October, 2016

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Teachable Moments: Learning to Win Well the Hard Way

Let's Grow Leaders

When I told “John” what I did for a living, he chuckled. “Oh, I learned how to be a good leader the hard way.” . Don’t we all. . It’s often our most klutsy moves that teach us how to Win Well. John’s Story. Here is “John’s” story. I hope you’ll share yours with our LGL community in the comments below.

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Why Corporations Have a Talent Problem

N2Growth Blog

The reason most corporations are broken when it comes to talent acquisition is they are simply looking for the wrong things through the wrong lens. Their hiring models are built for the old economy. They are looking for conformity rather than a non-conformity. They look to protect the status quo rather than disrupt it. They are hiring for the present and not for the future.

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Monday Quote: Tenacity

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. “ Amelia Earhart. . How did you enjoy today’s post? If you liked what you read, sign up for our frequent newsletter by clicking HERE — and you’ll also receive our handy Leader’s Reference List. . … Read the rest.

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Featured Instigator: Will Lukang

Lead Change Blog

This month we are featuring Instigator Will Lukang , an Executive Director for a financial company and an Independent Coach with the John Maxwell Team. Will was part of the original group of Lead Change Group members. . Will graduated from the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, Philippines with a BS in Commerce/Major in Accounting. In addition, he has an MBA in Information and Decision Technology Management from IONA College as well as a Master of Arts in Strategic Communication and Leadershi

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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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Wall Street Journal Recognizes TCU #2 for Student Engagement

Michael Lee Stallard

Congratulations to Texas Christian University (TCU) for being recognized by The Wall Street Journal as #2 in the U.S. for student engagement, an assessment that measures, according to the Journal , “how connected the students are with their school, each other and the outside world, and how challenging their courses are…” To learn about TCU’s unique “Connection Culture” check out this TCU Magazine article and the TCU Center for Connection Culture.

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5 Questions to Ask When Managing in the Gray

Leading Blog

J OSEPH BADARACCO PROVIDES A WAY to resolve the inevitable gray areas we will all face from time to time in Managing in the Gray. They are the core of a leaders work. Gray areas demand our best judgment. The five questions provide a way to get there. They are “a distinctive way of sizing up gray area issues, analyzing them carefully, grappling with their full, human complexity, and then—and only then—making final decisions.

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Culture By Design: The 6 Levers of Customization

N2Growth Blog

Last week, we published the 2nd installment of our 3-part series on corporate culture transformation. It focused on core work products that must be produced to transform a corporate culture. Here is the final installment of the concept that I’m calling Culture By Design. This week we’ll look at the 6 cultural levers that every management team has at its disposal to set cultural direction and manage the change that is necessary to establish an organization’s Culture by Design, i

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Tune-In Tonight – 9pm Eastern – SiriusXM Radio Ch125

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. Turn your radio dials to SiriusXM Channel 125 tonight at 9pm Eastern (6pm Pacific) for the #GeneralLeadership Hour on the David Webb Show! On the first Wednesday of every month, we strive to bring you the opportunity to engage with our team and our guests virtually and on-the-air with the radio program and live Twitter stream.

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Use Emotional Intelligence To Address Speech Anxiety (Part Two)

Lead Change Blog

In Part One of Use Emotional Intelligence to Address Speech Anxiety , we outlined how to address fears of public speaking through internal emotional management. In this part, we will focus on external emotional management strategies, namely how to use your body and practice for the big day. Use Your Body. Regardless of whether you use the strategies discussed in part one, right before getting up to speak, you may get a little nervous.

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Do less and be more of a leader

Persuasive Powerhouse

Imagine that someone takes notice that you get things done and they see greater potential in you. They talk to you about becoming a people manager or having even greater people responsibilities if you are already a manager. You pat yourself on the back knowing that the promotion you’ll get is directly tied to your ability to get things done. So if you keep doing things as you always have, you’ll be a successful manager, right?

