August, 2023

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Are Collaboration Tools Overwhelming Your Team?

Harvard Business Review

Today’s workers feel numbed by a fragmented, unpredictable, and overwhelming collection of collaboration tools — the very things advertised to boost their productivity. They know they’re overloaded and feel exhausted but believe there is little or nothing they can do to slow the onslaught of communication. The authors explored how collaboration technology bloat impacts employees and tried to help people take control over their work.

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4 Toxic Communication Styles To Avoid As a Leader

Lolly Daskal

When it comes to leadership communication it is important to be aware of your communication style and how it impacts your employees. There are four basic toxic communication styles and if you want to be a great leaders you need to avoid them at all cost: Passive Communication: Passive communication is characterized by a lack of assertion and a tendency to avoid confrontation.

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When a Success Formula Hardens

Michael McKinney

T HERE IS danger when success goes to a leader’s head. King Solomon wrote, “Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.” When this happens, they are at risk for what Donald Sull calls in Revival of the Fittest , active inertia. He explains what happens: Managers get trapped by success, a condition that I call active inertia , or management’s tendency to respond to the most disruptive changes by accelerating activities that succeeded in the past.

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How to speak your team member’s language of appreciation (so your praise doesn’t miss the mark).

Suzi McAlpine

I was thrilled and honoured to get a sneak peak of Lauren Parson’s book Thriving Leaders Thriving Teams, and its full of practical pearls of wisdom for leaders. This topic really got me thinking so I’m delighted to have Lauren share an excerpt from her book and sprinkle your day with goodness in a book… The post How to speak your team member’s language of appreciation (so your praise doesn’t miss the mark). first appeared on Suzi McAlpine | The Art of Leadership.

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Mastering Remote Onboarding: Proven Strategies for Seamless New Hire Integration

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

Join this brand new webinar with Tim Buteyn to learn how you can master the art of remote onboarding! By the end of this session, you'll understand how to: Craft a Tailored Onboarding Checklist 📝 Develop a comprehensive, customized checklist that ensures every new hire has a smooth transition into your company, no matter where they are in the world.

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6 Questions You Must Ask When You Start Managing a New Team

Get Lighthouse

When you start managing a new team, there's a lot of uncertainty: What do they think of you? Will everyone get along? How was their last manager? And are they a talented team? Starting anything new is always hard, and when you involve multiple other people, personalities, and habits, it ups the difficulty level significantly. As a manager, you need a strong relationship with your team, which starts with what you do on day 1.

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Outcomes-Based Financing: The Quality Education India Development Impact Bond

UVA Darden

Outcomes-Based Financing: The Quality Education India Development Impact Bond burtonc Wed, 08/30/2023 - 14:08 1 September 2023 Business, Ethics & Society Finance & Accounting Public-Private Partnerships Impact Investing Social Impact Maggie Morse The Social Challenge Financing Quality Education India has made enormous progress in education to achieve a 99 percent rate of primary school access, but what of the quality of education available for children in India?

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How To Optimize Your Support Strategy for Messaging Channels

Help Scout Leadership

It’s easy to add a new messaging support channel, but can your business deliver high-quality service through that channel at sufficient scale? Here are some ways in which you can make it happen.

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6 Magic Phrases to Inspire Leadership Respect

Lolly Daskal

As a leader, it’s important to earn the respect of your team. But how can you do that? One way is by using the right words and phrases that inspire respect and confidence in your leadership. Here are 6 magic phrases that leaders can use to inspire leadership respect: “What do you think?” – This phrase shows that you value the opinions and ideas of your team and that you are open to hearing their thoughts.

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CEO KPIs: 23 Critical KPIs Every CEO Should Have on Their KPI Dashboard

Rhythm Systems Growth

Having the right Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) on your CEO dashboard is very important to ensure you drive the right behaviors in your business, monitor the right results, and make the right adjustments to grow your business and hit your targets. I often get the question, particularly with new clients that do not have KPI dashboards established, “What KPIs should we be tracking?

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Skip Level Meetings: Everything you need to know about Skip Level 1 on 1s

Get Lighthouse

How are my managers really doing? What's really happening in my organization? What do my people really think? Am I missing anything important? Whether you're a veteran leader or brand new to having a real hierarchy below you, these kinds of questions are likely to be on your mind often. The more removed from the day-to-day work you are, the harder it is to have a feel for what's happening and how people are really doing.

