Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2024

Using a structured approach when communicating can help you prioritize what you need to convey. In this article, the author introduces his “What, So What, Now What” framework. Much like the Swiss Army knife, known for its versatility and reliability, this structure is flexible and can be used in many different communication situations. The structure is comprised of three simple questions: 1) What: Describe and define the facts, situation, product, position, etc. 2) So What: Discuss the implicati

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Manager 143

Peter Winick

JANUARY 4, 2024

Transcript Hi there, it’s Peter Winick. I’m the founder and CEO at Thought Leadership Leverage. Here’s the thought that I’d like to share with you today, and that’s this: Are you in the question business or are you in the answer business? What do I mean by this? There are situations and scenarios that we play in as experts, as thought leaders, where we’re in the question business.

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Lolly Daskal

JANUARY 4, 2024

Building trust with your boss is essential for career growth and success. When your boss trusts you, it can lead to increased responsibilities, opportunities for advancement, and a more fulfilling work environment. Here are ten strategies to gain your boss’s trust and become an indispensable team member. 1. Deliver Consistent Results: To gain your boss’s trust, consistently deliver high-quality work.

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Assets Accounts Manager Leadership Development 110

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 2, 2024

“Why will no man confess his faults? Because he is still in their grasp.” Seneca Smart leaders love correction. When you hate correction, you love grappling with the same faults over and over and over.

Leadership Development 110

Leadership Development 110

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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2024

While mentoring people can be extremely rewarding, it has its challenges. It can be time-consuming and frustrating. However, if you structure and administer mentorships wisely, you can overcome the challenges, excel in being a mentor, and enhance your standing in your organization. Five strategies can help: divide your mentees into teams, set expectations with mentees early, use technology to your advantage, brand your efforts, and hold your organization accountable for providing the time and fu

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Accounts 142

Michael Hyatt

JANUARY 1, 2024

It’s New Year’s Day. And if you haven’t already set some New Year’s Resolutions while staying up too late last night, you’ll probably find yourself thinking about the next twelve months sometime today. And if you’re not careful, you’re bound to fall into one of these common traps. Trap 1: Letting Shame Chart Your Course […] The post Big Mistakes To Avoid Today appeared first on Full Focus.

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 3, 2024

The path to your best self requires self-awareness. Self-awareness hinges on self-reflection. Self-reflection enables self-discovery. Here's how.

Leadership Development 114

Leadership Development 114

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2024

It’s not uncommon for managers to continue thinking about their job, even after the official workday is over. This may involve ruminating about an issue with an employee, trying to think of a solution to a client problem, or creating a mental to-do list for the next day. But new research shows that this tendency may not be beneficial, particularly for people new to a leadership role.

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Manager Leadership Development 136

BetterUp

JANUARY 5, 2024

It's easy to forget the impact that a simple act of kindness can have on ourselves and those around us. But kindness is contagious. Each act of kindness, no matter how small, has the potential to ignite a chain reaction of goodwill and positivity. It inspires us to act with courageous compassion and help those around us. Even random acts of kindness connect us with empathy, bringing more meaning, motivation, and love to our lives.

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Lolly Daskal

JANUARY 3, 2024

As the world of work evolves, artificial intelligence (AI) is quickly becoming a key component in modern business. AI holds the potential to revolutionize our work, transforming leadership roles and responsibilities. This is how AI will reshape the future of work and alter leadership dynamics forever: The Intersection of AI and Leadership Strategies: Leaders must think long-term, integrating AI into their strategic plans for market forecasting and supply chain optimization.

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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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Niagara Institute

JANUARY 4, 2024

Jack Welch once said, “Set stretch goals. Don’t settle for mediocrity. The key to stretch goals is to reach for more than you think is possible. Don’t sell yourself short by thinking that you’ll fail.” Is it really that straightforward, though?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2024

More than half of the electric vehicles (EVs) on roads worldwide are found in China. In 2022, new EV sales in China grew by 82%, and the country provided 35% of global EV exports. While the U.S., Norway, and other Scandinavian nations were early adopters of EVs, and Germany and Japan have long been automotive powerhouses, their EV markets have lagged in mass market adoption compared to China.

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Marketing Scaling Operations Sales 119

UVA Darden

JANUARY 5, 2024

Darden Ideas to Action: Most Read Stories of 2023 burtonc Fri, 01/05/2024 - 12:33 4 January 2024 Operations & Technology Business, Ethics & Society Modern Global Leadership Digital Transformation Business & Public Policy Global Economic Outlook Strategic Marketing Business Ethics Trends and predictions for the world and AI. The importance of careful communication.

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Business Administration Education Administration Media 98

Thought Leaders LLC

JANUARY 4, 2024

Our reader poll today asks: How are intellectual property and trademark rights viewed in your organization? They’re sacred and should never be violated 70.74% One should be careful not to violate them but … sometimes it happens 22.57% It’s not a big deal if you’re not overly obvious about violating them 4.87% Who cares? Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World.

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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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Get Lighthouse

JANUARY 5, 2024

Are you managing your own team? Wondering how to advance past your team of individual contributors to leading a group of managers? If you're reading this, chances are you've thought about the next big step in your leadership journey: becoming a senior leader. There's a lot to learn to reach the senior level. But first, you need to get the job. Fortunately, the steps to get there are similar to the key things to become a manager.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2024

Each year, thousands of executives retire from long and successful corporate careers. But few are prepared for the journey they are about to embark on. Based on conversations with dozens of highly respected former chief executives, the authors identified seven common mistakes, ranging from not preparing far enough in advance to thinking you can rely on your existing professional network to not realizing that behaviors that worked for you as an executive can work against you in retirement.

