July, 2022

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Curiosity at Work: 5 Opportunities to Show Up a Bit More Curious

Let's Grow Leaders

I am a HUGE proponent of showing up with genuine curiosity at work. Need to have a performance feedback conversation with an under-performing employee? There’s no better place to start than with curiosity. Need a solution to a seemingly no-win scenario with a customer? Again, a bit of curiosity goes a long way. And yet, I know I’m guilty of this.

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Scheduling More Discovery Sessions (Mindsets)

Master Coach University

Why do coaches struggle to schedule enough discovery sessions? It’s because they don’t use these 3 fundamental keys to offering them: Share the top 3 benefits of your discovery session. Ask DIRECTLY “Would you like to have a discovery session?” After asking, be silent for as long as it takes them to answer you. If […].

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On the cure for fear

Darius Foroux

In one of Seneca’s letters to his friend, Lucillius, he shared a lesson he learned about fear: “Cease to hope … and you will cease to… Continue reading on Stoic Letter ».

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Building your Coaching Presence

International Coaching Federation

A wise leader once said: “Presence eats technique for breakfast.”? . So, what is the secret of building your presence? What does “being” involve? And how can you develop better present-moment awareness? . I believe that developing presence can improve a coach’s internal listening skills, self-management and cultivate authentic self-expression.? .

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HIA Technologies Turns a New Chapter in Professional Development and Training

HIA Technologies announces the launch of Qvio™️ - transforming video engagement with two-way interactivity. With Qvio viewers can ask questions and get instant answers from the content owner's Author-Controlled AI™️.

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The Great Attrition is making hiring harder. Are you searching the right talent pools?

McKinsey

People keep quitting at record levels, yet companies are still trying to attract and retain them the same old ways. New research identifies five types of workers that employers can reach to fill jobs.

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How to Lead Through a No-Win Scenario

Let's Grow Leaders

There will be times when you face outcomes you intensely dislike. A seeming no-win scenario is also a chance to distinguish yourself, earn people’s trust, and innovate. Here are seven ways to lead through these tough circumstances, build your credibility, and sleep well at night: Reframe. Own the UGLY. Collaborate. Win with Values. Choose a Different Time Frame.

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Making Progress in a Coaching Business

Master Coach University

Last week, I covered how public speaking was my ‘go to’ coaching business strategy. Public speaking was so powerful for me, that it helped me grow a full coaching practice in under 2 years. But I wanted more. I wanted to ‘scale up’ even bigger. The problem? The way I tried to scale up… …almost […].

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Situational Leadership: What it Is and How to Build It (With Examples)

BetterUp

Jump to section. What is situational leadership? Understanding the situational leadership model. What are the four styles of situational leadership? What are some examples of when a situational leadership style might best be used? What are the qualities of a situational leader? What are some situational leadership examples? Why is situational leadership effective?

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What the potential new Conservative leaders could mean for career guidance

Adventures in Career Development

Readers of this blog may have noticed that the UK is currently in the grip of an unseemly scrabble for the job of Prime Minister. We started with at least 11 Conservative MPs declaring themselves as potential national saviours, but at the time of writing we are down to six. So far there has (perhaps unsurprisingly) been little discussion of career guidance in the speeches and debates of candidates.

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The Ultimate LMS Buyer’s Guide: Everything You Need to Know When Purchasing an LMS

Whether you’re shopping for your very first learning management system (LMS) or looking to upgrade, the process can be overwhelming. With so many vendor options, each with its own multitude of features and pricing structures, even the most seasoned educators, trainers, and business leaders can feel lost in a sea of choices! Finding the LMS that’s best suited for your organization requires a planned, strategic approach.

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Best of both worlds: Balancing digital and physical channels in retail banking

McKinsey

Banking distribution needs to account for the evolving interdependencies between channels. Accelerating digital and upgrading the physical experience to “phygital” offers a viable solution.

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Instead Of Hybrid, Remote Or In-Office Work Styles, This May Be A Better Option

Forbes Careers

The conversations surrounding returning to work are primarily focused on hybrid, remote or in-person models. However, there is another option that offers a potentially better balance of life and work that is mostly overlooked by major corporations: flexibility.

