May, 2021

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A Manager’s Guide to Better Decision Making

Let's Grow Leaders

Best Practices for Better Decision Making. Have you ever heard any of these common decision-making frustrations? “Our conversations just go in circles, it seems like we can never make a decision around here!” “This is so stupid—you asked for my opinion and then ignored it. I don’t know why I even bother! From now on, I’m just going to shut my mouth and do my work.”. “We talked about so much I’m not even sure what we’re talking about.

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How to Become Your Boss’s Favorite Employee

Career Advancement

“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.” – Andrew Carnegie. Maybe you see yourself as a consistent overachiever—someone who always gets the job done well and on time—but you still have the sneaking suspicion that you’re not one of the boss’s favorite employees. Perhaps one of your coworkers has a much stronger rapport with your boss, even though you always go above and beyond expectations.

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Ed Catmull || The Soul of Pixar

Scott Barry Kaufman

Today it’s great to chat with Ed Catmull. Ed is the co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios and former president of Pixar Animation and Disney Animation. He has been honored with five Academy Awards, including the Gordon E. Sawyer Award for lifetime achievement in the field of computer graphics. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Utah and is the author of Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces that Stand in the Way of True Inspiration.

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Platform operating model for the AI bank of the future

McKinsey

Technology alone cannot define a successful AI bank; the AI bank of the future also needs an operating model that brings together the right talent, culture, and organizational design.

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How to Turn “Check-the-Box” Compliance Trainings Into Real Learning

Speaker: Brian Richardson, Brian Richardson, Founder and CEO of Richardson Consulting Group

Let’s face it—most ethics and compliance trainings aren’t winning awards for engagement. But that doesn’t mean they can’t be effective, relevant, and maybe even enjoyable! Join expert Brian Richardson for a dynamic session on how to breathe new life into your ethics and compliance training programs. You’ll discover creative strategies to turn traditionally dry topics into meaningful learning experiences that resonate and drive real change.

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The Ownership Mindset: An Essential Ingredient for Career Success

Eat Your Career

“Your company owns your job. You own your career.” Earl Nightingale. In my training programs, I cite the above quote more than any other…and for good reason! These words were originally coined by Earl Nightingale, an “old school” motivational speaker who grew up during the Great Depression and gained notoriety as a businessman and an award-winning radio broadcaster.

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3 Books on Creativity to Help You Flourish in the Future at Work

Creativity at Work

3 Books on Creativity to Help You Flourish in the Future at WorkThese books on creativity offer ways business leaders can support creativity, innovation, and talent in the new future of work Big Little Breakthroughs by Josh Linkner (2020) for unleashing creative potential in yourself and your team Softening the Edge by Mimi Nicklin (2020) for insights on leading with awareness, empathy, and compassion The Art of Noticing by Rob Walker [.].

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How to Increase your Visibility at Work

Career Advancement

“Recognition happens when you see yourself from the inside-out: as someone who can make an impact on the world instead of navigating the impact the world has on you.” ~Justine Musk. Ascher, who worked in a medical technology firm, had been making an effort to enhance how others perceived him over the past six months. He felt certain his coworkers saw him in a positive light.

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First Jobs & Core Stability: My Advice to 2021 College Grads

Marla Gottschalk

taiscapture@unsplash. I can only think of a handful of moments that would have been a more challenging time to enter the world of work. (The economic of crisis of 2008 quickly comes to mind.) In today’s pandemic world, job interviews are likely remote experiences & the flow of your job search may feel weirdly isolated and opaque. Recent grads won’t have the advantage of site visits or sitting in the same room, face to face, with one of their potential team members or supervisors.

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A new look at how corporations impact the economy and households

McKinsey

We map the different ways in which the economic value that large companies create flows to households in OECD economies and examine what has changed in the past quarter-century.

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Gender fluidity and Autism open gates of power for women

Penelope Trunk

James Maher Photography. US scientists are scared to talk about differences between male and female brains , probably because it will get them fired. The loudest voices say there cannot be male and female brains because there are women and men who think in similar ways. While universities in the US squelch ideas they don’t like , the rest of the world accepts the scientific theory that there is a male and female brain , and Autistic is the word to describe women who think the same way men

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Mid-Year Review: How to Ignite Employee Potential Through Meaningful Feedback

Mid-year performance reviews aren’t just boxes for HR to check. Paycor’s toolkit empowers leaders to: Identify high-potential team members. Boost engagement with meaningful feedback. Support struggling employees. Nurture top talent to drive results. Learn how to ignite employee potential through meaningful feedback. When you nurture top talent, everybody wins.

