Tue.Jan 24, 2012

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Leaders and Legacy

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development When I was in my twenties, I heard a speaker discuss a great study that had been conducted. The results of the study continue to influence my life to this day. The study involved fifty people over the age of 90. They were all asked one question: “If you had your life to do over [.].

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Leadership Biz Cafe Podcast #5 – Marlene Chism on Stopping Workplace Drama

Tanveer Naseer

How do we stop or curb drama in the workplace? That’s the basis of the conversation I had with Marlene Chism in the fifth episode of my leadership podcast series, “Leadership Biz Cafe”. Marlene is a speaker, author and founder of The Stop Your Drama Methodology, an eight-part empowerment process to increase clarity and improve productivity and personal effectiveness.

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Women and the Paradox of Power

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Resources [link] Instigator Jane Perdue (profile, posts, website, @thehrgoddess) and Dr. Anne Perschel (website, @bizshrink) have recently published an important new research report titled Women and the Paradox of Power: 8 Keys for Transforming Business Culture (scroll down a bit to find the “Download” link).

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How to Get the Most Benefit from an Executive Development Program

Great Leadership By Dan

In my current role as Director of Executive Development Programs at the University of New Hampshire , I’ve had the opportunity to observe and interact with hundreds of our program participants. In former roles, in managing leadership development programs at large companies, I would always take the time to talk to participants before and after they attended an external executive development program.

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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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Five Secrets for More Persuasive Writing

The Recovering Engineer

Have you ever read a dry, boring email, blog post, letter, or proposal? If you have, you know how dreadfully non-persuasive they can be. You also know how easy it is to miss the message the author attempted to convey. If you want to have your message read and acted upon, here are five tips – secrets – for more persuasive writing…. 1. Write from your reader’s perspective.

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Letting People Go with Transparency and Dignity

Leadership Freak

** Never make enemies of people you “let go,” if you can help it. “Every person who leaves goes on to represent your company. They can bad-mouth or praise.” Jack Welch One wise business owner told me, “Sometimes I’m closer to people after I fire them than before.” Turning bad to good: Never humiliate. Ask, [.].

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What’s Your Word Count?

Kevin Eikenberry

Sales trainers and professionals have said it for years. The best sales people talk less during their encounters with customers than others do. They get the prospect to share their thoughts and concerns. They recognize that the sale isn’t made by their perfect words as much as by the feelings and thoughts of the prospect. While this [.].

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YOU Are The Real Problem At Work.

Rich Gee Group

Look around the room, it it's not anyone else, it's YOU.

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Top 10 Reasons People Quit Something Worthy

Chris Brady

For nearly twenty years I've worked with people in an entrepreneurial setting, encouraging and coaching them to fulfill their dreams and goals. I've seen people come and I've seen people go, and. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Letting People Go with Transparency and Dignity

Leadership Freak

** Never make enemies of people you “let go,” if you can help it. “Every person who leaves goes on to represent your company. They can bad-mouth or praise.” Jack Welch One wise business owner told me, “Sometimes I’m closer to people after I fire them than before.” Turning bad to good: Never humiliate. Ask, [.].

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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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Define-Back to Basics. Something Every Team & Leader Needs

Mike Cardus

Sitting in the office of the Dean of Students for a High School, talking about a Scholastic-Leadership program I am leading with the Administration, Faculty and students, he said “Mike we need to return, for lack of a better word, back to basics.” He said this almost apologetically. That made me wonder –. What is so wrong with going back to basics? People fear the that as they become managerial-leaders the idea of ‘The-Basics’ is something they should have already established.

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3 Keys To Creating Consistent Character

Tim Milburn

Somewhere…someplace…someone is stepping down from a leadership position. It’s not because they didn’t do their job right. It’s not because they went over budget. It’s not even because the majority of people no longer followed their leadership anymore. It’s something else. There is a growing percentage of leaders who have to step away from leading others because they failed to lead themselves well first.

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Three Crucial Roles that Can Create Business Success (A Case Study about Apple from the NY Times)

First Friday Book Synopsis

{This is prompted by a terrific article, with many images that add insight, in the New York Times about Apple: How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work by Charles Duhigg and Keith Bradsher. Both Tyler Cowen and Paul Krugman have praised this article. Cowen says it deserves one of the Sidney Awards from David Books: [.].

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Passion or Work Ethic? Which Comes First?

Steve Farber

My good friend and work-ethic expert, Eric Chester , (author of the fantastic Reviving Work Ethic: A Leader’s Guide to Ending Entitlement and Restoring Pride in the Emerging Workforce ) recently shared with me his perspective on the relationship between passion and work. Please read his words and comment away! Passion doesn’t fuel work ethic; work ethic fuels passion.

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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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It's the Economy, Stupid!

Coaching Tip

By Roger Lowenstein in Bloomberg BusinessWeek, January 23, 2012. Charles Murray, the conservative sociologist, has written an incisive, alarming, and hugely frustrating book about the state of American society. No sense withholding the punchline: He thinks we’re in decline. The American rich are living cloistered and isolated lives, depriving the mainstream of their fraternity, their wisdom, and their skills.

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The 10X Rule: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure Grant Cardone John Wiley & Sons (2011) How to increase sustainable fulfillment of human potentialities, one’s own as well as those of others Many years ago, I read a book written by David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big, that helped me to widen [.].

