July, 2021

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How Smart Leaders Help a Team Work Better Together: Plan Breakdowns

Let's Grow Leaders

Expect common breakdowns to help your team work better together. Does your team get derailed by miscommunication, hurt feelings, customer service challenges, or another department’s dropped balls? These common relationship breakdowns don’t surprise effective leaders. On the contrary–smart leaders know it’s not a matter of if they’ll happen, but when.

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Dean Simonton || The Science of Genius

Scott Barry Kaufman

Today it’s great to have Dean Keith Simonton on the podcast. Dean is distinguished professor emeritus of psychology at the University of California Davis. His well over 500 single author publications focus on topics such as genius, creativity, aesthetics, and leadership. In 2018, MIT Press published his book The Genius Checklist but he has also published many other books on these various topics of genius, leadership, and aesthetics.

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6 of the Most In-Demand Skills for the Future Workplace

Career Advancement

“Change equals self-improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.” – Pat Summitt. The future workplace will require its leaders to have a particular skillset that allows them to be adaptable and effective within a climate of change. Recently, I shared insights on the most in-demand skills for the future that the leaders of tomorrow’s workforce need to develop.

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Buy now, pay later: Five business models to compete

McKinsey

Financing at the point of sale may be a small share of unsecured lending in the United States today, but it’s growing fast. Banks seeking long-term growth should explore market entry, and merchants should reassess their financing offers.

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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 training programs aren’t winning awards for engagement. But that doesn’t mean they can’t be effective, captivating, and maybe even enjoyable! Join learning design expert Brian Richardson for a dynamic session on how to breathe new life into your ethics and compliance training. We'll explore innovative strategies to bring traditionally dry topics to life, making them resonate with learners and drive tangible change.

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Time Management Self-Assessment: Rate Your Skills!

Eat Your Career

I am a big believer in the power of self-awareness. All growth starts with understanding where you currently are. I am also passionate about all things related to time management. Recently, I wanted to assess my own skills in this area, so I did a personal inventory. I thought I’d recreate that for you as a self-assessment tool, so you can take stock of your skills in this area as well.

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Help with Cross Functional Teams

CMOE

Help! Is It Possible to Improve Teamwork in a Cross-Team Environment? How Do I Do it? The above question is one that is frequently asked by customers and clients who are experiencing a variety of team challenges that exist across the enterprise. The increasing complexity of organizational structures (or lack thereof) can often lead to several unique issues as cross-functional teams look to cooperate and create meaningful long-term performance while trying to discover efficiencies and build bette

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Top 8 Business Coaching Programs to Look Out for in 2021

CoCaptain

Whether you’re embarking on your journey to become a business coach and need to figure out what training and certifications best fit your business coaching aspirations— Or maybe you’re already a seasoned business coach looking for extra training to boost your credentials and refresh your business coaching knowledge. Whatever your position is—here are our top 5 business coaching programs to look out for in 2021.

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Introducing Barbara Patterson Cerullo, Whole Person Life Coach

Coach Training World

The post Introducing Barbara Patterson Cerullo, Whole Person Life Coach appeared first on Coach Training World.

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COVID-19 and education: The lingering effects of unfinished learning

McKinsey

US states and districts have the opportunity to not only help students catch up on unfinished learning from the pandemic but also tackle long-standing historical inequities in education.

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6 Types Of Diversity Training For An Inclusive Workplace

Vantage Circle

We all know that having a non-existent DE&I program hurts your brand's value. But do you know how to lay the groundwork for a successful diversity program? It is achieved through intensive diversity training. A diversity training program is an essential step towards creating a great company culture. But did you know many types of diversity training leaders can choose to promote tolerance and equality in the workplace?

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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 Strategy Is Important to Your Business Success

CMOE

Businesses that have leaders who are committed to their strategies grow faster and are more profitable than their counterparts. Unfortunately, there aren’t enough executive leaders who invest time into strategy— 85 percent of executive leadership teams invest less than one hour each month on strategy, while 50 percent do not spend any time on strategy at all.

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The Problem With Sandwich Feedback Video (and what to do instead)

Let's Grow Leaders

The sandwich method of giving feedback has long been taught as a coaching and feedback technique. What is the Sandwich Feedback Technique? You start by telling them something great about their performance. Then you give them the constructive feedback you really want them to hear. And you follow it up, with some more positive feedback. Why the sandwich technique doesn’t work.

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The Most Thorough Guide to Executive Coaching in 2021

CoCaptain

60 years ago, executive coaching was virtually nonexistent; 50 years ago, it began to emerge as a service strictly reserved for CEOs and C-suite executives as the last resort when they weren’t performing at their best. In these past decades, executive coaching has slowly but surely been on an upwards trajectory in demand. Today, things have largely changed within the coaching world.

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How to prepare for ICF’s Coach Knowledge Assessment (CKA)

Coach Training World

The post How to prepare for ICF’s Coach Knowledge Assessment (CKA) appeared first on Coach Training World.

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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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Vital signs: The growing impact of digital health innovation

McKinsey

Digital health solutions have the potential to dramatically improve patient care and slow rising costs. Yet achieving that at scale still has obstacles to overcome.

