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5 ways to influence up as a leader.

Suzi McAlpine

You’re a CEO who needs to get a significant project signed off from the Board. You’re a mid-level manager keen to let the exec team know they’re piling on too many conflicting priorities. You’re a front-line leader who wants your direct manager to adopt your idea. What do these three situations and leaders have in… The post 5 ways to influence up as a leader. first appeared on Suzi McAlpine | The Art of Leadership.

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Housing Market Forecast 2023-24: The Myth Of Massive Underbuilding

Forbes Leadership

2023 and 2024 will not be disastrous for housing in the United States, but prices will likely edge down with lackluster volume of transactions and new construction.

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Work Motivation: What It is and Why It is Important

BetterUp

Think about the last time you procrastinated. Think about the last time you failed to accomplish a task or goal. It could be something like preparing your tax returns or starting to practice meditation. Would you say you didn’t do it because you decided it was not important anymore? Probably not. Most people would recognize that they failed to start or complete the task because they didn’t feel motivated at the time.

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How Investing in Your Top Leaders: Keeps Your Best Employees Around

Lolly Daskal

As a leadership coach, I often work with organizations on strategies for retaining top talent. One key factor that can have a major impact on employee retention is investing in your top leaders. Here are four reasons why this strategy is effective in keeping your best employees around: Professional development: Providing opportunities for training, education, and professional development can help top leaders stay up-to-date on industry trends and improve their skills.

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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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30 Amazing and Heartwarming Eid Wishes For Employees

Vantage Circle

Eid is a special occasion that calls for expressing gratitude and appreciation for those who impact our lives. However, finding the right words to convey our heartfelt wishes can be challenging, especially regarding employees. Whether you're struggling to find the right message or simply looking for ideas, expressing Eid wishes for employees can be daunting.

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This CEO Has A Better Rule For Making Faster Decisions

Forbes Leadership

Leaders have to make decisions; not everything can be delegated. But by focusing on a very specific set of decisions, this CEO has cracked the code on making faster and better decisions.

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ChatGPT is a Silver Bullet (oh, the irony)

Chief Outsiders

I’ve wanted to write about the fallacy of a silver bullet in business for some time. Defined as “a simple and seemingly magical solution to a complicated problem,” the silver bullet – as I’ve learned in my “grinding-it-out” years in business – simply doesn’t exist.

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Millennials And Gen Z Want a Different Experience. How Will This Affect Your Ads?

Chief Executive

How often do you listen to music? Tune into a podcast? For many of us, the answer to one or both of those questions might be “every day.” Auditory listening experiences are more powerful than I think people realize. They’re a meaningful part of our own lives, but they’re also an integral influence on culture as well. Different generations engage with audio differently, and for millennials and Gen Z, audio has become a component of self-care in their own lives and a way to

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A New Way To Teach Vocabulary: Getting Kids To Infer Meaning From Pictures

Forbes Leadership

A promising new approach uses pictures that prompt students to infer a word’s meaning.

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3 New U.S. Employment Regulations That Companies Should Prepare for Now

Harvard Business Review

A spate of laws and rules in three areas — noncompete clauses, pay transparency, and human capital disclosures — will have far-reaching implications on the talent landscape.

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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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Social Media Star Montana Tucker Is Bringing Holocaust Awareness To A Younger Generation

Forbes Leadership

With millions of followers on TikTok and Instagram, award-winning dancer, singer and content creator Montana Tucker is committed to using her voice to spread awareness about the Holocaust and antisemitism.

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What Is Talent Mobility and How HR Can Develop a Winning Strategy 

AIHR

Talent mobility is an increasingly important strategy for any organization looking to stay competitive in the modern talent market. As HR professionals, you know that it’s essential for employers to be flexible and agile when attracting and retaining top talent. A successful talent mobility strategy can help companies ensure they have access to the right people with the right skills who are able to move between roles as needed.

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How Introverted CEOs Can Ensure They’re Seen As Approachable Leaders

Forbes Leadership

For a self-described introvert who prefers one-on-one conversations over big team meetings, striking a balance between your natural tendencies and the expectations of transparency and accessibility you face as a leader may feel challenging.

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10 Surprising Job Interview Questions that Identify the Right People

Leadership Freak

A job interview is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get. Paraphrased from Forest Gump. Reality is more important than aspiration when it comes to job interviews.

