Peter Winick
DECEMBER 21, 2023
Discovering the strategy, tone, and modality for thought leadership. An interview with Robert Glazer about how he develops content, cultivates an audience, and pushes beyond limits! You can find an audience for your thought leadership on almost any social media platform. Time is the ultimate commodity – so, how do you break through the noise to get your audience’s attention?
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 18, 2023
Leaders often struggle to get complete, unfiltered information from the people around them. This wealth of unspoken information represents a great untapped resource for today’s leaders, and yet most remain at a loss for how to reliably access it. Common tactics for overcoming this problem, such as taking another’s perspective or reading their body language, simply aren’t sufficient.
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Lolly Daskal
DECEMBER 20, 2023
Succession planning is crucial for any organization, but it is especially important for top leaders. A well-crafted succession plan can ensure a smooth transition of power, minimize disruptions, and preserve the organization’s legacy. Here are some reasons why every top leader needs a succession plan and what key elements should be included in a successful plan: The Importance of Continuity: The most effective leaders understand that continuity is essential for the long-term success of an
Leadership Freak
DECEMBER 19, 2023
How can you love work when tomorrow’s storm giggles behind the door? Challenges are unending. Let's stop pretending that hard work is easy. Here are 5 ways to love work.
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!
Peter Winick
DECEMBER 18, 2023
Matching content with context to get the most out of your ideas. An interview with Ward Kampf about vision, strategy, and execution for taking ideas to scale. Can you spot a good idea? And when you do, how do you successfully find its best audience? These are just two questions we examine with today’s guest, Ward Kampf. Ward is the President of Northwood Retail, which leases, manages, and markets a portfolio of over five million square feet of mixed use and community properties.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 21, 2023
As AI proliferates, companies are using it to offer data-driven recommendations on a wide range of activities, from whom to hire to what product a salesperson should recommend to customers. How much to rely on these data-driven recommendations should hinge on two questions: How high are the decision stakes? And how reliable is the data-driven insight?
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Chief Outsiders
DECEMBER 20, 2023
Final article of the 7-part series: Accelerating Growth In 2024 with Strategic Business Planning By: Scott Wright and Jack Bowen In the relentless pursuit of growth, businesses often find themselves at a crossroads - a bustling marketing funnel generating a stream of leads, yet somehow, the path to conversion seems elusive. One study found that 71% of potential customers are not contacted, while only 13% of potential customers become opportunities.
Lolly Daskal
DECEMBER 21, 2023
As a leader, the ability to make sound, informed, and beneficial decisions is your fundamental job requirement. You may consider yourself a good decision-maker, but you can always optimize the process further. Here are seven tips for sharpening your leadership decision-making skills, so you can make better decisions for your organization: Overcome excessive self-confidence: The best leaders know that overconfidence can be a major hindrance to effective decision-making.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 20, 2023
Boards are not monolithic. They often are composed of people with different kinds of personalities. This article describes six types: the narcissist, the data chaser, the deferential, the status hound, the unprepared, and the stakeholder champion. It offers tactics for influencing each.
Leadership Freak
DECEMBER 21, 2023
What if your weaknesses revealed potential strengths? 1. Blunt – honesty. 2. Rigid – discipline. 3. Picky – analytical. 4. Indecisive – flexibility. How can you find strength in weakness? More.
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.
Chief Outsiders
DECEMBER 19, 2023
Article 6 of the 7-part series: Accelerating Growth In 2024 with Strategic Business Planning By: Scott Wright and Jack Bowen In a marketplace that's more competitive than ever, optimizing your marketing spend isn't just a best practice—it's a necessity for survival and accelerated growth. With shrinking resources and an ever-more diverse array of marketing platforms upon which to reach the customer, shooting arrows in the dark is no longer a viable marketing strategy.
BetterUp
DECEMBER 20, 2023
Jump to section 6 healthy habits to adopt Eat nutrient-rich foods Ditch the cigarettes Sleep well Drink less alcohol, drink more water Get regular exercise Practice self-care and self-compassion 3 ways to start building healthy habits The beginning of a new year is often a time for reflection. It’s a time to deeply examine your own habits and identify ways you can make changes for the better.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 22, 2023
More often than not, a firm that’s losing great employees year after year is being negatively affected by a leader’s bottleneck-style behaviors. These leaders don’t think they’re bottlenecks, but they’re often standing in the way of high-potential employees’ progress. To remove these bottlenecks in businesses, the author outlines the signs of a bottleneck leader and three strategies to delegate responsibilities and allow high-potential employees to take on more ownership: 1) Figure out who your
Leadership Freak
DECEMBER 22, 2023
It’s a waste of time to set personal goals before you define personal success. Before you set personal goals for the new year: 1. Define personal success. 2. Choose goals that affirm who you are. 3. Choose goals that express who you aspire to become. More.
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.
Niagara Institute
DECEMBER 20, 2023
You’ve recently received a promotion to a people management role - congratulations! However, as you soon found, managing people requires different skills than what is needed to excel as an individual contributor. Anyone can take on a new title and delegate tasks , but there is much more to being an effective manager than that.
