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Is it self-help or is it about helping yourself?

Peter Winick

Transcript Hi there! It’s Peter Winick. I’m the founder and CEO at Thought Leadership Leverage. Here’s the idea I’d like to share with you today, and that is this: Is it a self-help book, or is it a book that you wrote to help yourself? What do I mean by this? When you start to talk to thought leaders and ask them questions, often times one of the most common themes that comes up is that it was an issue they were struggling with, a problem they were trying to solve, or so

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To Accelerate Growth, Analyze Your Company Like an Investor

Harvard Business Review

Private equity (PE) firms have a proven approach to identify areas for revenue growth, value creation, and cost reduction: due diligence. But companies rarely use this same approach in the execution of their own growth strategy. This is a missed opportunity. The same due diligence skills and tools can be found in most large companies, but they are usually siloed in the corporate development team — the folks who handle M&A, who rarely have a chance to apply their expertise to a company’s ongoing

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should we have “fun” out-of-office messages, managers trash-talk my old job, and more

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. Should we really have “fun” out-of-office messages? At a company-sponsored women’s networking event last year, a speaker suggested that people should make their out-of-office messages more “fun” — i.e., include details about where you’re going, who you’re going with, fun facts about the location, etc.

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3 Ways to Become a Leader People Love to Follow

Leadership Freak

94% of employees plan to stay at a company when they have a boss they love to follow. WSJ A bad boss makes life miserable. We've all had them. Let's think about become a leader people love to follow.

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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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The FAQs of Building and Maintaining Relationships at Work

Niagara Institute

Positive relationships at work, whether between a direct leader, peers, colleagues, suppliers, or customers, are an essential aspect of day-to-day life at work. From providing support to championing your ideas or being a sounding board, these workplace relationships have been shown to increase job satisfaction and engagement, innovation, knowledge sharing, connection, and even physical health benefits.

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Is Your Company’s Data Ready for Generative AI?

Harvard Business Review

While CDOs and data leaders are excited about generative AI, they have much work to do to get ready for it. A recent survey of 334 CDOs and data leaders — and a series of interviews with these executives — reveals that companies have not yet created new data strategies or begun to manage their data in the ways necessary to make generative AI work for them.

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Key Human Resources (HR) Pillars: Your 101 Guide

AIHR

Human Resources continues to evolve with new and changing laws, trends, and business needs. Yet, many of the various HR pillars have remained constant. Simply put, HR pillars are the main focus areas that form the building blocks of a company’s HR and people strategy. Let’s get back to basics and explain the fundamentals of HR, the main HR functions and foundations, and get an overview of the key pillars of HR to help you build an effective people strategy.

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3 Ways to Energize People during Conversations

Leadership Freak

Successful leaders energize people. Focused energy makes success more likely. People won’t tell you this, they don’t like talking with you when you don’t like talking with them. I decided to write about simple ways to energize people during conversations. How do you energize people?

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When Attending Industry Events, Avoid These Legal Risks

Harvard Business Review

There are plenty of good reasons to attend industry conferences, trade fairs, and other events, but they also present opportunities for the accidental disclosure of sensitive company information or other actions that run afoul of fair-competition regulations. Through their work executive coaching leaders in emerging and traditional technology ecosystems and working with organizations on ethics and compliance challenges, the authors have uncovered several strategies to equip your team to attend i

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update: an employee is out to get my star performer, and no one else cares

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. Remember the letter-writer who managed a star performer who was being targeted by a coworker and no one else in the company’s leadership cared ? Here’s the update. First, the best news! Tina earned a huge promotion to a different department a couple of weeks after you published my letter.

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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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Leading Thoughts for March 28, 2024

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. Executive coach Daniel Harkavy on the core coaching competency of discernment: “Discernment refers to the ability to see what is not visible, to understand what is not being said. Discernment enables a coach to ask effective questions, unearthing roadblocks, fears, and doubts that keep a team member from reaching his or her goals.

