Sat.May 09, 2020 - Fri.May 15, 2020

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How Accountability Stops Chinese Water Torture

Leadership Freak

You can’t prove that dripping water on someone’s forehead eventually drives them insane without risking someone’s sanity. But the Myth Busters verified the power of Chinese Water Torture.

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A Short on How Zoom Works

High Scalability

Zoom scaled from 20 million to 300 million users virtually over night. What's incredible is from the outside they've shown little in the way of apparent growing pains, though on the inside it's a good bet a lot of craziness is going on. Sure, Zoom has made some design decisions that made sense as a small spunky startup that don't make a lot of sense as a defacto standard, but that's to be expected.

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Extrinsic Motivation: Why You Make Terrible Life Choices

Nir Eyal

The post Extrinsic Motivation: Why You Make Terrible Life Choices appeared first on Nir and Far.

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Why Leaders Need To Manage The Emotional Side Of Setbacks

Tanveer Nasser

When it comes to managing setbacks, the typical approach focuses on discovering what went wrong to prevent a similar issue from arising. But what we often overlook is the emotional context of managing setbacks, something I explore through a personal example in this latest edition of Leadership Espresso Shot on. Click to continue reading.

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The Hidden Skills That Separate Good Leaders from Great Ones

Speaker: Chandra McCormack, CPA, MBA, NACD.DC

Technical degrees might open doors—but it’s the soft skills that keep them open. In the face of disruption, evolving workplace dynamics, and rising expectations of leadership, soft skills like communication, emotional intelligence, and presence have become core business essentials—not nice-to-haves. Inspired by stories from her father coupled with her own career journey, seasoned executive Chandra McCormack breaks down how to lead with impact, connect with purpose, and cultivate a workplace cult

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The Plate-Drop Challenge: How to Respond to Failure

Leadership Freak

The only way to learn how many plates you can spin is to break some plates. The question of capacity guarantees failure. T.S.

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9 Ways To Give Effective Employee Feedback

15Five

Employee feedback is an incredibly powerful tool. If offered properly, it has the ability to grow and develop the people of your organization, improve the levels of trust and communication, and strengthen bonds between employees and managers. But unfortunately, feedback is often ignored or omitted entirely in an effort to avoid discomfort. Here are nine tips to help managers and leaders give employee feedback that’s frequent, effective, and will help you get you the outcome you need. 1.

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Reducing Your Database Hosting Costs: DigitalOcean vs. AWS vs. Azure

High Scalability

If you’re hosting your databases in the cloud, choosing the right cloud service provider is a significant decision to make for your long-term hosting costs. This is especially apparent in today's world where organizations are doing whatever they can to optimize and reduce their costs. Over the last few weeks, we have been inundated with requests from SMB customers looking to improve the ROI on their database hosting.

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The Hot Iron Effect: How to Learn From Negative Experience

Leadership Freak

Melted synthetics cling to the bottom of some hotel irons. When the iron gets hot, the residue stains your clothes. I learned this the hard way.

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45+ Employee Experience Terms you have to know

AIHR

Employee Experience (EX) is getting more and more attention. For example, it’s ranked as the #1 topic in LinkedIn’s Global Talent Trends 2020 research. I am a great believer in the added value good EX can provide organizations. This belief is based on, among other things, research conducted by Starbucks in 2011, which AnalitiQs repeated for a retail organization, with similar results.

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The Ultimate Guide to Corporate Gift Ideas In 2020

Vantage Circle

The term Corporate gift or Corporate gifting has been in existence for a long time. Corporate Gifts are generally valuable items offered by the employer to their employees without any obligation as a token of appreciation or goodwill. Most large firms and organizations have policies for giving business gifts to its employees. So why do we need another list of ideas for corporate gifts in 2020 if it’s already done and dusted?

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Future of HR: Navigating Transformation in the Digital Age

Speaker: Jeremy York

Join us for a thought-provoking exploration of the rapidly evolving HR landscape as we examine how technological innovation, regulatory changes, talent strategies, and evolving diversity approaches are reshaping the profession. This webinar will provide HR professionals with practical insights on leveraging AI and emerging technologies while maintaining compliance in an increasingly complex regulatory environment.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For May 14th, 2020

High Scalability

Hey, it's HighScalability time! LOL. Who knew a birthday service could lead to an existential crisis? Do you like this sort of Stuff? Without your support on Patreon this kind of Stuff can't happen. You are that important to the fate of the smart and thoughtful world. Know someone who wants to understand the cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them.

