March, 2011

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Leadership & Influence

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. You cannot be a effective leader without influence. Let me make this as simple as I can – if you’re a leader, influence needs to be a competency. The key to developing influence is understanding that contacts and relationships are not synonymous. Don’t confuse a database with a sphere of influence.

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You Don’t Have To Be Perfect To Be A Leader

Lead Change Blog

Over the years, I have always enjoyed reading articles about some of the great sports coaches. While I’m not a sports fan myself, I find the methods of coaches who consistently produce championship teams very helpful in understanding how to … Continue reading → Lead Change Group - Leaders Growing Leaders.

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Leadership And The Flywheel Effect: Don’t Forget The Grease

Terry Starbucker

Once a target is set in a business, for most leaders it’s a natural tendency to jump right into the business of hitting it – in other words, massing the effort and “push&# needed to achieve what Jim Collins ( “Good to Great&# ) called the “ Flywheel Effect “ I’ve always liked the flywheel analogy, because it’s a great mental image of how a business gets from Point A to Point B.

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Employee Engagement Network Webinar and Slides

Michael Lee Stallard

Employee Engagement and Connection from David Zinger on Vimeo. Yesterday David Zinger and I held a webinar on Employee Engagement and Connection. You can see a recording of the webinar above and here is a link to the slides used during the webinar. The webinar was hosted by the Employee Engagement Network , a 3,500 member online community founded by David.

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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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Heritage and Innovation: Finding the Balance

Leading Blog

In times of change there is the tendency to either stick doggedly to what has always worked in the past or to throw it all out and start new. Neither extreme is the answer. Heritage and innovation is a tension that needs to be managed— thoughtfully. Our default thinking is to view the world in terms of what has worked before so we often fail to address the changes going on around us.

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A Lesson From School on Understanding Your Employee’s Value

Tanveer Naseer

A few days ago, one of my daughters shared an interesting story about a recent event that happened at her school. My daughter and a few of her friends had noticed that Peter*, the school’s custodian, wasn’t out in the hallway greeting the kids like he usually did every morning. They went to their teacher to ask her if she had seen Peter and she told them that he no longer worked at their school.

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We Need People Who Can Lead Regardless Of Their Title

Lead Change Blog

The success of any organization be it a business, non-profit, educational institution or government, depends on its people. All the fancy strategies, creations and technology mean absolutely nothing without people to make it happen. In fact, people have to develop … Continue reading → Lead Change Group - Leaders Growing Leaders.

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How A Single Conversation Can Supercharge Your Business

Terry Starbucker

About 6 years ago I was approached by one of my field managers about a new “callback&# program he wanted to launch in one of our cable television service areas. He wanted to have “a real person&# call a customer within 7 days of a new service installation, and have a conversation about that installation. He emphasized “conversation&# , because he wanted this to be more than just a survey call where a bunch of “check the box&# questions are asked.

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Twelve Steps to a Great Networking Conversation

Next Level Blog

A couple of years ago, I wrote a post called Five Principles for Building a Strong Network. It proved to be pretty popular and I've been practicing and coaching on those principles ever since. Today, Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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The Steve Jobs Way

Leading Blog

Apple is on a roll and we want to know how Steve Jobs does it. The Steve Jobs way is, in a word, passion. Passion drives his perseverance and momentum through setbacks. Passion obliges his attention to detail. Passion necessitates his intense focus. Passion fuels his outbursts. Passion compels him to encourage those around him. Passion urges him to compete with himself.

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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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A Simple Model for Understanding What Drives Behavior

The Recovering Engineer

The diagram above shows a simplified model for better understanding what drives behavior. Since people often spend their lives studying and understanding what really drives our behavior, I am pretty confident that I cannot hope to fully cover the topic in this short post. I can provide a quick overview you can use to diagnose what’s happening in your interactions with other people and how you might be able to modify your approaches to get better results, have more fun, experience more sati

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Leadership & Change

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. First the bad news : If you’re not willing to embrace change you’re not ready to lead. Put simply, leadership is not a static endeavor. In fact, leadership demands fluidity, which requires the willingness to recognize the need for change, and finally the ability to lead change. Now the good news : As much as some people want to create complexity around the topic of leading change for personal gain, the reality is that creating, managing and leadi

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13 Bad Excuses for Letting Poor Performance Slide

Lead Change Blog

Is there ever a good reason for letting poor performance drag on? This post lists 13 excuses managers sometimes lean on to postpone or offload the responsibility for confronting bad behavior. Are these 13 reasons valid—or simply adult versions of “the dog ate my homework”? Continue reading → Lead Change Group - Leaders Growing Leaders.

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Do You Lead Others Through Flattery or Praise?

Tanveer Naseer

Last week, Mike Myatt wrote an interesting post on the differences between flattery and praise. After reading his piece, I got to thinking about this subject in terms of how leaders communicate and guide their teams, and the impact these comments can have on their employees. Perhaps the best known story regarding the downsides of flattery is Aesop’s fable “The Fox and the Crow”, where a fox comes upon a crow perched on a tree branch, holding a piece of cheese in its beak.

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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 Questions Leaders Need to Ask About “No-Fly Zones”

Next Level Blog

Every so often, a word or phrase will pick up so much buzz that everyone starts talking about it at once. This week, the catch phrase “no fly zone” has achieved that status. As the Libyan dictator. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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What's Holding You Back? A Call for Gutsy Leadership

Leading Blog

Robert Herbold, former COO of Microsoft, says that lack of courage is what destroys companies. In example after example, what is holding companies back is consistent, courageous leadership. In What’s Holding You Back? he writes that we need gutsy leaders that “make sure that their organization has a simple, understandable, clear game plan for the future,” a culture that is “curious, even paranoid about the future, to keep people always looking for new ways to help the company grow and prosper,”

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Does Being GUTSY Activate Being GUILTY?

