Mon.Jul 11, 2022

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Improving your Keynote Speaking | David Burkus & Stephen Shapiro

Peter Winick

Expanding your keynote speaking to meet longer engagements. An interview with David Burkus & Stephen Shapiro that originally aired on November 17th, 2021, as part of Leveraging Thought Leadership. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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3 Times Employee Communication Is Essential

David Grossman

Communication is more than a “feel good” part of any organization. The business world, the real world, employees’ worlds—all are continuing to change at an accelerated pace, leaving communicators and leaders with the daunting challenge of keeping employees focused, committed and engaged. Knowing When to Communicate. Establishing a strong system of communication with employees is crucial on several levels, ranging from major company shifts to day-to-day interaction.

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The Boom Times Are Over—Here’s What Will Happen Now

Forbes Leadership

Insight Global commissioned a study of white-collar workers and found that nearly 80% of the respondents are worried about the safety of their jobs. The fear of a recession and its effects has caused a “Great Apprehension.”.

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4 Building Blocks of Impactful Employee Advocacy Programs

AIHR

With the rise of social media, employee advocacy programs have become an important pillar of your employer brand and talent attraction strategy. In a highly competitive and employee-driven market, talent has become selective in terms of who for, where, and when they want to work. People perceive employee-generated content to be more authentic and credible when evaluating a potential employer.

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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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Rescue Your Goals in 4 Simple Steps

Michael Hyatt

While weak leaders blame their followers for a lack of alignment, strong leaders know that it is their responsibility to create it. Alignment doesn’t just happen. It is created. Here are three ways to make it happen with your team. The post Rescue Your Goals in 4 Simple Steps appeared first on Full Focus.

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my employee didn’t want the post-baby flexibility I arranged for her

Alison Green

This post, my employee didn’t want the post-baby flexibility I arranged for her , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: One of the people on my team announced she was pregnant. I was thrilled for her and wanted to be a supportive manager. Our company is too small to qualify for FMLA but we do have our own program that allows for 12 weeks of paid medical leave.

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Best Interview Questions to Ask Job Candidates – Loyalty

Refresh

This is part seven of a 12-part series. Creating a successful and productive team starts with finding great employees who fit your organizational culture. And while you may receive hundreds of job applications and interested parties, narrowing down the talent pool to hire the right candidate for the job goes beyond what hiring managers can surmise by reading cover letters and applicants’ resumes, especially when studies show 85% of applicants lie on their resumes.

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Developing A Unique Value Proposition

Chief Outsiders

In my previous blog post “ Unique Value Propositions And Their Necessity For Success ”, I provided examples of value propositions in the Healthcare and Technology industries my teams and I developed. As I noted, “A value proposition must focus on features and benefits that make the product unique, and are sustainable over time. A powerful value proposition lets customers truly understand the value of your company's products and services.

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How Shaklee Improves The Health Of People And Planet One Product – And Tree – At A Time

Forbes Leadership

On a mission At 35, after working as an investment banker, a global financier, and founder and CEO of Beauty.com, Barnett had achieved a level of success that would enable him to put into motion his plan to buy a company and harness “business as a force for change.”.

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Why Skills-First Hiring Is Better Than Traditional Hiring Models

Zenefits

The pandemic made organizations all around the country rethink their hiring strategies. With labor shortages happening in conjunction with the great resignation, it started a necessary change by shifting to skills-first hiring that has already begun to benefit companies and employers everywhere. However, this skills-first hiring is not a new concept.

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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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6 Experts Weigh In On The Present And The Future Of Mental Health

Forbes Leadership

Anxiety is the most common mental health disorder in the U.S., with the annual overall healthcare expenditure associated with anxiety disorders being estimated at $1,657 per person and the total direct medical expenditure estimated at approximately $33.71 billion in 2013.

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Easy Steps Toward Becoming a Magnetic Leader

Thought Leaders LLC

Magnetic leaders have a line of people waiting to work for them. What sets these leaders apart? Authenticity, vision, and resilience are three good first steps. Today’s post is by Roberta Matuson, author of The Magnetic Leader ( CLICK HERE to get your copy). Lots of people believe it takes years for someone to become a magnetic leader. Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World.

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How To Motivate People To Follow Through On Their Commitments

Forbes Leadership

One big issue you would inevitably encounter as a founder, team leader, and business owner, in general, is the fact that a lot of people would make commitments to you that they don’t fulfill wholeheartedly. In this article, we provide three tips on how to avoid this problem.

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updates: my coworker cried and called me militant, and more

Alison Green

This post, updates: my coworker cried and called me militant, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. Here are three updates from past letter-writers. 1. My coworker cried and called me militant. Turns out Jane was only the tip of a very dysfunctional, toxic iceberg filled with bullies and handled really badly by upper management.

