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Managing a Project? Formalize Your Follow-Up Process.

Harvard Business Review

One of the biggest mistakes in project management is that simply telling someone to do something is enough for it to get done. In most cases, especially with longer and more complex projects, assigning work isn’t enough, explaining work isn’t enough, and even planning out work isn’t enough. Follow-up is the key to making sure the work actually gets done.

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12 Things the Worst Leaders Do That You Can Learn From

Leadership Freak

Don’t pour gravel in the stew. Leave out things the worst leaders do. Ask yourself, "How can I do the opposite of leaders who struggle stumble and fail?

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Evaluating ROI on Your Company’s Learning and Development Initiatives

Harvard Business Review

Historically, the challenge with implementing learning and development programs has been the difficulty in quantifying the impacts on organizational performance. Leaders can use an approach called balanced benchmarking, borrowed from operations management, to conduct a needs assessment and apply training where it can be most effective. The author explains how this approach was applied at a firm in the legal services industry and offers five strategies for implementation.

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How AI is Changing the Role of Leaders

Lolly Daskal

In a world increasingly influenced by artificial intelligence (AI), the role of leaders is undergoing a transformation. As the complexities of technology continue to unfold, effective leadership requires a new blend of traditional managerial skills and technological fluency. Here’s how the landscape is shifting: Integrating Data-Driven Decisions: AI provides leaders with comprehensive data analytics that enable better decision-making.

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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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Research: Flexible Work Is Having a Mixed Impact on Employee Well-Being and Productivity

Harvard Business Review

According to Gallup research, workers around the world who are working in hybrid or remote roles say they experience more stress and anger than their colleagues who work onsite full-time. At the same time, these remote and hybrid employees say they’re consistently more engaged than full-time onsite workers. This presents a complicated challenge for company leaders: Full flexibility means employee well-being might be in jeopardy.

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Step Back to Press On

Michael Hyatt

Last week, we explored how Q4 pushes people to accumulate tasks, activities, and obligations. The driver behind that accumulation? Urgency. Urgency drives us to go, go, go. We move through the day at a frenetic pace, cramming in everything we can. We fight accumulation by simplifying. We fight urgency by stopping. When we stop, we […] The post Step Back to Press On appeared first on Full Focus.

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Building a Resilient Team: A New Way to Look at Psychological Safety

Thought Leaders LLC

Unlock resilience in your organization through psychological safety. Forge a strong workforce, thrive in modern challenges. Today’s guest post is b y Joshua Berry, author of Dare to Be Naive: How to Find Your True Self in a Noisy World (CLICK HERE to get your copy). In a small, dimly lit workshop, a skilled blacksmith once molded raw iron into finely crafted tools.

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Effective Leadership Transition: A 6-Step Guide for Communicators

David Grossman

Leadership transitions are pivotal moments in the life of any organization. When managed effectively, new leaders can quickly gain the confidence and trust of their teams and prepare the organization for a strong future. Yet many research studies have found that transitions are often famously mishandled. Communicators are a common key missing link in helping leaders reverse that trend.

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Let’s Talk About Our Failures

Harvard Business Review

When you feel like you have only yourself to blame, listen to this.

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A 5-Step Process to Pressure Test Your Growth Strategy

Rhythm Systems Growth

You’ve identified a potential winning move. Before fully launching and investing significant resources, how do you methodically assess its viability and refine it?

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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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15 of the Best Leadership Podcasts for Professional Growth (2023)

BetterUp

Check out these 15 leadership podcasts that feature important lessons from a wide range of voices. Learn to become a better leader on your commute or break.

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How Do I More Effectively Build Stakeholder Alignment?

Harvard Business Review

A senior leader must learn how to gain trust with his stakeholders.

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Conversational AI for Customer Service: How to Get it Right

Help Scout Leadership

In this post, we take a closer look at conversational AI, an area of AI technology now playing a large role in customer support experiences. We cover what it is, how it works, and how it can be used as part of a successful support strategy.

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Mastering Recruitment Marketing: What You Need To Know in 2024

AIHR

Recruitment marketing is no longer a ‘nice-to-have’ talent acquisition strategy ; it’s become an absolute necessity to compete for the best job candidates. Companies that invest in recruitment marketing strategies receive a 3x increase in candidate quality , which explains why 86% of organizations are prioritizing talent marketing. This article takes a deep dive into the key elements of a successful recruitment marketing strategy.

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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.