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5 Powerful Amplifiers of Influence

Leadership Freak

The channel of compliance is power. The channel of influence is relationship. The people around us seep into our lives.

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Increase The Value Of Feedback By Empowering Your Employees To Ask For It

15Five

Do you know how—or if—your managers are offering feedback to their employees? While feedback can be a strong way to improve learning and increase performance, it must occur frequently and given effectively for it to hold any power. For many, these improvement conversations happen once a year or quarterly, but really, they should be happening at least weekly.

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10 Fun Games In Office Which Promote Teamwork

Vantage Circle

Nothing can be as simple or effective for your team-building efforts than playing some fun games in office. Strong company culture is built on the foundation of having efficient teams. However for a team to perform at their optimum best, the team members must share an enviable team bond too. Such a bond is less likely to be cultivated overnight and without any prior team engagement efforts.

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4 HR Priorities for 2025 to Supercharge Your Employee Experience

Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

Forget predictions, let’s focus on priorities for the year and explore how to supercharge your employee experience. Join Miriam Connaughton and Carolyn Clark as they discuss key HR trends for 2025—and how to turn them into actionable strategies for your organization. In this dynamic webinar, our esteemed speakers will share expert insights and practical tips to help your employee experience adapt and thrive.

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New Trends in Online Learning

Mike Griffiths

Finished Netflix? Done with “doom-scrolling” social media? Maybe it’s time to gain those skills you have been putting off. The expansion of online learning was booming before COVID-19 emerged. Now, with the rise of work from home and homeschooling, the switch to online study has been massively accelerated. However, before enrolling in some uninspired port of traditional course content to an online platform, let's see what else is out there.

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Rocks in Your Pockets: Drop the Weight that Holds You Back

Leadership Freak

In the days before tractors, farmers picked rocks to make New England soil tillable. They used the stones to build nearly 260,000 miles of stone walls that still divide many fields.

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Tips for Overcoming Remote Work Fatigue

Kevin Eikenberry

While we all aspire to do work that is meaningful and fulfilling (I believe that is completely possible, and I am living proof), it can still be hard. As my dad used to say, that’s why it’s called work. Regardless of your work location, If you don’t get fatigued from your work sometimes, you might […]. The post Tips for Overcoming Remote Work Fatigue appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Top 6 Employee Behaviors That Are Worthy Of Recognition

Vantage Circle

Too often, rewards and recognition in the workplace are based on measurable performances of the employees. Reaching sales targets, closing a significant deal, lowering the time of solving the complaints- all these are examples of when employees deserve to be recognized and understandably so. But if we reason, these are the basic things why the employees are hired in the first place.

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How to Make The Best Benefits Decisions for 2025's Workforce: An HR and Total Rewards Guide

Speaker: Kaitlin Ruby Carroll

Retaining top talent in 2025 means rethinking benefits. In a competitive job market, fertility benefits are more than just offerings - they are a commitment to your team’s well-being. Gain critical insights into the latest fertility benefits strategies that can help position your organization as an industry leader. Our expert will explore the unique advantages and challenges of each model, share success stories from top organizations, and offer practical strategies to make benefits decisions tha

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Swedbank success story: making employees happier

Agile42

By Giuseppe De Simone. During 2018-2019, agile42 has supported Swedbank IT Delivery in Sweden and the Baltics throughout their agile transition: a very interesting and fun project mainly because of the incredibly open and collaborative human beings the coaches have met throughout the journey and the extraordinarily committed leaders we had the pleasure to support.

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Virtual team building: How to build trust in a remote team beyond games and activities

Know Your Team

You want your team to feel connected remotely… but how do you do it without cheesy games and activities? Here are 8 ways to get virtual team building right. Virtual team building is top of mind for you. Now that your team isn’t working in the same office anymore, the things you used to say to each other in the hall – a simple “hello” in the mornings or a smile at someone as you walked by their desk – are absent.

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Skills Alone Aren’t Enough – Solving the Leadership Development Dilemma

Kevin Eikenberry

People have been trying to crack the code of leadership development success for a long time. Unfortunately even though it has been studied more, written about more, and more people have tried to improve their leadership skills, the results have often been lackluster. I believe there are reasons for this fact. I’ve created a very […]. The post Skills Alone Aren’t Enough – Solving the Leadership Development Dilemma appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Decoding Remote Work Statistics

Vantage Circle

2020 did not go according to plan, did it? Every single area has been influenced by the current(at the time of writing) pandemic. Amongst every other disruption, the corporate sector was the most hard hit. So, why do we need to understand or know a few remote work statistics? Companies had to adjust to new working standards overnight. This meant that companies hardly got any time to ponder and plan.

