Let's Grow Leaders
JULY 18, 2019
Welcome to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival! This month, our contributors share their best practices in leadership and productivity. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! The August Frontline Festival will be […]. The post Best Practices in Leadership and Productivity: A Frontline Festival appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
On The Job
JULY 17, 2019
What are your strengths? What are your weaknesses? These are two very common questions asked in job interviews, and they should catch no job seeker off guard if they've prepared their answers. The problem for many applicants is that those answers aren't very good ones. They may be something like, "Oh, my greatest weakness is that I work too hard." (Internal eye roll from the hiring manager.
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McKinsey
JULY 14, 2019
Asia is on track to top 50 percent of global GDP by 2040 and drive 40 percent of the world’s consumption, representing a real shift in the world’s center of gravity.
Eat Your Career
JULY 15, 2019
If you’ve been following my work for any period of time, you know that I’m a big fan of Professional Development Plans (also referred to as PDPs). I often create these plans in collaboration with my career coaching clients, and I frequently provide training workshops on this topic. However, one question I repeatedly hear is this: Do I really need a professional development plan?
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Let's Grow Leaders
JULY 19, 2019
Have you ever attended a meeting that should have been a quick email? In this episode, get the criteria you need to choose the right format to move your team forward, make sure you’re not wasting time with meetings that would […]. The post Should You Have a Meeting or Send an Email? appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. Have you ever attended a meeting that should have been a quick email?
Professional Development Brief brings together the best content for development professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
McKinsey
JULY 13, 2019
The chemical industry is poised to be an early beneficiary of the vastly expanded modeling and computational capabilities of quantum computing. Companies must act now to capture the benefits.
Eat Your Career
JULY 18, 2019
I take pleasure in simple, everyday workplace routines. To learn more about affirmations and how to leverage them for career success, check out this article. The post Positive Career Affirmation #21 appeared first on Eat Your Career.
Let's Grow Leaders
JULY 15, 2019
If you’ve never seen it before, it’s hard to describe the power of an avalanche. Fortunately, I’ve never experienced one myself. But I have seen their power. This weekend, Karin and I cycled in the Colorado mountains between Frisco and Copper Mountain. […]. The post The Most Neglected Act of Innovation appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Vantage Circle
JULY 17, 2019
Employee engagement is a workplace concept where employees feel passionate about their jobs, are committed to the organization and put the maximum effort into their work. And that is what you would expect from your employees in your organization. Employee engagement cannot be forced upon but is something that will need inspiration and a positive approach.
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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
JULY 15, 2019
McKinsey leaders provide an overview of the A, B, Cs of pulling together the building blocks of a customer-experience transformation.
CMOE
JULY 18, 2019
“Soft skills” is a term that might not inspire much confidence. Perhaps the term itself needs a rebrand. However, what we know for sure is that soft-skills development can help you become a more-effective manager and enhance the performance of your direct reports. What are soft skills? They include a variety of people-oriented abilities. They are habits, actions, and attitudes that good managers must use if they hope to work well with others.
Gineris & Associates
JULY 18, 2019
Technology keeps getting better, especially regarding new software and applications that assist small businesses in accounting and bookkeeping. Now, owning a small business is made easier by taking advantage of these new technologies. One of our favorite time and money savers is Receipt Bank. We use this application daily in tandem with Xero to run our small business and constantly are recommending it to our clients.
Lateral Action
JULY 17, 2019
When I was young, I questioned everything: Why does it get dark at night? Where does the sun go? Why do I have to go to bed? Why can’t I be a dinosaur? Why do I have to go to school? When I grew up, I kept asking questions: Why are people so miserable? What’s […]. The post Question Everything, But Don’t Forget to Listen to the Answers appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach.
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
JULY 13, 2019
New research confirms that companies that regularly and systematically pursue moderately sized M&A deliver better shareholder returns than companies that don’t.
Gordian Business
JULY 15, 2019
“ Change is inevitable, change will always happen, but you have to apply direction to change, and that’s when it’s progress. ” — Doug Baldwin. Machines will, in the future, replace some of most people’s working tasks, replacing repeatable, ordered tasks. But machines are weak at understanding people’s mood, and developing and building trusting relationships.
Inventive Problem Solving
JULY 13, 2019
"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between the two the leader must become a servant". Max DePree, CEO of Herman Miller and author of The Art of Leadership The crisis of trust has officially arrived -- but with this crisis comes an opportunity for positive and lasting transformation for both business leaders and the people who they lead.
Lateral Action
JULY 14, 2019
This week’s guest on The 21st Century Creative is Nadia Shireen, an award-winning and bestselling children’s author and illustrator. Her books include Good Little Wolf, The Bumblebear, The Cow Who Fell to Earth, and her latest, Billy and the Dragon, is released this summer. Nadia’s books have given a lot of pleasure to my own […]. The post Good Little Wolf and Other Stories with Nadia Shireen appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach.
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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
JULY 17, 2019
Fed up with turf wars, silos, and other company dysfunctions? Energize the “brokers” who knit together your organization’s formal and informal networks.
Vantage Circle
JULY 19, 2019
Satisfaction and happiness are the most basic pursuits of humans. Employees want to stay in a job where they feel content and employers want to create an environment where employees can put their best efforts. But even then, statistics reveal that employee satisfaction is shockingly low. Only 47.8% of men and 46.3% of women are satisfied at work. (Source).
World Economic Forum
JULY 19, 2019
Non-passengers can now spend the day browsing the shops, having a meal or just watching the planes.
BetterUp
JULY 16, 2019
We are thrilled to announce that BetterUp has been named a “Cool Vendor” in the Cool Vendors in Human Capital Management: Enhancing Employee Experience report by Gartner, Inc. Each year, Gartner selects vendors with innovations that have the potential to transform their markets. According to Gartner, “the Cool Vendors within this report draw attention to innovative employee engagement methods deployed via technology.
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
JULY 17, 2019
Process automation at scale is now feasible for most payers. When coupled with other next-generation digital tools, we estimate that it may enable many payers to reduce operational costs by up to 30 percent within five years.
Vantage Circle
JULY 14, 2019
Business, as I have seen it, places one great demand on you: it needs you to self-impose a framework of ethics, values, fairness and objectivity on yourself at all times. This was Ratan N Tata, Chairman Emeritus of TATA Sons, India's largest and oldest conglomerate's view on company core values and its importance. What comes to your mind when you think of a company or an organisation?
McKinsey
JULY 13, 2019
A disciplined approach to revenue development has been shown to increase potential additional revenues by 50 percent.
McKinsey
JULY 15, 2019
In-depth research and a new qualitative survey suggest what’s shaping the global industrial-robotics space and how OEMs and systems integrators can help unleash the potential.
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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