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What Is Professional Development? We Unpack the Essentials

Success

Career advancement: Increase your opportunities for promotions, transitions or entrepreneurial opportunities. Technical skills upgrade Whether you code software, are a customer service representative or design digital graphics, the technical landscape has likely changed since you attended college. They retire or move to a new company.

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Instead of Asking ‘Why,’ Ask ‘Why Not’

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Even when you’ve reached a point where you could retire comfortably, that’s, well, boring. You could invent time-saving software or you could serve others in a soup kitchen; they both impact lives far beyond what you imagine. One way I try to gauge that in the companies I lead is through the net promoter score (NPS).

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Forget Basic AI Tools, Digital Clones Will Be The Next Big Workforce Disruptor

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AI employees are software programs or algorithms designed to perform specific tasks or functions. For example, if employees do not hold ownership rights to their clones, there is potential for clones to remain in service for the company (even after the employee departs or retires).

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Modern Mentorship Is Changing, But It’s Still About Relationships

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Through conversations with experts, mentors and mentees (some retired, others just beginning their careers) SUCCESS set out to understand how mentorship has changed and what that means for pursuing achievement today. LaFrance started as an intern, then got promoted. Because mentoring, at its core, is a relationship.”. And she did.

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How to Boost Online Sales

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These emails might first include thanks for signing up, then a welcome to your business, followed by relevant case studies, sales letters and promotional information. A financial planner’s online tool asks, “Are you saving enough for retirement?”. Insider info: A local pizza chain promises the recipe for its most popular sauce.

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A Manual for Dealing with Rejection

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“Rejection sends a powerful message, so you need to make sure that you are reading the right cues in any rejection you experience,” says Heathfield, who has worked as a human resources director and co-owns a software company with her husband. If they get a promotion over other candidates, they have done some selling that led to the promotion.

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The Real Reasons People Are Quitting by Bonnie Low-Kramen

Bonnie Low Kramen

The news stories focus on completely legitimate reasons for why this is happening, such as staff taking early retirement, fears about Covid and not wanting to return to the office, lack of childcare, and of course, the search for better jobs at higher compensation. What’s going on? What is chasing all these people away?

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