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How Do I Ask Better Questions: Asking For a Friend with Chad Littlefield [VIDEO]

Let's Grow Leaders

Want to Ask Better Questions? Stop Asking Why. Here’s Why… In this week’s Asking for a Friend, I talk with Chad Littlefield, Co-Author of Ask Better Questions. Chad and I met at an industry conference where we were both speaking and discovered many shared interests including creating psychological safety and encouraging deeper, more meaningful conversations and swimming.

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Finding the Best Life Coach Certification Program?

Master Coach University

How do you choose the best life coach certification program? Selecting the right program is a very important decision as it would decide the career path that you would take as a life coach. There are numerous life coaching programs and online short-term courses that you can explore. However, you should choose the best program […].

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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Servant Leadership: Definition Plus Benefits and Drawbacks

BetterUp

Jump to section. What is servant leadership? 10 principles of servant leadership. 7 characteristics of servant leadership. Servant leadership vs. traditional leadership. What does servant leadership look like in practice? Pros and cons of servant leadership. How to become a "servant first" leader.

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Which HBS Online Entrepreneurship and Innovation Course Is Right for You?

Harvard Business School Online

Are you interested in taking an entrepreneurship and innovation course but not sure what’s the right fit? Explore which program aligns best with your career aspirations and educational goals.

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Forward Thinking on the sustainability revolution in textiles and the fashion industry with Edwin Keh

McKinsey

The leader of a cutting-edge institute talks about innovative new materials that “eat” carbon and may enable cotton growing without irrigation, as well as the potential for building the world’s shortest supply chain in two 40-foot containers.

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Why The Fed Needs To Crush The Economy And Job Market To Save Them

Forbes Careers

The Federal Reserve Bank, the entity controlling the United States’ money supply, has to make the economy worse before it can get better. Fed chair Jerome Powell openly admits that the economy needs to be cooled down to fight inflation.

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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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How to Be Less Negative – and Still Be Yourself

Let's Grow Leaders

Learning How to Be Less Negative Will Make You More Effective. When your team or supervisor thinks of you as a negative person, you’re less likely to be invited to conversations where you would have valuable contributions to make. You’re less likely to receive recognition for your work and your odds of promotion go down. If you often hear that you’re too negative, learning how to be less negative is a critical skill to master—and fast.

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Eliminate stress and worry from decision-making

Mind Mapping Software

Are you stressed out about an important decision you need to make? Does the thought of making a decision make you break out in a cold sweat? Are you haunted by past decisions that – in retrospect – sucked? Why not create a mind map to help you get clarity and make better decisions? Before you dismiss this idea, consider this: Mind maps help you to visualize your thoughts, organize them, distill them and make sense of them.

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What They Don’t Teach You in Business School

Crestcom

While earning an MBA can be of immense value, there are important management skills they don’t teach you in business school! Learning business fundamentals like accounting, finance, and marketing is important. However, there are vital “soft” skills that every leader needs to be successful. . Emotional Intelligence. Great managers need both analytical and emotional skills.

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Wheel of Change: What It Is & Why It's Important

Harvard Business School Online

Business leaders who want to create a positive impact often ask the same question: How can one organization make a meaningful difference? Fortunately, sustainable business strategies often have ripple effects across industries, leading to an outcome called the “wheel of change.” Here's an overview of the wheel of change and how it contributes to industry-wide sustainability.

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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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Should US banks be moving to next-generation core banking platforms?

McKinsey

Banks today urgently need a new core platform, but building one is time-consuming, expensive, and uncertain. It may help to think strategically and pursue a two-track process.

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10 Most Important Leadership Skills For The 21st Century Workplace (And How To Develop Them)

Forbes Careers

In today's increasingly digital and distributed workplaces, leadership skills are in more demand than ever. Here, we look at the ten most important leadership skills that will matter to anyone, no matter where in the organizational hierarchy they sit.

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Tomorrow Together with David Dye

Let's Grow Leaders

The 21st century hasn’t started the way that many of us expected it would. We’re looking at a potent mix of a global pandemic, global warming, the resurgence of authoritarianism, white nationalism, and war that again threatens to consume the planet. It can feel frustrating and hopeless. And those are just a few of the issues that are pervasive and in people’s consciousness regularly.

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Career Planning for Individuals and Managers: 7 Steps

BetterUp

Jump to section. What is career planning? Do you have to be at a certain age to plan your career? How do you start career planning? 7 steps to organized career planning. Some additional tips to help build your career plan.

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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.