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Zoom Fatigue: Symptoms, Causes, and Management

Vantage Circle

Switching to remote work has thrown the regular 9-5 work-life out of balance. Now, we're all spending more time in meetings (often video calls) than ever before. It's a difficult situation, and we're all trying our best to adapt. As early as April 2020, 'Zoom Fatigue' was a noted phenomenon. Image credit- Unsplash. New research shows that video conferences can be mentally draining.

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Speak-up Culture: How to Encourage More (and Better) Ideas

Let's Grow Leaders

How to Draw out Better Ideas from Every Member of Your Team. You’re a human-centered leader working to create a courageous, speak-up culture filled with psychological safety. A culture where employees feel invited and encouraged to speak up and share their ideas and express their concerns. Even if you’re a rock star human-centered leader, doing all the right things to encourage micro-innovation and problem solving, it’s also likely that you have a few team members who still hav

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How to Influence others at Work

Career Advancement

“The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.” ~ Ken Blanchard. Haleigh had been working for months to enhance others’ perception of her. She felt like she was slipping under the radar and needed to increase her visibility in her organization. After taking on several high-profile projects and solving one major problem that had been troubling her boss, she knew she had met those goals.

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CEO Coach: How to Be a Leader in Today's World

CoCaptain

What do Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt, and Richard Branson have in common (other than running some of the most successful companies on the planet)? They all received executive coaching at some point in their careers. They didn’t just wake up one day, at the helm of a billion-dollar company, with a sharp leadership style, knowing exactly how to make seamless executive decisions and direct an army of employees in the right direction.

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The Hidden Skills That Separate Good Leaders from Great Ones

Speaker: Chandra McCormack, CPA, MBA, NACD.DC

Technical degrees might open doors—but it’s the soft skills that keep them open. In the face of disruption, evolving workplace dynamics, and rising expectations of leadership, soft skills like communication, emotional intelligence, and presence have become core business essentials—not nice-to-haves. Inspired by stories from her father coupled with her own career journey, seasoned executive Chandra McCormack breaks down how to lead with impact, connect with purpose, and cultivate a workplace cult

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Implementing a digital transformation at industrial companies

McKinsey

Six building blocks can help industrial companies create a strong digital strategy and generate top value from digitization.

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5 Stages of Conflict Resolution

CMOE

Eighty-five percent of all employees will experience conflict in the workplace. Often, team members, employees, and leaders have the desire to find a resolution to conflict and differences, but don’t know how to approach the situation. An effective leader recognizes that workplace conflict will happen and has the skills and tools to help team members resolve situations and differences in a collaborative way. 3 Benefits of Workplace Conflict Resolution.

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10 Ways To Develop Organizational Skills Among Employees

Vantage Circle

What do we understand by organizing in general? It means keeping things in proper order. Organizing a workplace is no exception. Your employees will benefit personally in their daily activities if they practice organizational skills effectively. It helps to get a sense of control, which leads to increased productivity at the workplace. Do your employees constantly keep complaining about the workload and the deadlines?

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One Super Power Every Great Middle Manager Masters

Let's Grow Leaders

If you are (or have been) a middle manager, you know how tough this role can be. You don’t set the strategic priorities, but you are accountable to make it happen—often without the influence to get all the resources you would like (or need) to get the job done. And every day, your team looks to you for support and a voice, which you may or may not able to provide.

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Building Compliant Workplace Violence Prevention Across States: CA SB-553 | NY S. 8358B

Speaker: Speakers:

Workplace violence prevention laws are rapidly evolving, with California’s SB-553 and New York’s Retail Worker Safety Act (S-8358B) leading the way. Join WILL’s experts for a nationwide webinar covering compliance requirements, with a special focus on these key state mandates. We’ll guide you through developing and implementing effective prevention policies, building a compliant plan, and delivering the required annual interactive training.

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4 Tips for Improving Work/Life Balance

Career Advancement

“We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.” ~ Arianna Huffington. A hectic work schedule, increased responsibility, new technology, and the need to read and respond to a daily deluge of email and voicemail place huge demands on your work life. With all this pressure, you might feel as if your work is a prison that you can never escape.

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Coaching for Startups: Ignoring These Tips Will Cost You Time and Money

CoCaptain

Technically, any new business is a startup, but the term implies funding, growth, and innovation. According to the Progressive Policy Institute, the American startup ecosystem is the world's envy, playing a critical role in the growth of our economy because they offer the highest potential for job growth. The startup boom , which started almost thirty years ago, is now spreading like wildfire across the country.

