December, 2021

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How to Have a Better Relationship with Your Manager (with Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

If you’re looking to have a better relationship with your manager, start here. “Hi Karin, I’ve been applying a lot of the tools and techniques I’ve learned in your leadership development program, and I’m getting some nice momentum. And, now I’m wondering do you think any of these techniques could work in building a better relationship with my boss?

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How to Become an Innovative Leader

On The Job

Anyone hoping to move up the leadership ranks better put "innovative" at the top of their resume. Innovation is highly prized by companies because it means that this person is always on the lookout for new ideas and new opportunities, which are critical in succeeding into today's competitive marketplace. In an XBInsight study of almost 5,000 leaders across a wide range of industries, here are the competencies that innovative leaders share and how you can do the same: 1.

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On making your own decisions

Darius Foroux

How often do you decide to go a certain direction, whether that’s in your career or personal life, and you end up deviating from where you… Continue reading on Stoic Letter »

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Married to the job no more: Craving flexibility, parents are quitting to get it

McKinsey

Working parents are among the record number of employees leaving their jobs or thinking about doing so. To keep this crucial group, organizations must address why they’re drawn to other options.

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HIA Technologies Turns a New Chapter in Professional Development and Training

HIA Technologies announces the launch of Qvio™️ - transforming video engagement with two-way interactivity. With Qvio viewers can ask questions and get instant answers from the content owner's Author-Controlled AI™️.

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40 New Year Messages To Employees To Boost Their Morale

Vantage Circle

Another year full of surprises is drawing to a close, giving way to a new one full of possibilities and hope. And now is the ideal time to thank your employees for their unwavering dedication and work ethics with some meaningful new year messages. These employee new year texts will demonstrate how much you value them and help end the year pleasantly.

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The Best Leadership Articles of 2021 (according to you)

Let's Grow Leaders

Your Favorite Leadership Articles of the Year. Every year we take a really close look at our human-centered, practical leadership content that is resonating with you. And, use that insight to help us plan for what would serve you most in the new year. These are your favorite leadership articles of 2021 based on views and shares. Click on the headlines or pictures for links.

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3 Questions You Must Ask to Get Ahead

On The Job

Are you good at your job? If so, congratulations. But it's not enough. If you really want to move up in your career or in your company, then you've got to offer more. You have to go beyond your job description and figure out how your input contributes to the bottom-line success of the company. Here's how to figure out where you also need to focus your energies if you want to move up: 1.

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Changing Others: The Impossible Conversation

Coach Training World

The post Changing Others: The Impossible Conversation appeared first on Coach Training World.

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The economic state of Latinos in America: The American dream deferred

McKinsey

Addressing the barriers preventing Latinos from full economic participation could have a multitrillion-dollar impact, further unleashing their entrepreneurial spirit, creating millions of jobs, driving consumer spending, and building intergenerational wealth.

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The Ultimate LMS Buyer’s Guide: Everything You Need to Know When Purchasing an LMS

Whether you’re shopping for your very first learning management system (LMS) or looking to upgrade, the process can be overwhelming. With so many vendor options, each with its own multitude of features and pricing structures, even the most seasoned educators, trainers, and business leaders can feel lost in a sea of choices! Finding the LMS that’s best suited for your organization requires a planned, strategic approach.

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Happy New Year – Year End Worksheet

Create Your Career Path

Happy Holidays to you and your loved ones! Thank you so much for allowing us to be a part of your career journey, especially during such interesting times. A lot has happened this year to everyone professionally, to say the least. We hope your family has remained healthy and safe during this past year. To help you close out 2021 (and for some of us say see ya later wholeheartedly), and ring in 2022 in the right way, we have this New Year’s Checklist you can use.

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The #DoingHappy House: A Thought Experiment

PerfectCoaches

Happy New Year 2022. Happy? That seems like Mission Impossible. Should you accept the mission? In movies that is an option on, but maybe we don’t have a choice. The drum beat of fear and anger in the news can make us forget that life can bring joy and happiness. That’s what the #DoingHappy Challenge, as discussed at PerfectCoaches.com, is all about.

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Addressing Problems with Your Peers

Let's Grow Leaders

What do you do when you see a problem and you want to bring it to your colleagues’ attention, but you’re worried it might create problems? This topic came in as a question from a member of the Let’s Grow Leaders community and it’s a fantastic opportunity to address some leadership challenges that everyone can empathize with. In this episode, you get three steps to use to address problems with your peers.

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What Does Your Pride Say About You?

On The Job

Many of us have been taught from a young age that lacking humility is a downfall. Of course, now that social media has come along, it seems that bragging is an art form. We might be able to ignore the celebrity or star athlete who can't quit bragging online, but it can be more difficult to stomach the boss or the colleague who is always gloating. We might believe that we shouldn't brag -- but one expert says that not correct.

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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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Skip your 2022 New Year’s Resolutions

Coach Training World

The post Skip your 2022 New Year’s Resolutions appeared first on Coach Training World.

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The CEO: Architect of the new operations agenda

McKinsey

To thrive in a volatile and unpredictable postpandemic economy, companies need smarter, faster, more agile operations. That requires big changes—and commitment from the very top of the organization.

