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7 Reasons Your Feedback is Being Ignored

Let's Grow Leaders

Start with yourself to ensure everyone can receive feedback. It’s a frustration we hear all the time. “My people aren’t coachable. They’re defensive. It’s like they have a wall and just won’t listen.” We get it. One of the most frustrating human experiences is feeling ignored or unheard. And sometimes people who can’t grow aren’t in the right position.

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4 Tips for Improving Work/Life Balance

Career Advancement

“We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.” ~ Arianna Huffington. A hectic work schedule, increased responsibility, new technology, and the need to read and respond to a daily deluge of email and voicemail place huge demands on your work life. With all this pressure, you might feel as if your work is a prison that you can never escape.

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How top tech trends will transform insurance

McKinsey

Over the next decade, the fully tech-enabled insurer will bear little resemblance to today’s organization. Five trends, individually and in combination, will have a seismic impact.

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33 Key Leadership Competencies for Effective Leadership

Vantage Circle

Being a successful leader requires more than just intelligence or skill. It all comes down to what you do on the job and how you treat others. And that's what leadership competencies are for. Managers today face many new challenges. They need to provide continuous coaching and manage remote workers. It can get complicated at times. But, with the right support system, you can reach higher levels in leadership.

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Mid-Year Review: How to Ignite Employee Potential Through Meaningful Feedback

Mid-year performance reviews aren’t just boxes for HR to check. Paycor’s toolkit empowers leaders to: Identify high-potential team members. Boost engagement with meaningful feedback. Support struggling employees. Nurture top talent to drive results. Learn how to ignite employee potential through meaningful feedback. When you nurture top talent, everybody wins.

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Leading Through Invisible Dissent with Kellie Beattie

Let's Grow Leaders

Constructive discussions are essential for good decisions and great results. But how do you create an environment that helps to surface disagreement and overcome the challenges of invisible dissent? In this episode, Kelly Beattie shares practical steps you can take to help every team member engage. Leading Through Invisible Dissent. 3:00 – Why leaders must meet people where they are. 7:51 – How leaders create respectful conversations. 10:51 – The role of clear expectations with

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4 Tips for Improving Work/Life Balance

Career Advancement

“We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.” ~ Arianna Huffington. A hectic work schedule, increased responsibility, new technology, and the need to read and respond to a daily deluge of email and voicemail place huge demands on your work life. With all this pressure, you might feel as if your work is a prison that you can never escape.

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How Agile Leadership Is Going To Change Your Business

Vantage Circle

Agile leadership is a new approach to leading people. It enables organizations to drive innovations and adapt to their changing environment. Agility is a leadership mindset for the next generation of business leaders. Today's markets recognize organizations that have the capacity and willingness to adapt. Market leaders have established cultures and management approaches that encourage agility.

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My Team Doesn’t Like Me, What Should I Do? (With Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

3 Ways to Build Deeper Influence and Connection. Of course, you know that leadership is not who likes you. But it sucks to go to work every day when you know your team would rather be working for someone else. Plus, if your team doesn’t like you, you’re not going to have the influence you need to make an impact. So, how do you gain respect, when your team’s just not there?

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4 Tips for Improving Work/Life Balance

Career Advancement

“We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.” ~ Arianna Huffington A hectic work schedule, increased responsibility, new technology, and the need to read and respond to a daily deluge of email and voicemail place huge demands on your work life. With all this pressure, you might feel as if your work is a prison that you can never escape.

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Operationalizing machine learning in processes

McKinsey

Machine learning shows tremendous potential for increasing process efficiency. But generating real, lasting value requires more than just the best algorithms.

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The Hidden Skills That Separate Good Leaders from Great Ones

Speaker: Chandra McCormack, CPA, MBA, NACD.DC

Technical degrees might open doors—but it’s the soft skills that keep them open. In the face of disruption, evolving workplace dynamics, and rising expectations of leadership, soft skills like communication, emotional intelligence, and presence have become core business essentials—not nice-to-haves. Inspired by stories from her father coupled with her own career journey, seasoned executive Chandra McCormack breaks down how to lead with impact, connect with purpose, and cultivate a workplace cult

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Revolutionizing Women's Leadership Through Diversity And Inclusion

Vantage Circle

A lot of companies now participate in diversity and inclusion activities and as a result, we can see a lot of women and people of color in organizations but in nonmanagerial roles. They enter the talent pipeline but do not progress to senior management or corporate executive positions. In this episode, we discuss diversity and inclusion in the workplace with special considerations to women in leadership with our guest speaker Jessica Miller-Merrell.

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5 Work Life Rules That Stand the Test of Time

Marla Gottschalk

Alexander Schimmeck @unsplash. As a coach, it is vital to reflect upon my own work life and learn from its experiences. Ultimately, offering advice without introspection — could read as empty & hollow. As with most career journeys, there have surely been highs & lows. I’ve held roles that were for the most part glorious, where work felt like an expansion.