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Simple Ways Employers Can Show Appreciation for Their Employees

Thought Leaders LLC

To boost employee satisfaction and retention, try recognizing your employees with personal and meaningful gifts. Today’s guest post is b y Eshed Doni , CEO & Founder — GiftCrowd Employees are the backbone of your organization. Showing appreciation for their hard work and dedication is not only good manners but also good business. A recently updated report from Gallup reveals that when companies prioritize employee recognition, they experience significantly decreased turnover and increa

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Research: How Different Fields Are Using GenAI to Redefine Roles

Harvard Business Review

The interactive, conversational, analytical, and generative features of GenAI offer support for creativity, problem-solving, and processing and digestion of large bodies of information. Therefore, these features can act as cognitive resources for knowledge workers. Moreover, the capabilities of GenAI can mitigate various hindrances to effective performance that knowledge workers may encounter in their jobs, including time pressure, gaps in knowledge and skills, and negative feelings (such as bor

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my company has no reporting structure and no training

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I work for a professional services company that currently has no real reporting structure and it’s driving me insane. The company is relatively new and for the first few years, it was about five people who all functioned as one team: my boss, Malcolm; his second-in-command, Wash; and several junior staff working under them.

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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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Ten Principles to Keep Our Anger in Check

Michael McKinney

A NGER comes down to a distortion of the self in relation to the world. It is the distorted view that we are the arbitrators of truth and justice. Anger assumes privilege. Anger exercised gives us a jolt of temporary superiority. It is fair to say that there is often much at work and the world at large to legitimately get angry about—when things are not working as we think they should.

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Resiliency: Building Unbreakable Strength In Uncertain Times

BetterUp

Resiliency refers to your ability to respond to stress in healthy ways. Learn how you can cultivate a resilient mindset with healthy habits.

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How Pixar Fosters a Culture of Vulnerability at Work

Harvard Business Review

In an era where the boundary between work and personal life is increasingly blurred, navigating personal story sharing demands a nuanced approach. For workers, sharing the personal remains essential to their well-being and success, but requires an intentional and strategic approach. The way forward for leaders involves dismantling workplace paradigms that penalize some individuals for sharing with vulnerability.

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Ted Lasso Was Wrong: Don’t Be a Goldfish

Michael Hyatt

Accidental soccer coach Ted Lasso is famous for telling his players to “be a goldfish.” Why? Because a goldfish has a ten-second memory and can’t dwell on its mistakes. That’s a plus, but there’s a downside. Research shows a connection between working memory and our ability to focus. “Individuals who perform well on memory tasks […] The post Ted Lasso Was Wrong: Don’t Be a Goldfish appeared first on Full Focus.

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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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How to Lead One-On-Ones that Change Lives

Leadership Freak

I bet you had a conversation that changed the trajectory of your life. How can you lead life changing conversations. It's not always predictable, but some skills make it more likely. How to lead one-on-ones that change lives.

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Four Responses to Feedback

Ed Batista

If feedback isn't a gift, what is it? It's data. About our impact on a particular individual at a particular point in time. And while it may be "true" in the sense that the feedback-giver is accurately representing their perspective, that doesn't make it The Truth. Because feedback always says as much about the giver as the recipient. It's filtered through their reality-distortion fields, reflecting their personal values and priorities. [1] It's important to be open to feedback, even--and especi

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How Gamification Can Boost Employee Engagement

Harvard Business Review

Employee disengagement is a persistent problem, and attempts to inject excitement often fall flat. However, gamification — using elements of games to motivate — has serious potential when thoughtfully executed. This article explores the psychology behind gamification, successful examples, and how to leverage probabilistic rewards (like lotteries tied to performance) to increase employee motivation.

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10 Ways Unappreciated Employees Drain the Bottom Line

Lolly Daskal

In the intricate web of a successful organization, each employee plays a pivotal role. They are the lifeblood of the company. However, when employees feel undervalued, the repercussions extend beyond mere job dissatisfaction. It can have a significant impact on the company’s bottom line. It is important that we explore the ten ways unappreciated employees might be silently undermining your organization’s financial health.

