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Leading When Things Break

Let's Grow Leaders

Are you blindsided when things break down, problems happen, or conflict occurs? Great leaders anticipate these breakdowns and know that it’s a matter of when – not if – they’ll happen. Lead your team with a planned recovery and equip them with the skills to overcome these setbacks. Leading When Things Break. 0:22 – Last chance to get your Kindle edition of Courageous Cultures: How to Build Teams of Micro-innovators, Problem Solvers, and Customer Advocates at a crazy

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Defining the skills citizens will need in the future world of work

McKinsey

To future-proof citizens’ ability to work, they will require new skills—but which ones? A survey of 18,000 people in 15 countries suggests those that governments may wish to prioritize.

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How to Partner With Other Companies to Grow Your Business

B Plans

When you want to scale your business , you have a few choices. You could toss more money into marketing. Possibly bump up your product or service lineup. You could even encourage your current customer base to give you more of their discretionary dollars. . And you know what? Any of those tactics could work to expand your brand’s reach. Nevertheless, you should consider another proven amplification approach for your brand: forming strategic partnerships.

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10 Powerful Business Coaching Questions to Ask Your Coach

CoCaptain

The end goal of a business coaching journey is to discover your own path and help move you forward in your pursuit of personal and professional success. And although a successful coach has the tools and expertise to help get you from where you are to where you want to be, the client is ultimately the one that must do the heavy lifting. It is up to the client to communicate where the client feels, where their passions and struggles lie to point the way forward, and it is the client that must ulti

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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 Your Employee Recognition Program Can Destroy Morale

Let's Grow Leaders

Avoid These Big Mistakes When Recognizing Employees. A great employee recognition program is a remarkable way to build culture, increase employee engagement and reinforce critical behaviors. Done well, these programs will have a positive impact on culture and can also serve as a vital part of your 5 x 5 communication plan. And yet, so many companies screw this up.

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How tech will revolutionize retail

McKinsey

The retailer of the future will harness the power of data, quantum computing, artificial intelligence, and augmented reality, says serial entrepreneur and technology expert John Straw.

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This Is the Real Cost of Business Coaching

CoCaptain

How do you justify the cost of anything? Say, a new car, a college degree, a life insurance plan, an electric toothbrush? The cost is substantiated if what you stand to gain from the investment far outweighs the cost. Business Coaching can be looked at as an investment that, much like a college degree (which will give you access to better-paying positions) or an electric toothbrush (which will ward off future dental attention­), will generate a return of the initial cost and inflate your financi

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19 Easy Ways To Honor National Boss's Day

Vantage Circle

We've all had our share of bad bosses. But there are also those who believe in us and gave us a chance when no one else would. Thus, on the occasion of National Boss's Day, it's only natural to show your gratitude to those great leaders. But First, What Is National Boss's Day? Via GIPHY. National Boss's Day in the United States is celebrated on or around October 16 since 1962.

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How hydrogen combustion engines can contribute to zero emissions

McKinsey

Hydrogen combustion engines can leverage existing technologies and provide a zero-emissions option for specific use cases while supporting the growth of hydrogen infrastructure.

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Middle Managers: Gatekeepers of Success

CMOE

What is the biggest driver of profitability for an organization? A deep-dive analysis by Gallup unearthed a finding that they identified as “the single most profound, distinct, and clarifying finding” in 80 years, something that directly impacts an organization’s profitability: the factor that had the greatest impact on the overall success of an organization is effective middle managers.

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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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'WOOP' it up

Faster Ideas

Is positive thinking the best strategy to make new ideas come to life? Photo by chaitanya pillala on Unsplash. We're often told to think positively if we want to make something happen. It's a good start, for sure. But just dreaming about a positive outcome isn't always the best way to make your creative wishes come true. That's not cynicism by the way.

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The Link Between Community Engagement, Customer Experience, And Employee Engagement

Vantage Circle

One of the most significant advantages of community engagement is that it helps companies to engage their employees on a variety of levels, ultimately driving overall employee engagement in the company. At the same time, employee engagement is at the heart of workplace transformation that leads to greater customer experience. So we know that there a strong link between community engagement, customer experience, and employee engagement.

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Sweating for the fitness consumer

McKinsey

Fitness customers’ habits have evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic, offering fitness-industry providers the opportunity to reexamine their value propositions and target specific segments.

