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Happy 10th Birthday to The Leader’s Digest!?

Suzi McAlpine

Ten years ago yesterday, stomach in knots and feeling like a fraud, I pressed ‘publish’ on my first blog for The Leader’s Digest. And so began one of the best endeavours of my professional life. Writing this blog has improved my writing skills. It paved the way for me to write my bestselling book, Beyond… The post Happy 10th Birthday to The Leader’s Digest!

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The 4 Key Mindsets of Great Managers

Get Lighthouse

When you take the leap from individual contributor to managing a team, a lot changes. That's because great ICs aren't necessarily great managers. Your day-to-day is suddenly filled with meetings and you become accountable for not just yourself, but the results of everyone on your team. Unfortunately, many of the skills you learned in being great at your own job do not translate to being a great manager.

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Mexico’s President Does Not Know How To Fight Crime

Forbes Leadership

Mexico's President Lopez Obrador has embraced the military. Unfortunately, he has not invested energy and resources in reforming and improving Mexico’s police forces.

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Wage Increase Demands Up Nearly 20% in Two Years; Benefit Offerings Lag Behind

Refresh

Expectations for wage increases have jumped roughly 20% since 2020 as 70% of companies plan to offer higher salary adjustments through the end of the year. Benefits, however, will gain less ground as only 50% of businesses anticipate their offerings to increase compared to 2021, according to a survey from The Harris Poll commissioned by Express Employment Professionals.

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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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‘Acting Your Wage’ Is Detrimental To Long-Term Career Success

Forbes Leadership

You’re wasting precious time working a dead-end job that you hate. Determine what you want to do with your work life. Think of what type of job or career would make you happy and can offer a more-than-fair compensation. Then, embark upon pursuing your dreams.

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Be A Gap Seeker—And Give Customers Something They Didn’t Know They Were Missing

Chief Executive

What if surgeons could train like fighter pilots? In the realm of virtual reality (VR), Israeli fighter pilots Moty Avisar and Alon Geri had a goal—giving surgeons the chance to participate in simulated surgery through “ a visualization platform that helps to illuminate complex procedures.”. Surgical Theater fills a gap in surgical training; surgeons gain experience before they operate on people.

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the Try Guys drama, when a coworker badgers you about holiday time off, and more

Alison Green

This post, the Try Guys drama, when a coworker badgers you about holiday time off, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. It’s four answers to four questions. Here we go…. 1. The Try Guys drama — can they fire Alex? Just for fun, I am wondering if you could weigh in on a pop/internet-culture moment that’s been all over my feeds this week.

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What’s Next For Female Cardiovascular Health? 4 Industry Experts Weigh In

Forbes Leadership

In this article, four industry experts that have committed their careers to improving healthcare outcomes for women in the cardiovascular space, are sharing their stories and predictions on what the future of female cardiovascular health could look like.

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is it a bad sign if a company has lots of job vacancies?

Alison Green

This post, is it a bad sign if a company has lots of job vacancies? , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I live in the southeast but really love the Pacific northwest, so I keep my eyes peeled for job opportunities in that area. Over time, I’ve noticed many job postings for this one particular company. Recently, they’ve listed a position that would be a great opportunity for me and for which I think I would be a good fit.

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Use This Powerful Technique To Surface Hard Issues During Team Meetings

Forbes Leadership

Speaking up about sensitive or controversial issues is hard to do but so important. Unfortunately, too many professionals take the easy way out and say nothing. Instead of holding your tongue the next time you want to say something difficult, try this instead.

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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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“Don’t Call Me Senior!” Susan Wilner Golden on Age, Work and Product Design

Mind Tools Team Management

Old age… Imagine an 80-year-old man. Is he sitting in an assisted-living facility, dozing off in front of the TV, legs covered with a blanket? Is he playing soccer with his grandchildren? Or is he chairing a board meeting at a Fortune 500 company? It’s remarkable that, these days, each of these visions is as likely as the others, because people are living for longer and in very different ways.

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Stepping Up For Healthier Lives: Hundreds Of Community Leaders Join American Heart Association's Leaders Of Impact Campaign.

Forbes Leadership

Every year across 150 cities, community leaders join Leaders of Impact in an effort to bring the work of the American Heart Association (AHA) into their local communities.

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How Companies Should Set — and Report — DEI Goals

Harvard Business Review

Targets must be detailed to create transparency, shared to induce accountability, and accompanied by action plans to promote change.

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Fear, Distress, And Safety: Companies Trigger A Fight-Or-Flight Response In Female Talent

Forbes Leadership

If fear keeps some women in the workforce, are there companies triggering a fight-or-flight response in their employees, and if so, who is responsible for inciting (and ultimately, eliminating) the fear?

