Thu.Nov 03, 2022

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Breaking Away From the Preconceived | Zale Mednick

Peter Winick

Moving into new ventures and exploring modalities. An interview with Zale Mednick about becoming a podcaster and developing a book from the themes in the podcast. We all have preconceived views of what life should be but don’t have to feel like we are just going through the motions because they are scripted for us. At some point the steps we take should be a conscious choice and not simply the choice we believe needs to be the next one on that tradition path.

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Shaping Education For Young Entrepreneurs On A Case-By-Case Basis

Forbes Leadership

Bryan Legend of Safuu chose to educate himself through numerous business ventures and recently made a name for himself in the cryptocurrency and decentralized finance (Defi) industries. His success has led to being named Money Central's 2021 Tech Leader of the Year.

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More Hours In The Day Would Make You a Better Leader—Here’s How to Get Them

Chief Executive

Jorge Gonzalez has a great track record as the CEO of City National Bank in Miami. Even when the business is going very well, he encourages his leaders to get out of their comfort zone and keep asking, “How can we do even better?” His organization is not as large as the huge national banks. He feels this size differential can actually be an advantage in terms of increased nimbleness, creativity and responsiveness to customers.

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Former Public School Teachers Are Earning More As Education Entrepreneurs

Forbes Leadership

Entrepreneurship is inherently risky, and many startup businesses fail, but the demand for personalized educational services is high and the financial reward can be significant.

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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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Socratic Dialog Method: How philosophy can help your teams and your organization

Management30 Leadership

What is the Socratic Method and how can it help today's agile leaders? Read on to learn when to use the Socratic Dialog Method and how to best conduct such. The post Socratic Dialog Method: How philosophy can help your teams and your organization appeared first on Management 3.0.

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Meet The Female Founders Reshaping The Male-Dominated Cybersecurity Industry

Forbes Leadership

With only 24% of total employees and 11% of the C-suite executives at cybersecurity companies being female, it is past time to shift the gender balance in the industry. Two women are doing just that: Aimei Wei, the founder and CTO of Stellar Cyber, and Natali Tshuva, the founder and CEO of Sternum.

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15 Last-Minute Holiday Marketing Ideas For Brands Getting A Late Start

Forbes Leadership

While a customer who puts off shopping for gifts until the very last minute can usually find something left on the shelves, brands have less wiggle room—when it comes to increasing sales around the holidays, a solid marketing strategy takes time to devise and then execute.

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Six Mindsets That Distinguish The Best Leaders

Eric Jacobson

The key takeaway from the new book, CEO Excellence: The Six Mindsets That Distinguish The Best Leaders From The Rest , is the best CEOs think and act differently than the rest across each of six key CEO responsibilities , including: Setting the direction (vision, strategy, resource allocation) Aligning the organization (culture, organization design, talent) Mobilizing through leaders (composition, teamwork, operating rhythm) Engaging the board (relationships, capabilities, meetings) Connecting w

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Affirmative Action May Be Overturned In Higher Education—Are Workplaces Next?

Forbes Leadership

The U.S. Supreme Court may vote to end affirmative action in colleges and universities. How will this decision impact racial diversity in higher education? Will race-conscious hiring practices be prohibited in the workplace? This article explores these questions in detail.

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my male coworkers keep vomiting emotionally on me

Alison Green

This post, my male coworkers keep vomiting emotionally on me , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. It’s the Thursday “ask the readers” question. A reader writes: I am the sole female Turtle Analyst on my team (job title changed for anonymity, obviously). I’m young and new at the company (just had my two-year anniversary).

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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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Randi Zuckerberg Expands Her Web3 Footprint With Acquisition Of Meta Angels

Forbes Leadership

Randi Zuckerberg’s recently formed company Assemble Stream, Inc., announced Thursday that it is acquiring Web3 membership community Meta Angels, signaling a possible shift towards consolidation among NFT projects and brands. They will join HUG, a platform for creators, under the Assemble umbrella.

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3 Strategies to Earn Consumer Trust in Email Marketing

Harvard Business Review

People prefer a personalized message — but are also skeptical of how companies use their data. Here’s how to thread the needle.

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CEO Of Variety, Michelle Sobrino-Stearns, Paves The Way For Future Female Executives In Media

Forbes Leadership

Michelle Sobrino-Stearns, CEO of Variety, has found ways to achieve nine consecutive years of revenue gains and innovation, marking the strongest period of growth in the company’s history. The brand has been recognized consistently for excellence in journalism receiving 43 wins in the past year.

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How To Effectively Communicate

Eric Jacobson

Here are the 12 golden rules of effective communication from Paul Falcone , as highlighted in his book, 2600 Phrases for Setting Effective Performance Goals. Always remember to: Recognize achievements and accomplishments often. Celebrate success. Deliver bad news quickly, constructively, and in a spirit of professional development. Praise in public, censure in private.

