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Communication Techniques for Challenging Times: A Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

Communication is tricky, even during “normal” circumstances, but it’s even more important now. You know we’re huge believers in 5×5 communication. Communicating anything that’s important five times, five different ways and are always on the lookout for great communication techniques to make […]. The post Communication Techniques for Challenging Times: A Frontline Festival appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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How to Increase your Visibility at Work

Career Advancement

“Recognition happens when you see yourself from the inside-out: as someone who can make an impact on the world instead of navigating the impact the world has on you.” ~Justine Musk. Ascher, who worked in a medical technology firm, had been making an effort to enhance how others perceived him over the past six months. He felt certain his coworkers saw him in a positive light.

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4 Ways to Lead Better Through a Pandemic

On The Job

These are certainly difficult times for employees, but it is also a very trying time for bosses. After all, no MBA or management training programs are likely to have "how to be a boss during a pandemic." Bosses are learning as they go -- and sometimes they've risen to the occasion and led a team through these troubled waters -- and sometimes they've not been as successful.

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Will infrastructure bend or break under climate stress?

McKinsey

Infrastructure is the backbone of the global economy, connecting people, enhancing quality of life, and promoting health and safety. But climate change is revealing infrastructure vulnerabilities.

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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 Stop Remote Work from Stealing Your Life

Let's Grow Leaders

Awareness and intention will help stop remote work from stealing your life It’s not your imagination: if the pandemic shifted your job to working from home, odds are, you’re working longer hours. For many of the leaders we’ve spoken with over the […]. The post How to Stop Remote Work from Stealing Your Life appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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How To Handle Toxic Employees?

Vantage Circle

As HR experts, you strive tirelessly to build a work atmosphere and an organizational culture that increases profitability, improve loyalty, and encourages employee happiness. It is fundamental for maintaining an active business as long as possible. However, despite all your stunning endeavors, you can't control individuals' intrinsic perspectives and practices.

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Meet the next-normal consumer

McKinsey

Consumer behavior has changed radically in response to the COVID-19 lockdown. Understanding which changes are likely to stick will help companies plan for the recovery.

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How to Draw Out Your Team’s Best Ideas

Let's Grow Leaders

Your team may have vital information, solutions, or ideas that would make a tremendous difference – if you only knew what they were thinking. In this episode, you’ll get a powerful tool to draw out your team’s best ideas. The post How to Draw Out Your Team’s Best Ideas appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. Your team may have vital information, solutions, or ideas that would make a tremendous difference – if you only knew what they were thinking.

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Every Creative Project Is a Revolving Door

Lateral Action

A lot of productivity advice tells us that we need to stop procrastinating, beat Resistance, and get things done. The Americans like to talk about ‘shipping’, meaning finished and sent out for delivery. This emphasis on getting things done and out to market is part of their extraordinary entrepreneurial culture. Famously, Guy Kawasaki even said […].

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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 Can HR Build Resilience In The Workplace?

Vantage Circle

While stress naturally occurs in the workplace, one must develop personal resilience for reducing vulnerability in work and the impact of adversity. It is a critical life-skills for human survival to measure our ability to thrive in the face of difficult situations and learn after setbacks. Leaders must cultivate it in themselves and take responsibility for improving resilience among employees, which will increase work engagement, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment.

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Ten battlegrounds for digital and analytics in life sciences

McKinsey

Life-sciences companies have yet to realize the full potential of digital and analytics. Pioneers are finding success by focusing on entire parts of the business system rather than use case projects.

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Dear DNC: I’d vote for a tent pole before I’d vote for Joe Biden

Penelope Trunk

The Democratic Party’s strategy is Trump is so bad that the DNC can win with anyone. That’s why the DNC didn’t care when Hilary didn’t bother campaigning in Michigan or Wisconsin. That’s why the DNC doesn’t care that younger democrats hate Biden. The DNC is a club that meets to protect their own power. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes reminds us of that all the time.

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The 21st Century Illustrator with Krystal Lauk

Lateral Action

Today’s guest on The 21st Century Creative is Krystal Lauk, an illustrator who took an unconventional path by creating illustrations for tech companies, and founded a studio that counts Google, Uber, Facebook and The New York Times among its clients. It’s a fascinating story of discovery and enterprise at what Krystal calls ‘the intersection of […].

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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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Lost Motivation at Work? Here’s is What you Need to do

Vantage Circle

Motivation is a fuel that we need in regular doses. If you are a working professional, you understand why its important to stay motivated. And how lost motivation can make our lives difficult. There are days when you are pumped up to start your day, and sometimes you keep pushing your snooze button to get some extra sleep. Why does that happen? The reason behind this is psychological and as well as external circumstances.

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Igniting individual purpose in times of crisis

McKinsey

Creating strong links to an individual purpose benefits individuals and companies alike—and could be vital in managing the postpandemic uncertainties that lie ahead.

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Rethinking AI talent strategy as automated machine learning comes of age

McKinsey

Do companies still need to hire a large contingent of data scientists to build machine learning models or can AutoML reduce the demand for this elusive talent?

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Reimagining the postpandemic economic future

McKinsey

As the COVID-19 crisis continues to devastate US lives and livelihoods, policy makers are challenged to emerge from it in a way that lays a foundation for a strong, healthy economy in the long run.

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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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Organizing for speed in advanced industries

McKinsey

Faced with the COVID-19 crisis, companies in advanced industries have become more nimble and accelerated decision making. How can they retain this speed once the pandemic abates?

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Critical communications infrastructure and COVID-19: An interview with Ericsson’s CEO

McKinsey

Börje Ekholm discusses the impact of the crisis on global telecom networks and the coming 5G transition, as well as the future of work and challenges to the physical and mental health of employees.

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Semiconductor design and manufacturing: Achieving leading-edge capabilities

McKinsey

As chips get smaller and competition increases, semiconductor companies need a new strategy that considers everything from fab size to supply-chain issues.

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COVID-19: Saving thousands of lives and trillions in livelihoods

McKinsey

Ending lockdowns alone won’t restore confidence or growth. Only when the novel coronavirus is under control will economic growth resume.

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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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COVID-19 and cell and gene therapy: How to keep innovation on track

McKinsey

Cell and gene therapies promise life-changing treatments, but the pandemic has hit the sector hard. A survey reveals the extent of the disruption and suggests actions to help companies become more resilient.

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Reinvigorating growth in the consumer-goods industry

McKinsey

In this episode of the McKinsey on Consumer and Retail podcast, three senior partners discuss the changes that will fuel the next generation of growth for consumer-packaged-goods companies.

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Customer loyalty: The new generation

McKinsey

Changes in consumer behavior due to the surge in digital mean companies need to revamp their loyalty programs. Here are the essentials for success.

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Declaration of interdependence: B Lab Global’s Andrew Kassoy

McKinsey

The CEO and cofounder of B Lab Global explains how business leaders can create the most value for shareholders, stakeholders, and society by recognizing the interdependencies that bind them together.

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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.