Thu.Nov 30, 2023

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Speak-Up Culture | Stephen “Shed” Shedletzky

Peter Winick

Developing a culture that embraces speaking up and psychological safety. An interview with Stephen “Shed” Shedletzky about developing his own content, writing a book, and the future of Speak-Up Culture. Before anyone shares their ideas, feedback, or concerns they tend to ask themselves two questions: Am I safe to speak? And is it worth it?

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Use GenAI to Improve Scenario Planning

Harvard Business Review

Generative AI can help organizations overcome inherent shortcomings in conventional processes for performing contingency scenario planning. This article explores how the technology can do that and provides an example: a simulation that the authors conducted.

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5 Things That Should Increase Happiness but Usually Don’t

Leadership Freak

Employee happiness is declining even though autonomy, pay and time off are up. The number of people who dread work has risen by 11% since 2020. 5 things that should increase happiness but don't. 4 ways to improve well-being.

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OpenAI’s Failed Experiment in Governance

Harvard Business Review

OpenAI has undoubtedly succeeded in its product innovations, with ChatGPT. But its governance innovations have failed spectacularly. Put in place to guard against the abuse of its product, the company’s unusual structure — a nonprofit that owns a for-profit — proved unpredictable and subject to the whims of its directors. There’s a reason the most successful startups stick to best practice: A more traditional governance structure would help OpenAI to scale while making the development of its tec

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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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A Better Way to Measure Customers’ Willingness to Pay

Kellogg Insight

Determining what customers will spend on your product is one of marketing’s oldest challenges. But “current methods don’t consider context and competition the way they should.

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Creative Strategies for Recruiting Talent During a Labor Shortage

Harvard Business Review

The growing challenge of labor shortages across various industries has highlighted the need for innovative recruitment approaches to bridge the gap between job openings and the available workforce. This article explores the concept of creative recruitment marketing efforts and its potential to address labor shortages by effectively reaching untapped talent pools, diversifying the talent pipeline, and aligning company values with purpose-driven candidates.

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We Asked, You Answered: What Will You Stop Doing in 2024?

Association Now Leadership

In our latest poll, we asked readers to share the bad habits they plan to break next year. From saying no more, to taking time to recharge and decompress, to only doing things that bring them joy, it’s clear that association pros are ready for change in 2024. What if rather than committing to do something new in 2024, you make a promise that, with the turn of the calendar, you’ll finally let something go?

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Career Path: What Is It? Definition & 12 Steps to Pave Yours (+Examples)

BetterUp

What is a career path? It's a long-term plan that includes specific jobs that lead to desirable occupation. Discover types of career paths with examples.

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Why Recycled Materials Don’t Always Generate Greener Products

Harvard Business Review

This article describes a project undertaken by Japanese electronics giant Hitachi and three of its suppliers in conjunction with the E-Liability Institute to understand where CO2 emissions were produced in the value chain for the copper used to manufacture its transformers and how different sourcing of the copper would affect the quantity of emissions produced.

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The 9 Box Grid Explained

Walk Me

The 9 Box grid is a straightforward yet powerful method for assessing and developing employee potential. Understanding and effectively using this tool can help you unlock the full potential of your workforce. In this article, we’ll delve into what the 9 Box grid is, its critical role in talent management, and how it can revolutionize the way you perceive and nurture talent within your organization.

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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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Leading Thoughts for November 30, 2023

Michael McKinney

I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Bob Chapman and Raj Sisodia on stewardship: “People come into this world with gifts and talents, full of possibilities and unrealized potential. Our responsibility as leaders is to help them realize those possibilities by looking for the talents and goodness that exist in them and inspiring them to become what they are meant to be.

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How Much Do Job Vacancies Hurt a Company’s Bottom Line?

Kellogg Insight

Quite a bit, a new study shows—and large organizations aren’t immune to the toll on both sales and profits.

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Vocational Skills: What Are They? Definition & Examples

BetterUp

Jump to section What are vocational skills? What’s a vocational skill everyone needs to learn?

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Yoga Classes? On-Site Childcare? Firms Just Outside the Fortune 500 Work Hard to Attract Talent.