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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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What’s the likelihood that you’re going to voluntarily leave your current company within the next 12 months?

Thought Leaders LLC

Our reader poll today asks: What’s the likelihood that you’re going to voluntarily leave your current company within the next 12 months? 100%: 17.22% 66-99%: 11.80% 33-65%: 11.79% 1-32%: 20.99% 0%: 38.20% Bye. 28% of respondents are headed out the door in the next 12 months. Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World.

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Where Pricing and Marketing Strategies Intersect

Chief Outsiders

Back in the day, pricing was a foundational piece of all marketing strategies. When I went to grad school, for example, the four Ps were in vogue – product, price, place, and promotion. At that time, the intersection of pricing and marketing was seen as a given, almost a tautological concept. But as marketing professionals and professors' desire to innovate and differentiate intensified, the traditional 4Ps evolved into new frameworks like the “4Cs”, emphasizing concepts such as customer, cost,

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Why Playing It Safe Is the Riskiest Strategic Choice

Harvard Business Review

In the current era of digital disruption, the pace of change has dramatically accelerated, leaving traditional risk management wisdom lacking. Across a variety of industries, technology-enabled disruptors have changed the rules. Many brands that moved cautiously have dramatically increased their risk of irrelevance or set themselves on a path to extinction.

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Why Understanding Gen Z Is Your Leadership’s Next Big Step

Lolly Daskal

Understanding and adapting to the unique characteristics of each generation is a crucial aspect of effective leadership. As we navigate the ever-changing evolution of the workforce, the spotlight is now on Generation Z. These digital natives, born between 1997 and 2012, are poised to make a significant impact on the workplace. To lead successfully in this evolving era, it’s essential for leaders to grasp the intricacies of Gen Z and their expectations.

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How to Overcome Analysis Paralysis

Thought Leaders LLC

Do you struggle to get things done because you overthink your work? Try these three tips to overcome “analysis paralysis.” Many times I’ve heard it said that perfect is the enemy of done. A big barrier to executing initiatives is analysis paralysis. The team gets bogged down on proving their case is 100% accurate and risk-free before they act.

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employee uses the bathroom stall with the door wide open

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I have (what I think is) an outlandish question for you, but I promise it’s true. It comes from my coworker’s spouse. At her place of employment, they have found it difficult to retain anyone in the administrative assistant position. It sounds like there was a lot of turnover in that role, to the point that management is desperate to retain someone … anyone!

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Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Program with Real Impact

Harvard Business Review

Exploring the critical role of experimentation in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), research on four multinational companies reveals a stark difference in CSR effectiveness. Successful companies integrate an experimental approach, constantly adapting their CSR practices based on local feedback and knowledge. This strategy fosters genuine community engagement and responsive initiatives, as seen in a mining company’s impactful HIV/AIDS program.

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How Artificial Intelligence Will Redefine Leadership Forever

Lolly Daskal

Artificial intelligence (AI) is not merely a technological trend; it’s a profound transformation that promises to redefine leadership permanently. As a seasoned executive leadership coach, I’m keenly aware of the seismic shifts AI is bringing to the business world. In this blog, we’ll delve into four key areas where AI is reshaping leadership and providing insights into how leaders can thrive in this evolving landscape.

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What Is DEI Training? Your 101 Guide in 2024

AIHR

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) has become the building blocks of organizational success and social advancement. Forward-thinking organizations increasingly focus on DEIB initiatives to drive innovation , promote collaboration, and improve employee wellbeing by recognizing the value of diverse viewpoints, equitable opportunities, and inclusive cultures.

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wearing revealing exercise clothes around coworkers, telling an employer I have another offer, and more

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. Wearing revealing clothes to exercise around coworkers I’m a young woman at my first corporate job in a male-dominated field. I go to the gym across the street after work on most days; it’s not affiliated with the company. For comfort and convenience, I often wear somewhat revealing clothes to exercise (tight shorts and crop tops/sports bras).

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