AIHR
DECEMBER 18, 2023
In the face of accelerated change, a well-designed training matrix acts as a company’s shield, empowering HR professionals to anticipate skill gaps, prioritize training, deliver personalized interventions, encourage continuous learning, and align with strategic business goals. In fact, companies that offer training programs experience 53% lower attrition rates.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 21, 2023
Many MBA graduates consider moving internationally for their careers. But beyond the opportunities for personal and professional enrichment and the challenges of adjusting to new environments, what are the implications for their careers over the longer term — and especially for their compensation? To find out, the authors conducted a study of the career histories of MBA graduates from a leading European business school.
Leadership Freak
DECEMBER 20, 2023
You can't think for yourself when you’re worried about what others think. 1. Don't rush to research. 2. Consider how others could be right. 3. Reflect on who you're making happy. More.
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.
Lolly Daskal
DECEMBER 19, 2023
Effective communication is the key to running a successful and profitable business with minimal drama. As a leader, understanding your communication style and the styles of those around you is crucial for building trust and creating a culture of talking and listening within your team. We will explore the four main types of communication styles: passive, aggressive, passive aggressive, and assertive.
Michael McKinney
DECEMBER 22, 2023
B USINESSES are really bad at establishing an engaging culture. Despite its perceived importance, for the most part, companies have a miserable track record when it comes to managing their people. On the one hand, most CEOs agree with with the statement attributed to Peter Drucker: culture eats strategy for breakfast. Yet, on the other hand, the data shows that following through on this conviction can be elusive.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 18, 2023
Historically, disruption is extremely rare. Only 23 of the 568 companies included in the Fortune 500 since 1997 were under 15 years old when they entered. But right now, there are three forces converging that might transform finance and other industries. The first is the explosive growth of AI. The second is a massive migration of tech talent from big finance to big tech.
Thought Leaders LLC
DECEMBER 21, 2023
Our reader poll today asks: Do you have your team members write self-appraisals and use those as a basis for the review you write? Yes 73.64% No 15.46% We don’t write performance appraisals 10.90% Write it yourself. If you have the opportunity to write your own self appraisal (and based on the poll results, it looks like most people do), there are a few tips for getting the appraisal you want and deserve.
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
Leadership Freak
DECEMBER 18, 2023
Should you hire a friend? If you do, what needs to be in place to make it work. Here are 7 issues to explore before you hire a friend.
Eric Jacobson
DECEMBER 21, 2023
“To be most effective in today’s environment, leaders must be human leaders. Human leaders must be able to lead not only with their heads but also with their hearts and souls,” says veteran executive coach Hortense le Gentil , author of the new book, The Unlocked Leader: Dare to Free Your Own Voice, Lead with Empathy, and Shine Your Light in the World.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 22, 2023
Many managers view strategy as a complex subject, but at its essence it boils down to three questions: Where are we now? Where do we want to go? What is a credible path to get there? To successfully use these questions to chart a course, people must be brutally honest with themselves about where they are now. Once a company understands its present situation, it can chart a path to creating a truly differentiated offering that can create economic value.
Lolly Daskal
DECEMBER 22, 2023
Leadership is a vital aspect of any organization, and it is essential for leaders to continuously assess and improve their skills to ensure the success of their team. However, even the best leaders can fall into bad habits or become complacent, leading to a decline in their leadership effectiveness. Here are four obvious signs that indicate your leadership needs a reboot: Lack of direction and vision: As a leader, it is essential to have a clear vision for the future and to communicate that visi
Thought Leaders LLC
DECEMBER 19, 2023
Leadership is an endurance activity. Achieving peak leadership fitness requires self-awareness, goal setting, following a game plan, and overcoming challenges. Today’s post is by Timothy Tobin, author of Peak Leadership Fitness (CLICK HERE to get your copy). As an endurance athlete and someone who has devoted his professional career to leadership development, I have realized some amazing parallels between physical fitness and leadership fitness.
AIHR
DECEMBER 22, 2023
In a time when HR professionals are struggling to find, hire, and retain employees, the competition for talent is becoming more challenging by the day. One of the first things employees look at before even receiving a job offer is their compensation package. In fact, 83.4% of employees rank compensation as the top factor in job satisfaction. With nearly 40% of mid-career professionals prioritizing mandatory paid leave and over 80% seeking comprehensive healthcare benefits, it’s clear that
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 19, 2023
There is a large and growing divide in terms of who gets to work from home. Research on job postings found that remote work is far more common for higher paid roles, for roles that require more experience, for full-time work, and for roles that require more education. Managers should be aware of this divide, as it has the potential to create toxic dynamics within teams and to sap morale.
Michael Hyatt
DECEMBER 18, 2023
When General Electric pioneered the SMART goal framework, they taught goals should be realistic. And they were dead wrong. Ultramarathoner Dean Karnazes is an ultramarathoner who has run more than 350 miles nonstop. Crazy? Maybe. But listen to what he said to Outside magazine: Western culture has things a little backwards right now. We think […] The post Risk is the Way appeared first on Full Focus.
Kellogg Insight
DECEMBER 16, 2023
Companies across the economy are harnessing AI for a variety of functions in their businesses, with some further along in their strategies than others.
Eric Jacobson
DECEMBER 18, 2023
You can't lead if your employees, team or followers don't trust you. Building trust takes energy, effort and constant attention to how you act. To help build trust, follow these 16 tips , recommended by author Susan H.
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