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How to Make a Good Leader a Great Leader

Lolly Daskal

Being a good leader is important, but being a great leader is even more so. Here are some ways that leaders can make the transition from being a good leader to a great leader: Develop a clear vision and strategy. When good leaders become great leaders, it’s because they take their time developing a clear vision and strategy for their organization.

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How to Motivate a Team with Low Morale in 5 Easy Steps

Get Lighthouse

At many companies, low morale is a fact of life. Any number of problems can stifle people, leaving them unmotivated and struggling to do their job. As a manager, you may feel low morale yourself; no one is immune to the harsh realities of the modern workplace. Gallup's engagement stats show us year after year that little is changing. On average, two of every three people are not engaged at work.

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FTC Proposes New Rule Banning Noncompete Agreements

Association Now Workplace

Earlier this month, the FTC proposed a rule to ban noncompete agreements, saying they hurt workers and hinder innovation. However, the proposed rule is already encountering opposition from business groups and appears likely to face legal challenges. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently proposed a new rule that would ban employers from imposing noncompete agreements on their workers.

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2023 Social Innovation Awards: The Power Of Collective Change

Forbes Leadership

The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship’s 16 award winning organizations for social innovation in 2023 represent a beacon of hope in difficult times.

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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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The Best Way Leaders Can Earn Respect From Their Employees

Lolly Daskal

The respect of employees is crucial for leaders, as it enables them to build strong, collaborative, and productive teams. Here are seven ways that leaders can earn the respect of their employees: Communicate clearly and effectively. Leaders can earn the respect of their employees by communicating clearly and effectively. To do so, they can convey their ideas, goals, and expectations in a clear and concise manner.

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12 Organizational Health Metrics HR Should Know

AIHR

Healthy organizations provide their employees with an environment where they can thrive. That translates into the company’s ability to achieve its goals and, ultimately, positive business results. What are some organizational health metrics HR should know and keep track of? Contents What is organizational health? 12 organizational health metrics to measure.

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Laid Off From A Tech Company? Leverage Your Soft Skills To Get Hired In Another Industry

Forbes Leadership

A study by Harvard University, the Carnegie Foundation, and Stanford Research Center concluded 85% of job success can be attributed to strong soft and people skills. As such, job seekers must identify and communicate these skills, with examples, during their job search and interviews.

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Successful Coping Strategies When dealing with Leadership Stress

Lolly Daskal

Stress and leadership are closely intertwined, as leaders often face high levels of stress and pressure in their roles. This stress can have negative impacts on leaders, such as impairing their decision-making and communication skills and reducing their performance and productivity. As an executive leadership coach, I use the following successful coping strategies with my clients to help them overcome their stress: Prioritize self-care.

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All You Need To Know About Sales Incentive Programs In 2023

Vantage Circle

When it comes to sales incentive programs the first thought in your mind is monetary incentives. However, that is not all there is to incentive programs. Let’s find out more about sales incentive programs and how to design and implement them to benefit your organization. What Is A Sales Incentive Program? Sales incentive programs are systems developed by businesses to compensate salespersons for achieving certain specific goals.

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How to Focus Joyriders on Your Team

Thought Leaders LLC

Joyriders are team members that you don’t invest a lot of leadership capital in, but you also don’t get anything back from them in terms of results. Your Joyriders occupy the lower right corner of the Leadership Matrix. You don’t put in a lot of time and energy but you also don’t get anything back in terms of results. Joyriders can be really tricky to identify.

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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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Amazon Wants To Help Community Colleges, HBCUs Teach AI

Forbes Leadership

Quality AI education is still out of reach for many students who don’t attend selective research universities including many Black and Latino/a students. Amazon hopes to change that by investing in AI education at community colleges and HBCUs.

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The Most Common Mistakes Leaders Make and How to Avoid Them

Lolly Daskal

All leaders make mistakes. But, when leaders make mistakes it can have a negative impact on their team and the organization. Mistakes can cause confusion, frustration, and resentment among employees, and they can lead to decreased morale, productivity, and success. Listed below are common mistakes, I see my clients make as leaders, if you can avoid them please do: Leaders don’t communicating effectively.

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How to Retain Millennial and Gen Z Employees

Zenefits

Millennials currently make up the largest portion of the U.S. labor force. By 2025, they’re expected to take up over half of the workforce. Following closely behind both in age and workplace saturation are Gen Z job seekers. They currently make up 13% of the workforce and could reach 27% by 2025. These generational employees are taking the job market by storm.

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How To Ensure Resilience In Challenging Times

Chief Executive

As CEOs, we need to be prepared for unforeseen situations such as disrupted supply chain, pandemics, natural disasters, economic challenges and unfortunately, even wars. These events require decisive internal responses, such as changing suppliers, revisiting processes, restructuring the business, or cutting costs. Moreover, any change induced by an external event must be made with the customers’ best interest in mind.

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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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Fidelity Commits $250 Million To Support 50,000 Minority College Students

Forbes Leadership

Fidelity Investments, the giant financial services company, is committing $250 million to support as many as 50,000 underserved minority college students with scholarships and mentorship programs in the next five years.

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4 Important Reasons Why Leaders Must Always Be Kind

Lolly Daskal

Kindness is a crucial trait for leaders, as it enables them to build strong, collaborative, and productive teams with inclusive work environments. Here are four very important reasons why a leader must always be kind: Kindness builds trust and respect. When leaders are kind, they show that they care about others and demonstrate empathy and understanding.