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Harnessing Innovation Potential by Leveraging Creativity from Constraints

Fortitude Business Consulting

It sounds counterintuitive, but creativity from constraints is a thing. Have you ever wondered why large corporates with apparently unlimited resources still struggle to innovate effectively? Meanwhile, smaller businesses with minimal resources are often more innovative. Often this is due to creativity from constraints – the boost to creativity that comes from limiting choice.

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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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Short stories

Faster Ideas

Why short stories are a fast track to creating your own ideas and narratives. Photo by Christian Lue on Unsplash. Reading is good for you. I think we can all agree on that. The problem is, that most of us have to leaf through loads of books at school that we really don't want to. Not only are we forced to read a gazillion boring textbooks, but we also have to read WHOLE NOVELS, often about things that seem to have little resonance with our daily lives.

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Meeting Human Needs: Nature vs. Nurture in Your Business

Nexus Business Solutions

By David Bowman A client of mine recently rolled out a new bonus system that was designed to better align with the company’s risk/reward timing between performance and revenue. The new system changed the frequency of the payouts, but also provided everyone a way to make more money. The surprising result was that some team members [.]. The post Meeting Human Needs: Nature vs.

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Financial data unbound: The value of open data for individuals and institutions

McKinsey

Economies that embrace data sharing for finance could see GDP gains of between 1 and 5 percent by 2030, with benefits flowing to consumers and financial institutions.

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Extrinsic vs. Intrinsic Motivation- An Overview

Vantage Circle

Motivation is the fuel necessary to keep the human engine running. – Zig Ziglar. Happy, content, and motivated employees are thought to be more productive. And productive employees are essential to the success of every company. But have you ever thought about what keeps employees happy and satisfied? The answer to your question is 'Motivation'. It is mainly of two types.

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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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Should we trust our intuitions?

Charles Leon

Whilst riding my motorbike (before it got stolen), I rode through a suburban street where cars were parked on both sides. Nice weather, good visibility, nothing to worry about. Then, for some reason, something told me to slow down to a crawling pace, which I did. Suddenly, from underneath the parked cars, a dark shape leapt out and shot across the road.

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Lessons from a high-ROI cloud transformation journey

McKinsey

Some roadblocks on the cloud journey aren’t apparent until it’s under way. CUNA Mutual’s CIO and its vice president of tech products discuss their route to full cloud success.

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Forward Thinking on China and artificial intelligence with Jeffrey Ding

McKinsey

This researcher is making sure more AI information flows back from China to the West, and his insights are surprising.

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Sleep on it: Addressing the sleep-loss epidemic through technology

McKinsey

Sleep deprivation has become a global problem. Can the burgeoning sleep-tech industry provide solutions?

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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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How boards can help digital transformations

McKinsey

Boards can add value to their business’s digital transformation in five specific areas.

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Model life-cycle transformation in the next decade

McKinsey

The COVID-19 pandemic has created significant challenges for financial institutions in both modeling and model-risk management. A new approach to the ten-year-old SR 11-7 could help.

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The growth triple play: Creativity, analytics, and purpose

McKinsey

Companies that integrate creativity, analytics, and purpose are delivering at least two times the growth of their peers.

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The eight trends that will define 2021–and beyond

McKinsey

McKinsey’s global managing partner discusses the new ideas and business models transforming industry landscapes.

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

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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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Reprioritizing the employee experience in consumer-goods and retail companies

McKinsey

A successful recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic will require the consumer sector to restore programs aimed at workplace diversity and inclusion.

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This is the COVID consumer trend most likely to stick beyond the pandemic

McKinsey

To determine how enduring pandemic-spurred shifts may be, we examined a wide array of behaviors across five countries – China, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States — using a “stickiness” test that takes into account the preferences of consumers and workers as well as the actions of companies, write Jaana Remes and Anu Madgavkar in Market Watch.

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A digital-business builder: An interview with the CEO of Allianz Direct

McKinsey

What does it take to build scalable new businesses inside of an older, more established company? Bart Schlatmann is building one now.

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In conversation: The impact of COVID-19 on capital markets

McKinsey

The widening gap in performance and the valuation surge among a few elite companies demonstrate the pandemic-induced acceleration of trends.

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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.