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How to Lead in a Caustic Culture

Let's Grow Leaders

To lead in a caustic culture, focus on your influence It’s a question we hear after every keynote we deliver: “I want to build a Courageous Culture, but I don’t know if it will work at my company. It’s not a healthy […]. The post How to Lead in a Caustic Culture appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Catch them if you can: How leaders in data and analytics have pulled ahead

McKinsey

As data and analytics transform industries at an ever-quicker pace, the strategies and organizational cultures of leading companies offer others a road map for success.

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How to Get Others to Value Your Work

Eat Your Career

During my monthly webinars , I often hear a handful of the same questions. A common one goes something like this: “The people I work with think my job is inferior. They look down on me (and my role). How do I get others to value my work more?”. This question hits particularly close to home for administrative professionals. As a proud former admin myself, I know what it’s like to feel that your work isn’t valued.

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Is being positive the key to creativity?

World Economic Forum

How are creativity and happiness linked? Does happiness make us more creative or does creativity make us happy?

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How to Turn “Check-the-Box” Compliance Trainings Into Real Learning

Speaker: Brian Richardson, Brian Richardson, Founder and CEO of Richardson Consulting Group

Let’s face it—most ethics and compliance trainings aren’t winning awards for engagement. But that doesn’t mean they can’t be effective, relevant, and maybe even enjoyable! Join expert Brian Richardson for a dynamic session on how to breathe new life into your ethics and compliance training programs. You’ll discover creative strategies to turn traditionally dry topics into meaningful learning experiences that resonate and drive real change.

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Building Confidence and Competence in Your Team: A Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival! This month, our contributors share their thoughts about building confidence and competence. Some also answered the question of the month: What new skill have you been working on lately? Thanks to Joy and Tom […]. The post Building Confidence and Competence in Your Team: A Frontline Festival appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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How to master the seven-step problem-solving process

McKinsey

Structured problem solving can be used to address almost any complex challenge in business or public policy.

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How to avoid overconfidence when managing major accounts?

Gordian Business

“ Through SAM we have unleashed a new level of focus and energy that has made the whole journey extremely rewarding for everyone. ” — Chris Cowley, Managing Director. Image by Garoch_Pixabay. Don’t Fly Too Close To The Sun A key to long term success is how well an organisation transforms to manage strategic accounts differently. Recently, we worked with a CEO of a large global client who decided the way of the future was managing their most important accounts in a structured way.

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Encouragement that Gets Results

Let's Grow Leaders

You know you should encourage your team – but how do you encourage people in a way that’s authentic and builds results? In this episode, David shares three ways to guarantee your encouragement builds momentum and helps your team achieve results. The post Encouragement that Gets Results appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. You know you should encourage your team – but how do you encourage people in a way that’s authentic and builds results?

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The forgotten step in leading large-scale change

McKinsey

Change programs that explicitly assess the skills and mind-sets required to fulfill their performance and health aspirations are upward of six times more likely to succeed.

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Stop Battling for Talent and Start Asking Questions That Matter

BetterUp

Growing up, my family dinner conversations were very different than my peers. While most kids picked at their food, while their parents probed them with questions about what happened that day at school, my parents were serving mashed potatoes with a side of deep conversation – about self esteem and emotional awareness, of course. If I brought up a seemingly mundane story from the playground while asking to pass the green beans, my parents would dissect it and ask questions to make me think

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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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Modern Methods of Performance Appraisal to Boost Performance

Vantage Circle

Employee performance appraisal is critical for any organization. It helps the management to track employee performance, which is directly linked to organizational growth. It helps in boosting employees’ motivation, productivity , and commitment to the organization. What is Performance Appraisal? Performance appraisal is an annual process that involves setting clear, quantifiable goals and objectives and assessing individual performance.

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The future of Asia: Asian flows and networks are defining the next phase of globalization

McKinsey

The Asian Century has begun. Asia is the world’s largest regional economy and, as its economies integrate further, it has the potential to fuel and shape the next phase of globalization.

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Mastering the duality of digital: How companies withstand disruption

McKinsey

McKinsey research shows that established companies win by addressing digital strategy’s dual imperatives: building new digital businesses while digitizing legacy operations.

