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Speak-up Culture: How to Encourage More (and Better) Ideas

Let's Grow Leaders

How to Draw out Better Ideas from Every Member of Your Team. You’re a human-centered leader working to create a courageous, speak-up culture filled with psychological safety. A culture where employees feel invited and encouraged to speak up and share their ideas and express their concerns. Even if you’re a rock star human-centered leader, doing all the right things to encourage micro-innovation and problem solving, it’s also likely that you have a few team members who still hav

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Are You Self-Sabotaging?

On The Job

You might spend a lot of your time trying to figure out how to get ahead at work, or how to become more successful in your career. You figure out how to deal with Marcia's gossiping, your understand what your boss wants you to do and you even have plotted out the first industry conference you will attend once pandemic restrictions are lifted. But despite all these efforts, you do something dumb.

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A new look at how corporations impact the economy and households

McKinsey

We map the different ways in which the economic value that large companies create flows to households in OECD economies and examine what has changed in the past quarter-century.

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Coaching Companies Are Changing the Face of Business Coaching

CoCaptain

The coaching industry hasn’t changed much….until now. Coaching platforms are the ones raising the bar. Since the dawn of coaching, the industry has been notoriously unregulated. And while certifications remain available, anyone can enter the market without a certification, educational requirements, or formal experience - no questions asked. Well, coaching platforms are officially asking questions.

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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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How to Ensure High ROI Training

Let's Grow Leaders

?. Nothing burns time, energy, and leadership credibility like wasted training. Three specific mistakes undermine training. These mistakes compromise your ROI and participant experience. You’ll also get eight practical ways to overcome these mistakes and ensure high ROI training to help your people and your business. Include leaders as teachers and transform your training.

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What we lose when we lose women in the workforce

McKinsey

A record number of women have left the US workforce during the COVID-19 crisis. A policy expert and former HR executive discuss the long-term effects—and their own experiences.

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How to Be a Leader at Work in Any Role

CMOE

Being a leader of any type can be a daunting responsibility, but as you adopt a leadership mindset and incorporate a few actions into your day-to-day activities, you can be a highly effective leader who inspires team members to do their best work. Here are five essential skills that will help you be a leader at work, no matter the role you play. These practical solutions and strategies will help you improve your leadership effectiveness and drive your team forward.

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How Do I Build Trust With My Team (Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

Practical Research-Based Ways to Build Trust With Your Team. When it comes to building trust with your team, what matters most? In this week’s Asking For a Friend, I talk with David Horshager, founder of The Trust Edge Institute about how to build trust, keep trust, and how to recover when trust is broken. 8 Pillars of Trust: How to Build Trust with Your Team.

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Competitive Strategy: How To Get Better Than Your Opponents

Big Rocks Engineering

We have seen a lot of organizations who mull and watch as their business transforms into a zero-profit condition while their competitors appear to flourish. Why is this so? Just take a look at your business and try to answer these questions: ? What does my company do better than anyone else? ? What unique value […]. The post Competitive Strategy: How To Get Better Than Your Opponents appeared first on Big Rocks Engineering.

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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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The impact of electromobility on the German electric grid

McKinsey

Estimates indicate that eight million electric vehicles could be on the roads in Germany by 2030. Investing in fast-charging stations and managed charging will be key to upgrading infrastructure.

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A Brief Introduction To Redis

Vantage Circle

What Is Redis? Redis is an open-source in-memory data structure store. It is a type of key-value storage where we can easily store our data. This data can turn out to be pivotal and valuable for an application database, caching, message broker, and queue. Redis is an excellent choice if you need reasonable speed and performance from a database, cache, or message broker.

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The Helsinki Bus Station theory

Faster Ideas

How understanding the workings of a Finnish bus station can help you achieve greater success when it comes to being creative. Photo by Tom Brunberg on Unsplash. At a 2004 graduation speech by Finnish-American photographer Arno Minkkinen , he suggested that understanding the workings of Helsinki Bus Station would change your life. Yes, that's right. A bus station.

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Zero-Sum Game

Charles Leon

The greatest Innovations of all time. In a recent conversation with my son, which developed into an argument, he used an exaggerated claim to win the argument. This is not unusual in our family as we are all very used to expressing our opinions emphatically, even if they’re wrong or exaggerated. Hyperbole and generalisations are the norms in our household, particularly where an argument needs to be won.

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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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A city in the palm of your hand: An interview with Dubai’s Wesam Lootah

McKinsey

The CEO of the Smart Dubai Government Establishment explains how innovation and common purpose help make Dubai the happiest city on earth.

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6 Self-Management Skills That You Need

Vantage Circle

Without self-management skills, you will lack the vital ingredients that'll lead you to success. It is one of the perfect ways to one can self-assess themselves in the long run. While self-assessment is vital, one must acknowledge the need to transform in order to be your best self. These constant changes will redefine your experiences, help you grow, and boost your performance.

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Fill the tank

Faster Ideas

How stopping what you're doing to fill your mind with inspiration is the best route to your creative goal. Photo by Dorien Monnens on Unsplash. When you're pushing through to come up with new ideas for a project, it can sometimes be hard to stop. Especially with a looming deadline. Other than the task at hand, everything else seems irrelevant, and batting away doom scrolling and other distractions seems the only way to get to the finish line.

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6 ways to ensure a fair and inclusive economic recovery from COVID-19

World Economic Forum

From jobs and wages to education and skills – leading economic thinkers have mapped out a route to recovery from the pandemic that would benefit all.

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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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‘Back to human’: Why HR leaders want to focus on people again

McKinsey

Chief human-resource officers in Europe say a shift to employee-centric policies is long overdue. The pandemic is a big factor in their thinking, but process fatigue has been building for some time.

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Top Leadership Trends Shaping The Future Of Employee Experience

Vantage Circle

Leaders who provide meaningful employee experiences help their teams to be positive and inspired. This isn't something that just happens. To improve the employee experience and reap the benefits of increased employee involvement, leaders must adopt a more transparent, trusting, and collaborative leadership style. Thankfully, authoritarian government is a thing of the past.

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Do You Like Your Team Too Much, but Don’t Love Them Enough?

Nexus Business Solutions

By Jim Coyle Many leadership teams are simply missing the point. Often, they are too worried about offending others or too concerned about feelings to truly “love on” the other members of their team. Sometimes, showing a little bit of “tough love” by confronting issues and having difficult conversations really is the best solution, and [.]. The post Do You Like Your Team Too Much, but Don’t Love Them Enough?

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How COVID-19 has changed the way US consumers think about healthcare

McKinsey

Taking five actions can help US healthcare payers and providers improve their engagement with consumers.

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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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Doubling online grocery capacity during the pandemic: An interview with Matthew Simister

McKinsey

Tesco’s Central Europe CEO shares how the grocery chain will continue to gain market share by meeting customers’ increasing expectations for value in quality, freshness, and pricing.

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The search for purpose at work

McKinsey

Purpose is personal, but companies play a critical role in how we express it.

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Grocers can fuel growth with advanced analytics

McKinsey

Organizational maturity will be a critical element for grocery retailers seeking to unlock the full potential of analytics.

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Up in the air: How do consumers view advanced air mobility?

McKinsey

Our new global survey shows that consumers are ready to take advantage of advanced air mobility, but concerns remain.

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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.