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Your heart may be in the right place, but is your behaviour following suit?

Suzi McAlpine

Diversity and inclusion is always a hot – and important – topic in leadership, and rightly so. This week I share a guest post from Zoe Dryden, Managing Director and Owner of leadership training and facilitation programme, Second Base. Like me, Zoe works as an executive coach and lives in sunny Nelson. She’s also an… The post Your heart may be in the right place, but is your behaviour following suit?

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Thought Leadership, Research, and Getting Your Data Right | Mike Ilecki

Peter Winick

Ask the right questions in the right way to ensure your research is accurate. An interview with Mike Ilecki about what goes into conducting research surveys that can serve as the foundation for thought leadership. You’re doing research for your thought leadership? Great! But how do you know that you’re asking the right questions? Today, we sit down with Mike Ilecki, Vice President of Public Opinion Research and Thought Leadership at Ipsos, a multinational research and consulting firm

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How The Best Leaders Move Forward After A Bad Hiring Mistake

Lolly Daskal

As a leader, there’s nothing worse than hiring a new employee who seems like the perfect fit, only to realize that they’re not living up to expectations. According to a frequently cited study, only 19% of new hires are considered fully successful. By the 18-month point, 46% are deemed failures. If you’ve found yourself in this situation, you know the dilemma of whether it’s worse to be stuck with an employee who can’t handle the work and is damaging to the team, or

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How to Create a Well-Designed Salary Structure

AIHR

A well-designed salary structure is essential for every organization as it serves as a framework for determining fair compensation for employees. A competitive salary structure helps organizations attract and retain talented employees, establishes a clear and consistent approach to compensation, helps organizations to manage compensation costs, provides transparency to employees regarding their pay, and minimizes the risk of legal challenges related to pay discrimination.

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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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McDonald's Restructuring: Layoffs And Office Closures Amidst The Fast-Food Giant's Strategic Evolution

Forbes Leadership

As part of a broader company restructuring plan, McDonald's Corp. (MCD) announced that it will be temporarily closing its U.S. offices during the week of April 3 as the company prepares to inform corporate employees about impending layoffs.

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How One CEO Found A Way To Reshore—Profitably

Chief Executive

Ask a sample of average American consumers if they prefer U.S.-made products and most will say yes, according to at least half a dozen surveys. But say you want them to pay a little more for it? That’s a different story, says Peter Mann, CEO of Oransi, which makes its indoor air purification products in China. “They don’t want to pay any kind of premium for ‘made-in-America,’” says Mann, a U.S.

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The Power Of Financial Resilience

Chief Executive

Many prognosticators are working to predict when a recession may hit. As that debate continues, people are facing real challenges. Between depressed equity markets, inflationary impacts increasing prices for consumers, and layoffs beginning across industries, the economic headwinds are here and only increasing. Many companies have been letting go of tech talent as well as temporary workers—a signal that wider layoffs may be coming soon.

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7 Clever Ways Businesses Are Boosting Employee Productivity

Forbes Leadership

Employers who want their staff to achieve more can’t sit back and wait for it to happen: they need to be actively engaged in creating the right conditions for their people to thrive.

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Ascendancy: Leading by Influence

Refresh

Do you consider yourself an influencer? Maybe you’ve read Dale Carnegie’s classic sales book How to Win Friends and Influence People , but do you fully understand what type of influence you actually have on others? A study found that individuals have about 1,500 interactions on a given day and are expected to have nearly 5,000 interactions per day by 2025.

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What Role Does International Air Travel Play In Innovation?

Forbes Leadership

Innovation thrives when ideas can spread easily. New research shows that the introduction of nonstop flights between destinations can have a positive impact on innovation between those two locations.

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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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Four Steps For Designing an Effective Business Operating System

AlignOrg

No one wants to run an organization by brute force. With unpredictability in the marketplace and the increasing need for rapid decision making, simplifying processes within an organization can bring some order to the chaos. A business operating system (also known as an operating rhythm) is one way to achieve predictability. It gives you early visibility into business risks and connects the organization with a common language.

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2023 Business Marketing Predictions With Strategist Zontee Hou

Forbes Leadership

Zontee Hou is a passionate marketing advisor and speaker. She’s the founder of digital marketing agency Media Volery and Director of Strategy for Convince & Convert, founded by industry leader Jay Baer.

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The Inescapable Conundrums of Managing   

Thought Leaders LLC

Management is a practice, not a profession or a science. To appreciate the true complexities of managing, we have to understand its intrinsic conundrums. Today’s guest post is by Henry Mintzberg, author of Understanding Organizations…Finally! – Structuring in Sevens (CLICK HERE to get your copy). Management is a practice, not a profession or a science.