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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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Wrestling with Legacy in a Family Business

Harvard Business Review

Strong traditions can provide a sense of identity, inspiration, and direction — but they can also hold your company back.

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How Do We Transition To Clean Transportation? ‘MOVE – Mobility Re-Imagined’ Answers

Forbes Leadership

What’s the tipping point to clean transportation? Electric cars and trucks? Mobility as a Service software (MaaS)? Abundant access to charging? Partnerships? All of the above and more, according to sessions at the MOVE - Mobility Reimagined conference this week in Austin, Texas.

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How much do you trust your gut when a big, new opportunity presents itself?

Thought Leaders LLC

Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World.

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Is The Brett Favre Welfare Scandal A Case Of “The Rich Stealing From The Poor”?

Forbes Leadership

Some are expressing outrage over Brett Favre's involvement in a Mississippi welfare scandal and demand that he be held accountable for taking funds from families in need.

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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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I Screwed Up

Leadership Freak

Sometimes when you try to fix a mistake you make things worse. Yesterday, I put the wrong month in WordPress when I scheduled today’s post. I quickly corrected the date.

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The Breakthrough In VR Storytelling Is Not What We Thought It Would Be. It’s Better.

Forbes Leadership

For years, I’ve been making a quip to illustrate a principle about the power of storytelling. Leaders in VR technology have just made the "joke" come true.

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3 Types of Meetings — and How to Do Each One Well

Harvard Business Review

Before playing calendar Tetris, start thinking about when, where, and why you need to come together.

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Aurora James And Emma Grede Know Retail. Their Advice On Driving Change In The $5.6 Trillion Industry? No Compromises.

Forbes Leadership

Designer Aurora James founded the Fifteen Percent Pledge to revolutionize anti-racism in retail. Two years and 29 partnerships later, she’s routed nearly $10 billion to Black-owned businesses.

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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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how do you move away from ambition and traditional career paths?

Alison Green

This post, how do you move away from ambition and traditional career paths? , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. It’s the Thursday “ask the readers” question. A reader writes: Following up on discussions about “quiet quitting” and articles about women moving away from “hustle culture,” I would love to hear how people have redefined what success looks like for them or how people have pursued unconventional work and life paths.

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Cooking With Soul At Disney Featuring Celebrity Chef Carla Hall

Forbes Leadership

Walt Disney World Resort and Disneyland Resort are incorporating Celebrate Soulfully, now in its second year, into their experiences and as an initiative for reimagining tomorrow to promote diversity and inclusion throughout the parks.

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3 Ways to Respond to Failure: Get a Bigger Nail

Leadership Freak

Stephen King hung rejection notices on a nail when he was a kid. When he turned 17, the nail fell out because of all the rejections he’d received.

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16 Smart Leadership Strategies To Encourage Team Camaraderie

Forbes Leadership

No matter where they are located, team members in today’s remote and hybrid workplaces need to build positive relationships with each other so that they can collaborate well both in person and in virtual meetings to achieve strategic business goals together.

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4 Business Ideas That Changed the World: Trailer

Harvard Business Review

A series of conversations on influential management ideas from HBR’s first 100 years.

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Will The End Of Legacy Admissions And Affirmative Action Fix The Ivy League’s Diversity Problem?

Forbes Leadership

Students for Fair Admissions, the nonprofit organization bringing the case against Harvard and University of North Carolina, alleges that the elimination of legacy admissions will likewise relieve the need for affirmative action.

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EOS® Rock Examples: Using Quarterly Rocks to Align Your Company in 2023

Rhythm Systems Growth

It is that time again. I am working with my clients to help create quarterly execution plans with their top company quarterly rocks so they can accomplish the goals they set out to achieve. Working with one of my newer clients recently, I noticed we spent a lot of time covering how Company, Group, and Personal Rocks work together to significantly increase their chance of success.

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Bard College Receives $50 Million For Indigenous Studies

Forbes Leadership

Bard College has announced it has received a $25 million endowment gift from the Gochman Family Foundation, which will be used to advance the field of Indigenous Studies. The Gochman gift will be matched by an additional $25 million from George Soros and the Open Society Foundations.

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How to Communicate a Crisis to Your Employees

Zenefits

Your small business could face a crisis at any time. The problem could be a faulty product, service disruption, misconduct allegation, natural disaster, or some other crisis. These episodes often: Generate bad press. Jeopardize your brand. Erode employees, customers, and potential hires’ confidence in what you do. Handling press inquiries and customer complaints are hard enough.

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Let Curiosity Drive Your Innovations And You’ll Be Shocked By What Happens Next

Forbes Leadership

When Dr. Charles Townes won the Nobel Prize in 1964 for his research that would become the laser, he wasn't thinking about commercial applications. Instead, he was searching for something else.

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