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What’s Going to Happen Next?

Let's Grow Leaders

What’s Going to Happen? – It Will Be Predictably Unpredictable. If only you had a crystal ball to know what’s going to happen. The planning, the decisions, the choices would be so much easier. But you don’t. And those decisions and tradeoffs aren’t easy. Will office work remain fully virtual, or move to a hybrid model? Is that project still realistic with all this uncertainty?

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Ed Catmull || The Soul of Pixar

Scott Barry Kaufman

Today it’s great to chat with Ed Catmull. Ed is the co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios and former president of Pixar Animation and Disney Animation. He has been honored with five Academy Awards, including the Gordon E. Sawyer Award for lifetime achievement in the field of computer graphics. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Utah and is the author of Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces that Stand in the Way of True Inspiration.

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How to Better Understand Digital Body Language

On The Job

As more of us prepare to move back into the office environment -- either permanently or on a more flexible basis -- we need to understand that Zoom calls and other forms of digital communication will become a permanent part of our career. With that in mind, it's important to become more adept as understanding digital "cues" or "body language" that we observe through a camera lens or via text.

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How the medtech industry can capture value from digital health

McKinsey

Medtech companies could play a major role in the digital transformation of healthcare that is under way, but they will have to make some big changes to the way they operate—and fast.

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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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Gender fluidity and Autism open gates of power for women

Penelope Trunk

James Maher Photography. US scientists are scared to talk about differences between male and female brains , probably because it will get them fired. The loudest voices say there cannot be male and female brains because there are women and men who think in similar ways. While universities in the US squelch ideas they don’t like , the rest of the world accepts the scientific theory that there is a male and female brain , and Autistic is the word to describe women who think the same way men

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Why & How Team Leaders Can Use a Delegation Framework

CMOE

Great leaders understand the value of delegation. When a team leader delegates responsibilities to individual contributors, it illustrates the leader’s belief in their potential—this can save nearly 79 percent of team members from quitting. This also frees up time for leaders to focus on more critical and important areas of the business. As your organization and team grow, so do your responsibilities.

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Adopting a smart data mindset in a world of big data

McKinsey

Industrial companies are using artificial intelligence to improve plant operations. To be successful, they will need to transform their data with the help of domain experts.

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Solve Disordered Business Problems with AI

ChaiOne

The first two parts of this three-part series discussed classifying business problems according to their complexity. Part 1 discussed the domains associated with obvious and complicated problems, and Part 2 discussed the domains related to complex and chaotic problems. In this final installment, we discuss the disorderly domain and the value of conducting user experience research and data science.

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Employee Engagement Vs Employee Experience: What's The Difference?

Vantage Circle

Although the words "employee engagement" and "employee experience" can sound similar, they are actually very different. Employers across the globe strive to ensure that their employees are satisfied and engaged with their job. But here, we need to understand that while engaged employees are satisfied with their jobs, satisfied employees are not necessarily engaged in their respective jobs.

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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 Boost Profits with Creative Thinking Techniques

Fortitude Business Consulting

One of the best ways to boost your profits is with innovation, but you can’t begin without appropriate creative thinking techniques. Creative thinking techniques fuel innovation, encourage new insights and solutions and give your business. an edge over your competition. However, innovative thinking methods aren’t always easy to understand and apply.

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Winning the Chinese BEV market: How leading international OEMs compete

McKinsey

Keeping up with the ever-changing battery-electric-vehicle industry is a high-stakes challenge. Our benchmark of two international and ten local models reveals how OEMs can win over Chinese consumers.

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The Do’s and Don’ts of Managing Up

Eat Your Career

Odd as it sounds, organizational leaders need their staff to help manage them. While you’re not technically their “manager,” you certainly have influence. Learning how to leverage that influence to help lead your superiors (from behind) will make you an invaluable asset to the team. . Though the term “managing up” is often thrown around in the workplace, few people really know what it means or how to do it effectively.

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5 Powerful Employee Engagement Strategies For The BFSI Industry

Vantage Circle

No industry is perfect. But the Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (or BFSI) have an infamous reputation for being tough and challenging- more so for its employees. And it makes sense. Such intense work conditions make workers feel nervous, anxious, and vulnerable to burnout. When people go through this at work, it creates a sense of disengagement.

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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 things we can learn from railway bridges and elite sports

Charles Leon

That apply to everyday life. Last week I spent some time sketching bridges, particularly railway bridges. I'm very fortunate to live next to the river Thames and near two impressive railway bridges, Barnes and Kew. Whilst these are engineering necessities, they are also aesthetically compelling. They are demonstrations of strength and confidence. Engineering matched with architectural skill and economic prosperity.

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The essentials of healthcare innovation

McKinsey

The pandemic has raised the importance of healthcare organizations actively choosing, evolving, accelerating, and extending their innovation efforts, a new survey reveals.

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The Three Types of Organizational Collaboration

SchellingPoint

The post The Three Types of Organizational Collaboration appeared first on SchellingPoint Website.

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5 Advantages of Practicing Equal Employment Opportunity

Vantage Circle

People of today make conscious decisions- be it life or work. In life, they safeguard their own interests. At work, the "Equal Employment Opportunity" act safeguards it for them. With the evolving world, the nature of work-life has changed as well. But there is one major business change that we have seen. That change is known as Equal Employment Opportunity or EEO.

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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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Nursing in 2021: Retaining the healthcare workforce when we need it most

McKinsey

How healthcare stakeholders can understand, support, and empower the nursing workforce in the wake of the global health crisis.

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Ten ideas to reimagine Indonesia’s economy after COVID-19

McKinsey

If Indonesia can quickly return to prepandemic growth rates, the country may become the world’s seventh-largest economy by 2030.

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For mothers in the workplace, a year (and counting) like no other

McKinsey

As Mother’s Day approaches, we look at how the COVID-19 pandemic has forced a reckoning between career ambitions and family aspirations for many women, and what companies can do to help them.

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Digitization in automotive retail in 2021 and beyond

McKinsey

Experts from EURODA and Google weigh in on what’s next for the automotive sector as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to accelerate digitization.

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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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Author Talks: Hubert Joly on unleashing human magic

McKinsey

The former chairman and CEO of Best Buy describes the leadership principles required to thrive in capitalism’s next era.

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Ten ideas to unlock Indonesia’s growth after COVID-19

McKinsey

If Indonesia can quickly return to prepandemic growth rates, the country may become the world’s seventh-largest economy by 2030.

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On target: How to succeed with carbon-reduction initiatives

McKinsey

McKinsey research reveals which industries are on track to meet green objectives and how they got there.

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Getting to know—and manage—your biggest AI risks

McKinsey

A systematic approach to identifying and prioritizing AI risks can help organizations effectively target mitigation efforts.

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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.