Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Each week I read a number of leadership articles from various online resources and share them across social media. Here are the five leadership articles readers found most valuable last week. I have added my comment about each article and would like […].

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 26, 2017

This post is part of our 2017 Lead Change Group Guest Blogger Series. Much of the adopted research on the field of strategic management and leadership depicts the successful leader as planner, decision maker, and instigator of structure and sustainable processes. Today we are pleased to share a post from Susan Thorn.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Each week I read leadership articles from various online resources and share them across social media. Here are the five leadership articles readers found most valuable last week. Click on the title of the article to read the full text. I have […].

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HR Digest

JUNE 10, 2023

The settlement, which was announced on Tuesday, calls for Target to pay $75,000 to the two workers and to create a new training program for its hiring managers on how to avoid age discrimination. The allegations against Target stemmed from a 2017 job posting for a store manager position.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 19, 2016

To find the best business, communications and leadership books to add to my "to read" list for 2017, I reached out to some of the best experts in the field. As a storytelling trainer and consultant, I’m constantly asked by companies to help their managers 'tell a better story.' Individuals I admire and respect. Want to learn more?

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Other times it involves imbedding structural elements into your overall management and leadership system, but in both cases it works. Car salesmen, for example, are trained to not directly ask a customer if he or she wants to buy the car they were looking at because that leads them to a binary option and potentially a fast, “No.”

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Although these clichés might serve short-term management objectives, they often hinder long-term innovation, suppress employee morale, and foster a culture of compliance over mutual growth. Whether leading meetings, managing newsletters, or handling internal communications, having a platform ensures that voices are heard and not stifled.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

With only one month left of 2016, it's not too early to start identifying your New Year's Resolutions for 2017. Perhaps write down five to ten and then between now and December 31, think about which couple you want to work on during 2017.

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Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Since the introduction of the Apprenticeship Levy in 2017, the retail group now has more than 750 apprentices in its workforce. It collects levy from other organisations and distributes it to businesses in need, enabling them to spend it on training and assessment costs of apprenticeships, with a focus on improving social mobility.

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 16, 2017

To find the best business, communications and leadership books to add to my "to read" list for 2017, I reached out to some of the best experts in the field. As a storytelling trainer and consultant, I’m constantly asked by companies to help their managers 'tell a better story.' Individuals I admire and respect. Want to learn more?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2019

These include managing individual and group relationships, logical reasoning, probabilistic thinking, and learning new information and patterns of thinking and behavior. But we can train the elephant. He is the author of Never Go With Your Gut (2019), The Blindspots Between Us (2020), and The Truth Seeker’s Handbook (2017).

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 22, 2017

So many business owners and managers do not value the importance of training their employees. So why not offer training to staff that would make them more qualified, and better able to do the job? But if that isn’t enough to convince you, hopefully, these points will be: Training Boosts Efficiency. It is simple math.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 13, 2018

We can’t always afford to hire employees who need extensive training and skills development. The National Federation of Independent Businesses found in 2017 that 45% of business owners could not find qualified candidates. HR finds mentorship teaches leadership, management training, confidence. A win for the cities.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2017

Whilst employee recruitment is usually viewed as a legitimate area for investment, employee training has traditionally been overlooked and often comes at the bottom of spending priorities. There are many compelling reasons why you should target your investment at employee training. Why you need to take employee training seriously.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

and a development manager at Oracle Corp. She also manages JLL’s corporate offices around the world, with a focus on creating spaces that promote engagement, collaboration, and wellbeing. Prior to joining Apollo, he was Managing Director and Chief Talent Officer at BlackRock. Prior to joining JLL, Bilbrey was the U.S.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 18, 2021

The research highlights the high number of women who are exiting academia, despite the significant amount of time and money invested in their doctoral training. This is compounded by the finding that most of the men hired in Canada were trained in Canada, whereas most of the women hired were trained overseas. Brain drain.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

If you’re a growing business and your employees help manage the website from time to time, it’s crucial their experience is as easy as possible to keep productivity at its highest. You may well have the experience and knowledge to manage the website, but your employees may struggle if they don’t have any prior website management experience.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 10, 2021

They have also been accused, however, of worsening racial equality by using inherently biased data in their training datasets. The analysis reveals that while the tool did indeed manage to narrow the revenue gap between White and Black hosts, it actually made things worse overall because fewer Black hosts were using the algorithm.

