February, 2013

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When Your Inner Voice Grabs the Mic

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As leaders… self-talk is important. We must listen to our inner voice. But what if our inner voice gets scared…and wants to grab the mic? What if our inner voice wants too much affirmation? What if our inner voice needs excessive feedback? Can an extraverted inner voice get in the way? Loud Inner Voices Why [.] The post When Your Inner Voice Grabs the Mic appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Yahoo kills telecommuting. Three cheers for Marissa Mayer!

Penelope Trunk

Thank goodness someone finally had the courage to stand up and say that telecommuting is officially banned. Because telecommuting has been implicitly banned for a long time in Silicon Valley, but only Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has the courage to say it , point blank , without apology. And her honesty is going to help all of us. Telecommuting has been dead for a while.

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What Does Your Workspace Say About You?

Eat Your Career

Some of you aren’t going to like this article. I can hear you now: “Chrissy, who cares that my desk looks like a tornado hit it? I can find everything I need and that’s all that matters.”. I’ve got a sobering newsflash, my friend. Brace yourself. My response to that argument? Nope. Wrong. Not true. That’s not all that matters. Organization is as much about others as it is about you.

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Create!: The speakers in Session 6 at TED2013

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Once you dream , you have to do. The speakers in Session 6 have spent their careers giving form to ideas. They are makers, builders, artists and implementers — all with fascinating ideas about what it means to be a creative person. The speakers who appeared in this session. Click on their name to read a full recap of their talk: In his film “Mars et Avril,” Martin Villeneuve brings his sci-fi romance graphic novel to glorious life.

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The Ultimate Guide to Marketing Your Training Program

Learning how to promote your training courses online is key to growing your training business. In this Ultimate Guide to Marketing we cover effective and modern marketing strategies that will help you market your training program, and sell more courses. You’ll learn how to: Harness the power of SEO to drive website traffic Convert more website visitors to sales Create smart email marketing campaigns Get the most out of course marketplaces Establish a referral program And more… Get ready to see y

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How To Do What You Really Want (Instead Of What You Feel Like)

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Image by Oleg latsun via BigStock Did you set a ‘Big Hairy Audacious Goal’ this morning? No, me neither. What about your ‘Great Work Project’? No? OK, what about deciding ‘How will you measure your life’? No? This article is for all of you who did not wake this morning consumed with desire to reach […]. The post How To Do What You Really Want (Instead Of What You Feel Like) appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach.

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Universal pre-K is bad for everyone

Penelope Trunk

Alphabet Horse In his last State of the Union speech President Obama proposed that we have universal preschool in the US. It’s appalling to me that he wants to pour money into preschool programs that are so out of sync with what families need. Women have been very vocal about not wanting to work full-time while they have kids. And we have recognized as a nation that our school system is out of date and a waste of time for kids.

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Understanding the New Social Resume

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Perhaps you’ve heard the term “social resume” floating around. Well, I addressed this very topic in my recent interview on Fox 31 Denver’s Good Day Colorado. Watch the video below and learn how to use online tools to raise your visibility, expand your network, and establish yourself as a expert in your field. (Note: These new resources DO NOT replace the traditional paper resume.

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A sci-fi film with a $2 million budget: Martin Villeneuve at TED2013

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Filmmaker Martin Villeneuve shares the secrets behind his film, “Mars et Avril.” Photo: James Duncan Davidson. Martin Villeneuve’s Mars et Avril is a luscious sci-fi film, set in Montreal 50 years in future, where the subway line takes you straight to Mars. It’s a dreamy love story in which the acting is top-notch, the shots are stunning and the visual effects unreal.

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How to Unlock Your Creativity with Visual Thinking

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After a terrorist attack destroyed New York’s World Trade Center and left lower Manhattan a shambles on September 11, 2001, utility company Con Edison faced a herculean task: rebuilding the utility infrastructure of this densely-packed urban area. As part of this effort, Lisa Frigand of the utility’s economic development department was serving on a committee […].