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How to be a Leader When You Have Less Experience

Eat Your Career

This video is an excerpt from a live Q&A session with Chrissy Scivicque, Career Coach & Corporate Trainer. The full video is available in the Career Success Library. A participant in our recent Q&A session asked: “What are some strategies to be an effective leader when there are colleagues in your team who are more experienced and also have been at the company longer than you?

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4 Essential Change-Management Leadership Skills

CMOE

Being a great leader requires the ability to adapt to change. As industries and technology continuously evolve, adaptability is essential to an organization’s long-term viability. Unfortunately, not enough leaders are equipped with the right training or knowledge to effectively lead their team members through change; almost two-thirds of employers noted that a lack of change-management expertise was a problem during their recent initiatives.

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Share Your Ideas: Practical Ways to Ensure Your Voice is Heard

Let's Grow Leaders

How to Overcome FOSU (Fear of Speaking Up) and Share Your Ideas. You want to share your ideas to improve the business, but if you’re like many employees we work with sometimes it’s hard to know just how or when to share them. Maybe you’ve had a bad experience before and it feels safer to stay silent. Or, perhaps you’re not quite sure if your idea is a good idea.

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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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Executive Coach vs Business Coach–What is the Difference?

CoCaptain

Choosing what type of coach you need is the first step in your journey to professional actualization and improvement. However, it can be a tricky step, especially if you are new to the world of professional coaching , because there are so many different types of coaching services available , different coaching niches and specialties that might make it hard to choose the perfect fit.

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Issue Trees – What Are They and How Do You Use Them?

StrategyU

Issue trees are a useful approach to breaking down a problem statement into component parts that can more easily be acted upon. In consulting teams, it’s often done in the first couple of weeks of a project. It enables the team to structure the project in a way that people can be assigned to specific “workstreams” and that the team can align their hypotheses to make predictions about which elements might have the biggest impact.

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Three keys to building a more skilled postpandemic workforce

McKinsey

Many companies face large, and growing, skills deficits. A few companies approach skill building in a more integrated way—and are quietly gaining an edge on rivals.

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Why We Should Be Revisiting Job Fit

Marla Gottschalk

Aron Yigin @unsplash. I’ve been on somewhat of a bent lately — sharing both observations & articles (my own included) concerning job fit. Perspective is key here. Particularly if & when, we are stuck with one way of examining how we align with our work. At a root level, this topic occupies a good deal of bandwidth within my own career & with those of clients, whether that energy is selection or development focused.

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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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Contingency Leadership Theory and Its Various Models

Vantage Circle

Contingency leadership theory is a practice of leadership. It believes there is no singular best way to structure an organization. Instead, the best leadership style will be contingent on the situation. Effective leadership is one of the most attractive qualities in an employee. There are a variety of theories that explore different leadership styles.

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Lead Your Team to Make Better Decisions, Faster

Let's Grow Leaders

When decision-making or problem-solving meetings bog down and become a waste of time, there are usually two problems causing the stagnation. In this episode, you’ll get the tools to overcome both of these problems before they derail your team. Take these two quick actions before you discuss any problem and your team will make better decisions – faster.

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Knowledge Management and Innovation

Fortitude Business Consulting

Knowledge management is essentially the cultivation, harvesting and utilisation of knowledge. As innovation is the commercialization of new ideas, knowledge plays a pivotal role in the innovation process. It’s an essential part of making sure you capture the most from your innovation efforts. How to Boost Your Knowledge Management Capabilities. You can gain knowledge via experience, experimentation or acquisition; however, knowledge is built on data and information that is used to improve unde

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12 ways FourSight speeds a team's path to high performance

FourSight

In a team building session with 25 members of a leading French luxury brand, Paris-based facilitator Patrick Duhoux found a simple way to help team members understand their differences so they could work together better and speed their path to high performance.

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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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Trends that will define 2021 and beyond: Six months on

McKinsey

In January 2021, we discussed how the COVID-19 pandemic could change the economy. How did we do?

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COVID Pressure-Tested Companies. Did Your Business Show Cracks?

Nexus Business Solutions

I was doing a number of Annual Planning Sessions and Quarterly meetings over the winter and spring. In these meetings, we discuss lessons learned. One thing that has become clear is that COVID pressure-tested leaders, team members, teams, client relationships, and many other aspects of running a business. Not one of my teams used this [.]. The post COVID Pressure-Tested Companies.

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106 Powerful Leadership Quotes By Women

Vantage Circle

Strong women have turned up, broken many stereotypes, and impacted all of us in the corporate world. And to celebrate their brilliant thoughts and successes, I've compiled a collection of 106 inspirational quotes by women whose words will inspire us to hustle a little harder, speak a little louder, and dream bigger. Talent is perhaps an essential performance factor in the contemporary corporate environment.

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How Do I Build More Connected Business Relationships? (With Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

Think beyond “networking” to building deeply connected business relationships that will enhance your business and your life. This week on “Asking For a Friend” I interview Susan McPherson, author of “The Lost Art of Connecting” about how to build deeper trust and connection in your business relationships. How do I build more connected business relationships?

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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?