Sat.Jan 22, 2011 - Fri.Jan 28, 2011

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Leadership & Age

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth When it come to leadership age doesn’t matter – competency does. History is full of examples of leaders who have succeeded and failed at every age. The intangibles of passion, character, commitment, discernment, and talent are of infinitely greater importance than someones date of birth. I don’t care about your generational [.

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3 Steps to Listening Better and Hearing More

Lead Change Blog

When it comes to teaching people to communicate we have historically focused a lot more on effective speaking, writing and presenting than on effective listening.

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When Is It Right To Question Authority At Work?

Rich Gee Group

"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." – John F. Kennedy. How often do we let this happen to us at work? We go with the vagaries of the loudest shouters without sitting down, truly thinking about the issue and doing what is the right path for you, your organization, and your customers?

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The 4 Things Every Leader Should Say To Their Team, And…

Terry Starbucker

…Then Hold Themselves Accountable To. Trust. Credibility. Every leader wants these things, because if they can get them, it sets the stage for extraordinary achievement. If they cannot, it almost always leads to middling mediocrity or outright failure. Establishing trust and credibility takes some time to do, but the process has to start (or re-start) with what I call a “ declaration of principles &# to those you are leading- a public statement of the things that YOU will do (or n

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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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5 Communication Tips for Leaders

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Regardless of your station in life, both what you say, and how you say it matters. It matters to an even greater degree for those in positions of leadership. Leaders simply don’t have the luxury of choosing their words in cavalier fashion. Whether in written or oral form your vocabulary matters. Few things make an impact, or lack thereof, like the words you allow to flow from your lips or from your keyboard.

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Why Leadership Matters

Lead Change Blog

I’ve often heard it said that the one constant in business is change. While change is certainly always present I think that there is at least one additional constant.

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10 Ways to Make Others Shine

Leading Blog

Earl Miller, a neuroscientist at MIT says, “ Success has a much greater influence on the brain than failure.” Ned Hallowell comments in Shine : While of course mistakes need to be acknowledged and, one hopes, learned from, it may be more likely, from a purely neurological point of view, that a person will learn more from a success than a failure.” Hallowell points out that acknowledgment or recognition serves two important functions.

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Personal Connections are the New Currency

Michael Lee Stallard

Many thanks to Deborah Mills-Scofield for complementing Fired Up or Burned Out in her Forbes.com blog post entitled “ Personal Connections are the New Currency.&#.

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Leaving A Legacy… Worth Leaving

Lead Change Blog

While promoting Leading With Honor, I sometimes get asked, why? Why take the time and effort to Lead With Honor? Society teaches us that success comes from focusing on the 3 P’s – Power, Prestige and Profit.

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How To Survive In A High Performance Workplace.

Rich Gee Group

Been there, done that. Because of the economy and marketplace, many seemingly normal environments are slowly turning into ‘high-performance’ workplaces (HPW). In addition, if you are working at a startup or within a certain industry (PR, Advertising, Tech, etc.), you might encounter this situation all the time.

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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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5 Leadership Lessons: Five Lessons from Hank Moore

Leading Blog

In The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving , corporate strategist and author Hank Moore shares some of the lessons he has learned over the years. Here are five: You cannot go through life as a carbon copy of someone else. You must establish your own identity, which is a long, exacting process. As you establish a unique identity, others will criticize.

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Stuck? Frustrated? Workaround It: Russell Bishop Shares His Wisdom

Terry Starbucker

There are a lot of books out there that take on the task of helping us with “ getting things done &# in the workplace. That’s because there are millions of potential “doers&# out there, and just as many ways that things can go astray, or hit a brick wall, or worse yet, head in reverse. So we’re looking for answers out there – ways do deal with those times of complexity, frustration, negativity, and resistance.

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Equal To or Greater Than = Influence

Persuasive Powerhouse

My favorite leaders are genuinely humble. They know they don’t know it all, and they know they have much to learn. They dive into learning with gusto. They make mistakes and try again. If they are in one of those boxes on the organization chart that gives them authority over others, they don’t take it [.

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Add More Torque To Your Organization.

Rich Gee Group

What’s torque? It’s a measure of the turning force on an object such as the pushing or pulling of a wrench handle connected to a nut or bolt. It produces a torque (turning force) that loosens or tightens the bolt.

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5 Ways to Improve DE&I in the Workplace

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are critical for an organization’s success. And companies that take bold action to help ensure an inclusive workplace will win every time. Discover how your company can create a culture that celebrates DE&I while achieving higher revenue and growth.

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The Cycle of Excellence: 5 Steps to Peak Performance

Leading Blog

Psychiatrist Edward Hallowell says that to bring out the best in people you have to focus on the interaction between what is within a person and what lies outside. Properly aligned, you can achieve peak performance. By peak performance he means “consistent excellence with improvement over time at a specific task or set of tasks.” “While no one has ever achieved the goal of ‘being all they can be,’” he says “everyone has it in them to deliver peak performance defined in that way.

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Three Rules of Three for Successful Communications

Tanveer Naseer

Today’s piece is a guest post by Mike Figliuolo , the founder and Managing Director of thoughtLEADERS, LLC. Mikes writes about leadership on the The thoughtLEADERS Blog and has an upcoming book on leadership that is slated to be released later this year. I encourage you to check out his blog, which you can subscribe to here. If you’d like to learn more about his upcoming book “One Piece of Paper&# , here’s the book’s main information page.

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CEO Blog - Time Leadership

CEO Blog

CEO Blog - Time Leadership Friday, January 28, 2011 5 Leadership Styles that Work A guest post by Art Gould Recipes for Success: 5 Different Leadership Styles That All Work! Theres more than one way to skin a cat. Nowhere is this saying more true than in todays corporate world. The best way to find out what makes a company successful is to look at the top.