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Next Level eLearning – The AI-powered Courseware Coach

Introducing Willow from WILL Interactive – a new artificial instructor technology that coaches users through eLearning content to increase training ROI. Using active conversations with a virtual expert not only reinforces key concepts but also helps employees think critically and creatively. Willow can ask questions, analyze responses, and deliver personalized feedback.

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How Leaders Mistake Execution for Strategy - Strategy+Business

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The Secret Behind the 9 Box Performance Potential Grid

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“Our cultural instinct is to wait to get picked…No one is going to pick you. Pick yourself.” –Seth Godin, The Icarus Deception Are You On the Grid? Do you know where you stand in your organization’s succession plan? Most organizations use a deliberate approach like the 9 box Performance Potential Grid (great tool, for more visit [.] The post The Secret Behind the 9 Box Performance Potential Grid appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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How to know if you’re on a good path

Penelope Trunk

I’m fascinated by the idea of judging whether you are on a good path. Because everyone wants to know if they are doing okay. The problem is that if you look at things out of context, you can’t really see what’s going on. See the picture up top? You can’t totally tell what they are doing until you see other pictures, pictures of similar but different paths.

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Help! I’m Under Utilized!

Eat Your Career

Here’s a question I get all the time: “I feel unchallenged at work. I keep looking for new things to do and new responsibilities to take on, but I’m having trouble. How do I get my superiors to better utilize me and my skills?”. It’s a great question because it shows that you want to contribute to your organization in a meaningful way and you have more to offer.

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Shaping a Better Future by Uniting Corporate and Higher Education Content

With the increased interest in reskilling and upskilling existing workforces, companies are looking for more training and development content and realizing that higher education has a lot to offer. Similarly, companies are finding value in providing training to students and preskilling their future workforce. The challenge is that the technology and platforms used to serve these two audiences have never had to work well together—until now.

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Embrace the shake: Phil Hansen at TED2013

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Photo: James Duncan Davidson. In art school, Phil Hansen developed a shake in his hand. He couldn’t so much as draw a straight line anymore. After years of excelling in pointillism, his tight grip of the pen had caused permanent nerve damage. “To me this was doomsday. This was the destruction of my dream of becoming an artist,” says Hansen in his talk in Session 2 of TED2013. “I left art school and, then, I left art completely.” Hansen was lost.

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How to Tell if You’re Really Overloaded (and What to Do About It)

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Let me guess: You’re busy. You receive too many emails. You’ve got people coming at you every day, asking for things, urgently. You’ve got a head full of great ideas, but there’s never enough time to work on them properly. Every time you go near the internet, you find even more demands and diversions. Even […]. The post How to Tell if You’re Really Overloaded (and What to Do About It) appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach.

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5 Ways to Support Your Boss (Without Kissing Up)

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I don’t know your boss. She may be great. He may be a pain in the neck. He may be supportive. She may be a real witch. I’ve been that boss. I’ve had all those bosses. All leaders have “bosses” of one sort or another. Sometimes you are the boss of you. Most of the [.] The post 5 Ways to Support Your Boss (Without Kissing Up) appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Mastering Remote Onboarding: Proven Strategies for Seamless New Hire Integration

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

Join this brand new webinar with Tim Buteyn to learn how you can master the art of remote onboarding! By the end of this session, you'll understand how to: Craft a Tailored Onboarding Checklist 📝 Develop a comprehensive, customized checklist that ensures every new hire has a smooth transition into your company, no matter where they are in the world.

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Is Your “Nice” Leadership Style Counter-Productive?

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Yesterday we talked about “Unnecessary Roughness: What Happens When Leaders are Mean:” On the flip-side… have you ever had a boss that was just too nice? Have you ever been too nice in your role as leader? What happened? Did you inspire? How were results? Would those folks want to work for you again? Nice [.] The post Is Your “Nice” Leadership Style Counter-Productive?

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Leadership Candy Hearts: A Valentines Day Teambuilder

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Leadership grows with conversation. It’s Valentines day– How about spreading the conversation with a few candy hearts? I still get nostalgic for the doily decorated lunch bag full of cardboard valentines in elementary school, coupled with that sickening feeling from eating too many candy hearts. Perhaps you’ve upgraded your Valentines Day to more sophisticated endeavors.

