Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 1, 2017

Last week “John” shared his “No Diaper Genie!” frustration in the middle of our high-potential leadership development program. Yeah, I get that I’m here… and the company is investing in me and all that. But my boss keeps saying, “You’re not ready to be promoted, you’ve never led a team. I can’t recommend you for that particular promotion now, give it time” but the truth is, my job is 18 times more complex than any front-line super

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Leadership Development Leadership Management Management 363

Career Advancement

JULY 31, 2017

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”. ~ C.G. Jung ~. Cassidy had overheard some snide comments. She knew people were making snap judgements, based on gossip , about her that just weren’t true. How could she change negative work perceptions and get her co-workers to think more positively about her?

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Career Advancement Communication Accomplishment Career 198

On The Job

JULY 31, 2017

Companies like Zappos often are seen as the standard bearers of the top-notch customer experience , but some companies trying to emulate them may find they fall short because they are missing a key component: an equally top-notch worker experience. The issue of worker satisfaction being tied to customer satisfaction is drawing enough attention that earlier this year Appirio commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate “the maturing of worker experience across industries.

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McKinsey

JULY 31, 2017

Many executives expect IT will play a growing role in driving business results, according to a new survey. For that to happen, CIOs must broaden their profiles and prove IT’s effectiveness in areas such as digital and innovation.

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IT 107

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Professional development

Lateral Action

JULY 31, 2017

This week’s guest on the 21st Century Creative Podcast is Aileen Bennett, Roving Creative Director and Idea Thinker Upper. In today’s interview, we tackle a question that many creative people struggle with – what do you do when you look at the jobs on offer, and none of them seem the right fit? Not even […]. The post Creating a Job that Doesn’t Exist with Aileen Bennett appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach.

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On The Job

AUGUST 2, 2017

When Stacey Hanke begins working with leaders to boost their effectiveness, she knows that at least 95% of these people are going to overestimate their influence on others. Hanke, a C-suite mentor and leadership trainer, says that even very smart and experienced people are fairly clueless when it comes to how much clout they really have with others, whether it’s peers, team members or customers.

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McKinsey

AUGUST 3, 2017

China is already more digitized than many observers appreciate and has the potential to set the world’s digital frontier in coming decades.

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McKinsey

JULY 31, 2017

Continuous improvement at scale—across a whole enterprise—requires management discipline at scale. At a few organizations, digital innovation is helping managers make a daily habit of good discipline.

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Management Management 92

McKinsey

AUGUST 2, 2017

The role of 3-D printing in today’s metal market is quite small. But additive manufacturing could offer big benefits if several challenges are overcome.

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Manufacturing 97

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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.

Education

McKinsey

JULY 31, 2017

Lean management creates enormous value, but improvement that’s truly continuous is often elusive. Innovation in fields such as digital and IT make it more urgent, achievable, and human.

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McKinsey

AUGUST 2, 2017

Alain Bejjani, CEO of conglomerate Majid Al Futtaim, shares his perspectives on retail’s future and on his own leadership journey.

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Retail Leadership 87

McKinsey

AUGUST 1, 2017

Only a few actions matter, and they require the CEO’s attention.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership 111

McKinsey

AUGUST 2, 2017

Investing in digital solutions to reduce call volumes and costs may not pay off if customer experience isn’t central to the effort.

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Solution 77

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!

Solution

McKinsey

JULY 31, 2017

We asked five executives with decades of experience in lean management about the most important lessons they learned in helping their organizations sustain continuous improvement.

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Management Management 59

McKinsey

JULY 31, 2017

To keep its performance improving, an enterprise must keep its management system improving, too. A regular, rigorous cycle of assessing itself reveals actions that help make the system more mature.

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McKinsey

JULY 31, 2017

Transforming an organization’s performance usually means changing its culture—and that means its leaders must change how they lead.

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McKinsey

AUGUST 4, 2017

Belén Garijo, member of the executive board of Merck and CEO of Merck Healthcare, touches on the industry’s outlook and how her company is positioning itself for the future.

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Healthcare 47

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Career

Strategy+Business

AUGUST 1, 2017

Not all thinking is created equal. Here's how to get the most out of your brain when it really counts.

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IT 70

McKinsey

JULY 31, 2017

An auto-industry veteran describes how rededication to lean-management principles—especially to fostering leadership at every level—led his organization to new performance breakthroughs.

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McKinsey

AUGUST 4, 2017

For the third year in a row, no bank failed the Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) on quantitative grounds. And while regulatory uncertainty remains a challenge, banks have more to do to prepare for CCAR 2018 and to build their longer-term approach for stress testing.

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Banking 41

Strategy+Business

AUGUST 2, 2017

Employers are running out of creative ways to lure workers -- and those coming out of prison are a largely untapped pool.

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Creativity 53

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.

Certification

McKinsey

JULY 31, 2017

Lean management is about much more than cost reduction, making it a powerful set of disciplines for increasing purchasing’s effectiveness.

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Strategy+Business

AUGUST 1, 2017

Wharton professor David Robertson defines a "Third Way" of creating new products and services.

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Strategy+Business

JULY 30, 2017

Why organizational culture is not the same thing as employee engagement.

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Company Culture 58