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Survey: 1 In 8 Florida Incoming Freshmen Plan To Flee DeSantis’s Education Policies

Forbes Leadership

Among Florida’s incoming college freshmen, dissatisfaction with Governor Ron DeSantis’s education policies runs deep—in some cases, deep enough to make them look for college opportunities in another state.

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How to Best Work With A Leader Who Is Totally Disorganized

Lolly Daskal

Working with a leader who is disorganized can be tough, especially if they are your boss. However, it’s important to remember that addressing and resolving this issue is crucial for the success of the team. Here are four steps you can take to effectively work with a disorganized leader: Acknowledge disorganization: The first step in addressing a problem is to acknowledge that it exists.

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Why Generative AI Will Eat Your Website and Change B2B Marketing Forever

Chief Outsiders

The Tsunami We’ll start with an opinion and put it upfront to save you time. B2B marketing is over as we know it. Full stop. A tsunami of buyer behavioral change is coming. Generative AI will truncate buyer research cycles and steal away with the first-party and third-party data that drives so much of our buyer engagement.

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Everything to Know About Employee Resource Groups (with HR Best Practices)

AIHR

Employee resource groups encourage belonging and camaraderie among colleagues who come together for a shared cause. These groups can be a powerful tool for meeting the needs of a diverse workforce by fostering an inclusive environment, giving employees official input, and granting more access to professional development. This article will explore employee resource groups and recommend some best practices for HR professionals.

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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 ChatGPT Is Fast Becoming The Teacher’s Pet

Forbes Leadership

Despite worries that the artificial intelligence program could make cheating easier, half of K-12 teachers report using it. Edtech companies are scrambling to release their own tools.

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6 Common Leadership Mistakes That Hold Back Employee Growth

Lolly Daskal

I coach leaders all around the world and in many different industries. As a leadership executive coach, I have seen firsthand the negative impact that certain mistakes can have on employee growth and development. Here are six common leadership mistakes that hold back employee growth and how to avoid them: Playing favoritism: It’s natural to have a few team members that you work well with or feel a closer connection to, but it’s important to treat all team members fairly and equally.

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Employee Experience: A Complete Guide for HR

AIHR

Companies that invest in their employee experience are better places to work for, more in demand among applicants, and also more innovative. Organizations must prioritize people’s needs and expectations to compete for talent in today’s job market. This means focusing on employee experience management to improve how the workplace feels to employees. In this article, we will take a deep dive into the employee experience and offer ways to help you improve yours.

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Full-Time Remote Work Is Falling—But Still Five Times Pre-Pandemic Levels, Survey Finds

Forbes Leadership

Don’t say RIP to the work-from-home era quite yet. A new Pew Research Center analysis, released with a broader report on worker satisfaction, finds that hybrid work schedules are rising, but roughly a third of workers whose jobs can be done remotely say they still work from home full-time.

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How The Best Leaders Reenergize their Depleted Team

Lolly Daskal

As a leader, it’s your job to keep your team motivated, engaged, and energized. But even the most dedicated employees can become burnt out or depleted. As a leader, when that happens, it’s important to take action and reenergize your team. Here are five strategies that the best leaders use to reenergize their depleted team: Avoid unnecessary meetings: Meetings can be a valuable tool for communication and collaboration.

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The Value Of Servant Leadership

Chief Executive

While the characteristics of a good leader are evergreen, the challenges of recent years—including the Covid-19 pandemic—have required business leaders to reinvent themselves. Specifically, there is a stronger emphasis on servant leadership. This style of leadership prioritizes the growth and well-being of employees, giving them the support they need to flourish.

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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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Four-Day Workweek Trials Signal Advantages for Employees and Business

BetterUp

Everyone loves a three-day weekend, and new trends in work might mean that every week is a little shorter. A four-day workweek may do more than give you an extra day to catch up on laundry, though. Research indicates that a shorter workweek benefits the employee, the workplace, and the environment.

