July, 2020

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How to Help Your Idea Grenadiers and Silent Wounded Better Contribute

Let's Grow Leaders

If you’re like many leaders with whom we’ve shared our new book Courageous Cultures, you’re mentally indexing your team and wondering if they’re capable of micro-innovations, problem-solving, and advocating for your customer. You want them to contribute, but they’re reluctant or clumsy. […]. The post How to Help Your Idea Grenadiers and Silent Wounded Better Contribute appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Women as the next wave of growth in US wealth management

McKinsey

An unprecedented amount of assets will shift into the hands of US women over the next three to five years, representing a $30 trillion opportunity by the end of the decade.

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Intrapreneurs: The Rise Of The Organizational Innovators

Vantage Circle

There was a time when working in a 9 to 5 schedule was the norm for most employees. No , this is not an ancient times scenario but something as recent as two to three decades back. The employees in those days followed the instructions of their bosses to the T. They were hardly expected or encouraged to think and perform beyond their given scope of work.

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Free Virtual Workshops On Demand: Enhance Your Well-being with Creativity and the Arts

Creativity at Work

Free Virtual Workshops On Demand: Enhance Your Well-being with Creativity and the ArtsThis series of free online workshops explores ways to enhance your well-being with creativity and the arts At the height of the pandemic, I was invited by friend and colleague Beibei Song, to participate in creating a series of "playshops" on being Artful in Quarantine.

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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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Quarantine with my ex changes my opinion about good careers

Penelope Trunk

Things Nino hates about me: I yell. I’m ungrateful. I threw things when we were married. Things I hate about Nino: That he left. Five years ago. I supported the kids after the divorce, so he’s always had save-the-world jobs that pay almost nothing. But he came to the farm every weekend to see the kids. Once he had to skip two weekends for a work trip.

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10 Tips to Help You Write a Great Business Plan

crowdspring

Many entrepreneurs and business owners make mistakes when they rush to start a business before considering important details. A great business plan can help you anticipate important issues and possible challenges before you start your business. In fact, studies show that entrepreneurs who take the time to write a business plan are 2.5 times more likely to follow through and get their business off the ground.

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How the State Bank of India is learning from crisis

McKinsey

Rajnish Kumar, chairman of India’s largest bank, discusses COVID-19, digital transformation, and the future of work in financial services.

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9 Leadership Styles With Their Characteristics, Pros & Cons

Vantage Circle

Proper leadership is a vital component of success in the business world. A great leader can mentor, lead, inspire, and keep the team spirit alive, even in the toughest situations. It is particularly essential as in a dynamic corporate environment; lows outweigh the highs. In this process of guiding a team through, there are many leadership styles a leader may choose.

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5 Best Practices for Leading A Geographically Dispersed Team

CMOE

The war on talent seems to know no bounds. As organizations try to fill critical roles with people who have the right skills, they are constantly seeking strategies for attracting and retaining talent. One way organizations are filling the talent gap is by allowing team members to live and work remotely from the geographic areas they prefer. More and more teams are now either completely or partially geographically dispersed.

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Systems Can Set You Free

Lateral Action

Today I want to persuade you that systems can set you free. You might not associate systems with freedom, but bear with me while I explain. This morning I’m writing this article for you. The only thing I’m thinking about is you, and what I can say that will be most helpful. But how is […]. The post Systems Can Set You Free appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach.

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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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By: Eleanor Mills: women are still portrayed through the lens of a male, pale and stale establishment : Democratic Audit

LSE Business Review

[…] at the event The Tycoon and the Escort: The business of portraying women in newspapers, hosted by LSE Business Review. This post first appeared at LSE British Politics and […].

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How to Help Your Team Navigate Their Concerns About Culture Change

Let's Grow Leaders

When you’re working hard on culture change, it’s natural for your team to feel skeptical. After all, you’ve been thinking about this for a while. You’re committed to engagement and making a difference. You may wonder why your team isn’t breathing a […]. The post How to Help Your Team Navigate Their Concerns About Culture Change appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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The CEO moment: Leadership for a new era

McKinsey

Challenged by the global pandemic, CEOs have made four shifts in the way they lead that hold great promise for both companies and society. Will they build on this unique moment, or return to the ways of the past?

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5 Strategies for Recruiting in a Post-Pandemic World

Vantage Circle

The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the business world in every possible aspect. From the stock market crashing to unemployment rates reaching record lows, the past few months have proved to be incredibly challenging in every sense of the word. With so many companies forced to lay off employees and so many employees without work, looking ahead to the post-pandemic world is filled with uncertainty.

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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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How to Rebuild a Team During a Crisis [A CMOE Case Study]

CMOE

Helping leadership teams recover after the global pandemic will be no small task. In this blog, we will share the story of one leader who is using his experience with CMOE’s Team Alignment process to bring his team back from the brink. Case Study: Shawn. Shawn is considered by many to be a good leader. He wants the best for his team and all of his stakeholders and worked tirelessly during the pandemic-driven shutdown and subsequent reopening of his plant to ensure the business would survive.

