Mon.Jul 11, 2011

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Your Leadership Walk

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Best of Blogs Series Leadership Development We are all on a walk. It is the journey we take each day as a leader. We move through our day, going from one task to the next, one meeting to the next, one problem to the next. We have conversations and interactions; some small, seemingly inconsequential others lengthy and potentially memorable.

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What I Learned About Leadership from the Dalai Lama

Next Level Blog

This month, the Dalai Lama is in Washington, DC for a couple of weeks to lead a multi day series of Buddhist teachings called a Kalachakra. This past Saturday morning, he came out to the West Lawn of. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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Three Reasons A Leader Must Have a Positive Attitude

Kevin Eikenberry

The title of this article is pretty declarative, don’t you think? Actually it isn’t completely true. You don’t have to have a positive attitude to have a leadership role, and you don’t even have to have it to lead. But you definitely must have a positive attitude if you want to lead successfully for an [.].

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CliqueIt – For Photo Sharing in Your Cliques

Women on Business

Cliqueit is a cool mobile app for Android devices that can help business women in their professional or personal lives. I asked the team at CliqueIt to share some details about the app for the WomenOnBusiness.com audience, and they sent along the following information. If you want to share photos only within your desired groups, CliqueIt could be the answer.

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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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How to Click With People: The Secret to Better Relationships in Business and in Life

Kevin Eikenberry

This week’s Resource Recommendation is How to Click With People: The Secret to Better Relationships in Business and in Life by Rick Kirschner. I get lots of books in the mail because people want me to review them in this space. I received an advance proof of this book a few weeks ago and I was [.].

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The Rainmaker 'Fab Five' Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

Happy Monday! I like to start off each week by featuring five posts from the HR, talent management, and leadership development blogosphere that I found to be particularly good reading. Here are my picks for the week of July 4th - 10th, 2011. Enjoy! Wally Bock, Three Star Leadership: Thoughts on Exceptional Leaders - What makes an exceptional leader?

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The Four Regions of the Thinking Brain Made Simple - Part Two

Building Personal Strength

As I explained in my previous post , there are four general areas of the brain's cortex (thin outer layer) that handle four unique kinds of thinking. To understand these functions, it will help to understand back-brain/front-brain differences, as well as left-brain/right-brain differences. Back-brain and front-brain. In simple terms, the back part of the cortex takes raw information from the senses and processes it into sight, sound and physical sensation.

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Leadership Caffeine: 9 Ideas to Help You Jump the Gap Between Failure and Success

Management Excellence

People and teams fail on their way to success all of the time. That’s great. That’s how it’s supposed to work. The people and groups I struggle with are those who just fail. Often, the gap between failure and success appears wide, deep and ominous. This perceived gap keeps people frozen in place for a long while and then as time passes, fear turns to regret.

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The Idea Hunter: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

The Idea Hunter: How to Find the Best Ideas and Make Them Happen Andy Boynton and Bill Fischer, with William Bole Jossey-Bass/John A Wiley Imprint The best ideas are out there…or inside you…just waiting for you to find them. The premise of the book is this: There are valuable lessons to be learned from those [.].

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Two Team Building & Leadership Success Stories

Mike Cardus

Below are two short success stories. To read more success stories check out Team Building Stories and the Exponent Leadership Stories. Team Building & Leadership Success Stories. Financial Services Group. Creating and executing new revenue streams. · Working with a financial service group that was facing the challenge of regulations changing the amount of fair-share revenue they could claim as their total profit.

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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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Why Happy Employees Mean Happy Customers

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Mike Prokopeak for Talent Management magazine online. To check out all the resources and sign up for a free subscription to TM and Chief Learning Officer magazines published by MedfiaTec, please click here. * * * The customer may always be right, but you better be [.].

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List of Servant Leadership Academic Programs Now Available

Modern Servant Leader

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The Manager as Change Agent: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

The Manager as Change Agent: A Practical Guide to Developing High-Performance People and Organizations Jerry Gilley, Scott Quatro, Erik Hoekstra, Doug Whittle, Ann Maycunich, Scott A. Quatro, Jerry W. Gilley, and Doug D. Whittle Basic Books (2001) Your Own Yellow Brick Road Awaits Don’t be deterred by the publication date. This book really does offer [.].

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What liberties are you taking?

CO2

Gov. Chris Christie says he used a state police helicopter for two personal trips, including to fly to his son’s baseball game. He gave the “good father&# defense, citing “the realities of life&# (i.e., the competing demands of parenthood and a job serving his constituents 80 hours a week). Not many could argue with the desire to be a good parent and the impulse to act on it.

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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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New Research Project: We Need Your Help

LDRLB

'Since its inception, LDRLB has been dedicated to actively promoting the application of research and theoretical models in leadership and organizational behavior. Today we’re pleased to announce that we’re adding to the efforts of LDRLB by working with current scholars to help shape the research being undertaken. But we need your help. We believe our community readers are a great resource on leadership and on real-life working inside of organizations.

