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How to facilitate – as opposed to dominate – your meetings

Suzi McAlpine

One of the most common traps leaders fall into is to dominate, not facilitate. It shows up in meetings. It rears its head when a team is faced with a complicated calamity. And we often see it when assessing the merits of an innovation. This dynamic can even be present when leaders and their direct… The post How to facilitate – as opposed to dominate – your meetings first appeared on Suzi McAlpine | The Art of Leadership.

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5 Strategies for Developing Executive Presence and Commanding Respect

Lolly Daskal

As a leader, having executive presence is crucial to gaining the trust and confidence of those around you. It’s about showing people that you lead you’re a capable and reliable leader. Additionally, it’s about exuding confidence and charisma. So, you can inspire trust and belief in your ability to lead. To get executive presence, you need to develop a combination of skills and qualities that enable you to effectively lead and earn the respect of others.

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How Thousands Of Nurses Got Licensed With Fake Degrees

Forbes Leadership

There’s an old, but now fast growing degree mill industry doing an estimated $7 billion a year worldwide in fraudulent diplomas and transcripts.

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Association Launches CPR Training Program for Black and Hispanic Communities

Association Now Leadership

The American Heart Association’s Be the Beat initiative is designed to bring training to churches, colleges, and other spaces where CPR knowledge can be easily shared. A leading medical association has launched a grassroots initiative to address troubling trends concerning cardiac health among Black and Hispanic Americans. Be the Beat, an initiative of the American Heart Association, is designed to educate members of those communities on life-saving CPR techniques.

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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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Do You Want To Know The Best-Kept Secret To Improving Wellbeing?

Forbes Leadership

Research reveals that volunteering is one of the best kept secrets to improving wellbeing: it can increase positive feelings, instill greater trust in others, increase social interaction, and increase health and happiness.

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30 Thoughtful International Thank You Day Messages for Employees

Vantage Circle

Have you ever considered how much the people you work with influence your life? It could be a colleague who always greets you with a smile, a boss who encourages you to take risks or a team that works together to overcome obstacles. No matter who the person is, expressing your gratitude while acknowledging their positive presence is crucial. So, this International Thank You Day, let's celebrate these people and value them for who they are.

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Change Capability Building: A Guide to Mastering Key Skills

Walk Me

Innovation within the business arena brings about a constant sea of change, and organizations must be capable of adapting quickly or risk being outpaced by the competition. Change capabilities are a methodology for measuring an array of organizational aspects that influence an organization’s ability to affect change, along with capabilities that help identify, deliver and sustain it.

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These 15 Companies Dominate Customer Experience All-Stars

Forbes Leadership

With parent companies limited to three brands in our top 300 Customer Experience All-Stars lists, these are the companies that would have had more than three, led by Apple (9) and several companies with 6.

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my boyfriend’s manager told me I could date someone better

Alison Green

This post, my boyfriend’s manager told me I could date someone better , was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: My boyfriend, “Joe,” and I work in different divisions for the same company and for the last two years it’s been wonderful. That is … until two days ago when I was blindsided by my boyfriend’s new supervisor.

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EdTech Startup Robin Pioneers Human-Centric Solutions To Mental Health

Forbes Leadership

Focused on creating human connectedness among student communities, Robin’s programs proactively counter the loneliness epidemic head-on, while promoting life-critical skills such as resilience, forgiveness and self affirmation for students across age, gender, and racial brackets.

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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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Problem Analysis In HR: 5 Problem-Solving Techniques

AIHR

Problem analysis is an essential Human Resource discipline that contributes to organizational agility and helps drive business results. In order for your business to stay ahead of the curve, your team must conduct regular problem analysis in HR, which involves evaluating HR-related issues and proposing resolutions. By proactively identifying areas for improvement and implementing practical solutions, HR professionals can understand situations that are preventing the business from advancing and t

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Andrea Tomasini on Leadership and Entrepreneurship

Agile42

In an interview with Go Solo, our founder Andrea Tomasini talks about his entrepreneurial journey in leadership development and what you can expect as you can navigate this journey. What’s your business, and who are your customers? agile42 is a provider of Agile consulting, training, and coaching services. Our customers are primarily organizations looking to adopt or improve their Agile practices in order to drive more business value and deliver better products and services, regardless of

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Remote Career Seekers Should Be Hopeful About The Future

Forbes Leadership

The pandemic has forced many employers to embrace remote work, and as the world begins to recover, more and more employees are looking for a remote career. The evidence shows that remote jobs are here to stay.

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interviewer fake-rejected me to see if I would “fight for the job”

Alison Green

This post, interviewer fake-rejected me to see if I would “fight for the job” , was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I have a question about a weird interviewing situation for a sales role. I had gone through a few interviews with a company as I was evaluating a new sales role, and the entire interview process felt standard and professional (phone screen, in-person interview, tour of the branch, and next step would be to shadow a cold call).

