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How Do I Help My Team Thrive During Uncertainty at Work

Let's Grow Leaders

You Can’t Stop The Uncertainty at Work, But You Can Learn to Live in Flux. To face a world in constant flux, and prepare for a future of uncertainty at work, you need more than resiliency. April shares practical ways to live your life so that you’re prepared to better cope with (and thrive) no matter what comes at you. In this week’s Asking For a Friend, I talk with April Rinne, author of Flux: 8 Superpowers for Thriving in Constant Change. 8 Superpowers to help you prepare for

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Are You Ready for This Job Market?

On The Job

Many workers are looking into new careers or new jobs, spurred by changes in their industry or simply a desire to do something else. If you're one of those people, it helps to be aware of recruiting trends so you know what to expect. 1. Target a specific employer. Even if you're applying for only sales jobs, you need to tailor your resume to a specific employer.

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Prioritizing sustainability in the consumer sector

McKinsey

Consumers and companies alike are becoming more interested in making sustainability-focused choices, but how to do so isn’t always clear. Two McKinsey partners provide some research-based insights.

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6 Ways To Develop A Successful Team In The Workplace

Vantage Circle

Successful teams are the cornerstone of a high-performing business. The logic behind it is simple. Good teams work hard, think critically, and face any obstacles head-on. All in all, investing in building great teams is a solid formula for success. With the current pandemic, team cohesion has taken a massive hit. Employees have been forced to work from home, which has made teamwork difficult.

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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 Scale Your Leadership for Bigger Influence and Results

Let's Grow Leaders

5 Ways to Scale Your Leadership and Motivate Your Large Team. You have a solid track record of building high-performance teams. But, now your team is bigger and you need to scale your leadership. Perhaps you’ve been promoted and your team has tripled in size. Or, maybe you’re leading a fast-growing start-up, and it’s no longer feasible to have the direct influence you once had with every employee and customer.

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SaaS and the Rule of 40: Keys to the critical value creation metric

McKinsey

Investors reward SaaS companies that hit this operating performance marker, yet a surprisingly small number have been able to do so. Here’s how more can follow their industry leaders’ example.

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The 4 Best Ways for Measuring Coaching Success

CMOE

While businesses believe coaching is one of the top-rated leadership skills , not enough of them are measuring their coaching success. As a result, many organizations do not even know whether their coaching investments are paying off. Monitoring and measuring your coaching programs is critical to making smarter business decisions. Employees are the linchpin that holds organizational strategies together, so investing in the employee experience is critical to your team’s success.

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Mastery Under Pressure with Tina Greenbaum

Let's Grow Leaders

As a leader do you ever feel overwhelmed and stressed? Keep running into the same limiting mindset or patterns, but don’t know how to fix them? In this episode, you’ll discover a system used by world-class athletes, performers, and CEOs to build their confidence, achieve transformational results, and overcome their limiting mindsets. Performance mastery specialist Tina Greenbaum will give you practical tools to achieve mastery under pressure.

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8 Executive Coaching Benefits You Need to Know

CoCaptain

First of All, What Exactly Is Executive Coaching? Here at CoCaptain, our definition of executive coaching is t he partnership between a coach and a leader [in any capacity]. They engage in a stimulating, creative, and encouraging process that challenges them to amplify their professional and leadership potential. Executive coaching services are used for more than just fostering leadership potential within individuals, but for expanding the growth of an organization and improving its overall perf

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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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Automotive semiconductors for the autonomous age

McKinsey

The rise of autonomous vehicles is shifting demand for automotive chips and prompting OEMs to consider in-house design. How could this reconfigure value chains across industries?

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5 Principles That Govern High-Functioning Teams

CMOE

High-functioning teams consist of individuals who achieve positive outcomes for their team and organization. These groups outperform other teams, going above and beyond to reach high-quality results. Team members demonstrate leadership and earn the trust of their colleagues. Low-functioning teams, on the other hand, are unstable, disorganized, and do the bare minimum.

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Live-Online Leadership Training: Where Can I Send My Managers?

Let's Grow Leaders

High-ROI Live Online Leadership Training For Human-Centered Leaders. Q: Karin, I see all the feedback about your customized leadership development programs for human-centered leaders, and they look great! The problem is, that I only have a handful of managers who need live-online leadership training. Do you have an open enrollment program they could attend?

