Let's Grow Leaders
JUNE 10, 2021
“Hey Karin, I’m so proud of my team. We had such an incredible pivot. We accomplished some incredible things. AND as it turns out we made some faulty assumptions, and we’re going to need to pivot. How do I admit we were wrong without discouraging the team? #AskingForaFriend. Gain Big Credibility With Your Team, Even if You Have to Admit You Were Wrong.
McKinsey
JUNE 11, 2021
Hybrid work is happening. Your culture will need to catch up—fast.
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Vantage Circle
JUNE 6, 2021
Following basic email etiquette is crucial, especially in the corporate sector. Email is truly a powerful means of communication, both personally and professionally. Excellent email etiquette includes impeccable writing skills making a difference between a fruitful workplace relationship and a potential misunderstanding, offense, or conflict. Read our blog on: The Guide To Conflict Resolution In The Workplace.
CMOE
JUNE 8, 2021
We live and work in a world of never-ending change that is accelerating all the time. This dynamic creates opportunities and challenges for every organization. The capacity to react quickly when a window of opportunity opens and mitigate rapidly approaching storms is vital to long-term success. For a multitude of reasons, more than half of the companies that were on the Fortune 500 list in the year 2000 no longer exist today.
Advertiser: Paycor
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.
Let's Grow Leaders
JUNE 11, 2021
It’s easy to take things personally and get upset when you need to lead a tough performance conversation. In this episode, we’ll take a look at what might cause you to get upset and five steps you can take to keep your cool and have a productive conversation. Leading a Performance Conversation without Losing Your Cool. 0:58 – Be sure to pick up your discounted copy of Courageous Cultures through the end of June 2021. 2:00 – Why leading a performance conversation without l
McKinsey
JUNE 9, 2021
More incumbent insurers are considering building digital businesses. Three McKinsey experts discuss what to do—and with whom.
Professional Development Brief brings together the best content for development professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Vantage Circle
JUNE 11, 2021
Stress management is the key to leading a prosperous and productive life. But to manage stress effectively, it is crucial to get to the root of the problem. The same applies in the workplace as well. As a manager, you need to assess the situation by asking questions like-. Are your employees missing out on deadlines? Have you witnessed a significant drop in productivity?
Let's Grow Leaders
JUNE 7, 2021
If you want a strong virtual team, get your team talking. If you want to take your virtual or hybrid team to the next level, use this virtual team-building tool to get your team talking about what’s working and identify areas for continued improvement. What makes a highly successful virtual or hybrid team? Highly successful hybrid and virtual teams have one thing in common.
McKinsey
JUNE 9, 2021
The lessons learned from the current crisis can help corporate boards make the organizations they serve stronger.
ReNew Business
JUNE 10, 2021
“What we do not dream we cannot manufacture” Erica Hunt The most critical step after dreaming is making sure that the manufacturing does not kill the dream. It feels to me the challenge we face immediately after imagining a new future. We are tempted to use old ways, old language, old methods while wanting to create the new. We forget that the emerging imagination disturbs the linear concepts we consciously know and undermines what we neatly have organised in “accepted” reality.
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
Faster Ideas
JUNE 9, 2021
Why the right juxtaposition can make your contrasting ideas slot into place. Photo by Berkin Üregen on Unsplash. I specifically remember hearing the word juxtaposition for the first time as a child and thinking what an interesting word it was. Then I found out what it meant and I've been juxtaposing one thing against another ever since. A cursory Google search shows that there may not be (aren't) any other words in the English language that start with jux (apart from derivatives of juxtapose , o
Vantage Circle
JUNE 7, 2021
In 2020, when the Coronavirus pandemic was on peak, the economy and the unemployment rate hit a new low with mass layoffs. Even in normal times, a layoff or a termination is a hard pill to swallow for all employees. Layoffs during such trying times are even more stressful and overwhelming. When the subject of layoffs emerged, the issue of fair severance pay came up as well.
