Tue.Jul 05, 2011

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Push Respect

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Self Leadership We’ve had a couple of great discussions on this site and on LinkedIn over the saying, “Respect must be earned.&# You can see some of the discussion on the comments to Mary Schaefer’s post, Respect Must Be Earned. Also, check out the tag on respect and see a number of great posts about respect on [.

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4 Reasons Why Your Boss Should Take A Vacation

Tanveer Naseer

The beginning of July often marks for many the official start of summer, with children being off from school for the summer break paired with the warmer weather and sunny skies that marks this time of the year. This is also typically the time of year where most of us would start making preparations to take advantage of the vacation time we’ve earned through the contributions and efforts we’ve made for our organization.

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Introverts, CEOs, and Leadership

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Resources [link] Today on Smartblog on Leadership, Lisa Petrilli shared a post about three key challenges to overcome if you’re an introvert in a new CEO Role. The first is to is a subtle shift in how and who you motivate. Check out the great post here. Also, you can see all the Smartblog original posts contributed [.] Introverts, CEOs, and Leadership.

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Three Signs That Your Slide Deck Stinks

Next Level Blog

Earlier this year, I was with an executive who was proudly showing me the Power Point presentation he had prepared for an upcoming strategic offsite. We got through three slides and he turned to me. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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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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Post Layoff – To Take A Lower Salary or Not

Women on Business

Guest post by Donna McNamara (learn more about Donna at the end of this post). Unemployment in the US has been creeping upward again since May and currently stands a little over 9%. For many (myself included), unexpected job loss created a new normal. That new normal seems to translate into a lower salary upon finding work again. My situation is a little different from most.

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Is There a Shortage of Good Leaders?

Persuasive Powerhouse

Susan Mazza on her Random Acts of Leadership blog wrote a wonderful post called “Filling the Void of Real Leadership&# last week. I was itching to respond to it, but decided that I’d take the discussion off point. The part I zeroed in on in her post was “Glaring examples of bad leadership are [.

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Just Do It

CEO Blog

I experienced my first Fourth of July in the US (think I was traveling last year). Complete with unbelievable fireworks and dinner with friends. My time trick for today is stolen from Nike. "Just Do It". "Just Do It" helps me get things done and off my plate. Questions I ask to spur me to action: 1 - Would I like to have done this by the time I go to bed tonight?

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Business incubator.startup accelerator

Jason Womack

In 2011, I joined the Ventura Ventures Technology Center - [link] - as a strategic advisor to startups getting going here in the Ventura County locale. This article by Gus G. Sentementes demonstrates the absolute need for communities to have such support to grow the local economy, and continue providing positive opportunities. Your thoughts?

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0207 | Jesse Lyn Stoner

LDRLB

'Jesse Lyn Stoner has worked closely with leaders for over twenty-five years, helping them create collaborative, engaged organizations that make a powerful and positive impact on the world. A business consultant, former executive, and bestselling author, Jesse has worked in a wide range of industries including Fortune 500s, small startups, government agencies, and nonprofits.

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Why Do I Care What Work Is? Because that is what you are PAID for.

Mike Cardus

Why do I care what “work” is? If your organization, teams, leadership and you operate off different assumptions of what work is, what you are paid for. Work is bound to be miserable …This is why we need to create a shared understanding of what your work is , what your getting paid for , what you are being evaluated against. Once this is established YOU will find satisfaction in your work.

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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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0207 | Jesse Lyn Stoner

LDRLB

Jesse Lyn Stoner has worked closely with leaders for over twenty-five years, helping them create collaborative, engaged organizations that make a powerful and positive impact on the world. A business consultant, former executive, and bestselling author, Jesse has worked in a wide range of industries including Fortune 500s, small startups, government agencies, and nonprofits.

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Use a Victory Log to Build Self-Esteem

Your Voice of Encouragement

When your inner critic is busy feeding your mind negative messages, it can be hard to maintain strong self-esteem. Keeping a "Victory Log"* reminds you about your accomplishments so you give yourself credit for the positives. Learn how easy it is to set one up and use it to strengthen your belief in yourself and your abilities. *Special thanks to Judy Robinett , who introduced the term “Victory Log” to me.

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FiveThings People Who Strive for Success Don't Know That Can Hold Them Back

Building Personal Strength

I've been studying the neuroscience related to learning and behavior change for 25 years. Along the way, I've learned some things about success that even the hard chargers don't know about - major realities that can hold them back. Here are the top five. 1. Knowing what to do does not equate to doing it. The reason is that most situations don't allow for reflection and conscious decision-making.

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Make Communication About Them, Not You

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. When having a difficult conversation, it’s easy to get wrapped up in what you need. You’re angry so you respond with anger. You’re frustrated so you respond with [.].

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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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What environment motivates you?

CO2

I just spent a week at a hotel in San Francisco that was new and lovely, and yet, when I was trying to work I just could not engage. Some spaces–hotels, offices, you name it–lend themselves to providing energy, focus, and action while others seem to just disengage me entirely. You could say this is just in my head, and you would be right, I suspect.

