Tue.Oct 31, 2023

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10 Ways to Prove You’re a Strategic Thinker

Harvard Business Review

To get ahead in the business world, it’s not enough to think stategically. You also have to effectively communicate those ideas. There are several ways to do this, including elevating the conversation to focus on the big picture and broader context, being forward-looking in your comments, anticipating the effects of potential decisions, connecting disparate concepts, simplifying complex issues, using metaphors and analogies, stimultating dialogue with questions, showing you are informed, activel

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Report: Association Execs Have Long-Term Concerns About Economy, AI, More

Association Now Leadership

A newly released McKinley Advisors report identified the five most prominent trends facing executives in the next decade. Association leaders will face challenges in five key areas across the next decade, according to a new survey. Earlier this year, association consultancy McKinley Advisors asked association executives, “What major trends or changes do you expect to occur within the field or industry your association represents over the next five to 10 years?

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Keep Your Team Motivated When a Project Goes Off the Rails

Harvard Business Review

A key part of your job as project leader is to keep your team motivated and on track when things start to go sideways. In this article, the author outlines practical strategies to try if you need to boost your team’s morale: 1) Re-establish or re-define the project purpose, goals, and vision. 2) Involve the team in trouble-shooting and defining the path forward. 3) Help remove obstacles. 4) Understand what motivates different team members. 5) Connect regularly as a team. 6) Celebrate small wins

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How to Win with Pattern Recognition

Scott Elbin

How often do you stop what you’re doing to step back, pull up and look at the patterns of what’s going on in your environment, and ask questions like what’s working, what’s not, and what’s next? The most effective senior leaders I work with take the time and make the effort to regularly engage in a practice of pattern recognition and analysis. Doing that puts them ahead of competitors who don’t by identifying new opportunities to leverage and avoiding being blindsided by emerging trends.

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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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How to Create Company Values That Actually Resonate

Harvard Business Review

Too many statements of corporate values are generic business cliches. Is it any wonder few employees can actually remember them? To fix that, companies should write core values that stand apart, using literary techniques (such as alliteration or rhyme), short and simple phrases, or unusual words that will stick in employees’ memories.

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LeadershipNow 140: October 2023 Compilation

Michael McKinney

Here is a selection of Posts from October 2023 that you will want to check out: The One Trait Every Leader Should Eliminate by @LollyDaskal Toward a Better Model for Leader Development by @artpetty How The Right Values Help Increase Your Wellbeing by @LaRaeQuy The Art of Unlearning by @samchand People Skills: Responding to Disrespect With Dignity by @KateNasser Are High Performers More at Risk of Burnout?

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5 Simple Rules for the Day

Leadership Freak

Treat yourself with more respect than a squirrel. Stop chasing the next nut. Choose how you show up. 5 simple rules.

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When Your Savings Account Is Also a Lottery Ticket

Kellogg Insight

Prize-linked savings accounts can be more enticing to customers than interest rates—and banks like them, too.

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3 Obstacles to Regulating Generative AI

Harvard Business Review

Governments are coming out with new laws and regulations aimed at containing the risks posed by generative AI. They won’t work because they won’t be able to overcome three obstacles. A better approach is to regulate the development processes used to develop generative AI and to embed laws within software systems.

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How To Grow Your Company Into Unicorn Status

Eric Jacobson

Why do some young companies become unicorns ( a privately held startup company with a value of over $1 billion) , while others don’t? The book, What a Unicorn Knows , offers a field-tested approach to delivering superior customer value and reaching unicorn status by removing the potential inhibitors to organizational scale and speed. Those inhibitors include these four primary forces: Drag Inertia Friction Waste Drawing on a mastery of lean-based methods for achieving maximum effect with minimum

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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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28 Ways to Humanize Work

Agile42

As the world becomes more interconnected, people now have job opportunities across the globe. A successful career is no longer about loyalty, climbing the ladder – or even a hefty paycheck and perks. So if money can’t buy you top-tier professionals, how exactly do companies attract and retain top talent? These days, professionals who understand their worth are seeking something more profound; something that money alone can’t buy.

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8 Innovative Talent Management Initiatives for the Modern Workplace

AIHR

The ability to access skills and talent remains one of the biggest challenges for organizations. Businesses have spent significant time and effort on talent acquisition and driving external employer brand strategies. Even though these strategies are still important, innovative talent management initiatives go beyond acquisition, focus on unlocking internal talent capacity, and create new avenues to access talent.

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The Big Trade-off at the Heart of Generative AI

Kellogg Insight

Tools like ChatGPT can improve efficiency at the individual level—but could lead to large societal problems.

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How Job Training Must Change in the AI Age

Harvard Business Review

A conversation with HBS professor Raffaella Sadun on shifting the mindset around reskilling.

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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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Great Teamwork: The 5 Factors for Success

Niagara Institute

Great teamwork is the hallmark of great results. Just think of what would happen if great teamwork happened across all teams in an entire organization. In the pursuit of obtaining just that, Google set out to understand what factors led to team success so that they could replicate it across all teams at Google.

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In a Warming U.S., Smaller Manufacturers Are Feeling the Heat

Kellogg Insight

Smaller firms struggle in the face of temperature shocks, while larger ones are less affected—a trend that is driving industry consolidation.

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3 Ways HR Leaders Can Prepare for the Future We Want to Create - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM PAYLOCITY

Harvard Business Review

Sponsor content from Paylocity.

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546 | Transitioning from a Small Business Leader into a Chief Behavior Leader

Chris LoCutro

Hey there, folks! We’ve got an exciting new episode lined up, and I can already hear some of you saying, “I’m not a daycare manager!” Hang tight because we’re about to dive into why the Chief Behavior Officer role is all the rage and why it matters to businesses like YOURS! In this episode, we’ll chat about the essential personality traits and qualifications that come with it, the journey from being a run-of-the-mill leader to becoming a CBO superstar, and how

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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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Top 5 Unconscious Biases to Avoid In Your Leadership

Lolly Daskal

All of us have biases, but as a leader it’s essential that we are aware of the potential biases that can influence our decision-making and actions. Unconscious biases are those that occur without our awareness and can have a significant impact on how we interact with others and how we lead. Here are the top five unconscious biases that leaders should take steps to avoid: Gender Bias: Gender bias refers to the unconscious belief that one gender is superior to the other.

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