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5 mistakes you’re probably making when you give feedback

Suzi McAlpine

If you’re still not sure whether nailing feedback conversations should be one of your main skills to prioritise as a leader, check out these studies: Gallup data shows that when employees receive “meaningful feedback”, they are almost four times more likely than other employees to be engaged. Meaningful feedback isn’t the norm, however. In another recent… The post 5 mistakes you’re probably making when you give feedback first appeared on Suzi McAlpine | The Art of Leadership.

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Stagnation in Leadership: How to Avoid Getting Stuck in the Weeds

Lolly Daskal

As an executive leadership coach, I have firsthand seen the price that companies pay when their leaders become overwhelmed in the details or preoccupied with the specifics that they fail to see the bigger picture. This stagnation not only affects the leader’s own leadership, but also the teams they lead and the entire organization. Some consequences of stagnation in leadership include: Decreased employee morale: When a leader is buried in minutia, it leaves employees disengaged or frustrat

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Six Leadership Tips To Address Housing’s Challenging Times

Forbes Leadership

Business transformation has been critical in the past three years, putting an unnatural strain on leaders. Add those pressures to the growing housing crisis for the perfect storm of leadership challenges. Experts offer tips on how to adjust to today's times.

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HR’s Complete Guide to the Employee Handbook 

AIHR

An employee handbook should be the backbone of any organization to provide guidance and clarity on all HR-related items. Every HR team spends significant time and energy answering employee HR-related questions. With a well-crafted manual in place, not only do you have a reference point for employees to turn to when they have questions or concerns, but it also helps create a more streamlined, efficient HR process.

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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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How to Prepare for Performance Management Conversations

Scott Elbin

For a number of my executive coaching clients, it’s the time of year when they’re wrapping up annual performance review conversations. As is usually the case, some of those are easy and fun, and others are hard and stress-inducing. Whether they’re part of an annual cycle, or much more useful, a timely pull-up on recent performance, performance management conversations are a fact of corporate life.

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The Power of Delegation: How to Lead and Empower Your Team

Lolly Daskal

As an executive leadership coach, I often see leaders struggle with how to effectively delegate tasks and projects to their team in a way that empowers and motivates them. Many leaders worry that if they don’t do a job themselves, it won’t be done right. But there are ways to ensure that tasks and projects are completed successfully while also empowering and motivating your team.

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Learn How to Start Journaling. It’s a Ritual Worth the Time

BetterUp

Did you know one of the most powerful self-improvement activities is right at your fingertips? No, it’s not working out or having good sleep hygiene (although these are great habits). It’s something even simpler — learning how to start journaling.

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Leaders Love Puzzles (for Better and for Worse)

Ed Batista

An observation drawn from my practice is that leaders love puzzles. So do many people, of course, but typically as an absorbing hobby. In my experience a disproportionate number of leaders exhibit an almost obsessive need to tackle and solve complex problems, and this trait is one of the factors that drove them to seek out (or create) a leadership role, which reliably presents them with any number of "puzzles" to solve on a daily basis.

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6 Ways to Encourage Your Employees to Reach Their Full Potential

Lolly Daskal

You know you found the right leader for your career when they are eager to take an active interest in your growth and success. The best leaders know how to get the most out of people. Here are six ways the most effective leaders encourage their employees to reach their full potential: Promote individually: When promoting individually, this means giving specific goals and objectives to work towards.

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Disability Rights Advocates Speak Out Against Candace Owens’ Harmful Comments On Disability Representation

Forbes Leadership

The disabled community has been working tirelessly to break down attitudinal barriers and create more inclusive spaces in all areas of life, including fashion. Owens' comments were harmful and demonstrated a lack of understanding of disability rights, accessibility and representation.

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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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Is ChatGPT Going to Change Search Marketing?

Chief Outsiders

Microsoft’s recent announcement on adding ChatGPT AI Technology to Bing must be sending warning signals to Google on the future of search marketing. With the integration of ChatGPT in Bing, the search engine will be able to provide results in a natural language – more conversational than a list of links that is today’s norm.

