Mon.Oct 10, 2011

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Light from dark nights of introspection

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Light Your World Self Leadership Those dark nights of introspection are so wrenching, yet so filled with growth. Whether the amount of time involved is prophetic or not, I can’t say. What I do know is that I’ve spent the last 40 days or so in a reflective place, spurred by someone who brought the lights down and released by [.] Light from dark nights of introspection.

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Maxwell's 5 Levels of Leadership

Leading Blog

Over 30 years ago, John Maxwell began developing the 5 Levels of Leadership. It has been presented before but never to this depth and completeness. The 5 Levels express a way to understand and organize your leadership growth. Each of the levels build on the previous one and you can only progress to the next level once you have mastered the previous level.

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How One Word Can Kill Your Ability to Influence Others

Kevin Eikenberry

That is an interesting title isn’t it? Does it leave you curious? Or does it leave you scanning through words in your mind, in a competitive way, trying to guess if you come up with the right one? Either way, I hope I have influenced you to read on. While you likely [.].

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15 Ways to Fight Fair

Leadership Freak

Image source “Most organizations have far too little conflict,” Pat Lencioni at the 2011 World Business Forum. Friction between individuals based on personalities, backstabbing, and gossip stifles organizations, hinders productivity, and creates negative work environments. Solve it quickly. On the other hand, teams that can’t fight fair are mediocre.

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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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Do This If You Want to Guarantee Conflict Escalation

The Recovering Engineer

Today, as I sat in an airport business lounge waiting for a flight, I overheard bits and pieces of another traveler’s conversation. I wasn’t trying to overhear. I just couldn’t help but overhear because his volume kept getting progressively louder. From what I could tell, he was engaged in a bit of a conflict conversation. I could also tell that he was making a common mistake that rarely, if ever, leads to conflict resolution and almost always leads to conflict escalation.

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Influence — a Master Key to Leadership Success

Kevin Eikenberry

To be a successful leader requires that you can influence other successfully — after all, you can’t control other people’s behavior or choices, only influence them — which means that influence is a critical skill for a leader. More than just for leadership, though. To be effective at nearly any endeavor in life requires cooperation [.].

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Building Leadership Trust

Coaching Tip

By Guest Author Mike Figliuolo, author of One Piece of Paper: The Simple Approach to Powerful, Personal Leadership. . People follow leaders they trust. Trust is based on predictability. Sharing a clear, compelling leadership philosophy is the best way to become more predictable to your team (to see if your team trusts you, take this simple Trusted Leader Assessment ). .

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What does Money(ball) have to do with anything?

Jason Womack

I've been in NYC now for a week - what a city. (There's no way anyone could have known, but I set this in to motion about 30 years ago when for my tap dance "end-of-the-year" production I created an event around a song that started, "Start spreadin' the news." And, now that I've been working here for so long, I know, "If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere!).

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Three Easy Steps to Boost Your IQ

CO2

Dr. Glenn Wilson, a psychiatrist at King’s College London University, found the IQ of those trying to respond to messages and fulfill work obligations fell by 10 points. That IQ drop is equivalent to losing a night’s sleep or twice the drop seen by those who just smoked marijuana! If you don’t want to appear sleep-deprived or stoned, try these three steps: Don’t respond to e-mails immediately.

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Company Teaches Flying Lessons to Caterpillars

Mike Cardus

In order for you to enhance what you-got, you must know what you-got and value where you want to go. If you feel apathetic towards your future then you are looking at the wrong future. How do you get back on the path towards a future of satisfaction and happiness with life & work? I have worked with many people from Executives looking for a change to College Students starting their professional lives.

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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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Advice for the Acquired

Marshall Goldsmith

Q: Our company is about to be acquired. My friends have warned me that this can spell trouble. Do you have suggestions for professionals in acquired companies? A: The standard PR hype that goes with an acquisition sounds something like this, "We are so impressed with management and the direction of the company that we are acquiring that we have no interest in changing them.

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Great by Choice; The Shallows – two good books for the November First Friday Book Synopsis

First Friday Book Synopsis

The new Jim Collins and Morten Hansen book, Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck – Why Some Thrive Despite Them All, and the significant “how is the internet affecting our brains” book, The Shallows, will be our two selections of the November 4 First Friday Book Synopsis. I will present the synopsis of the new [.].

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Wake-Up Call - Time for Action

Building Personal Strength

A test. One of the following two statements is correct. Choose A or B. It's morning. You grab a cup of coffee, walk out the front door and gaze upon your familiar world, and. A. Not much has changed. B. Practically everything has changed. Which did you choose? The correct answer is B. It isn't easy to create a life for yourself. You look upon your world and you need to believe that there's some constancy, some stability, some predictability to it.

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Encourage Push Back

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. Deference to authority is deeply engrained in most of us. As a leader you need to fight it in your direct reports. If people automatically defer to your [.].

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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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Middle managers the key to delivering change

Chartered Management Institute

Back in June I wrote about some Wharton research suggesting that middle managers, far from being the butt of ridicule popular culture suggests, are in fact the key to success in the modern organisation. New research from Dublin City University adds weight to that argument, suggesting that they are key to delivery of change management projects.

