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6 Future Trends of Leadership Development

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development I’ve spent the last 3 years in and around leadership development online. I have also spent the last 30 years learning about leadership development (and learning in general). After numerous mistakes, and before several more, some things have become obvious to me because of my time online. Leadership development is changing quickly.

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How Blowing up a Factory Changed Jack Welch

Leadership Freak

I asked Jack Welch, at the World Business Forum 2011, to talk about tipping points in his life and he said, “I blew up a (GE) factory the first year I was there.” He was in his mid-twenties and figured his career was over. “I was running a little pilot plant. It all exploded, went [.].

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The Importance of Excelling vs. “Getting By”

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Coaching Leadership Development Once every few years I am driving a car that runs over a nail or sharp object and develops a flat tire. Sometimes I have time to wait for AAA to come out and change it. Other times, I’m in a hurry and tackle the task myself. It never is pretty. I’m slow and the [.] The Importance of Excelling vs.

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WomenOnBusiness.com Named as Finalist in 2011 Stevie Awards for Women in Business

Women on Business

WomenOnBusiness.com was named a Finalist in the Best Blog category in the 8th annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business. This is the third year in a row that WomenOnBusiness.com has been nominated for a Stevie Award and the third time the blog has been named an award finalist. Susan Gunelius, the founder of WomenOnBusiness.com, was separately named a Finalist in the 2011 Stevie Awards for Women in Business in the Lifetime Achievement Award category.

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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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Meghan M. Biro and TalentCulture on Forbes

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development [link] Congratulations to our own Meghan M. Biro of TalentCulture. She was interviewed by Drew Hansen (@drewhansen26) about the need for leaders to lead from the heart and how that affects company culture. But don’t just take my word for it. Jump over to Forbes and check out the post! And tweet to @MeghanMBiro and @TalentCulture [.

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Thought-full Thursday: The Heart’s Path

Persuasive Powerhouse

Every Thursday, we provide you with a thoughtful way to coach yourself – something all leaders need to do. So take five and enjoy the inspirational quotes and reflect on the questions that follow. Your comments and answers to the questions are most welcome! Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself, and yourself alone….

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Lost Generation – A Vision of the Future

CO2

This video deserves to be thought about as it relates to sharing a vision. Watch the video and see if you are clear on what the vision is and how it is communicated. Is your vision for yourself or your organization this strong? What would you need to do to strengthen it?

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Planning; Nothing Magical Just Your Work

Mike Cardus

Planning is a necessary part of EVERYONES work – having a process that works to get plans started and accomplished greatly eases your stress and increases the likelihood of great work being done. The Exponent Leadership Process does that. It Unifies the organization and your planning process to make your team and leaders better. Contact Mike to make this happen.

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Freedom to Fail

LDRLB

I’ve been doing a lot of research on leadership and creative teams recently. One of the things that resonated with me most during this research was a quote by Linus Pauling that doesn’t actually have much to do with leading creatives. Pauling said, “The best way to get a good ideas is to get a lot of ideas. Pauling is the only person to have one two unshared Nobel Prizes, so I’d imagine he knows a bit about good ideas and using creativity.

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Prepare And Practice – Nelson Cruz Gives Us The Business Tip Of The Day

First Friday Book Synopsis

Prepare, Practice, and then you’ll be ready. “We throw to the bases every day,” Cruz said. “We take flyballs every day, make sure we know the ballpark, we know any situation we can be involved in during the game. When you prepare, everything comes more easy.” (Rangers Beat Tigers 7-3 In Game 4: Nelson Cruz Leads [.].

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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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I’ve Run KarateForums.com for 10+ Years and I’m Not a Martial Artist

Managing Communities

In May, KarateForums.com celebrated 10 years online. I launched the forums on May 21, 2001 and have managed them ever since. 10 years, 4 months, 3 weeks and 1 day. It may surprise you to learn that I am not a martial artist. As you might expect, this question comes up once in a while. [.].

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The Power of foursquare: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

The Power of foursquare: 7 Innovative Ways to Get Customers to Check in Wherever They Are Carmine Gallo McGraw-Hill (2011) “Foursquare and seven ‘innovative ways’ ago….” Frankly, I did not know quite what to expect when I began to read this book, except that Carmine Gallo may perhaps develop some of the concepts he discussed [.].

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12 Steps to job happiness

Chartered Management Institute

The latest Happiness at Work Index by Badenoch & Clark, shows that employee happiness has steadily decreased during 2011; with the percentage of workers reporting high levels of morale falling from 46.6% to 36.5% since January.

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Six Ways to Lead First, Manage Second

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Cy Wakeman for Talent Management magazine. To check out all the resources and sign up for a free subscription to the TM and/or Chief Learning Officer magazines published by MediaTec, please click here. * * * Talent leaders should focus less on micromanaging the daily activities [.].

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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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When managers sort the chaff from the wheat

Chartered Management Institute

In our troubled times organisations around the world are making cuts to rein in costs and try and make their operations as lean as possible. Are managers cutting the right things however? New research conducted by the HPO Centre in the Netherlands suggests possibly not.

