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3 Leadership Values to Encourage in Every Member of Your Team

Let's Grow Leaders

Help your team be more compassionate, courageous, and curious. During difficult times, what leadership values matter most? We’ve been asking this question of the leaders we work with around the world. Consistently, compassion, courage, and curiosity continue to top the list, closely followed by flexibility and authenticity. In fact, in our recent LinkedIn poll, 61% said “compassion” was most the most critical leadership value this year.

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How to Learn if Your Resume is Memorable

On The Job

How memorable is your resume? It might take a stranger to truly reveal that answer. Ask someone you don't know to review your resume, either online or in a printed format. Let them review it for less than 10 seconds, then take the resume back and ask: "What do you know about me?" It's often said that hiring managers don't give more than six or seven seconds to review your resume, so this test is a good way to gauge what is memorable about you.

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The gradual production of thoughts when speaking?

Creative Companion

Happy Epiphany 2022 Like every year, the sixth of January is the moment to wish you all the best for the new year. The sixth of January is Epiphany day – the 12th and last day of Christmas.

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The role of ESG and purpose

McKinsey

Answering three questions about purpose and environmental, social, and governance issues can help business leaders zero in on what matters most for their organizations.

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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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3 Overused Strengths that Will Limit Your Leadership

Let's Grow Leaders

oYou work hard to set a positive example for your team. You care about success, and you want your people to succeed. You’ve clarified what matters most and you’re committed to accountability. You’re intentional about your culture. But somehow, your leadership presence isn’t working. You don’t have the connection or influence you hope for. Committed, caring, hard-working leaders often find one or more of three overused strengths interfere with their influence.

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The Benefits of Promoting Gender Diversity in Leadership

Harvard Professional Development

The key to achieving gender diversity at all levels of an organization is to ensure the success of women leaders in the earliest stages of their management career. The corporate world has made progress improving gender diversity and bringing an increasing number of women into leadership roles at the executive and C-suite level. As of McKinsey’s 2018 Women in the Workplace report, women comprise 19 percent of executive leadership positions. .

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The road to affordable autonomous mobility

McKinsey

Robo-taxis promise affordable mobility. But with widely varying service costs across use cases and geography, providers must address operational and service issues to realize that promise.

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Asking for a Friend 2021 Video Highlights (Part 1)

Let's Grow Leaders

Asking for a Friend: How do I Lead Well Through Uncertainty? Thanks to all of you who have joined our Asking for a Friend community this year! I’m so grateful for all the authors, executives and all of you human-centered leaders joining the conversation. So many great insights about the future of work and leading well through times of uncertainty and change. .

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Exploring Key Performance Indicators (KPIs): Why You Need Them & How to Define Them

Eat Your Career

As a professional, you have almost certainly heard of Key Performance Indicators —the quantifiable metrics that prove whether or not you’re performing successfully within your role. While the terminology is commonly used in the working world, it is not well understood. For many roles, KPIs are vague or (even worse) completely undefined. Without clear, agreed upon KPIs, your chances of success are greatly diminished.

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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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Zeroing In On Your Profit Zone

Eure Consulting

We interrupt our regularly scheduled Competencies programming to introduce you to a new program we’re offering. It’s called the Profit Zone. In most organizations, less than 10 percent of the staff really understand how the company makes and keeps money. Employees choose to be employees and not entrepreneurs because they want the certainty of a paycheck.

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The unsolved opportunities for cybersecurity providers

McKinsey

With sophisticated cyberthreats on the rise, organizations must continue evolving by using novel strategies and technology. For cybersecurity providers, the challenges and opportunities are numerous.

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How To Retain Your Employees During The Great Resignation?

Vantage Circle

This podcast is about The Great Resignation, also known as The Big Quit, and The Great Opt Out. Everything started in early 2021, and much has already been said and written about it. Some argue that the only way to develop is to opt out for better things. In contrast, others say that the mass exit is harmful and permanent. So, what is the current state of affairs in the workplace?

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3 Tools to Evaluate the Past Year of Your Career Effectively

Create Your Career Path

And just as quickly as it started, 2021 has ended. Before implementing your goals for the new year, we recommend taking some time to evaluate how 2021 went for you career-wise. Reflecting on where you wanted to be at the end of the year and where you actually are in your career at the end of the year can help you set more effective goals for 2022. We understand that evaluating your career in the midst of so many continued changes and abnormalities can be difficult.

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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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We are at our most creative just before we fall asleep, scientists say

World Economic Forum

Scientists in Paris say their experiment shows that sleep is vital to our creative performance, a strategy previously discovered by scientist Thomas Edison.

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The Fourth Industrial Revolution will be people powered

McKinsey

Companies at the forefront of the technology frontier are empowering their workers with digital technologies—and the skills they need to use them.

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Top 10 New Year Gift Ideas To Show Appreciation To Employees

Vantage Circle

A lot has changed in the corporate world over the years, but one thing that hasn't is the concept of corporate gifting. As we approach the new year, put on your thinking caps and come up with some meaningful new year gift ideas to show your appreciation for your employees. So, here are some of the best new year gift ideas for your employees that speak volumes about how much you value their contributions. 1.

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3 Tools to Evaluate the Past Year of Your Career Effectively

Create Your Career Path

And just as quickly as it started, 2021 has ended. Before implementing your goals for the new year, we recommend taking some time to evaluate how 2021 went for you career-wise. Reflecting on where you wanted to be at the end of the year and where you actually are in your career at the end of the year can help you set more effective goals for 2022. We understand that evaluating your career in the midst of so many continued changes and abnormalities can be difficult.

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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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Developing A Flexible Business Strategy

CMOE

Successful businesses certainly offer a product or service that their customers need, but they also have one other feature: the ability to adapt to an ever-changing business market and customer demands. Being able to quickly adapt operations to these changes is an important part of any highly successful business strategy. Having an idea or two on how to react to change isn’t enough; to guide the direction and support the success of their business, leaders must put forth a solid, flexible strateg

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How medtech companies can create value with new-business building

McKinsey

Medtech industry senior executives recently convened to discuss new-business building. Their experiences illuminate what it can do for companies, why it’s so difficult, and how to get it right.

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How to Track Employee Training Using LMS Reports

Vantage Circle

Being an important company-wide project, employee training should be taken seriously from beginning to end. Tracking learner results helps you see how training is going and evaluate it in hard numbers. Moreover, such a data-driven approach allows you to estimate the ROI and demonstrate the training output to higher management. No less importantly, if you track employee training , you can get a sense of employee learning needs.

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Connecting employee health and wealth: Interview with CXA Group’s CEO

McKinsey

Rosaline Chow Koo breaks down how CXA Group is working to make group insurance more profitable while simultaneously improving employees’ health and financial well-being.

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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 state of burnout for women in the workplace

McKinsey

Women are doing more to support employee well-being but face higher stress levels as a result. Here’s how leaders can help.

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Going all in: How one insurer updated its technology stack

McKinsey

Enrique Laso of MAPFRE USA discusses the insurer’s decision to undertake a massive modernization effort and how it successfully managed this change while meeting its technical objectives.

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Capturing the battery value-chain opportunity

McKinsey

Companies and governments must move quickly to gain a foothold in the fast-growing battery market for electric vehicles.

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Putting stakeholder capitalism into practice

McKinsey

What does it mean to embrace stakeholder capitalism? Two experts explain the rationale and the steps.

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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.