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The 1% rule – what it is and why it’s useful for you as a leader

Suzi McAlpine

You might have heard of the 1% improvement rule utilised by Head of British Cycling, Sir Dave Brailsford when he applied the theory of marginal gains to cycling with the UK team who went on to achieve gold medals. Brailsford said, “The whole principle came from the idea that if you broke down everything you could… The post The 1% rule – what it is and why it’s useful for you as a leader first appeared on Suzi McAlpine | The Art of Leadership.

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The Power of Perspective: Why Your View as a Leader Matters

Lolly Daskal

As an executive leadership coach, I often guide my clients on the importance of having the right perspective as a leader. In my experience, a leader’s perspective is crucial because it is what people will follow. Therefore, it is essential for a leader to understand their perspectives, as their views truly matter. There are four key perspectives that I believe a leader must have in order to make a meaningful impact on those they lead.

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Is A New Kind Of Workaholism The Flip Side Of "Quiet Quitting"?

Forbes Leadership

The relationship between American employers and their employees has been in flux over the past few years. What if the Great Resignation and quiet quitting are symptoms of the same problem? Is there something fundamentally broken in the social contract between employer and employee?

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Back To Work: Tips For Integrating The Returning Boomers

Chief Executive

It wasn’t that long ago that Baby Boomers were worried about Millennials and then Gen Zers in the workforce. They fretted about how to encourage the younger generations to be responsible and productive, and how to get these digital natives to put their cell phones away long enough to build the meaningful relationships critical to long-term employment.

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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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Redesigning Kenya's Public Transport With Women In Mind

Forbes Leadership

Kenya-based social entrepreneur Naomi Mwaura, founded Flone Initiative, as a practical effort to redesign public transportation so that riding (and waiting on) buses and trains is safe for all – with a focus on women’s safety and freedom from sexual harassment and violence.

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How To Improve Employee Productivity

SME Strategy

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans. Our strategic planning services offer guidance on how a strategic planning facilitator can provide support in constructing an effective strategic plan that ensures your strategy is communicated and implemented across your entire organization.

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Workplace Wellness: The Case For CEO Leadership

Chief Executive

The Centers for Disease Control states that “leadership commitment” is a top success element of wellness programs that contribute to a culture of health. Other research shows that CEO leadership of workplace wellness boosts employee participation in wellness activities, lowers job stress levels, and encourages desirable health behaviors. Yet, despite the evidence-based role of CEO leadership in effective wellness initiatives, most CEOs do not give employee wellbeing hands-on attention.

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How Mindfulness Guru Jenna Hermans Uses Tech And Her Book To Make Calm Accessible To All

Forbes Leadership

The thirtysomething wife and mother of four started her journey towards better mindfulness after she relocated to the Bay Area from Los Angeles. The move to a new locale where she knew no one was an opportunity for her to put her so-called “queen of calm” moniker to work.

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It Takes Versatility to Lead in a Volatile World

Harvard Business Review

Versatile leaders are effective at helping their organizations regroup, refocus, and continue to produce during periods of volatility.

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Parallel Interests, Friendship, And Storytelling Birth Education Media For Kids

Forbes Leadership

Slumberkins founders Callie Christensen and Kelly Oriard discovered friendship in high school and entrepreneurial success in motherhood. An Apple TV+ series and an impending app launch have positioned the duo for success in the SEL sector for parents and educators.

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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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IBM’s Ginni Rometty on Skill-Building and Success

Harvard Business Review

A conversation with the former head of IBM about her own career, and how she chose to run the company.

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The 20 Safest Countries For LGBTQ Travelers, Ranked In A New Report

Forbes Leadership

From the most LGBTQ friendly countries to the most homophobic countries, a new LGBTQ+ Travel Safety Index ranks 203 places around the world.

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More Tasks than Time? Spring Clean Your To-Do List

Michael Hyatt

It’s that time of year: Spring cleaning. It’s an annual tradition that goes back forever, and most of us get a piece of the action. Seven in ten Americans participate every year. You can find countless spring-cleaning checklists, tips, and shortcuts. But most of these lists miss the messiest part of our lives: our to-do […] The post More Tasks than Time?

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She Wrote A Daring And New Retelling Of The Myth Of Antigone

Forbes Leadership

A playwright and actress who originated the role of the Angel in Tony Kushner's 'Angels In America,' Ellen McLaughlin mines the complexities of family in her new play, 'Kissing The Floor.

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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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3 Essential Culture Rules all Leaders must Apply

Leadership Freak

3 essential culture rules for high performance culture: aspire, amplify, and adapt. Image a of bright sunrise.

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How A Startup Used ChatGPT To Raise $120 Million And Transform Customer Experience

Forbes Leadership

SOCi, a leading marketing platform for multi-location brands, announced today a fundraise of $120 million to develop a transformative line of AI-based marketing products and grow into new markets.

