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Addressing Problems with Your Peers

Let's Grow Leaders

What do you do when you see a problem and you want to bring it to your colleagues’ attention, but you’re worried it might create problems? This topic came in as a question from a member of the Let’s Grow Leaders community and it’s a fantastic opportunity to address some leadership challenges that everyone can empathize with. In this episode, you get three steps to use to address problems with your peers.

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What Does Your Pride Say About You?

On The Job

Many of us have been taught from a young age that lacking humility is a downfall. Of course, now that social media has come along, it seems that bragging is an art form. We might be able to ignore the celebrity or star athlete who can't quit bragging online, but it can be more difficult to stomach the boss or the colleague who is always gloating. We might believe that we shouldn't brag -- but one expert says that not correct.

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Author Talks: How to interrupt bias in the workplace

McKinsey

Companies spend billions of dollars annually on diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, but the results are few. Using basic tools to interrupt bias can help.

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Changing Others: The Impossible Conversation

Coach Training World

The post Changing Others: The Impossible Conversation appeared first on Coach Training World.

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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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How to Empower Your Team During Times of Uncertainty (Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

Start here to empower your team, even when you don’t have all the answers. “Karin, there’s so much uncertainty these days. I feel like I’m caught in a constant wait-and-see sea of indecision. What can I do to empower my team to keep moving?” #AskingForaFriend. Lessons from Gail: Tips to Help Empower Your Team. 1. Create real clarity about what matters most and why.

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Author Talks: Beyond collaboration overload

McKinsey

“Collaboration overload” is a major source of stress, burnout, and exhaustion at work. A new book describes how to collaborate better, thus improving work performance and even well-being.

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Skip your 2022 New Year’s Resolutions

Coach Training World

The post Skip your 2022 New Year’s Resolutions appeared first on Coach Training World.

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How to Reset Performance Expectations for Better Results

Let's Grow Leaders

The start of the year is the perfect time to reset and refresh performance expectations. Outstanding performance starts with clear performance expectations —a shared understanding of what success looks like. But what do you do when a critical player on your team is doing “okay,” but not great? Or, perhaps you’ve relaxed your performance expectations because of all the stress and strain of this crazy year , but now the lower bar has become the new normal.

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Frank Greer on Following Advice for Growth

Designli

Frank Greer didn’t have 5 million dollars to start a company. So as he sat through a business conference listening to the speaker say that “bootstrapping” is the only way to fund a business, he knew that this advice didn’t apply to him. This post is part of Designli’s “Entrepreneurial Insights” series – where we profile South Carolina’s most successful… → The post Frank Greer on Following Advice for Growth appeared first on Designli Blog.

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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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COVID-19 and education: An emerging K-shaped recovery

McKinsey

As US students return to classrooms, some are catching up on unfinished learning, but others are falling further behind, widening prepandemic gaps.

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How to Choose a Leadership Development Program

Harvard Professional Development

You have many options for continuing your education, from conferences to traditional college courses. For seasoned professionals wanting to level up in their careers, one option provides both a short format and personalized, expert-level instruction. Leadership development programs typically last two to five days and are led by an instructor (or group of instructors) with extensive experience leading organizations and managing teams.

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Top 10 Employee Advocacy Tools That You Need

Vantage Circle

In today's world, a company's brand reputability is heavily influenced by how it is perceived, seen, and discussed by the general public. And the concept of employee advocacy has helped this cause. To further assist organizations in streamlining the advocacy process, using a good employee advocacy tool has become something of a prerequisite to upgrading its brand value.

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The "how to". an obsession

ReNew Business

We long to be given the next step and the route to the horizon, allaying our anxiety with the illusion of a destination somewhere beyond the vista of our present life. Maria Popova Let’s reflect on the "HOW TO" endless list of blogs, books, advices. What if instead of an "HOW TO for Dummies" we needed a letter from the inside ? What is this inside? Emotions, shared struggles, fears, and triumphs. all the messiness that does not comply to the "HOW TO" that makes us feel "unsuccessful"; the fabric

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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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4IR capability building: Opportunities and solutions for lasting impact

McKinsey

Amid digital transformation, workforce capability building is vital at every level of the organization. A smart, four-tiered approach can help leaders develop tailored learning journeys.

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What You Should Ask For in Your Performance Review

Create Your Career Path

Are you getting ready for your year-end performance review? While we realize that some professionals feel they aren’t necessary, others feel they aren’t accurate representations of their work year, it’s also true that they are a standard part of many companies and industries. And it’s a candidate’s or employee’s market these days so regardless of how they have been in the past for you, this is a great opportunity to negotiate with your manager.

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Understanding Rightsizing in HRM in the Right Way

Vantage Circle

Considering the economy's recent rebound, businesses are forced to be flexible with their strategies. This includes rightsizing. A term that refers to reducing an organization's workforce and allocating resources more efficiently. Rightsizing may sound like an ominous term to those unfamiliar with it. In reality, it is just a simple process of removing the outliers and building the workforce that brings the best possible business results.

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Video: Forget the Career Ladder – Start Creating Assets

Lateral Action

I hope this finds you as well as can be. Here in the UK we’re bracing for what we are assured will be a large wave of Omicron. I know things may be very different for you, depending on where you are in the world. But whatever the circumstances, I hope you are finding your […]. The post Video: Forget the Career Ladder – Start Creating Assets appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach.

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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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Author Talks: What separates the best CEOs from the rest?

McKinsey

Three McKinsey senior partners looked across more than 20 years’ worth of data on 7,800 CEOs from 3,500 public companies across 70 countries and 24 industries to identify the mindsets that helped top chief executives deliver extraordinary impact.

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LivePlan Not Affected by Log4j Security Flaw — Keeping Your Business Information Safe

LivePlan

LivePlan is not affected by the recent log4j security breach. Learn about the breach, how we're responding, and what to do to protect your business.

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Harvard Professional Development Participant Success Stories

Harvard Professional Development

At Harvard Professional Development Programs, we strive to deliver an intensive curriculum in every program we offer, with actionable insights that you can implement as soon as you return to the workplace. But it’s the people who participate in our programs that make them so powerful. Each participant brings their own unique perspective to the discussions, breakout sessions, and small group exercises that make up the backbone of every PDP.

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How to Improve Your Hybrid or Virtual Team Communication

Let's Grow Leaders

The Best Hybrid and Virtual Teams Communicate About How they Communicate. As we shared in 6 habits of highly effective hybrid and virtual teams , the best hybrid and virtual teams have this in common– they work at it. They don’t take their virtual team communication for granted. It’s an ongoing, proactive conversation about expectations, what’s working well, and what’s not.

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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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2021: The year in images

McKinsey

The year’s defining moments offer insight into the elements that drive, unite, and inspire us as we face the future.

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B2B commercial analytics: What outperformers do

McKinsey

B2B companies that successfully apply commercial analytics are uncommon—and more likely to achieve uncommon success. Outperformers share four behaviors.

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The benefits of being a cloud trailblazer

McKinsey

To meet an SEC demand for greater transparency, FINRA chose the road less traveled—public cloud—and reached its goals and more at substantially lower cost.

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America 2022 in charts: An economic opportunity snapshot

McKinsey

The latest American Opportunity Survey takes a pulse check of economic opportunity in America and highlights the barriers that must be overcome to ensure sustainable, inclusive economic growth for everyone.

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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.