McKinsey
JUNE 7, 2021
There’s more to consider than Gen Z. Powerful demographic forces are reshaping consumer behavior and causing large shifts in consumption patterns in Asia.
Charles Leon
JUNE 5, 2021
Index of all blogs. Why creativity is so important for our collective futures. Sir Ken Robinson. Listen to the Full tedtalk here. This week I’d like to look at the TedTalk given by Sir Ken Robinson in 2007. This talk has been seen more than 20 million times (I only account for about 5 of those). The talk undoubtedly inspired me to see creative education as paramount for our children and confirmed to me that the education system we have at the moment was built to serve the purposes of the industr
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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.
Faster Ideas
JUNE 8, 2021
Why do we get our best ideas when we're in the shower? Photo by Skyler King on Unsplash. According to , a 2016 study , 72% of us get our best ideas in the shower. Aaron Sorkin - Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Social Network and The West Wing - is among them. Sorkin reportedly takes up to eight showers a day to keep his creative ideas flowing. "I find them incredibly refreshing and when writing isn’t going well, it’s a do over… I will shower, change into new clothes and start again.
Vantage Circle
JUNE 7, 2021
Just 1% of Fortune 500 CEOs were black, 2% were Asian, 2% were Latino, and 5% were women in 2020, according to reports. Fast forward to today, Rosalind Brewer was appointed CEO of Walgreens on March 15, 2021, making her the only Black female CEO of a Fortune 500 corporation at the time. So, while women of color have one foot through the door, there's still a lot of work to be done.
McKinsey
JUNE 11, 2021
As the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbates systemic inequities, entrepreneurs also face the fallout of America’s racial reckoning.
McKinsey
JUNE 8, 2021
Gillian Tett, the Financial Times markets and finance columnist and US managing editor, presents a radically different strategy for making sense of the business world today: anthropology.
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.
McKinsey
JUNE 8, 2021
As the industry looks beyond the pandemic, grocery retailers must determine which trends will endure. A focus on five areas will separate the winners from the rest of the pack.
McKinsey
JUNE 9, 2021
A record number of women have left the US workforce during the COVID-19 crisis. A policy expert and former HR executive discuss the long-term effects—and their own experiences.
McKinsey
JUNE 9, 2021
Amid the agonies of a second pandemic year, the recovery gathers further momentum; business leaders and policy makers ponder rising inflation.
McKinsey
JUNE 9, 2021
As European grocers realize that embracing new technology is core to their strategy, flexibility is the key to successful transformation. It’s not always about what retailers are doing in tech adoption, but how.
Advertiser: Paycor
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.
McKinsey
JUNE 7, 2021
Utilities used to own the entire value chain, from energy generation over transmission and distribution grids to retail, until the regulation and market environment changed and new competitors entered. To survive and thrive, both incumbents and new players will need to continuously revisit portfolios.
McKinsey
JUNE 10, 2021
How could AI help create jobs even in rural areas, and what would it take? In this podcast episode, Kevin Scott shares his ideas with James Manyika.
McKinsey
JUNE 7, 2021
With rising US adoption, biosimilars are gathering even more momentum. Successful companies will innovate their commercial models, rethink their portfolio management, and accelerate their R&D.
McKinsey
JUNE 7, 2021
Asia’s consumer markets are not only a story of scale, but also one of diversity and shifting preferences and behavior caused by powerful demographic, social, and economic forces.
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!
McKinsey
JUNE 8, 2021
Launching a successful new business concept requires a strong purpose, a focus on research, an innovative business model, and a willingness to adapt to the market.
McKinsey
JUNE 10, 2021
With increasing global complexities, those financial institutions that take a more integrated, strategic approach to model life-cycle management can unlock massive potential.
McKinsey
JUNE 11, 2021
Digital is in the early stages of adoption but offers significant potential. With the right approach, a focused packaging company can preserve value and capture growth.
McKinsey
JUNE 11, 2021
Two colleagues talk about the ways race impacts their work experiences.
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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.
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