Let's Grow Leaders
JUNE 28, 2025
Paint a Clear Picture of What Success Really Means So, you’ve done the work. You’ve identified the habits that matter most—the practical, tactical behaviors that, when done well, drive the results your team is here to achieve. You’ve communicated them. Maybe even created a job aid or a snappy acronym. And now? Some of your team members are just checking the box.
Seth's Blog
JULY 2, 2025
Typesetters did not like the laser printer. Wedding photographers still hate the iphone. And some musicians are outraged that AI is now making mediocre pop music. One group of esteemed authors is demanding that book publishers refuse to use AI in designing book covers, recording audiobooks or a range of other tasks. As always, this isn’t going to work very well.
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The Creative Life
JUNE 30, 2025
Skip to main content Skip to header right navigation Skip to site footer The Creative Life Coaching for creatives Menu About me Articles Books Work with me One-to-one coaching Group coaching Workshops for creatives Media coaching Contact me Search Feeling tired, uninspired? You’re not broken. There is nothing wrong with you. You just need a rest. by Sheryl Garratt I’ve been feeling tired lately.
McKinsey
JULY 2, 2025
The advanced industrial manufacturing workforce is retiring, and new workers need training for complex roles. Reducing time to proficiency could be critical to unlocking increased productivity.
Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Community Engagement
There’s more than one way to end the year with impact—and we’re letting you decide the direction. In this "choose your own adventure" community-led webinar, attendees will vote in real time to pick one of three year-end event strategies to explore in depth: Volunteer Appreciation Events 🧡 Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Campaigns 🌈 Mission/Program Celebrations 🎉 Once the path is chosen, we’ll dive into a step-by-step engagement workflow plan tailored to that format, showing how
Let's Grow Leaders
JULY 4, 2025
Episode 310: Which leadership assumptions are quietly sabotaging your team—and what if you don’t even know you’re making them? If you’ve ever felt stuck in your role—spending too much time on the wrong problems, struggling to connect with your team, or unsure how to level up your influence—this episode is a must. You’ll learn how the stories you tell yourself shape your leadership and how to rewrite them for better results.
Seth's Blog
JUNE 28, 2025
That’s a complete reversal of how it used to be. Colleges used to be measured by how many books they had in the library. Access to courses was restricted. If knowledge was power, controlling access was essential. They even call it the ‘admissions office.’ Part of the status that comes from higher education is that they controlled who could find the information and who was left behind.
Professional Development Brief brings together the best content for development professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
McKinsey
JULY 3, 2025
Return-to-office mandates are on the rise. A labor economist explains why this trend isn’t sustainable and why a work-from-anywhere model could yet be the future of work.
Let's Grow Leaders
JUNE 30, 2025
When urgency strikes, and you need quick decisions. Skip the swirl—not the people. You’ve got 20 minutes and you need to make a few quick decisions. There’s no time to wrangle a cross-functional roundtable or schedule a “quick” sync (you know, the kind that somehow lasts 47 minutes). So you do what most people do—you trust your gut, make the call, and brace for the fallout.
Seth's Blog
JULY 1, 2025
A sea slug sees far more colors than you do, and you probably see more than a profoundly color-blind person. Who’s right? We each carry our own version of reality, our own story about what happened, what’s around us and how things work. Our chosen reality serves two useful purposes: First, it binds us to the others in our circle. If you seek to communicate, speaking Esperanto in Nashville isn’t going to help very much–you do better assuming, as others do, that English is
Your Work, Your Way
JULY 1, 2025
In a previous post , I introduced the Smalley Personality quiz , a quick take on personality types in the workplace. The types are categorized as animals: Lion, Otter, Golden Retriever, and Beaver. Otters tend to be energetic, optimistic, and enthusiastic, especially about new, shiny ideas. They’re team players and the team cheerleaders. Beavers, on the other hand, live for accuracy, precision, and finding problems to point out, if not exactly to solve.
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McKinsey
JULY 3, 2025
With global spending on large-scale public infrastructure projects at its highest level in decades, digital twins could improve public sector capital and operational efficiency by 20 to 30 percent.
