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Five ways to build a high-performance team culture

Suzi McAlpine

High performance in teams doesn’t happen by accident. When I think about the teams I’ve been part of where we performed really well over time, in each case, this high performance wasn’t accidental. It was carefully nurtured by the leader of that team. These leaders were purposeful in doing a few specific things. Here are… The post Five ways to build a high-performance team culture first appeared on Suzi McAlpine | The Art of Leadership.

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A Personal Lesson Of Leadership Failure And Becoming A Better Listener

Tanveer Nasser

Without question, being an effective listener is definitely a critical skill for leaders to demonstrate, especially as workplaces continue to become more demographically diverse. And yet, even the best leaders can fail to truly listen and understand what their employees really need from them, especially during times of uncertainty about. Click to continue reading.

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How to Effectively Resolve Interpersonal Conflicts in the Workplace

Lolly Daskal

Show me any workplace and I’ll show you a place with interpersonal conflict. Every enterprise that brings people together is bound to run into differences at some point. That’s just part of life. And it means that for a workplace to thrive, its leaders need to know how to resolve conflict. Here are some of the fundamentals I go over with my leadership coaching clients: Coach your team effectively.

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What The Zuck - A Web3 Metaverse Roadmap

Forbes Leadership

As organizations, big and small, begin to place their bets, knowing when to invest is as important as where. What I’m asked most often is: what should my company do now. Let’s call it the NOWverse to do list.

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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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Why Some Feedback Hurts (and What To Do About It)

Ed Batista

1. Feedback is Data. "Feedback is a gift," or so we're told, and yet sometimes that "gift" is quite painful to receive. This is a theme in my work with leaders, who routinely find themselves the subject of sharp criticism in company surveys, 360 reports, Glassdoor reviews, and social media, among other places. My clients aren't looking for pity--as leaders they understand that negative feedback comes with the territory.

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Mental Exhaustion Symptoms, Causes, and Ways to Cope

BetterUp

Jump to section. What is mental exhaustion? What are the symptoms of mental exhaustion? Side effects of being mentally exhausted. What are the causes of mental exhaustion? How is mental exhaustion different from other conditions? 11 ways to overcome mental exhaustion.

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Can Philosophy Save Us From Becoming Bad Leaders?

Forbes Leadership

Philosophy, by which I mean “love of wisdom,” can provide people with the language and tools to be both moral and competent, saving them from becoming bad leaders. Yet to do so, philosophy must not be simply a subject to study, it must be a life practice to adopt.

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Best Interview Questions to Ask Job Candidates – Overcoming Obstacles

Refresh

This is part nine of a 12-part series. Creating a successful and productive team starts with finding great employees who fit your organizational culture. And while you may receive hundreds of job applications and interested parties, narrowing down the talent pool to hire the right candidate for the job goes beyond what hiring managers can surmise by reading cover letters and applicants’ resumes, especially when studies show 85% of applicants lie on their resumes.

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How’s Cubicle Life Going for You?

Jim Taggart

Dateline: May 16, 2018. This was the publication date of the following leadership post on the continuing squeeze on workspace footprints and the implications for wellness, productivity and creativity. Now over four years later, with half of this time immersed in a global pandemic, we’ve witnessed a rethinking of having white collar workers stuck in offices, crammed into smaller and smaller work spaces.

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What Will Make Boards More Diverse?

Association Now Leadership

Despite various efforts in the corporate and nonprofit sectors, people of color remain scarce in board leadership roles. There are no quick fixes, but intentionality is critical. Building diverse boards remains a challenge—indeed there’s evidence that recent efforts toward board diversity aren’t meeting the task. That’s the argument of a pair of management scholars in a recent article in the MIT Sloan Management Review titled “ Meet the New Board—Same as the Old Board.”.

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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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The Prestige Hierarchy: Five Universities Trained One Of Every Eight Tenure-Track Faculty At Doctoral Universities

Forbes Leadership

A new study has found that just 20% of PhD-granting institutions in the U.S. awarded the doctoral degrees for 80% of tenure-track faculty employed at major U.S. universities, and a mere five schools trained one of every eight of these faculty.

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Infographic: Career Lessons from Successful Founders

Refresh

As the old saying goes, we all stand on the shoulders of giants. One of the best habits leaders can have is to learn from those who came before them. From Elon Musk and Mary Kay Ash to Steve Jobs and Sara Blakely, the most successful entrepreneurs have some of the best advice to help others follow in their paths. Check out this infographic from Resume.IO to learn 15 career lessons from business founders and how to apply them!

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6 Ingredients That Help You Plan for the Coming Year

Michael Hyatt

While weak leaders blame their followers for a lack of alignment, strong leaders know that it is their responsibility to create it. Alignment doesn’t just happen. It is created. Here are three ways to make it happen with your team. The post 6 Ingredients That Help You Plan for the Coming Year appeared first on Full Focus.

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7 Winning Ways to Communicate Change in the Workplace

Zenefits

There’s not a company on Earth that can successfully avoid organizational change. Implementing new technology, mergers, switching up processes, and getting used to new leadership are changes we’ll all probably deal with in our careers. Sometimes change in the workplace is driven by an external source. For example, the pandemic in 2020 set off all kinds of organizational changes for many businesses —one of the biggest one being the remote work movement.

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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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Microsoft Says ‘Productivity Paranoia’ Can Hurt Hybrid Workplaces

Forbes Leadership

New data from Microsoft’s Work Trend Index, which surveyed 20,000 employees across 11 countries, finds that despite early signs of a productivity boom during the pandemic, there’s a steep divide between how workers and their employers see productivity two years later.

