2021

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The 5 Most Important and Critical Skills for Jobs of the Future

Career Advancement

“Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time and energy needed to develop yourself.” – Denis Waitley. According to the World Economic Forum, five years from now, over one-third of the skills that are important on the job today will have become irrelevant.

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3 Keys to Developing a Successful Career

On The Job

In an ideal world, a boss recognizes your talents and helps you develop them so that your career blossoms. But in the real world, bosses are stressed and overworked and may not have a lot of time to look out for your career.

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How to Give Difficult Feedback to Your Boss (Even When You’re Scared)

Let's Grow Leaders

To Ensure Your Upward Feedback is Received Well, Start with Connection and Intention. You have some difficult feedback for your boss, but you’re not quite sure they’re ready to hear it. It might feel safer to stay silent.

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Top 30 Employee Retention Strategies for the "New" Work World!

Thadoi Devi

Retain your best employees with these Top 30 Employee Retention Strategies and build a positive work atmosphere to promote engagement

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Dean Simonton || The Science of Genius

Scott Barry Kaufman

Today it’s great to have Dean Keith Simonton on the podcast. Dean is distinguished professor emeritus of psychology at the University of California Davis. His well over 500 single author publications focus on topics such as genius, creativity, aesthetics, and leadership.

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How to run a successful brainstorming session

Creativity at Work

How to run a successful brainstorming sessionHow to run a successful brainstorming session and avoid the traps that cause brainstorming to fail This step-by-step guide will help you navigate the creative process and provide some structure to brainstorming.

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The Ownership Mindset: An Essential Ingredient for Career Success

Eat Your Career

“Your company owns your job. You own your career.” Earl Nightingale. In my training programs, I cite the above quote more than any other…and for good reason!

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What we learned from 9/11 about quitting work after life-altering events

Penelope Trunk

A majority of people in the US are considering quitting their jobs right now according to the New York Times. This is obvious to me because in the months after the towers fell, my world was my recovery support groups — and in my groups, the conversations were all about who is going back to work.

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10 Productivity Tips for Working from Home

CMOE

COVID-19 has drastically affected our daily lives. Many people have lost their jobs, and the health of the global economy has plummeted. We need to be able to work to pay our bills, to send our kids to school, and to buy food, medicine, and other necessities.

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Transformational Coaching Techniques You Need to Know

Universal Coach Institute

Are you ready to help others discover their untapped potential that’s waiting to be unleashed? If so, I’m going to clarify the transformational coaching techniques you need to know to make that happen. What is Transformational Coaching?

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How to Become Your Boss’s Favorite Employee

Career Advancement

“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.” ” – Andrew Carnegie.

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How to Say "No" at Work

On The Job

Do you find it difficult to say "no"? You may find it easy to say "no" to brussels sprouts, but much tougher to say "no" to a work colleague who seems to want your help with something that doesn't sound entirely ethical or may violate company policy.

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The Blight of Soul-Crushing Useless Negative Feedback

Let's Grow Leaders

Don’t let useless negative feedback sap your team’s motivation. Negative feedback is destructive and all-too-common. There are three common problems that erode the power of these conversations. . My phone buzzed with a text message from Amena, a junior manager.

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8 Ways To Celebrate Women's Equality Day

Vantage Circle

It's not easy to be a woman nowadays. We may have come a long way from repressing women's rights, but we are still a patriarchal society in general. It makes the occasion of celebrating Women's Equality Day on August 26 more vital than ever.

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Ed Catmull || The Soul of Pixar

Scott Barry Kaufman

Today it’s great to chat with Ed Catmull. Ed is the co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios and former president of Pixar Animation and Disney Animation. He has been honored with five Academy Awards, including the Gordon E. Sawyer Award for lifetime achievement in the field of computer graphics.

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How to Turn Obstacles Into Opportunities

Creativity at Work

How to Turn Obstacles Into OpportunitiesBuild your creative resilience capabilities We see the world through pre-existing frames and these frames help us interpret reality. Frames provide a focus, but they can also limit our thinking.

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How to Deal with Employment Gaps in Your Resume

Eat Your Career

This video is an excerpt from a live Q&A session with Chrissy Scivicque, Career Coach & Corporate Trainer. The full video is available in the Career Success Library. A participant in our recent Q&A session asked: “CVs (or resumes) are often rejected by recruiters for having career gaps.

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The Evolution : 5 Questions to Ask Yourself Now About Work Life

Marla Gottschalk

Photo by Ruslan Burlaka on Pexels.com. Living through history has again challenged us in ways that we could never have anticipated. It has forced decisions we never thought we would have to make, brought moments of both fear & relief and decidedly rearranged us as people.

