June, 2017

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Frontline Festival: Leaders Give Pointers on Handling Conflict

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. This month’s festival is about handling conflict in your team. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! Next month’s Frontline Festival is all about building brand awareness. What approaches are you and your team using to build your organization’s brand?

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Four Solutions If You’re Feeling Overworked and Underappreciated at Work

Career Advancement

“Phrases like ‘overworked and underpaid’ perpetuate that feeling.” ~ Lena Bottos ~. Steven put in extra-long hours on the project at work. It was highly technical and exceptionally difficult. When he was done, his boss offered no praise and Steven found himself feeling totally underappreciated. He felt upset and bitter. How could they not appreciate all the work he was doing?

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What CEOs are reading in 2017

McKinsey

Leaders of some of the world’s biggest organizations share which books will keep them occupied in the weeks ahead.

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Are Professional Certifications Worth It?

Eat Your Career

One question I get a lot is around the topic of professional certifications. People want to know if they’re worth it. After all, professional certifications cost hundreds—if not thousands—of dollars. And most require a significant investment of time and energy on top of it. So, do professional certifications actually have a measurable career payoff?

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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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My startup is imploding. I mean pivoting.

Penelope Trunk

Last week my older son took the SAT subject test for biology. He was supposed to take the AP test for biology but I didn’t realize that you have to start registering a homeschooler for AP tests around the time a NYC parent would start registering their child for preschool: in the womb. So after he studied for two hours a day for a whole year, he didn’t get to take the test.

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Design for Your Strengths

Strategy+Business

If you want to succeed at anything truly difficult, you have to design a learning process that builds on the things you do best. Through experiences such as his training in Olympic speed skating, and in his coaching of and working with others, John Coyle has come to recognize four key rules inherent in designing for your strengths: Accept your weaknesses; recognize your specific strengths; solve the right problem (which is not necessarily the problem other people have diagnosed for you); and, fi

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Class of 2017: Learn How to Impress Your Potential Employer

Career Advancement

“Be so good they can’t ignore you.” ~ Steve ~. Camden Asks: I’m going for my first set of interviews. I know I have the job skills to do the work I’m applying for, but what can I do to present myself well. How can I impress my potential employer? Joel Answers: Great job for graduating and having valuable job skills. You ask a critical question. Many people with great skills get passed over because they make some serious gaffs in the interview process.

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Untangling your organization’s decision making

McKinsey

Any organization can improve the speed and quality of its decisions by paying more attention to what it’s deciding.

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The Successful Creative Mindset with Joanna Penn

Lateral Action

This week’s guest on the 21st Century Creative Podcast is Joanna Penn, a best-selling, award-nominated thriller writer, as well as a publishing expert and host of The Creative Penn Podcast. Joanna is here to talk about mindset for creatives – specifically, the attitudes and ambitions that distinguish creatives who struggle from those who succeed – […].

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Struggling to be creative? Blame your brain

World Economic Forum

Scientists have discovered that using a targeted electric current to suppress a particular region of the brain can help break us out of states of creative flux.

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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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Why Startups Have to Think Differently About Their Skills Gap

Strategy+Business

With both cash and time in short supply at startups, skilled women seeking to restart their careers are a valuable talent pool.

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How to Build More a Customer-Centered, Empathetic Workforce

Let's Grow Leaders

When you call customer service you want to know 2 things: (1) Does the person who picked up your call care about you and your issue? and (2) Are they capable of fixing it? You don’t have to be a customer service expert to know within 20 seconds whether the guy on the other end of the phone cares and is eager to help. When we work with customer service departments, empathy is always identified as a top MIT (Most Important Thing).

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Two surprising strategies for effective innovation

TED

Picture this: Three kids are given a LEGO set with the pieces to build a fire department. All of them want to build as many new toys as possible. The first kid goes straight for the easy wins. He puts a tiny red hat on a tiny minifig : presto, a firefighter! In this way, he quickly makes several simple toys. The second kid goes by intuition. He chooses the pieces he’s drawn to and imagines how he could combine them.

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High-performing teams: A timeless leadership topic

McKinsey

CEOs and senior executives can employ proven techniques to create top-team performance.

