee engagement, and results. According to the research, each of these continues to be a core challenge for a lot of companies. Leaders just want people to do what they need to be doing—and do those things on their own without having to be told (i.e., personal accountability), they want engaged employees (and Gallup’s research continues to show a huge drag here), and leaders want people to

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Leading With Integrity

Forbes Leadership

Leading with integrity first doesn’t often pay off in the short-term, though the long-term benefits are undeniable. Here is a story of an entrepreneur who reaped the rewards early, and has catapulted a thriving business off the back of doing the right thing.

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When — and Why — You Should Explain How Your AI Works

Harvard Business Review

Four scenarios in which companies should be prepared to explain an algorithm’s predictions.

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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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The Range Of Careers Options For Autistic Individuals

Forbes Leadership

It's time to change society's perception of how corporations can seamlessly employ and incorporate people with autism into their workplace and raise awareness that individuals with autism can be valuable productive employees in all industries.

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Quiet Quitting Is About Bad Bosses, Not Bad Employees

Harvard Business Review

Decades of research shows that workers are much more likely to go the extra mile when their managers invest in them.

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Find New Clients With Undercover Research

Forbes Leadership

Nora Burns tells us what she learned about the way employees are treated from her research project involving undercover job interviews and employment. Read her insights on the changes that must be made in the workplace.

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9 Continuous Improvement Methodologies & Tools

Viima

Not all change leads to improvement, but to improve anything, you need to bring about change. Usually, that’s easier said than done. Greatly enduring organizations have survived over the years through continuous improvement and incremental innovations. What does it take to bring about improvements in a systematic and structured way? Besides the right mindset, culture, and capabilities, you need methodologies and tools to fuel and maintain these improvements.

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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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Why Disabled Americans Can’t Take Their Right To Vote For Granted

Forbes Leadership

Don’t disabled Americans already have the right to vote? It seems like an easy question to answer — of course they do! Or they should have. But the whole subject of disabled people and voting is more complex than it might appear at first.

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How to Avoid Rude Results

Mark Sandborn

A local non profit runs drop off centers for donations. I’ve used two different locations for many years. Today I dropped off a garbage bag of clothes and a box of household items. In the past, the attendant had specific bins he or she wanted different items placed. Today there were three identical cardboard containers, each relatively full. The attendant was a man lethargically taping a box.

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When Managers Take A Coach Approach Everyone Wins

Forbes Leadership

With a coaching mindset, managers are committed to helping their team members overcome challenges, reach goals, and become more successful overall. They are invested in their people and invest IN their people.

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The Power of Wishful Thinking

Leadership Freak

I stood beside the sink and marveled while dad proved his manliness. He whipped lather in a cup with a steaming shaving brush. His face disappeared in glorious white foam.

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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 30-Point Rule, And Other Tips To Prepare A Killer Presentation That Will Keep Your Audience Off Their Phones

Forbes Leadership

You’ve got 10 minutes. That’s the span of time most people can stay mentally engaged with a presentation before they check out. This series will offer tips from preparation through delivery, helping you give a presentation that is enjoyable, informative and, most importantly, memorable.

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Leading with Confidence in Uncertain Times

Harvard Business Review

Five tools to help you plan and make decisions when the future is unclear.

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Work-Life Balance Didn’t Work. On Labor Day, Commit To Putting Life First.

Forbes Leadership

This weekend as the summer inches to a close, our minds will make the transition from unstructured days to back-to-back meetings. It doesn't have to be that way.

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Leadership KPI Examples for Accountable Team Leaders

Rhythm Systems Growth

As a team leader, you own the key results for your team, meaning that you will probably have a handful of KPIs on your list (2-3) that are the main metrics for your team’s success. For example, if you lead a sales team, you will probably have some key metrics around revenue and the number of deals closed. Your team members would have their individual KPIs that roll up, but you likely own the total number for the team.

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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN THE COURTROOM: THE LEGAL SYSTEM AS A WEAPON IN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CASES

Forbes Leadership

Abusers use legal strategies to perpetrate abuse on victims even after a court issued an order of protection or a restraining order on behalf of the victim and even after custody is resolved by agreement or court order.

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Leadership Accountability: Build Accountability Leadership in your Team

Rhythm Systems Growth

From a leadership perspective, there’s a real thirst for increasing leadership accountability. Executives have recently asked me various questions that linger over the concept of building team accountability to help them achieve their strategic plans while creating high-performing teams: “How do I build accountability in teams? ”. "How do I increase accountability in leadership and employees?

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How Rise Clubs In South Africa Are Fighting Global Health Injustices & Saving Lives

Forbes Leadership

Rise Clubs provide critical safe spaces for women and girls to access life-saving health information and offer a platform to have difficult and often stigmatized conversations while building resilience among peer networks.

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are we asking for too much work from job candidates?

Alison Green

This post, are we asking for too much work from job candidates? , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I’ve recently read some pushback on employers that ask candidates, as part of the hiring process, to complete assignments that may take many hours to do. At my law firm, we have recently moved to giving legal research and writing assignments to our attorney candidates.

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ESG Initiatives Face Significant New Headwinds

Forbes Leadership

Increasing criticism of ESG investing and related ratings practices should prompt companies to reconfirm (not necessarily revisit) their commitment to the long term value that can arise from thoughtful social and environmental investment.

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Team Effectiveness Assessment

Niagara Institute

Regardless of whether you are leading an intact or cross-functional team, are located under one roof or spread across the country, all team leaders want the same thing: to see their team be optimally effective. But what's the reality? Just how effective are you actually? To help you find out, read on to learn more about team effectiveness assessments and take one for yourself!

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