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My Life, My Career: Executive Coaching Services to Succeed

CoCaptain

Executive coaching has been around for decades. It started off as a sort of mentoring service for CEOs and top executives but has now evolved into a service that leaders and professionals at any level can benefit from. So, before we dive into how executive coaching services can help you succeed, let’s clarify what an executive coach does. What is Executive Coaching?

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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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Fueling innovation and filling gaps in Latin America

McKinsey

A lack of early stage capital on the continent has hampered start-up creation and scaling. MAYA Capital co-founders Lara Lemann and Monica Saggioro are determined to change that.

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6 Types Of Diversity Training For An Inclusive Workplace

Vantage Circle

We all know that having a non-existent DE&I program hurts your brand's value. But do you know how to lay the groundwork for a successful diversity program? It is achieved through intensive diversity training. A diversity training program is an essential step towards creating a great company culture. But did you know many types of diversity training leaders can choose to promote tolerance and equality in the workplace?

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Will Your Business Idea Work?

Big Rocks Engineering

How do you determine whether your business succeeds or fails? By doing a research project. You will need to adequately research the validity of your business plan. It can be difficult to gauge what “adequate” really means. Here’s a checklist of some elements that any sufficient business research will contain: Market Research – It may be surprising, but many entrepreneurs […].

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Innovation, Uncertainty and Risk Management

Fortitude Business Consulting

Life and business are full of uncertainties, giving rise to unexpected events that result in opportunities and threats and, therefore, a need for risk management. You must manage risk and uncertainty to develop innovation as a core competency so that you can effectively capture opportunity and mitigate threats. Risk management involves reducing uncertainty in a controlled and systematic manner in line with your increasing resource commitments so that you don’t take unacceptable risks that may je

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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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Managing project portfolios to unlock trapped capital

McKinsey

The COVID-19 pandemic has led many businesses to try to minimize short-term capital outlay; considerable capital can be unlocked by rethinking the way project risk is recognized and funded.

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A Mini Guide On How To Use Reinforcement Theory On Employees

Vantage Circle

While trying out new consequences to motivate employees, have you noticed a difference in behavior? If yes, then congratulations! You've successfully applied the reinforcement theory of motivation in your workplace! To give you a better understandingof this theory, here is a simple example-. We have all seen how dogs who love to play fetch gets a treat when they bring back the ball.

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Exploring Time Management Tools & Tech

Eat Your Career

When it comes to time management tools and technology, you have choices…A LOT of choices! In fact, it can be overwhelming to consider the vast array of options available. And once you’ve made a decision, there’s more work to do! Setting up and learning how to use a new tool or software takes time (which is already in short supply). What if you don’t like it?

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Coaching For Everyone: Get a Coach, Be a Coach

CMOE

It doesn’t really matter what stage of life we are in or what station we hold in an organization—we all have to change, evolve, and transform in order to contribute and make a difference over the long run. This means we need to be coached and be willing to coach. No one is perfect, of course, and we all have blind spots that are rarely illuminated unless a supportive coach steps up, points out opportunities for development, and lights the way forward.

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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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In volatile markets, embedded product costs can be a hidden treasure

McKinsey

Raw-material and component costs are on a wild ride. Procurement and product-development teams can keep their grip by better understanding and managing embedded costs. A new approach can help.

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The Opportunities in Talent Development Post-Pandemic

Vantage Circle

It is said that the pandemic is changing the rules of talent development and management. Employers must be proactive in designing comprehensive strategies to determine which skills they require to remain competitive and how to acquire them, whether through new hires or reskilling and upskilling their current staff. Here, you will know more about the opportunities in talent development post pandemic.

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The postpandemic board agenda: Redefining corporate resilience

McKinsey

As boards move beyond crisis management, survey results suggest that specific risks and organizational issues are increasingly top of mind.

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Inbound freight: The savings opportunity chemical players overlook

McKinsey

As procurement sophistication increases, inbound freight—which makes up about 10 percent of raw-material spend—may offer the best opportunity for further savings in the chemicals industry and beyond.

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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.