Tue.Oct 11, 2022

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12 Powerful Ways Leaders Can Help Their Team Be More Successful

Lolly Daskal

Great leaders know they have the power to influence their team’s success. They understand that truly great leadership is about building people up, trusting and empowering them to give their best for a shared goal. Here are 12 of the most powerful ways leaders can create dynamic teams: Create direction. Providing direction is literally the charge of a leader, so know where your team is headed.

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9 HR Steps to Create an Impactful Employee Development Plan

AIHR

Businesses are finding that the traditional emphasis on education alone has not resulted in a pool of applicants who possess the required skills. These skills gaps impact organizations on several levels, including hobbling the ability to innovate and increasing costs associated with workers. This highlights the need for HR to develop effective employee development plans.

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How to Get Your Team to Think Like You

Scott Elbin

It’s interesting to me how trends come in waves when I coach executives. Lately, the trend has been leaders asking, “How do I get my team to think like me?” The question has come from members of senior leadership teams, individual senior executives, and mid-level leaders. In other words, it doesn’t really matter what level the leader is operating at, pretty much everyone lately is asking the question.

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The Business Case For The Metaverse: Creating Value In The Next Version Of The Web

Forbes Leadership

The metaverse represents the next version of the web, creating immersive 3D experiences that evolve traditional 2D websites into a connected series of virtual worlds. Here's how companies can create real value.

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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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15 Amazing CSR Activities To Boost Employee Engagement

Vantage Circle

CSR Activities are versatile and adaptable to the needs of every organization. These activities are mostly undertakings by organizations to give back to the community. It is not required in every country. But, it is seen as a responsibility for industrialization's effect on the environment. Let's look at some definitions of CSR. They can be adapted to boost employee engagement and also give back to society.

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In South Florida, Microschools Are Reshaping K-12 Education

Forbes Leadership

Parent demand for personalized learning options, along with a collaborative, entrepreneurial atmosphere, is contributing to a surge of microschools in South Florida.

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A Look At Michael E. Porter‘s Competitive Advantage If It Were Written For 2023 And Beyond

Forbes Leadership

Michael Porter is the father of the MBA and strategy design. His ideas are Newtonian in their importance and have stood the test of recessions, wars, Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and maybe Web 3.0. His simple pentagon of pressures or areas for competitive power, supplier power, buyer power, competitive power.

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Do You See Abundance? – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

Recently, my wife, Lori and I were on the beach (specifically in the Outer Banks of North Carolina), and one of the things that we did was occasionally pick up a shell. It appeared that everywhere we walked, there were shells. I noticed that after you picked up a shell and the water washed in […]. The post Do You See Abundance? – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Fly Fishing Is Medicine For The Mind And Body, And May Help You Land That Next Big Deal

Forbes Leadership

When you think of fly fishing, you likely think of middle-aged white men. But now there’s a booming interest from successful women and fishing experts suggest that women are particularly well-suited to excel at the sport. And the "sorority" of female anglers may just help you close your next deal.

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our new admin crashed the company car and lied about it

Alison Green

This post, our new admin crashed the company car and lied about it , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I’m sending this question on behalf of my husband, who owns a small business. He had a new admin manager/personal assistant, Pam, start about a month ago. So far she has been excellent — on the ball, great communicator, well organized, and liked by everyone in the company.

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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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Oxford Tops University Rankings For Record Seventh Year As U.S. Slide Continues

Forbes Leadership

Oxford has maintained its record-breaking grip on the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, although U.K. rival Cambridge is closing the gap, rising from sixth two years ago to third.

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Inclusive Inclusivity – #MTtalk Roundup

Mind Tools Team Management

Even with the best of intentions, creating an inclusive workplace doesn’t happen by accident. In striving for inclusion, leaders may find it useful to ask themselves, and their employees, whether everyone understands their role in building an inclusive environment. They may also want to find out whether staff feel they can call out and challenge exclusionary behavior.

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12 Smart And Specific Ways To Write Better Copy

Forbes Leadership

Copywriters must write copy for their audience that is clear, educational and organized in order for the customer to be persuaded to purchase a good or service.

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I was hit on at a conference … was I too friendly?

Alison Green

This post, I was hit on at a conference … was I too friendly? , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: My spouse and I are in the same field and usually attend conferences together. Generally we don’t spend that much time together at conferences, touching base a couple of times throughout the day (often mostly via text) and then having dinner and going to the room together, but people know we’re married.