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Naomi Dunford on Marketing for Creatives

Lateral Action

This week’s guest on The 21st Century Creative podcast is Naomi Dunford, a contrarian marketing guru who has been ‘helping weirdos sell things on the internet’ for many years. So if you’re the kind of creator who loves making your work but hates the very idea of marketing, then I recommend you listen to what […]. The post Naomi Dunford on Marketing for Creatives appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach.

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Common Project Management Issues You Can Solve With the Right Tools

Wrike

Every project manager faces project management issues from time to time. The good news is that managing risk and planning successful projects is easy when you use the right tools. The risks and issues project management professionals face can be prevented or decreased with a little advanced planning. Check out these project management problems and solutions you can use to effectively improve any future assignment with project management platforms such as Wrike. .

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Leaders Share about Mentoring: A Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

Are you looking to be a better mentor? Or, perhaps you’re looking for a mentor. In this month’s Frontline Festival, top leadership experts share their perspectives and insights on mentoring. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic […]. The post Leaders Share about Mentoring: A Frontline Festival appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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The great acceleration

McKinsey

The COVID-19 crisis has intensified existing trends, widening the gap between those at the top and bottom of the power curve of economic profit. Will your strategy keep you ahead of the accelerated pace of change?

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70 Best Compliments For Coworkers

Vantage Circle

Do you compliment your coworkers for their good job? Or, when you are in a team, do you recognize your coworker’s efforts? If you do, then how often? We invest most of our time and energy at work, yet more often we treat each other like outsiders. And when it comes to verbal compliments, most of us lack in that effort, even though we know that it doesn’t cost us any money.

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Waiting, Fishing, or Hunting

MultiPOD Mentoring

Dear Multipodian: Here are some considerations about looking for a job: Waiting for something to happen is only helpful if you are the child or political protegé of an all-important and powerful person, or if you are so good and great that people are waiting for you to graduate, plan to steal you from your current job, or want to recruit you “no matter what”.

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Pick up a Poem Instead of Your Phone

Lateral Action

Like many people you may have a love-hate relationship with your phone. On the one hand it gives you a world of information, entertainment and diverting pastimes at your fingertips. But it can also be addictive and feel like a waste of time – when you find yourself cycling through your news and social media […]. The post Pick up a Poem Instead of Your Phone appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach.

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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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Enterprise Teamwork: What It Is and How It Works

CMOE

Understanding the Team Environment. Like any dynamic system, a team operates within a broader and bigger system: the “environment.” Teams are an organic component of this system and play a role within it. Highly effective teams are able to support the environment and this system supports the team. The environment includes many components: the network of relationships with internal and external customers, suppliers, regulatory agencies, and the community as well as the network of relationships am

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How to Scale Best Practices Without Frustrating Your Team

Let's Grow Leaders

To scale best practices, focus on how they work in different contexts Has this ever happened to you? Your top-performing team seems to have discovered the secret to transforming their productivity, customer relationships, or sales. And then you think, “It’s time to […]. The post How to Scale Best Practices Without Frustrating Your Team appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Lean management or agile? The right answer may be both

McKinsey

Through thoughtful design, agile and lean management can be the perfect match for companies in search of lasting performance improvement.

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7 Noteworthy Tips to Improve Teamwork In The Workplace

Vantage Circle

The progress of mankind has always depended on extending mutual support to each other and working together as a team. This has led us to achieve many great feats from time to time and the same continues even today. The rapid globalization of businesses has now increased the demand for a high-performance workforce to stay on the competitive edge. As a result of this teamwork has now become one of the most followed organizational cultures.

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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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Waiting, Fishing, or Hunting

MultiPOD Mentoring

Dear Multipodian: Here are some considerations about looking for a job: Waiting for something to happen is only helpful if you are the child or political protegé of an all-important and powerful person, or if you are so good and great that people are waiting for you to graduate, plan to steal you from your current job, or want to recruit you “no matter what”.

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Making Music Sustainable with Steve Lawson

Lateral Action

This week’s guest on The 21st Century Creative podcast is Steve Lawson, a musician described by Bass Guitar magazine as “Britain’s most innovative bassist, no contest”. Instead of playing in a band as part of the rhythm section, the way bass players are supposed to, Steve is a solo artist, who creates what he describes […]. The post Making Music Sustainable with Steve Lawson appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach.

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What a Black person thinks when they read this blog

Penelope Trunk

Note from Penelope: This is a guest post of sorts. I asked Whitney to annotate one of my blog posts because I want to better understand the white privilege on my blog. I also thought this would be a way to share with you how much I learn from conversations I have had with Whitney leading up to this her commentary on this post. . Note from Whitney: I am an Ivy-League educated, millennial, cis, straight Black woman.

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Why Courageous Cultures are More Important Now than Ever (and more)

Let's Grow Leaders

No more safe silence – build courageous cultures for a brighter, bolder future We’ve spent the past three years researching, interviewing, and working with leaders of big and fast-growing companies, nonprofits, and government organizations around the globe to bring you Courageous Cultures: […]. The post Why Courageous Cultures are More Important Now than Ever (and more) appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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?