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Goldman Sachs Predicts 300 Million Jobs Will Be Lost Or Degraded By Artificial Intelligence

Forbes Leadership

Goldman Sachs maintains that if generative AI lives up to its hype, the workforce in the United States and Europe will be upended. The bank estimates 300 million jobs could be lost or diminished due to this fast-growing technology.

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Why Is Leadership Diversity Key To Your Success

Lolly Daskal

Leadership and diversity are closely related. Having a diverse leadership team can help to create a more inclusive and equitable workplace. Furthermore, it can improve decision-making and problem-solving, enhance the organization’s reputation and credibility, and improve the organization’s performance and bottom line. Creating leadership diversity can lead to success in the following ways: Leadership diversity helps to create a more inclusive and equitable workplace.

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To Make Digital Transformation Work, Look Deeper

Chief Executive

Traditional companies will need to undergo organization-wide transformation that goes beyond implementation of new technology solutions in order to thrive and remain relevant in the global digital business landscape. Instead of knee-jerk reactions that call for short-term solutions, digital business transformation centers on leveraging technology to understand the evolving needs of digitally connected consumers (i.e., their behaviors, preferences and motivations), and delivering customer experie

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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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Getting the Most From Your Managers: Introducing Transform Tracks and Custom Learning Journeys

15Five

Manager effectiveness is a major driver of employee engagement, and managers have a large impact on their direct reports’ morale and performance. Yet, many managers often struggle to lead because they don’t have necessary skills to drive engagement and performance in the evolving workplace. As a result, many employees don’t see their managers as strong leaders.

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Women Making History In Climate Change – ‘We Can't Wait For Anybody To Give Us Permission’

Forbes Leadership

Quietly, under the radar, one decision at a time, women across the globe are tackling climate change in their local communities & improving their lives and economies. For Women’s History Month 2023, here are five to celebrate and thank.

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Sample strategic planning agenda 2023 strategic planning process UPDTE

SME Strategy

Strategic planning Agenda for your next strategy meeting. We've been leading strategic planning meetings for the past 12 years (and counting), and we've tested dozens of different strategic planning agendas so that you don't have to. Use our experience to have the best and most effective strategic planning process.

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Hybrid Work Is An “Ongoing, Iterative Experiment,” Says CEO Brian Macias

Chief Executive

For leaders struggling to find the right balance of in-person and virtual work, Brian Macias, CEO of Embrace Pet Insurance, recommends the path he’s taken: experimenting, taking cues from the organization and tweaking as needed. In its 16 years of existence, Embrace has long had flexible work policies, so when the pandemic shut everything down in 2020, going virtual overnight wasn’t as big of a change as it was for some other businesses.

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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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What Remote Leaders Do Differently to Be Successful

Lolly Daskal

As more and more organizations embrace remote work, it’s important for leaders to adapt their leadership style to meet the unique challenges and opportunities of a virtual environment. Here are five key ways that great remote leaders do things differently to be successful: Leaders enable, not enforce: Great remote leaders understand that their team members are adults who are capable of taking responsibility for their own work.

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Will Amazon Buy AMC? The Move Expands Connected, Phygital Customer Experiences

Forbes Leadership

Amazon is reportedly interested in buying struggling movie theater chain AMC. The surprising move could strengthen its online and in-person experiences with more integration and cross-selling opportunities.

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How Organizations Get Employee Engagement Wrong

Thought Leaders LLC

Employees now expect more. Employee engagement is key to success for most organizations. If we understand the typical and recurring mistakes made in this field, we can predict and prevent them happening to us. Today’s guest post is by Frank Devine, author of RAPID MASS ENGAGEMENT: Driving Continuous Improvement Through Employee Culture Creation (CLICK HERE to get your copy).

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ChatGPT: Friend, Foe or Fad?

