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One Easy Way to Get Your Team Talking (With Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

This technique will get your team talking about hopes and fears. You want to get your team talking about their concerns, but if they’re like so many of the employees in our courageous cultures research , they are likely holding back. In fact, 40% of the employees in our research said they lacked the confidence to share their ideas that would improve the business.

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Building better batteries: Insights on chemistry and design from China

McKinsey

A detailed benchmark analysis of the batteries of Chinese battery-electric vehicles reveals how differences in battery-cell and battery-pack design affect performance.

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On doing what life expects of you

Darius Foroux

Growing up, I often heard stuff like, “You can be anything you want!

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10 HR Tech Trends Driving Workplaces Forward in 2021

Vantage Circle

Since early last year, many companies have found HR technology to be crucial for running effective businesses when staff are in remote locations. This technology has also been essential for helping teams to provide virtual benefits. Sharing information with remote employees is easier with the proper tools and resources. That’s why more businesses are focusing on implementing different technologies that can help them stay compliant, monitor time efficiently, manage payrolls, and drive engagement.

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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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Career Development: Develop Employees With Limited Time (Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

Support Your Team with Career Development Even When You’re Busy. You want to help your team with career development, but time is limited. How do you support your team? Today, on Asking For a Friend , I talk with Julie Winkle Giulioni , author of Help them Grow or Watch Them Go about how managers can support development when there is pitifully little time.

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Analytics-to-Value: Digital analytics optimizing products and portfolios

McKinsey

Better, faster product-development decisions have never been more critical. New techniques can provide quicker, deeper insights, at scale across an entire product portfolio.

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Solve Obvious and Complicated Business Problems with AI

ChaiOne

This blog post is the first in a three-part series on matching the correct solution to your business problem. Are you killing a fly with a hammer? In 2021, solving the business problem front and center has never been more critical. Management and leadership are facing, in the age of VUCA—volatility, uncertainly, complexity, and ambiguity—increasingly unpredictable situations and problems.

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The Power in a Powerful Thank You

Let's Grow Leaders

A specific, relevant thank you has the power to energize and keep people moving. In this episode, David shares a meaningful thank you and how you can encourage your people – even when you haven’t had a recent “win.” Powerful Thank Yous. ( 00:00 ). The reason I’m writing is to say, thank you, thank you for bringing some light into my leadership management journey.

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Intentional learning in practice: A 3x3x3 approach

McKinsey

Learning can be honed through practice. Here’s an effective strategy to continually learn, grow, and achieve development goals.

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ELEVATE Admins is a Best Seller (Thanks to YOU!)

Eat Your Career

In case you missed the big news: My newest book, ELEVATE Admins: How to Raise the Bar and Achieve Excellence in Your Administrative Career , was released earlier this month. I’m thrilled to report that it quickly hit the #1 spot for its category on Amazon! This is all because of YOU, the amazing Eat Your Career community. I can’t thank you enough for the support you have shown me, not only with this new book but throughout the past decade.

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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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Is It Time For Smarter Performance Appraisals?

Vantage Circle

Performance appraisal was a familiar practice in which employees and managers sat down for an annual assessment. If the workers were fortunate, they walked away with raises. Nobody really liked it, but in the old corporate model of command and control, this seemed like a great thing. Today, with the widespread focus on collaboration, joint leadership, and an ongoing fight to find and retain professional workers, it's a model that is gradually falling out of favor.

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3 of the Most Important Leadership Skills Your Leaders Hope You Have

Let's Grow Leaders

Senior leaders share the most important leadership skills to master now. As we work with senior leaders to build their leadership development programs, the conversation always turns to the most important leadership skills their frontline and middle-level leaders need. Inevitably, these veteran leaders bring up similar abilities – the skills that differentiate top leaders from their peers.

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Fulfilling the promise of advanced analytics in oncology

McKinsey

Advanced analytics will transform cancer care, but companies have been slow to adopt it. Progress requires a strategy that not only builds data and talent but also embraces experimentation.

