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How to Hold a Better Performance Improvement Conversation

Let's Grow Leaders

Has this ever happened to you? You sit down for an earnest performance improvement conversation. Your employee listens intently. She thanks you for the feedback, and promises to try harder. Things improve for a minute. But a week later, they’re back to […]. The post How to Hold a Better Performance Improvement Conversation appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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6 Essential Skills for Future Leaders

Career Advancement

“Time and time again, our species has escaped existential threats by reinventing ourselves, finding new skills not coded in our genes to survive new challenges not previously encountered.” – David Grinspoon. If you’re concerned about whether you have the right skillset to navigate the business world throughout the coming years, you’re actually ahead of the pack.

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4 Steps to Achieving Career Goals During a Pandemic

On The Job

During the pandemic, your career goals may have withered a bit. At this point, you're just trying to keep your job and cope with everything life has thrown at you. But it's not a good idea to just forget about your career goals, and in fact, you can take this time to think more deeply about what you really want and how to go about getting it. Consider: 1.

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This way out: How leading companies chart a full-potential COVID-Exit

McKinsey

Half measures and incrementalism won’t work when your company emerges from a crisis. Here’s how leading organizations are thinking about holistic transformation to go all in.

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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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Strategic Planning Tool: How to Engage Your Team in Better Conversation

Let's Grow Leaders

If you’re like many leaders we talk with, you’ve been on such a fast pivot this year, you may not have had all the strategic planning time you’d hoped for. Or, your business has changed so much, it’s the perfect time to […]. The post Strategic Planning Tool: How to Engage Your Team in Better Conversation appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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On your inner strength

Darius Foroux

The other day I was thinking, “What a wasted year.

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Emerging stronger, fitter, faster: The rise of the Asian corporation

McKinsey

Leading CEOs in Asia explain how COVID-19 has accelerated five business trends in the region and why they’re confident that unprecedented opportunities lie ahead.

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Overcoming Adversity – Interview with Jason Redman

Let's Grow Leaders

Whether affected by the pandemic or some other unforeseen and monumental setback, to lead, you have to find a way to move beyond anger, guilt, emptiness or pain. It’s not only possible to overcome adversity, but it’s imperative. In this episode, retired […]. The post Overcoming Adversity – Interview with Jason Redman appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Adults changing careers should follow advice for students applying to college 

Penelope Trunk

The number of high school seniors applying to MIT this year is 60% above last year. That means there are 12,000 more applicants. Harvard’s applications are up 30%. Duke is up 20%. Most Ivy League schools are up 20% at least. What does this mean? First, it means that your chances of getting into MIT are so close to 0% that you probably need a degree from MIT to figure out the number.

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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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Transformational Leadership, Its Four Elements, And Characteristics

Vantage Circle

What is Transformational Leadership? Transformational leadership is the leadership style where the leaders inspire, motivate employees to build a creative work culture and that is ready to respond to any uncertainty with innovation and courage. Transformational leaders believe in agility and transform their work processes from time to time to grow and shape their future.

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The committed innovator: An interview with Anjali Sud, CEO of Vimeo

McKinsey

When a marketing executive discovered an unexpected market opportunity, she disrupted the company’s original business—and became CEO in the process.

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The 7 Biggest Packaging Design Trends For 2021

crowdspring

Here are the 7 biggest 2021 packaging design trends that are powerful, relevant, and easily adapted for any business.

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How to Avoid Information Overload in Your L&D Programs

CMOE

The quantity of information delivered during a Leadership & Development (L&D) program can be overwhelming to learners. There is often so much to say and the time organizations can afford to spend on training tends to be limited. So how can you avoid information overload when designing your L&D program ? How can you ensure that your team will learn the crucial points of your training sessions and be able to apply them to their jobs post-session?

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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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5 Ways to Encourage Team Spirit

Vantage Circle

You might have watched football matches and seen how two teams battle to win. One group performs better than the other because they trust each other and have faith in their capabilities and skill level. There is a firm belief that every individual will play their respective role which will pave their way to success with the right team spirit. On the contrary, if the teams did not have any team spirit, they might have played just for its sake and not to provide positive results.

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From no mobility to future mobility: Where COVID-19 has accelerated change

McKinsey

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted mobility, and its effects will linger well into next year. How will changing consumer preferences, technologies, and regulations shape the market in 2021?

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The future of sustainable fashion

McKinsey

Consumers will increasingly expect—and demand—an emphasis on sustainability from fashion brands. Circular business models won’t be optional.

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Ensuring high service levels to meet high consumer-demand volatility

McKinsey

The pandemic continues to shift consumer demand as CPG companies scramble to adjust. Six best practices can enhance the supply chain now while positioning companies for long-term success.

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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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North American asset management: A year of shocks but few surprises

McKinsey

The events of 2020 shook the industry, but a rebound followed. Forward-looking firms will now take stock of what has changed and what has not in a new operating environment.

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Growth and prosperity: A conversation with economist Dambisa Moyo

McKinsey

From stronger public- and private-sector collaborations to broader corporate-board intentions, the time for stakeholder capitalism may be upon us.

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Twenty images that offer a lens on 2020

McKinsey

McKinsey designers highlight the photos and illustrations that helped us tell the visual story of a remarkable year.

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Is luxury resale the future of fashion?

McKinsey

Consumers will increasingly shun cheap clothes and favor preowned designer goods instead, predicts Max Bittner, the CEO of resale platform Vestiaire Collective.

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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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‘Keep it simple’: Aditya Puri on HDFC Bank’s path to market leadership

McKinsey

The recently retired founder–CEO of India’s highest-valued financial institution reflects on how customer-focused innovation and disciplined risk management led to strong performance.

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The resilience imperative for medtech supply chains

McKinsey

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted issues with supply chains around the world. As medtech companies prepare for the next normal, they have a mandate to rebuild their supply chains with resilience as a new priority.

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COVID-19 vaccines meet 100 million uncertain Americans

McKinsey

More than 100 million Americans are uncertain about vaccination. Public- and private-sector leaders can take action to support adoption, including incremental investment in the range of $10 billion.

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Digital performance management: From the front line to the bottom line

McKinsey

Industry 4.0 technologies let manufacturers integrate top-down performance management and bottom-up problem solving into business-as-usual routines—without replacing their current systems. The result? A virtuous cycle of improvement. .

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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.