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What Makes a Great Coach? 6 Qualities to Look For

BetterUp

Jump to section What’s a coach? What does a coach do? Benefits of a great coaching experience What’s the difference between mentoring and coaching?

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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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NCAA Basketball Champ Angel Reese Is Being Called ‘Classless’ Because She’s Black

Forbes Leadership

The celebration of LSU’s first-ever national championship is being met with unfair criticism of Angel Reese, one of the team’s star players.

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3 Keys to Crafting Your Ideal Week to Win Back Your Time

Michael Hyatt

Your Ideal Week is a football field. On Monday, you’re starting at your own goal line. As the week progresses, you’re throwing screens and crossers, running the ball in chunks and moving down the field, crossing midfield on Wednesday with your eyes set on the end zone—the weekend. If you look at the Ideal Week […] The post 3 Keys to Crafting Your Ideal Week to Win Back Your Time appeared first on Full Focus.

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Not Everyone, But Many Firms Are Preparing To Leave China

Forbes Leadership

American and European, as well as Japanese firms are pulling out.

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Building a Great Customer Experience in the Metaverse

Harvard Business Review

It offers new opportunities for interactivity, personalization, and adventure.

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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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3 Ways To Vibe Check Yourself On The Morning Commute

Forbes Leadership

We all have moments when we feel like we can’t take one more hot second of all of the hassle and hustle that surrounds us in the workplace. Early morning vibe checks often block those frustrations before they start.

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Getting a Clearer View of Your Company’s Carbon Footprint

Harvard Business Review

E-liability accounting has helped a Singapore-based tire manufacturer and a German cement producer reduce their emissions.

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Why Your Leadership Development Programs Don’t Create Lasting Change And What To Do About It

Forbes Leadership

Despite 840M results for "online leadership course" on Google, leaders are ill-equipped to confront the current levels of complexity. To make matters worse, they feel isolated. A new approach is necessary to equip leaders with the competencies to meet current challenges and create the future.

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How to Create a Sense of Belonging in the Workplace

15Five

Close your eyes and imagine working somewhere that made you feel uneasy, uncomfortable, and like you couldn’t be yourself. How long do you think you’d stay at that company? Probably not very long. That’s why businesses of all sizes need to foster a sense of belonging in the workplace to help employees feel like they can be their authentic selves, belong to a shared community, and feel supported, which impacts the bottom line.

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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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5 Pivotal Steps Essential To Create A Mentally Well Workplace

Forbes Leadership

Several experts showcase what constitutes a mentally healthy workplace and agree that there are five steps leaders need to take to create it.

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Complete These 10 Sentences Before Seeking Recommendations

Leadership Freak

Uncertainty breeds gullibility. Frail people desire freedom from responsibility. Frustrated people sniff out confirming voices. You can always find some fool to offer recommendations that feel good.

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How Professional Services Firm EY Is Making Government’s Online Presences Accessible To All Citizens

Forbes Leadership

[The report] surveyed 178 governmental leaders (federal, state, county, and municipal), customer experience, and IT professionals to uncover what, if any, strides are being made to amplify digital accessibility for the disabled contingent of the citizenry.

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Coming Soon: Season 5

Harvard Business Review

The new season of Coaching Real Leaders dives deep into leadership challenges around leading through layoffs, accomplishing your goals, and more.

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11 Key Things Part-Time Contingent Workers Can Help Employers Do

Forbes Leadership

Leveraging part-time contingent workers can offer companies benefits such as increased flexibility, reduced labor costs and improved productivity.

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Viktor Frankl on the Meaning of Suffering

Ed Batista

Viktor Frankl was an Austrian psychiatrist who spent the years 1942-45 in four different Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz. By the end of the war his pregnant wife, his parents and his brother had been murdered; among his immediate family, only he and his sister survived. After the war he published Man's Search for Meaning , a book inspired by his experiences in the camps, and one in which I've found wisdom and comfort during times of difficulty.

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How The Commonwealth Can Combat Period Poverty With King Charles III's Support

Forbes Leadership

By prioritizing critical issues such as period poverty and with the support of its new titular head, King Charles III, the Commonwealth can emerge as a potent force for transformative change around the world.

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When Should Your Company Weigh In on Hot-Button Issues?

Harvard Business Review

Pfizer’s chief corporate affairs officer, Sally Susman, shares the company’s five-point framework.

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How To Leverage AI And Use ChatGPT In Your Job Search, According To Résumé Writers And Career Coaches

Forbes Leadership

Here’s what career coaches are saying about the benefits of ChatGPT and some of its challenges.

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What Is the Fight or Flight Response?

BetterUp

Jump to section What is the fight or flight response? What happens to the body during the fight or flight response? Fight or flight response and anxiety Why try to manage the fight or flight response?

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