April, 2023

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Nurture is Nature for Every Coach!

International Coaching Federation

According to the 2020 ICF Global Coaching Study , the number of coaches has grown to a phenomenal 71,000 worldwide. A growing coaching marketplace means greater competition and the need for coaches to be skilled in attracting and serving their ideal clients. However, many coaches associate attracting with a negative sales-y, somewhat uncomfortable approach to networking and marketing their business.

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How To Influence a Know-it-All at Work (Powerful Phrases For More Confidence)

Let's Grow Leaders

Show Up With More Confidence, Find Your Voice, AND Leverage Their Expertise, If you’re choosing to read this, we know you know the type. The dude who thinks they know-it-all, and doesn’t hesitate to pontificate, question, and debate everything. They offer unsolicited advice or undesired help. These characters make you want to scream “stay in your lane!

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Networking Plan: How to Create One in 7 Easy Steps

BetterUp

Jump to section What’s a networking plan?

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Better Management Will Help Drive Productivity Improvements

Forbes Careers

Good management is an often under-appreciated factor in driving productivity, but insufficient effort is given to how management competency can be developed, especially in smaller businesses.

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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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Marking The Moment: 9 Special Ways To Celebrate Employee Milestones

Vantage Circle

An employee milestone is any professional achievement or a point of progress in an individual's career. There are numerous milestones to celebrate at work, from small victories like finishing a challenging job to bigger ones like getting a promotion or getting a new client! But are employee milestones exclusively tied to the workplace? Now that's a question that you might have often wondered.

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Here’s Why You Should Go for Your ICF MCC Credential

International Coaching Federation

The International Coaching Federation’s (ICF) new Level 3 education path is for the Professional Certified Coach (PCC), who is ready to go for the coveted Master Certified Coach (MCC) credential. I’ve heard from many of you that there is a desire to pursue this higher credential; however, several of you still have questions, such as, “Why should I bother?

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Workplace Culture: How to Leverage Innovation No AI Bot Can Replace

Let's Grow Leaders

The Power of Workplace Culture in an AI Universe: A virtual conversation about Empathy and Innovation Note: This article on Workplace Culture is an excerpt from Chapter 2 of our book, Courageous Culture: How to Build Teams of Micro-Innovators, Problem Solvers, and Customer Advocates. And, for grins and remarkably accurate insights, ChatGPT weighs in with commentary at the end.

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The next frontier in risk efficiency

McKinsey

As global risks increase and economic uncertainty persists, the risk functions within the financial services industry must continue to evolve talent to ensure organizational resiliency.

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18 Effective Strategies to Improve Your Communication Skills

BetterUp

Communication skills are some of the most utilized and the most sought after in the workplace. They’re essential for leaders and individual contributors to hone. Looking at our largely remot and hybrid work environments, great communication skills make the difference between connected, agile teams, and teams who fail to collaborate, stay aligned, and achieve common goals.

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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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Seminar / Webinar: Governance of career guidance systems (Wednesday 26th April)

Adventures in Career Development

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Governance of Career Guidance Systems in Nordic Countries Exploratory Workshops proudly presents a keynote lecture on the Governance of Career Guidance Systems. Please sign up if you are interested in attending. You are warmly invited to join the keynotes, which will be held on Wednesday 26th April at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, in Lillehammer or on Zoom.

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McDonald's Restructuring: Layoffs And Office Closures Amidst The Fast-Food Giant's Strategic Evolution

Forbes Careers

As part of a broader company restructuring plan, McDonald's Corp. (MCD) announced that it will be temporarily closing its U.S. offices during the week of April 3 as the company prepares to inform corporate employees about impending layoffs.

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6 Tips for a Standout Coaching Culture from Intel

International Coaching Federation

Rising tides lift all boats often refers to increasing stock prices boosting the economy. However, it’s also an apt metaphor for the impact of nurturing a corporate coaching culture. A workplace that promotes the development of coaching skills for high-potential managers has a trickledown effect, such as improved retention, greater profitability, and organizational attainment of strategic goals.

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Creativity in marketing – the secret ingredient you’ve probably not considered

Ayoa

In today’s era of mobile-first communication, the ways in which we consume is evolving faster than ever before. We’re exposed to hundreds of media messages every day, making it increasingly difficult for marketers to cut through the clutter. However, it also provides endless opportunities to create more exciting and revolutionary ways to tell stories and engage our audiences.

