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When Things Get Crazy, Look for Ways to To Empower Your Team

Let's Grow Leaders

Want to empower your team? Find opportunities in the chaos. During times of uncertainty and change, it’s easy for your team to get lost in the chaotic swirl of indecision —to wring their hands and wait and see. It’s also the perfect time to empower your team, to step up and take the lead. “Where there is chaos, seize control.” One of my early bosses and mentors, Gail, said this to me almost daily during a turbulent time at Verizon.

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How to run a successful brainstorming session

Creativity at Work

How to run a successful brainstorming sessionHow to run a successful brainstorming session and avoid the traps that cause brainstorming to fail This step-by-step guide will help you navigate the creative process and provide some structure to brainstorming. Brainstorming is part of the ideation phase in creative problem solving or design thinking, as shown in the diagram below.

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The economic impact of ageism

McKinsey

New research quantifies the struggles that midcareer workers—those 45 and over—worldwide face and suggests possible interventions to level the playing field.

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On not caring about what people think

Darius Foroux

The way I see it, you have two options for going about the way you live.

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8 Pillars of Leadership Development

Great leadership development is the key to sustainable business growth. Are you ready to design an effective program? HR can use Paycor’s framework to: Set achievable goals. Align employee and company needs. Support different learning styles. Empower the next generation of leaders. Invest in your company’s future with a strong leadership development program.

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Make It, Don’t Fake It with Sabrina Horn

Let's Grow Leaders

It’s a cliche you’ve undoubtedly heard more than once: Fake it until you make it. The problem is that the pressure to succeed can drive leaders to exaggerate their strengths, minimize weaknesses, bend the truth, and sacrifice the very authenticity that would help them succeed. In this episode, former Silicon Valley communications CEO Sabrina Horn gives you the tools to lead with integrity, navigate the challenges that compromise authenticity, and transform your influence by leading f

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The Evolution : 5 Questions to Ask Yourself Now About Work Life

Marla Gottschalk

Photo by Ruslan Burlaka on Pexels.com. Living through history has again challenged us in ways that we could never have anticipated. It has forced decisions we never thought we would have to make, brought moments of both fear & relief and decidedly rearranged us as people. It has revealed our unheralded strengths — and chinks in the amour. Undoubtedly, we’ll come through to the other side as changed human beings.

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Solution-Focused Approach to Coaching: Questions, Interventions, Techniques [+ Example Session]

Universal Coach Institute

The standard approach to problem-solving insists there is a cause and effect between problems and solutions. However, the Solutions-Focused approach to coaching skips over the continuous delving and search for what causes problems and goes straight for the solution. It focuses on solutions, not problems, strengths, not weaknesses, and on what’s going well, rather than […].

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Improve Your Customer Service Experience (TV Video Interview with Shep Hyken)

Let's Grow Leaders

If you want to improve your Customer Service Experience (CX), Start with Culture. This week, we interrupt our regularly scheduled “Asking for a Friend Series” to feature this important interview with Shep Hyken on Be Amazing or Go Home, TV, about how to improve your customer service experience through culture. What’s the best way to improve your customer service experience?

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Why Strategy is Simple and How Developing A Strategic Perspective Can Accelerate Your Career

StrategyU

“Strategy” is a word that attracts a lot of excitement in the business world. People who work on strategy get paid more and senior executives like to use the word a lot to talk about their decisions. In consulting, I worked with many companies helping them to develop strategies. Although these were often focused on different levels of the business and different topics, all of the “strategies” were similar.

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When are shipping rates going to normalize?

McKinsey

McKinsey’s Steve Saxon and Jaana Remes explain why shipping rates haven’t fallen and provide a scenario for what to expect in 2022.

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The Hidden Skills That Separate Good Leaders from Great Ones

Speaker: Chandra McCormack, CPA, MBA, NACD.DC

Technical degrees might open doors—but it’s the soft skills that keep them open. In the face of disruption, evolving workplace dynamics, and rising expectations of leadership, soft skills like communication, emotional intelligence, and presence have become core business essentials—not nice-to-haves. Inspired by stories from her father coupled with her own career journey, seasoned executive Chandra McCormack breaks down how to lead with impact, connect with purpose, and cultivate a workplace cult

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What the world needs

ReNew Business

"The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art." -Simic We make art because making it grows us. Because it makes us more human. Because it’s thrilling to create a world that did not exist before we brought it into being. What does need us and our heARTs to become real? This inquiry requires our willingness to dance with uncertainty, to explore the mystery, to be flexible, spontaneous, devoted, even when we don’t know where we’re going.

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Do you need to make a career transition?

Create Your Career Path

If you had to describe your career with one emoji, what would it be? While that could be an overly simplified way to describe your career, all professionals need to take time to evaluate their current career path to make sure they are in the right fit. Life is too short to stay in a job you don’t truly enjoy. But how do you know if you need to make a career transition?

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The Complete Process of New Product Development

Big Rocks Engineering

The process of taking a product or service from conception to market is known as new product development (NPD). It outlines a series of stages that new products typically go through, beginning with ideation and concept generation and ending with the product’s market introduction. Depending on the nature of the business, some of the stages […].

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How to reduce postharvest crop losses in the agricultural supply chain

McKinsey

Cutting postharvest waste could translate to cost savings for grain-trading companies, as well as to potential land gains for countries at high risk of grain loss.

