How to figure out your next career step To help formulate your career path, reach out to five people -- friend, co-worker, boss, family member and romantic partner -- and ask them to identify three of your biggest strengths. "Until you get a good sense of your strengths and weaknesses and how they play in an environment, you're operating in a deficit," says recruitment expert Tony Lee. Full Story: The Wall Street Journal (tiered subscription model) (11/17)
Don't get caught up in making your presentation a performance, instead focusing on your intention, being authentic and staying on point while leaving room for spontaneity, writes Stephanie Scotti. "Remember: If you appear phony in any way, you'll lose credibility in the eyes of your audience," she writes. Full Story: SmartBrief/Leadership (11/17)
How and why you should delegate Sometimes it seems easier and faster to do something yourself, but there are ways to change this mindset. "Delegating, when done well, not only reduces your own workload, it develops your employees, gives you and your team a bigger range of skills and impact, provides emergency back-up (since you're not the only one who knows how to do something), creates inclusive opportunities, empowers people, and retains talent," writes leadership consultant Deborah Grayson Riegel. Full Story: Fast Company online (11/17)
Hire Smart
Diversity plays a role in retaining your best employees The current climate has inspired many leaders to diversify their organizations, but many may not be aware that failure to focus on diversity and inclusion can also equate to retention issues. Executive level minority and women leaders said they felt the need to move on to another company if they wanted to progress in their careers, according to DDI's Diversity and Inclusion Report 2020, which also offers three ways to support D&I strategies. Full Story: Inc. (tiered subscription model) (11/12)
The Landscape
Fed's Clarida targets maximum employment Federal Reserve asset buying will be aimed mostly at creating maximum employment, especially among Americans in prime earning years, rather than simply lowering the unemployment rate, Vice Chair Richard Clarida says. Clarida also says the Fed will use all available tools to achieve goals and reiterates a stance that further federal relief is required. Full Story: Reuters (11/16),The Wall Street Journal (tiered subscription model) (11/16)
While millions of people got a trial-by-fire initiation to remote learning eight months ago, Sal Khan was a remote learning supporter long before he founded the Khan Academy in 2008. He says remote learning teaches students to organize their tasks and self-pace their work instead of waiting on a teacher to tell them what to do next -- skills that are essential in the workplace. Full Story: The Verge (11/16)
For a historic NCAA men's basketball tournament, there's no better city to host it than Indianapolis -- which has plenty of historic venues to spread out the games. Of course, there's Butler University's Hinkle Fieldhouse, built in 1928 and made famous in the movie "Hoosiers," Southport High School's gym, built in 1957 and with a 7,100-seat capacity is just the 11th largest high school gym in the state; and Indiana Farmers Coliseum, built in 1939 and known for a horrific explosion in 1963 and home to three-time ABA champions Pacers. Full Story: The Indianapolis Star (tiered subscription model) (11/16)
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