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Team Building: Bringing A Team Together

Vantage Circle

Getting people together in a room is not the most difficult thing in the world today. But building a team that works in sync, respecting each other's individuality, and helping each other grow certainly is, and it is where the idea of team-building comes from. Team building is about building diverse skills, people, and approaches. It aims to boost workgroup productivity by improving the individuals' interpersonal skills , their capability to solve problems and accomplish tasks, and their ability

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Setting Goals: The Cause Mapping Certification Program and Your Problem-Solving Skills

Think Reliablility

I don’t know about anyone else… but I cannot wait to get out of this year and into 2022 – more than any other year. This year was unforgettable—one for the books. I wish life would magically resume to normal when the clock strikes midnight, but I know it’s not the case. However, it’s not stopping me from using it as a “fresh start.” I like the idea of setting goals or New Year resolutions to help motivate and focus my efforts.

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eWOW 2023 Virtual Summit #OwnYourGrowth

At eWOW, we are all about holistic growth – personal and professional. Growth that goes beyond a job title and paycheck. This year, eWOW 2023 virtual summit focuses on owning your growth – an action plan that will help you chart your path to success that is unique to you.

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Appreciative Inquiry with Jackie Stavros and Cheri Torres

Let's Grow Leaders

Conversations are the soul of leadership. We all know that conversations influence us, but we rarely stop to think about how much impact they have on our well-being and our ability to thrive. The art of Appreciative Inquiry gives you the ability to have conversations that truly matter, build better relationships, and achieve more together. In this episode, Jackie Stavros and Cheri Torres give you 2 practices and 5 principles to create great conversations.

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Making Problems Disappear Forever

Eure Consulting

This is the nineteenth installment in our 25-week series exploring the 25 competencies, or soft skills, that our assessments measure. Each week we’ll give you the definition of that competency, explain its value, and give you tips to help you develop it. This week: Problem Solving. Problem Solving is defining, analyzing, and diagnosing key components of a problem to formulate a solution.

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Frank Greer on Following Advice for Growth

Designli

Frank Greer didn’t have 5 million dollars to start a company. So as he sat through a business conference listening to the speaker say that “bootstrapping” is the only way to fund a business, he knew that this advice didn’t apply to him. This post is part of Designli’s “Entrepreneurial Insights” series – where we profile South Carolina’s most successful… → The post Frank Greer on Following Advice for Growth appeared first on Designli Blog.

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Author Talks: How to interrupt bias in the workplace

McKinsey

Companies spend billions of dollars annually on diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, but the results are few. Using basic tools to interrupt bias can help.

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Cancel Quiet Quitting: Detoxing Corporate Culture & Engaging Top Talent

Speaker: Jennifer Brick, Career Strategist and Author

Your employees have checked out. The last few years have been a wild ride, with countless changes to how we work and our workplace cultures, like the sudden shift to remote work, the return to office, and trends like quiet quitting. With productivity, profitability, and your employer brand on the line, leadership is turning to HR to engage employees and recreate your culture in different working models.

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How to Choose a Leadership Development Program

Harvard Professional Development

You have many options for continuing your education, from conferences to traditional college courses. For seasoned professionals wanting to level up in their careers, one option provides both a short format and personalized, expert-level instruction. Leadership development programs typically last two to five days and are led by an instructor (or group of instructors) with extensive experience leading organizations and managing teams.

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Top 10 Employee Advocacy Tools That You Need

Vantage Circle

In today's world, a company's brand reputability is heavily influenced by how it is perceived, seen, and discussed by the general public. And the concept of employee advocacy has helped this cause. To further assist organizations in streamlining the advocacy process, using a good employee advocacy tool has become something of a prerequisite to upgrading its brand value.

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Diversity Hiring Best Practices: Video with Arthur Woods

Let's Grow Leaders

Don’t Miss This Important Opportunity for Diversity Hiring. I’m having to do so much hiring because of the great resignation. I don’t want to miss the opportunity to do it right. What are some diversity hiring best practices? #AskingforaFriend? . Diversity hiring goes beyond checking boxes and percentages. It means looking at processes, language, and consideration of people of all kinds of varied backgrounds.

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The "how to". an obsession

ReNew Business

We long to be given the next step and the route to the horizon, allaying our anxiety with the illusion of a destination somewhere beyond the vista of our present life. Maria Popova Let’s reflect on the "HOW TO" endless list of blogs, books, advices. What if instead of an "HOW TO for Dummies" we needed a letter from the inside ? What is this inside? Emotions, shared struggles, fears, and triumphs. all the messiness that does not comply to the "HOW TO" that makes us feel "unsuccessful"; the fabric

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Top Techniques for Coaching Your Contact Center Agents

Speaker: Francoise Tourniaire - Founder of FT Works, Omid Razavi - Chief Advocacy Officer at SupportLogic, and Gregory Walker - Senior Product Manager at SupportLogic

The 'great resignation' and the 'great talent reshuffle' have impacted contact center and customer support staff as much, if not more than, any other part of the workforce. Couple that with a potentially volatile economy and it's clear that organizations must invest in innovative approaches if they want employees who are engaged and informed enough to significantly improve the customer experience and eliminate the high costs associated with agent attrition.