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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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3 Workplace Paradoxes That Will Drive 2023

Forbes Leadership

Paradox is the driving force in 2023, in which contradictory situations and facts are happening at the same time. Business leaders must get comfortable managing through paradox, especially when it comes to talent management—and resilience is the only sustainable approach.

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When Is the Best Time to Ask Customers for a Review?

Harvard Business Review

Researchers tested reminders that went out the next day, five days, nine days, and 13 days after the product experience.

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How Writing Your Obituary Can Help You NOW!

Forbes Leadership

When you create your story – or obituary — “You are giving your family and friends a gift, and it's a gift that only you can give. And if you don't give it, it's just gone. Cause we can't retrieve it after you're gone," says James R.

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The Dark Night of the Soul

Leadership Freak

Everyone descends into the dark night of the soul a time or two or three. Some absorb the darkness. Others rise. This post is about the difference.

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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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Industry-Leading Keys To Help You Integrate Relevant AI Into Your Forward-Thinking Business Model

Forbes Leadership

With the current rate of technological advancement, AI is quickly becoming a necessary tool for businesses to remain competitive and stay ahead of the curve in their respective industries.

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Why Leaders Should Rethink Their Decision-Making Process

Harvard Business Review

A conversation with Harvard Medical School’s Carol Kauffman on responding more effectively.

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EVs Are Growing In Popularity: How Businesses Are Cashing In On This Trend

Forbes Leadership

The U.S. has pledged to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to at least 50% below 2005 levels by 2030. To achieve this, one key initiative that the government has implemented is to require that at least half of all passenger vehicles sold in the U.S. be electric by 2030.

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should I tell the truth in my exit interview?

Alison Green

This post, should I tell the truth in my exit interview? , was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I’ve gotten a new job offer and have put in notice at my company that I’ve worked at for 10 years now. HR has contacted me saying they will be doing an exit interview. I already know the format will be a list of questions rating the company 1-5 on how they do things (like pay, communication, etc.), with the potential for comments to be passed along to mana

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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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Am I Burned Out? How To Recognize The 12 Stages Of Burnout

Forbes Leadership

We often think of burnout as a state of exhaustion and overwhelm. While this is partly true, burnout is much more complex.

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Coaching a Direct Report Who Asks for Your Help

Harvard Business Review

Ten questions to help you help them — without micromanaging.

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Product-Led Growth: A Path To Sustainable Revenue Growth During Economic Downturns

Forbes Leadership

In this article, I want to share three crucial points you should consider when drafting your successful PLG strategy.

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Bridgewater Associates’ Tracey Brady Yurko: ‘Learn To Figure it Out’

Chief Executive

Most of us think of a skillset as a set of things we already know how to do, right? But Tracey Brady Yurko says one of the greatest skills you can develop is the ability to figure out how to obtain skills you’d like to have and adding them to your set. Sound confusing? Well, it’s not, especially as Yurko describes the technique in this latest episode of the podcast in which, she admits, she actually seeks out opportunities to make herself uncomfortable.

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LinkedIn Attention - How To Get More

Forbes Leadership

People want to stand out on LinkedIn. Yet, most overlook a key strategy that allows them to grow a following, be seen as a thought leader or expert, expand their network, and appeal to recruiters searching for job candidates.

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How to Use ABM to Drive Revenue Growth and ROI: Part 3

Chief Outsiders

By: Carol Eversen and Jeff Loeb Part 3 - Technology and Reporting In part 2 of our four-part blog series we explored the core tenet of every successful ABM initiative – orchestration and personalization across sales, marketing, and customer success teams. Part 3 delves into the technologies available to support ABM and helps articulate how different tech stack elements can be leveraged to support your ABM program.

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9 Best Practices To Secure Your Microsoft Active Directory

Forbes Leadership

I hope this article will provide some valuable insights for fellow leaders in its illustration of a few actions I recommend taking to safeguard your Active Directory, especially with regard to privileged users and administrators.

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8 Things to Know About High-Potential Employees

Niagara Institute

The makeup of your team will inevitably vary. From their skills and their talents to their career ambitions and being able to learn from their mistakes , no two employees are the same. While you expect all of your employees to achieve a level of excellence, it may be easier for some on your team, and these could be your high-potential employees.

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Older Workers Stay If You Invest In Them

Forbes Leadership

Since Covid there has been an exodus of older workers from the labor market. This is not a one off however, so it's important that employers change so they retain this vital talent.

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Navigating Uncertainty About Your Role During a Reorg

Harvard Business Review

Five strategies to help you manage your stress.

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