Fri.Jul 28, 2023

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3 Ways to Keep Your Audience Focused During a Presentation

Harvard Business Review

Grabbing and keeping your audience’s focus is critical to communication success. What you have to say is important, so give yourself the best chance to convey your message to your audience by first gaining attention, but then, more importantly, sustaining it. In this piece, the author outlines three techniques — physical, mental, and linguistic — to engage your audience.

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Expected Graduation Date on Resume: Should You Add It?

BetterUp

Jump to section Why you should put an expected graduation date on your resume How to include an expected graduation date on your resume 8 tips for adding graduation information to your resume 6 resume examples for expected graduation dates When should you leave your expected graduation date out?

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Why Hybrid Work Can Become Toxic

Harvard Business Review

Toxicity can be an unfortunate reality of some work environments. Toxic cultures share five attributes: they’re disrespectful, noninclusive, unethical, cutthroat, and abusive. Undeniably negative as these attributes are, there is no absolute, uniformly accepted scale against which we can measure any of them. Making matters more complicated, a hybrid environment by definition means that employees are experiencing their work in very different contexts — some face-to-face, others remote — and those

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How Companies Like PetVet365 Use Performance Management Tools to Support Employee Well-being

15Five

If you log into LinkedIn anytime during the month of May, you probably see a lot of employers post about Mental Health Awareness Month. It’s great that employers want to shed light on this important, historically stigmatized topic. But what happens when mental health awareness campaigns come to an end? Should employers stop caring about their employees’ mental well-being?

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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 Believe in People

Leadership Freak

Belief enables leadership. You must believe in the people you lead. Leaders who don’t believe in people are control freaks. Knowledge guides belief.

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It’s OK to Fail, but You Have to Do It Right

Harvard Business Review

Failing once at something new is an experiment, and experiments are crucial to success. Failing twice at the same thing might be more accurately called a mistake.

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Can Dreams Help You Solve Problems? 6 Ways to Try

BetterUp

A man named Harry* is lying in bed in a mountain cabin, and he is in pain. A logical 44-year-old computer engineer, he is not the type to panic. But his hiking vacation has barely begun and already his Achilles tendons are throbbing.

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Calling Out Unconscious Bias in the Workplace – Transcending the Problem

Michael McKinney

S TATISTICS show that minorities and marginalized groups repeatedly experience career-stifling unconscious bias at many points throughout their working lives. Women and ethnic monitories, for example, often find it hard to climb the career ladder — a fact borne out in the significant underrepresentation of both groups in senior leadership roles. Minorities also report being passed over in favor of white or male counterparts when the “good” assignments are given out.

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Interview Coaching Can Help You Land Your Next Job

BetterUp

Jump to section What’s interview coaching? 6 benefits of interview coaching services Mock interviewer versus coach How do you know if you need an interview coach?

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5 Principles From Jeff Bezos’ Leadership Style You can Apply to Your Team Now

Get Lighthouse

What can you learn from one of the most influential people in (recent) history? Are there any lessons from Jeff Bezos' leadership style you can apply to your team today? Not sure if you're aware of this, but Bezos made a short trip to space in 2021. He went on the first crewed flight of the New Shepard, the rocket ship made by his space company, Blue Origin.

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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.