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Frontline Festival: Leaders Share about Innovation and Imagination

Let's Grow Leaders

In this month’s Frontline Festival, top leadership experts share their perspectives and insights on innovation and imagination. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors. We’re also delighted to feature Chip Bell, who […]. The post Frontline Festival: Leaders Share about Innovation and Imagination appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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How to Build Your Creative Resilience

Creativity at Work

How to Build Your Creative ResilienceWhen faced with disruptive change and turmoil we are called upon to be resilient We are all on a Hero's Journey these days, as we endure the COVID pandemic. We cannot return to the way things were, so we are living in a liminal space between two worlds, the one that has ended, and another [.].

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Research Shows That Individual Purpose is Critical

On The Job

These are uncertain times for many people, including employees. Will they have a job next week? Will they work from home next month or will they be called back into the office? Will continuing to work remotely hurt their careers? Will they be given pay raises this year or be able to take time off? Do they even want to do what they're doing anymore? A new report by McKinsey & Co. stresses that during these uncertain times, it's important that employees have a sense of individual purpose "that

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Power Plant 4.0: Embracing next-generation technologies for power plant digitization

McKinsey

As industry 4.0 technology continues to advance, existing data can be harnessed to develop machine-learning solutions that deliver real value, optimize decision making, increase flexibility, and attract top talent.

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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 Make Training Work: Every Leader’s a Teacher

Let's Grow Leaders

Make Training Work by Involving Leaders at Every Level Do you get frustrated with training that wastes time and money, but doesn’t change behavior? Yeah, us too. Your leadership development (or any type of training) should be practical, focused on your business, […]. The post How to Make Training Work: Every Leader’s a Teacher appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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5 Common Self-Publishing Mistakes To Avoid and What to Do Instead

crowdspring

Use these tips and insights to help avoid the top 5 mistakes many authors make when self-publishing a new book.

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An experiment to inform universal basic income

McKinsey

As income inequality and economic upheaval take center stage, is a guaranteed minimum income worth considering? Results from a two-year experiment in Finland offer clues.

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The Creative Mindset – Interview with Jeff DeGraff

Let's Grow Leaders

In this incredibly practical and inspiring episode, Jeff DeGraff, the “Dean of Innovation” gives you practical ways to cultivate a creative mindset for yourself and with your team. Website: [link] Contact: [link] [link] [link] [link] Get Jeff’s Book, The Creative Mindset: The post The Creative Mindset – Interview with Jeff DeGraff appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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7 Ways to Build a Resilient Workforce

Vantage Circle

The corporate world is getting competitive and challenging with each passing day. And with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, keeping up with the competitive landscape has become an uphill battle. To maintain the pace and face the challenges, the organization and its workforce need to become resilient to adapt swiftly. A resilient workforce will be able to assess situations and work accordingly, come with new ideas, help the organization drive forward during difficult times, cope with workplace stre

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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 with Cross-Functional Teams in the Workplace

CMOE

A cross-functional team can bring together people and departments that are as different as parts of a body. Accounting is inward-facing, whereas marketing is outward-facing; R&D is focused on change, whereas legal is focused on stability. Yet in a cross-functional team, each seemingly unrelated part must work together, just like the eye and foot work together to help a person walk.

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The hidden perils of unresolved grief

McKinsey

The pandemic is fueling a wave of grief and loss that threatens to derail leaders and hurt organizations. Yet when addressed, grief can be a creative force that turns loss into inspiration.

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Making healthcare more affordable through scalable automation

McKinsey

As more healthcare companies start to implement automation technologies, the ability to coordinate across the organization in achieving scale will be a major determinant of success.

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The zero-carbon car: Abating material emissions is next on the agenda

McKinsey

The automotive industry could abate 66 percent of emissions from their material production at no extra cost by 2030—if industry participants work together and start now.

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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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Six problem-solving mindsets for very uncertain times

McKinsey

Even the most inscrutable problems have solutions—or better outcomes than have been reached so far. Here’s how the best problem solvers crack the code.

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How clean can the nickel industry become?

McKinsey

Global demand for Class 1 nickel could skyrocket, especially for use in electric vehicles. Can the industry meet these needs—and sustainability goals?

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Electric mobility after the crisis: Why an auto slowdown won’t hurt EV demand

McKinsey

Global auto sales plunged during the COVID-19 crisis, but electric mobility has remained remarkably resilient in some countries. Here’s what’s ahead for the electric-vehicle market.

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Memo to the CFO: A new approach to 2021 budgeting starts now

McKinsey

The financial-planning process for 2021 presents an opportunity to turn hard-earned lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic into an enduring exercise in linking strategy to value.

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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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Ecosystem 2.0: Climbing to the next level

McKinsey

After a first wave of trials, incumbents are shaking up value chains to attract new ecosystem customers—and tap potentially huge pools of value.

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From there to here: 50 years of thinking on the social responsibility of business

McKinsey

Milton Friedman’s pathbreaking essay on corporate purpose was published on September 13, 1970. How much has management thinking evolved?

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Reimagine insurance: Five keys to innovation

McKinsey

The pandemic could usher in a new era for the global industry, with implications for strategy and organization. McKinsey’s three regional practice leaders share insights on what the future holds.

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Scaling agility: A new operating model for insurers

McKinsey

Industry-leading insurers have proved enterprise-wide agility delivers the innovation and change incumbents need. The COVID-19 crisis has also highlighted the need for organizational change.

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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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Racial equity in financial services

McKinsey

The financial services talent pipeline shows a lack of representation of people of color, most acutely at senior levels. Changes in three key areas can help companies make progress.

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The European path to reimbursement for digital health solutions

McKinsey

The “fail fast and break things” approach that tech start-ups favor probably won’t work in healthcare. A slower, more deliberate route to market and reimbursement is required.

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How CIOs and CTOs can accelerate digital transformations through cloud platforms

McKinsey

To capture the real value from cloud, companies need to focus their investments and build a cloud-ready operating model.

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Improving the fragile US supply of blood

McKinsey

For a system that relies on the altruism of contributors, an aging class of donors and changing attitudes put the nation’s blood supply at risk.

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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.