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The Mindset to Achieve

Nexus Business Solutions

I have a little plaque on my desk that reads: “What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?” This way of thinking empowers me to make difficult decisions every day. It gives me courage to push past self-doubt and try new things. This is the mindset of people who create; [.]. The post The Mindset to Achieve appeared first on Nexus Business Solutions.

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Look out below: What will happen to the space debris in orbit?

McKinsey

With more satellites and space debris in orbit, it’s time for a new approach for mitigating collisions.

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Building Compliant Workplace Violence Prevention Across States: CA SB-553 | NY S. 8358B

Speaker: Speakers:

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.

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How The Pandemic Has Transformed Employee Benefits

Vantage Circle

Change is the law of nature. We've all grown up hearing these words of wisdom. That's something that has helped us make peace with the fact that no matter what, some or the other thing will always change in our lives. And that's okay. Thus, as we move forward in life, we expect that many things will change eventually. Still, nobody could have anticipated what would happen in 2020.

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Guardians of Culture: 6 Ways Leaders Can Positively Influence an Organization’s Culture

CMOE

Whether you are trying to reinvigorate or reinvent your culture, the strength of an organization’s culture has never been more important. Culture is a key contributor to building a world class organization because it leads to higher quality and standards of excellence, better decisions, increased customer satisfaction, more innovation, and most importantly greater levels of employee engagement and retention.

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Global perspectives on insurtechs

McKinsey

The growth of insurtechs is driving innovation and disruption in the industry. Four McKinsey experts discuss the current state and the future evolution of the field.

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Lighthouses unlock sustainability through 4IR technologies

McKinsey

At manufacturing lighthouses, the Fourth Industrial Revolution makes sustainability easier. Environmental sustainability and operational competitiveness reinforce one another, thanks to digital.

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work

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.

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Built to last: Making sustainability a priority in transport infrastructure

McKinsey

Every year, trillions of dollars are invested in the infrastructure that helps us—and our goods—get around. What will it take to move the transport infrastructure industry toward carbon zero?

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How industrial companies can put e-commerce at the heart of their growth strategy

McKinsey

How can industrial companies maintain strong bonds with distributors while cultivating direct sales through e-commerce?

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When agile marketing breaks the agency model

McKinsey

The journey to agile marketing can be hard. But for many marketers and agencies, it offers the opportunity to forge a better partnership.

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The Future of Digital Innovation in China: Megatrends Shaping One of the World’s Fastest Evolving Digital Ecosystems

McKinsey

The paths taken by Chinese companies have relevant implications for other digital and traditional players as they craft their strategies.

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8 Pillars of Leadership Development

Great leadership development is the key to sustainable business growth. Are you ready to design an effective program? HR can use Paycor’s framework to: Set achievable goals. Align employee and company needs. Support different learning styles. Empower the next generation of leaders. Invest in your company’s future with a strong leadership development program.

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This time it’s personal: Shaping the ‘new possible’ through employee experience

McKinsey

In an era of workplace upheaval, companies that create tailored, authentic experiences strengthen employee purpose, ignite energy, and elevate organization-wide performance.

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Africa’s green manufacturing crossroads: Choices for a low-carbon industrial future

McKinsey

In Africa, the decarbonization of the manufacturing sector and economic growth and industrialization can go hand in hand; the choices the continent makes now will be critical for its future success and prosperity.

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Agile business portfolio management

McKinsey

Companies that regularly refresh their portfolios tend to outperform, but deciding when and how to divest a business may be the most challenging part of M&A.

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Evolution and opportunity in the postpandemic economy

McKinsey

Industry and the government have evolved rapidly since the COVID-19 outbreak. What still needs to change, what will stay, and what will be left behind in the postpandemic economy?

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The Everyday Donor: Unlocking Prospecting Segments Through Behavior Analysis

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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A manufacturing footprint fit for the future, via advanced analytics

McKinsey

Consumer-goods companies are under pressure to optimize manufacturing for the next normal. Advanced analytics could drive significant impact for their complex footprints and portfolios.

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Cyber resilience: Protecting America’s digital infrastructure

McKinsey

Faced with rising cyberthreats, government and the private sector will need to improve their digital hygiene while also preparing for the next wave of cyber adversaries.

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Economic conditions outlook, September 2021

McKinsey

Executives’ sentiment on economic conditions continues to be positive, even as concerns mount—yet again—over the pandemic’s threat to growth.

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Fostering sustainable development through open data for finance

McKinsey

Digital finance has many aspects that can improve the workings of emerging economies and further the cause of sustainable development. Open data for finance, where financial data is shared digitally among financial institutions with limited effort or manipulation, is a powerful tool to that end, write Anu Madgavkar and Olivia White.

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Preventing Workplace Violence and Complying with New York’s Retail Worker Safety Act

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On September 4, 2024, Governor Kathy Hochul signed the Retail Worker Safety Act (S. 8358B/A. 8947C) into law, requiring retail employers in New York to adopt workplace violence prevention policies and implement training programs by March 2025. This webinar will provide a detailed overview of the Act’s requirements, including developing and providing a retail workplace violence prevention policy/plan and delivering annual interactive training to employees.