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Project Management: How to Hold the Best Accountability Conversations

Let's Grow Leaders

Project management isn’t for the faint of heart. You’re pressured from above to produce results and from below to cultivate relationships with your project teams. And in between, you’ve got scope creep, stakeholder politics, and vaguely supported contingency plans. You can become […]. The post Project Management: How to Hold the Best Accountability Conversations appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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How to be Confident at Work

Career Advancement

“One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. ~Arthur Ashe~. Grayson asks: I’m naturally a shy person , and I want to learn how to be confident at work. I know that confidence is key to coming across as a leader , and I definitely want to advance. How can I stop blending into the background and start exuding self-assurance?

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How to Answer "Tell Me About Yourself"

On The Job

Chances are pretty good that in your next job interview, you're going to hear: "So! Tell me about yourself." Interviewers love to ask this question because a) they're hoping you might slip up and tell them something really interesting, such as the fact that you've been fired from your last five jobs b) they don't really remember who you are, and this gives them time to come up with questions to ask and c) they want to see how you present yourself.

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Artificial intelligence: Construction technology’s next frontier

McKinsey

Engineering and construction is behind the curve in implementing artificial intelligence solutions. Based on extensive research, we survey applications and algorithms to help bridge the technology gap.

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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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Collaboration – Can We Really Trust You?

Let's Grow Leaders

It’s easy to talk about collaboration. It’s much harder to do it. After visiting one of our clients in Guatemala City, Karin, Sebastian, and I traveled to Antigua, Guatemala where my daughter owns a clothing design business. She took us to Hobbitengango, […]. The post Collaboration – Can We Really Trust You? appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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This is How to Have a Happy Career

On The Job

No matter how much you like your job, there are some days you feel as if you could walk out the door and never return. That's pretty common, especially when you have the kind of day when everything seems to go wrong. But if you start to realize that your feeling of boredom or frustration or stress is becoming a common theme, then you need to take action.

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How to mess up your agile transformation in seven easy (mis)steps

McKinsey

The journey to become agile is challenging. But your organization can avoid some common pitfalls that we have seen companies encounter, including failing to create buy-in around an aspiration and forgetting to put culture first.

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5 Ways to Drive Results Through Fear and Intimidation

Let's Grow Leaders

You’re on the fast track. You don’t need sustained results, you need quick wins. Results matter. You’ve got a review coming up. With a few simple tactics, you can get your organization performing in no time. You’ll be promoted and someone else […]. The post 5 Ways to Drive Results Through Fear and Intimidation appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Here’s Why Raising Your Standards is the Key to Goal Achievement

IQ Matrix

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. – Anthony Robbins. What Are Personal Standards? Do you ever wonder what separates the highest achievers from everyone else? There are, of course, many possible answers to this question. In fact, I’ve previously discussed the importance of self-belief and the value of asking effective questions.

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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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How to Collaborate When You Don't Have Consensus

Strategy+Business

Getting anything accomplished might seem impossible when you don't agree with, like, or trust the people you have to work with. But extraordinary examples from international politics and business illustrate how abandoning a conventional model of collaboration and adopting a new mind-set can effect progress.

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Analytics translator: The new must-have role

McKinsey

The search for vital analytics talent has often focused on data scientists. In this article for Harvard Business Review, we describe the overlooked analytics role that’s even more critical to fill.

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How to Have Tough Conversations at Work: An Interview

Let's Grow Leaders

As we travel the world keynote speaking and working with leaders across a variety of organizations and contexts, we find one of the biggest challenges across cultures is how to have productive, difficult conversations. I was delighted to grab a few minutes for […]. The post How to Have Tough Conversations at Work: An Interview appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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How to Build a High Performance Team, According to Patty McCord

BetterUp

Patty McCord, a workplace innovator, culture and leadership consultant, and former Chief Talent Officer at Netflix, recently shared her insights on the future of work at BetterUp Shift 2018. The event brought together the most innovative leaders and thinkers in HR and people development to discuss how to infuse greater meaning into the employee experience.

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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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Business Leaders as Catalysts for Change

Strategy+Business

Innovation and leadership have always been closely linked. Part eight of s+b's "Inside the Mind of the CEO" series is an interview with the chief executive of a multi-industrial producer of intelligent buildings and energy storage solutions. The interview explores how the right leadership can help a company make the transition from an industrial company to one steeped in digital technology-style solutions to customer problems.

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Build a case, build a following: Laying the groundwork to transform customer experience in government

McKinsey

Transforming government agencies to serve people better relies on making a compelling business case and inspiring supporters willing to champion the change. Here’s how.

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The Evolving Admin: What’s Next for Administrative Professionals?

Eat Your Career

The last time I worked as an Executive Assistant, it was 2007. That was just a little over 10 years ago, and yet, so much has changed in that time. Social media was just starting to take shape back then. We were all still using Blackberries and trying desperately to make them sync correctly with our computers. Faxing was still an acceptable mode of communication.

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The fairness factor in performance management

McKinsey

Many systems are under stress because employees harbor doubts that the core elements are equitable. A few practical steps can change that.

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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 industrial companies can respond to disruptive forces

McKinsey

A survey of 300-plus executives from the automotive, aerospace, and diversified-industrial sectors generated insights that can help traditional players reckon with change.

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The journey to an agile organization at Zalando

McKinsey

Europe’s largest online fashion retailer embraced purpose, autonomy, and mastery to build agility, explains VP Engineering Eric Bowman.

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Transforming a 150-year-old government agency: A CEO story

McKinsey

HM Land Registry’s Graham Farrant describes leading the cultural and operational transformation of an organization of 5,200 people.

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How to make AI work for your business

McKinsey

A survey of more than 3,000 executives sheds light on how businesses are using AI, offering lessons for CEOs, as we explain in this article for Harvard Business Review.

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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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Disruption in European consumer finance: Lessons from Sweden

McKinsey

Strong earnings in European consumer finance have drawn the attention of attackers, including large retailers and fintechs. To maintain their position, banks must focus on the customer and transform their operating models.

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What beauty players can teach the consumer sector about digital disruption

McKinsey

As many consumer businesses struggle to deal with the pace of change, the beauty sector shows the way.

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Analytics translator: The new must-have role

McKinsey

The search for vital analytics talent has often focused on data scientists. In this article for Harvard Business Review, we describe the overlooked analytics role that’s even more critical to fill.

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Five Fifty: Success with a capital Zzzz

McKinsey

If sleep is essential to effective leadership, why do so many executives fail to sleep enough?

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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.