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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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4 Ways to Handle a Colleague Who Yells at You

On The Job

Have you ever had someone yell at you at work? It's not fun. It's happened to me, and I can tell you that it was not a pleasant experience. What should you do if a colleague yells at you while on the job? You need to: 1. Stand up for yourself. Some people might not be able to do this, or may be so shocked in the moment that they can't respond to the person yelling.

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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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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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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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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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Lessons from the rapidly evolving regulation of digital banking

McKinsey

Regulators seeking ways to balance protection of customers’ interests, financial institutions’ risks, and their other policy objectives for digital banking can learn from early regulatory experiences.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.