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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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Research Says Recession May Help The Creative Economy Prosper

Forbes Leadership

While a recession is challenging for most industries, it could actually help the creative economy embrace a new era of growth and prosperity—because recessions often effectuate frugal innovation, suggests research undertaken by The Centre for Euro-Asian Studies. Here's what leaders need to know.

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can you ask an interviewer to stop talking so much?

Alison Green

This post, can you ask an interviewer to stop talking so much? , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I recently had a job interview where I had a lot of questions I wanted to ask about the role and the firm that were going to be pretty important in my decision with whether to continue with the process. The interview was booked for a 45-minute time slot, and the interviewer asked what questions I had right at the top.

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7 Ways To Practice Radical Self-Care When Your Mental Health Is At Stake

Forbes Leadership

Saying no and setting boundaries to unreasonable work demands is an aspect of self-care, but radical self-care requires much more of you.

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How willing are you to “blow up” to force overdue action to occur?

Thought Leaders LLC

Our reader poll today asks: How willing are you to “blow up” to force overdue action to occur? Very: I’ll blow up whenever anything slows down unreasonably 4.04%. Somewhat: I’ll blow up when something important gets bogged down 22.43%. Not very: It takes an extreme situation to get me to blow up 49.77%. Not at all: I don’t see any value in losing my temper 23.76%.

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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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Tech-Free Experience Economy Is On The Rise

Forbes Leadership

Guests want to escape real life, and the controversial choice to ban phones helps brands create amazing experiences at events and venues.

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How Executive Teams Shape a Company’s Purpose

Harvard Business Review

The connection between purpose and performance is real. And it starts at the top.

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Nine Strategies To Align Talent For Long-Term Business Needs

Forbes Leadership

To align talent to long-term business needs, hire continuous, rapid learners who are conscientious and keen to acquire new skills.

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12 Things Self-Confident People Do that Insecure People Avoid

Leadership Freak

A person who isn’t self-confident makes more work for others. Everyone needs encouragement. Self-doubters need more. Self-confident people dare to face problems on their own.

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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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Workers Are Less Productive Working Remotely (At Least That’s What Their Bosses Think)

Forbes Leadership

Workers with full schedule flexibility report 29% higher productivity and 53% greater ability to focus than workers with no ability to shift their schedule, according to a just-announced report from Future Forum. So why do bosses not trust employees to be productive when working out of the office?

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Free Yourself from Shame at Work

Harvard Business Review

Whether you dropped the ball on a project or got a bad performance review, these five psychology-backed strategies can help you move forward.

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Princeton University, Five HBCUs Announce First Research Team Collaborations

Forbes Leadership

Princeton University has announced the first research collaborations between Princeton faculty and their peers at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Ten projects at five HBCUs have been selected to receive support.

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Ask an Advisor: Watch Your Behavior, You’re on Camera!

SHRM Organizational Development

Video conferencing became a necessary staff meeting tool for many of us due to the pandemic. With the increased use of online video software for staff meetings, I’ve received increased questions about what can and cannot be addressed with employees during virtual online meetings. Our members are experiencing sometimes-unpleasant views of their co-workers’ homes: children on employees’ laps, family members moving around in plain view, messy desks, breastfeeding during meetings and what about tho

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15 Creative Ways To Market A Small Business For Free

Forbes Leadership

When a small-business owner is trying to save money, marketing and advertising are often the first cuts considered.

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Do more than survive — thrive in turbulent seasons

BetterUp

The past few years have indicated an irrefutable truth: organizations and businesses are navigating tumultuous waters. The global COVID-19 pandemic set a new precedent for uncertainty, instability, disruption, and change.

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Rebooting The Retail Playbook

Forbes Leadership

Retail rules changed, chalked up to what industry experts lable—‘because of’.COVID-19, because of surging inflation, because of labor shortages, because of supply chain issues, because of new competitive challenges—and my favorite (and most important) because of shifting consumer preferences.

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In The New World Of Work, Create The Flexibility That Suits Your Business

Chief Executive

Flexible work is here to stay in many industries. Yet, research suggests most senior executives have yet to embrace a flexible mindset toward the new world of work. A survey published earlier this year by the University of Oxford and global consulting firm Protiviti, a Robert Half subsidiary, found that 70% of business leaders expect their companies will be embracing a hybrid working model in 2032.

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When Can Children Testify In A Contested Child Custody Case?

Forbes Leadership

The decision to have a child testify is not to be taken lightly, and it is best to avoid doing so if the evidence can be proffered to a court in any other way.

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Employee Training Programs: Choose to Get Ahead, Not Fall Behind

Zenefits

Employee training programs can help improve employee performance and engagement by boosting everything from job-specific compliance training and technical skills to soft skills that are important for leadership success and employee morale. A good employee training program will upskill employees to succeed with more-advanced responsibilities. Companies engage in these programs to help produce higher-quality products and services, reduce safety concerns, improve company culture, and boost employee

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