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Do I Believe The Best In Others?

John Maxwell

Do I believe the best in others? This is a question that I’ve been asking myself a lot lately. Because believing the best in others is not something to be assumed; you must be intentional in checking the lens you’re looking through when viewing others. John Maxwell teaches a simple exercise to help cultivate the practice of valuing people – “put a 10 on their heads.

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Agile project management: A straightforward guide

BetterUp

Jump to section. What is agile project management? Agile vs. waterfall project management. What are the 4 core values of agile project management? What are the 12 principles of agile project management? Benefits of agile project management. Agile project management methodologies. How to implement agile project management.

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How to Organize Innovation

Viima

I recently read a couple of excellent articles by Nick Skillicorn , and Prof. Rita McGrath where both discuss the challenges and intricacies involved in structuring and governing innovation within a large organization. This is a classic topic that every corporate innovator has without a doubt come across, and it’s also one where “the right approach” is often quite elusive.

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How to Know When It's Time to Hire For Your Support Team

Help Scout Leadership

It can be tricky to know exactly when it's the right time to hire for your customer support team. Here are some strategies for picking the perfect moment.

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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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3 Year Strategic Plan Example: A 3 Year Plan for Growth

Rhythm Systems Growth

Many companies I work with have an Annual Plan and some foundational strategic elements, like Core Values, Core Purpose and Mission/Vision/ BHAG ( Big Hairy Audacious Goal. ). However, these companies often don’t take time to define goals on the 3 year time horizon. This is an important step, because these 3 year strategic plans form your base camps on the way to achieving your longer-term strategy.

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33 positive affirmations for mental strength

BetterUp

Jump to section. What are positive affirmations? How do positive affirmations work? 30 daily affirmations for positive change. How to use positive affirmations.

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Thoughtful Expectation Setting in Project Management

Liquid Planner Leadership

Expectations are a natural human phenomenon that drive envisioning the future we want to achieve. It’s innate in every one of us – in both our personal and professional lives – to pin success and happiness to fulfilled expectations. At work, fulfilled employee expectations can positively impact the work environment, employee satisfaction, productivity, the pace of innovation, product/service quality, and overall success for the organization.

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Management Meeting Agenda: Make Your Management Meetings More Effective

Rhythm Systems Growth

In my last blog, I talked about how most meetings suck. Now, I want to focus our energy on ways that we can fix them and have effective meetings. One of the biggest complaints that I hear about bad meetings is the lack of an agenda or getting it two minutes prior to the meeting. While having a meeting without an agenda is horrifying, I have attended several bad meetings that had a detailed agenda sent well ahead of time!

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Code-switching at work: What it is and why you need to understand it

BetterUp

Jump to section. What is code-switching? Why do people code-switch? How code-switching impacts employees. Addressing code-switching in the workplace.

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To Fix Your Problems, Find the Root Cause

Nir Eyal

Do you play pool? I sure don’t. But I know enough about the game to use it as a metaphor for the hidden reasons we don’t do what we say we will. The post To Fix Your Problems, Find the Root Cause appeared first on Nir and Far.

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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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3 Surprising Quotes from Sir Edmund Hillary that Contradict Established Thinking

Leadership Freak

A quote that captures your imagination can change your life, or at least your day. #1. Vision: “I never had a vision to climb Mt. Everest, as with everything else it just grew.

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7 Outlook Shared Mailbox Alternatives for Email Collaboration

Help Scout Leadership

Is Outlook Shared Mailbox the right solution for your team? Learn the pros and cons, and read about seven alternatives you can consider.

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5 Ways to Clear Your Mind in the Best Possible Way

BetterUp

Jump to section. What are the positive effects of clearing the mind? Things that can clutter the mind without you noticing. How to have a clear mind and be at ease. The bottom line.

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5 Reasons HR Leaders Are Struggling Right Now

15Five

While incredibly rewarding, being a people and culture leader can also be a very tough job. But the last few years especially, the gig has been pretty… extra. Extra work, extra stress, extra uncertainty. To better understand this uniquely challenging time for our HR heroes, we decided to dig into more about what you’re struggling with most, and uncovered five themes that show up again and again.

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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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3 Ways to Make Encouragement Count

Leadership Freak

“How can you tell if a person needs encouragement? If that person is breathing.” S. Truett Cathy You may not intend to, but managers discourage good people. Encouragement feels like power.

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Core Customer Value: 3 Steps to Identify and Define Your Core Customers

Rhythm Systems Growth

Philip Kotler implores us to do a better job of understanding “who” our valuable customers are and then to deeply please them, rather than trying to please everyone. It is much better to serve your Core Customer completely and fully, than to try to be everything to everyone. It will create a core market that you can please and creates a loyal fan base.

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How to calm anxiety? A guide to help you cope with it better

BetterUp

Jump to section. What's anxiety and where does it come from? Common anxiety symptoms. Panic versus anxiety attacks: what are the differences? How can you calm anxiety? The bottom line.