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The Diversity Reckoning: Can HR Survive Without New Perspectives?

Speaker: Jeremy York

2024 has tested every organization, and 2025 promises no less - the warning signs are everywhere. If you’re relying on superficial approaches to diversity, you might find yourself scrambling to catch up. Thought diversity - the fuel for new ideas, fresh perspectives, and disruptive innovation - is more than a buzzword. It's a survival strategy. And if you’re not building it into your workplace culture right now , you’re heading for trouble.

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How To Identify A Leader During An Interview

Eric Jacobsen Blog

The next time you are interviewing a candidate and you want to access their leadership skills, consider asking the candidate these questions : What personal qualities define you as a leader? Describe a situation when these qualities helped you lead others. Give an example of when you demonstrated good leadership. What is the toughest group from which you've had to get cooperation?

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The best way to hold a remote one-on-one meeting

Know Your Team

Here’s an exact agenda template to use and 5 key best practices to make sure you get the most out of your remote 1-on-1 meeting. If I told you, of all the things you were transitioning from being in-person to online, that your remote one on one meeting would be most critical… Would you believe me? To be frank, I’m not sure I would believe myself.

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Without This, Feedback Can’t Help – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

There are tons of tips out there for delivering feedback. The problem is that tips are only tactics until we start with the basics. First, we must understand the goal of feedback which is that the other person will take action on that feedback. And then, we have to ensure that the feedback is actually […]. The post Without This, Feedback Can’t Help – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Digital HR Transformation and Future Of Work

Vantage Circle

HR digital transformation is redesigning the way HR works, leveraging all the HR areas: payroll, benefits, performance management, learning and development, rewards and recognition, and hiring. It makes HR more efficient, effective and connected. In this podcast, Soumyasanto Sen talks about the concept of Digital HR Transformation, its benefits, and the future of work.

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Miss One Change, Face Major Risk: The New Compliance Crisis In HR And How To Fix It

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

From rapidly changing state-level labor laws and evolving workplace protections to new compliance expectations around pay equity and hybrid policies, HR teams are navigating a constant wave of regulatory updates. It’s not just about reacting anymore; it’s about anticipating risk, aligning stakeholders, and taking a smarter, proactive stance. In this session, we’ll cut through the noise and help you focus on what matters.

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Inspiring Creativity: Why Adults Can Be Kids, Too

https://www.organizationaldevelopmentsolutions.com

Raise your hand if you're tired of adulting! ????? ????? You know what we're talking about. All the mundane things adults must do on a day-to-day basis: working, managing staff members, taking care of the kids, keeping the house clean, running errands, etc. At some point in our lives, we "grew up." We stopped inspiring creativity. And every once in a while when we find ourselves stressed to the max, we think back to when we were kids and remember how much easier life was.

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Lessons in Supply Chain Resilience | Accenture

Accenture: OrgDev

Chris Karney shares how a North American retailer evolved its supply chain operations from business as usual to rapid response in the wake of COVID-19.

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How To Hire Greatness

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Hiring Greatness is the book by David E. Perry and Mark J. Haluska , who combined have closed more than 1,800 hiring search projects. In their book, the authors share their guide for how to attract, recruit and retain star executives. They advise that it is far more important that a leadership candidate possess specific intangible core attributes, than just decades of industry experience.

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Decoding Remote Work Statistics

Vantage Circle

2020 did not go according to plan, did it? Every single area has been influenced by the current(at the time of writing) pandemic. Amongst every other disruption, the corporate sector was the most hard hit. So, why do we need to understand or know a few remote work statistics? Companies had to adjust to new working standards overnight. This meant that companies hardly got any time to ponder and plan.

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Recognition Powers High-Performance — If You Do it Right

Speaker: Radhika Samant and Todd Wuestenberg

Employee recognition has often been deemed a "feel-good" initiative, tied closely to rewards. While we understand its importance, we tend to associate recognition with intangible outcomes like engagement and sentiment, rather than direct impacts on retention and high performance. In today’s workplace, the true ROI of recognition lies in its ability to regenerate tangible, business-driven results.