Chief Executive

Like it or not, ChatGPT or generative AI is showing up in your workplace in positive and negative ways. The risk lies in not knowing the implications of how it could affect your hiring, deliverables, brand image and bottom line. Is generative AI friend, foe or fad? Ask most leaders for their opinion and the reply will be either ‘love it,’ ‘hate it,’ or ‘don’t know enough about it.

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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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LeadershipNow 140: March 2023 Compilation

Michael McKinney

Here are a selection of tweets from March 2023 that you will want to check out: Chronos or Kairos—Is it Your Moment for a Career Change? by @artpetty Leaders Love Puzzles (for Better and for Worse) by @edbatista No Time for Career Development? by @Julie_WG Self-Esteem: Why It's Career Rocket Fuel! by @KateNasser 5 Signs You Are Elite At What You Do by @BrianKDodd Why Managers Need an Operating System to Guide Them by @artpetty PODCAST: @jamesstrock interviews Sasha Stone She is a pioneering blog

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Are CIA Sabotage Tactics Ruining Your Team Meetings?

Forbes Leadership

In 1944, the United States Office of Strategic Services, now the Central Intelligence Agency, published a sabotage manual. And shockingly, you'll see many of those sabotage techniques used in your weekly meetings.

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What Is Instructional Design and Why Do You Need It?

Clarity Consultants

Instructional design is a crucial aspect of eLearning that involves creating compelling and engaging coursework or instructional modules that align with specific training goals. The field looks beyond simple information sharing. Instead, it promotes learning by using various mechanisms to maintain learner attention and boost knowledge retention. Without instructional design, creating engaging and value-adding courses is particularly challenging.

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Are CEOs Underestimating The Importance Of IT In M&A?

Chief Executive

With technology playing such a critical role in organizations’ success or failure, one might think IT would be a chief concern in M&A due diligence—but it turns out the opposite is true. A January survey of CEOs, conducted by Chief Executive and Elliott Davis, found that only 9% of respondents believe an acquisition target’s tech capabilities is a critical driver of M&A, while 21% said technology had little to do with deal-making.

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How HR Can Create a Customer-Centric Culture

AIHR

The business case for customer-centricity is clear. Organizations with customer-centric cultures are 60% more profitable , and 90% of organizations state that they compete on customer experience alone. HR is often tasked to incorporate customer-centricity into organizational values , onboarding, and training, yet often these initiatives fail to bring real change toward a customer-centric DNA.

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Middle Managers Have It Bad: 5 Things They Need Most

Forbes Leadership

Leadership has gotten a lot harder over the past couple years—and middle managers may have it worst. But there are powerful ways to support middle managers.

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Leading Thoughts for March 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. Will Marré on making choices based on our outer identity: “Instead of making authentic choices, we make choices based on the part we’re playing. Our lives are dictated, to a large degree, by what we think we must do to remain members in good standing of whatever club we have decided to join.

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Balancing Ambition And Realism: How To Prioritize The Best Ideas

Chief Executive

As an entrepreneur or business leader, you are constantly bombarded with a plethora of ideas, each of which seems to have the potential to change the world. We’re visionaries. This is what inspired our passion for business, and it’s what drives us forward as we work to transform our industries. However, if you’re like me, you’re inundated with so many ideas that it actually becomes difficult to wade through all of them.

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Recession-Proof Your HR Career: 7 Steps You Can Take Right Now

AIHR

As the job market becomes increasingly competitive and unpredictable, it is more important than ever for HR professionals to recession-proof their careers. This means developing (future) skills required now to stay ahead of the game and thrive in any economic climate. This article will discuss what skills HR will need and the steps you can take to develop them.

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3 Tips For Helping People With Disabilities

Forbes Leadership

“Helping people with disabilities” is more than a sweet sentiment. It’s complicated. And that is exactly why it’s a topic worth exploring. It raises questions worth asking. Why do we want to help people with disabilities? And how can we do it most effectively and respectfully?

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