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The Problem with Just Do Your Job

Let's Grow Leaders

Have you ever had a team member say something like this? “I just want to do my job. I know you want me to care, but I don’t. It’s a paycheck and I’ve got kids.” Or perhaps you’ve heard a leader tell […]. The post The Problem with Just Do Your Job appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Five Fifty: Tech for the greater good

McKinsey

Can advanced technologies like AI improve the well-being of humans? Only if we more carefully manage its deployment, and its effects on human labor.

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Member Spotlight: Growth as a Leader is Not Just Upwards, but Inwards

BetterUp

At BetterUp, we believe that becoming our best selves stems from developing our whole selves. In our work with members, we often hear that while many have found career success, they still feel like something is missing. This isn’t surprising. Each of us are multi-faceted individuals, with changing needs and priorities at different moments in time.

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7 Great Tips to Effectively Manage Your Virtual Teams

Vantage Circle

We live in an interconnected world. So, interconnected that we don’t even need to leave our comfort zones and still get the work done with our fingertips. And, modern-day job seekers and businesses are leveraging the same in the form of virtual teams. The internet being the game-changer here has allowed organisations to spread their reach everywhere.

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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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Leading Friends and Former Peers

Let's Grow Leaders

My first formal leadership role where I would lead my friends and former peers didn’t go so well. When we ask a group of new leaders about their biggest problems, leading friends and former peers is always one of the most […]. The post Leading Friends and Former Peers appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. My first formal leadership role where I would lead my friends and former peers didn’t go so well.

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The future of work in South Africa: Digitisation, productivity and job creation

McKinsey

Digitisation and automation could result in a net gain of up to 1.2 million jobs in South Africa by 2030, and companies need to move fast to capitalise on these opportunities.

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Are you just the same?

Gordian Business

Image by Szilárd Szabó from Pixabay Listen to your customers, listen to your employees, do what they tell you. John Sall, cofounder SAS Institute Good advice. What if your salespeople tell you your customers don’t see any difference between you and your competitors? Well in our experience, this might be true but it’s unlikely. How can we say that? Most organisations and most products deliver benefits.

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How to Find the Great Idea in Your Best Practice

Let's Grow Leaders

Your Best Practice Might Not Work Everywhere Javier was a well-loved director at an engineering design firm. He was also an accomplished Italian chef. Every year he would conduct an operational excellence rally that he personally catered with spaghetti made from homemade noodles, […]. The post How to Find the Great Idea in Your Best Practice appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Global gas and LNG outlook to 2035

McKinsey

Expansion in the gas and LNG markets continues, with LNG demand expected to increase 3.6 percent per year to 2035.

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Voicing Your Truth with Monique DeBose

Lateral Action

This week’s guest on The 21st Century Creative is Monique DeBose, an award-winning singer-songwriter and playwright, who has toured throughout America, Europe, India and Asia. Her third album, The Sovereign One, debuted at No.2 on the iTunes Jazz Charts. Inspired by her experience of of what it means to be half African-American, half Irish-American, Monique […].

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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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Why Employee Perks Can Help Your Company Win?

Vantage Circle

Companies spend a lot of money to arrange the best resources and hiring the best talents but often overlook the importance of employee satisfaction. This results in job stress, high employee turnover, lack of productivity, and low profit. Employees are the fuel to any organization, and when their needs are met, they perform better and stay engaged and happier in their jobs.

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How to Prevent & Overcome Burnout

Eat Your Career

Join us for this month’s free webinar on the topic of “How to Prevent & Overcome Burnout.”. Let’s be honest: Stress is an unavoidable part of the modern workplace. It surrounds us all day, every day. And if we’re not careful, it can quickly consume us. When we fail to properly manage stress over a prolonged period of time, it can eventually lead to burnout.

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Telecom operators: Surviving and thriving through the next downturn

McKinsey

Telco operators are more vulnerable today than they were ten years ago. To thrive through the next economic downturn and beyond, they must act now—and with focus.

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I redesigned my site. Hooray!

Penelope Trunk

You know how Marie Kondo tells you to go through your closet and throw out all your clothes because you want to start a new part of life? I did that with my web site. If you’re the impetuous type, you throw out your clothes and buy new ones later. I did that, too. After twenty years of blogging and redesign , after redesign after redesign , my site is like sedimentary rock.

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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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What Is the Role of Healthy Peer Relationships at Work?

Vantage Circle

In one of my previous articles , I have mentioned the concept of a work-family. As the name suggests, an employee’s work-family are his coworkers whom he shares more than half of his day with. Therefore, in order to have a satisfying work experience, the importance of positive peer relationships is paramount. (source- Pinterest). Peer relationships are relations with individuals working on the same level of the organisational hierarchy with no formal authority over each other.

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Analytics for grid decision making

McKinsey

The energy transition will make grid planning and operations increasingly challenging for transmission and distribution operators.

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Bias busters: Getting both sides of the story

McKinsey

How can the CEO break employees’ silence and get the critical input needed to make the right strategic moves?

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Australia’s infrastructure innovation imperative

McKinsey

For 30 years, Australia has helped lead innovation in infrastructure planning, financing, and delivery. New challenges now create a need for change in prioritisation, design, and productivity.

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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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Infographic: Europe’s biotech hot spots

McKinsey

Europe has a complex biotech landscape, with hundreds of companies, multiple paths to innovation and financing, and marked differences among countries. To see through the complexity, we grouped approximately 1,000 European biotech companies into eight clusters based on country, modality, and therapeutic area. We identified biotech hot spots as well as trends and possible directions for the region.

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Leadership Skills In Today's Digital Age

Vantage Circle

The world as we see today has witnessed a major shift towards the digital age. And the organizations have emphasized more on the digital transformation to keep pace with the changes all around. Digital transformation can be disorienting and can create panic but if the leaders are confident about the changes and how it will benefit everyone then adaptation becomes easy.

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Everything About Niche Marketing With Examples

Vantage Circle

Most small or medium business owners have one common complaint. Your industry is supersaturated, and you are finding it hard to implement a good marketing plan. Regardless of whether you know about niche marketing or not, its difficult to stand out from the chaos without a good niche marketing strategy. Here in this blog, not only are we going to look at niche marketing with examples but we will also learn a few strategies.

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