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Leadership & The Expectation Gap

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. When it comes to leadership, I can share the issue of expectations is no small matter. In fact, understanding how to come out on the right-side of the expectation curve can often be the difference between being viewed as an average leader and one held in high regard. Let me make this as simple as I can; managing expectations is gamesmanship – aligning them is leadership.

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7 Responses to the Future of Leadership Development

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Coaching Leadership Development We recently wrote about 3 changing trends and 3 continuing trends in leadership development in a post titled 6 Future Trends of Leadership Development. In light of those trends, I’d now like to suggest several actions we should take (or stop taking) in light of these trends. Personal and Individual Trends 1 and 2 were [.] 7 Responses to the Future of Leadership Development.

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The Keys To Managing Millennials, Part 2: The Progress Bar Effect

Terry Starbucker

Front Line Leadership . Guest Post By Adam Tenenbaum. In my last post I introduced Part 1 of my two-part series on the the topic of Managing Millennials (the generation born roughly between 1980 and the mid 90‘s) – Treat Them Like a Celebrity. Today in Part 2, I’m presenting the other key tactic – Create The Progress Bar Effect. As I noted on my last post , each generation is a result of the dominant events, personalities and technologies that were popularized during their maturation

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Stop Wasting Your Time Solving Problems

Leadership Freak

Many leaders and managers have a compelling; even perverse interest is fixing things. Average managers solve problems and get results. Great managers build people. A recent conversation with a new manager reminded me that it’s all about people. If you build them, they will fix problems and enhance productivity, not you. If you build them, they [.].

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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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The Essence of Strategy (Part 2) | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife. Main menu Home. Leadership. Branding. Life. The Essence of Strategy (Part 2). by John • October 30, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 4 Comments. Last week’s blog post bemoaned the lack of strategic discipline in today’s world of business. I posed three simple strategic questions that on the surface appear easy to answer. 1.

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One Page Business Plan

Tony Mayo

I apologize for the length of this letter/speech/memo/blog post. If I had more time it would have been shorter. That keen insight into effective writing has been attributed to many great communicators, from Virgil to Voltaire. Respect for the reader’s time requires the writer to carefully pare all but the most essential aspects [.].

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Lynn Blodgett (ACS, a Xerox company) in “The Corner Office”

First Friday Book Synopsis

Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times. Here are a few insights provided during an interview of Lynn Blodgett, president and chief executive of ACS, an I.T. services subsidiary of Xerox. He says that even in huge [.].

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Speaker's Corner: Shay McConnon

Chartered Management Institute

Shay McConnon, founder of People First Limited, brings a little spark to his talks on relationship building, communication and leadership. He will speak at this year’s North West Regional Conference, 24 November.

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Complimentary Resource – Health Insurance Options for Businesses

Strategy Driven

Health Insurance Options for Businesses by Paychex, Inc. Read about the benefits of health insurance for businesses and employees, as well as important decision-making criteria for business owners. Let the Paychex Insurance Agency help you: Shop and compare for an affordable plan Simplify the setup process Handle the administrative details StrategyDriven has partnered with TradePub.com to offer you complimentary one-year subscriptions and/or free trials to dozens of leading business publications

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Management Book of Year Awards 2011 -- Judge Needs Advice

Chartered Management Institute

I have the greatest honour to be a judge (thanks Piers) in the British Library and Chartered Management Institutes Book of Years Awards 2011. There are around 20 of us judging in various categories, of which I was lucky enough to be selected for the coveted Commuters Read.

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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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When the value of a diamond is zero

Rajesh Setty

Question : When do you think the value of a diamond will be zero? Answer : When the person having the diamond does not know what a diamond is. Let’s think about it. Imagine a person who has never heard of a diamond and does not what it is, how it looks and the value of it. He finds a diamond on the road and picks it up. It caught his attention because it was shining and nothing else.

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What Does it Mean to be Meek?

Ron Edmondson

Blessed are the meek…for they will inherit the earth. Matthew 5:5. What does it mean to be meek? We sometimes have a hard time with that verse, don’t we? Meekness 101 is not a popular course in our universities, or even in our churches. We would much rather talk about the “most popular ways to get ahead”, than how to discover riches through meekness.

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SWOT Analysis in Nursing & Health care

Rapid BI

SWOT analysis for Nurses and Health care environments Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats in a health care environment. SWOT – for management, mentoring and nursing A SWOT analysis is a tool that can provide prompts to the managers, clinical leads, nurse tutors, nurse mentors and staff involved in the analysis of what is effective and [.].

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On “Systems Thinking” and Improvement

QAspire

A few years back, when I was struggling with some repetitive/difficult situations at work, one of my seniors (and a good friend) asked me, “Do you know the root cause of your problem?”. He went on to draw a diagram on his notebook, and connected the problem to the other parts of the organizational system. I realized that I was fighting the symptom, whereas the root cause was something completely different.

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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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Life without HR: Recruitment/Staffing

LDRLB

Can you afford to entrust the recruiting role to an overworked manager who does not have time or desire to spend with prospective candidates? Can you afford not to have a strong recruiting department? Imagine your organization without the recruiting part of your Human Resources (HR) department. Imagine if you had to do all of the work your recruiting department does.

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Life without HR: Recruitment/Staffing

LDRLB

'Can you afford to entrust the recruiting role to an overworked manager who does not have time or desire to spend with prospective candidates? Can you afford not to have a strong recruiting department? Imagine your organization without the recruiting part of your Human Resources (HR) department. Imagine if you had to do all of the work your recruiting department does.