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Why Productivity Isn’t Everything for Leaders

Association Now Leadership

Intense focus on meeting your goals has its virtues—and its drawbacks. Better leadership, experts say, means diversifying leadership styles. There’s no one wrong way to be a leader—except, perhaps, being overly committed to the idea that there’s one right way of doing things. Consider the case of Elon Musk, who since taking over Twitter last year has worked to institute a productivity-focused, “hardcore” workplace culture at the social media platform.

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4 Ways to Motivate Your Team Without Stressing Them Out

Lolly Daskal

Motivating your team can be a difficult task, especially if you don’t want to add any extra stress to their already busy schedules. However, there are several ways you can motivate your team without stressing them out. Here are five effective strategies: Allow team members to be in the driver seat: One of the biggest motivators for employees is the ability to have control over their work.

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Want To Be An Entrepreneur? Think Like A Pilot

Forbes Leadership

While you don’t have to be a member of the Mensa Society to command an aircraft, you do need a combination of some unique traits if you are to get through the rigors of flight training. Those traits mirror ones required to be an entrepreneur.

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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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HR’s Guide to Analyzing and Lowering Attrition Rate

AIHR

The attrition rate indicates the percentage of employees who leave an organization compared to the average population employed over a specified period. It is also referred to as termination , planned or voluntary resignation, structural changes, and layoffs. This guide will detail how to calculate attrition rate, factors that impact attrition, and how to analyze your company’s attrition rate score.

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Money Buddies: Don’t Go It Alone with Your Wallet

Nir Eyal

Now, more than ever, we have to be smart with our money. Yet navigating our personal finances and adhering to a budget can be a daunting task. However, there’s a free and fun technique that anyone can use to get back on track with their finances: getting a money buddy. The post Money Buddies: Don’t Go It Alone with Your Wallet appeared first on Nir and Far.

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6 Things Successful Leaders do to Retain Their Top Talent

Lolly Daskal

As a leader, it’s important to consider how to retain top talent in order to have a successful team. One key way to do this is by creating an employee value proposition that truly resonates with your employees. Successful leaders understand that this proposition must be meaningful enough to make a real difference in the lives of their team members.

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Top Private School Applications Surge Amidst South Florida’s Real Estate Boom

Forbes Leadership

Enrollment at top private schools in South Florida is booming, as many out-of-state families have moved to South Florida in the years since the pandemic, seeking sunny weather, and escaping state income tax.

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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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A CEO’s Guide to Growth | Part 1

Chief Outsiders

Part 1: Introducing the GROW Blueprint In less than 30 years, the lifespan of an S&P 500 company declined from an average of ~ 32 years in 1996 to a projected 19 years in 2023. By 2030, experts predict companies will last a mere 17 years. The trends will be no different for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs).

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How Can Low Employee Engagement Hurt Your Workplace?

Vantage Circle

Low employee engagement indicates that something is seriously wrong at your company. It gradually saps your employees' energy and creativity, impairing their performance at work. But how do you figure out what's causing your employees' morale to suffer and how to fix it? This article will delve more into the topic and discuss how HR leaders can work around improving their employee engagement efforts.

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Thinking Outside The 9-Box

Chief Executive

For time immemorial (well, since the 1970s when it was developed by McKinsey & Co.) , the 9-box grid has been the model used for succession planning. Although it’s still firmly on the curriculum of many MBA programs and entrenched in organizational talent models, it’s actually well beyond its expiry date. While there are alternatives, they’re currently underused as organizations can be reluctant to move away from this tried-and-tested approach.

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More Than Half Of College Students Believe Using ChatGPT To Complete Assignments Is Cheating

Forbes Leadership

Over half of college students believe that using artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT to complete assignments and exams is cheating. That's one of the key findings from new BestColleges survey of 1,000 current undergraduate and graduate students, conducted this March.