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When ESG Meets Delaware Law

Chief Executive

The words sound simple and uncontroversial: Environmental, Social and Governance, or ESG. Who doesn’t love the environment, and who doesn’t want companies to respect the communities they operate in? What’s wrong with proper corporate governance? The problem is applying ESG to the legal duties of directors. Set aside the furious debate over what constitutes an ESG-compliant company—is there any way Tesla really ranks below Royal Dutch Shell?

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5 Things To Consider When Choosing Between Colleges

Forbes Leadership

Receiving college acceptances is an exhilarating prospect for hopeful applicants. An acceptance letter represents the payoff of years of preparation and exciting possibilities for the four years to come.

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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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The Perfect Executive Team Meeting: A Step-by-Step Guide

Rhythm Systems Growth

There is a lot of pressure on executive teams to perform well. Not only do they need to achieve their own goals, but they also need to ensure that the rest of the company is moving in the right direction and hitting its strategic objectives. This can be daunting, but it becomes much easier if you have a plan for your executive team meetings. Focusing on productive executive team meetings will cascade further into the organization as your weekly departmental meetings focus on strategic initiative

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15 Traits Successful PR Leaders Cultivate In Themselves

Forbes Leadership

As newcomers to the field, rookie comms pros who hope to achieve leadership positions can and should start cultivating these qualities in themselves.

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3 Rhetorical Techniques to Increase Your Impact

Harvard Business Review

There’s a reason “your” is in this headline.

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IWD 2023: Celebrating Being Black, Brilliant And Dyslexic With Marcia Brissett-Bailey

Forbes Leadership

In 2020, Marcia Brissett-Bailey lamented “why are all our Dyslexia Heroes so white?” and, rather than sit waiting for someone to solve that problem she went out and wrote a book to showcase and feature Dyslexic leaders of color. On International Women's Day, let’s reflect on generous leadership.

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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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Too Many Employees Cash Out Their 401(k)s When Leaving a Job

Harvard Business Review

Companies can make small changes that could dramatically increase retirement readiness.

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Powerful Tech Stats For International Women’s Day

Forbes Leadership

For International Women's Day, take stock and have an impactful conversation using these statistics to push forward for equity of all women.

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Internal Candidate: How to Manage Their Hiring Process

BetterUp

Jump to section What’s an internal candidate? What’s the difference between internal versus external hiring?

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Are Customers Or Employees More Important?

Forbes Leadership

Traditionally the mantra in business has been that the customer always comes first. Is that really the best approach though?

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Growth is not about post-its, it's about results!

Growth Hacker

As far as credentials go, Sid Apaya has a storied trajectory: worked as an Enterprise Transformation Lead at Nestlé, Brand Manager at Kraft Foods, General Manager at JM Smucker Co., Partner in Venture Accelerator EVA, and Global Director of Innovation at TerraCycle. Such experiences building and growing businesses have taught Sid timeless lessons on business innovation, growth strategies, and experiments that we had the pleasure to listen to (and learn from) during a fireside chat with our commu

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Do You Want Perfect Solutions For What To Say In Touchy Situations?

Forbes Leadership

Occasionally, you’ll find yourself in a conversation when someone starts to share gossip. Of course, you can just make an excuse to leave the conversation. But if you can’t do that—say, you’re in a business meeting—here are some alternatives that typically bring the gossip to a halt.

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Employee Net Promoter Score: The Ultimate Guide For HR 

AIHR

Employee Net Promoter Score (eNPS) is a powerful tool that helps companies measure and improve employee satisfaction and engagement. It is a simple yet effective metric that allows companies to assess how likely their employees are to recommend their organization as a great place to work. This article will unpack how to calculate eNPS, analyze the data and strategies to help improve your company’s eNPS.

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Interested In Feminist Philanthropy? Consider Attending These Events In 2023

Forbes Leadership

The feminist philanthropy sector is back in action, gathering and celebrating the work that has been done and still can be done to achieve global gender equality.

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512 | What I’ve Learned From Helping Toxic People

Chris LoCutro

After 10 years of leading people through an in-depth, discovery process of themselves, our Next-Level Life event, I’ve learned that a lot of people are hurting and discouraged. I’ve also found some great perspectives that can help us to get unstuck and move forward! The problem is that it’s really easy to blame others, our circumstances, or past failures for not getting ahead in life.

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Maine Looks At Waiver That Would Cut Four-Year College Tuition In Half

Forbes Leadership

Lawmakers in Maine are considering a new bill that would waive up to 50% of tuition expenses for up to four years for upcoming high school graduates in the state. The bill, LD 512, establishes two types of tuition waivers for students who enroll at a campus of the University of Maine System.