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Employee Recognition: How Can It Help Counteract The Effects Of A Crisis?

Vantage Circle

A simple "thank you" can make employees feel more appreciated and help boost retention rates. If your employees aren't recognized for their work, they'll take it somewhere else. In this article, we'll explore what The Great Resignation is and ways you can mitigate its impact on your workforce through meaningful employee rewards & recognition programs.

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CEO attacked me in an all-staff email, I can’t give my employee satisfying answers, and more

Alison Green

This post, CEO attacked me in an all-staff email, I can’t give my employee satisfying answers, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Our CEO attacked me in an all-staff email for scheduling a happy hour on Rosh Hashanah. I work at a nonprofit in lower management. Two folks who report to me and I report to a VP who reports to the CEO.

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The New Secret To C-Suite Success? Believability

Chief Executive

You may not see it listed under “required skills and qualifications,” but believability is trending as a necessity to succeed in the workplace. Naming the concept might be new, but the defining characteristics have increased in importance as we soldier on into this rapidly evolving technological age. Believability can be summarized as a pairing of influence, authority, credibility, trust and reputation.

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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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Global Economy Headed Into Recession

Forbes Leadership

The global economic outlook is deteriorating due to inflation-fighting efforts by central banks, the war between Russia and Ukraine, and China’s prioritization of political control over economic growth.

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5 CEO OKR Examples

Rhythm Systems Growth

CEOs are busy people. They spend most of their time working hard to run their companies effectively. Objectives and Key Results, or OKRs, are one of the most effective tools that executive teams can do in order to achieve their results.

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what does self-care look like at work?

Alison Green

This post, what does self-care look like at work? , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I’ve been working through some significant program transitions and expansion as a manager at a basic needs nonprofit. The need, as you certainly know, continues to grow, and we’re feeling it exponentially. My boss asked me what my strategies for caring for myself at work were, and I realized that I don’t even really know what that entails!

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‘Business Is A Privilege’

Chief Executive

Research has long supported the argument that doing good is not antithetical to doing well. The story of the sage but humble timber baron George Weyerhaeuser offers real-world proof—and lessons for CEOs and their boards on navigating their societal mission. Sadly, George passed away this past June at age 95, but his legacy lives on through the wise words he shared with me 45 years ago.

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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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Following A Forbes Investigation, Florida A&M Students Sue Florida Over $1.3 Billion In Underfunding

Forbes Leadership

In February, Forbes’ HBCU investigation found that Florida A&M had been underfunded nearly $2 billion since 1987. A new class action lawsuit is seeking to even the score with the majority white University of Florida.

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96 Questions to Ask Your Manager During Your One on Ones

Get Lighthouse

Do you struggle with what questions to you ask your manager during your one on ones? What do you talk about in your one on ones? What about one on ones with managers that report to you? It's important to understand that your one on ones– with individual contributors reporting to you– should be treated differently from those you'd have with the managers under you, and even moreso with the one on ones you have with your boss.

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Extrinsic vs. Intrinsic Motivation: How to Use Them to Grow Your Employees

Zenefits

Part of being a good manager means being able to grow your employees. And one of the fundamental ways a manager does this is by motivating them. That means that, as a manager, you need to ponder questions about your employees: How do I motivate my employees? What kind of motivation do I need to use? When should you use it? How do I approach my employees about their growth?

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Why An Upskilling Culture Is Crucial For Your Business To Thrive

Chief Executive

As the skills crunch continues to challenge many industries, employers are trying something new to get people into their vacant seats. Many are no longer requiring job-seekers to have college degrees. Rather, they are looking to skills-based hiring to meet their needs. And, while college degrees will likely always be the path to greater economic and career mobility, upskilling through short courses, badges, and certifications may be the path of least resistance, at least in the short term, to

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How The UN And Its Member States Can Reassert Global Leadership

Forbes Leadership

The UN must be led by governments willing to assume the mantle of leadership on the world stage. Only when they are ready to do so will the United Nations begin to reach its potential and realize the dreams of its founders.

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HR Professional Development Goals and How to Set Them

AIHR

Setting HR professional development goals helps you develop and improve your skills and advance your HR career. Let’s see how you can establish such goals and grow as an HR professional! Contents What are HR professional development goals? How to set and achieve your HR professional development goals HR professional development goals examples.

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How CEOs Waste Time: 5 Things CEOs Do That Waste Time

Rhythm Systems Growth

CEOs spend their days working long hours, managing employees, and dealing with shareholders. They don’t have much time to focus on their personal lives or hobbies.

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How to Leave Them Loving Your Successor

Chief Executive

Never say never! That is a mantra that every leader knows in their heart about their leave-taking. Not only may the leaving be hard on the individual, particularly a CEO, but it can also be very hard for the organization, particularly if that leader is respected. In addition, employees crave certainty, and when the top person leaves, that disruption can create a sense of uncertainty.

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4 Leadership Strategies To Address ‘Quiet Quitting’

Forbes Leadership

Employee disengagement is a clear warning sign to managers to lean in to better understand a team member's situation. Here are four specific strategies that leaders should use if they sense a marked shift in a team member's level of engagement.

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Ask An Advisor: Can Employees Accrue Paid Leave During FMLA Leave?

SHRM Organizational Development

This week I received an interesting question regarding the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). Does an employee continue to accrue paid leave while out on FMLA leave? The answer is: It depends! If an employer’s policy allows for continued leave accrual while an employee is out on an unpaid status, like FMLA, then the answer is yes. However, if an employer’s policy does not allow for continued leave accrual, then the answer is generally no.

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