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How to Differentiate Through Talent Acquisition In 2022

15Five

In the past year, many employees left their companies in what is known today as The Great Resignation. Companies are slowly starting to adapt to the new marketplace conditions to effectively deal with The Great Resignation, including the talent acquisition challenges it has brought about. In our second HR Superstars Summit held on February 16, 2022, we held a panel called “Differentiating Through Talent Acquisition” to discuss this pressing topic.

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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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Seagull Management: 4 Ways to Stop Dumping on People

Leadership Freak

Seagull managers fly in, make lots of noise, dump on everyone, and fly away.* You might say a seagull manager is full of crap. The seduction of problems makes you a seagull.

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How to Scale Your Business in Response to High Demand Opportunities

Sweet Process

Is your business positioned for its much-needed scaling? The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic created a surge in demand for video communication platforms like BigMarker. As chief operating officer (COO) and head of product, Justin Brown had to come up with innovative ways to manage the exponential growth and opportunity his company experienced during the […].

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26 unique employee appreciation ideas to boost retention

BetterUp

Jump to section. Types of employee recognition. Why is employee recognition important? Virtual employee appreciation ideas. Employee gift ideas. Free employee appreciation ideas. Employee appreciation ideas for teams. Company culture and employee appreciation.

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App Components: A new way to build more focus and flow

Asana

Complex workflows rarely involve just one tool. In today’s distributed work environment, teams switch between 10 apps 25 times per day to stay connected. However, tool overload leads to too much context switching, which fragments communication and reduces efficiency. Integrations play a key role in making workflows more productive. According to the IDC 2021 Annual Collaboration Survey, companies that save 20-40 hours per week per person use an average of 4.2 integrations.

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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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Two Questions that Reveal Aspirations

Leadership Freak

I first heard the expression, “A typical job interview is a conversation between two liars,” on a call to Buenos Aires in 2014. It’s not just job interviews.

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What is Organizational Development? (An In-Depth Guide)

Sweet Process

Featured Bonus Content: Get The Remarkable Organizational Development Checklist for FREE! Click Here To Download It. Do your employees get distracted or lose interest in their work and leave the organization? Is leadership ignoring employee feedback? Many of the problems organizations are facing have everything to do with either people, strategies, or ineffective systems—or all […].

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Understanding invisible disabilities in the workplace

BetterUp

Jump to section. What are invisible disabilities? How many people have invisible disabilities? Why do employees keep invisible disabilities silent? How to support employees with invisible disabilities.

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Emotional Intelligence for Scrum Masters, Team Leads and Project Managers - #2

Mike Griffiths

This is post #2 in a multi-post series about EI and leadership taken from my book Beyond Agile. Check out Post #1 first, if you have not seen it already. In this article, we will explore what EI is and why it’s often such a tricky topic to define due to the proliferation of different models with similar-sounding components.   EI - Better Results by Becoming More Effective.

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6 Ways Heroes Advance Your Life

Leadership Freak

Life if larger with heroes. The wrong idea about heroes propagates helplessness. The right idea about heroes gives you strength.

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Strategy Implementation Your Customers Can Feel

AlignOrg

How do you deliver an unforgettable customer experience that differentiates you from competitors? The answer is fairly simple: Understand what customers see as “critical moments” with your product/service. Make sure you’re facilitating strategy implementation your customers can feel at those critical moments. Identify the Critical Moments. To know how to make your differentiating strategy shine, you have to know when it must shine.

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Unmotivated? Here’s How to Go Back into the Motivation Track

BetterUp

Jump to section. What is motivation? Why is motivation important? How can I be and stay motivated? Why do I feel unmotivated? What should I do if I lose motivation? Final thoughts.

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New trends for a new normal in workforce management

Walk Me

Workforce management has undergone major changes in recent years. In particular, the trend towards remote and hybrid working has changed the way HR leaders manage teams. While countries worldwide are lifting Covid-19 restrictions, many organizations have experienced the benefits of remote and hybrid working and are keen to continue with more flexible employment practices.

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Why Management 3.0 is essential for Agile Coaches

Management30 Agile and Lean Principles

Every Agile Coach should know what Management 3.0 is about and have the tools and practices as part of their toolkit, says Pedro Serrano is Agile Coach from Spain. Here is why: The post Why Management 3.0 is essential for Agile Coaches appeared first on Management 3.0.

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Building High-Performing Teams With Effective Communication

Sweet Process

Ineffective communication ruins business operations as team members will hardly be on the same page. In charge of the operations at Vendata Biosciences, a biotech company, Dan Couto got a hold of the many moving pieces by cultivating a culture of effective communication among his team members. Dan Couto is the guest in this episode […]. The post Building High-Performing Teams With Effective Communication appeared first on SweetProcess.

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