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When you pick that pre-worn jacket, the environment wins too

McKinsey

Andy Ruben of Yerdle draws on his experience in sustainability to discuss how companies can enter—and thrive in—the circular economy.

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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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Capturing value at scale in discrete manufacturing with Industry 4.0

McKinsey

The efforts of many companies to apply Industry 4.0 solutions are stuck in “pilot purgatory.” Determining where to focus and how to scale can help generate a meaningful, lasting impact.

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Flushing out the money launderers with better customer risk-rating models

McKinsey

Advanced risk-rating models dramatically improve detection by applying machine learning and statistical analysis to better-quality data and dynamic customer profiles.

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How state and local governments win at attracting companies

McKinsey

Governments with the most effective business-attraction programs deploy comprehensive economic-development strategies.

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The Digital Accelerator: The Schwab model for accelerating its digital transformation

McKinsey

What’s better than digital transformation? A faster digital transformation—that delights customers, develops agile ways of working, and creates new value. Here’s the road map followed at Schwab.

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

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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.

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Building board-management dynamics to withstand a crisis: Addressing the fault lines

McKinsey

Crises can strain relationships at the top of organizations to the breaking point. Improving the dynamics between board members and senior executives can make recovery from crisis more successful.

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Best-in-class digital document processing: A payer perspective

McKinsey

Despite the promise of digitization, paper forms will remain for many years. Payers that find a better way to handle both paper-based and digital information will have a competitive advantage.

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Pricing: Distributors’ most powerful value-creation lever

McKinsey

With new digital capabilities, distributors are finding that pricing can do more than traditional margin-expansion methods to create new value.

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Five Fifty: Defund your darlings

McKinsey

Better to give than to take away? Not when axing underperforming projects and businesses.

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Can Your Organization Spot a Conflict Before It’s a Crisis?

Speaker: Amie Phillips Pablo, VP, Corporate Compliance & Privacy Officer at Novo Nordisk

In today’s complex healthcare environment, navigating third-party relationships has become even more challenging—whether it’s vendor relationships, employee activities, or patient-facing interactions. Left unmanaged, these conflicts can compromise trust, regulatory compliance, and even organizational reputation. So, how can healthcare teams stay ahead?

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Beating the cycle: Building resilience in chemicals

McKinsey

Economic downturns take their toll—and chemical companies are no exception. Our research finds companies that increased resilience in the last downturn made bold moves.

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China in the Asian century

McKinsey

Even as China’s growth rate matures, its growth is helping to propel the rapid economic development of its neighbors, write Jonathan Woetzel and Joe Ngai in China Daily.

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Five insights into the views and behaviors of the US dairy consumer

McKinsey

Dairy companies that can tailor their product offerings to the evolving tastes of consumers will be better positioned for growth.

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Changing the insurance paradigm: A perspective from Allianz Poland’s COO

McKinsey

A 20-year industry veteran, Radoslaw Kaminski believes that insurers must rethink long-standing business models and “become part of something bigger.”.

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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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Infographic: Building the European biotech sector with world-class talent

McKinsey

What makes European biotech attractive? Talent is one reason. Europe ranks high in the level of innovation and the quality of R&D talent, particularly for research, and the amount of available talent in drug development is increasing. For rare diseases and oncology, however, experienced people are considered to be in short supply. And while the challenges of attracting and retaining biotech talent (as well as talent for business development) are not unique to Europe, these will continue to be im

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It's not just about China. Asian economies are integrating rapidly, fuelling regional growth

McKinsey

Asia’s massive economic bloc is growing in a complementary fashion, with more regional investments and collaborations as integration intensifies, write Oliver Tonby and Jonathan Woetzel in South China Morning Post.

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Israel: Hot spot for future mobility technologies

McKinsey

Here’s why the Israeli autotech ecosystem is set to play an important role in the future automotive industry.

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Leading a transformation in the Department of Veterans Affairs

McKinsey

The assistant secretary for enterprise integration at the US Department of Veterans Affairs discusses the agency’s ongoing transformation and how it’s benefiting the veterans it serves.

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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.