Sat.Dec 15, 2012 - Fri.Dec 21, 2012

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Thermostat or Thermometer? Helping Kids Feel the Leadership Climate

Let's Grow Leaders

Today I present our final post in this year’s Leadership Padawan Saturday series, Growing Leadership in Kids. On Monday, I return to our normal leadership fare. Today I offer a guest post from Eric Dingler, a great example of a Thermostat leader. Eric has been the Director and lead communicator for an expanding Christian summer [.] The post Thermostat or Thermometer?

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Leaders: Stop Trying to Be Efficient

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Let’s cut right to the chase; stop focusing on being efficient – it’s a waste of time. Nobody other than perhaps you really cares how efficient you are, but everyone cares how effective you are. Not only do they care how effective you are, but they also care about the effectiveness of those whom you lead.

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The Must-Have Pet Peeve Of Every Successful Leader

Terry Starbucker

We all have them – those annoyances that really gnaw at us, (affectionately) known as pet peeves. Most are petty and not worth much time or deep discussion. (Here’s a good example – I once had a boss that would fly into a rage if we used smooth paper clips instead of ridged ones. Never quite understood the problem, but after a couple of chew outs you can bet I stuck with the ridged ones.).

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Managers of People, Teach Them to Fish

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Workplace Issues Managers of people, it may seem expedient and even helpful to give answers, but to truly be a leader, it’s best to follow that sage advice about teaching them to fish. One of my clients recently told me about the wake-up call he had when his 10-year-old son accompanied him to work one day. After [.].

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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 Melt A Grinch’s Heart

Let's Grow Leaders

“It could be his head wasn’t screwed on just right. It could be, perhaps that his shoes were too tight. But I think that the most likely reason of all May have been that his heart was two sizes too small” -Dr. Seuss This time of year we may call them “the grinch,” but you [.] The post How To Melt A Grinch’s Heart appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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The Success Equation: Separating Luck and Skill

Leading Blog

In the mid-1970s, a man hunted for a lottery ticket with the last two digits ending in 48 for a chance to win the Spanish National Lottery. He found a ticket, bought it, and won the lottery. When asked why he was so intent on finding that number, he replied, “I dreamed of the number 7 for seven straight nights. And 7 times 7 is 48.” You can be wrong and still win—in the short term.

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Change: 5 tips to improve communication and accelerate execution

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Change Management Communication is key to execute a change project. Believing that your team will implement change without fully understanding the objectives or the reasons for the change will lead to failure. Here are 5 tips for communicating effectively and giving your change project the best chance of success. Build a story about what you believe, and [.].

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The Scary Secret to Great Meetings

Let's Grow Leaders

The first time it happened, I was devastated. After all the hard work on building relationships… All that investment in the team… All that transparency… All that work to create a level-less organization… Why had my direct report team started holding “secret” meetings without me? Why was that necessary? What was I doing wrong?

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“Leadership is Marketing” – Peter Drucker Said What?

Tanveer Naseer

The following is a guest post by William A. Cohen. Peter F. Drucker was a genius. Unlike Sir Isaac Newton he didn’t choose to spend his time observing that an apple fell down rather than up. Nor did he ponder on the inner workings and hidden mechanisms of the human mind as did Sigmund Freud. Drucker didn’t even care to emulate Albert Einstein and imagine himself on the business end of a beam of light.

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Top 2013 Resolution for Business Women Should Be Saying No

Women on Business

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: For many business women, saying “no” is difficult, but learning to say that two-letter word can have a very positive effect on your career, your business, and your life. Stephanie Chandler shared the story of her personal Just Say No campaign on the Forbes Work in Progress blog, and it’s a great read for anyone who has trouble saying no.

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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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Leading the Way Forward Together

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Over the weekend I published an article titled Finding Our Way Back to Hope as my way to process the events of the tragic shootings in CT last week. I was thinking about the many ways we can each lead the way for ourselves and our communities back to hope and offer a few of [.].

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Nobody Does it Better? How To Ensure Your Successor’s Success

Let's Grow Leaders

The same mentor that jokingly told me, “always follow an idiot” also smiled and said, “and always leave an idiot as your successor.” I’ve seen it go both ways. It’s painful to watch your team’s hard work unravel. For the last week, we’ve been talking about Building Results that Last Beyond Your Tenure, including, Building a [.

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The 10 Elements of Positive Performance Management

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from John Mattone: The fundamental belief underlying Positive Performance Management (PPM) is this: Leaders and their employees must strive to make performance reviews complete, honest, and timely. As a leader, it is critical that you engage in crucial conversations to let employees know where they stand at all times. In the course of executing PPM, you should hold yourself to the highest standards of character, always being fair and honest and never injuring a person’s sense of digni

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Are you ready to kick butt in 2013?

Women on Business

Right now, the idea of kicking butt in 2013 is probably the last thing on your mind. But come January 2, when that alarm clock goes off, you’re going to feel a lot better about facing the New Year with a blueprint for success. With that in mind, the best thing you can do for yourself in that first week is to keep your schedule light. Unless a face-to-face meeting is critical, your desk is the best place to be for maximum productivity.

