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One Easy Way to Get Your Team Talking (With Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

This technique will get your team talking about hopes and fears. You want to get your team talking about their concerns, but if they’re like so many of the employees in our courageous cultures research , they are likely holding back. In fact, 40% of the employees in our research said they lacked the confidence to share their ideas that would improve the business.

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4 Ways to Better Manage a Remote Team

On The Job

A new survey by PwC finds that three-quarters of executives say that remote work caused by the pandemic was successful for their companies and that productivity (despite an initial decline) stayed on track or even improved. One interesting finding, however, is that it's "superachievers" who seem to be pulling the weight, often working harder and longer than other team members.

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Building better batteries: Insights on chemistry and design from China

McKinsey

A detailed benchmark analysis of the batteries of Chinese battery-electric vehicles reveals how differences in battery-cell and battery-pack design affect performance.

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On doing what life expects of you

Darius Foroux

Growing up, I often heard stuff like, “You can be anything you want!

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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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Career Development: Develop Employees With Limited Time (Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

Support Your Team with Career Development Even When You’re Busy. You want to help your team with career development, but time is limited. How do you support your team? Today, on Asking For a Friend , I talk with Julie Winkle Giulioni , author of Help them Grow or Watch Them Go about how managers can support development when there is pitifully little time.

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Analytics-to-Value: Digital analytics optimizing products and portfolios

McKinsey

Better, faster product-development decisions have never been more critical. New techniques can provide quicker, deeper insights, at scale across an entire product portfolio.

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Solve Obvious and Complicated Business Problems with AI

ChaiOne

This blog post is the first in a three-part series on matching the correct solution to your business problem. Are you killing a fly with a hammer? In 2021, solving the business problem front and center has never been more critical. Management and leadership are facing, in the age of VUCA—volatility, uncertainly, complexity, and ambiguity—increasingly unpredictable situations and problems.

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The Power in a Powerful Thank You

Let's Grow Leaders

A specific, relevant thank you has the power to energize and keep people moving. In this episode, David shares a meaningful thank you and how you can encourage your people – even when you haven’t had a recent “win.” Powerful Thank Yous. ( 00:00 ). The reason I’m writing is to say, thank you, thank you for bringing some light into my leadership management journey.

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ELEVATE Admins is a Best Seller (Thanks to YOU!)

Eat Your Career

In case you missed the big news: My newest book, ELEVATE Admins: How to Raise the Bar and Achieve Excellence in Your Administrative Career , was released earlier this month. I’m thrilled to report that it quickly hit the #1 spot for its category on Amazon! This is all because of YOU, the amazing Eat Your Career community. I can’t thank you enough for the support you have shown me, not only with this new book but throughout the past decade.

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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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Intentional learning in practice: A 3x3x3 approach

McKinsey

Learning can be honed through practice. Here’s an effective strategy to continually learn, grow, and achieve development goals.

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Is It Time For Smarter Performance Appraisals?

Vantage Circle

Performance appraisal was a familiar practice in which employees and managers sat down for an annual assessment. If the workers were fortunate, they walked away with raises. Nobody really liked it, but in the old corporate model of command and control, this seemed like a great thing. Today, with the widespread focus on collaboration, joint leadership, and an ongoing fight to find and retain professional workers, it's a model that is gradually falling out of favor.

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3 of the Most Important Leadership Skills Your Leaders Hope You Have

Let's Grow Leaders

Senior leaders share the most important leadership skills to master now. As we work with senior leaders to build their leadership development programs, the conversation always turns to the most important leadership skills their frontline and middle-level leaders need. Inevitably, these veteran leaders bring up similar abilities – the skills that differentiate top leaders from their peers.

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Life-Long Learning

Charles Leon

I've been sketching in my local area every day for more than a couple of months, and, to be honest, I had expected to see faster progress in my technique. What has happened hasn't quite happened in the way I thought it would. However, the benefits seem to be spilling over most unpredictably. (you can see my sketches here) Typically when you practice a skill, because that's all sketching is, you expect to see your competence and speed increase to the extent that it should become effortless.

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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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Fulfilling the promise of advanced analytics in oncology

McKinsey

Advanced analytics will transform cancer care, but companies have been slow to adopt it. Progress requires a strategy that not only builds data and talent but also embraces experimentation.

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Coaching For Managers: 5 Skills You Need to Promote

Vantage Circle

With the changing dynamics of the corporate world, it’s not only employees that need to develop. They need to adapt and upskill to improve their overall performance. It is what your managers need too. Thus, coaching for managers is something that every company needs to seriously consider. The ever-growing corporate market demands managers to become experts in their field of work.

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More is less: Solving sport’s business model problem 

World Economic Forum

The proposed European Super League - abruptly scrapped following an intense backlash - raises questions about the structural challenges in many sports.

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Cybersecurity in Iberia: Aligning business and the board

McKinsey

Keeping cyber teams in silos puts companies at risk. Boards can best prepare for an increasingly digital future with these cross-functional strategies.

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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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Seven principles for achieving transformational growth

McKinsey

Dogged persistence and nimble execution underscore a set of proven ground rules for growth.

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Five Fifty: Leading by design

McKinsey

Companies that excel at design grow revenues and shareholder returns at nearly twice the rate of their industry peers. So why aren’t more companies joining their ranks?

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The CFO’s role in capability building

McKinsey

Organizations developing new skills for the next normal must determine exactly how and where to invest in them. The finance leader is uniquely suited to provide the necessary combination of insights.

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Author Talks: Karin M. Reed on virtual meetings

McKinsey

In her new book, Karin M. Reed dives into our sudden shift to virtual meetings—and how to make the most of them.

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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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Spain’s travel sector can’t afford to wait to recover. What can stakeholders do?

McKinsey

Unless steps are taken to stimulate recovery, more than $300 billion and 4.4 million jobs could be in jeopardy.

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Tipping the scales in AI: How leaders capture exponential returns

McKinsey

Where many companies tire of marginal gains from early AI efforts, the most successful recognize that the real breakthroughs in AI learning and scale come from persisting through the arduous phases.

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The ascent of Nordic companies in the global machinery market

McKinsey

Nordic machinery companies are setting new performance benchmarks for growth, margins, and other metrics. What’s behind their recent success?

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How to launch a new business: Three approaches that work

McKinsey

Analysis of more than 200 corporate business builds shows what success looks like.

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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.