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Top 10 Trust Killers

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development It’s so difficult to build trust and so easy to tear it down. Do you think about the various things others do that cause you to doubt? I wrote a post yesterday that ran on Smartblog on Leadership entitled 11 Ways to Build Trust Within Your Team. If you get a chance, check it out [.] Top 10 Trust Killers.

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The Asterisk on The Secret of Life (The Perils Of Being A Mile Wide And An Inch Deep)

Terry Starbucker

A few years back I wrote that the “Real Secret of Life&# was never growing up. What I’ve learned since then is that there should be an asterisk after that, with the following warning: “CAUTION, your rediscovered child-like wonder may take you to too many places at once&#. Indeed it can. Because it recently happened to me. I’ve always known about the old problem of “being a mile wide and an inch deep&# – that is, spreading yourself so thin trying to cover multi

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What We Need To Be

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development We cannot become what we need to be by remaining who we are. ~ Max De Pree Max De Pree is the former CEO and Chairman of Herman Miller Furniture What We Need To Be.

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Are Sustainable Businesses Ethical?

Leading in Context

Are All Sustainable Businesses Ethical? Are all sustainable businesses ethical? Not necessarily. There are ways that sustainable businesses can operate unethically, including pretending to be more sustainable than they really are, or making decisions that are dishonest or cause harm. Sustainability is multi-faceted and is just one of many areas of concern in leading an ethical organization.

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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More People are Getting Raises in 2011—Are You?

Women on Business

As reported by Kimberly Weisul in BNET, salaries are on the increase, back up to the levels before the great recession, according to a WorldatWork study. There are some reasons for reserved optimism. (Weisul bills herself as an optimist. And it’s tough to be a small business writer and an optimist at the same time these days.) Here are some key points on the 2011 salaries and raises: • Salary budgets increased by 2.8% this year.

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When to Take My Name off the Door ? by Guest Blogger Leo Burnett.

In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife. Main menu Home. Leadership. Branding. Life. When to Take My Name off the Door – by Guest Blogger Leo Burnett. by John • July 20, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Marketing • 2 Comments. John Bell – As 1967 came to a close, Leo Burnett was almost out the door of the agency he founded. But before he packed up his sketchpad, pencils, awards, tributes, and memoirs, he spoke to his employees for the last time. 44 years have passed since Leo delive

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Change Initiatives Directly Affect Employee Engagement, Productivity

Six Disciplines

According to a global study by Right Management , 94% of employees who report that change was not handled well in their organizations - are disengaged. Drawing from research of 28,000 employees in 15 countries, Right Management's key findings from the global study include: Employee engagement is a key driver of organizational effectiveness and directly impacts productivity and profitability.

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Retrain Your Brain

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. Every leader faces a share of irritating screw-ups and minor setbacks. In response to those annoyances, some leaders get irritable and stressed out. Others keep on moving. [.].

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Make Strategy Execution An Advantage For Your Company

Six Disciplines

A survey conducted by the Cognos/Palladium Group, entitled " Making Strategy Execution a Competitive Advantage " included responses from 143 strategy-management professionals. Their most interesting findings? Most employers don't share company strategy. 95% of companies don't tell their employees what the strategy is. BOTTOMLINE: It's no wonder that 90% of organizations fail to execute their strategies!

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Five Lessons You Can Learn From the World’s Most Admired Companies

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Mel Stark and Mark Royal for Talent Management magazine (5/10/2011). To check out all the resources and sign up for a free subscription to the TM and Chief Learning Officer magazines published by MedfiaTec, please click here. * * * Experts from Hay Group, which partnered with [.].