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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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Recognizing Hispanic Serving Institutions For Production Of Fulbright Leaders

Forbes Leadership

Today, the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) recognized 43 Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) as 2022 Fulbright HSI Leaders for their engagement with the Fulbright Program during the 2021-2022 academic year.

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Leading Inclusion: Three Ways to Make Your Organization Inclusive

Leadership Freak

New Book Giveaway! 20 copies available!! Leave a comment on this guest post by Dr. Gena Cox to become eligible for one of 20 complimentary copies of her book, Leading Inclusion.

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How Proposed Federal Rule On Worker Classification Could Impact Businesses And Gig Economy

Forbes Leadership

The U.S. Department of Labor today proposed an important change in how workers are classified as employees or independent contractors. If implemented, the rule could have a ripple effect throughout the business world and the gig economy.

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Is Your Organization Inclusive of Deaf Employees?

Harvard Business Review

Sensory and linguistic differences aren’t a loss — they’re an opportunity for exploration and innovation.

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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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When You Both Have Big Dreams—5 Considerations For Dual-Career Couples

Forbes Leadership

Use these questions to have a structured discussion, but give your partner some warning, and take time yourself to think about what you want to say.

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3 Reasons Subscription Services Fail

Harvard Business Review

Success isn’t just about recurring revenue — it’s about creating habits.

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What Our Avatars Say About Us In The Virtual Working World Of The Metaverse

Forbes Leadership

As the metaverse grows and becomes a platform for doing work, what role will the design of our avatars play in how we work and how we're perceived?

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7 Ways to Overcome Fear of Failure and Move Forward in Life

BetterUp

Jump to section. Coming to terms with your fear of failure. Start by asking yourself these 4 questions. How to get over the fear of failure: 7 tips. Conquering fear of failure at work. Acceptance is key.

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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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Should You Quit Your Job? Four Techniques To Make Better Leaving Decisions.

Forbes Leadership

Quitting. It's a word full of negative connotations. To be labelled "a quitter" is a powerful insult. But often by the time we've decided to leave, it's past due.

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What Kara Swisher Has Learned From Decades Covering Tech

Harvard Business Review

A conversation with a veteran tech journalist about the industry’s successes and failures.

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How To Create Holiday Marketing Campaigns That Stand Out From The Competition

Forbes Leadership

Selecting the right channels to reach your target audiences is not only important during the holiday shopping season. This process should be part of every e-commerce marketing campaign.

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How to Help an Employee Figure Out Their Career Goals

Harvard Business Review

Career paths are hard to navigate alone these days.

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Cantu Beauty's Global Vice President Talks About The Power Of Reaching Within

Forbes Leadership

Dametria Kinsley, Global Vice President at Cantu Beauty, shares more on her journey in the beauty industry, hopes for the future of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and tips for the next generation of leaders in the realm.

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how to work with clients who can’t make up their minds

Alison Green

This post, how to work with clients who can’t make up their minds , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I work as a designer and recently have had clients who cannot make up their minds. I end up going in circles with designs. It feels like an endless game of whack-a-mole, they ask for X, I give them X, but now they really want Y, so I give them Y, but actually let’s go back to X, no never mind, let’s do Z, so I give them Z.

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How To Succeed With Difficult People In Powerful Positions (Part 2)

Forbes Leadership

In addition to honing your professional skills to impress people in your organization, there are a few things you can do to gain the support of advocates who may mention your name along with the topic of opportunity.

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Podcast: What Metrics to Track to Stay Current With Workforce Trends

Zenefits

How can you use analytics to stay on top of macro workforce trends and bring valuable insights to your organization? Andrea Derler, Visier’s Principal of Research and Customer Value, says a few simple metrics can make sense of 3 of the biggest trends playing out in the workforce today: talent attraction and retention; diversity, equity, and inclusion; and leader’s data mindset.

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Leveraging Women-Owned Businesses Can Maximize Meeting New SEC Climate Rules

Forbes Leadership

Women-owned small businesses may be s secret weapon in the supply chain, especially in light of the SEC's new climate risk disclosure rules. Companies could leverage them to gain a range of benefits, while complying with those new rules, Kristina Wyatt said. She oversaw developing these SEC rules.

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The Prescription For Recruitment And Retention: Enabling Employee Health

Chief Executive

Despite concerns about inflation and a softening economy, the number of open jobs in the United States rose in July, indicating a continuing tight job market. Employers are still urgently seeking workers to fill a backlog of open positions and fill new ones. CEOs and other senior-level leaders are acutely aware of the challenge. Many are frustrated by their inability to attract qualified candidates, even when proposing significant wage hikes.