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An open office can be a nightmare when it comes to noise — especially when you’re working on something that requires your undivided attention. To get the focus you need, talk to your team to sync up expectations about how you can all work optimally. Develop some ground rules. For example, you all might agree that when one colleague is on the phone, everyone else will only whisper. It’s also smart to invest in noise-canceling headphones. They not only drown out unwanted noise but also serve as a visual cue that you don’t want to be disturbed. Another tactic is to scout out a private, quiet space — an underused conference room, say — that will allow you to write and think when you truly can’t be interrupted. Finally, if noise is still a problem, ask your manager about moving to a new desk. Don’t lodge complaints about your talkative coworkers; be positive and tell your boss that you’ll be more productive in another space.

Source: Harvard Business Review 

Adapted from “Staying Focused in a Noisy Open Office,” by Rebecca Knight 

CXO in partnership with Global are honoured to invite you to an exceptional “Digital Strategy Execution ” initiative with Prof. Wade from IMD Lausanne, Director of IMD’s Global Center for Digital Business Transformation and a world authority on digital transformation.

As the final step, in what can sometimes be an arduous process, strategy execution is vitally important and is widely considered to be the hardest challenge executives are facing.

Often strategies fail, not because of poor conceptualisation, but simply because the many obstacles that prevent great plans from reaching effective implementation are underestimated.

This exceptional interactive one day event will focus on the critical parts of making your journey to Digital strategy implementation a success.

The number of participants is limited and only accessible to CEOs and senior executives. For more information and deadlines go to http://www.globalmagevents.com/programme/digital-execution-successfully-orchestrating-digital-business-transformation 

We are confident you will be impressed by this pioneering initiative and hope to welcome you there together with your senior staff.

Pierre Hendrickx, director – Global
Dirk Vermant, director – CxO

Art Nocturne Knocke krijgt dit jaar een geheel nieuwe zes dagen durende dynamische formule, van zaterdag 11 t/m woensdag 15 augustus met voorname kunsthandelaren die meewerken aan creaties en presentaties van internationaal niveau, waar kwaliteit en originaliteit primeren.

Niet alleen de kunstwereld en de kunstmarkt zien er ondertussen helemaal anders uit, maar ook de interieurs van de verzamelaars en de kunstliefhebbers.

Iedereen, jong en minder jong, zoekt nu naar een mix van zowel oude kunst, design, moderne en hedendaagse kunst van verschillende stijlen, perioden en continenten, gepresenteerd op een eclectische setting, kwalitatief en verfrissend hedendaags.

​Niet enkel het geselecteerde aanbod en de nieuwe dynamische aanpak zullen inspireren, maar ook de exclusieve locatie Knokke de mondainste badplaats van de Belgische kust, een netwerkparadijs voor al diegenen die houden van kunst en savoir-vivre.

Art Nocturne Knocke betekent kunst beleven en exclusief genieten in een zomerse sfeer aan zee!

Bron: Art Nocturne Knocke

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Op 25 mei 2018 is het zover. Dan treedt de GDPR – General Data Protection Regulation – in werking. Met die nieuwe regelgeving wil Europa de privacy van zijn burgers beter beschermen. Al wie dan nog gegevens over personen verzamelt en gebruikt, zal daarvoor een gegronde reden nodig hebben. Maar wat betekent dit nu voor jouw organisatie?

Welke gevolgen heeft de nieuwe privacywet?
Wat je precies moet ondernemen om je bedrijf op de nieuwe regels af stemmen, hangt af van de privacyrisico’s die je activiteit(en) met zich meebrengen. De klantenkaarten van de broodjeszaak, de personeelsdossiers van een KMO en de patiëntendossiers van een ziekenhuis: het zijn allemaal verwerkingen van persoonsgegevens, het ene weliswaar veel delicater dan het andere.

Zo is de privacy impact van de klantenkaart beperkter dan dat van het personeelsdossier – waarin bijvoorbeeld loongegevens en evaluaties zijn opgenomen. Ook de risico’s verbonden aan het verwerken van medische gegevens zijn groot en zullen dus meer actie vragen.

Hoe starten met de GPPR?

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Bron: Kwinta

Whether working with a colleague or direct report, everyone on your team needs to know how to provide constructive feedback. But delivering criticism can be uncomfortable, intimidating, and hard to share in a way that the recipient can understand, accept, and act on.

The Teams at Work: Giving Difficult Feedback toolkit includes everything you need to run a team training session on this topic: a facilitator’s guide, HBR articles handpicked by our editors, and practical tools to help your team apply the learnings in their work. Together you’ll:

• Learn the vocabulary and process to deliver feedback confidently
• Practice delivering tough feedback with team exercises

Use the hands-on tools to apply your new skills

Learn more…

New conferences are announced almost every day, but realistically you can only attend one or two per year. To decide which ones warrant your time, think about what kinds of people you want to make connections with. Consider your 50 closest professional relationships. If almost all of them are at your company or in your industry, you may want to explore conferences that bring together diverse groups, such as TED or your local TEDx gathering. Conversely, if your ties inside your industry are weak, consider attending events sponsored by your regional or national professional association. It’s important that you don’t only consider the gatherings that your peers frequent. View your conference attendance as a chance to connect with the people whom you wish to have as your peers in the future.

Bron: The Management Tip of the Day, Harvard Business Review

The High Potential’s Advantage: Get Noticed, Impress Your Bosses, and Become a Top Leader

Being seen as a high-potential leader is essential to getting promoted and reaching your organization’s upper echelons, but most companies keep their top-talent list a closely guarded secret. And the assessment process they use to decide who is and isn’t a future leader is an even greater mystery.

“The High Potential’s Advantage” takes you behind the scenes and shows how you can get on, and stay on, your company’s fast track. Leadership development experts Jay Conger and Allan Church draw upon decades of research and experience–designing high-potential programs for hundreds of large well-known global organizations and assessing and coaching thousands of talented leaders–to answer the critical questions asked by ambitious individuals like you: What will it take for me to advance in this organization? What does my boss look for when deciding whether I’m a high potential? Once I’m on the list, then what? Can I fall off it and, if so, what do I do?

Revealing the key differentiators–five critical “X factors”–that set people apart across companies of all types, Conger and Church show what you need to do to achieve and maintain top-talent status. You’ll find detailed advice for cultivating and practicing each X factor, with numerous and rich examples from those on the verge of their first promotion to those only a step away from the C-suite. “The High Potential’s Advantage” also shows you how to gain insight into and excel at the specific process your company uses to identify and develop high potentials–and how to determine which unique capabilities your company values the most.

“The High Potential’s Advantage” is the essential guide to becoming a leader in your organization.

Source: Harvard Business Review

This book is highly recommended by CxO.  Order it now via this link