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Unnecessary Roughness: What Happens When Leaders are Mean

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A side effect of being a leadership blogger is that people go out of their to tell me stories of “bad leadership.” Unfortunately bad leaders are everywhere, and show up in all kinds of organizations. Lately my readers and others have been sending me examples of what I call, “unnecessary roughness.” “It was Superbowl Sunday, [.

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Frontline Finance Fundamentals: How To Talk With Your Team about Money

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Do you bore your team with finance slides full of terms they may not understand? Does your frontline team know how your business makes money? Do they understand enough about the basic financials of your business to make the right decisions? If they have incentive-based pay, do they really understand how it works? Do you understand [.] The post Frontline Finance Fundamentals: How To Talk With Your Team about Money appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Your Guide To Transitioning Into Product Management: Essentials For New PMs

Speaker: Leslie Grandy, Product Executive & Drew Weaver, Senior Program Manager

Are you considering a shift to product management or just starting your journey as a Product Manager? Join Leslie Grandy and Drew Weaver for an insightful webinar designed to help you seamlessly transition into this dynamic role. Whether you're looking to pivot your career or enhance your existing skills, this session will equip you with the knowledge and tools to succeed!

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Getting to the Root Cause of Attendance Problems

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“Our supervisors just need to get more disciplined about administering the attendance policy.” “We are just being too lenient with FMLA” “There’s no way he’s really sick… again.” Attendance issues can be frustrating. In fact, the traditional methods of trying to “fix” such problems, often aggravate them.

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Is This Phone on Mute? 6 Tips for Speaking To Be Heard

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Have you ever been in a meeting where 2 people said exactly the same thing … but one person got heard and the other did not? Have you ever been on a conference call and felt like you were speaking to the mute button? Perhaps you know that feeling of being ignored. Sometimes its position. [.] The post Is This Phone on Mute? 6 Tips for Speaking To Be Heard appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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How To Reset Your Team’s Expectations

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In Friday’s post, How To Transform Mid-Team, we talked about you how prepare your team for your evolving leadership style. But what if you also have new expectations for your team? Not only are you evolving, but you need them to as well. That’s even more difficult. Perhaps you will be… asking them to make [.] The post How To Reset Your Team’s Expectations appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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An Attitude of Ordeal or Adventure?

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“C**k your hat. Angles are attitudes.” -Frank Sinatra Today I begin a month-long speaking tour at kickoff events around the country, 5 events this week. As I pack my bag for this 6500 mile trip, I’m feeling excited, optimistic, energized… and nervous. I believe in large team “kickoffs” to inspire, energize and align.

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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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A Groundhogs Day Blessing or Curse?

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My parents have a wonderful Groundhogs Day tradition. That’s when they celebrate their love with snuggly stuff and romantic gestures. Somehow, early on, they preempted Valentines Day, and it stuck. Hey, it was the 60s… who needs Hallmark when you have a groundhog? This rodent continues to inspire… As for me, somehow each Groundhogs Day, I wake [.

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The Big Problem with Little White Lies

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When’s the last time you sat in a meeting and heard a “little white lie”? Sure, what they presented was “technically” the truth… the statistics they presented were real, but no one walked away with the full story. Perhaps you found yourself wondering… ”do they really think I’m that stupid?” We all have different [.

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Advice on Advice

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“Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it seeks into the mind.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge What’s the best advice you’ve ever received? Ever given? What advice do you wish you had ignored? What guidance do you wish you could retract? I recently met Raul Valdes-Perez, [.] The post Advice on Advice appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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How to Transform Mid-Team

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The best time to transform to a radically new leadership style is when you start fresh with a new team. But that’s not always practical or feasible. You’ve been reading blogs, books, and maybe attended a course or got some 360 feedback… but your team doesn’t know all of that. If you transform your style [.] The post How to Transform Mid-Team appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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.