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Change Management Communication: A Complete Guide For 2023

Walk Me

Change management communication is an essential process for cultivating success and agility within an organization. It not only helps stakeholders comprehend what changes are being made, why such modifications need to be done, and how it will influence them; it also provides timely information and materials to meet certain milestones. It’s the responsibility of business leaders to effectively implement change management initiatives across the organization—and effective change management co

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Why We Need To Lead With Transparency

Chief Executive

I’ll be up-front with you, just like I am with my employees. The consulting firm I lead is entering the new year with lower growth expectations than previous years. We’re being conservative with our revenue projections, mostly because of the state of the economy. I’m hopeful that we’ll do better than planned, but I also want to be realistic. When I met with employees for our most recent monthly update meeting, I noted that we were going to make a plan for 2023 and that I had no concerns, b

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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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Virginia Is Considering Four School Voucher Bills. Each One Is A Bad Deal For Taxpayers.

Forbes Leadership

Each one is a bad deal for Virginia taxpayers, providing little oversight or accountability for how taxpayer’s education dollars will be spent.

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A Guide On How To Calculate The Employee Turnover Rate

Vantage Circle

Continued focus on (employee) turnover is of critical importance, because of the direct relation of turnover to improvements in labor costs and guest satisfaction. ~ Finley Peter Dunne. "Employee turnover" is a word that makes HR practitioners' hearts skip a beat. But no matter how disappointed an HR gets after hearing the word, it is a natural, inevitable phenomenon that occurs in every organization.

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Top 5 Reasons to Attend the Premier Middle Market Strategy Execution & Revenue Growth Conference

Rhythm Systems Growth

5 Benefits of Attending a Strategy Execution Conference. Rhythm Systems is getting ready to host its 2023 annual breakthrough execution conference on April 26-27, 2023, in Charlotte, NC. The gathering of fast-growing middle market firms from around the world will assemble for a meeting of the minds to deliver breakthrough execution.

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Experience Matters: Customer Retention In 2023

Chief Executive

One jolt after another—commoditization of manufactured products, the onset of brand purpose, the varied breakage of norms by the pandemic—has left companies scrambling for customer retention strategies to help relationships that may have survived Covid or been created by it. “The only thing is to provide an exceptional experience that will make customers choose you over the competition,” said Lior Arussy, author of Next Is Now a consultant on customer strategy to many leading companies.

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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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Why Teams Should Eat Together If They Want To Bond

Forbes Leadership

A few years ago the Guardian asked readers to write in with their tales of isolation at work, and several hundred did so, with many lamenting the lack of any real sense of belonging at work. Food can play a crucial role in overcoming that.

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5 Reasons to Co-Create Professional Development Plans With Employees

Zenefits

Developing your employees professionally is imperative for businesses today. According to research done by the World Economic Forum , the half-life of skills today is only 5 years. That means that our skills are only half as valuable in 5 years as they are today. So if you don’t invest in the professional development of your employees, their skills will become obsolete in just a couple of years.

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Ultimate HR Calendar 2023: Key Dates (+How To Celebrate Them)

Vantage Circle

As an HR professional, starting the new year by finding, curating, and planning for the upcoming events in the coming months is a not-so-fun start. To make that task easier for you, we have curated an HR Calendar 2023 that contains a comprehensive list of holidays, special events, and culturally significant moments that you should mark (and plan for) in 2023.

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CEO Poll Finds Rising Economic Confidence For 2023

Chief Executive

After enduring a year of increasing pessimism over the direction of the economy, America’s CEOs and business leaders are kicking off the new year with their most optimistic outlook since April of 2022. Despite continued rate hikes by the Fed, a growing number of CEOs now say the fundamentals of the economy are strong, inflation is easing and they are increasingly hopeful and confident about the future, even if there is a mild recession this year.

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Uber’s New Math: Increase Prices And Squeeze Driver Pay

Forbes Leadership

If Uber is to be given credit for fulfilling their grand promise of becoming the transformative future of urban mobility, investors, consumers, and drivers deserve to know a lot more about the real costs of being taken for a ride.

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Do You Have a Toxic Boss Working For You? 6 Signs to Look Out For

Niagara Institute

No one in leadership is perfect. Leaders are flawed and as prone to mistakes as anyone else in the workplace. However, sometimes it's bigger than that. Rather than making an occasional mistake or bad judgment call, some bosses display a pattern of bad behavior that causes widespread repercussions for employees, fellow leaders, and even customers. This is the difference between a typical boss and a toxic boss.

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The Results Are In: Business Performance Predictions for 2023

Refresh

After the ups and downs of 2020 and 2021, this past year has had challenges of its own. But with a new year comes new opportunities and expectations. In December, we asked our readers to let us know what their business performance predictions are for 2023. The results may surprise you. With 59%, the top answer to the monthly poll was “We anticipate moderate growth,” followed by “We anticipate our growth will be flat,” with 26%.

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Skills Training For A Remote Or Hybrid Workforce

Chief Executive

The past couple years have shown that learning in a fully remote environment leaves a lot to be desired compared with in-person learning. Among school-age students, for instance, remote learning has been associated with lower test scores and has had negative effects on social, emotional, physical and mental health. It’s reasonable to wonder if those negative effects are the result of the general disruption and confusion from the pandemic.

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50 Over 50: Europe, Middle East And Africa 2023

Forbes Leadership

Women around the world are proving that success has no age limit. The members of the second annual 50 Over 50: EMEA are proving that every day. Here are the founders, business and political leaders, scientists and vanguards leading the way throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

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4 Tips for Creating a Sustainable Flow of Qualified Prospective Residents

Chief Outsiders

By: Beth VanStory and Jennifer Apy. With an aging population, the demand for senior living facilities in the U.S. has never been stronger. Money and Markets projects that by the year 2040, the United States will need about 1.8 million more senior housing units to accommodate the growing number of senior citizens. That will mean that demand doubles over the next 20-plus years.