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Ten Principles to Keep Our Anger in Check

Leading Blog

A NGER comes down to a distortion of the self in relation to the world. It is the distorted view that we are the arbitrators of truth and justice. Anger assumes privilege. Anger exercised gives us a jolt of temporary superiority. It is fair to say that there is often much at work and the world at large to legitimately get angry about—when things are not working as we think they should.

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3 Ways to Become a Leader People Love to Follow

Leadership Freak

94% of employees plan to stay at a company when they have a boss they love to follow. WSJ A bad boss makes life miserable. We've all had them. Let's think about become a leader people love to follow.

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Boost Your Employee Experience Success with These 6 Proven Steps

Lead from Within

Employee experience is a critical factor in your organization’s success. A positive and engaging workplace can lead to higher productivity, increased employee retention, and ultimately, better business outcomes. To boost your employee experience success, we’ll explore six proven steps that can transform your workplace into a thriving environment.

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Classroom Training Can Help Victims Of Offshoring

The Horizons Tracker

While the risk of technological disruption to the labor market tends to grab most of the headlines, offshoring is at least as big a risk, if not more so. Research from Chicago Booth explores how countries can help people whose livelihoods are affected by offshoring. The researchers analyzed administrative microdata at the individual worker level. This allowed them to link up each worker with any training programs they were assigned to, and their subsequent labor-market outcomes.

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Reduce Bias in Hiring: Structured Interview Questions for Employers

Structured interview questions are a valuable tool for reducing bias in hiring. They help: Ensure all candidates are asked the same questions in the same way Level the playing field so all candidates have a fair chance of being successful Improve credibility, reliability, and validity Download the guide to get the most out of your interview questions!

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Applying Diversity and Inclusion: Five elements that no organisation can afford to ignore

Chartered Management Institute

Listicle: Applying Diversity and Inclusion: Five elements that no organisation can afford to ignore Written by Michael Chi On Wong CMgr FCMI Tuesday 26 March 2024 Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email Diversity and inclusion is a critical component of the modern organisation. But while it may seem like a straightforward concept, it takes care and attention to get it right.

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Frequent Communicators Gain Higher Status In Teams

The Horizons Tracker

A recent study by Carnegie Mellon University highlights the significant role played by communication and expertise within organizations, offering insights into how they influence group performance. The researchers delved into how individuals become integrated into communication networks and how the selection process affects the performance of the group.

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How ChatGPT Changes The Content We Consume Online

The Horizons Tracker

Research from the Gillmore Centre for Financial Technology at Warwick Business School has revealed that Generative AI and the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) inadvertently alter the emotional tone of the original text. Their study investigates how the proliferation of LLMs impacts public sentiment, ultimately asserting that changes introduced to content by these models render existing results unreliable.

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An Attitude that Steals Opportunities from Your Consulting Firm

David A Fields

You and your colleagues are upbeat, enthusiastic, fun to be around people with a passion for solving problems. However, there’s one attitudinal quirk that, if left unchecked, will undermine your efforts to win and delight clients. Your consulting firm is all about nurturing warm, long-lasting partnerships and collaborating to create value. Unfortunately, there’s one ingredient … Continued The post An Attitude that Steals Opportunities from Your Consulting Firm appeared first on David A.

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Protecting Employees from Burning Out: Wellness in the Workplace

HR Digest

Knowing about the concept of wellness in the workplace and understanding why it is important are two very different matters. We’ve grown used to the conversations about mental and physical health at work but the application of this knowledge hasn’t taken place as quickly. It is true that various companies have explored different workplace wellness ideas to determine how they can support a health plan within their organization.

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RELP – Episode 91 – Parenting Tips for Busy Leaders

Ron Edmondson

In this episode of The Ron Edmondson Leadership Podcast Ron and Chandler Vannoy share some parenting tips for busy leaders. Since the home life impacts the work life – we are going to talk parenting on this edition. You can also find my parenting ebook HERE. In this episode, parenting tips for busy leaders. Show notes: We love hearing from leaders who enjoy these podcasts.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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The Power of Emotional Intelligence in Leadership

Experience to Lead

I learned a valuable lesson in Emotional Intelligence the moment I acquired WDHB. Imagine me coming from the corporate world, 26 years in business, and I was in the process of acquiring a boutique Learning & Development company. Before, when I was leading teams of up to 3500 people over 32 countries, I never had time to connect with people one-on-one.

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How to have an impact beyond your organisation

Chartered Management Institute

Advice: How to have an impact beyond your organisation Written by Professor Dr. Roselina Ahmad Saufi FCMI Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email Today’s challenges require organisations to look beyond profit and growth. To have a positive impact on wider society, leaders need to embody the right values and instill them in their teams.