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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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Principal’s Club Offers Stability To A Fragile Education Ecosystem

Forbes Leadership

A recent Wallace Foundation reports how a National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) survey revealed that four out of ten principals expect to leave the profession in the next three years. The Principal's Club, headed up by Dr. Omega W. Wilson , looks to provide an answer.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 11th, 2022

High Scalability

Never fear, HighScalability is here! Every cell a universe. Most detailed image of a human cell to date. @microscopicture. Other images considered: one byte of RAM in 1946 ; visual guide on troubleshooting Kubernetes ; Cloudflare using lava lamps to generate cryptographic keys ; 5MB of data looked like in 1966. My Stuff: Love this Stuff? I need your support on Patreon to help keep this stuff going.

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A Real Estate CSO Discusses The Outlook For The Housing Market, Innovation, And The Magic Of Big Data

Forbes Leadership

The job I’ve taken on with my colleagues is less about disruption, and more about staying laser-focused on how to improve the experience of conducting business. That focus will inevitably lead to both innovation and, in the end, positive disruption for consumers and those in the value chain.

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What if You Smelled Like Your Attitude

Leadership Freak

When someone has a bad attitude, we say their attitude stinks. What if you literally smelled like a skunk when you had a bad attitude? Ellysan, one of our granddaughters, couldn’t pronounce skunk.

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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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Unfinished Business: Revisiting The Stories That Endure

Forbes Leadership

Jen Maxfield, veteran Emmy-winning broadcast journalist, wasn’t satisfied leaving behind some of the most affecting stories she covered in her decades-long career. So she went back.

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Build Learning into Your Employees’ Workflow

Harvard Business Review

Developing employees’ skills doesn’t have to be disruptive. In fact, research suggests it shouldn’t be.

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The Queens Of Crypto: Mavion’s Michelle Reeves

Forbes Leadership

Mavion's first fashion collaboration kicks off this week with Rebecca Minkoff, who has developed a line of unique accessories and 55 one of a kind items that can only be accessed through an NFT collection that drops July 14th.

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enneagrams in hiring, sheer blouses at work, and more

Alison Green

This post, enneagrams in hiring, sheer blouses at work, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Using enneagrams in hiring. Recently a coworker told us that his spouse’s workplace uses enneagrams for hiring decisions. They like to have a certain amount of “numbers” making up their teams (e.g, if a “2” quits, they try to hire another qualified “2” for that position).

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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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Student Well-Being At Forefront Of Education Sector

Forbes Leadership

Recent report points to an April Institute of Education Sciences survey, indicating that 70% of public schools have seen increased mental health services sought by students.

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The X Factor in Crafting New CXO Roles Successfully

Instead Knowledge

CXO roles have proliferated in recent decades, making it difficult for some title holders to find their footing in an ever-changing C-suite landscape.

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How Stepping Up To Conflict Boosts Your Leadership Effectiveness

Forbes Leadership

Effective leaders don’t shy away from conflict. In fact, they step up and deal with it head-on by modeling behaviors that promote trust, collaboration, and inclusion. Here's some expert advice.

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How One Health Plan Reduced Disparities in Medication Adherence

Harvard Business Review

SCAN Health Plan reduced the gap by 35% — the equivalent of roughly 700 more Black and Hispanic members taking their medications as prescribed.

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Hey Tech Lady: How A Great Mentor Changed My Career — And My Life

Forbes Leadership

Finding a genuine mentor can be invaluable to your career. So be sure to tell your mentors how much they mean to you. Think of it as reverse encouragement, to keep the mentorship coming.

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my bosses want our remote team to work out together 3 times a week

Alison Green

This post, my bosses want our remote team to work out together 3 times a week , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I work for a very large multi-national publicly traded company. The job itself is great — clear expectations, strong management, excellent IT services, market appropriate pay, and a very generous benefits package.

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‘It’s What You Know, Not How You Acquired It’

Forbes Leadership

Over 20 years ago, SkillSurvey started to pursue the idea of improving reference-checking in hiring processes, including the elimination of bias. To date, the platform has been used by over 50 million applicants and over 4,500 employers.

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CEO Confidence Drops To Decade Low In July Amid Growing Fears Of Recession

Chief Executive

When it comes to the chances of the U.S. economy soon falling into recession, the growing consensus among the nation’s CEOs is yes. And that’s taking a big toll on their outlook for the year to come. Chief Executive ’s July reading of CEO Confidence Index shows the leading indicator at 5.1 out of 10, down 8 percent since June alone—and down 26 percent from where it began the year.

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Women’s Post-Pandemic Health Sharply Contrasts Men’s, New CVS Health Study Reveals

Forbes Leadership

CVS Health’s 2022 Health Care Insights Study finds that female U.S. consumers are very interested in engaging health care providers in discussions about their holistic health, mental health, and physical health goals, although women post-pandemic struggle more with mental health, anxiety, etc.

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dealing with domestic abuse in the workplace

Alison Green

This post, dealing with domestic abuse in the workplace , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. This is a reprint of a post from 2012. Someone recently suggesting reprinting it annually and I think it’s a good idea. In a post about what to do if an employee is being abused at home , commenter Marie left the following comment, which I thought was so powerful that I wanted to post it here separately to make sure people see it.

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