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4 Words to Help You Build a Powerful Team

Let's Grow Leaders

One question leads to a powerful team “David, I just don’t have time. There’s so much to do that some days I just want to give up!” Lynn was a midlevel manager in a mid-sized healthcare company. She’d sought out coaching because […]. The post 4 Words to Help You Build a Powerful Team appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Research Shows How to Be More Creative

On The Job

Is there anything more frustrating than to be told: "Come up with a really creative idea/solution to this problem. Oh, and we need it right now." Creativity often isn't something that you can turn off and on like a switch. Sometimes the best ideas don't hit you until you're taking a shower or doing something really inane to have an "aha!" moment. But new research from Stanford Graduate School of Business provides some insight into the creative process, which might prove useful when we're under p

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Corporate Asia: A capital paradox

McKinsey

Asian corporations now account for 43 percent of the world’s largest 5,000 companies, contributing $19 trillion in revenue to the world economy every year. But has this growth come at a cost?

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5 Ways to Improve Your Self-Awareness

Eat Your Career

I am a firm believer that all growth starts with understanding yourself. Before you can grow as a person or as a professional, you have to first know who you are and why you do what you do. This skill is commonly referred to as “self-awareness,” and it’s an important element of emotional intelligence , which is widely considered a key factor in life and career success.

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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 Better Results in 2020: A Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival! This month, our contributors share their thoughts about how to achieve better results in 2020. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors. Are you […]. The post How to Get Better Results in 2020: A Frontline Festival appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Artificial intelligence helps cut emissions and costs in cement plants

McKinsey

AI can help optimize energy consumption and throughput of cement kilns and mills by improving equipment productivity in view of rising environmental concerns and CO2 costs.

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The Vanishing Executive Assistant? My Response

Eat Your Career

Last weekend, the Wall Street Journal published an interesting (though highly controversial) article titled, “ The Vanishing Executive Assistant.”. And WOW, did it cause an uproar in the admin community! I’m pretty sure that was the author’s intent so, well done…? This is my response to that article and my defense of the Executive Assistant role. Admittedly, I am biased.

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The Benefits Of Outdoor Activities for Work productivity

Vantage Circle

Are you feeling stifled by the four corners of your office cubicle? Are you longing for the warm sunny ray that sips through your window during that board meeting? Well, guess what! It's normal for every human to long for nature's pleasantries since this is made possible through biophilia. Within the core of every human, there exists a connection to nature known as biophilia.

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Why does prosperous King County have a homelessness crisis?

McKinsey

A careful analysis reveals a primary driver of homelessness in Seattle and King County and a costly, multifaceted solution to the problem.

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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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Can telcos create more value by breaking up?

McKinsey

Once primarily a regulators’ tool, structural separation is beginning to attract growing interest from operators facing financial and market pressures.

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On the cusp of change: North American wealth management in 2030

McKinsey

The North American wealth-management industry will undergo meaningful changes in the next ten years, influenced by evolving customer segments and rules of engagement, rapid technological advances, and shifting competitive dynamics.

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Collaborative contracting: Moving from pilot to scale-up

McKinsey

Despite the early successes of collaborative-contract adopters, the industry remains hesitant. Five steps can help project owners better envision the transition toward more collaborative approaches.

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10 Ways To Make Your Daily Commute To Work A Productive One

Vantage Circle

Are you part of the majority of the world's population who commute to work every day? According to the U.S Census Bureau, the average American worker spends 26.9 minutes commuting to work every day. And even as more and more employers around the world are adopting work-from-home policies and flexible schedules, commuting times don't show any signs of decreasing in duration.

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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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Effective and Simple Tips for a Happy Workplace

Vantage Circle

There is a 31% rise in productivity when your organization has happy employees. As an employer it is hard to oversee such an important statistic when productivity comes into play. Having happy employees in the organization is only possible when you create a happy workplace. A working environment where every employee looks forward to coming back to. Big names in the corporate world have learned that fostering a fun and learning environment has always led them to success.

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30 Employee Recognition Quotes To Celebrate, Inspire and Motivate

Vantage Circle

The success of any organization is determined by the quality of the relationship between an employer or management and employees. In order for these connections to be well-founded management must come up with genuine recognizing practices to keep the ball rolling. Unless this is done, turnover and worker discontent can be the result. It is important to realize the importance of employee recognition to avoid such expenses and loss of productivity.

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Top Ways to Help Your Employees Prepare for the Future

Vantage Circle

British business magnate and author, Sir Richard Branson says: “Clients do not come first, employees come first. If you take care of your employees, they will take care of the clients.” In these few words, the founder of the Virgin group aptly sums up the importance of employees for any business. The adage also implies that businesses, regardless of their size, have to actively invest in employees.

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Digital supply-chain transformation with a human face

McKinsey

Why building a digitally enabled supply chain is hard, and what to do about it.

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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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Climate change hazards intensifying

McKinsey

Increasing effects of climate change call for better systematic risk management, more adaptation and accelerated decarbonization, writes Jonathan Woetzel in China Daily.