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[Infographic] Top 10 Leadership Skills for Managers

Niagara Institute

When you step into a people leadership role , one of your first thoughts is: what do I need to be a great manager? While you’ll need to tap into many different skills as a manager, we’ve highlighted (in no particular order) the top 10 skills you’ll want to develop today. In this article, you’ll find the top 10 skills in the infographic, descriptions of each, and a leadership skills for managers PDF to help you develop these critical skills.

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“Be self-aware, have an open mind and trust your instincts”

Chartered Management Institute

Article: “Be self-aware, have an open mind and trust your instincts” Written by Jamie Oliver Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email A fast-changing world requires fast-changing managers and leaders. Lessons in adaptive working and management from a globetrotting leader Adaptability is one of the buzzwords of our age.

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The HR Leader’s Survival Guide

HR leaders drowning in paperwork struggle to meet C-suite's strategic expectations. Burnout and high turnover plague the field, with 95% feeling overwhelmed. This guide explores how the right tools can free HR from admin tasks and empower them to become the strategic leaders they’re meant to be.

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Book Review: Brave New Work: Are You Ready to Reinvent Your Organization?

Roundtable Talk

Book: Brave New Work: Are You Ready to Reinvent Your Organization? By: Aaron Dignan Reviewed by: Glain Roberts-McCabe The Premise: In Brave New Work, Aaron Dignan, founder of The Ready, pulls back the covers on how they help organizations reinvent their ways of working. The book is broken down into three key parts: The Future […] The post Book Review: Brave New Work: Are You Ready to Reinvent Your Organization?

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So you’re a junior employee. How can you influence cultural change?

Chartered Management Institute

Advice: So you’re a junior employee. How can you influence cultural change? Written by Beth Gault Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email In the third in our series of articles on cultural change, Dr Chan Abraham CMgr FCMI explains how to follow the correct processes and communicate with care As a junior employee, it is easy to consider yourself a small fish in a large pond, especially in comparison to senior and middle managers.

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Is Your Company’s Data Ready for Generative AI?

Harvard Business Review

While CDOs and data leaders are excited about generative AI, they have much work to do to get ready for it. A recent survey of 334 CDOs and data leaders — and a series of interviews with these executives — reveals that companies have not yet created new data strategies or begun to manage their data in the ways necessary to make generative AI work for them.

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“Don’t think that you’re the problem”

Chartered Management Institute

Advice: “Don’t think that you’re the problem” Written by Jamie Oliver Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email Toxic work behaviour takes many forms: intolerance, surrounding yourself with “yes men”, resistance to feedback. Dealing with a toxic colleague can be hard, but there are approaches that work Are you a micromanager?

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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When Attending Industry Events, Avoid These Legal Risks

Harvard Business Review

There are plenty of good reasons to attend industry conferences, trade fairs, and other events, but they also present opportunities for the accidental disclosure of sensitive company information or other actions that run afoul of fair-competition regulations. Through their work executive coaching leaders in emerging and traditional technology ecosystems and working with organizations on ethics and compliance challenges, the authors have uncovered several strategies to equip your team to attend i

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The great office stand-off

Chartered Management Institute

Article: The great office stand-off Written by CMI Insights Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email As some organisations try to force employees back into the office five days a week, managers are caught in the crossfire. Time for thoughtful leadership The get-back-to-the-office debate is getting stormy. A large national construction firm recently told all its people that they had to be on the premises five days a week.

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To Accelerate Growth, Analyze Your Company Like an Investor

Harvard Business Review

Private equity (PE) firms have a proven approach to identify areas for revenue growth, value creation, and cost reduction: due diligence. But companies rarely use this same approach in the execution of their own growth strategy. This is a missed opportunity. The same due diligence skills and tools can be found in most large companies, but they are usually siloed in the corporate development team — the folks who handle M&A, who rarely have a chance to apply their expertise to a company’s ongoing

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Everything is connected: How to strengthen your strategic business partnerships

Chartered Management Institute

Advice: Everything is connected: How to strengthen your strategic business partnerships Written by Dr Kelly Wee CMgr FCMI Tuesday 26 March 2024 Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email No business is an island, but collaborating across sectors and geographies can be complex. So how can you create effective partnerships?

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Streamline Your HR Processes with a Free HR Process Checklist Template

A process checklist is a valuable tool for any HR professional to help ensure that all tasks are completed on time and accurately and improve communication and collaboration among team members.

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Why the Glass Cliff Persists

Harvard Business Review

A conversation with author Sophie Williams on bias that continues to holds women and other underrepresented groups back.

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The Evolution of Online Auctions: The Future of Buying and Selling Heavy Equipment

Strategy Driven

The landscape for trading industrial assets has undergone a revolutionary change with the advent of online auction platforms. Gone are the days when bidding wars were confined to crowded physical spaces. Now, the global marketplace is facilitated by platforms that host heavy equipment auctions, connecting buyers and sellers from different continents.

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How One Leader Overcame Career-Ending Adversity

Harvard Business Review

How resilience and vulnerability have shaped the leadership of Raymond Jefferson (MBA 2000).

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