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Building Compliant Workplace Violence Prevention Across States: CA SB-553 | NY S. 8358B

Speaker: Speakers:

Workplace violence prevention laws are rapidly evolving, with California’s SB-553 and New York’s Retail Worker Safety Act (S-8358B) leading the way. Join WILL’s experts for a nationwide webinar covering compliance requirements, with a special focus on these key state mandates. We’ll guide you through developing and implementing effective prevention policies, building a compliant plan, and delivering the required annual interactive training.

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Key to accepting a difficult reality? Let go of judgments

Penelope Trunk

Z is recording Bach. Fifteen minutes earlier he lost his music which is normal for him. When he was six years old his teacher could change a bowing pattern right before a performance and he’d remember just fine. Now, at 16, he can’t remember a bowing pattern even if he checks it right before he records. He knows that it’s because of his brain injury , and he tries to be patient with himself.

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Workations: Why and How to Make Them Happen!

Vantage Circle

You've probably heard of vacations or even sabbaticals. But have you ever heard of a workation? A workation is when you take your career on the road and live out of a hotel room for a while, all the while working remotely enjoying the luxury you had desired. Workationing was a growing trend in the digital nomad community. But since 2020, it is definitely on the rise all over the world.

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How to Motivate Your Team as a Project Manager

CMOE

Managing multiple projects, budgets, and tasks is essential for a manager to be effective, but these responsibilities shouldn’t overshadow the importance of team morale and engagement. Research notes only 15 percent of workforce members feel motivated—and that’s a problem. If you’re having trouble creating a team culture of productivity and engagement, CMOE has you covered.

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Boards and the cloud

McKinsey

A shift to the cloud requires boards to weigh numerous implications, from the technology infrastructure to cybersecurity.

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

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Save Your Holiday Shopping from COVID-19 - A Root Cause?Analysis

Think Reliablility

Lately, whether you’re shopping in-store or online, watching the news or talking to business owners, there’s a buzz about empty spaces on store shelves and the inability to fill product orders. One implication of the COVID-19 global pandemic is the impact on general products we rely on as consumers.

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How To Work In The 9-80 Work Schedule?

Vantage Circle

The standard 8-hours day, 5 days per week periods, 40-hour workweek are familiar to most working people. However, the recent pandemic has changed the way we work. It has made us understand that there are diverse work arrangements that can amp up employees' productivity. The 9-80 work schedule is one of them. Although the 9-80 workweek may appear new, it could very well be the next big thing in the world of flexible work trends.

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The Season for Networking

Rachel B. Garrett

I can’t believe Thanksgiving is next week, the holiday movies are beginning to trend on Netflix, the Christmas Blend is brewing at Starbucks and the virtual and intimate in-person holiday gatherings are beginning to fill up our respective calendars. For those of you who’ve been following along with me for a few years now, you may be able to predict what I’m about to say.

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The third wave of biomaterials: When innovation meets demand

McKinsey

How corporate sustainability commitments could catalyze the next generation of bio-based chemicals and materials.

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How to Set Better OKRs and Drive Results

Before you can achieve success, you have to define it. Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) give you the framework to do just that. Paycor’s free guide includes a step-by-step process leaders can use to work toward – and achieve – their loftiest business goals.

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How Good Are You at Business Building? A New Way to Score Your Ability to Scale New Ventures

McKinsey

The Leap Business-Building Quotient highlights what matters in creating new ventures. Digital Insights Digital strategy and organization Growth Innovation

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The Black unicorn: Changing the game for inclusivity in retail

McKinsey

In the age of the inclusive consumer, harnessing the power of retail can increase demand for Black-owned brands.

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Advanced air mobility in 2030

McKinsey

In this video, three McKinsey experts on aerospace and mobility describe a future in which electric flying vehicles are a safe, affordable, and sustainable way to travel.

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Laying the foundation to accelerate the enterprise IoT journey

McKinsey

Wienke Giezeman is building and serving an IoT ecosystem by offering open-source tools and a “workbench” on which to build solutions.

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The Everyday Donor: Unlocking Prospecting Segments Through Behavior Analysis

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Do you really know your donors? Not just what they give, but who they are? 👥 In this interactive session, we’ll break down how nonprofits can use behavioral indicators (affinity, recency, frequency, and monetary value) to build prospecting segments that go beyond wealth screening and actually align with donor identity. You’ll walk away with practical strategies to move beyond basic demographics and cultivate supporters based on how they already engage with you!

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Final approach: How airports can prepare for advanced air mobility

McKinsey

Advanced air mobility is becoming a reality. Airport operators need to assess the opportunity and integrate it into their planning.

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Retail supply-chain strategies for the holidays and beyond

McKinsey

How can retailers ensure strong sales this holiday season amid continuing supply-chain problems? Two McKinsey experts share their insights.

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The rise and rise of the global balance sheet: How productively are we using our wealth?

McKinsey

Net worth has tripled since 2000, but the increase mainly reflects valuation gains in real assets, especially real estate, rather than investment in productive assets that drive our economies.

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Rideshares in the sky by 2024: Joby Aviation bets big on air taxis

McKinsey

Joby executive Bonny Simi sees a future in which aerial ridesharing is popular, traveling between rural and urban areas is quick and easy, and the pilot workforce is much more diverse.

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Preventing Workplace Violence and Complying with New York’s Retail Worker Safety Act

Speaker: Speakers:

On September 4, 2024, Governor Kathy Hochul signed the Retail Worker Safety Act (S. 8358B/A. 8947C) into law, requiring retail employers in New York to adopt workplace violence prevention policies and implement training programs by March 2025. This webinar will provide a detailed overview of the Act’s requirements, including developing and providing a retail workplace violence prevention policy/plan and delivering annual interactive training to employees.