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Cultivating Engagement: Strategies and Actionable Plans for Success

Speaker: Alberta Johnson

Once upon a time, in the bustling world of corporate landscapes, HR professionals like you were the unsung heroes. Your mission: to unlock the secrets of employee engagement and transform workplaces into thriving communities. 🦸 🏢 Join us in our upcoming webinar to uncover why engagement is the magic ingredient for organizational success.

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5 Ways Digital Technology Is Redefining Competitive Dynamics

UVA Darden

5 Ways Digital Technology Is Redefining Competitive Dynamics burtonc Tue, 08/29/2023 - 21:27 29 August 2023 Operations & Technology Strategy Digital Transformation Seb Murray Digital technologies, once simply considered tools for efficiency and convenience, have emerged as the driving force behind a paradigm shift in competition across industries. From retail to health care to manufacturing to finance, digitalization is reshaping traditional business models.

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Why Customers Leave Platforms — and How to Retain Them

Harvard Business Review

Companies often misunderstand the problem of users leaving their platforms. Disintermediation is a sign that your customers don’t think you are adding as much value as you think you are. Firms struggling with disintermediation can take simple steps to stop the bleeding before it’s too late — if they understand what’s really taking place. They should consider six factors: urgency, rake, risk, skill, frequency, and modularity.

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Three Budget-Friendly Strategies for Staff Professional Development

Association Now Workplace

Professional development plays a significant role in attracting, retaining, and growing staff. One expert shares ways associations can prioritize learning and development without breaking the bank. Recruitment and retention remain top-of-mind concerns for employers in 2023. Research has shown that for many employees, the decision to stay or leave is influenced by whether an organization offers staff professional development opportunities.

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The Beginner’s Guide to Help Scout

Help Scout Leadership

This guide will walk you through how to get started with Help Scout. You’ll learn all the fundamentals of the platform, from managing your mailbox to creating self-service support with Docs, Beacon, and more.

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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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Empowering the Members of Your Team

Thought Leaders LLC

For you to get the most out of the members of your high performing team, you need to empower them. For you to get the most out of the members of your high performing team, you need to empower them. Remember, on a high performing team, those team members are typically very self-motivated, and they like being self-directed. You need to understand how letting go of your agenda, creating space for them to flourish, and then accepting that there are different ways of doing things is going to bring ou

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LinkedIn Networking Message Templates to Connect with Anyone

BetterUp

Jump to section The importance of a LinkedIn opener 8 LinkedIn message templates to connect with your network What can you do with Linkedin connect messages? What else can you do on LinkedIn?

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The Haiti Humanitarian Air Bridge: Facilitating Aid

UVA Darden

The Haiti Humanitarian Air Bridge: Facilitating Aid burtonc Fri, 08/18/2023 - 10:24 18 August 2023 Business, Ethics & Society Operations & Technology Public-Private Partnerships Maggie Morse The Social Challenge Delivery of Aid for Health Crises Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) around the world rely on air transportation to deliver material assistance to communities experiencing emergencies.

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When a Coworker Undermines You in a Meeting

Harvard Business Review

Feeling undermined, unappreciated, or unsupported by a colleague when you’re both in the same meeting can lead to loss of trust, along with feelings of self-doubt and lack of confidence. But looking to see what you can do to help the situation, rather than dwelling on what someone is doing to you, can begin to ease tension and repair a dysfunctional working relationship.

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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Why CEOs at Mid-Size Firms Must Embrace Tech to Compete

Chief Outsiders

When you think about the tech you use in your business today, does this sound familiar: endless spreadsheets, confusing email chains, clunky legacy systems? Many times this happens because of concerns about the cost and complexity of trying new approaches.

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Using ChatGPT for Customer Service

Help Scout Leadership

How ChatGPT — or other generative AI tools — can be used to help answer customer service queries and deliver better service. How good is ChatGPT and in what other ways could it be used in customer service situations?

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#ASAE23 Opening Keynote: Secrets of a Shark

Association Now Leadership

In his keynote at the 2023 ASAE Annual Meeting & Expo on Sunday, entrepreneur and Shark Tank star Daymond John shared his five principles for success that will help association execs propel both their careers and organizations. Like everyone in 2020, entrepreneur and “Shark Tank” star Daymond John was nervous about the future. But he’s found that crises often pull people together.

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12 Best Career Objective Examples to Have on Your Resume

BetterUp

Jump to section How to write a career objective for a resume 4 career objective examples for beginners 4 career objective examples for experienced professionals 4 objective examples for student resumes Land the interview in just a few sentences

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From Awareness to Action: An HR Guide to Making Accessibility Accessible

Speaker: Danielle Johnson - Director of HR, Compliance & DEI in AI tech at Impact Observatory

Making accessibility accessible for organizations of all sizes may seem complex, but it doesn’t have to be. Prepare to broaden your understanding of Disability, Cultural Competency, and Inclusion with this insightful webinar. We’ll explore disability as a vibrant culture, understand the nuances of reasonable accommodations under the ADA, and navigate the complexities of undue hardship while challenging the status quo of accessibility practices.