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Life-Long Learning

Charles Leon

I've been sketching in my local area every day for more than a couple of months, and, to be honest, I had expected to see faster progress in my technique. What has happened hasn't quite happened in the way I thought it would. However, the benefits seem to be spilling over most unpredictably. (you can see my sketches here) Typically when you practice a skill, because that's all sketching is, you expect to see your competence and speed increase to the extent that it should become effortless.

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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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Coaching For Managers: 5 Skills You Need to Promote

Vantage Circle

With the changing dynamics of the corporate world, it’s not only employees that need to develop. They need to adapt and upskill to improve their overall performance. It is what your managers need too. Thus, coaching for managers is something that every company needs to seriously consider. The ever-growing corporate market demands managers to become experts in their field of work.

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More is less: Solving sport’s business model problem 

World Economic Forum

The proposed European Super League - abruptly scrapped following an intense backlash - raises questions about the structural challenges in many sports.

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Cybersecurity in Iberia: Aligning business and the board

McKinsey

Keeping cyber teams in silos puts companies at risk. Boards can best prepare for an increasingly digital future with these cross-functional strategies.

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Seven principles for achieving transformational growth

McKinsey

Dogged persistence and nimble execution underscore a set of proven ground rules for growth.

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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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Five Fifty: Leading by design

McKinsey

Companies that excel at design grow revenues and shareholder returns at nearly twice the rate of their industry peers. So why aren’t more companies joining their ranks?

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The CFO’s role in capability building

McKinsey

Organizations developing new skills for the next normal must determine exactly how and where to invest in them. The finance leader is uniquely suited to provide the necessary combination of insights.

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Author Talks: Karin M. Reed on virtual meetings

McKinsey

In her new book, Karin M. Reed dives into our sudden shift to virtual meetings—and how to make the most of them.

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Spain’s travel sector can’t afford to wait to recover. What can stakeholders do?

McKinsey

Unless steps are taken to stimulate recovery, more than $300 billion and 4.4 million jobs could be in jeopardy.

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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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Tipping the scales in AI: How leaders capture exponential returns

McKinsey

Where many companies tire of marginal gains from early AI efforts, the most successful recognize that the real breakthroughs in AI learning and scale come from persisting through the arduous phases.

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The ascent of Nordic companies in the global machinery market

McKinsey

Nordic machinery companies are setting new performance benchmarks for growth, margins, and other metrics. What’s behind their recent success?

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How to launch a new business: Three approaches that work

McKinsey

Analysis of more than 200 corporate business builds shows what success looks like.

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Author Talks: Tsedal Neeley on why remote work is here to stay—and how to get it right

McKinsey

In a new book, Tsedal Neeley details how organizations can build and lead a culture of trust and inclusivity in a remote-work environment.

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Human-Centered Cyber Security Training: Driving Real Impact on Security Culture

Speaker: Speakers:

In today's digital age, having an untrained workforce can be a significant risk to your business. Cyber threats are evolving; without proper training, your employees could be the weakest link in your defense. This webinar empowers leaders like you with the tools and strategies needed to transform your employees into a robust frontline defense against cyber attacks.

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Seafood: Consumer goods’ latest catch?

McKinsey

The COVID-19 pandemic is intensifying several trends in consumer goods. As industry players make critical decisions about where to play and how to win, seafood is a category with potential.

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‘None are safe until all are safe’: COVID-19 vaccine rollout in low- and middle-income countries

McKinsey

Despite persistant supply issues, in-country delivery and demand for COVID-19 vaccines is likely to be the next challenge for LMICs.

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Shipping and carbon zero: An interview with Bo Cerup-Simonsen

McKinsey

The CEO of the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping explains what it will take for the industry to decarbonize.

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Majid Al Futtaim’s new growth formula: Innovate fast, stay ahead, work the ecosystem

McKinsey

This Dubai-based conglomerate outpaces competition by adhering to its long-term vision and seizing opportunities quickly—with the help of an ecosystem of external partners.

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Content Distribution Made Easy: Serving Customers Your High Compliance Training

You invest a lot of time and energy in creating high compliance and regulatory training for your customers. And chances are, you want to make it as easy as possible for them to take your courses and track training completion statuses for audit purposes for risk and compliance departments. And if they aren’t able to access your high stakes training, the consequences for your customers can be extremely costly.