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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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Team Conflict: How to Manage a Disconnect Between Members of Your Leadership Team

SME Strategy

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans. Our strategic planning services offer guidance on how a strategic planning facilitator can provide support in constructing an effective strategic plan that ensures your strategy is communicated and implemented across your entire organization.

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DEIJ is Achievable and Other Lessons Learned From the Racial Justice at Work Summit

Brett Koehler

The Winters Group hosted the Racial Justice at Work Summit, a two-day event focused on actualizing justice in the workplace and based on the new book by Mary-Frances Winters and The Winters Group Team, Racial Justice at Work. The Winters Group is a global diversity and inclusion consulting firm founded by Mary-Frances Winters, who has authored three other Berrett-Koehler (BK) books: We Can’t Talk about That at Work!

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How Teaching Myself Drums Made Me A Better CEO

Chief Executive

I began playing drums in sixth grade because I loved the book Who Is Bugs Potter ? It’s the story of an amazing teenage drummer who sneaks into rock clubs to play with his favorite bands, helping a shy kid come out of his shell along the way. It lit a spark in me. I spent hours behind the kit practicing, learning to understand and emulate the beats behind the Blink-182 and Green Day songs omnipresent on the radio.

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Beauty Pageants And Academia – The Perfect Contradiction?

Forbes Leadership

When you think of beauty pageants, what comes to mind? Probably not academia, social responsibility or sustainable finance. Dr Ana Nacvalovaite, Research fellow at Kellogg College, University of Oxford, says otherwise. Aside from being a distinguished academic Ana is also Mrs Great Britain.

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Flexible Work Hours, Location, and Shortened Work Week Top Requested Benefits That Most Companies Don’t Offer

Refresh

Flexibility remains king for non-traditional benefits as American workers feel companies should offer employees more control over their work hours and location, but less than 50% of businesses do. This is according to a survey from The Harris Poll commissioned by Express Employment Professionals. Currently, U.S. hiring managers report their companies offer paid leave (59%)—including paid maternity (47%), paternity (33%), paid parental leave for parents fostering and/or adopting (24%) and/or paid

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Wizard or Witch? How to Keep Your Business Ahead of the Tornado

Chief Outsiders

My little sister, the owner of an upscale hair salon in Georgia, called last week. Twice. No message. In our family that means a twister has touched down in the backyard, so “call me back – now.” I eventually reached my dear sis and she spat, in a Wizard-of-Oz-Lions-and-Tigers-and-Bears-Oh-My tone of voice, her concerns over the economy. The collapse of two banks.

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Why ‘Smart’ Isn’t What It Used To Be

Chief Executive

After every great crisis, the great re-boot begins.  This has been the case after everything from wars to economic shocks to famines, hurricanes and floods. And it is happening now with the presumed worst of the global pandemic behind us. As we navigate the complex path to recovery, the personal costs of chronic stress, isolation and prolonged insecurity are making their way onto business balance sheets.

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How To Spot A Toxic Culture From A Job Ad

Forbes Leadership

There are two ways to end up working in a truly terrible company culture. The first is to work for a good company whose culture is just a terrible fit for your personality. The second is to end up in a culture that any rational person would consider toxic.

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The Personality Traits of Streaming Services: What Roles Do Original Series Play?

UVA Darden

The Personality Traits of Streaming Services: What Roles Do Original Series Play? burtonc Tue, 03/21/2023 - 16:38 20 March 2023 Marketing & Sales Strategic Marketing Digital Transformation Caroline Newman “Watching television” means something different than it did 10 years ago. How might it further change in the age of streaming services? It’s a question that may significantly be affected by revenue sources.

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Communicating Goals to Your Organization

Thought Leaders LLC

Once you’ve built some great goals, you need to communicate them to the organization. Operating in silos leads to missed opportunities. Once you’ve built some great goals, you need to communicate them to the organization. People in your department need to understand how their own goals, as well as the goals of their colleagues, tie to the broader organization goals.