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Establish A Contract With Your Team.

Rich Gee Group

You work hard and so does your team. Sometimes, a mis-alignment of communication, interpretation, or expectations occurs. It happens. It’s not a bad thing even if it happens once in awhile. But when it becomes a frequent occurrence, you begin to question your team’s ability to execute or your ability to communicate.

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No Ego: How Leaders Can Cut the Cost of Drama, End Entitlement and Drive Big Results

Speaker: Cy Wakeman, M.S., CSP, President, Reality-Based Leadership

Most HR leadership philosophies are grounded in two completely faulty assumptions — “change is hard” and “engagement drives results.” Those beliefs have inspired expensive attempts to keep change from being disruptive to employees. What these engagement programs actually do is create and reinforce feelings of victim-hood and leave employees unprepared to adapt to real changes that are necessary for the health and profitability of their enterprises.

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It’s More Than Business. It’s Personal.

Michael Lee Stallard

This week I participated in an interview about Connection Cultures, productivity and innovation with Dean Homer Ereksen at a business breakfast sponsored by TCU’s Neeley Business School in Fort Worth, Texas. (Read the Fort Worth Business Press article about the event entitled “ Speaker Promotes Emotional Connection for Business “).

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Do You Really Need a Meeting to Make a Decision? Five Keys to.

Kevin Eikenberry

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe Do You Really Need a Meeting to Make a Decision? Five Keys to Better Decision Making in Meetings by Kevin Eikenberry on January 24, 2011 in Decision Making , Leadership , Learning Lots of things happen in meetings – some of them even helpful!

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The Elements of Power - CEO Blog - Time Leadership

CEO Blog

CEO Blog - Time Leadership Thursday, January 27, 2011 The Elements of Power It is beautiful here. We got a light dusting of snow (over a foot) so I am now snowed in for a while. If I were a more frivolous person, I would be building a snowman or having a good snowball fight. I read a great book The Elements of Power - Lessons on Leadership and Influence by Terry Bacon.

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How To Make Wonderful Mistakes.

Rich Gee Group

Over the past week, someone I’ve been working with let me know that they made a pretty big mistake. One that might affect me and my business.

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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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Coffee House Book Review – “The Drucker Lectures” by Peter F. Drucker

Tanveer Naseer

One of the new features I will be adding to my blog this year is what I’m calling the “Coffee House Book Review”, which will feature reviews on books from the fields of leadership, management, marketing, and other areas of interest to those who are running or managing a business or organization. To start off this new series, I’d like to share my review of the book “The Drucker Lectures” which I received as a review copy courtesy of the publisher.

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Five Minutes - a Key to Successful Time Management

Kevin Eikenberry

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe Five Minutes – a Key to Successful Time Management by Kevin Eikenberry on January 28, 2011 in Decision Making , Leadership , Learning , Manage Projects , Personal Development Every leader I talk to tells me they are busy. Heck, it isn’t just leaders, it seems to be everyone.

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Secrets of Business Success

CEO Blog

CEO Blog - Time Leadership Saturday, January 22, 2011 Secrets of Business Success I am having a productive morning. For some reason I find early mornings in themselves tend to yield productivity. I reflect on the charmed life I lead. Many people ask me my secrets of success and I am not sure there is any one thing that really stands out. Success is the result of a little small things done repeatedly like: 1 - Work ethic.

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Extreme Mojo (or Driving On The Corporate Autobahn).

Rich Gee Group

The other night, I played Call of Duty—Black Ops with my son on his new Xbox 360 (with Kinect!). It's an amazing system — and it's quite entertaining. Unfortunately, I played it all wrong — or at least that's what my son told me (vociferously). I either camped out in one spot and picked everyone off like a sniper, or I ran blindly into the fray as fast as I could shooting everyone in sight.

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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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8 Tips to Ace an Interview

Women on Business

Congratulations! It’s not easy to land an interview for a new position these days. The market place is overloaded with qualified applicants seeking employment, and the fact that you made it this far is indeed encouraging. But, you still need to ace the interview and it’s critical to do some preparation to showcase your talent [.

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Your Flying Future and a Lesson in Creativity

Kevin Eikenberry

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe Your Flying Future and a Lesson in Creativity by Kevin Eikenberry on January 22, 2011 in Change , Creativity , Leadership , Learning , Solving Problems Today I read a post called The Planes of Tomorrow on the Think Like a Beginner blog.

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Creating a Learning Organization: 10 Actions For a Leader

QAspire

Jack Welch said, “An organizations ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the greatest competitive advantage.” Continuous learning and its respective implementation to generate desired business outcomes is at the core of successful organizations. Peter Senge defined a learning organization as the one “where people continually expand their capacity to create the [.

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Personal Mojo (or Driving On The Corporate Autobahn).

Rich Gee Group

home about rich our team news our fans services executive coach business coach speaking inspire media knowledge books affiliates contact Rich Gee Group 203.500.2421 Extreme Mojo (or Driving On The Corporate Autobahn). The other night, I played Call of Duty—Black Ops with my son on his new Xbox 360 (with Kinect!). It’s an amazing system — and it’s quite entertaining.

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How to Write OKRs: 45 Effective Examples

Discover how to align everyday employee priorities with company goals. Many companies are embracing objectives and key results (OKRs) as the best practice for committing to goals and following through. Objectives are outcomes that reflect current company priorities. Each employee should write OKRs that roll up to larger company goals. Show employees how they contribute to the larger mission.