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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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Designing a Global Small Business with Laurie Millotte

Lateral Action

This week’s guest on the 21st Century Creative Podcast is Laurie Millotte, designer and founder of Outshinery.com. On a round-the-world tip, Laurie spent time in Vietnam, Thailand, Japan, Hawaii, Mexico and other countries. And not only did she manage to keep running her existing design business from her laptop, she designed and created an entirely […].

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The end of the billion-dollar grossing movie

World Economic Forum

Netflix's chief content officer has suggested that films that gross over US$1 billion at the box office could become a thing of the past.

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11 Types of Strategic Maturity: Which One Describes Your Company?

Strategy+Business

A quick interactive diagnostic tool shows whether your strategy is coherent, how well it stacks up against your competitors, and how you can improve it.

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Before You Forget, Stop and Do This Immediately

Let's Grow Leaders

Have you ever met a truly humble person– someone who’s entire life is a sacrificial commitment to a cause they deeply believe in? As I spoke with Sister Louise in Thailand about her 50-year commitment to helping women and children out of extreme poverty and danger, I was blown away by her selfless mission. Although she’s Catholic her focus is not about a conversion of her 95% Buddhist community– it’s about “saving (with a little “s”) lost sheep.

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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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How to Be Proactive at Work: My Updated Strategies

Eat Your Career

Back in 2010, I wrote an article called How to Be Proactive at Work: My 5 Step System. Much to my surprise, it immediately became the most popular post on my website and remains in that coveted position to this day. Every week, hundreds (and sometimes thousands) of people search “How to be proactive at work” and land on my article. Over the years, I’ve often marveled at this.

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How artificial intelligence can deliver real value to companies

McKinsey

Companies new to the space can learn a great deal from early adopters who have invested billions into AI and are now beginning to reap a range of benefits.

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How Virtual Reality Will Shape Our Future with Fabrice Bourrelly

Lateral Action

This week’s guest on the 21st Century Creative Podcast is Fabrice Bourrelly, artist, architect and Virtual Reality designer. As Fabrice talks about his development as a creator, the conversation ranges from the cave paintings of southern France, to raves in 90s Paris, collaboration with Thomas Heatherwick, Google and Epic Games, and how virtual reality will […].

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Creative people do actually see the world differently. Here's why

World Economic Forum

People with creative personalities really do see the world differently, according to new research.

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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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How to Lead When Global Trust Is Plummeting

Strategy+Business

With the public's level of anxiety and distrust of executives and government officials, leaders must rethink how they relate to organizations.

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How to Help a Task Master Focus on People

Let's Grow Leaders

“I’m just not a people person.” “I hate this touchy-feely crap.” “See that! I’m a ‘C’ on the DiSC assessment this just doesn’t come naturally to me. Now let me get back to work!” Of course, all this may be true, for you, or for a manager that you’re working to develop. It’s also true, that if you want results that last, you can’t ignore the human side of teams.

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Can’t Keep a Job? Here’s Why

Eat Your Career

Every week, I get a ton of emails from blog readers with career questions they want me to answer. Typically, I don’t provide career advice via email—that’s why we have the monthly Q&A (“Ask the Career Coach”) video sessions. Members of the Free Career Resource Library can attend for free and submit questions of their own. But one question I get asked a lot is about job hopping.

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Creativity’s bottom line: How winning companies turn creativity into business value and growth

McKinsey

Top-performing companies use four key management practices to turn creativity into value.

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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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Steven Pressfield on Truth and Fiction

Lateral Action

This week’s guest on the 21st Century Creative Podcast is Steven Pressfield, author of the creativity classic The War of Art and a string of other bestselling fiction and nonfiction books. In today’s show Steve talks about his latest novel, The Knowledge, which he describes as “the origin story of The War of Art“, based […].

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These are some of the worst products ever created

World Economic Forum

Sweden's new 'Musuem of Failure' is designed to celebrate innovation and creativity - even when the product flops. Here are some items you can expect to see.

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Two Simple Concepts for Thinking about the Future

Strategy+Business

Building a network and improving your imagination can expand the road ahead.

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My son was accepted to Juilliard!

Penelope Trunk

This is my son on registration day at Juilliard. We are so excited. But not surprised. That’s what happens when you work this hard. You are not surprised. I am told it’s rare for a kid to get into Juilliard on the first try. Kids audition for three, four, five years before they get in. And that’s what we would have done. So we sort of, in the back of our heads, thought this is just what we are doing.

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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?