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Why Your Best Performers Hate Your Great Idea

Let's Grow Leaders

You’re convinced you’ve got a great idea that you know will yield breakthrough results. So you call the team together to announce the new direction. But instead of being met with a spirited “game on,” your top performers are staring at you with a […]. The post Why Your Best Performers Hate Your Great Idea appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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3 Ways to Handle a Negative Coworker

On The Job

It seems like everywhere I turn, someone is always talking or writing about "times like these." Usually, it's not "times like these are so great." It's usually something like, "Times like these are so horrible." For a lot of people, this negative outlook on life becomes a big problem and they carry it like a heavy backpack with them wherever they go.

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How disruptive technologies are opening up innovative opportunities in services

McKinsey

Technology and advanced analytics are revolutionizing services ? and creating new sources of value for industrial companies that know how to use them. Here is a roadmap that works.

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The Short Life of Enlightened Leadership (and How to Extend It)

Strategy+Business

Idealistic values and socially admirable practices in business are often effective, but generally short-lived. They rarely survive through more than two successions of company leadership. To break this cycle and leave a legacy of an enlightened company, three factors are critical: carefully articulated business philosophies, well-designed alternative governance structures, and nontraditional forms of ownership.

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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 To Do When the Job Outgrows Your Employee

Let's Grow Leaders

Your team needs your leadership during rapid growth. Recently, we received a great question from a manager who had taken part in a Winning Well Leadership Intensive. Her question is one you’ll face in your career – especially if you work in a fast-growing […]. The post What To Do When the Job Outgrows Your Employee appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Building data-driven culture: An interview with ShopRunner CEO Sam Yagan

McKinsey

Sam Yagan, current ShopRunner CEO, cofounder of OkCupid, and former Match Group CEO, discusses the importance of culture for driving data-based decision making, innovation, and, ultimately, company success.

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An Easy Way out of Writer’s Block

Lateral Action

Have you ever got yourself tied up in knots while working on an important piece of writing? You spend ages staring at the screen, writing, deleting and rewriting, over and over again. The harder you try, the more you work, the more stuck and confused you feel. In my experience, this tends to happen when […]. The post An Easy Way out of Writer’s Block appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach.

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Understand How Making Tax Digital Will Affect Your Business

Business Growth Creator

Are you prepared for Making Tax Digital? No? Don’t worry, check out all the details you need to know: Still worried about Making Tax Digital? Our friends at Sage are offering a FREE Making Tax Digital consultation. Book now – [link] The post Understand How Making Tax Digital Will Affect Your Business appeared first on Business Growth Creator.

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Workplace Loneliness- The Silent Killer Of Your Organization

Vantage Circle

Workplace loneliness is a growing epidemic. Loneliness at work is a real problem and it’s affecting businesses, relationships, and wellbeing. Research has revealed that loneliness has the same health risks as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. In spite of the world being connected with the advent of technology and social media, people are lonelier and feel isolated than ever before.

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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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Cutting through the 5G hype: Survey shows telcos’ nuanced views

McKinsey

Operators see a marginally positive business case, expect rollout at scale to take until 2022, and don’t think the increase in capital-expense-to-sales ratio will be as big as skeptics claim.

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Brutally Honest Advice for Your Creative Business with Emily Cohen

Lateral Action

This week’s guest on the 21st Century Creative podcast is Emily Cohen, a consultant who provides strategic advice to principals of creative firms, and author of the book Brutally Honest. I first met Emily back in 2012 when we were both speaking at the HOW Design LIVE conference in Boston. I loved Emily’s no-nonsense attitude […]. The post Brutally Honest Advice for Your Creative Business with Emily Cohen appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach.

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How to Start a Business: A Step-by-Step Complete Guide (2019)

crowdspring

This is the most complete guide online on how to start a business in 2019. You should know that about two-thirds of businesses with employees survive 2 years and about half survive only five years. Businesses that survive and thrive have an unfair advantage. They’re started and run by people who are prepared for what’s ahead of them. If you want an unfair advantage, we’re here to help you get started.

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21 Cost Effective Wellness At Workplace Ideas

Vantage Circle

Wellness at workplace has become a buzzword for employers around the world. With the ever-increasing workload, employees are getting burnt out and their sleep cycles are getting distorted. All of these are adversely affecting employees’ health and wellbeing. We all say “Health is Wealth”. However, this is the wealth which is not meant to spend but only to be earned abundantly.

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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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Ten years at the top of a telco: An interview with Vittorio Colao

McKinsey

The former CEO of Vodafone, who stepped down from the top job last September, reflects on the industry’s challenges and what he learned as a successful global dealmaker.

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The Short Life of Enlightened Leadership (and How to Extend It)

Strategy+Business

Idealistic values and socially admirable practices in business are often effective, but generally short-lived. They rarely survive through more than two successions of company leadership. To break this cycle and leave a legacy of an enlightened company, three factors are critical: carefully articulated business philosophies, well-designed alternative governance structures, and nontraditional forms of ownership.

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How to Start a Successful Consulting Business: The Complete 10 Step Guide (2019)

crowdspring

You’ve put in the hours. You’ve paid your dues. And now all that effort has paid off – you’re the expert. So, what’s your prize at the end of the day? For some, it’s enough to know that you’re great at your job. But others, like you, yearn for something more. Admit it – you’ve thought about starting your own consulting business.

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High Employee Turnover: 6 Crucial Reasons Behind It

Vantage Circle

Good employees are hard to find. It is even harder to retain those employees. That's why reducing employee turnover is fast becoming the primary concern among companies worldwide. So, what exactly is employee turnover? Employee turnover can be defined as the total number of employees who leave an organization during a given period of time (usually a year).

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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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From art to science: The future of underwriting in commercial P&C insurance

McKinsey

Underwriting in insurance is essential to performance excellence. Today’s carriers will need to evolve the role to meet the industry and customer needs of tomorrow.

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The short life of enlightened leadership (and how to extend it)

Strategy+Business

Idealistic values and socially admirable practices in business are often effective, but generally short-lived. They rarely survive through more than two successions of company leadership. To break this cycle and leave a legacy of an enlightened company, three factors are critical: carefully articulated business philosophies, well-designed alternative governance structures, and nontraditional forms of ownership.

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The end of ownership for fashion products?

McKinsey

Business models capitalizing on preowned, refurbished, or rented products have hit the fashion market. The industry needs to pay attention as these models continue to evolve.

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Cultivating the omnichannel farmer

McKinsey

Smart agriculture suppliers are giving farmers what every consumer wants: a digital interface for speed and convenience and human interaction when they need it. Here’s how they’re doing it.

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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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Accelerating late-stage construction: Mastering the sprint finish

McKinsey

Major projects in late stages of construction face unique challenges that can drive substantial delays and cost blowouts. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

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How to modernize an established brand to drive growth

McKinsey

The key to Wendy’s successful transformation? Staying true to the brand while using data to better serve customers.

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Global Energy Perspective 2019

McKinsey

The Global Energy Perspective Reference Case provides our view on how the energy transition will unfold.

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Winning in Africa’s agricultural market

McKinsey

Private-sector companies can find practical solutions to enter and grow in Africa’s agricultural market.

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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.