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Leading Through Rapidly Changing Priorities

Let's Grow Leaders

Help your team master rapidly changing priorities with skillful preparation. Rapidly changing priorities can demoralize and frustrate your team if you’re not prepared to help them navigate the shifting landscape. Effective leaders prepare their teams for changing priorities, create structures to help the team shift, and advocate for their team to ensure their work is meaningful.

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Yes, Going Back to the Office Means Talking to Humans

On The Job

As more people head back into the office this year, there will be adjustments. Some may be a bit silly of course (no more wearing pajama bottoms with a button-down shirt like you did for Zoom calls) while others will require more serious focus, such as learning to interact in person with more people all day long. In fact, I'll bet more people than are willing to admit are a bit intimidated by the thought of those casual conversations that used to be a regular part of our day before the pandemic

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22 Tips for Cultivating Your Well-Being at Work

Creativity at Work

22 Tips for Cultivating Your Well-Being at WorkA holistic approach to cultivating your well-being at work Develop your creative resilience Find a renewed sense of meaning and purpose in your work Include time for incubation and play in your schedule Expressing yourself creatively for fun can energize your work Nurture relationships at work, and in your community (face to face and online) [.].

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Toward smart production: Machine intelligence in business operations

McKinsey

A detailed study of machine intelligence in industrial and manufacturing operations reveals the surprisingly different paths companies can take. But a group of leaders shares similar characteristics.

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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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What Do Highly Successful Virtual Teams Do Differently? (Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

The Best Hybrid and Virtual Teams Work on. Connection, Communication, and Stay Curious About New Ways of Working. The best hybrid and virtual teams don’t leave connection and communication to chance. They’re consistently asking “how can we do this better?” They spend time communicating about how they communicate AND make an extra effort to build psychological safety , trust and connection.

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13 common red flags in a relationship to look out for

BetterUp

Jump to section. What are red flags in a relationship? 13 red flags in a relationship to look out for. Yellow flags vs. red flags. How to approach red flags in a relationship.

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Transforming through disruption: A conversation with Dan Antonelli

McKinsey

Dan Antonelli, CEO and president of Ruiz Foods, takes us through his company’s transformation journey and shares hard-won insights on how to drive sustainable and lasting change.

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How Do I Help My Team Make the Most of Failure? (Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

Be More Wrong: How to Grow From Failure. As a leader, how should you encourage your team to take risks and make the most of mistakes and failure? In this Asking For a Friend episode, Karin welcomes Colin Hunter, author of B e More Wrong , to discuss the journey of failure and growth. How to Grow From Failure (Highlights). Source of Strength. 1:19 Colin shares about his father’s passing and how celebrating his life was actually a source of strength for him, and refers to the experience of f

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The Value of Planning When Plans Go Awry

Eat Your Career

This video is an excerpt from a live training session with Chrissy Scivicque, Career Coach & Corporate Trainer. The full video (“The Basics of Flexible Planning”) is available in the Career Success Library. The article below summarizes the video content. “ Plans are nothing. Planning is everything.” This is a quote from Dwight D. Eisenhower, our 34th president here in the United States.

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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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10 Tips to Become a Successful Entrepreneur

BetterUp

Jump to section. What are the benefits of being an entrepreneur? What are the tips to succeed as an entrepreneur? How hard is entrepreneurship? Is it worth it?

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From facility to home: How healthcare could shift by 2025

McKinsey

Up to $265 billion worth of care services for Medicare fee-for-service and Medicare Advantage beneficiaries could shift to the home by 2025.

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Leading a More Resourceful Team

Let's Grow Leaders

During times of stress and change, when you most need a resourceful team, it’s easy to clampdown, insist on the old ways of doing things, and slow your team down. In our research on innovation and psychological safety, 67% of employees said their manager operates around the notion of “this is the way we’ve always done it.” It’s tough for teams to be quick and clever in those circumstances.

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How to Write a Business Plan in 30-Minutes [2022 Startup Guide]

LivePlan

Is it possible to write a business plan in 30 minutes? We'll show you how to easily write a Lean Business Plan in 30 minutes or less.

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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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Celebrating art, allyship, and authors for Black History Month

BetterUp

There’s something special about reading a book. Books don't care about your gender, economic background, or race, and there's no better way to try out walking in another person’s shoes for a while.

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A military veteran knows why your employees are leaving

McKinsey

She also knows what you can—and can’t—do about it. Here are three surprising lessons from a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Managing Interruptions and Dealing with Distractions

Eat Your Career

Whether you’re working at the office, or virtually, or in a hybrid capacity, interruptions and distractions surround you! In many ways, this is simply the nature of today’s working world, and for some roles, it’s an unavoidable part of the job. But that doesn’t mean you have to simply allow these things (and people) to run your day. In fact, actively managing them is also part of the job!

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Is Your Workplace Communication Style As Effective As It Could Be?

Harvard Professional Development

Your communication style and how you communicate with your team plays a critical role in how effective you are as a leader. When thinking about how you communicate as a leader, it’s easy to focus on the basics. And indeed, there are many things you can do to improve your communication skills. However, truly effective communication requires a more comprehensive approach than simply choosing your words carefully.

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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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10 creative interview questions to up your recruiting game

BetterUp

Jump to section. Why should you ask creative interview questions? Tips for asking creative interview questions. Types of creative job interview questions. 10 unique interview questions and what they reveal.

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Building the US public-health workforce of the future

McKinsey

State and local health departments have an imperative to invest in their workforces as they build toward endemic COVID-19 and improving other health outcomes. Here are six strategies to act on now.

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How GenerateIdeas.ai empowers new levels of human thought and creativity

Mind Mapping Software

The biggest surprise in the latest release of Ayoa Ultimate was the launch of a new AI tool called GenerateIdeas.ai. It enables you to extend your thinking in new ways by adding AI-generated topic suggestions and questions to your mind maps. This powerful ideas engine can help its users discover new ideas and insights and explore new paths of thinking and creative solutions they may not have considered otherwise.

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Performance Anxiety

ReNew Business

Does it really matter if some performative husk of a self finds an illusory home in the arms of the world, while a deeper, truer essence remains safely tucked away? J. Fields Performance has permeated every level of society with profound and deep implications rooted in shame, blame and rejection. The fear of rejection is one of our deepest human fears.

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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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Self directed learning is the key to new skills and knowledge

BetterUp

Jump to section. What is self-directed learning? Why should you try self-directed learning? What is the self-directed learning process? 6%20learning%20process%20steps%20(with%20examples) %20 Self-directed learning supports your continuous growth.

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Why private equity sees life and annuities as an enticing form of permanent capital

McKinsey

Private acquisitions of in-force books are growing. Here’s a playbook for those considering market entry, those already in, and insurers wondering how to respond.

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VP uses newly learned frameworks to lead culture change

Harvard Professional Development

Stacie Calder. Vice President Sales & Marketing, Conquest Planning. Kelowna, British Columbia. Program: Building Organizational Cultures: A Framework for Leaders (on campus). The framework Lorne [Rubis] provided for thinking through how to build organizational facets was both really digestible and highly practical. What motivated you to attend Building Organizational Cultures?

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5 Amazing Tricks To Recharge Your Mid-Week Motivation

Vantage Circle

Although Mondays are infamously hated, some people say Wednesday is the hardest day of the week to get through. These mid-week blues can surely have an impact on creativity and ambition. And to get through it, we all need a little mid-week motivation. Read our blog on: Employee Motivation- A Comprehensive Guide. However, most people struggle to find inspiration in the middle of the week.

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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.