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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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A Business Carol

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development I wish you could be Scrooge… I really do. You may not understand what I mean when I say that, but most likely you understand WHO it is I’m talking about. Ebenezer Scrooge, the grumpy old businessman in Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” paints a masterful picture for us of a cantankerous old coot [.].

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A Fresh Take on Leadership Traits

Let's Grow Leaders

If you’ve taken a college course on leadership, you likely went through the evolution of thinking on leadership… including “trait theory.” I won’t begin to debate all that as I did back in college, or as I had my freshman debate in my classes. Unless you want to chat about traits… please feel free to [.] The post A Fresh Take on Leadership Traits appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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What Does Respect Look Like?

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton The Evolving Graphic This graphic is a revision of one originally published on April 27, 2011 and includes multiple changes based on reader feedback. It was created to help leaders visualize what respectful and ethical behavior looks like in organizations. The Respect Zones The Green Zone is the optimal behavior for [.].

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The Value of Asking ?Why?? | Thoughts for the Everyday Leader

Nathan Magnuson

Home About Coaching Contact Guest Posts Archives. Thoughts for the Everyday Leader. by Nathan Magnuson. Home / Inspiration / The Value of Asking “Why?” The Value of Asking “Why?” December 17, 2012. — 4 Comments. Why? It’s one of my all-time favorite questions. I’m told I asked my parents, “why?” over and over again as a kid and apparently I’ve never grown out of it.

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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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3 Portraits of Employee Involvement

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Change Management Leadership Coaching Leadership Development Team Dynamics Value Creation Workplace Issues In your organization, how much employee input does management get before deciding a course of action? Not much? You might want to rethink that.

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Noticing the gifts of others

Persuasive Powerhouse

. Lots of managers are hard wired to be highly critical. There’s a reason for that. They often view themselves as problem solvers who worked their way up from positions where they were successful at figuring out and fixing things. However, frustration comes in when they manage organizations and realize that they can’t fix people that they see as flawed and in need of fixing.

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Customer Service Lessons from Women Entrepreneurs

Women on Business

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: What can women entrepreneurs teach us about customer service? Rieva Lesonsky of American Express OPEN Forum provides some specific lessons that women entrepreneurs are using to redefine customer service. Some of the customer service techniques that women entrepreneurs are using might be considered byproducts of innately female characteristics.

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Essential Leadership Traits

Lead on Purpose

Essential Leadership Traits in the Successful Small Business Owner — Guest post by Linda Forshaw. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John Maxwell. In the course of an ordinary working day, a small business owner might wear many hats, but rarely is there one as important as that of leader. All businesses, no matter their size, require a strong leader at the helm.

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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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Why Now? Origins of Lead Change Part 3

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development This is the third part of a series on the origins of the Lead Change Group based on one of the key books that inspired me to take action: Tribes by Seth Godin. For links to all the posts, check out this page. When I went into business on my own as a consultant in [.].

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When Mission Matters

Michael Lee Stallard

Click here to view the embedded video. Organizational missions are inspiring when they communicate how an organization brings truth, beauty and/or goodness to the world. For example, organizations in research or education help bring truth to the world (e.g. biotech companies, universities, schools). Organizations that produce goods or services reflecting aesthetic or artistic beauty or functional excellence bring beauty to the world (e.g. organizations that produce goods or services reflecting a

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Your Business, Your Leadership

Women on Business

The past week has given me the opportunity to observe the management style of a district manager for a fairly well known retailer. As I have had the horror of observing this individual, I’ve noticed that there are some things that entrepreneurs can learn from this horror movie. The staff mistakes are your mistakes. What I have observed is this DM ruthlessly pointing out every mistake without any consideration for how it is happening or why it is continuing to happen.

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Making Sense of Sandy Hook

Leadership Freak

There is no making sense of the tragedy at Sandy Hook or other past, present, and future tragedies. Reasons help but they don’t make sense of something. It helps to say the gunman was on drugs or crazy, but only a little. Job, the oldest book in the Christian Bible, confronts human tragedy. At one [.].

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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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Imperfect leadership

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development [link] Often in leadership circles, we place those who achieve success on pedestals and we talk about what they did right. We study their actions. We admire the decisions they made and the opportunities they’ve had. We learn from them and they challenge us. Do you ever notice that some of these people never fail? They [.].

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When Being There is All You Can Do

Next Level Blog

Like so many other people around the world, the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut last Friday has weighed heavily on my heart and mind these past few days. In all of the coverage and conversation, I’ve yet to hear anyone, myself included, come up with the words to explain how such a thing could happen or to fully console the families and friends of those who were lost.

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Brand Marketing Opportunities and Challenges for 2013

Women on Business

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Are you ready to market your brand and get big results in 2013? Remember, brands can belong to companies or individuals. It’s just as important to develop and promote your personal brand in order to reach your career goals as it is for a company to market its brands. 2013 will be a year filled with opportunities and challenges for brand marketing.

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How to be Tough During Tough Times

Leadership Freak

Sinking inward drags down during tough times. Weak leaders focus on themselves; tough leaders focus on others. Sinking inward indicates weakness. Moving forward with tenderness is tough. Weak leaders act tough during tough times but tough leaders remain focused, calm, and steady. First, remain focused on others: Ask about their world and forget yours.

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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.