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Gender fluidity and Autism open gates of power for women

Penelope Trunk

James Maher Photography. US scientists are scared to talk about differences between male and female brains , probably because it will get them fired. The loudest voices say there cannot be male and female brains because there are women and men who think in similar ways.

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How to Increase Collaboration at Work: 4 Useful Steps

CMOE

Successful organizations are those that foster a collaborative work culture, but fully 86 percent of leaders and team members believe a lack of teamwork leads to project failure and team conflict. Collaboration is crucial to your team’s success but how can you increase collaboration at work?

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The Coaching Process: 4 Steps of Coaching that Gets Results [+ Video]

Universal Coach Institute

There are many coaching models, frameworks, and concepts that coaches can use when working with clients. However, to get clients results, there is a 4-step coaching process that must be included. In this post, I will share the 4 coaching steps to implement in your next session.

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How Can You Further Develop Your Talent? 7 Key Steps

Career Advancement

“Before you become a leader, success is all about growing yourself. After you become a leader, success is about growing others.” – Jack Welch. Research has shown that as leaders rise up in the ranks , their proficiency in nurturing talent declines rather than increases.

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How to Get Off on the Right Foot When Starting a New Job

On The Job

If you've just gotten a new job, congratulations! A lot of people are starting new positions, and that's something to celebrate. But before you think you've got it made, remember that your "interview" process continues after you begin the job.

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How to Deal with Team Conflict

Let's Grow Leaders

Handling team conflict well distinguishes outstanding leaders. You’ve got a clear focus on what matters most, your team seems to work well together, but then you get that call: “I need to talk to you about…” It’s conflict, a disagreement, or a clash of personalities.

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7 Prominent Leadership Trends For Companies in 2021

Vantage Circle

2020 has been a year of change. A change that nobody envisioned. The second quarter of 2020 had the business leaders strategize and implement new policies that can help the company sustain amidst the pandemic.

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Author Talks: How to interrupt bias in the workplace

McKinsey

Companies spend billions of dollars annually on diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, but the results are few. Using basic tools to interrupt bias can help. McKinsey on Books

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Book Review: Creative Acts for Curious People

Creativity at Work

Book Review: Creative Acts for Curious PeopleCreative Acts for Curious People includes more than eighty assignments that take you deeper into the famed d.School approach to design thinking.

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Looking for a Promotion? 3 Ways Managers Evaluate You

Eat Your Career

This video is an excerpt from a live training session with Chrissy Scivicque, Career Coach & Corporate Trainer. The full video (“Get that Promotion! Strategies for Career Advancement”) is available in the Career Success Library. The article below summarizes the video content.

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First Jobs & Core Stability: My Advice to 2021 College Grads

Marla Gottschalk

taiscapture@unsplash. I can only think of a handful of moments that would have been a more challenging time to enter the world of work. The economic of crisis of 2008 quickly comes to mind.)

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How to find a new career

Penelope Trunk

I’m carrying water from the spigot at Northeastern’s playing field across the street and through the park to the garden I planted, probably illegally. I used to think of myself as a community activist.

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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: The Competitive Edge

CMOE

The Importance of Diversity in the Workplace. In today’s marketplace, one of the most relevant factors in gaining a competitive advantage is probably not listed among the business-success factors you learned years ago. That key factor is diversity, and it’s too-often overlooked.

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16 Ways to Make Money as a Life Coach

Universal Coach Institute

The personal development industry is worth $9.9 billion and growing. Life coaching services are one segment of the personal development industry. The coaching industry is worth $2.489 billion as of 2019. Marketdata estimates the total market is forecast to grow at a 5.4%

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4 Tips for Improving Work/Life Balance

Career Advancement

“We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.” ” ~ Arianna Huffington.

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How to Become an Innovative Leader

On The Job

Anyone hoping to move up the leadership ranks better put "innovative" at the top of their resume.

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How to Accidentally Sabotage Team Innovation

Let's Grow Leaders

How to Inspire Better Team Innovation and Problem Solving It’s tragic when your attempt to protect your team members actually sabotages team innovation. If you really want a courageous culture, that means you go first. Your team is watching both what you […].

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Diversity and Inclusion Trends to Look Out for in 2021

Vantage Circle

In recent years, employers and business leaders around the world have been trying to predict the diversity and inclusion trends that will impact their work cultures the most.

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Building value-chain resilience with AI

McKinsey

Value chains are facing increased uncertainty. A threefold approach underpinned by artificial intelligence can help companies adapt to rapidly changing markets and operational challenges. Metals & Mining Insights Engineering & Construction Mining