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Challenging Conversations—Tackling Risk

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These conversations are limited to bottom-line issues. The conversation can easily devolve into unproductive speculation. Evaluating where the blind spots lie in your organization is one way to begin approaching these difficult conversations. They also need to find the time and opportunities for these conversations to occur.

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7 Tips For Planning Remarkably Productive And Effective Board Retreats

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Board and staff members spoke about how meaningful it was to come together and get to know each other better, how much they had learned through the conversations we had, and how they felt hopeful about the ways in which their visions for the organization were translated into concrete plans. . That means knowing what to focus on. .

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Make Space—Lighten the Load for Your Heavy Lifters

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Or you might hire new talent, but an opportunity to interview and onboard seems as elusive as a vacation day. This has the potential to be a challenging conversation. These conversations can give your space-making perspective and help you become more adept at redistributing the load.” You could delegate.

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Get More Out of AI, Start Chatting

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You’ve probably had a conversation with the bot twins, ChatGPT and Bard. Eliza was a natural language processing program created to explore the dynamics of conversation between humans and machines. This is also the right place to experiment with an MVP , or minimum viable product. Check Bing out.

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Build a Successful Team, Know Where Your People Thrive

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For example, the answer to the question “Tell me about a project that you’re proud of” usually gets more weight in a job interview than the response to “Describe what you like best and least about your most recent position.” We tend to focus more on what employees do than on how or why they do it. Of course, it’s important to consider skills.

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Lessons Learned Living the Virtual Experiment

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Despite the novelty, we were interviewing some of the most forward-thinking leaders in our community. The traditional workplace reality is you’re lucky if you get up to five hours of productive work from each employee every day. Commuting, excessive meetings, disruptions and office politics erode productivity.”

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Hire Fresh Talent—But Before You Shop, Check the Fridge

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Both for-profit and other nonprofits are targeting members with education and product options. Before adding talent, have a thoughtful conversation. When a manager wants to add talent, have a thoughtful conversation,” Sarah advised. Customize Present options designed to appeal to the people you interview.