Let's Grow Leaders
JULY 2, 2025
How Do You Show Someone You Have Their Best Interest at Heart? It’s one of the most reassuring phrases you can say to someone—especially at work, “ I’ve got your best interest at heart.” Said sincerely, it can be comforting, encouraging, even inspiring. Said poorly, it can come off like, “This is for your own good,” right before handing someone a project they’ll absolutely loathe.
Seth's Blog
JUNE 29, 2025
Game theory has a lousy name. When most people think of games, they think of commercial stuff for kids, like Chutes and Ladders or possibly Monopoly. But a game is simply a system where humans, facing scarcity, make choices. Scarcity leads to choices and to competition. It turns out that our culture, our commerce and our lives are simply the result of billions of people making billions of choices.
Up Your Culture
JULY 1, 2025
The 'Why' Factor: How Purpose-Driven Leadership Boosts Team Performance In today’s fast-paced and ever-evolving work environment, effective leadership goes beyond setting goals and managing tasks - it requires a clear sense of purpose. Purpose-driven leadership, which centers on aligning team efforts with a deeper mission or reason for being, has emerged as a powerful force for enhancing team performance.
Speaker: Chester Santos
Forgetfulness is costing you time, money, and a ton of missed opportunities. In the age of automation, it’s easy to underestimate the power of a well-trained human mind. But memory isn’t just a parlor trick, it's a strategic edge. Human memory is one of the most underrated business skills. Whether you’re managing people, leading sessions, or having high-stakes conversations, remembering names, details, and concepts can be transformative in building trust, absorbing knowledge, and driving perform
McKinsey
JULY 3, 2025
The global trade system is rife with uncertainty—but businesses can’t afford to remain frozen. Here’s how leaders can take action with tariff and trade policies in flux.
CMOE
JULY 1, 2025
Effective team building is an ongoing effort and process, not a one-time event. It requires ongoing effort and strategic investment in your people to build collaboration, trust, and growth for the organization’s long-term success. Yet many leaders struggle with the same question: How do we know if it’s working? Today, only 43% of workforce members express they have a positive team climate (“team members value one another’s contributions, care about one another’s well-being, and have input into h
Seth's Blog
JUNE 30, 2025
Spend enough time inventing possible futures in your head and you won’t have any time to build the future we will all share. Time to get to work.
Up Your Culture
JULY 3, 2025
Middle managers are the critical link between leadership and employees.but many of them feel disengaged, unsupported, and overwhelmed. In this episode, Matt Sunshine, CEO of The Center for Sales Strategy, joins Beth to discuss why managers are struggling to stay engaged and how that impacts the teams they lead. Matt has some amazing takeaways, like: Why the way in which companies “shift the goal posts” in how they measure success makes middle managers feel as though they can never win.
Speaker: Brian Richardson, Brian Richardson, Founder and CEO of Richardson Consulting Group
Let’s face it—most ethics and compliance training programs aren’t winning awards for engagement. But that doesn’t mean they can’t be effective, captivating, and maybe even enjoyable! Join learning design expert Brian Richardson for a dynamic session on how to breathe new life into your ethics and compliance training. We'll explore innovative strategies to bring traditionally dry topics to life, making them resonate with learners and drive tangible change.
McKinsey
JULY 2, 2025
The first few months in the chief risk officer role are critical to lay the foundation for success. By practicing six habits, CROs can differentiate themselves from day one.
Think Reliablility
JULY 1, 2025
A question came up recently in one of our Cause Mapping ® workshops: How do you keep management from influencing the outcome of root cause analysis? The integrity of an RCA depends on staying objective and sticking to the facts. When pressures from leadership creep in, they can unintentionally—or sometimes, deliberately—shape the investigation’s findings, leading to inaccurate conclusions.
The Coaching Blog
JULY 1, 2025
It is lovely to work with clients. But it is not lovely to sit there, waiting for your client to appear on Zoom, and then not have your client appear. There you are, just sitting there. A minute passes. Another minute passes. You twiddle your thumbs. You check your email or your phone to see if your client has been in touch. You wait. Another minute passes.
