Let's Grow Leaders
SEPTEMBER 27, 2018
Your team’s rightfully discouraged and a little stymied. Their negativity is rooted in facts. The truth is, you’re frustrated too. The struggle is real. So as a leader, how can you stay positive without looking out of touch? How do you harness […]. The post A Powerful, Proven Technique for Overcoming Negativity at Work appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Career Advancement
SEPTEMBER 24, 2018
“Turn off your email; turn off your phone; disconnect from the Internet; figure out a way to set limits so you can concentrate when you need to, and disengage when you need to. Technology is a good servant but a bad master.”. ~Gretchen Rubin~. Vincent found himself obsessively scanning email when he was trying to focus on other tasks. Incoming communications were dominating his focus.
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On The Job
SEPTEMBER 24, 2018
No one sets out to fail in a job, but it can happen if you don’t take some time to establish good habits from your first day in a new position. Whether it’s your first job or your fifth, there are ways to ensure that your career stays on track and you don’t do things that annoy the boss and your colleagues. If you want to know how to succeed in your career, then you need to: 1.
McKinsey
SEPTEMBER 22, 2018
Plastics waste is hurting the chemical industry as well as the environment. By taking the lead on recycling, chemical players could add a new dimension to the industry and help solve the problem.
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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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Let's Grow Leaders
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
Don’t Accept that New Job Until You Ask These Important Questions You’re looking for a great place to work; with people you admire and where jerks don’t survive. A place where you can get results, without losing your soul. A great place […]. The post A Practical Guide to Finding a Great Place to Work appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Professional Development Brief brings together the best content for development professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Strategy+Business
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
Grupo RBS CEO Eduardo Sirotsky Melzer has a message for high-tech, middle-market companies in emerging economies: This could be their moment. Since 2011, he has been leading a Brazilian investment firm, EB Capital, which advises startups on how to get past the hurdle of medium-size scale and become large. In this way, he says, he is creating a new generation of business leaders in Brazil.
McKinsey
SEPTEMBER 28, 2018
In this interview, Tamim Saleh cuts through the hype around artificial intelligence with guidance for executives about where and how to employ AI in their businesses.
Eat Your Career
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
This is a guest post contributed by Eleanor Whitney, editor of All Hands , a publication about life at work from Managed by Q. These days, design inspiration is everywhere. As we scroll through Instagram, admiring like-worthy workspaces and decor details, it’s easy to look around our own spaces and think about how we could adjust the decor or maybe even knock down a wall to open up the space and get more natural light.
Vantage Circle
SEPTEMBER 28, 2018
Employee Motivation is crucial to your organization. It is the root from which stems both the progress and the downfall of your company. Employee Motivation can be defined as the attitude employees have towards their work. It is the desire and energy that makes people continually interested and committed to a job. It is what drives them, pushes them or “motivates” them to achieve or even show up at work every day.
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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.
Strategy+Business
SEPTEMBER 26, 2018
What can be done when business and society marginalize those with cognitive decline?
McKinsey
SEPTEMBER 28, 2018
Respondents express declining optimism on the economy, especially in emerging markets. The United States gains more attention as a destination for new business opportunities.
Penelope Trunk
SEPTEMBER 26, 2018
I woke up on August 12th and my Twitter account was stolen. This is not a small account. I have 130,000 followers. Is it too optimistic to use the present tense? I’m not sure, because there is still a picture of a cat in the spot that should be me. I remember the early days of Twitter. Someone emailed me ten million times to ask me if I wanted a verified account.
Vantage Circle
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
Digitizing your recruitment process will help you stay competitive in the job market and recruit the best candidates. It will also make your life much easier! So what are you waiting for? It’s time to digitize your recruitment process! Why do you need to digitize your recruitment process? We live in a digital world where everything is available at the touch of a screen.
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!
Strategy+Business
SEPTEMBER 27, 2018
They focus on the individual, not the system.
McKinsey
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
Despite their best intentions, executives fall prey to cognitive and organizational biases that get in the way of good decision making. In this series, we highlight some of them and offer effective ways to respond. Our topic this time?
Penelope Trunk
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
I can’t stop reading about Judge Kavanaugh. I am learning so much about how the world works. His yearbook from high school is horrifying. There were derogatory jokes about women throughout the pages. Everyone knew, but the boys were rich, and they were going to top colleges, so it was okay. I didn’t know there were yearbooks like that. I knew that in those rich-kid private schools the teachers decide who goes to which school.
McKinsey
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
Cyber programs often miss the significant portion of risk generated by employees, and current tools are blunt instruments. A new method can yield better results.
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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.
McKinsey
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
Manufacturing digitization could boost heavy-industry profit margins by three to five points—but only if people can make the new technologies work at scale. The first article in a new series looks at the opportunity and the sector’s progress.
McKinsey
SEPTEMBER 28, 2018
Three practices can help differentiate successful companies from those that struggle to gain traction.
McKinsey
SEPTEMBER 26, 2018
Despite great promise in digital advancements, many companies are struggling to embrace tech-enabled transformation. Mining players need to rev three engines to tap into the true potential.
McKinsey
SEPTEMBER 22, 2018
Prime Day has emerged as a mammoth shopping event. But surprising insights are reshaping the retail sector.
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.
McKinsey
SEPTEMBER 28, 2018
An executive explains how the pay-TV company saved money and pleased customers by designing hardware for repair and reuse.
McKinsey
SEPTEMBER 22, 2018
In mergers, a traditional one-size-fits-all approach for procurement synergies takes too long and leaves too much money on the table. To deliver more value sooner, match the levers you use to the deal archetype.
McKinsey
SEPTEMBER 26, 2018
A compelling mash-up of analytics, data, and talent management is showing companies where HR misses the mark. .
McKinsey
SEPTEMBER 22, 2018
The best emerging-market firms are more competitive than firms in advanced economies including the United States and the United Kingdom, write Jonathan Woetzel, Anu Madgavkar and James Manyika in Harvard Business Review.
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.
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