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Does Your Team Ignore Your Feedback?

Let's Grow Leaders

Have you heard this from your managers (or said it yourself)? “My people aren’t coachable. They’re defensive, it’s like they have a wall up. They ignore feedback and just won’t listen.” Sometimes people can’t grow because they’re not in the right position or they are actually incapable. Leaders take responsibility for the legitimate reasons people might ignore feedback.

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You Should Be Your Own Muse

Marla Gottschalk

Hai Tran @unsplash. Muse. 1: any of the nine sister goddesses in Greek mythology presiding over song and poetry and the arts and sciences Clio is the Greek Muse of history. 2 : a source of inspiration especially : a guiding genius. My grandmother used to stock a drawer on the end of her bright, pink kitchen with paper. When I visited her as a young child, it was always one of my go-to spots.

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Sporting goods 2022: The new normal is here

McKinsey

The sporting-goods industry continues to evolve amid increased health awareness, shifting channel preferences, and rising sustainability concerns. Sporting-goods players need to adapt to five trends shaping the industry in 2022.

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The 6 most important skills for effectively managing stress

BetterUp

Elevated levels of stress and anxiety have been hallmarks of the last three years.

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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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Shane Grivich on Pursuing a Goal with Resilience

Designli

Scaling a new business is hard. Scaling a healthcare company when the government forces you to adjust your product and service every year is nearly impossible. This is the uphill battle Shane Grivich faces every day with ChartSpan. This post is part of Designli’s “Entrepreneurial Insights” series – where we profile South Carolina’s most successful entrepreneurs, discuss topics that are… → The post Shane Grivich on Pursuing a Goal with Resilience appeared first on Designli Blog.

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Bias busters: A better way to brainstorm

McKinsey

Structured conversation during brainstorming sessions removes some of the risks that can thwart honest discussion.

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Preparing for Your Next Career Move

Create Your Career Path

Frustrated and confused about your career direction? Looking to make a career move this year? You are not alone. A new Qualtrics study found that 5% fewer people plan to stay at their current job than in 2021 and women specifically in middle management jobs are three times more likely to find a new job. Male or female, whether you feel you are at a crossroads or simply want to get to the next level in your career, it can be tough to know what your next steps are.

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Your 2022 Goals–Take Two!

Rachel B. Garrett

While this moment in the pandemic feels different everywhere in the country and in the world, right now, in New York City we’re beginning to breathe out again.The number of covid cases in schools is coming down. The hospitals in the city are not reporting overwhelm. We’re not hearing about new cases every day. Or at least not multiple cases per day!

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An Introduction to Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)

Think Reliablility

One question I frequently get asked is "How do I know if I should do a failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) or a root cause analysis (RCA)?" The answer is simple: are you trying to find out what DID happen or what COULD happen? Typically, root cause analysis is used to diagnose an event that has already occurred. The term is often synonymous with an accident investigation or failure analysis.

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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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CIO perspectives on leading agile change

McKinsey

As agility gains ground, CIOs from the banking and telecom industries came together to discuss challenges and lessons learned from leading agile transformations.

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Preparing for Your Next Career Move

Create Your Career Path

Frustrated and confused about your career direction? Looking to make a career move this year? You are not alone. A new Qualtrics study found that 5% fewer people plan to stay at their current job than in 2021 and women specifically in middle management jobs are three times more likely to find a new job. Male or female, whether you feel you are at a crossroads or simply want to get to the next level in your career, it can be tough to know what your next steps are.

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17 Key Business Plan Mistakes to Avoid in 2022

LivePlan

Are you preparing to write a business plan? Make sure you avoid these common business plan mistakes to ensure you get the most from your plan.

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Drive Your Teams to Success with These 6 Characteristics of Inclusive Leaders

CMOE

Whether team members feel supported, valued, and included at work ultimately falls into the hands of organizational leaders—their words and actions influence whether someone feels included by about 70 percent. With this in mind, how can leaders demonstrate inclusivity to their team members? What can they do differently to motivate their teams to put their best foot forward?

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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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Always connect, never give up: An interview with Jason Wright

McKinsey

As president of Washington’s football team, Wright is calling on his experiences as an NFL player, business school graduate, and McKinsey partner to change an entrenched culture.

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Managerial Courage: 7 Practical Ways to be a Bit More Daring

Let's Grow Leaders

Small Acts of Managerial Courage Build Confidence, Trust, and Connection. What if you approached the new year with just a bit more managerial courage? Could you take on a new challenge? Try a new approach? Tell someone the truth? Question that decision that just doesn’t make sense? Raise your hand to try something new? Ask for feedback? When I think of the most courageous leaders I’ve worked with over my career, it’s not the BIG decisions they made or the SINGLE TIME they made

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What if girls aren’t oppressed?

Penelope Trunk

The Bureau of Labor says that by 2026 we will be short 1.2 million engineers. Right now, the majority of developers are men. So presumably it’s a crisis that women are not in STEM. Microsoft is thinking that filling the funnel with girls is the way forward. Microsoft decides the Wonder Woman movie has a female protagonist, so girls will identify with her.

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10 Benefits of the Profit Zone Program

Eure Consulting

I’ve introduced our new Profit Zone Program to you over the past couple of blogs. It is a program designed to help everyone in your organization better understand the financial workings of your company. After going through the program everyone will be financially literate. And each employee will know how their role impacts the company’s profitability.

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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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Space: Investment shifts from GEO to LEO and now beyond

McKinsey

Investors have recently focused on space ventures in low-Earth orbit, but interest is growing in lunar and beyond orbital regimes. Here’s what you need to know about this ongoing trend.

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Beyond financials: Helping small and medium-size enterprises thrive

McKinsey

Small and medium-size enterprises are facing compounding challenges. Governments and other institutions worldwide are launching programs to provide them the advisory support needed to meet the moment.

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Author Talks: The made-up words that make our world

McKinsey

Walking through an empty office. Moving out of a childhood home. Struggling to write something original. Experiences like these often lack the perfect word, so John Koenig spent more than a decade writing his own dictionary.

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The data-driven enterprise of 2025

McKinsey

Rapidly accelerating technology advances, the recognized value of data, and increasing data literacy are changing what it means to be “data driven.”.

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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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How to thrive in the global wellness market

McKinsey

Consumers everywhere plan to spend more on products and services that improve their health and wellness. Here’s what that means for companies.

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Korean companies need bolder transformation to survive post-pandemic world

McKinsey

McKinsey senior partner André Andonian offers insights on the significant transitions companies have faced amid the pandemic and the new initiatives businesses will explore in coming years.

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Six characteristics define the net-zero transition

McKinsey

Our analysis of the net-zero transition suggests that it would be universal, significant, and front-loaded, with uneven effects on sectors, geographies, and communities, even as it creates growth opportunities.

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How the net-zero transition would play out in countries and regions

McKinsey

All 69 countries we looked at in depth face some exposure to the transition. Lower-income and fossil fuel resource-producing countries would need to spend more relative to GDP to build a low-emissions economy and support economic development.

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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.