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Sky Bottle Commander: Team Building Activity

Mike Cardus

This is from a book I have been working on…”Building on the Bottle”. Currently I am gathering photos and making final adjustments. If you would like to be a case-study, test some of the activities or send me some photos, variations of this activity Please send them to me. Sky Bottle Commander. Props Needed: 10 – 12 water bottle per group (for this activity the water bottles must have a “loop” or something that can easily be hooked and picked up). 5 or 6 – 8 to 10 foot lengths of rope

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Why Borders Failed While Barnes & Noble Survived

First Friday Book Synopsis

For decades, I have been a diehard supporter of NPR, PBS, and its local affiliates wherever I have lived. When I win a lottery, my first philanthropic contributions will be to them…and will be generous. Here is an NPR article written by Yuki Noguchi and featuredby online (July 19, 2011). Click here to • Listen [.].

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New Chapter

LDRLB

There are several exciting things in the works for LeaderLab over the next year. I just wanted to let the LeaderLab family know of another major one. I’ve recently accepted an opportunity to join the faculty of the College of Business at Oral Roberts University. ORU is my alma matter and so I am particularly excited by the opportunity. I’m almost equally excited, though, about what this means for LeaderLab , as I anticipate being able to put more time into it and produce more insight

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Deep Dive: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Deep Dive: The Proven Method for Building Strategy, Focusing Your Resources, and Taking Smart Action Rich Horwath Greenleaf Book Group Press (2009) Attitude and preparation determine altitude…and also depth There are business situations in which the goal is to ascend (e.g. to reach a higher level of productivity, efficiency, profitability) and other situations in which [.].

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10 HR Metrics to Track in 2024

Discover the power of HR metrics. Master recruiting, control skyrocketing labor costs, and reduce turnover rates. Get insights into key metrics like Time-to-Fill, Cost-per-Hire, and Turnover Rate. Equip your business for success in 2024.

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Are you internally or externally focused?

CO2

In a new organization, leaders are committed to discovering what is it that the customer wants and what the competition is doing. Over time, these same leaders start to shift their focus: from external to internal. It happens so gradually that it’s almost imperceptible. But, in the process, they lose sight of what brought the enterprise to scale and what will keep it at scale.

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The Art Of Connection - 2: How To Finish A Presentation

Chartered Management Institute

This article contains practical insights to help you construct more impactful conclusions to your presentations. It also marks the second in a series of expert thought pieces for the CMI Blog on 'The Art Of Connection' - helping you forge a stronger connection with the people who matter. Related Content: The Art Of Connection - 1: How To Start A Presentation The myth of non-verbal communication Why the Gettysburg Address was such a powerful presentation Why make presentations?

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Bad Culture Eats Good Vision

Ron Edmondson

Bad culture eats good vision… I don’t know who said it first. I’ve heard it several times. I’d love to give credit for it’s author, but I just don’t know. I do know the phrase helps shape my thoughts as a leader… Bad culture eats good vision… You can have the greatest vision… You can have an incredible plan… You can be cleverly strategic… You can have the best of intentions… But… Bad culture eats good vision… Eve

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Sachin Tendulkar and lessons for succession planning

Chartered Management Institute

The Indian cricket team begin their test match series against England tomorrow (weather permitting). The match is interesting for any number of reasons. The series pits the number one team in the world (India), against the number three team (England), so is a fine barometer for the progress made by the England side in recent years. Arguably of more interest however will be the performance of Indian cricketing legend Sachin Tendulkar, who currently has 99 international centuries to his name.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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Recruitment Strategy

Strategy Driven

Many companies do not understand how to approach developing a recruitment strategy. The Human Resource Department is pulled in many directions and formal recruitment strategy development can be pushed back until it’s too late. Then the decision is made to ‘do the same thing we did last year.’ This is a very costly way of recruiting because recruitment is a very fluid dynamic.

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Making the transition from technician to management

Chartered Management Institute

CMI has made regular claims in the past few years regarding the damage that can be done to organisations by accidental managers , ie people that do well in their technical discipline and are then promoted to management on the back of this ability, without having any kind of training in management. Last year over 60% of managers in a CMI survey had no formal training before taking on their management role.