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Voice of Experience: Lis Brown (Accenture)

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an excerpt from a profile of Lis Brown (Application Management Outsourcing Lead, Accenture) written by Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) for The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business. “Visit us daily to discover issues that matter, share experiences, and plan networking, your [.].

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Is your behaviour career limiting?

Chartered Management Institute

New research from the authors of Change Anything , found 97 percent of employees think they have some Career-Limiting Habit (CLH) that keeps them from achieving their full potential at work.

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The Bully-Free Workplace: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

The Bully-Free Workplace: Stop Jerks, Weasels, and Snakes From Killing Your Organization Gary Namie and Ruth F. Namie John Wiley & Sons (2011) Tolerance of inappropriate behavior condones it. Over more years than I wish to specify, I have been centrally involved in dozens of different environments and on only two occasions was I the [.].

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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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"Oh, Spaniard, You Should See the Colosseum!"

Chris Brady

Here's a snippet from a manuscript I'm roughing while here in Italy; musings on the Colosseum in Rome. I also struggled, as I guess most do, with the purpose behind this amphitheatre. This enormous, [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Talent Management Malleability? #hci2011engage

Management Craft

I will be part of a panel discussion at the HCI conference in Chicago next week (my surgery is 7/13) and will be talking talent management. One of the thoughts that I hope to banter about with the participants is how we balance the needs for simplicity and consistency with the need to be flexible and agile. Are they mutually exclusive? No, of course, not.

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Human Performance Management Best Practice 1a – Demonstrative Self Checking

Strategy Driven

Even the most well-intentioned and dedicated humans are fallible. Therefore, the challenge becomes one of minimizing human error. The text above is only a small portion of this article. Become a StrategyDriven Premium Member to gain access to the entire article and the over 100 other StrategyDriven members-only articles, whitepapers, models, and tools and templates.

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Management training and development on a budget

Chartered Management Institute

How do you keep management moral up, when your training and development budget has gone down?

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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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Mini Saga #109 – Practice

Rajesh Setty

If it is your passion, it is never too late to start on it! Cindy Chang’s singing and story on America’s Got Talent was inspiring beyond belief. It also matched with Eric Handler’s prompt at #Trust30. So, this mini saga was inspired by both of them. Mini Saga #109 – Practice. Cindy was 42 and this was her first time on the big stage.

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On Social Media Becoming Social Business

Harvard Business Review

For a clue to social media's future, we need not look much further than Washington. On the one hand, you have " Weinergate ," former NY Senator Anthony Weiner's Twitter fiasco, which was essentially user error. He failed to negotiate the thin line between digital communication and social communication, between private and public. On the other hand you have President Obama's announcement that he will do his own Tweeting.

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7 Suggestions for those Studying to be a Pastor

Ron Edmondson

I have the opportunity to talk with lots of young pastors each week. Another group that has recently started interacting with me are those preparing for the pastorate. I love investing in the next generation of leaders and am thankful for those who invested in me. One of those pastors in training recently asked me, “ If you were my age (about 22) and were studying to be a pastor, what would you do?

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Innovation's Nine Critical Success Factors

Harvard Business Review

Note: This post was written with Mark Sebell and Jay Terwilliger, managing partners at Creative Realities, Inc., a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. Your organization won't innovate productively unless some underlying factors are in good shape. If "10" is outstanding and "1" is poor, how do you rate your organization on each of these?

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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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Email Etiquette and the Perils of "Reply All"

Harvard Business Review

Have you ever been puzzled by the ways that people use email ? The global proliferation of email may have been one of the most significant advances in human communications, but the technology did not arrive with an instruction manual. As a result, email sometimes reflects both the best and worst of human behavior. Here's an example displaying both: Our story begins when the production editor for a major online business journal (not HBR) mistakenly sent a blast email about "invoicing procedures"

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The One Thing That Makes Collaboration Work

Harvard Business Review

If I had to pick the one thing to get right about any collaborative effort, I would choose trust. Yes, trust. More than incentives, technology, roles, missions, or structures, it is trust that makes collaboration really work. There can be collaboration without it, but it won't be very productive or sustainable in the long run. You might rush to agree, but first consider that what a leader needs to do to generate trust in an organization: 1.

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The Value of Praise

Harvard Business Review

As a kid growing up in the U.S., I was raised on praise, not always deserved. If it wasn't a gold star on a school report, it was an A for effort. In China , praise is so subtle as to be indiscernible. During my early days in Hong Kong I would get in a lift with young parents and offer some glowing observation about their child. They'd smile broadly and say "Oh, but he is very naughty" and I'd think, "Don't say that in front of him, he'll grow up to be an axe murderer!!

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Leveraging the Benefits of Being a Rookie Employee

Harvard Business Review

Hundreds of my Stanford students graduated last month and are about to enter new jobs, along with hundreds of thousands who graduated from other universities. They will all be "rookies" yet again in their careers. Conventional wisdom tells us to get past the rookie stage in our career and grow into something more "elevated and respected.". Yet, I will buck conventional wisdom and suggest that there are some amazing advantages to being a rookie that new employees should milk while they can.

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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.