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How To Speak Up in Meetings (A Video For if You’re Feeling Unsure)

Let's Grow Leaders

Techniques to Speak Up in Meetings and Ensure Your Voice is Heard. “Hey Karin, I just had my 360 Feedback review, and I heard I should speak up more in meetings. But it’s hard. How do I get better at this?” #AskingForaFriend. 4 Ways to Speak Up More in Meetings. This question came in from a really good friend of mine, whom I’ve known for over 30 years.

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Working Moms Should Feel Good About Their Choices

On The Job

Being a working mother is no cakewalk. The multitasking and juggling required to raise children — with or without a partner — while also maintaining a career can be daunting at times. But perhaps one of the most challenging aspects for some women is their guilt when others criticize them for working instead of devoting themselves full-time to their children.

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Stress Reduction Techniques

Career Advancement

“Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.”. ~Marilu Henner. Client Elias asks: I feel like my work performance is being compromised by stress. And carrying all that stress is exhausting—sooner or later, I feel like I’m just going to collapse.

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Tech-driven insurers: How to thrive in 2030

McKinsey

Insurance operating models are on the verge of a fundamental change. To thrive in 2030, insurers must commit to a specific role and take action now to secure the tech capabilities they need.

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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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Fiercely Loyal with Dov Baron

Let's Grow Leaders

The world has changed, and so has everything we know about becoming and remaining an effective leader particularly when it comes to keeping your top talent! The effective leaders of tomorrow will do one thing: keep their top talent. In this episode, Dov Baron lays out the strategies for not only keeping your top talent but how to have them become Fiercely Loyal.

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The Science of Logo Design: How to Choose an Effective Logo for Your Business

crowdspring

Your company logo is important. Here are 4 best practices and scientific insights to help you choose an effective logo for your business.

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What the draft European Union AI regulations mean for business

McKinsey

Proposed EU rules are just one more step toward global AI regulation. Here’s how smart organizations are preparing for compliance—and managing AI risk.

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How Do I Gain Respect When My Team Doesn’t Like Me?

Let's Grow Leaders

Use This Approach to Gain Respect and the Influence You Need. Of course, leadership is not about being liked. But it sucks to go to work every day when you know your team would rather be working for someone else. Plus, if your team doesn’t respect you, you’re not going to have the influence you need to make an impact. So, how do you gain respect, when your team’s just not there?

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Jobs Of The Future: Key Trends To Expect

Vantage Circle

If you're just starting out in the workforce, you might have already realized that there are multiple choices out there in each profession! And moving forward, these choices are going to expand. Of course, people and machines will have to collaborate effectively in the future of work to accomplish tasks that neither can perform alone. What new jobs are going to be produced in the future that isn’t now available?

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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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Phoenix Soleymani Ashtiani, “Second Self” Coach

Coach Training World

The post Phoenix Soleymani Ashtiani, “Second Self” Coach appeared first on Coach Training World.

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Four executives on the future of insurance distribution

McKinsey

Four insurance executives from around the globe weigh in on how distribution is changing, both in the wake of the pandemic and more broadly as customer and agent needs and expectations evolve.

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How to Calculate ROI of Remote vs. In-Person Work? (How to Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

Calculate ROI For a More Strategic Transition to Remote Teams. Your finance team did a bit of quick math to calculate ROI for making the transition to remote teams permanent based on real-estate savings and reduced communite times. But, you know it’s more complicated than that. So how do you take a more comprehensive approach to measuring the ROI?

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18 Hilarious Quotes From The Office That You Will Love

Vantage Circle

It’s been eight years since the last episode of The Office was aired. But its iconic dialogues will always be evergreen! Here, it seems fitting that every workplace should have some of the best quotes from The Office plastered all over the place. Whether Creed Bratton’s fake death or Kelly’s never-ending one-sided conversation, fans will agree that they can never get bored with the show.

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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 Will You Develop A New Product

Big Rocks Engineering

The decision to develop a new product can be an extremely difficult process for many businesses. Many sectors have failed with the failure rate reaching as high as 90%. Truthfully, there is really no secret to developing winning products. Follow these steps to perfect your product development process: 1. Generate and Screen Ideas Idea generation […].

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Organizing for sustainability success: Where, and how, leaders can start

McKinsey

As sustainability becomes more of a strategic and operational imperative, executives must lead the way to set up a sustainability organization that’s right for their companies.

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Ready to Redesign Your Career on Your Terms?

Rachel B. Garrett

As you may remember, earlier this year, I launched my first official group program. It was a huge milestone for me and all the women who joined me on the journey. And if you’re a long-time reader, you also know that in my first five years of business, I focused exclusively on 1:1 coaching. I loved ( and still love ) the intimacy, the connection, the magic that happens when my intuition tips me off to ask just the right question, unlocking new insight into how my client can make her way through t

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All About Leadership Theories (2021)

Vantage Circle

Leadership theories are based on different ways of thinking. Some focus on traits and qualities, while some emphasize the importance of situational aspects that influence effective leaders. The human side of the business is one of the most important elements that determine the success and failure of an organization. Leadership will always remain the most valuable skill in the business world.

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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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Defying cost volatility: A strategic pricing response

McKinsey

While input cost increases and volatility are challenging, they present an opportunity to improve pricing and institutionalize best practices—but margins will likely suffer if these are not executed in a strategic way.

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Revenue Growth Management: The Time is Now

McKinsey

Market challenges and legacy decisions are forcing consumer-packaged-goods companies to rethink their strategies for revenue growth management. Marketing & Sales Insights Growth Pricing Customer experience & loyalty

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An ecosystem of partners: The foundation of capital project excellence

McKinsey

To deliver large capital projects in heavy industry more efficiently, project owners can consider forming an ecosystem of partners and fundamentally rethinking ways of working together.

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Can companies build on their digital surge?

McKinsey

Many businesses have boosted digital sales in the pandemic, but it will take a new commitment to speed to keep up with the digital leaders.

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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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The future of payments in the Middle East

McKinsey

As cash transactions give way to digital, what changes can the region’s banks and payments providers expect to see in the next few years?

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Preparing for the flood: How packaging companies can catch the postpandemic wave of new product launches

McKinsey

As the world emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, we anticipate a significant increase in new product launches driven by changing megatrends. Five strategic areas of focus can help packaging companies position themselves for success.

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Five-star growth: Using online ratings to design better products

McKinsey

New research shows that small changes in star ratings can drive explosive growth for products—on the order of 30 to 200 percent depending on category. Driving those changes at scale requires a novel approach.

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EV fluids: Say goodbye to the oil change

McKinsey

With the rise of electric vehicles, the massive combustion engine fluids market will slowly begin to evaporate. Here’s what will replace it.

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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.