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Leading Other Leaders to Solve Problems

Let's Grow Leaders

Take the initiative with confidence and humility to lead other leaders. This question came in from a member of the Let’s Grow Leaders community and it’s such a fantastic opportunity to lead that we wanted to share it with you. The question is about leading other leaders without excess drama. Here’s how Maria describes the situation: “We work in a 24 x 7 environment with multiple shifts.

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How to Say "No" at Work

On The Job

Do you find it difficult to say "no"? You may find it easy to say "no" to brussels sprouts, but much tougher to say "no" to a work colleague who seems to want your help with something that doesn't sound entirely ethical or may violate company policy. Or, what about the valuable customer who is pressuring you to do something you don't want to do? These are tricky situations because you need to maintain relationships with these people, but also believe that "going along" doesn't feel right and cou

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On making your own decisions

Darius Foroux

How often do you decide to go a certain direction, whether that’s in your career or personal life, and you end up deviating from where you… Continue reading on Stoic Letter »

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Married to the job no more: Craving flexibility, parents are quitting to get it

McKinsey

Working parents are among the record number of employees leaving their jobs or thinking about doing so. To keep this crucial group, organizations must address why they’re drawn to other options.

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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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Transforming Fear with Gaurav Bhatnagar and Mark Minukas

Let's Grow Leaders

Most of us have seen fear drive short-term results, but it does so at the cost of high employee burnout and turnover. Winning organizations know how to reframe fear into opportunities for learning and growth. They create resilient cultures of unfear. In this episode, Gaurav and Mark, authors of Unfear , give you the rundown about the impact and archetypes of fear in the workplace and provide strategies, techniques, and actions you need to bring about an unfear transformation.

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Three Kinds Of Frameworks You Can Use To Communicate More Clearly

StrategyU

In consulting, you use frameworks all the time. The reason they are used so widely is that they are a hyper-effective way of sharing information, especially when you are trying to share that information with an audience (typically, the client) that does not have deep familiarity with the data. There are three common ways to think about using frameworks. #1 Using Them To Do Analysis & Standardize Assessment.

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Protecting workers through award-winning design

McKinsey

3M and McKinsey Design have partnered to create a welding helmet that has transformed the daily lives of welders around the world. The product has won nearly a dozen international awards, including a 2021 “Best of the Best” Red Dot Award.

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Who cares?

ReNew Business

Max De Pree wrote in Leadership is an Art : “At the heart of being accountable is the matter of caring…In many areas of business, sadly, “to care” is an innovation.” De Pree wrote the book in 1987 and sadly 30 years later caring is still a business unmet innovative space. In the words of De Pree, to be accountable means caring. Often, my clients lament lack or low employee’s accountability, they ask “ how can we make people more accountable or care for…?

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The Basics of Flexible Planning

Eat Your Career

Planning is an essential part of success, and it’s a popular topic this time of year. But, as we all know, life is anything but predictable these days. So how can we create plans for the future when everything is fluid? The solution is a technique known as “flexible planning.” While this concept has gained traction in the project management world recently, it also has much broader life and career applications.

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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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Focus on What You Can Control: Yourself

Eure Consulting

This is the seventeenth installment in our 25-week series exploring the 25 competencies, or soft skills, that our assessments measure. Each week we’ll give you the definition of that competency, explain its value, and give you tips to help you develop it. This week: Personal Accountability. Personal Accountability has one of the more straightforward definitions: Being answerable for personal actions.

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Deactivate your digital-marketing autopilot

McKinsey

Relying on agencies and aggregators to manage your digital spend may trade competitive advantage for convenience. Companies like KFC are taking a different approach.

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The Golden Rules of Asset Protection

Fortitude Business Consulting

Asset protection means protecting your accumulated wealth from losses and is essential to enjoying the success you create over the long-term. Regrettably, many business owners don’t put sufficient emphasis on asset protection. But this is a mistake because: The more successful you’ve been, the more you have to lose. The more successful you are, the higher the chances a ‘gold digger’ will take a crack at you, whether their claim is legitimate or not.

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Top 15 Trending Podcasts For Managers

Vantage Circle

Are you a manager and enjoy listening to podcasts? Well, you've come to the right place. Podcasts for managers are an excellent method to stay updated on the current working trends and technologies. If you're a manager and want to upgrade your knowledge on the various industry-specific subjects, you must subscribe to podcasts right now. Understandably, managers can't afford to waste time listening to self-centered and self-promotional podcasts.

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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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How to Prepare for Your Year-End Review

Create Your Career Path

Performance reviews look different than they used to since the pandemic. Many companies are unsure how to measure performance while working remotely and may not have made a total shift in how they respond to new systems and protocols. And while a performance or year-end review isn’t always an accurate picture of your overall value, it is an opportunity to renegotiate some aspects of your job.

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Reimagining travel: Thailand tourism after the COVID-19 pandemic

McKinsey

International tourism is a major contributor to Thailand’s economy. It was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic—but the country is finding ways to support its travel industry while preparing for the international travel to recover further.

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Transferable Skills Guide: Problem Solving

Addgene

A 2017 survey found that many researchers feel they lack formal training in a variety of transferable skills. At Addgene, we've set out to fill this gap by both highlighting that researchers do learn MANY transferable skills while working in the lab and by offering advice on areas where you might need some help. Today in our transferable skills guide : Problem-Solving.

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How to Avoid Poor Communication Skills at Work

Wrike

Poor communication skills in the workplace often lead to missed project deadlines, unproductive teams, and client complaints. In this article, we’re giving you a cheat sheet you can use to identify and avoid poor communication skills at work. Help both your teams and your stakeholders succeed with these practical solutions to common miscommunications outlined below.

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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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9 Steps To Eradicate Gender Inequality In The Workplace

Vantage Circle

Despite all the progress we have made over the years, gender inequality in the workplace is still a reality across different countries. From unequal pay to being discriminated against and harassed- women have faced it all. In recent years, many companies have shown their interest in promoting diversity and inclusion in the workplace. And they are achieving it by giving equal opportunities to women, black women, women of color, and LGBTQIA folks.

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What CIOs need from their CEOs and boards to make IT digital ready

McKinsey

McKinsey research shows that CIOs need five things from their CEOs and boards to transform IT, but CIOs have an important role themselves in making that happen.

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The shifting consumer packaged goods market in a diversifying Asia

McKinsey

Rising incomes and shifting consumption patterns are transforming Asia’s consumer packaged goods market. These changes present opportunities for companies that are agile and able to offer a locally relevant presence.

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Welcome to luxury fashion resale: Discerning customers beckon to brands

McKinsey

Intrigued customers are breathing fresh life into the luxury apparel market, with a growing appreciation for pre-owned accessories and clothing. For most, brand involvement in resale is a plus: but can their enthusiasm bring the high-profile labels on board?

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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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Author Talks: What happens to Americans when they lose their jobs?

McKinsey

A new book shines a light on race, class, and American values and how jobs serve as a bedrock of people’s lives and drive powerful social-justice movements.

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The UK biotech sector: The path to global leadership

McKinsey

The United Kingdom is Europe’s leading biotech hub in breakthrough life-sciences start-ups. How is this hub maturing relative to its global peers, and what lies ahead on the road to sustainable scale?

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Clinical supply chains: How to boost excellence and innovation

McKinsey

Clinical trials have increased in number and have become more complex, decentralized, and patient-centric. While this puts pressure on clinical drug supply, it also brings new opportunities.

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Why micromobility is here to stay

McKinsey

A new McKinsey survey suggests that consumers are open to micromobility solutions, but uptake will vary by country.

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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.