Let's Grow Leaders
OCTOBER 12, 2017
One of the most challenging management experiences you’ll encounter is when it feels like your team won’t listen. You share your vision of the future, what the team’s capable of achieving…and are met with shrugs and silent stares. You share a new […].
Career Advancement
OCTOBER 9, 2017
“The art of communication is the language of leadership.” ~James Humes~. Mei had just scheduled a one-on-one meeting with an upper-level executive in her company. She didn’t get much face time with high-level executives, so when communicating with them, she knew she had to make it count. She understood that talking with senior executives was a great strategy for boosting her visibility at work.
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McKinsey
OCTOBER 10, 2017
More companies are committing to gender equality. But progress will remain slow unless we confront blind spots on diversity—particularly regarding women of color, and employee perceptions of the status quo.
Penelope Trunk
OCTOBER 10, 2017
Now that I am finally writing again, I’m so excited to tell you what’s been happening. And I have all these pictures I took, thinking, this will be good for the blog. But then I didn’t write anything. You can’t get stuff done if you don’t plan an exact time of day you’re going to do it. So I planned to wake up and write before the boys get up.`.
Advertiser: Paycor
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Let's Grow Leaders
OCTOBER 10, 2017
No matter what level leader you are, if you want to really make an impact on your team, get out of your office. Walk around. Connect with the human beings you’re supporting, and their customers. Listen to them. Act on what you […].
Strategy+Business
OCTOBER 8, 2017
Employee engagement rises when frequent, informal conversations replace annual reviews.
Professional Development Brief brings together the best content for development professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Eat Your Career
OCTOBER 10, 2017
This is part three of a three-part series where I’m covering the following topics: Part 1: Getting Leadership Approval. Part 2: Retaining Information. Part 3: Leveraging Learning. In this article, I’ll share some strategies to help you use what you’ve learned in training. Previously, I shared the importance of creating an action plan—a document that outlines the specific, incremental steps you’re going to take to implement what you’ve learned in training.
Let's Grow Leaders
OCTOBER 12, 2017
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 […].
Strategy+Business
OCTOBER 8, 2017
Physicist Larry Smarr has been among the most important synthesizers and conductors of innovation, discovery, and commercialization of new technologies -- including areas as disparate as the Web browser and personalized medicine. As director of Calit2, based at two University of California campuses in Southern California, Smarr oversees a sandbox in which researchers from different disciplines collaborate in such areas as renewable energy, medicine, and climate research.
McKinsey
OCTOBER 10, 2017
Digital technology is disrupting capital projects. Companies that want to emerge as leaders must transform their organizations now.
Speaker: Chandra McCormack, CPA, MBA, NACD.DC
Technical degrees might open doors—but it’s the soft skills that keep them open. In the face of disruption, evolving workplace dynamics, and rising expectations of leadership, soft skills like communication, emotional intelligence, and presence have become core business essentials—not nice-to-haves. Inspired by stories from her father coupled with her own career journey, seasoned executive Chandra McCormack breaks down how to lead with impact, connect with purpose, and cultivate a workplace cult
McKinsey
OCTOBER 13, 2017
Fifty percent of launches don’t hit their targets. Launch champions follow these four rules.
McKinsey
OCTOBER 10, 2017
Our research shows significant value in embracing AI and automation for Sweden, but sees a requirement for new skill sets among employees and a policy response around education, training and the social contract.
McKinsey
OCTOBER 10, 2017
B2B companies often achieve subpar results from digital-sales initiatives—and tech companies are not immune to this problem. How can they reverse the trend?
McKinsey
OCTOBER 13, 2017
Despite increased spending and pockets of progress, infrastructure investment gaps remain.
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Workplace violence prevention laws are rapidly evolving, with California’s SB-553 and New York’s Retail Worker Safety Act (S-8358B) leading the way. Join WILL’s experts for a nationwide webinar covering compliance requirements, with a special focus on these key state mandates. We’ll guide you through developing and implementing effective prevention policies, building a compliant plan, and delivering the required annual interactive training.
McKinsey
OCTOBER 9, 2017
Business leaders can focus on three mind-sets to drive growth in their companies and sustain that growth for the long term.
McKinsey
OCTOBER 11, 2017
Three snapshots demonstrate areas of change and opportunity.
McKinsey
OCTOBER 13, 2017
The general manager of people and culture at Australia’s Origin Energy explains why it’s important to go beyond top-down objectives and targets.
McKinsey
OCTOBER 10, 2017
What is required to navigate the emerging personal-mobility landscape in an uncertain future?
Speaker: Frank Taliano
Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.
McKinsey
OCTOBER 11, 2017
The industry’s growth has been flagging—but better serving mass-market and middle-market consumers could add $10 billion in annual premiums.
McKinsey
OCTOBER 13, 2017
When investors understand where deal value comes from, they tend to reward companies up front.
McKinsey
OCTOBER 11, 2017
What sort of workplace should we expect in future? And how can we shape it to produce more satisfying jobs and more healthy and successful companies?
McKinsey
OCTOBER 13, 2017
Revenue synergies can make a good deal even better.
Advertiser: Paycor
Before you can achieve success, you have to define it. Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) give you the framework to do just that. Paycor’s free guide includes a step-by-step process leaders can use to work toward – and achieve – their loftiest business goals.
Strategy+Business
OCTOBER 11, 2017
Gender disparity and equal pay are still pressing issues. But there are ways to make the game fairer.
Strategy+Business
OCTOBER 10, 2017
In Lead Yourself First, Raymond Kethledge and Michael Erwin explore how solitude nurtures clarity, creativity, emotional balance, and moral courage.
Strategy+Business
OCTOBER 11, 2017
The end of a run can feel earth-shattering, but economists and statisticians say it often means nothing.
McKinsey
OCTOBER 10, 2017
As machines play an ever more important role in production, companies need smarter and more holistic ways to optimize performance.
Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand
Do you really know your donors? Not just what they give, but who they are? 👥 In this interactive session, we’ll break down how nonprofits can use behavioral indicators (affinity, recency, frequency, and monetary value) to build prospecting segments that go beyond wealth screening and actually align with donor identity. You’ll walk away with practical strategies to move beyond basic demographics and cultivate supporters based on how they already engage with you!
McKinsey
OCTOBER 10, 2017
The US health insurance industry continues to be defined by uncertainty. The 25 articles in this compendium can help health insurers navigate the changes ahead.
McKinsey
OCTOBER 11, 2017
Analysis of exchange premiums indicates that overall prices will continue to increase in 2017. Despite this, some consumers will see their premiums decline given the effect of government subsidies.
McKinsey
OCTOBER 10, 2017
Technology is on manufacturers’ side, but their next challenge is to create tools, infrastructure, and processes that turn rich data into real performance improvement.
McKinsey
OCTOBER 11, 2017
Before setting out toward operational excellence, companies must see where they stand. A good maturity assessment provides more than a set of coordinates: it also maps out the first steps.
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On September 4, 2024, Governor Kathy Hochul signed the Retail Worker Safety Act (S. 8358B/A. 8947C) into law, requiring retail employers in New York to adopt workplace violence prevention policies and implement training programs by March 2025. This webinar will provide a detailed overview of the Act’s requirements, including developing and providing a retail workplace violence prevention policy/plan and delivering annual interactive training to employees.
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