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Four Powerful Ways to Get Helpful Feedback From Your Peers

Let's Grow Leaders

I’m sure you ask your boss for feedback. And, I imagine you’re checking in with your direct reports regularly on how you’re doing. If you’re like many managers we work with, you may be less inclined to ask your peers for their […].

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Number #1 Factor for Career Success: Increased visibility in Your Job

Career Advancement

“The power of visibility can never be underestimated.” ~Margaret Cho~. Zachary Asks: You’ve seen a lot of people climb the ladder of success. And probably some fall back down it. In all that time, what’s the one thing people should know… but probably don’t… that would have the greatest impact on their career? Joel Answers: Great question Zachary. We’ve been programmed that those who work hardest get ahead.

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Why You Think You're Prepared to Job Hunt -- But You're Really Not

On The Job

I recently was interviewed on a podcast, "Find Your Dream Job." You can find the full transcript here , but I'm including some of it now. Mac Prichard: Now our topic this week is about the importance of preparation in a job search. When you and I chatted before the program, you were saying this was the one thing people have to do in a job search. What do you mean by preparation, Anita?

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From ‘why’ to ‘why not’: Sustainable investing as the new normal

McKinsey

More institutional investors recognize environmental, social, and governance factors as drivers of value. The key to investing effectively is to integrate these factors across the investment process.

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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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5 Top Leadership Articles for the week of October 23, 2017

Let's Grow Leaders

Each week I read leadership articles from various online resources and share them across social media. Here are the five leadership articles readers found most valuable last week. Click on the title of the article to read the full text. I have […].

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How to Avoid Being Blindsided in Your Career

On The Job

I've written before about how to know when your job is in trouble: The boss avoids you, there are meetings that you used to attend that are now excluding you and your job duties are being trimmed. The story, "How to Know When You're on Thin Ice at Work," in today's Wall Street Journal covers much of this in its reporting, but I think more discussion is needed of how to avoid having your job yanked out from under you.

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What shoppers really want from personalized marketing

McKinsey

What customers want and what businesses think they want are often two different things. Here’s what customers are looking for.

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Management’s next frontier: Making the most of the ecosystem economy

McKinsey

Engaging in digital ecosystems requires a new set of managerial skills and capabilities. How quickly companies develop them will determine if they succeed in the ecosystem economy.

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Global customer and channel management: What the best CPG companies do

McKinsey

To excel in customer and channel management, consumer-goods companies must emphasize different capabilities in different markets. Which ones matter most, and where?

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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 medical-device CEOs can navigate digital disruption in healthcare

McKinsey

Medical-device companies will need to reinvent themselves to stay competitive. Now’s the time to craft a strategy and scale a transformation.

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Women in law firms

McKinsey

Law firms have many of the right policies and programs in place to improve gender diversity, but more can be done to translate stated commitments into measurable outcomes.

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Grow fast or die slow: The role of profitability in sustainable growth

McKinsey

How can software and online-services companies determine the right balance between growth and profitability?

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Infrastructure for the evolution of urban mobility

McKinsey

Self-driving vehicles, ride-hailing services, and other technologies are transforming urban mobility. To capture the benefits of the shift, cities will need sound infrastructure plans and investments.

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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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Supply-chain management in aerospace and defense: Cash is king—again

McKinsey

A renewed focus on investment calls for A&D companies to unlock significant amounts of cash. The key will be knowing where to look and what measures can free it up.

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Central Europe’s consumers: Looking for value

McKinsey

To attract the region’s value-oriented consumers, retailers and manufacturers in Central Europe must expand their assortments, both in stores and online.

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Trends in electric-vehicle design

McKinsey

What did we learn from a teardown and benchmarking of ten EV models?

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Redesigning the public transportation experience: London’s contactless card system

McKinsey

The journey to a ticket-free transit system—and the path ahead.

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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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‘A physical version of the Internet’: How Hyperloop could be the broadband of transportation

McKinsey

Proponents of the high-speed technology envision an end-to-end revolution in transportation.

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Who’s at the wheel? Changing culture and leadership to support innovation in autonomous vehicles

McKinsey

The new world of transport will demand different skills, capabilities, and culture.

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Strategy at the stress-testing table for UK banks and beyond

McKinsey

This spring, the Bank of England announced the Biennial Exploratory Scenario. Here’s a primer to understand key elements of the stress test and how it can be used for strategic advantage.

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Remaking the bank for an ecosystem world

McKinsey

Global banking-industry performance has been lackluster. Now comes the hard part: the rise of nonbanking platform companies targeting the most profitable parts of the banking value chain.

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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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What US consumers think of shared mobility

McKinsey

As ride hailing and ride sharing grow more common, a new survey offers insights into shifting attitudes and behavior.

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Innovating at the speed of the 21st century in pharmaceuticals

McKinsey

The CEO of Eli Lilly offers perspectives on accelerating change in the industry.

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How digital reinventors are pulling away from the pack

McKinsey

As digitization progresses, incumbents competing in new, digital ways are already outperforming those that continue to operate traditionally, a new survey finds.

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Electric road systems: The future of freight transport

McKinsey

How electrification is helping Sweden meet its environmental sustainability goals.

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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.