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The Third Ring: Enhanced Service That Delights Customers

The Practical Leader

Fourth in a four part series on The Three Rings of Perceived Value. Years ago author and speaker on organizational excellence, Tom Peters, declared, “we can no longer afford to merely satisfy the customer. To win today, you have to delight and astound your customers — with products and services that far exceed their expectations.&# That’s even truer today.

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Fight for your right to flexi

Chartered Management Institute

Moves to extend flexible working legislation to all employees are commendable and will help shape a modern, family-friendly society, says CMI policy and research director Louise Brooker-Carey.

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2024 Payroll Calendar Templates

These calendars provide pay period dates and paydays for biweekly, semi-monthly, and monthly payroll in 2024. Use them as a reminder or share with employees so they can celebrate payday.

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One Secret to Me Accomplishing Much

Ron Edmondson

People ask all the time…How do you do everything you do? Well, honestly, I don’t feel I’m doing everything I should be doing, but, one secret is that I maintain a healthy exercise program. It fuels my creative thoughts… It keeps me feeling at my best… It builds my confidence… It helps me sleep better at night… There are other things I do…I believe in attempting to maintain total health…physical, spiritual, mental, relational…but this on

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Book Review: Tell to Win

Chartered Management Institute

Tell to Win argues that the key to success is the ability to craft, deliver and own a story that is capable of turning others into passionate advocates for your goals. Review by Professor Bruce Lloyd, London South Bank University.

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Rupert Murdoch: It’s all about karma baby

Roundtable Talk

I love how putting out bad karma will eventually slap you down. It may take days, it may take months or it may take years, but – according to karmic laws – eventually, everything you put out into the world will come back to you. Rupert Murdoch has spent a career leading with a lot of bad karma: dominating people, intimidating people and generally making lots of people’s lives miserable.

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Nobody Has Time for Interns

Harvard Business Review

Interns take note: energy and enthusiasm are no longer enough. You've got to bring something more meaningful to the table. A friend and senior executive at Yelp recently shared how busy she was balancing a demanding job, a busy travel schedule, and a newborn at home. We were catching up at a Northwestern University alumni event ; so naturally I suggested she take on a student as a summer intern.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.

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Information Overload and What You Can Do About It

Leading Blog

Knowledge workers think for a living to varying extents, depending on the job and situation, but there is little time for thought and reflection in the course of a typical day. Instead, information—often in the form of e-mail messages, reports, news, Web sites, RSS feeds, blogs, wikis, instant messages, text messages, Twitter, and video conferencing walls—bombards and dulls our senses.

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Great CEOs are Born, Not Made

Harvard Business Review

Bob Lutz in his recent book Car Guys vs. Bean Counters makes the point that GM was doing fine until in the mid 1970s the MBA-trained finance guys took control of product development from the "car guys," who were engineers and designers. The result, he says, was inferior cars and a decline in the firm. He believes that CEOs and the top management should not be bean counters but rather should be a "product guys.".

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Pricing the Priceless

Harvard Business Review

This is part of the HBR Insight Center Marketing That Works. Behind the stalled economy is an army of sluggish consumers for whom buying things often feels like wasting money. In response, marketing brandishes that thing called "value," which to most people means "cheap, but still OK." Is there anything else marketers can use to energize consumers out of this funk?

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Provoking the Future

Harvard Business Review

For all of the fervor around innovation, far too many organizations are hostile places for new ideas and the people who harbor them. All too often, new ideas are cooked up in a hothouse environment, like the executive inner sanctum or an invitation-only innovation offsite, and not shared widely until they've been sanctioned from on high. When ideas are offered up by some hardy soul in the trenches, they generally have just one place to go: up the chain of command.

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DOL Final Overtime Rules: Quickstart Guide for Employers

On August 30, 2023, the DOL unveiled a proposed overtime rule that would raise the weekly salary threshold under the Federal Labor Standards Act. Paycor is closely monitoring the proposal and will provide updates as new information becomes available.