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Beyond the Basics: Online Meetings that Don’t Suck Your Soul

Let's Grow Leaders

We don’t hate online meetings – we hate soul-sucking wastes of time After months of online meetings, video conferences, Zoom, and Teams meetings, you’ve mastered the basics: You’ve got light in front of you (not behind you) so we can see you […]. The post Beyond the Basics: Online Meetings that Don’t Suck Your Soul appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Do Positive or Negative Emotions Make You More Creative?

Creativity at Work

Do Positive or Negative Emotions Make You More Creative?Conventional wisdom from the field of psychology tells us that positive emotions are most conducive to creativity while negative emotions are detrimental. Yet, negative moods have some surprising benefits in terms of stimulating creativity.[1] With no end in sight to the coronavirus pandemic, this is an ideal time to use your emotions as a therapeutic [.].

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Are You Overconfident?

On The Job

1. More than a decade ago, I wrote about a 13-foot Burmese python that tried to eat a six-foot alligator in the Florida Everglades. The python exploded. At the time, I wrote this in an effort to demonstrate that while having too little confidence can hurt you career -- so can overconfidence. Since that time, there seems to be an explosion of overconfidence.

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Eating out(side): Restaurant dining in the next normal

McKinsey

Our survey of US consumers suggests that indoor dining in restaurants may not return to precrisis levels for months—or possibly even years. That means full-service restaurant operators need a new economic model.

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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 Get More Creative In Your Remote Team Communication

Let's Grow Leaders

Want to be more creative in your remote team communication? Start here. If you’re like most managers we talk with, you face the perfect trifecta of remote team communication challenges. First, you’ve got A LOT to communicate. With so much change, keeping […]. The post How to Get More Creative In Your Remote Team Communication appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Leading Without Authority: Tips for the “Unofficial” Leader (Webinar)

Eat Your Career

Join us for this month’s free webinar on the topic of Leading Without Authority: Tips for the “Unofficial” Leader. Date : Wednesday, September 16, 2020. Time : 11:00 AM Pacific | 12:00 PM Mountain | 1:00 PM Central | 2:00 PM Eastern. Sign up for the Eat Your Career Newsletter to receive registration information: [link]. Leadership is not reserved solely for those who have formal leadership titles.

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Warren Buffett: An appreciation

McKinsey

As Warren Buffett turns 90, the story of one of America’s most influential and wealthy business leaders is a study in the logic and discipline of understanding future value.

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Burnout to Breakthrough – Interview with Eileen McDargh

Let's Grow Leaders

If you’ve felt burned out over the past few months, you’re not alone. In this practical and hopeful episode, Hall of Fame Speaker and esteemed author Eileen McDargh gives you the tools to identify and overcome the main causes of burnout for […]. The post Burnout to Breakthrough – Interview with Eileen McDargh appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Change Management: Types and How to Integrate

Vantage Circle

As we have known, change has always been an integral part of everyone’s life for the greater good. One may embrace change, and while others might not find it easy to cope with it. But we can be sure of one thing. Change is necessary for development and future advancements. Organizations have accepted the need to revolutionize often and work on new innovations that can be pivotal towards employee engagement.

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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 to Help Guastecan (Part1): “Be Prepared, Be Confident, Be Ready”

MultiPOD Mentoring

Dear Multipodian: You are as happy as you can be: This is your first assignment! Somebody wants your advice to help solve “a problem” in Guastecan. You know very little about Guastecan but a lot about your “state of the art” science and your time-proven doctrine to make things better. Now, where do you start? First, think about “context;” i.e. geography (where in the world is Guastecan ?

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How governments can deliver on the promise of digital ID

McKinsey

Governments globally are working to roll out digital identity schemes, but few have achieved broad adoption and utilization. To succeed, governments can create a virtuous circle of supply and demand.

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Closing the skills gap in retail with people analytics

McKinsey

Retailers that embrace people analytics are poised to streamline their onboarding process, retain strong employees, and ultimately maximize productivity.

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Digital transformation in energy: Achieving escape velocity

McKinsey

The need for digital value is greater and the barriers to change are lower—yet inertia persists. Three practical lessons can help energy companies break through.

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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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Adapting tax collection for uncertain times

McKinsey

In response to the economic uncertainty caused by the pandemic, many tax authorities are considering new approaches to tax management, adjusting their collections strategies to reflect the new reality.

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From defense to offense: Digital B2B services in the next normal

McKinsey

After playing a crucial role in adapting service operations to COVID-19 disruptions, digital and analytics can help B2B service companies emerge stronger in the post-pandemic reset.

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Downstream oil and gas amid COVID-19: Succeeding in a changed market

McKinsey

North American industry shapers will quickly develop strong market perspectives, adopt flexible staffing models, and deploy streamlined labor pools aligned with decisive strategic and operational choices.

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Reskilling for a changing economy: A discussion with Glenn Youngkin

McKinsey

Youngkin, chair of the Virginia Ready Initiative, talks about easing unemployment and strengthening Virginia’s economy by connecting people with training, financial support, and job opportunities.

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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 school: A framework for remote and hybrid learning amid COVID-19

McKinsey

As school systems prepare to reopen, here’s how to create a safe and effective learning environment for everyone.

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Engaging employees to use analytics: How mining companies solve the adoption challenge

McKinsey

Advanced analytics can drive value only if employees use them to make decisions. But adoption is often the biggest stumbling block in analytics initiatives. Here’s how to get it right.

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Tech-enabled asset productivity in chemicals and agriculture

McKinsey

Selecting the right combination of traditional and tech-enabled maintenance and reliability solutions is critical to delivering improved performance and higher operating margins.

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The Chinese consumer: Resilient and confident

McKinsey

In this podcast, two China-based McKinsey partners impart advice on how companies can succeed in China’s fast-recovering consumer market.

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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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Improving battery-electric-vehicle profitability through reduced structural costs

McKinsey

As sales of battery electric vehicles increase, OEMs need to focus on R&D excellence, flexible manufacturing, and value-chain integration to improve profitability.

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The value pitch: The importance of team value management

McKinsey

Football is a business unlike any other. While money is important, the winning formula is more about the sound management of a club’s most important asset: its team.

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Shifting focus to a comprehensive COVID-19-monitoring infrastructure

McKinsey

The United States can explore several approaches beyond polymerase-chain-reaction testing when considering a complete COVID-19-monitoring system.

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COVID-19 and climate change expose dangers of unstable supply chains

McKinsey

With the world undergoing its second “once in a generation” disruption in 12 years, a reappraisal of supply chains is in order.

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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.