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Career Advancement

JULY 30, 2018

Arthur, a manager at a mid-size firm, read a troubling statistic: According to Harvard Business Review, one in five high-performing employees plans to leave their job in the next six months. Thorough onboarding greatly improves retention , according to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). Jim Collins~. Minimize Stress.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

AUGUST 24, 2022

Training/leadership development practices. Interestingly, when comparing in-person versus remote workers, frontline workers with senior level managers and company size, all were found to be inconsequential factors in workplace dignity. At this point, you may be wondering on what areas we focused during this collaborative process.

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Leading Blog

JULY 10, 2019

In the midst of managing these exponential leaps in technology, there is a war for talent. According to the 2017 Gallup Workplace Report, employee disengagement is alarmingly high in America. What might happen if we spent 20 – 25 percent of our coaching and managing time asking insightful, probing questions, and then listening?

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 27, 2017

Almost every sales manager was, at one point in their career, a peak-performing sales professional, top dog on the team. This presents a problem because managing and leading a sales team requires a completely different mindset from selling. But sales managers are not put in the job to keep selling. Not so fast.

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Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 2, 2023

One Chartered Manager has developed a way to measure and monitor EDI Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) has been at the forefront of board agendas for several years, and rightly so. Managers need to know what works, and what does not. Companies who lead the way on EDI are 25%–36% more likely to outperform on profitability.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 30, 2017

Managing your international teams can be easier than you think. The situation calls for you to manage your own time so that you can be available to them as they need you. Training your remote team can be particularly challenging when you’re not there. Managing an overseas team has its challenges, but it’s not impossible.

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HR Digest

MAY 25, 2023

According to Deloitte’s 2017 Human Capital Trends report: ‘ It’s about HR teams taking up the dual challenge of transforming HR operations on the one hand, and transforming the workforce and the way work is done on the other. ’ The use of digital HR streamlines management workflows for human resource professionals.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 8, 2020

The article highlighted the tremendous benefit society can derive if male and female entrepreneurship rates were equalized, and indeed the World Bank attempted to assist that when it launched a $1 billion fund back in 2017 to increase the number of businesses created and run by women. New research explores just how effective such training is.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 29, 2017

This post is part of our 2017 Team Buzz Builder Guest Blogger Series. When I was a naive manager thrust into a management role, I had the misconception that most leaders back then were born or they just seemed to drop from the sky. Sadly, we lacked development and had not been mentored enough to be managers. Wish us luck!

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 30, 2020

We suggested making it a requirement for project managers to use past project costs to inform future projections. A bestselling author, he is best known for The Truth Seeker’s Handbook (2017). A heavy equipment manufacturer had a systemic struggle with underestimating project costs.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 13, 2017

Despite the differences, there has been one quality that has separated the good managers from the exceptional leaders: the willingness to step up to the plate and face any challenge rather than avoid it. That means making difficult decisions or implementing unpopular changes.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Hackers nowadays have tactics that allow them to access files without being detected unless you have a trained eye, which is a worrying concept, especially if you’re keeping important company information. Provide training for your staff. Equipment management. Security cameras might also help in catching the perpetrator.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 22, 2017

Though many managers and organizations struggle with providing feedback, I’ve been able to boil feedback problems down to three different categories -- what I like to call the “Feedback Trifecta”. That’s because honest feedback is difficult -- even painful -- to give and to receive.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 12, 2018

“More and more of our systems are in the danger zone, but our ability to manage them hasn’t quite caught up. These are just a sampling of the ways we can learn to manage complex systems. The result: things fall apart.” As systems become more complex, we are more vulnerable to unexpected system failures.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 9, 2018

Supply chain management is sometimes considered as a posh name for logistics, but it does entail much more than making sure that products are delivered from Point A to B. If you are serious about improving your business and your productivity, you have to take supply chain management more seriously in the future. Improving Productivity.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

It’s hard to move on business and marketing websites for references to SEO and how important it is, but is it something you can manage yourself or is it the digital equivalent of brain surgery – best left to the experts? You just finished reading Can You Manage Your Website’s SEO Strategy? ! What is SEO? Consider leaving a comment!

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 1, 2017

Guest post from Lee Caraher: The great lament of so many leaders and managers today is that “no one is loyal anymore.” With millions of millennials pegged as “job hoppers” who “leave before they even get productive,” older managers are increasingly unwilling to put in the effort to help develop and train their younger colleagues.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 4, 2023

As the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) highlights, an estimated 70 million Americans, one-third of working-age adults, have a criminal record. Through partnerships with nonprofits, unions, and companies, they offer rigorous training programs that lead to high placement rates for graduates.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 5, 2020

In less than 100-pages and something you can read in about a couple hours tops, you'll finish the book and have identified your Life Word that will bring more clarity, confidence and courage to your 2017.

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