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Resourcefulness Matters: How to Help Your Team Be More Resourceful

Let's Grow Leaders

7 Ways to Encourage Your Team to Be More Resourceful. What does it mean to be resourceful? Our favorite definition of resourceful is, “The ability to find quick and clever ways to overcome difficulties.” Quick and clever. Overcome difficulties. Who doesn’t need more of that on their team right now? And yet during times of stress, ambiguity, and change , when you need your team to be THE MOST resourceful, some managers clamp down, insist on the old ways of doing things, and slow

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Buying into a more sustainable value chain

McKinsey

Two-thirds of the average company’s environment, social, and governance footprint lies with suppliers. Procurement leaders who take bold action can make a decisive difference in sustainability.

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7 Photography Logo Styles – Which is Right for Your Photography Business?

crowdspring

Photography is a creative and artistic business. Which of these seven photography logo styles works best for your business?

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100 Amazing Friday Quotes to Get Your Weekend Started

Vantage Circle

If you're here looking for a list of Friday quotes, we know exactly how you feel. If you're anything like me, Fridays look like the light at the end of the tunnel, with violins in the air, flowers blooming, and.well, you get the idea! We all look forward to Friday. After 5 days of absolute hustle, you finally get two days of complete peace. And the happiness of what awaits us after Fridays is the cherry on top.

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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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Inspired to Inspire with Lance Tanaka

Let's Grow Leaders

Leaders who want to inspire others need inspiration themselves. That inspiration is your purpose. Join us for a conversation with former Pepsi Cola and Cole Haan executive Lance Tanaka to learn how you can identify your gifting, find your passion, and build the discipline to take the steps that will help you achieve your dream. Get inspired to inspire in this heartfelt episode.

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Righting the Ship: Building a Process Map for the Costa Concordia Salvage

Think Reliablility

Costa Concordia Salvage Background. In January 2012, the cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground off the coast of Italy. The ship grounding had immediate, catastrophic impacts, including the death of 32 people. In addition, it had an environmental impact, having polluted the water with fuel, sewage and other hazardous materials stored aboard the ship.

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Vantage Circle Partners With Zoho People To Provide An Integrated Platform of Employee Rewards and Recognition

Vantage Circle

Vantage Circle is proud and excited to announce the partnership and integration of the rewards and recognition platform with Zoho People. Zoho People is an online Human Resource Management System that allows you to manage and access all of your employee data in one place. The integration syncs all the data within both platforms and makes management easier than you can imagine.

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How Do You Create Customer Loyalty? (Video with Shep Hyken)

Let's Grow Leaders

Your Most Important Customer Loyalty Metric: Do Your Customers Come Back. In this week’s Asking for a Friend, I talk with Shep Hyken, author of I’ll Be Back , discusses how to build customer loyalty and getting customers to come back again and again. The Basic’s of Customer Loyalty. Karin and Shep talk about how they first met a decade ago while they were both keynoting the International Customer Service Association Conference. 2:40 Shep discusses his current book and the impor

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The rise of digital marketing in medtech

McKinsey

Digital marketing offers medtech companies powerful ways to personalize engagement with healthcare professionals and respond to their changing needs.

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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 Set Boundaries When Working From Home

On The Job

For many employees, working from home is becoming a new reality of their career -- although how much they work remotely can depend on their job, their company and their boss. Yet, no matter how much an employee works from home, there is always the dilemma of how to set boundaries so that work doesn't encroach on family time and vice versa. If you're going to work from home and need some parameters: 1.

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How To Build An Effective Mentorship Program

Vantage Circle

Do you want to build an effective mentorship program at your workplace? If yes, you have come to the right place. This is a comprehensive guide on how to develop a high-impact mentorship program. Here, we’ll cover the following areas of mentorship: Importance and benefits of a mentorship program. The basics of mentorship. Who makes a great mentor and a great mentee?

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How Does Coaching Improve Performance? (Top 5 Benefits)

CMOE

If you’ve read our article on coaching, you understand coaching has two focus areas—performance and development. Here, we will discuss how coaching improves performance and how you can leverage it to drive your team forward. What Is Coaching for Performance? Coaching for performance is a coaching method in which leaders close gaps in their team members’ performance.

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C2C e-commerce: Could a new business model sell more old goods?

McKinsey

Like other e-commerce but with less fanfare, C2C trade has expanded during the COVID-19 crisis alongside demand for recycled goods. A new business model could support still stronger growth.

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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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Moving beyond agile to become a software innovator

McKinsey

Companies need to borrow a page from the tech industry’s playbook to understand how to use agile to build better products and experiences.

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The new marketing model for growth: How CPGs can crack the code

McKinsey

A sophisticated, predictive, and customized new marketing agenda is enabling CPG marketers to fulfill their new growth mandate. Here are the key ingredients.

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How many people are really needed in a transformation?

McKinsey

Deciding how many employees to involve in an organization’s transformation shouldn’t be a guessing game. New research can help.

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A playbook for newly minted private equity portfolio-company CEOs

McKinsey

Unprecedented private equity deal flow means more leaders than ever are stepping into the portfolio-company CEO role. Here’s guidance from the experts on the role’s unique challenges and demands.

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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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A turning point for US auto dealers: The unstoppable electric car

McKinsey

Electric-vehicle sales are surging, transforming every aspect of the business. Our assessment helps US auto dealers prepare for the coming change.

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Four ways pharma companies can make their supply chains more resilient

McKinsey

Pharmaceutical supply chains have become global and complex. With more outsourcing, new modalities, and novel ways to reach patients, it’s critical to ensure that they can withstand shocks.

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Electrifying the bottom line

McKinsey

Electric-vehicle sales are increasing, yet many OEMs are still defining their path toward profitability. Our new report helps automotive leaders improve their EV business strategy.

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How Telkomsel transformed to reach digital-first consumers

McKinsey

A 26-year-old incumbent seized an opportunity to reinvent itself—and attract its next generation of customers.

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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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From fighter pilot to robotics pioneer: An interview with Missy Cummings

McKinsey

One of the US Navy’s first female fighter pilots, the engineering and robotics professor talks about the promise and peril of automation in airplanes and cars, predicting a “very distinct shift away from replacing human reasoning to augmenting human reasoning.”.

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Rebooting customer experience to bring back the magic of travel

McKinsey

The COVID-19 pandemic upended life as we know it, and devastated the travel industry globally. As travel volumes are returning in many parts of the world, customer experience is emerging as the challenge of the recovery.

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Emerging markets leap forward in digital banking innovation and adoption

McKinsey

As consumer use of digital banking accelerates in Asia–Pacific, the region’s emerging markets have become the hub of banking innovation for digital business models.

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Cloud cost-optimization simulator

McKinsey

This cloud cost-optimization simulator details the range of levers that can be used to substantially reduce costs for one illustrative scenario of an application on the cloud.

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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.