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Veteran Members of Your Community Have Greater Influence and Responsibility

Managing Communities

photo credit: Danny Nicholson There is a certain train of thought that suggests that as a member becomes well established on your community, that you should give them more rope when it comes to your guidelines and greater flexibility regarding them. In fact, it’s more than a train of thought, it’s a pressure. As someone [.].

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On Writing

Chris Brady

Writing is the wrestling match you have with yourself to find out if you think what you think you think. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Stanley Milgram, Rebekah Brooks and the News of the World

Chartered Management Institute

In the 60's Stanley Milgram conducted his now famous experiment into compliance. Milgram, a psychologist at Yale wanted to test how far our behaviour might deviate from the norm by measuring how much of an impact authority had on how we behaved. The experiment went to apparently extreme measures to test this by asking participants to administer an electric shock to other participants.

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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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4 Types of Mentors

Ron Edmondson

Recently I started the conversation about mentoring here on my blog. I’m still soliciting feedback through a mentoring survey. (You can help out with that HERE.). Mentoring appears to be a need in many people’s minds these days. You will see that clearly when I share the results of the survey, which should be later this week. I know it’s on my mind a great deal more than usual.

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Managers spending 2.5 hours a week reading or learning for work

Chartered Management Institute

Research run by Chartered Management Institute (CMI) found that managers are spending on average 2.5 hours a week reading or learning for work, in their own time.

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Outside In: Customer Perceptions Define Service/Quality Levels

The Practical Leader

First in a four part series on The Three Rings of Perceived Value. Customer service and continuous quality improvement have always been important. As organizations struggle to grow revenues and reduce costs in our challenging economic times, service/quality is becoming even more critical. It’s where organizations thrive, survive, or nosedive. The June 30 blog post, Our Dell Dance to the ‘Bureaucratic Boogie’ Highlights a Common Service Breakdown highlighted the breakdown of 

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Mini Saga #113 – Source

Rajesh Setty

Chances are, you are overlooking a source of power within your reach… Mini Saga #113 – Source. Chris was curious about his roommate John’s ritual. John would open his cupboard, look intently and say – “Make this a beautiful day. I know you can choose to make a beautiful day.” Unable to contain his curiosity, Chris opened John’s cupboard.

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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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Looking for coaches in South Wales

My Own Coach

'I''m looking for coaches working in the South Wales area to become involved in a research / networking group I''m putting together. The research will be gathered round the question: "what part will learning play in helping organisations change the way they run for the 21st century?" Perhaps you already coach with organisations around the South Wales area, you are employed as a coach, or you know someone that does!

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Networking: The hard facts and real deal with Lisa Mattam

Roundtable Talk

Recently, our members had the opportunity to connect with the smart and savvy Lisa Mattam of The Mattam Group to get her top tips on networking. Lisa shared her own experiences on building and maintaining a network as she transitioned from fast-tracking young executive to one of the top up and coming entrepreneurs in Canada. For those who missed it, here are the highlights: Lisa framed up her conversation by sharing with us her four big ideas on networking.

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When does a manager become a leader?

My Own Coach

'The easiest management skill is to encourage or demand people do more. The most difficult is to encourage people to do better. It is also the most important skill. It requires education, coaching and patience to create a team of people who are better. Perhaps then, the manager becomes the leader.

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5 Types of Mentors

Ron Edmondson

(This is an updated post. I left out the 5th type of mentor in the original post. I have my explanation HERE.). Recently I started the conversation about mentoring here on my blog. I’m still soliciting feedback through a mentoring survey. (You can help out with that HERE.). Mentoring appears to be a need in many people’s minds these days.

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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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Go Ahead, Take that Break

Harvard Business Review

Last weekend, like every weekend, I scrawled a long list of things to do on an old envelope. But unlike most weekends, instead of tethering myself to a computer and working, I sat in my backyard alongside my 10 year-old daughter in our collapsible camping chairs, reading novels. I wish I could tell you that this was a bona fide afternoon of rest and relaxation (R&R).

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Leadership and Films that Make Change

Women on Business

I was plucked from my daily routine and dropped into the middle of another era that made me stop and appreciate the power of women to face challenges with zeal. It was like eating a healthy organic meal instead of the empty calories we are being asked to digest, the “chick flicks” that abound today. I suggest to Jennifer Anniston et al. to take time to rethink women’s roles in film.

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Let's Abolish Self-Appraisal

Harvard Business Review

Asking an employee to write a self-appraisal using the company's appraisal form is a common performance management practice. It's a deceptively attractive technique. An employee's self-appraisal and rating should give the manager valuable data on the quality of an individual's performance. It previews what to expect when the two sit down to discuss the manager's performance appraisal.

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Is Your Sales Force Addicted To Incentives?

Harvard Business Review

A distribution company pays its salespeople entirely though commissions on sales. The philosophy is "you eat what you kill." Salespeople keep their accounts permanently after making a sale. Many tenured salespeople earn several hundred thousand dollars a year, mostly by selling to long-time customers who provide a continuous and stable source of revenue and income.

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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.