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Unequal America: Ten insights on the state of economic opportunity

McKinsey

The inaugural McKinsey American Opportunity Survey spotlights Americans’ views on economic opportunity, the obstacles they face, and the path ahead to create a more inclusive economy.

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Making Difficult Conversations Easier: 3 Quick Tips

CMOE

Why Can’t We Talk? A survey* of nearly 10,000 employees across 272 organizations revealed that a shocking 81% of people in a leadership or managerial role regularly avoid courageous conversations with their direct reports. Yet most leaders feel that the need to be able to share feedback with others is critical to their success. The same study also uncovered that 89% of employees avoid these conversations with their boss on a regular basis.

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

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5 Importance of Organizational Behavior in a Workplace

Vantage Circle

Organizational behavior is an essential part of people management in today’s work culture. The synergy and behavior between your people will determine their efficiency. In-depth learning provides an understanding of how employees communicate with one another. Their compatibility is vital so that work goes on without hiccups. Without your people’s unity, it is difficult to achieve long-term success.

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Drive Your Career Success – featuring Ed Evarts

Let's Grow Leaders

If you’re ambitious, talented, and ready to take your career to the next level, this episode is for you. Ed Evarts shares several principles of taking responsibility for your career. You’ll get practical ways to build a positive relationship with your boss, vital questions to ask yourself, the power of curiosity to advance your career, and more.

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What to Do When Someone Takes Credit for Your Work

Career Advancement

“A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.” – Arnold H. Glasow. Have you ever worked tirelessly to produce a report or a presentation, only to have a collaborator claim the limelight? You’re not alone. Nothing is more demotivating than having someone take credit for your work. We all know that being recognized for our contributions is crucial to career advancement, bringing benefits like the following: Establishing your worth and v

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4 Times Celebrity Coaching Showed Us the Value of Hiring a Business Coach

CoCaptain

Celebrities and billionaires— they're just like us! Well, no, not really. We don't all have the ability to quarantine on a private island or throw our money at a luxury yacht on the Adriatic. But there is one thing that proves these celebrities and self-made multi-millionaires and billionaires are mortals just like the rest of us—and that's coaching.

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The Everyday Donor: Unlocking Prospecting Segments Through Behavior Analysis

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Do you really know your donors? Not just what they give, but who they are? 👥 In this interactive session, we’ll break down how nonprofits can use behavioral indicators (affinity, recency, frequency, and monetary value) to build prospecting segments that go beyond wealth screening and actually align with donor identity. You’ll walk away with practical strategies to move beyond basic demographics and cultivate supporters based on how they already engage with you!

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Adopting a smart data mindset in a world of big data

McKinsey

Industrial companies are using artificial intelligence to improve plant operations. To be successful, they will need to transform their data with the help of domain experts.

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The colonialism of goal setting

ReNew Business

Interconnected - Messy Art by me Source: [link]. I have attempted to write this blog several times and struggled at giving voice to a deep frustration. The frustration of knowing that certain things do not work (for me and many others) while not knowing what new ways I can create… just yet. Maybe, I start with some definitions. Colonialism is a practice of control by people or power over other people or areas, often by establishing colonies and generally with the aim of economic dominance.

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Make your Bed. 10 lessons for life from a Navy Seal.

Charles Leon

Some people have a knack, because of their own life experience, of being able to impart universal lessons that resonate with us. Admiral William McRaven’s Commencement Address to students of the University of Texas at Austin in 2014 is one of those moments. This speech is well worth listening to. Watch the speech. “if you change the lives of just ten people and those ten people do the same; then after 5 generations you will have changed the lives of 800 million people”.

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What’s Going to Happen Next?

Let's Grow Leaders

What’s Going to Happen? – It Will Be Predictably Unpredictable. If only you had a crystal ball to know what’s going to happen. The planning, the decisions, the choices would be so much easier. But you don’t. And those decisions and tradeoffs aren’t easy. Will office work remain fully virtual, or move to a hybrid model? Is that project still realistic with all this uncertainty?

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Can Your Organization Spot a Conflict Before It’s a Crisis?

Speaker: Amie Phillips Pablo, VP, Corporate Compliance & Privacy Officer at Novo Nordisk

In today’s complex healthcare environment, navigating third-party relationships has become even more challenging—whether it’s vendor relationships, employee activities, or patient-facing interactions. Left unmanaged, these conflicts can compromise trust, regulatory compliance, and even organizational reputation. So, how can healthcare teams stay ahead?