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3 Types of Networks You Need

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. The old adage “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know” is truer than ever in today’s organizations. [I think 'Who knows you' is even more important.] [.].

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What I've Learned.Ian Todd, Police Complaints Commissioner

Chartered Management Institute

Ian Todd, the director and chief executive of the Police Complaints Commissioner for Scotland talks about the need for businesses to improve both inside and out.

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Does Your Church Value Your Family?

Ron Edmondson

Ben Reed is community groups pastor at Grace Community Church where I serve. Ben is an excellent leader; truly becoming one of the sharpest minds on small groups in the country. If he’s not on your radar he should be. You can learn from him and he loves helping other churches. Recently Ben has a family situation that took him out of the office. Our email and text exchanges through that time prompted this guest post.

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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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Career advice for GenXers: is that career move a CLM?

Roundtable Talk

Ah, the joys of being in a job rut. You’re sick of your boss, your co-workers are driving you crazy and you could do your job with your eyes closed. Before you decide to polish off your resume and head off to the next best thing, you may want to pause and evaluate if a job move is the right move… or if what you need instead is a good dose of perspective change.

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A Reminder About Future Thinking

Ron Edmondson

The larger role of responsibility or the higher position you hold in an organization, the more you must discipline and free yourself for future-tense thinking. Recently I was explaining this concept to a senior pastor. His church has stalled, but it wasn’t surprising to me as I learned more about the church. They are doing things the same way they’ve done them for many years.

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What it Means Today to be 'Connected'

Harvard Business Review

Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die. — E.M. Forster, Howards End (1910). I was recently selected as one of Britain's "best connected" women by Director , a business magazine.

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What Does The World Really Need From Today’s Leaders?

Tanveer Naseer

What is leadership all about? What does it take to be a leader in today’s world? These are questions which I found myself pondering over the last few days after noticing a trend lately regarding how some people are choosing to define the traits of a successful leader. Although I’ve written about the debate regarding whether leadership should be viewed as either an art or a science , this current train of thought has surfaced in part from my dismay at seeing what others are pointing o

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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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Apple's Siri Is as Revolutionary as the Mac

Harvard Business Review

The initial reaction to the iPhone 4S was cooler than Apple might have hoped. Expectations had been hyped to such a point that people were looking for a leap forward equivalent to the first iPhone. When they couldn't immediately see it, many were disappointed. But that leap was there — it's just not one that is easily seen. Siri, the new iPhone's voice-control software , is going to have as big an impact as that first iPhone did.

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Recommended Resource – What I Didn’t Learn in Business School

Strategy Driven

What I Didn’t Learn in Business School : How Strategy Works in the Real World by Jay B. Barney and Trish Gorman Clifford About the Reference What I Didn’t Learn in Business School : How Strategy Works in the Real World by Jay Barney and Trish Gorman Clifford reveals the shortfalls of the principles learned in the idealistic academic environment when applied directly to the messy, unpredictable and politically charged business world.

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Groupon's Business Model Is Leaking

Harvard Business Review

Remember late last year when Google offered $5.3 billion to buy out Groupon ? When the daily deals site rejected the generous offer from the search giant in favor of pursuing an IPO, it unleashed a flood of commentary, from this site and others. Many were skeptical ; I wrote a blog post for HBR in the aftermath of the decision questioning the business stability of Groupon's model.

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Diagnose and Cure Team Drift

Harvard Business Review

One of the most common complaints I hear from managers is, "I want to re-energize our team. We used to be cohesive and enjoy working together. Now everyone is focused on their own piece, and we're so busy we hardly have time to talk with each other anymore.". I've experienced this myself. Many years ago, I was delighted to be invited to join the board of a non-profit agency in our community.

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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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Was Steve Jobs a Good Decision-Maker?

Harvard Business Review

The world continues to honor and mourn Steve Jobs a week after his death, and there is plenty to praise. His legacy lives on in today's iCloud and iOS 5 availability, and in the new iPhone 4S being praised by several prominent technology reviewers. David Pogue , my favorite technology writer, is so enthusiastic as to call the new phone's features almost magical.

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The Revolution at Home

Harvard Business Review

It might be taking things too far to say that what's happening in the US is the same as what's happening internationally. In the recent uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Yemen, Libya, Bahrain, Syria, and Jordan, people came together to demand freedom of voice, leadership they could believe in, and meaningful work. They wanted to be valued — and to create value.

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Using Games to Get a Handle on Bank Risk

Harvard Business Review

Bank marketing materials focus on the dreams, anxieties and goals of consumers. Risk management processes don't — but they should. Most audits and regulations of banks are focused on certifying the integrity of data and controls. The truly critical issue, though, is the integrity of banks' assumptions about consumer behavior. A better understanding of the drivers of behavior is needed for both banks and consumers to understand risk, and for the financial system to provide timely and target

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Women Don't Go After the Big Jobs with Gusto: True or False?

Harvard Business Review

Want to get ahead in your career? We all know the proactive career advancement strategies you should use. Let your boss know you're ready for that high-profile assignment he's seeking to fill. Tell him clearly and directly about your career aspirations, and that you're willing to work longer hours. Don't just build a relationship with your boss—also be sure to rub shoulders with your boss's boss.

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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.