Sat.Dec 01, 2018 - Fri.Dec 07, 2018

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How to Develop People When You Don’t Have Time

Let's Grow Leaders

You can’t afford not to develop people – but it doesn’t require hours. Katrina paced back and forth as she described her problems with customer service and employee retention. “I can’t improve either one, but I don’t have time to develop people.” […]. The post How to Develop People When You Don’t Have Time appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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9 Tips to Effectively Manage your Online Reputation

Career Advancement

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”. ~Warren Buffett~. Blake was about to submit his resume for several open positions. As he was Googling, he came across some unsettling articles on how bosses look at candidates’ social media. Before he applied, he decided to make sure his online reputation wasn’t working against him.

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How to Respond to a Demotion

On The Job

Have you ever been demoted? If so, you're not alone. A survey finds that 46 percent of human resource managers say their company has demoted an employee. Most of those demotions hit male professionals and those ages 18 to 34. If you think about it, the first thing you would want to do after being demoted is deliver a significant hand gesture to your boss and walk out the door, possibly kicking a nearby trash can for good measure.

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The new CFO mandate: Prioritize, transform, repeat

McKinsey

Amid a raft of new duties for CFOs, our survey suggests that finance leaders are well positioned to lead the C-suite agenda by championing transformations, digitization, and capability building.

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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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Power Corrupts – How to Avoid Losing Your Leadership Soul

Let's Grow Leaders

Power Corrupts, But Does It Have to Corrupt You? It was a heartfelt question. A young manager approached us after a Winning Well workshop and asked, “I’m not sure I want to be a leader. I keep seeing people get promoted – they […]. The post Power Corrupts – How to Avoid Losing Your Leadership Soul appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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3 Ways the Office Party Can Help Your Career

On The Job

Whether it's an office potluck or a nice dinner at a fancy restaurant, most workplaces have some type of holiday gathering. You may look forward to these events as you sneak extra cookies into your pocket -- or you may dread them and plan to fake a case of malaria to get out of it. (Bad idea. Don't skip the event as no one ever believes such excuses).

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Catalyzing the growth of the impact economy

McKinsey

A mature impact economy would help power economic growth while solving global social and environmental challenges. Here’s what it will take to accelerate the impact economy’s development.

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Why Your Next Deal May Be a Partnership

Strategy+Business

In response to various external and internal pressures, companies are pushing partnerships beyond their traditional limits. A recent PwC analysis of more than a quarter-century of global data shows that the combined number of alliances and joint ventures has increased in the past two years and is at its highest level since the start of the century. And a growing number of these partnerships involve companies in different sectors.

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Role of Business Communication in Employee Engagement

Vantage Circle

Communication is the essence of a human being. Our ability to communicate within ourselves is what distinguishes us from other beings and makes us superior. It naturally plays a huge role in business. Business Communication is the heart and soul of a growing business. In absence of which, there can be no exchange of path-breaking ideas, no strong interpersonal relationship and no intrinsic work motivation.

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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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How to Make & Break Habits

Eat Your Career

Ah, ’tis the season of inspiration , my friends! Every December, I find myself spending a lot of time reflecting on the past year and planning for the new one. As I’ve shared many times before, I am a total geek for goal setting. It makes me feel unbelievably motivated and optimistic about the future. So, this time of year is my “happy place.”.

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Building a tech-enabled ecosystem: An interview with Ping An’s Jessica Tan

McKinsey

A culture of innovation and failing fast drives the Chinese financial conglomerate’s expansion beyond traditional sector boundaries and its early adoption of emerging technologies.

IT 106
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Closing the Culture Gap

Strategy+Business

Are you a leader who is eager to show a commitment to culture, but unsure how to do so? Or do you see other leaders pushing for "culture change" and feel private doubt even while you are outwardly encouraging? Here's how to connect the dots between having high aspirations for culture and making real changes that lead to results.

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Business Communication as a building block of Employee Engagement

Vantage Circle

Communication is the essence of a human being. Our ability to communicate within ourselves is what distinguishes us from other beings and makes us superior. It naturally plays a huge role in business. Business Communication is the heart and soul of a growing business. In absence of which, there can be no exchange of path-breaking ideas, no strong interpersonal relationship and no intrinsic work motivation.

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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 to Make and Break Habits

Eat Your Career

Ah, ’tis the season of inspiration , my friends! Every December, I find myself spending a lot of time reflecting on the past year and planning for the new one. As I’ve shared many times before, I am a total geek for goal setting. It makes me feel unbelievably motivated and optimistic about the future. So, this time of year is my “happy place.”.

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The cloud as catalyst for retail

McKinsey

For retailers, the cloud can do much more than reduce the cost of computing and data storage. To maximize value from cloud, retailers need to prioritize workflows that can best benefit from it. We share six opportunities for leveraging the cloud as a catalyst for accelerating delivery of business results.

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Closing the Culture Gap

Strategy+Business

Are you a leader who is eager to show a commitment to culture, but unsure how to do so? Or do you see other leaders pushing for "culture change" and feel private doubt even while you are outwardly encouraging? Here's how to connect the dots between having high aspirations for culture and making real changes that lead to results.

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Megadeals: How data and analytics can dramatically boost success

McKinsey

Megadeals are tricky and so rare that companies think there’s not enough data to be useful. But the data isn’t as scarce as they think.

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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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Profiling tomorrow’s trendsetting car buyers

McKinsey

Our latest survey offers a glimpse of the customers who will set the pace in the future auto market: young, urban, tech smart, and adept at mobility.

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Zero-based productivity—Organization: Using zero-based principles to forge a purpose-built organization

McKinsey

By redirecting resources and employees to higher-value areas, companies can ensure that organizational structure and spending align with business strategy.

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The future of automated ports

McKinsey

The challenges are significant, but careful planning and implementation can surmount them.

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What it takes to go agile

McKinsey

McKinsey partners offer perspectives on the most crucial elements to become a truly agile organization.

IT 103
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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 Operations 4.0 podcast: Productivity and ‘pilot purgatory’

McKinsey

The value from Operations 4.0 comes from how it unleashes productivity gains across a wide range of measurements. But to achieve those results, businesses must do more than launch pilot after pilot.

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The European public-procurement opportunity: Delivering value in medtech

McKinsey

Value-based procurement is a reality today. To capture the opportunity in today’s European medtech-public-procurement market fully, winners need to adapt to new realities quickly.

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Why Your Next Deal May Be a Partnership

Strategy+Business

In response to various external and internal pressures, companies are pushing partnerships beyond their traditional limits. A recent PwC analysis of more than a quarter-century of global data shows that the combined number of alliances and joint ventures has increased in the past two years and is at its highest level since the start of the century. And a growing number of these partnerships involve companies in different sectors.

IT 30
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Closing the Culture Gap

Strategy+Business

Are you a leader who is eager to show a commitment to culture, but unsure how to do so? Or do you see other leaders pushing for "culture change" and feel private doubt even while you are outwardly encouraging? Here's how to connect the dots between having high aspirations for culture and making real changes that lead to results.

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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.