The Coaching Tools Company
JULY 3, 2025
Originally Posted on The Coaching Tools Company as Celebrating 20 Years of Simplicity Life Coaching! Annual Fireworks Sale—4 to 24 July 20 Years • 20 Days • 20% Off A Legacy of Coaching, Growth & Transformation This July, we’re celebrating a remarkable milestone: 20 years of coaching, transformation, and global impact. Back in 2005, coach and entrepreneur Emma-Louise Elsey founded Simplicity Life Coaching with a vision to help people gain clarity, confidence, and a deeper connection to their
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Workplace violence prevention laws are rapidly evolving, with California’s SB-553 and New York’s Retail Worker Safety Act (S-8358B) leading the way. Join WILL’s experts for a nationwide webinar covering compliance requirements, with a special focus on these key state mandates. We’ll guide you through developing and implementing effective prevention policies, building a compliant plan, and delivering the required annual interactive training.
McKinsey
JUNE 30, 2025
To ensure that their companies engage effectively with stakeholders, CEOs must set communication standards, embody the organization’s culture and purpose, and speak up in moments that matter most.
She Owns Success
JULY 4, 2025
Keeping everyone on the same page sounds simple, but in reality, it’s something a lot of teams struggle with. Messages get missed, tasks overlap, and people end up second-guessing what they’re supposed to be doing. The thing to remember is that it doesn’t mean anyone’s doing a bad job – it just means the systems in place might need a bit of a rethink.
Charles Leon
JULY 4, 2025
How Designers Make Sense of the World When someone eats your last Rolo, you feel a totally disproportionate sense of loss. It’s not about the chocolate. It’s about the gap. The narrative was broken. Our brains crave closure like a moth craves light. This isn’t just artistic fussiness—it's biology. Our minds are pattern-seeking, problem-solving machines, evolved over millennia to find coherence in chaos and meaning in mess.
The Coaching Blog
JUNE 30, 2025
The Introduction to Coaching Workshop is taking place tomorrow! This is an incredible opportunity to dive into the world of coaching and explore whether it aligns with your aspirations, be it as a profession or as a service. Date: July 1st Time: 15:00 PM UK Time (check your timezone HERE) Here is the zoom link if you have not registered yet. [link] And in case you are not sure this is for you, you can check more about the webinar here: [link] Prepare your questions and come ready to actively par
Speaker: Frank Taliano
Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.
McKinsey
JUNE 30, 2025
The CEO of The Minnesota Star Tribune shares his journey from Google executive to state economic leader—and now, to reimagining the future of America and the places we call home.
She Owns Success
JULY 4, 2025
More women than ever are looking for ways to build businesses that do good for people and the planet. But actually turning that purpose into a profitable, resilient business takes more than just passion. For decades, agriculture and large-scale food production have been dominated by old systems and big corporations. Now, a new wave of women founders, community growers, and sustainability-minded entrepreneurs is proving there’s another way.
EOS Worldwide
JUNE 30, 2025
Stop sweating month-end statements—start predicting cash weeks in advance with numbers you can control today. The Day the Bank Called—and the CFO Slept Anyway Andrea’s precision-machining company looked profitable on.
Marla Gottschalk
JUNE 30, 2025
I would consider myself to be a happy person. Possibly a bit too optimistic about people & situations, which can pose an occasional problem. I’m largely driven by simple things, which might increase my chances of happiness. Yet, I will openly admit that I could be happier. My life has room for improvement, so to speak — and finding more joy would be beneficial.
Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand
Do you really know your donors? Not just what they give, but who they are? 👥 In this interactive session, we’ll break down how nonprofits can use behavioral indicators (affinity, recency, frequency, and monetary value) to build prospecting segments that go beyond wealth screening and actually align with donor identity. You’ll walk away with practical strategies to move beyond basic demographics and cultivate supporters based on how they already engage with you!
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