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Managing Remote Teams: How to Increase Engagement and Performance

Let's Grow Leaders

Managing Remote Teams: Relationships First Dear Karin and David, Do you have any best practices for managing remote teams? I’m finding it hard to build genuine connection and to stay on top of performance when the team is so dispersed. Signed, On […]. The post Managing Remote Teams: How to Increase Engagement and Performance appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Six Types of Stakeholders Leaders Need to Influence

Career Advancement

“Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It’s about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.” ~Robin S. Sharma~. Jackie had just accepted a promotion and was working to develop a grasp of whom she needed to influence in her organization.

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The One Thing That May Lead to Better Hires

On The Job

I spend a lot of time talking to business experts and leaders and the one thing I know for sure: No one knows for sure what the future will bring. That’s not to say these very smart people don’t have a clue – but the marketplace is changing so fast sometimes that they’re not 100% confident that what worked in the past will continue to work – or if their company will even survive.

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How battery storage can help charge the electric-vehicle market

McKinsey

People are reluctant to buy electric vehicles because of concerns about charging. But public, fast-charging infrastructure is not yet widely available or profitable. There is a way to resolve that conundrum.

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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 Motivate Your Team – When You Don’t Set the Goals

Let's Grow Leaders

Wondering How to Motivate Your Team When You Don’t Set the Goals? Hint: Don’t Motivate, Cultivate Have you ever been given a goal by your supervisors and thought, “Ugh! What are they thinking? My team’s gonna hate this!” If so, you’re not […]. The post How to Motivate Your Team – When You Don’t Set the Goals appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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3 Ways to Give Immediate Feedback That Won't Make Someone Hate You

On The Job

There's a big push these days for in-the-moment feedback. This means that instead of a boss offering a critique of a worker's performance once a year, he or she will offer an immediate assessment after a worker takes action or completes a task. For example, the boss might commend a worker's report on projected sales revenues, but then advise the employee that he needs to work on not getting defensive when asked questions about those figures by other team members.

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Solving the productivity puzzle

McKinsey

New research uncovers how three waves collided to create historically low productivity growth but finds the potential for it to recover to 2 percent or more.

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How to MBWA Without Getting in the Way

Let's Grow Leaders

My phone rang, “Karin, she’s here …” “Crud, just what we needed today! Bad MBWA. Aghhh. You know the drill, warn the others. I’ll let John (my boss) know.” John picked up the phone, “Okay, is your team ready? Remember there’s no […]. The post How to MBWA Without Getting in the Way appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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How should we regulate the flow of online content? 

World Economic Forum

Should governments take action to prevent the spread of abusive content on the internet - or is such interference ultimately a form of censorship?

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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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Overcoming Challenges during a Major Transformation

Strategy+Business

The chief executive of QSuper, one of Australia's largest pension funds, describes how to change direction at scale. This public-sector pension fund was suddenly faced with open competition with private-sector financial services; it had to restructure the business, launch new types of businesses, and rebuild its digital technology -- all at the same time.

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Advanced analytics: Poised to transform Asian companies

McKinsey

Executives in Asia are increasingly aware of the tremendous impact that advanced analytics could have on their organization. Now they must take concrete steps to adopt these technologies.

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Behavioral science in business: Nudging, debiasing, and managing the irrational mind

McKinsey

Behavioral science has become a hot topic in companies and organizations trying to address the biases that drive day-to-day decisions and actions.

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The road to 5G: The inevitable growth of infrastructure cost

McKinsey

Network cost could double as operators strive to meet demand for increased capacity and deploy 5G. How can they maintain their profits?

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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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A closer look at impact investing

McKinsey

The mistaken rap on this kind of “social” investment is that returns are weak and realizing them takes too long.

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Improving the effectiveness of tax collection: $30 in additional revenue for every $1 spent?

McKinsey

An analysis of OECD countries’ expenditure on tax-collection effectiveness suggests high returns on investment.

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How are consumers feeling about their finances?

McKinsey

In many countries, consumer sentiment has improved since 2015. Consumers have become more bullish about their ability to spend.

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Five Fifty: The T-word

McKinsey

Is your corporate transformation doomed to failure? Here’s advice for beating the long odds of success.

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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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Five Fifty: Savoring the surprise

McKinsey

Monetize the data. That’s the mantra for companies looking to grow through data and analytics. But how do you turn insights into action?

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The US economy is suffering from low demand

McKinsey

We have concluded that demand matters for productivity growth and that increasing demand is key to restarting growth across advanced economies, write James Manyika, Jaana Remes, and Jan Mischke in Harvard Business Review.

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Gene therapy for telecom operators: An interview with Jon Fredrik Baksaas

McKinsey

The former GSMA chairman and Telenor CEO discusses what telecoms operators need to do to adapt in the new competitive landscape.

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It's time to tackle tech's growing influence on the creative economy

World Economic Forum

Platforms decide who sees what content and what formats will flourish on their networks, while reaping financial rewards from advertising.

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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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How Precision Medicine Will Transform the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Industries

Strategy+Business

Precision medicine combines business opportunities with clinical health benefits. And although the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries know this is the way forward, they face some significant hurdles.

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The Tax-Savvy Company Restructuring

Strategy+Business

During a corporate restructuring, executives often treat taxes as a cost of compliance after the major decisions are made. Consequently, leaders are likely either to create tax inefficiencies or to miss opportunities to put their companies in a better tax position.

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Network sharing and 5G: A turning point for lone riders

McKinsey

Network sharing will be a key lever to reduce cost and make 5G deployments feasible.

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How to Get Time on Your Side

Strategy+Business

Best-selling author Daniel Pink analyzes more than 700 studies to reveal the science of perfect timing.

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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.