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Upcoming Speaking Engagements in Philadelphia, Raleigh and London (Virtual)

Managing Communities

I wanted to take a moment and share some of my upcoming speaking engagements. I love to meet people in person and the main way that I do that is through the conferences and events that I speak at. On November 5, I will be speaking at WordCamp Philly (November 5-6 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), a [.].

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Manu Tuilagi and the art of saying sorry

Chartered Management Institute

The rolling car crash that was the English rugby World Cup campaign came to a halt at the weekend as the French side deservedly dumped us out of the tournament. After a series of off the field misdemeanours one would hope it would have signalled an end to the whole unedifying process, but alas the end could not be signalled until the England centre Manu Tuilagi decided to jump off of a ferry and paddle the rest of the way to shore, where he was greeted by police who promptly gave him a clip roun

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“Shift Happens” Video Ignites Discussion on How We Need to Change or We’ll be Changed

The Practical Leader

Last week I ran a highly customized Peak Performance Leadership workshop and facilitated a strategy session in beautiful Colorado Springs. It was the perfect place to discuss climbing to higher levels of personal, team, and organization performance — especially during these fast changing and turbulent times. We also got to experience their first heavy snowfall — there’s a season change that came too fast!

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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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The Elevator Pitch

Chartered Management Institute

An "Elevator Pitch" is a concise, planned, and rehearsed description about your company which your 10 year old should be able to understand in the time it would take to travel in a lift. It is not your "sales pitch.". Related Content: Business investment 'falling' You are not watching this post, click to start watching.

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Scam Orrin Woodward and Me Out of a Free Book! (Winner Announced)

Chris Brady

It's finally time to announce the winner of Caption Contest 2011.3 Congratulations to Laura S. for the following winning entry: The transportation of the new "super-sized" magnet would prove to be. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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The Personnel Touch

Chartered Management Institute

The Olympics jamboree next year poses a raft of HR questions. But it can benefit your workers as long as you create an evenhanded policy. Ready, get set, go, says Alison Blackhurst.

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3 Essentials for Long-Term Success

Ron Edmondson

Do you want your organization to succeed? Do you want to personally succeed in your career? Do you want your marriage to thrive? For long-term success in any area of life you must be: Driven by vision. Vision sets the direction you will move. It’s the aim…the mission…the goal of what needs to be done to determine success as you’ve defined it.

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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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Launch of Professional Manager online

Chartered Management Institute

After months of planning, weeks of testing and days of tweaking, we are delighted to announce the launch of Professional Manager online.

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I’m Off Today…Here’s Why

Ron Edmondson

I’m off today… My “Type A” personality says I probably should be working… I’ve been traveling a great deal lately… I have work to do… It’s called catching up… But I’m off today… Why? Because my wife is off today… And I love my wife… Here’s the reality I try to live everyday… If I don’t protect my marriage I can’t help yours… If I don’t invest in my marriage, I can’t inves

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Olympics 2012: Do you have a strategy in place?

Chartered Management Institute

The Olympics jamboree next year poses a raft of HR questions. But it can benefit your workers as long as you create an evenhanded policy. Ready, get set, go, says Alison Blackhurst.

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How much do you challenge, contribute and change?

My Own Coach

'I was watching a film on my journey home the other day and noticed this quote, inscribed on the back of the lead characters wrist watch: Challenge, Contribute and Change As often happens, this small moment could have been overlooked. After all, it turned out that this wasn''t even a key moment in the film! But this time, this moment made me stop and make note.

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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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Sticky Situations: how to navigate management landmines

Roundtable Talk

Last week, we kicked off fall with a PowerRoundtable session diving into the topic of management train wrecks. Our three executive panelists – Luisa Girotto, General Manager , TerraCycle Canada ; Angela Coke, Associate Deputy Minister , HROntario, Ministry of Government Services; and Jeff Zajac , President & Founder, Solus One– all shared some of their memorable moments with our audience.

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Engage Employees Using Customer Service Tactics

Harvard Business Review

Most companies claim they want enthusiastic, engaged employees — and with good reason. Employee engagement and financial performance are connected. A recent study by Aon Hewitt , for example, found that companies with high levels of engagement outperformed the stock market in 2010. And yet Gallup research indicates that more than 70 percent of employees in the typical company are "not engaged" or "actively disengaged.".

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Spicy in Philadelphia: Meet Melinda Emerson

Women on Business

I am having such a great time interviewing some of the presenters for the Pennsylvania Conference for Women [link] that will take place October 25 th in Philadelphia. Many of those who will offer speeches and workshops are from all over the country. However, some are homegrown, like Melinda Emerson whose lively manner and crisp commentary are not to be missed.

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The True So-What of Social Media

Harvard Business Review

"Social media" is one of those terms that means different things to different people. Some history: it was originally associated with Web 2.0 , the Web's shift from publishing to a platform for the masses to share content and opinions. Then the corporate world caught on that social media wasn't just for consumers; the term Enterprise 2.0 emerged to take Web 2.0 inside the enterprise, and the phrase social media expanded to include both.

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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.