Kellogg Insight

To compete with their prestigious peers, these organizations invest more in employees, research shows.

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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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How To Create a Hiring Process Flowchart (in 2024)

AIHR

All businesses (and recruiters) are constantly looking to improve their recruitment process, but they must better understand it to do this. That’s where a hiring process flowchart can be very helpful. Your people are your greatest asset, but attracting and retaining top talent is not easy, and includes many complex stages. Two in five HR leaders have said that accelerating their hiring process is a point of focus in their strategic hiring planning, and a hiring process flowchart is a valuable to

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When someone you’re negotiating with makes a completely unreasonable demand, how do you react?

Thought Leaders LLC

Our reader poll today asks: When someone you’re negotiating with makes a completely unreasonable demand, how do you react? I counter with something I can accept 57.23% I tell them they’re unreasonable and to come back with something better 30.39% I stop negotiating entirely 3.83% I ignore their demand and proceed as if it was never made 8.55% Unreasonable demands can end a negotiation.

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5 Mindsets That Drive Consumer Behavior

Kellogg Insight

“Fixed” and “growth” aren’t the only mindsets out there. A Kellogg marketing professor explains the surprising ways that our mental states can influence what we buy.

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What is High EQ, and Do You Have It?

Niagara Institute

Do you have high EQ? Emotional intelligence , otherwise known as EQ (emotional quotient), has been shown to be a factor in individual success. So much so a Harvard study uncovered that when IQ and technical skills are roughly similar, EQ accounts for nearly 90% of what moves people up the corporate ladder.

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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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Expert Power: 14 Tips to Harness Power in The Workplace

Vanessa Van Edwards

Have you noticed that folks who have specific expertise in the workplace often get new opportunities, respect from their peers, and have more influence? This is expert power at play. In this article, learn how to identify and leverage your expert power, cultivate it from scratch, and empower your team to find their expert power. What is Expert Power?

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Four Tips to Help Gather Great Insights and Supercharge Your Annual Planning Session

Rhythm Systems Growth

If you feel like your last annual planning session was not as great as it could have been, you may have been missing a key ingredient: the right data. Data is the secret weapon that will allow you to have meatier conversations and write much better goals. And guess what? The best data and insights come from the people who know your company best: your team members!

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101 Coaching Questions Employees Wish You Would Ask

Niagara Institute

As Bill Gates famously stated, “Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast, or a bridge player.” So likewise, every employee needs a coach, and that coach is you, their direct supervisor.

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How to Stop Negative Self-Talk: 9 Tips & Examples

BetterUp

Jump to section What’s negative self-talk?

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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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Words vs. Actions: Why Innovation Must Be Central to COP28 Discussions

UVA Darden

Words vs. Actions: Why Innovation Must Be Central to COP28 Discussions burtonc Thu, 11/30/2023 - 08:57 29 November 2023 Entrepreneurship & Innovation Business, Ethics & Society Sustainability Business & Public Policy Rebecca Duff Katherine Bowers 30 November 2023 marks the first day of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in the United Arab Emirates.

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LeadershipNow 140: November 2023 Compilation

Michael McKinney

Here is a selection of Posts from November 2023 that you will want to check out: Henry Kissinger, diplomat who helped to reshape the world, dies at 100 5 things that take 5 minutes and will make you a better leader by @suzimcalpine What Have You Said NO To Recently? by @PhilCooke Resilience Forged By Adversity from @JohnBaldoni Team Dynamics: 5 Extremes That Harm Teamwork by @KateNasser 3 Reasons Why You Think Writing a Book is Easier for Other People by @wallybock Fall Back to Reading Series :

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4 Ways AI is Changing the Employee Learning Experience

AIHR

AI in learning and development already has many applications, such as providing learning recommendations, curating content, and improving analytical insights. Moving forward, we can expect higher levels of AI adoption and experimentation in learning, given the advances brought by generative AI technologies. In this article, we explore four ways that AI is already changing how employees learn and propose an action plan for how HR can adopt AI in learning and development responsibly.