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Leaders Share Support Resources for Times of Crisis: A Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

During this extremely challenging time, it’s so heartwarming to see so many people doing all they can to be helpful. We’ve been so grateful to receive the amazing support resources coming from our Frontline Festival contributors. The array of quality tools and […]. The post Leaders Share Support Resources for Times of Crisis: A Frontline Festival appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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7 Quick and Easy Ways to Prioritize Your Mental health & Wellbeing

Career Advancement

“It’s up to you today to start making healthy choices. Not choices that are just healthy for your body, but healthy for your mind.” ? Steve Maraboli. The spread of COVID-19 has brought dramatic changes upon workplaces around the world. Every day, I’ve been working with my coaching clients to help illuminate the best course of action. While I’ve been sharing a lot of advice on how to lead people remotely and engage in strategic planning, I can’t emphasize the importance of prioritizing your

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How Your Failure Can Benefit You and the World Right Now

On The Job

One of the wonderful things that's happening right now is this "we're all in this together" mentality. But even now, when you fail, you're going to feel very, very alone. No one is going to send you little heart emojis when you fail at work, whether it's being written up for some infraction or even being fired. Nope. When you fail it's often a very lonely thing and there may be very little "I'm in this with you" attitude from your colleagues.

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The coronavirus effect on global economic sentiment

McKinsey

In our latest survey, global executives report a gloomier outlook than one month ago. Two-thirds expect a sizable contraction in the world economy, and a record share predict declining company profits.

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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 Be a Better Leader as Your Responsibilities Scale

Let's Grow Leaders

Transitions in scope and scale are tricky. If you continue to approach your work exactly the same as you did at the last level, you will surely fail. On the other hand, if you abandon all your best characteristics and approaches that […]. The post How to Be a Better Leader as Your Responsibilities Scale appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Beware of Toxic Productivity: Tips for Working While Under Stress

Eat Your Career

For most of us, “productivity” is something positive, desirable, even healthy —especially when it comes to work. But productivity also has a dark side, which I’ve been experiencing more and more recently. Perhaps you have too, but maybe you don’t even realize it. Toxic Productivity is so insidious, it often goes unchecked for long periods. It tends to appear most in times of stress, which we (collectively, as a society) are currently enduring in extreme quantities.

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Leading with purpose: How marketing and sales leaders can shape the next normal

McKinsey

Chief marketing and sales officers have a defining role to play in navigating the current crisis—and in steering their companies’ success in the world that emerges from it.

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10 Ways to Manage Energy and Avoid Leadership Burnout

Let's Grow Leaders

Feeling tired, burned out, or listless? You might just need a good night’s sleep – or you may need to make some changes to how you manage your energy as a leader. In this episode, you’ll get ten ways to manage […]. The post 10 Ways to Manage Energy and Avoid Leadership Burnout appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. Feeling tired, burned out, or listless?

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5 Tips to Prepare Your Organization for the Post Lockdown Period

Vantage Circle

The entire human race is currently going through some of the toughest days since the last world war broke out. What was initially believed to be just regular flu soon turned into a pandemic that jeopardized the standard world order. Economies came tumbling, and people all over the world are losing their jobs as several countries went into a state of lockdown.

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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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Fostering communication in remote collaborations

Addgene

Science is a global endeavor, and that can often mean that scientists who live across the country or around the world from each other are collaborating on projects. When I was a graduate student, I led a collaborative project between my lab in Pennsylvania and a team in Paris, France. While efforts like these accelerate the progress of research, they can also present hurdles for the team of researchers involved.

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Purpose: Shifting from why to how

McKinsey

What is your company’s core reason for being, and where can you have a unique, positive impact on society? Now more than ever, you need good answers to these questions.

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Innovation in Business: 5 Tech Trends to Stay Ahead of the Curve

CMOE

As a new decade dawns, it’s time for businesses to look ahead to new trends. In the area of technology, companies need to employ modern methods of retaining customers and employees. Those enterprises that fall behind face losing business and opportunities to attract new talent. Whether it’s building software systems or changing up how workers execute their daily tasks, organizations need to pay attention to the newest trends in technology.

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5 Easy Ways To Build A Successful Virtual Team

Vantage Circle

If the current pandemic we are facing has taught us anything it’s that people can work together just as well from the safety of their homes. Cue: virtual teams. Virtual teams, popularly referred to as distributed teams or remote teams, are a group of individuals who collaborate together from different locations and time zones by relying on virtual communication tools.

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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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How retailers are preparing for the post-coronavirus recovery

McKinsey

Survey findings suggest that retail executives expect a delayed rebound of traffic once stores reopen, a persistent increase in e-commerce penetration, and changes to store operating models and procedures.

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Safeguarding Europe’s livelihoods: Mitigating the employment impact of COVID-19

McKinsey

The COVID-19 pandemic has put tens of millions of jobs at risk. Examining the industries, occupations, and demographics most in peril can help decision makers shape targeted and rapid responses.

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Finding Africa’s path: Shaping bold solutions to save lives and livelihoods in the COVID-19 crisis

McKinsey

The impact of COVID-19 in Africa could be devastating—unless governments, development institutions, and the private sector act with extraordinary speed and agility in the weeks ahead.

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Getting the next phase of remote learning right in higher education

McKinsey

Because of the coronavirus, American colleges and universities are entering new educational territory. Here are some practical ways to deliver excellence.

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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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The digital-led recovery from COVID-19: Five questions for CEOs

McKinsey

A digital future lies ahead. By acting early and being bold and decisive, CEOs can accelerate their digital transformation and reach the next normal sooner.

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Driving digital change during a crisis: The chief digital officer and COVID-19

McKinsey

Chief digital officers play a crucial role in driving the digital changes needed for their organizations to respond to the crisis and prepare for the next normal.

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Managing a manufacturing plant through the coronavirus crisis

McKinsey

Manufacturers can follow three guiding principles to keep their workers safe while preparing for increased uncertainty and long-lasting changes to the work environment.

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Coronavirus: Industrial IoT in challenging times

McKinsey

The Industrial Internet of Things can help companies navigate the current crisis and emerge stronger once operations ramp up again.

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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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School-system priorities in the age of coronavirus

McKinsey

Now that the immediate rush of closing K–12 schools is over, school systems must focus on four major priorities—and put equity front and center.

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Reimagining medtech for a COVID-19 world

McKinsey

COVID-19 is creating unprecedented challenges for the medtech sector. Companies should consider stress-testing operating models to strengthen crisis resilience and the longer-term path to recovery.

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Developer Velocity: How software excellence fuels business performance

McKinsey

The businesses that are achieving the greatest returns from their software investments are those willing to tackle entrenched cultural and structural barriers.

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Saving our livelihoods from COVID-19: Toward an economic recovery

McKinsey

The pandemic could give rise to a new era of human development. Otherwise, economic and social development may falter for decades.

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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.