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Is Generative AI a Disruptive Paradigm-Shifter? The Questions to Ask

UVA Darden

Is Generative AI a Disruptive Paradigm-Shifter? The Questions to Ask burtonc Wed, 08/09/2023 - 16:15 21 July 2023 Operations & Technology Entrepreneurship & Innovation Modern Global Leadership Digital Transformation Artificial intelligence is all the rage. Since the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT 3.5 in November, news commentators and business pontificators can’t seem to stop talking about the imminent disruption due to generative AI and large-language models (LLMs).

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Why We Glorify Overwork and Refuse to Rest

Harvard Business Review

None of us want to admit that we would rather feel overwhelmed than underwhelmed. In fact, we often experience a greater sense of our own value when we’re working than we do when we’re not. Working is not just a way to stay busy, but also to prove our worthiness – to others and to ourselves. The result is that without the right guardrails in place, we silently collude with employers who encourage us to overwork through intense pressure to perform.

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Does Your KPI Dashboard Measure What Matters?

Rhythm Systems Growth

I have to admit that I am a data geek. I do know that I have a unique personality type and most people aren’t interested in digging deep into the numbers and want to jump off a bridge anytime that you mention a pivot table. The great thing is that you don’t need to be a nerd in order to increase your team and company performance with KPI dashboards.

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Study: Toxic Workplaces Remain a Challenge

Association Now Workplace

The American Psychological Association’s survey is based on new U.S. Surgeon General guidelines around wellness at the office. American workers not only want their employers to do more on behalf of their emotional well-being but also report high levels of workplace toxicity and harassment, according to a new survey. The 2023 Work in America Survey , conducted by the American Psychological Association and released last month, found that nearly a fifth of U.S. workers (19 percent) describe their w

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AI & DEI: With Great Opportunities Comes Great HR Responsibility

Speaker: Jen Kirkwood - Partner, Responsible HR & AI at IBM and World Economic Forum Executive Fellow

The promise of AI for today’s organizations is real, yet in a frenzied state of experimentation, many stumble to get to a full-scale enterprise. As companies race to discover what generative AI can do, HR must lead conversations about how to balance cutting-edge innovations with integrity, trust, and diversity. Globally, organizations are at a critical intersection of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and AI acceleration.

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How to Lead with Socratic Questions

Scott Elbin

During the ten years that I taught leadership coaching at Georgetown University, one of the biggest points all of us on the faculty wanted our students to learn was that coaching isn’t about offering answers or advice. It’s about asking the kinds of questions that help leaders come up with their own answers and insights. As an executive leadership coach, I often see the same dynamic playing out with my clients.

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Leaving a Legacy: What It Means and How To Leave One (+ Examples)

BetterUp

Jump to section What does it mean to leave a legacy? The importance of leaving a legacy How to build a legacy: 4 steps Leaving a legacy in business: 5 ways What does leaving a legacy mean to you?

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How to Create a Leadership Development Plan (+Template)

Niagara Institute

The beloved Brazilian soccer icon, Pelé, once said, “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you do or are learning to do.” This is especially true for those in leadership. While some people are naturally gifted leaders, the vast majority of those in leadership have to learn how to be good managers by honing their skills, perfecting new techniques, and building their confidence over time.

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How to Speak Confidently to Your Team During Chaotic Times

Harvard Business Review

These days, many employees feel like they’re constantly receiving a stream of bad or confusing news that affects their work in unpredictable ways. When they only hear simple summaries from their leaders about issues they know aren’t so simple, teams can feel frustrated and even angry. Next time you feel you need to say something, but you’re not sure what to say, try these three strategies: 1) Recognize the power of “and” — it allows you to align two seemingly separate thoughts, such as “things a

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DEIB Reimagined: Navigating Change and Shaping the Future

Speaker: Lachandra B. Baker, MBA, CTA, CDP - Founder/Principal Consultant at LBB Edutainment, Keynote Speaker, and Author

Join us for an insightful session where we delve into the evolving landscape of DEIB. Discover the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities that have emerged over the past year and explore what lies ahead. This webinar will equip you with actionable strategies, best practices, and reflection tools to effectively lead and inspire change in your organization.