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What’s the Halo Effect Bias? Definition and Real-Life Examples

BetterUp

Jump to section What’s the halo effect? Why the halo effect happens 4 examples of the halo effect at work The halo effect in marketing What’s the reverse halo effect?

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#16 in Goodpods Top 100 Publishing Podcasts!

Peter Winick

Goodpods Top 100 Publishing Podcasts Listen now to Leveraging Thought Leadership podcast Source: Goodpods We are #16 in Goodpods Top 100 Publishing Podcasts! The post #16 in Goodpods Top 100 Publishing Podcasts! appeared first on Thought Leadership Leverage.

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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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20 Ways to Increase Personal Energy

Leadership Freak

Time and personal energy are the most important things you manage. Technically you can't manage time: you can only manage the way you use it. Personal energy is the most important thing you manage.

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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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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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Elevating Thought Leadership in Any Size Organization | Dr. Karthik Nagendra

Peter Winick

What it takes to start a successful thought leadership program. An interview with Dr. Karthik Nagendra about standing up a thought leadership function, no matter what your org’s size. You need top talent to start a thought leadership function in your organization. But what if that talent already exists in your org? Whether you are responsible for starting a thought leadership function at a startup, or at a large company, you need to have the right talent, the right org support, and the rig

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4 Listening Habits Good Leaders Avoid At All Cost

Lolly Daskal

Effective listening is a crucial skill for any leader. It allows you to understand your employees, make informed decisions, and build strong relationships. However, there are certain listening habits that good leaders avoid at all costs. These habits can hinder communication, create misunderstandings, and damage trust. Here are four listening habits to watch out for: Interrupting others : Interrupting someone while they are speaking shows a lack of respect and undermines their ideas.

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The Complete Guide to the Change Management Life Cycle

Walk Me

Look at your staff and ask yourself: How is your team coping with change? Are they tearing their hair out and protesting out loud at the introduction of ChatGPT into the organization, or smiling as they utilize new digital tools to do the repetitive work for them, allowing them to focus on higher-level tasks? The change management life cycle helps you understand what your team goes through during massive change and how to support them, and it should be at the heart of your change management appr

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Instinct or Data in Thought Leadership

Peter Winick

When you practice thought leadership– do you lean towards instinct ?or data ?? Most of us who practice TL, lean towards one. That’s the focus of today’s OrgTL Minute. Join the Organizational Thought Leadership Newsletter to learn more about expanding thought leadership within your organization! This monthly newsletter is full of practical information, advice, and ideas to help you reach your organization’s thought leadership goals.

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Incorporating DEI into Decision-Making

Harvard Business Review

Most people believe in promoting DEI in the workplace. But implicit and unconscious biases — not to mention the constant juggling of priorities required at work — can lead to inequitable decision-making. In this article, drawing on recent research, the authors suggest that this problem can be addressed by making DEI more immediately obvious, or salient, to managers immediately before they need to make consequential decisions about such matters as hiring, promotions, and performance evaluation.

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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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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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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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Do you have the courage to repeat your ideas?

Peter Winick

Transcript: Don’t make me repeat myself. If you’re a parent, you’ve probably said this to your kids. More broadly, I think many of us are afraid to repeat ourselves to colleagues, customers, clients, vendors, other business partners, because we get self-conscious. We lack the courage to be willing to repeat our thoughts and our ideas.

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Harvard’s Arthur C. Brooks on the Secrets to Happiness at Work

Harvard Business Review

Arthur C. Brooks is a bestselling author, Harvard University professor, and a widely read columnist for The Atlantic, whose writing draws from both science and philosophy and is aimed at providing insight and strategies on how we can live our best lives. He’s the co-author (with Oprah Winfrey) of the forthcoming book, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier, and he joined HBR editor Adi Ignatius for this episode of New World of Work to share insights in how to be happier

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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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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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Why Climate Change Matters for Every Leader

Association Now Leadership

A new survey says many executives underestimate the impact of climate change. Associations have an opportunity to change the conversation. Leaders are feeling better these days about things—but they might have a blind spot. A pulse survey of more than 600 U.S. business executives released last week by PricewaterhouseCoopers revealed plenty of optimism.