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Beached Boat

Deep Imprints

This last Sunday, my pastor used an illustration. He showed boats – the first was a beached boat. After that my memory gets fuzzy because I was focused on that beached boat. Many of you know that the last few years have been relatively fruitless for me. Whereas I put in a lot of work on the homefront – with three primary family deaths in 2.5 years – my ministry life has been almost nonexistent.

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Think About This Before You Reorganize

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. Managers love to reorganize, but few employees like being reorganized. Structural changes provoke anxiety and confusion. Before you decide to redraw the org chart, consider these two issues: [.].

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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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Corporate Cultures – Supervisor Initiated, Rules and Standards Controlled Environment

Strategy Driven

The Supervisor Initiated, Rules and Standards Controlled Environment is the centerpoint of StrategyDriven Culture-base Work Performance Model. This culture set represents a moderation of most benefits and risks. Subsequently, organizations can more easily flex in the cultural direction needed to implement a change. Conversely, these moderated cultural characteristics may lack the significant intensity necessary to rapidly drive change.

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Going for growth in a go-slow world

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an excerpt from still another outstanding article written by Lowell Bryan, John Horn, and Sven Smit, featured online by The McKinsey Quarterly (September 2011), published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, obtain information about the firm, access other resources, and sign up for email alerts, please click here. * * [.].

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The average employee spends £3.20 per day on coffee

Chartered Management Institute

A blog last year reported that free tea is a major perk offered in the workplace, with employees that don't work for such tea friendly employers forking out £110 a year on caffeinated refreshments. This isn't enough for some though, at least if a report into the drinking habits of our American cousins is any guide. It found that the average American spends a whopping $1,000 per year on coffee whilst at work, or $5 per day if you prefer.

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Josh Linkner on “Child’s Play”

First Friday Book Synopsis

As a parent of four and a grandparent of ten, I count among my most precious blessings each and every opportunity I have to play games with them. Golf with the three sons, board games with the daughter and teenage grand children (usually chess) and whatever board and electronic games the younger grandchildren wish to play. [.].

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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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People Don’t Know What They Don’t Know

Ron Edmondson

It’s simple…but oh so important to remember… It’s a principle true in leadership and life. People don’t know what they don’t know. It’s hard to hold an employee accountable for something they never knew. You can’t expect your spouse to remember things you never told him or her. It’s hard to be disappointed no one comforted you in your pain if they didn’t know you were hurting.

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Today’s thoughts January 24, 2012

Rapid BI

iOS or Android – tablets levelled? iOS or Android – tablets levelled? Hear from a seasoned Apple enthusiast… What do you think? Mike Morrison RapidBI.com Blog: Social Media & your Business Communication Strategy Social Media & your Business Communication Strategy Many of us believe in social media, but do we really have a clear strategy?

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Top 5 Business Professional Confessions

Ron Edmondson

This is a guest post by Ben Lichtenwalner. Ben is a technology executive with a passion for servant leadership. His blog, ModernServantLeader.com , is a platform for spreading servant leadership awareness, adoption and action. You can follow Ben on Twitter at @BLichtenwalner. Here are Top 5 Business Professional Confessions: Pastor, I am a businessman and have confessions to make.

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RIM’s leadership woes: 5 lessons on how to go from hero to zero

Roundtable Talk

After rocketing the Blackberry to success in the mid 2000’s, RIM Co-CEO’s Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie stepped down this week and were replaced by new CEO (and former RIM COO) Thorsten Heins. Analysts and investors seem to be panning the move as too little too late and the new CEO has been on the defensive since the announcement was made. What can we average leaders learn from this shake-up?

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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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Today’s thoughts January 24, 2012

Rapid BI

iOS or Android – tablets levelled? iOS or Android – tablets levelled? Hear from a seasoned Apple enthusiast… What do you think? Mike Morrison RapidBI.com Blog: Social Media & your Business Communication Strategy Social Media & your Business Communication Strategy Many of us believe in social media, but do we really have a clear strategy?

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RIM’s leadership woes: 5 lessons on how to go from hero to zero

Roundtable Talk

After rocketing the Blackberry to success in the mid 2000’s, RIM Co-CEO’s Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie stepped down this week and were replaced by new CEO (and former RIM COO) Thorsten Heins. Analysts and investors seem to be panning the move as too little too late and the new CEO has been on the defensive since the announcement was made. What can we average leaders learn from this shake-up?

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Today’s thoughts January 24, 2012

Rapid BI

iOS or Android – tablets levelled? iOS or Android – tablets levelled? Hear from a seasoned Apple enthusiast… What do you think? Mike Morrison RapidBI.com Blog: Social Media & your Business Communication Strategy Social Media & your Business Communication Strategy Many of us believe in social media, but do we really have a clear strategy?

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Transforming the Way We Work

Harvard Business Review

I arrived in Davos several hours ago, amid daunting traffic, driving snow, and intense security, to participate in my first World Economic Forum. Honestly, I'm kind of amazed to be here. Nine years ago, when I launched The Energy Project during an economic boom, it was nearly impossible to find senior leaders open to the idea that demand was exceeding people's capacity, and that it was critical to the bottom line to teach employees new ways to manage their energy more skillfully.

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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.