Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Curiosity is not just a medium by which we achieve professional success, it’s also imperative to unlocking purpose and meaning at work. Curiosity about ourselves, our work, and our colleagues is the key to unlocking the significance behind our work. Adopting the mindset of curiosity with the intention of discovering purpose is made possible through four simple practices: crafting your work, making work a craft, connecting work to service, and investing in positive relationships.

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Leadership Freak

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The opposite of weakness isn’t strength, it’s courage. Your knees will buckle someday. Strength will fail you unless you consistently aim low. Boredom defeats you when competence always sustains you.

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Leadership Development 104

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Operations have always been foundational to competitive advantage, but the nature of this relationship is shifting: Historically, the strategic goal of operations was to achieve scale in order to create a sustainable efficiency advantage. In recent years, winners have focused more on ensuring their operations and strategies were adaptive to changing and unforeseen circumstances, with resilience driving outperformance.

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Lolly Daskal

OCTOBER 2, 2023

There has been a shift in how we work. Some businesses have their employees in the office, while others still have employees working remotely. While this can be a successful arrangement, it can also come with its own set of challenges. However, every challenge is an opportunity. There are new opportunities to make things work, especially when it comes to recognizing the successes of your remote employees.

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Accounts Benefits Employee Engagement Leadership Development 105

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!

Benefits

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Companies continue to struggle to design and implement a post-Covid return-to-office strategy that works for employees. To find the most workable alternative, they should focus on four factors: the needs of the work, the needs of the people, how work gets done, and the new managerial muscle required to manage a hybrid workforce.

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Thought Leaders LLC

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Feedback and recognition are critical to enhancing the collaboration and ultimate success of remote work teams. Today’s guest post is b y Shiela Mie Legaspi, President — Cyberbacker The rise of remote work has made it increasingly more appealing to workforces around the world, but the benefits are not without their own set of challenges. A lack of physical proximity can inhibit communication, tasks can need tweaking, and team dynamics can require fine-tuning.

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Benefits 79

BetterUp

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Jump to section What are business podcasts? Why are business podcasts good to listen to?

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Niagara Institute

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Effective communication is key to the success of every individual, team, and organization. However, there are many barriers to effective communication in the workplace that one must contend with, including poor listening, distractions, cultural differences, mismatched communication styles, and more.

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Optimum Associates

OCTOBER 2, 2023

“What does this person know that I don’t know?” and “What is this person better at than me?” In preparing for a team-building session I like to interview the participants. Attempting to get a sense of how much people rely on each other, the first question I ask is, “What kind of team are you on?” and I provide them with the “Interdependence Scale.” Interdependence I––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––I 1

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Rhythm Systems Growth

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Anyone who has ever participated in a strategic planning session knows it’s a lot of hard work. You have to prepare well, have tough conversations, make strategic decisions, capture the outputs in clear, easy-to-communicate formats, and attempt to capture the ROI on the time spent doing all of this by actually implementing those decisions.

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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.

Change Management

Optimum Associates

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Written by Marty Seldman, Ph.D. Recently I wrote an article on “Robust Self Care” outlining the benefits of creating a plan to manage your stress and focus on your well-being. Today I am going to continue to nudge you in that direction but I’m going to try to tap into fear motivation. I’ve often found that alerting people to impending peril, i.e. their hard work and achievements can be muted or erased by career mistakes, will quickly get their attention.

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Zenefits

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The City of Seattle, Washington will impose a new employer-only Payroll Expense Tax effective 1 January 2021. The filing of this tax was optional until Q4 2021and Zenefits is supporting this tax starting Q4 2021. The full amount due for 2021 must be paid by January 31, 2022. This tax applies to businesses operating in Seattle (with some exceptions).

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Compensation Accounts Operations 52

Optimum Associates

OCTOBER 2, 2023

How to Strengthen an Essential Leadership Skill Written by Marty Seldman, Ph.D. About 20 years ago, I was engaged in a discussion about Organization Savvy with an AutoNation senior executive. At one point he said to me, proudly, “My father was a walking lie detector”. He went on to explain how his father leveraged that skill to build a very successful group of car dealerships.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Sponsor content from Schneider Electric.

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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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Optimum Associates

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The Poker Skill that will Elevate Your Social IQ and Your Value to an Organization Written by Marty Seldman, Ph.D. “Show me your eyes and you may as well show me your cards” Doyle “Dolly” Brunson, Two Time World Poker Champ “People will TELL you how to Sell Them” Tom Hopkins, Elite Sales Trainer The Golden Rule, “Treat people the way you want to be treated.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2023

A senior leader must make a big decision for her career.

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Optimum Associates

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Finding the Right Balance in How Much You care About Other People’s Approval Written by Marty Seldman, Ph.D. How concerned are you about other people’s judgements regarding your decisions, performance, or values? Their disapproval may matter to you more than you realize. Neuroscientists have pointed out that our brains are often “velco” for negatives and “teflon” for positives.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Sponsor content from Amazon Business.

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Digital Transformation Operations Manager 82

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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Optimum Associates

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Shining Light on the Impact of “Unconscious Favoritism” Written by Marty Seldman, Ph.D. The Halo Effect is a term that sounds good but when it is present on a team or in a family, there is widespread damage. Definition: A beneficiary of the Halo Effect receives UNDESERVED (not earned) recognition, attention or rewards and may avoid consequences for not following policies, breaking rules, or achieving poor results.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Challenging Times Often Require a More Proactive Corporate Strategy Does your leadership team tend to focus on the immediate issues in front of them (a reactive corporate strategy) or do they pause and look for new opportunities (a proactive corporate strategy)? Our leadership simulation assessment data tells us that leaders need to do both. A proactive corporate strategy is required to effectively rethink current and future strategic scenarios.

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Optimum Associates

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Nurturing vs Toxic to Yourself Written by Marty Seldman, Ph.D. In the previous article the focus was on how other people treat us. We saw that while we can’t control, we can influence their behavior towards us. In addition, if we leverage our abilities to choose our focus and self-talk, we can minimize the undesirable impact of toxic people. Now we are going to revisit the same concepts of Nurturing and Toxic behavior but we are going to examine the consequences of how we treat ourselves.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for a highly customized Strategy Session for Hospital Leadership to create leadership team alignment and focus.

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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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BetterUp

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Jump to section What’s creative thinking?

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Chris LoCutro

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Hey there folks! Today we’re going to see if we get our teams away from combativeness to working in collaboration, and trust me when we say it can make a world of difference in the workplace! Have you ever been in a workplace where team members just can’t seem to get along? I bet many of us have been in that not-so-fun world of combativeness. We all have this natural tendency to go into competitive mode, but if we want to nurture collaboration, we’ve got to switch gears.

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Optimum Associates

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Available Anytime and Yours for Free Written by Marty Seldman, Ph.D. One way for a product or pill to achieve $1Trillion in sales is for one billion people to each pay $1,000 to obtain it. What I’m going to recommend and describe today is not a product or pill, it’s a practice: Slow, controlled, focused breathing. Once mastered and blended into your daily routines this practice greatly increases your chances of living a long, happy, healthy, productive life.

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Optimum Associates

OCTOBER 2, 2023

“You have already ‘paid’ for the lesson, you might as well take the learnings” – Tom Hopkins Written by Marty Seldman, Ph.D. Ten years ago when I was in my late 60’s, I suffered way too long in a personal/professional relationship. Not only did I miss glaring signals, I ignored actual warnings.

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