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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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ELOQUII Partners With Plus-Size Influencer Gabi Fresh On Swim Line

Forbes Leadership

With the current news cycle poised against body diversity, collaborations like these don’t just serve to commemorate a decade of incredible plus-size swim style. They make a statement that, yes, plus-size people will still be baring skin this summer.

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CPA Group Partners to Support Neurodiverse Professionals

Association Now Workplace

The Ohio Society of CPAs’ initiative is designed to encourage accounting firms to hire qualified candidates who might struggle with traditional workplace structures. Since summer 2022, the Ohio Society of CPAs has intensified its DEI efforts around neurodiversity by partnering with an employment agency that supports job candidates with ADHD, autism, and other cognitive disabilities.

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3 Reasons That Hiring A Perfect Unicorn Employee Can Actually Backfire

Forbes Leadership

Unicorn employees possess every skill and qualification you could ask for—so why might it be a bad idea to hire one?

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The Rebirth of Software as a Service

Harvard Business Review

What sparked a SaaS crash in 2022 — and why its best days are still to come.

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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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When the CEO Ruins the Employment Relationship

Forbes Leadership

Everyone loves a good viral video, unless the fallout of popularity is your workload, your job, or your pride Earlier this week, a leaked video from furniture company HermanKnoll featured CEO Andi Owen lecturing an employee audience on staying motivated in the wake of cancelled bonuses.

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Why You Should Start A/B Testing Your DEI Initiatives

Harvard Business Review

Testing your approach with a randomized sample of employees can help you find out what works and what doesn’t.

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The Evolving Science Of Stress: How To Tap Into The Upside Of Stress While Avoiding Its Downside

Forbes Leadership

During Stress Awareness Month you may read many articles about managing stress. Many of these articles will come with the inference that stress is inherently bad. A one-sided view of stress as a negative force to be “managed” is a missed opportunity to learn how to leverage its real upside.

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How to Help Someone with Imposter Syndrome

BetterUp

Jump to section What’s imposter syndrome? What causes imposter syndrome?

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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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Immigration Research: DACA Recipients Do Not Harm U.S.-Born Workers

Forbes Leadership

New research concludes young people brought to America as children do not harm the job prospects of U.S.-born workers.

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Agile Open Canada

Mike Griffiths

I am excited to be attending Agile Open Canada in Banff this May. If you are free May 29 and 30, please come and join us! It is a great Open Space unconference that brings people together to share their latest ideas, challenges, lessons learned, and experiments around agile approaches. Hosted at the Banff Park Lodge and only $130 CDN for two days of events with food, drinks and optional activities.

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Amazon And University Of Texas Establish New Science Hub

Forbes Leadership

Amazon is teaming up with the University of Texas at Austin to launching a new science hub that will focus on scientific research in areas such as video streaming, search and information retrieval, and robotics.

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518 | Managing Unruly Team Members

Chris LoCutro

Leadership is tough, it’s messy, and definitely not for wimps! Whether you lead a business or a family, you’re going to have to deal with people, and people are… Well, let’s face it: people are messy. Relationships are messy. And life is messy too. Now, considering the challenges of leading people to grow and succeed, whether we’re talking about in the office or at home, what do you do when that person is struggling?

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Innovation Beats Competition: Why Marco Bacci Ages His Wine Under The Mediterranean

Forbes Leadership

Global wine markets are incredibly competitive but sometimes doing something different makes all the difference.

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Employee-Owned Companies: The Pros and Cons

BetterUp

Jump to section What does employee-owned mean?

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Black in the C-Suite: Here Are a Few Tips On How To Get There

Forbes Leadership

In 2020, only 1.6% of C-suite executives were Black women. Despite the odds, The Lawrence Advisory CEO Tracy Lawrence has had a wildly successful career in corporate America.

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Stop Neglecting Low-Wage Workers

Harvard Business Review

A conversation with Joseph Fuller and Manjari Raman of HBS about developing frontline employees.

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A Discussion On The Intersection Of Enviromental Justice, Social Justice And Ethical Governance, Aka As ESG

Forbes Leadership

The connected nature of our world, how we consume, what we produce, how we governance are all responsibilities we share as members of our society and our planet.

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Unlock Your Business Growth: A Complete Guide to Planning

Jackie Nagel

Planning is key to growing any business. It helps organizations set clear goals, identify the resources needed to achieve them, measure progress, and adapt quickly to unexpected challenges or opportunities in the marketplace. But when a small business owner launches their enterprise, planning is often ad-hoc and focused primarily on surviving day-to-day.