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How to Overcome One of the Biggest Challenges of Working From Home

Let's Grow Leaders

The Harvard Business Review article, The Implications of Working Without an Office covers great research about the benefits and challenges of working from home. I highly recommend it. If nothing else to validate those mixed emotions you’re having. Because if you’re like […]. The post How to Overcome One of the Biggest Challenges of Working From Home appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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How the Pandemic Can Help Your Grow in Your Career

On The Job

During these months of quarantining, working from home, juggling new schedules and home situations and just trying to remember what day it is, it can be tough to think about anything good that can come from this pandemic. I'm not going to try and sugarcoat that "every cloud has its silver lining," blah, blah, blah. I don't want to offer empty platitudes that might make you feel worse.

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Insights on racial and ethnic health inequity in the context of COVID-19

McKinsey

McKinsey’s Center for Societal Benefit through Healthcare shares insights on underlying health inequities that contribute to the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities of color and vulnerable populations.

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Diversity Fatigue- What it is and How to Overcome it?

Vantage Circle

The concept of Diversity Fatigue first appeared in the year 1990, when the equality of opportunities became a significant corporate concern. The word was used to define the feelings of frustration and exhaustion involved with attempting to attract candidates from diverse pools and generate opportunities for more diversity within businesses, according to a 2017 report in The New Yorker, "The Year of 'Diversity Fatigue." According to Atlassian's 2018 State of Diversity Report , employees w

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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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One Way Smart Leaders Avoid Micro-Managing Remote Team Members

Let's Grow Leaders

Avoid micro-managing remote team members by scheduling a clear finish Recently we spoke with Shawna, an executive who reflected on the past year and the shift to remote work, “We’ve exceeded our goals, but I also am sure that our failure to […]. The post One Way Smart Leaders Avoid Micro-Managing Remote Team Members appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Reducing data costs without jeopardizing growth

McKinsey

Organizations are leaning on data insights more than ever to cope with the pandemic’s fallout. But with most companies in resiliency mode, how can they ramp up data efforts while managing data costs?

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5 Tips To Improve Employee Experience in the Time of Covid-19

Vantage Circle

Covid-19 has swept us all like a hurricane and left us with few choices but to accept and adapt to the new normal. The economy has crashed, business went remote, and employees were scattered and oscillating with this sudden wave. Leaders and managers are busy to accommodate; HR professionals have planned out strategies and policies to smooth the work processes and employees' needs.

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Leading when “What Were They Thinking?”

Let's Grow Leaders

It can be frustrating when your team’s behavior doesn’t make any sense. But those moments where you wonder “What were they thinking?” are also opportunities. In this episode, you’ll get a way forward for the next time you wonder “What were […]. The post Leading when “What Were They Thinking?” appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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The Art of Overhearing Yourself

Lateral Action

If you think about overhearing something, you probably think of listening to someone else’s conversation, whether deliberately or accidentally, and picking up a titbit of information that you would never otherwise have been privy to. It might be funny, or shocking or useful, or – as in the case of so many loud phone calls […]. The post The Art of Overhearing Yourself appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach.

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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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COVID-19 and advancing Asian American recovery

McKinsey

Asian American communities have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic. Stakeholders in the public, private, and social sectors can help spur their recovery and promote greater equity.

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Top 33 Inspirational Quotes For Managers

Vantage Circle

We usually write about motivating employees. But this time we decided it’s time to motivate the person behind a team’s success. The manager. Here’s why we decided that it’s high time we write down a list of quotes for managers to inspire motivation in them. Managers are perhaps the most underrated piece in the organizational puzzle. Seeing that they are considered as the bridge between employees and senior executives, they deserve the due credit.

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Less targets = More scores

MultiPOD Mentoring

Dear Multipodian: Now that you are actively hunting for a job and have your initial list of possible (and desired) employers, you may continue with the second phase. Your next step is to reduce the list to no more than five organizations, based on your strongest interests and probabilities of getting accepted. Paradoxically, reducing the number of institutions will increase your odds of being successful.

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The Adventure of Writing with Emily Kimelman

Lateral Action

Today’s guest on The 21st Century Creative is Emily Kimelman, a thriller author who has travelled the world in a boat and criss-crossed the USA in an Airstream trailer while writing and publishing her books, and selling hundreds of thousands of copies in the process. Emily’s adventurous spirit shines through in her writing as well […]. The post The Adventure of Writing with Emily Kimelman appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach.

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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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Managing and monitoring credit risk after the COVID-19 pandemic

McKinsey

The unique features of the pandemic-triggered recession have led banks to move more quickly to build real-time data and analytics into their credit-decision engines.

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Pulse Survey: Best Way To Measure Employee Engagement

Vantage Circle

Employee pulse surveys have quickly become one of the most preferred methods to measure employee engagement levels. Employee engagement is not a quantitative number that can be measured easily. It’s an emotion. Various factors come into play when you talk about “measuring engagement” in a workforce. Do employees feel satisfied with their work? Do employees think that their manager is fair?

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Less targets = More scores

MultiPOD Mentoring

Dear Multipodian: Now that you are actively hunting for a job and have your initial list of possible (and desired) employers, you may continue with the second phase. Your next step is to reduce the list to no more than five organizations, based on your strongest interests and probabilities of getting accepted. Paradoxically, reducing the number of institutions will increase your odds of being successful.

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Could climate become the weak link in your supply chain?

McKinsey

Greater frequency and severity of climate hazards can create more disruptions in global supply chains—interrupting production, raising costs and prices, and hurting corporate revenues.

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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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Building a business within a business: How to power continual organic growth

McKinsey

Business building is vital to a company’s longevity. To do it successfully, an organization needs the strengths of an incumbent and the agility of a start-up.

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Reimagining European restaurants for the next normal

McKinsey

To win in the next normal, European restaurants will need to embrace innovation in their channel strategy, menu offerings, and business model.

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The role of spend analytics in the next normal

McKinsey

The COVID-19 pandemic has proven that procurement functions can deliver at speed. But how can they also ensure that they’re spending wisely?

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A holistic approach for the US behavioral health crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic

McKinsey

COVID-19 creates additional challenges for healthcare leaders seeking to improve behavioral health while offering an opportunity for meaningful 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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Meet Generation Z: Shaping the future of shopping

McKinsey

The newest consumer generations—Gen Z and millennials—are upturning retailers’ expectations. Here’s how—and what to do about it.

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The high-rise in 2030

McKinsey

In this video, McKinsey experts describe how high-rise buildings might change in the coming decade—and how construction and real-estate companies should evolve.

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Global capability centers in the next normal

McKinsey

Companies with large global operations had to respond quickly to COVID-19. Now their short-term fixes are turning out to offer longer-term opportunities.

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E-sports and the next frontier of brand sponsorships

McKinsey

Data from Germany and Western Europe indicates that sponsorship of e-sports can open a valuable marketing channel for brands that know how to use it.

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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.