Women on Business

Gutsy women break barriers. Gutsy women lead the way. Gutsy women speak out when others remain silent. As I research the lives of women leaders who have earned the badge of being a change agent I have been curious about the down side of standing out from the crowd. I call it “the giraffe syndrome”. You know be careful about sticking your neck out, you never know what can happen.

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Form Over Substance

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. All sizzle and no steak is not a formula for leadership success. If your organization looks good, but lacks substance, then I would submit this unfortunate condition is a reflection of your leadership team. Great leadership isn’t meant to be proprietary – it’s not exclusive, but inclusive.

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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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Hockey, Teams and Self-Leadership

Lead Change Blog

We are a hockey family. That’s for sure, and most of the time we are knee deep in it. Yes, for eight months out of the year our time is devoted to coordinating the crazy hockey schedule while still making … Continue reading → Lead Change Group - Leaders Growing Leaders.

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I’m Your Boss, Not Your Friend; 10 Reasons Why Your Boss Shouldn’t be Your Friend

Great Leadership By Dan

Is it ever OK for a manager to be friends with their employees? Believe me, this isn’t just a question brand new managers struggle with (and most of them do). It’s an issue a lot of experienced managers are questioned about as well, and many of them don’t think it’s a problem at all. The issue of “buddy to boss” might not be as black and white as you might think.

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Using the DISC Model: Focus on Needs More than Behaviors

The Recovering Engineer

The DISC Model of Human Behavior is, as the name implies, about behavior. And, to apply it well, I suggest looking beyond behavior to the needs behind the behavior to really use it to connect and communicate with other people more effectively. To illustrate the point, consider the refrigerator shown above. While this one has no food in it, I imagine you can think of a time when you opened a refrigerator door to check the contents.

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A Case for Reconsidering the Way We’ve Always Done It

Leading Blog

A society that doesn’t train their children to think critically, to be aware of those around them, and to serve, must create more rules and regulations than can be accounted for. There will never be enough rules—there are too many variables—especially when people begin to direct their creativity in dysfunctional ways. The challenge is to develop sound minds.

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Innovation: Five Signs You Might Be Faking It

Every company wants to be a leader in innovation, but how can you tell if your company is really innovating or just going through the motions? See the 5 signs you might be faking innovation and what to do if you are.

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Why Leaders Shouldn’t Lose Sight of the Basics

Tanveer Naseer

Last week, my wife and I decided to take advantage of the kids’ being off from school for March Break (what we call here la semaine de relâche ) to go on a family vacation at a nearby resort. On the day we headed out from the city, we drove straight into one of this season’s biggest snow blizzards, turning a typical road trip into a more daunting and worrisome affair.

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Capital vs. Influence

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth . I have watched entrepreneurs and executives initially trivialize the value of influence in a capital transaction, only to regret it down the road. Savvy CEOs simply aren’t in a rush to close the deal and secure the funding if it means sacrificing knowledge, experience and influence. Impulsivity has a huge cost when it comes to capital formation.

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10 Things Leaders Can Do To Make A Better World

Lead Change Blog

Greetings Leaders! I wake up some mornings, read the headlines and shake my head in bewilderment. War, Budget Crisis, Market Meltdown, Real Estate Crash, Poverty and Scandals. I see these headlines play out almost everyday and often feel a wave … Continue reading → Lead Change Group - Leaders Growing Leaders.

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Venture Capitalists Are Looking for Failures

Women on Business

Did you know failure is one of the biggest indicators of future success in an entrepreneur? According to an article in the April issue of Harvard Business Review , “Failing By Design,” many venture capitalists won’t invest in a new enterprise if the founder has never undergone failure. In other words, they are looking for… failures! Why?? Let me first state that there are two types of failures, the first are those that do nothing and fail, the second are those that take a risk and end up failin

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Tough Comp Conversations: A Guide For Doing Them Right

Speaker: Rusty Lindquist, VP Strategic HR Insights at Bamboo HR

Compensation can be tricky, few things carry as much emotional weight as comp. And with the increased transparency in the market, combined with our collective propensity to rate ourselves against others, the frequency of these very difficult conversations is increasing. In this webinar, we will deconstruct some of the psychology around comp. We’ll take an analytic look at comp’s role in the employee experience, and then we’ll get really tactical with guidance on very specific compensation conver

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You Cannot Punish People into Good Behavior

The Recovering Engineer

In a recent post, I presented a simple model for understanding what drives our behavior. According to the model, punishments (negative or unpleasant consequences) can reduce the likelihood that a behavior will repeat in the future. This observation implies that leaders can hope to eliminate “bad&# behaviors by using punishment and discipline strategies.

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Can This Marriage (Customer, Team, Leader) Be Saved?

Next Level Blog

Last week, I got a call from an executive in a client organization. He had just had a conversation with an important customer who said his team wasn't showing up like they used to and didn't have. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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Are You Helping Your Employees Fulfill Their Higher Purpose?

Tanveer Naseer

Last week, I had the pleasure to attend a presentation given by my friend S Max Brown where he talked about what employees can do about how they approach work, asking the question of what it’s like for others to work with you. During the course of the talk he asked the audience a number of thought-provoking questions, one of which he accompanied with this poignant story that I wanted to share and discuss here on my blog.

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The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

I like to start off each week by featuring five posts from the HR, talent management, and leadership development blogosphere that I found to be particularly good reading. Here are my picks for the week of March 7th - 13th, 2011. Enjoy! Seth Godin, Fast Company: Are You Afraid of Good Ideas?- If you had not heard, Seth Godin is publishing what promises to be another powerful book: Poke the Box.

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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.