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Manager 118

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 4, 2024

Maybe you hate writing, or you don’t have time. But journaling is centering in a world gone mad. Record your thoughts to understand yourself.

Leadership Development 109

Leadership Development 109

Lolly Daskal

JANUARY 1, 2024

Be a visionary: The most effective leaders have a clear vision of what they want to achieve and are able to inspire others to work towards that vision. Be a strategic thinker: Business needs good strategic thinkers and the most effective leaders are able to think strategically and plan for the long-term. Be a good planner: The best leaders are able to plan effectively, and set clear and achievable goals.

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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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BetterUp

JANUARY 3, 2024

Optimize your productivity with the best time management tools. Learn to streamline tasks, set deadlines, and track progress in one centralized location.

Manager 102

Manager 102

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2024

You may be an expert at running your business unit or leading your team. But do you know how to advance your agenda across an organization, particularly if you have an idea that will impact its strategic direction? This article offers four key domains you can focus on to ensure you’ve prepared an agenda-setting mission: adopting an enterprise perspective, leveraging your strategic mindset, cultivating stakeholder awareness, and considering your personal motives and risks.

Manager 118

Manager 118

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 5, 2024

Journaling reminds you to participate in life. Enhance your journaling journey with simple sentence starters. Two or three sentences is a beginning.

Leadership Development 104

Leadership Development 104

AIHR

JANUARY 1, 2024

An exit survey can provide you with valuable insight into how employees truly feel at work in your organization. With the cost of losing an employee often between 1.5-2.0 times an employee’s annual salary, understanding why people leave your company and taking action to prevent this is crucial when it comes to meeting organizational goals and protecting your employer brand.

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Retention Compensation Benefits Scaling 90

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

Education

Andrew Chen

JANUARY 3, 2024

Hi readers, Doing a short round up on various links, books, a quick life update, and other stuff going on. First, I did not write much in 2023 (I was busy!!) but am proud of what I published… Blog posts from 2023 How to design a referral program. I headed up Uber’s driver and rider referral programs at various points of my time there — I provide a framework to think about referrals as an ask/target/incentive/payback, and break down the components of each one.

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Marketing Revenue Energy Media 86

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2024

Red teaming, a structured testing effort to find flaws and vulnerabilities in an AI system, is an important means of discovering and managing the risks posed by generative AI. The core concept is trusted actors simulate how adversaries would attack any given system. The term was popularized during the Cold War when the U.S. Defense Department tasked “red teams” with acting as the Soviet adversary, while blue teams were tasked with acting as the United States or its allies.

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Manager Risk Management 115

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 1, 2024

A big goal makes me feel powerful when it's 364 days away. A goal for today slaps me to attention. A year-long goal is a compass. Awareness of brevity sets the rudder.

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Leadership Development 89

AIHR

JANUARY 5, 2024

The HR department carries out some of the most critical roles in any organization, from sourcing candidates and hiring top talent to using data and analytics to make key business decisions. Over the past few decades, the role of HR has greatly evolved and continues to change in line with advances in technology and noticeable shifts in the world of work.

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Human Resources Compensation Compliance Organizational Development 85

Kellogg Insight

JANUARY 2, 2024

“The basic amenities people want are pretty universal, but every community has its own priorities and ideals.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2024

It is certainly important for people in some jobs to feel safe to speak up, make mistakes, take risks, or ask for help. They include jobs that involve creativity, learning, and exploration. But five studies of workers in a variety of frontline jobs found that more is not always more when it comes to psychological safety. Previous research had focused only on the average effects, which, of course, are made up of high scores and low scores.

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Manager 112

Viima

JANUARY 2, 2024

In the dynamic landscape of startups, a staggering 90% face the risk of failure, whether within the first year or succumbing to mounting challenges by the end of the fifth. These statistics echoed in articles spanning the last decade, underscore the unpredictable and volatile nature of the startup journey. Faced with such uncertainty, adopting a cost-effective, waste-free approach becomes not just a choice but a vital necessity.

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Marketing Manager 83

AIHR

JANUARY 4, 2024

Turnover and attrition are two basic HR metrics that companies should monitor on a regular basis. The data helps HR and management understand how long employees typically stay with an organization, and provides insight into what may or may not drive retention. Companies are more likely to retain employees when they feel engaged, productive, and understand how their job plays a role in the company’s overall success.

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Metrics Retention Compensation Reorganization 84

Thought Leaders LLC

JANUARY 3, 2024

Unlock the path from corporate executive to a thriving portfolio career, showcasing intentional choices and strategic career moves for lasting success. Today’s guest post is b y Merideth Mehlberg, author of YOUR FINEST WORK: Career Fulfillment In A Complicated World (CLICK HERE to get your copy). Renata, Vice President of Operations for a large fintech company, arrived for coaching ready to leave her role, but fearful of the risks such a shift would include.

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Operations 84

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2024

These meetings, in which supervisors discuss and adjust ratings across the company, are often intended to eradicate bias. In fact, they can have the opposite effect.

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Performance Review Human Resources Performance Management Retention 115