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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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Cybersecurity for the IoT: How trust can unlock value

McKinsey

For today’s fragmented Internet of Things (IoT) to reach its potential as a fully interconnected ecosystem, the answer may lie in the convergence of cybersecurity and the IoT.

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Work Motivation: What It is and Why It is Important

BetterUp

Think about the last time you procrastinated. Think about the last time you failed to accomplish a task or goal. It could be something like preparing your tax returns or starting to practice meditation. Would you say you didn’t do it because you decided it was not important anymore? Probably not. Most people would recognize that they failed to start or complete the task because they didn’t feel motivated at the time.

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I Can Tell You’re in a Bad Mood. Your Email Gives it Away.

Your Work, Your Way

Preply.com, an online tutoring company, was curious about how email customs have changed over the years and about how workers felt about it. I’ve written before about the pressure women in business feel to be overly cheerful and expressive in email – the excessive use of exclamation points is not optional for them. It turns out that all employees read moods through email, and they have some strong opinions.

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A Crash Course In What To Do Before Going Into A Job Interview

Forbes Careers

You can empower yourself by thoroughly reviewing the job description, conducting due diligence on the company, researching the interviewers on LinkedIn, cleaning up your social media footprint, role-playing interview questions and preparing the questions you’ll ask beforehand.

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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.

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Establishing Yourself as a Thought Leader

International Coaching Federation

We all have the ingredients to establish ourselves as thought leaders. As coaches, we develop unique perspectives based on our personal experiences, expertise, and values. These unique perspectives become thought leadership when they leave our minds in service of others. The challenge is that we, too often, are not communicating our own thought leadership.

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7 Practical Ways Companies Can Benefit From a Digital Recognition Program

Vantage Circle

Recognizing your employees' hard work is vital in a competitive business environment. It's human nature to feel motivated and inspired to give your best to a role if your company fosters a culture of appreciation. Having a recognition program in place to reward, engage, and boost staff retention and loyalty is nothing new. But traditionally, managers have done this manually, relying on their internal systems of feedback, appraisals, and targets.

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Exploring opportunities in the generative AI value chain

McKinsey

Generative AI is giving rise to an entire ecosystem, from hardware providers to application builders, that will help bring its potential for business to fruition.

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I Got Laid Off Without Warning: Everything You Should Know

BetterUp

Jump to section What does it mean to be laid off? What’s the difference between being laid off and fired? What to expect from a layoff Layoffs with no warning and the federal WARN Act What laws protect me from layoffs? Should I sue my employer?

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Asking the Humans: Using People Data to Create a Great Employee Experience

Speaker: Karen Weeks, Chief People Officer at Ordergroove

As HR professionals, we always want to make sure the work we are doing, the programs we are rolling out, and the perks we offer have the most value and impact to the team. How can we determine what that means for our organizations? We need to ask our team! In this webinar, we will be focusing on where and how to use surveys and other feedback tools to collect data and, more importantly, what to do with it once we have it.

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Five Ways to Ensure Employees Feel Heard

Up Your Culture

In the modern workforce, it is important that employees feel that they have a Valued Voice and that their ideas, concerns, and overall input are taken into consideration. When your people feel heard, and we mean actually listened to, with their ideas, feelings, and concerns addressed and acted upon, their engagement will increase, and they will continue to stay active in the organization.

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Effective Leaders Are Authentic Leaders

Forbes Careers

Many leaders adopt a persona at the office—a way of speaking or behaving that might reflect who you are at work, but doesn’t align with your values and who you are outside the office.

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How Social Good Programs Improve the Employee Experience

Vector Solutions

Most of us want to feel like we’re making a difference with our lives. This desire carries over into how we choose to spend our money and time, how we view other people and businesses, and how we pursue our careers. Over recent decades, there has been a powerful generational shift, with younger people being increasingly likely to consider social good initiatives as an absolutely vital part of any company’s mission.

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10 Convenient And Amazing Digital Gifting Ideas For Employees

Vantage Circle

Employees are superheroes, working tirelessly behind the scenes to save the day. They are the ultimate multi-taskers, easily juggling deadlines, meetings, and a never-ending to-do list. With all that they do, the least they deserve is appreciation. And what better way of appreciating your employees could be other than gifting them something thoughtful?

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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.