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How to Build Stability during Turbulence

Leadership Freak

My brain never leaps to the best thing that could happen. People usually jump to negative conclusions. Imagined catastrophes make stability unlikely.

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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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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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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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Demystifying Lean Six Sigma: A Tool for Continuous Improvement

Viima

53% of Fortune 500 companies use Six Sigma and up to 82% of those in the top Fortune 100 embrace the business improvement methodology. Research says that Six Sigma has saved companies over $400 billion. 40 years later the Six Sigma methodology is as popular as ever, with new variants and adaptations, like the Lean Six Sigma, making it more versatile for other industries and types of organizations as well.

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Take the Next Step

Leadership Freak

The life you want won’t appear like a rabbit out of a hat. Magic won’t help. Just take the next step. Fear stands between you and the life you want.

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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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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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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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In Retail’s Top Echelons, Female C.E.O.s Lose a Bit of Ground

Kotter Inc.

Several prominent companies, like the Gap and Kohl’s, have recently replaced female leaders with men. Industry observers see a loss in gender representation.

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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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Survey: Remote Work Isn’t Going Away — and Executives Know It

Harvard Business Review

Many CEOs are publicly gearing up for yet another return-to-office push. Privately, though, executives expect remote work to keep on growing, according to a new survey. That makes sense: Employees like it, the technology is improving, and — at least for hybrid work — there seems to be no loss of productivity. Despite the headlines, executives expect both hybrid and fully remote work to keep increasing over the next five years.

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When Solutions Create Problems

Leadership Freak

“The greatest intellectual discovery of this generation is that the real cause of problems is solutions.” Eric Sevareid. Overcome the danger of solutions: #1.

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Recruitment Basics: Your 101 Guide in 2023

AIHR

When you work in human resources , covering the recruitment basics is important. This will enable you to strategically and effectively identify, attract, and select top talent for an organization. In fact, recruiting is such a major focus that 46% of human resources professionals named it their top objective in 2023, according to a recent Forbes report.

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5 Reasons Why Gratitude Will Make You A Better Leader

Lolly Daskal

When it comes to leadership it’s easy to get caught up in the hustle and bustle of everyday tasks and responsibilities. However, as a leader, taking the time to practice gratitude can have a huge impact on your leadership skills and overall well-being. Here are five reasons why gratitude will make you a better leader. Gratitude improves your relationships: Expressing gratitude towards your team and colleagues can help improve relationships and create a more positive work environment.

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Arrange Your Meeting Schedule to Boost Your Energy

Harvard Business Review

Most meeting advice focuses on how to make meetings more effective or how to cut down on the number of meetings you have altogether. But what about how to schedule your meetings alongside other work tasks to best manage your productivity? New research explores this question and finds that many people commit two key errors in organizing their schedules: stacking too many meetings together on the same day or pairing intense meetings with other intense tasks.

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The Science of Motivation

Michael Hyatt

The United States Military Academy is an elite, selective institution with an acceptance rate of less than 10 percent. Despite this, not everyone who matriculates graduates. Psychologists Amy Wrzesniewski and Barry Schwartz decided to find out why. Drawing on 14 years of data detailing the motivations and outcomes of over 10,000 cadets, they found intrinsic […] The post The Science of Motivation appeared first on Full Focus.

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Job Outlook for Human Resources (HR) in 2023

AIHR

The job outlook for Human Resources is more exciting than ever. In previous years, the world faced unprecedented challenges like high employee turnover rates and evolving return-to-office policies, all while dealing with global inflation. According to Lattice , a striking 74% of US employees were actively seeking new job opportunities or open to these in the next six to twelve months.