Let's Grow Leaders
JUNE 7, 2018
Is Anyone Ever Too Valuable to Fire? Have you ever worked with an obnoxious colleague who seemed to be protected because the employee was considered too valuable to fire? Maybe you’re a team leader who has one of these brilliant bullies on […]. The post Employee Too Valuable to Fire? 6 Leadership Strategies appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
On The Job
JUNE 4, 2018
I recently was speaking with a successful executive who was nearing retirement, and looking forward to traveling and some consulting work. I asked him a common question: "What would you tell your younger self about your career if you could?' He immediately answered: "To not worry about everything. It doesn't change anything, and just makes you -- and everyone around you -- miserable.
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McKinsey
JUNE 7, 2018
As cities get smarter, they are becoming more livable and more responsive—and today we are seeing only a preview of what technology could eventually do in the urban environment.
World Economic Forum
JUNE 7, 2018
It's often said that hosting a World Cup, or any other major sporting event, can boost a nation’s economy by attracting tourists, initiating infrastructure projects and showcasing countries and cities as good places to do business. Does the evidence back this up?
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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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Let's Grow Leaders
JUNE 5, 2018
Employee Engagement – Play the Game, Don’t Game the Score When you see low employee engagement scores, what is your first reaction? I spoke with a company executive who was upset with his engagement scores. “The numbers are horrible,” he said. “Can […]. The post Employee Engagement – Avoid This Tremendous Leadership Mistake appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Professional Development Brief brings together the best content for development professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
McKinsey
JUNE 8, 2018
To structure and manage complex contracts with the private sector, governments must have a range of skills and expertise. Six success factors are critical to these efforts.
Strategy+Business
JUNE 6, 2018
Unconscious biases occur as a result of brain processes that aren't consciously accessible, so it's only natural that talking and thinking about them doesn't really change anything. Here's what does.
crowdspring
JUNE 6, 2018
If your small business is trying to leverage social media for marketing, you’re probably struggling to build a large, engaged audience. You’re not alone. Most businesses have a tough time standing out among the sea of content on social media sites. Every 60 seconds there are 293,000 new posts and 136,000 new photos posted on Facebook alone.
Vantage Circle
JUNE 4, 2018
Defining the ideal Marketing persona for your brand is a job that is easier said than done. Hubspot defines Marketing Persona as fictional, generalized representations of your ideal customers. Personas help in marketing, sales, and relates to your ideal customers as real humans. There is only one winning strategy. It is to carefully define the target market and direct a superior offering to that target market. ~ Philip Kotler.
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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.
McKinsey
JUNE 7, 2018
Careful analysis of health insurers’ claims data can provide important insights into the opioid crisis by identifying patterns that could help shape strategies to combat opioid dependence and abuse.
Strategy+Business
JUNE 5, 2018
With roughly equal numbers of open jobs and unemployed people, companies are scrapping their talent plans and looking for workers wherever they can find them.
Eat Your Career
JUNE 5, 2018
This is a guest post contributed by Eleanor Whitney, editor of All Hands , a publication about life at work from Managed by Q. The space where we do our work matters. Americans who are employed full time now work an average of 47 hours a week. In addition, employee expectations for their workplace experience are increasing, and many expect all the comforts of home in their office.
Vantage Circle
JUNE 4, 2018
Defining the ideal Marketing persona for your brand is a job that is easier said than done. Hubspot defines Marketing Persona as fictional, generalized representations of your ideal customers. Personas help in marketing, sales, and relates to your ideal customers as real humans. There is only one winning strategy. It is to carefully define the target market and direct a superior offering to that target market. ~ Philip Kotler.
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!
McKinsey
JUNE 2, 2018
As machines increasingly complement human labor in the workplace, we will all need to adjust to reap the benefits.
Strategy+Business
JUNE 3, 2018
The more complex and tightly coupled the system, say Meltdown authors Chris Clearfield and András Tilcsik, the more urgent the need to manage the risk of disaster.
McKinsey
JUNE 8, 2018
Crowdsourcing is emerging as an important capability for companies modernizing IT. Businesses that do it best follow five important principles.
McKinsey
JUNE 5, 2018
Solar home systems can help to bridge the electrification gap in developing countries—if certain conditions are met.
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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.
McKinsey
JUNE 7, 2018
Until recently, many companies thought it was futile to try to extract savings from the low-volume purchases in “tail spend.” New technologies are changing the equation.
McKinsey
JUNE 5, 2018
Digitization isn’t stimulating productivity growth—yet.
McKinsey
JUNE 6, 2018
Trojan-infested botnets. Distributed denials of service. Credential stuffing attacks. How secure is your company in an age of cybercrime?
McKinsey
JUNE 2, 2018
Shifts in skills are not new: we have seen such a shift from physical to cognitive tasks, and more recently to digital skills. But the coming shift in workforce skills could be massive in scale, write Jacques Bughin, Susan Lund, and Eric Hazin in Harvard Business Review.
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.
McKinsey
JUNE 2, 2018
Companies using AI to innovate are more likely to increase employment, writes Jacques Bughin in MIT Sloan Management Review.
McKinsey
JUNE 8, 2018
With the arrival of the automation era, governments and businesses face a new, albeit challenging, opportunity to accelerate economic growth. At a global level, automation has the potential to create value at a time when productivity is weakening and the working-age population is shrinking. In Hungary, automation offers a remedy for the rising labor and productivity challenges.
McKinsey
JUNE 8, 2018
If Sweden can fulfill its digitization potential by taking advantage of six important technological trends, it could generate SEK 850-1,400 billion per year by 2025.
McKinsey
JUNE 7, 2018
Best-practice purchasing is now an even more potent source of value creation for private-equity leaders.
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.
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