Wed.Nov 22, 2023

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Our Favorite Management Tips About Showing Gratitude at Work

Harvard Business

Celebrating your team members, especially around important holidays, can be a powerful, generous, and motivating gesture. This article includes a curated selection of HBR’s Management Tips on how to show gratitude and appreciation at work.

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Entering the US Market: How Consultants Help Foreign Companies

Business Consulting Agency

For companies eyeing expansion into the dynamic landscape of the United States market, the path to success often hinges on understanding the nuances of local business practices, consumer behavior, and regulatory frameworks. In this endeavor, partnering with seasoned local experts and leveraging business consulting services emerges as a strategic imperative, offering a multitude of benefits and invaluable guidance for foreign companies aiming to establish a foothold and thrive in the US.

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Research: When — and Why — Employee Curiosity Annoys Managers

Harvard Business

Researchers conducted a series of studies to understand when curiosity may lead to different reactions in the workplace. They found that curious employees were often seen by their leaders as insubordinate and, in turn, less likable. However, curious employees who were politically skilled were not seen this way. They distinguished between constructive curiosity, which involved seeking information, knowledge, or learning by asking many provocative questions that don’t have easy answers, and uncons

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Why Consulting with a Learning and Development Firm for Remote Work Training Is Essential

Clarity Consultants

Long gone are the days of the traditional office workforce. More companies have realized how beneficial remote work can be in the past few years–especially thanks to the pandemic. Not only do you open yourself to far more viable employees, but you can also save quite a lot of money. But, of course, while there are plenty of advantages to remote work, there are also disadvantages–one of the biggest being training.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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Return-to-Office Plans Don’t Have to Undermine Employee Autonomy

Harvard Business

In recent years, organizations have been hard at work reviewing, renewing, articulating, and disseminating their corporate purpose. Renewed corporate purpose statements have more explicitly centered human-centric values, such as employee well-being, growth, and inclusion. This has been a good thing: Gartner research shows that businesses who put these human-centric values front and center see better talent and business outcomes.

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How to Build Trust at Work

Harvard Business

Organizational psychologist Liane Davey takes questions from listeners who are struggling to cultivate trusting relationships with their boss or colleagues.

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Celebrating Life’s Simple Joys This Thanksgiving

Chad Barr

This Thanksgiving, as we navigate through a world rife with challenges and heartaches, I find guidance in the words of Nelson Mandela: “What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.” These words echo profoundly in my heart, particularly in a time marked by the absence of loved ones and the presence of loss in our lives.

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Azeem’s Picks: Grading AI’s Hits and Misses

Harvard Business

Can AI be developed through embodied interaction?

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How to Hire the Right Talent for Your Business

Granite Leadership Strategies

You probably think good talent is hard to find for your business these days. You may even be frustrated with and tired of the process you have to go through every time you need to add help. Consider the typical scenario: You advertise on a job posting site, a job search engine, or a social media site where candidates may search for open positions. You receive a slew of resumes or applications.

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PowerPoint Best Practices for Creating Stellar Presentations

Mastering data visualization in PowerPoint will help accelerate your career because it positions you as someone who can present data that drives business decisions forward. think-cell's PowerPoint Best Practices eBook was created specifically for professionals aiming to master the art and science of data-driven storytelling. What’s inside: Practical Insights: Uncover valuable tips for crafting engaging and persuasive presentations.

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Unifying Your Company Around a Moral Goal

Harvard Business

In turbulent times, companies need a reliable anchor to guide decision-making. When organizations become moral communities, underpinned by purpose, they provide that stability for stakeholders as well as a reassuring sense of hope, solidarity, agency, and meaning. Three strategies can help. First, tell a big story about what your organization believes in and what it is trying to accomplish.

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Filtering

Alan Weiss

During an “open house” at my kids’ school on evening (do they still have these?) the fourth grade teacher, who must have been 24-years-old, said, “Here’s the deal: If you don’t believe what your kids tell you about me, I won’t believe what they tell me about you.” I have told this to every new client: “Your people will tell you that I’m an outsider who doesn’t know the culture and just wants to create change to earn money.

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The Right — and Wrong — Ways to Cut Costs

Harvard Business

The former CEO of Booz & Company says cost cutting should be a careful, strategic process.

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Long form AI

Seth Godin Blog

The new version of Claude can read a document of up to 400 pages in about three minutes. You can then ask it for criticism, summaries or other insights. I wouldn’t use it on a piece of literature, but if you’re reading for work (aren’t we all), it will dramatically increase how much you can survey before diving deep. And it’s very talented at reading something you wrote and telling you where you might have gone astray.

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Pricing for Profit: How to Set, Negotiate, and Succeed

Speaker: Igli Laci, Strategic Finance Leader

In today’s competitive market, pricing is more than just a number — it’s the cornerstone of profitability. The right pricing strategy ensures that you capture the true value of your offering, paving the way for sustainable growth and long-term success. Join Igli Laci, Strategic Finance Leader, in this exclusive session where he will explore how a well-crafted pricing approach balances customer perception with business objectives, creating a powerful tool for securing both competitive advantage a

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How to Unstick Team Decision Making

LSA Global

Team Decision Making Decision making is the process of selecting between two or more courses of action. We know from leadership simulation assessment data that many work decisions are relatively straightforward and easy to make. In team decision making, however, it’s far more likely that you face a more complicated set of issues. Team leaders in our action learning leadership development programs report teams getting stuck on: Agreeing upon the desired result Gathering all the desired informatio

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A fast-evolving CX landscape reveals opportunities and challenges for brands

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With so much change amid the customer experience (CX) landscape, brands are embracing great opportunities – and some challenges – as they navigate it all. CX leaders are grappling with the rapid rise of AI tools, the need to embrace digital while maintaining a human touch, growing associate burnout, and continual pressure to cut costs and demonstrate ROI wherever they can.

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