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How Small Towns Can Support Aging In Place

The Horizons Tracker

It’s also about relationships with other people, social capital and the possibilities of community participation.” Census and Iowa Small Towns Project, which has been surveying residents from 99 small towns in Iowa every ten years since 1994. “It’s not just about services, like a nursing home or hospital.

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Mentoring Still Not Happening for Women in the Workplace

Great Leadership By Dan

Since the benefits of mentoring are well documented, this research took a closer look at the less explored side of the issue surveying 318 businesswomen from 19 different countries and 30 different industries. Given the number of women in the United States in senior-level positions, this survey size is statistically significant.

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Reskilling the Future of Work

HR Digest

In a recent McKinsey Global Survey on the future of workforce needs, nearly nine in ten executives and managers say their organizations either face skills gap already or expect gaps to develop within the next five years. This is a key moment for business leaders to respond promptly and with urgency. ACCELERATING UPSKILL.

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Givers give without expectation of immediate return.

Coaching Tip

This 'law of love' is identified in many different ways--for example, in Wayne Baker's bestseller, " Achieving Success Through Social Capital " (Jossey-Bass), this law of love in the workplace is described as the "law of reciprocity.". John Agno: Can't Get Enough Leadership. Your Social Media Press Kit. Grant Ph.D.:

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Act Like an Entrepreneur Inside Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

85% of the respondents to an Accenture survey reported that “ employee ideas are mostly aimed at internal improvements rather than external ones.” Entrepreneurship Innovation Leadership' Jennifer Prosek catalogs a number of these approaches in Army of Entrepreneurs. And then “Who can I bring along with me?”

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The More You Energize Your Coworkers, the Better Everyone Performs

Harvard Business Review

In one case, two operational leaders at Kelly Services, a workforce solutions firm, created a Business Resource Group to promote leadership development and increase employee engagement. Organizational network surveys map the invisible network behind the organizational chart—the real way people interact. Create Energizing Events.

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The Big Goal Behind All that Customer Data

Harvard Business Review

She also scores high in your Net Promoter Score surveys, but at the moment (like most "promoters") she's never actually referred a profitable customer to you. They're helping customers build social capital. That's because you haven't reached out to her to do so. They're improving customers' lives.

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