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7 Questions To Ask Yourself About Your Commitment To Success with Jon DeWaal: Podcast #27

Consulting Success

Achieving real consulting success starts with your discipline, your conversations, and your commitment to making positive change. Description: In today’s episode, I’m joined by Jon DeWaal, a life transition specialist who helps people work through the personal side effects of making major life transitions. He describes his work as counseling, coaching, career counseling, and spiritual direction, all rolled into one.

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Why People Lose Motivation — and What Managers Can Do to Help

Harvard Business

Brandon Lyon/Getty Images. At some point, every leader has dealt with a person — or, worse, a group of people — who has lost motivation. It’s frustrating, isn’t it? As much as we’ve been there ourselves, sometimes it’s hard to sympathize with others who are disengaged from work and unproductive as a result. Sometimes, we view their unhappiness as a bug in their mental makeup — and, therefore, we think they should be able to suck it up and snap out of it.

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Getting the Autocratic Leaders We Deserve

Strategy+Business

We want our leaders to be decisive, proactive, and undaunted -- but only to a point.

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5 Ways Unlock Employee Potential

LSA Global

Employee Engagement Makes a Difference. Engaging employees is not just a matter of paying better than the competition. Employee engagement is a combination of effort and initiatives that can unlock employee potential and raise performance across the board. And employee engagement is not just a nice-to-have. It is essential to a company’s competitive position in the marketplace.

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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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Leaders: The Warning Siren Has Sounded…It is Time to Up Your Game

Peter Stark

If your employees had a ton of options of whom they work for and report to, would they choose you as their leader? It is a great question and you may be about to find out. In the February 1, 2018 issue of Fortune Magazine , in an article titled “Ready, Set, Jump,” Geoff Colvin told every employee, “For business people looking to jump, now is the long-awaited chance to find better employment and maybe notch a substantial raise.

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How to Get Ready for Tax Season as a Small Business

MBO Partners

Four tips for preparing for tax season without stressing yourself out.

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The Swedish CEO Who Runs His Company Like a CrossFit Gym

Harvard Business

eclipse_images/Getty Images. Work hard and you’ll see results. For many in today’s knowledge economy, this feeling is elusive. They struggle to see how their labor contributes directly to the performance of the corporation, or how it helps the progress of their career. While there’s often increased pressure to be more productive in the office, it’s sometimes hard not to wonder, “What’s the point?

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When well-meaning people can't see it the same way

Seth Godin Blog

Yes, there are a few people who are mendacious, who are not seeking what you're seeking. And yet, most of the time, there are plenty of good people who disagree with you--they want a good outcome, but the narrative they bring insists on getting there in a very different way. They have different glasses on and are using a different map as well. People don't believe what you believe, and they don't know what you know.

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How Volvo Reinvented Itself Through Hiring

Harvard Business

Gerald Lord/Getty Images. Many legacy companies would like to transform themselves into agile, talent-first organizations. But when some CEOs in this position look at the people they employ, they discover a problem: a swath of their existing team doesn’t have the necessary skills or metabolism for change to meet the new challenges. Developing what we call an “M&A strategy for talent” is one way to overcome this.

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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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Making Better Use of Health Care Data

Harvard Business

Sven Krobot/EyeEm/Getty Images. At Sanford Health, a $4.5 billion rural integrated health care system, we deliver care to over 2.5 million people in 300 communities across 250,000 square miles. In the process, we collect and store vast quantities of patient data – everything from admission, diagnostic, treatment and discharge data to online interactions between patients and providers, as well as data on providers themselves.

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Is #MeToo Backlash Hurting Women’s Opportunities in Finance?

Harvard Business

Cláudio Policarpo/EyeEm/Getty Images. When my mother graduated from college in 1972, she interviewed at an investment bank where a manager told her that for certain positions, women were interviewed but never hired. Even in the late 1980s, she went on interviews with headhunters who would explicitly tell her, “They want to interview a woman,” with the emphasis on “interview”— as in, not hire.

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