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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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Richard Koch on Principles

Leading Blog

P RINCIPLES ARE WONDERFUL THINGS, because if they are really powerful they can save us enormous effort and stop us going down dead ends. In science and business there are just a few such principles; but whereas most scientists are aware of the beautiful principles in their field, few business people are guided by principles in their daily work, preferring to rely on methods —the next level down.

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Top 20 WordPress Themes for All Kinds of Small Businesses

Women on Business

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Vin Scully And Me

N2Growth Blog

Vin Scully, the voice of baseball’s Dodgers for their final years in Brooklyn and all of their years in Los Angeles, is retiring at the end of this season. Scully , who got his start in broadcasting career as college student Fordham in New York, began calling games with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1950 when he was just 22. He worked alongside the great Red Barber, and succeeded Ernie Harrell, both legendary Hall of Fame announcers.

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Everyone has Values

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from regular contributor S. Chris Edmonds : Some time ago, I had a conversation online with someone who disagreed with me. I enjoy dialog with people having differing viewpoints, especially if it is handled in a respectful manner (on both sides.) This leader had read a post of mine ( Surround Yourself With Values-Aligned Compadres ) and tweeted, “I wish more people had values.

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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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Another Way You Can Get Recognition Right

Lead Change Blog

Recognition is a tricky thing. Employee motivations can vary. The ways people want to be recognized can vary just as much. Know your audience. One sunny day several years ago I was so excited to give a co-worker a recognition award. The process involved her receiving a check, a certificate and getting her picture taken with the head honcho. Little did I know that my co-worker was horrified at the thought of having her picture taken.

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Why you over-manage, under-manage, and sometimes do both

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Let’s face it, when you delegate, the buck still stops with you. You’re still accountable for any screw-ups. When the stakes are high, no wonder you want to be in the middle of things and over-manage. Even when the stakes aren’t high, sometimes it’s just easier to do it yourself than take the time to explain it, […]. The post Why you over-manage, under-manage, and sometimes do both appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.

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The Five Friends Business Summit

Leading Blog

You probably have seen the 5 Friends Insights on Business and Life videos. Now they bring you the Five Friends Business Summit on November 2-3, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada. At this business summit you will receive the same high-level, intensive content usually reserved to the Fortune 500 clients of the Five Friends. The Five best-selling authors, Speaker Hall of Fame recipients, internationally-acclaimed business consultants and best buddies are: Joe Calloway is an expert on branding and competiti

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5 Personality Tactics for Women in Leadership

Women on Business

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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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A Company Health & Wellness Center that Delivers High Value Low Cost Healthcare – Is it Possible?

N2Growth Blog

Each year HR professionals undertake an annual process to determine what benefits will be offered to employees as part of their benefit package – possibly considering what benefit will be taken away or how much premiums will increase to offset growing benefit plan costs. The changing landscape created by the Affordable Care Act has made it difficult, but not impossible to assert control over company health care spend.

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What are you really competing against?

Lead on Purpose

In our world of work and business, competition is a real thing. Too often, however, we miss the real competitor. We overlook the root of what our products are really competing against.

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Servant Leadership at the Speed of Trust

Lead Change Blog

TRUST. MOTIVATION. COLLABORATION. Are these the types of words that come to mind when you think about your experience of leading (or being led)? There is plenty of leadership advice available in bookstores, online and in person. However, the kind of advice Stephen M.R. Covey, founder of the FranklinCovey Global Speed of Trust Practice, and Art Barter, creator of the Servant Leadership Institute, are equipped to give is rare and more likely than most leadership workshops to guarantee growth of y

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Leaders Are Culture Caretakers: 10 Actions For Success

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton There are many ways to understand culture, and some of the definitions are very complicated. My favorite way to think about culture is as an infrastructure or scaffolding that supports the behaviors we want. Culture drives what people do, and is the setting and framework for great work.

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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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7 Do’s and Don’ts for Getting the Most From the Smartest People in the Building

Leadership Freak

Isolated leaders are the dumbest people in the building. A nameplate on the door and a title after your name doesn’t make you smarter than people with dirt under their fingernails.

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The Truth About LinkedIn: It’s Not Just for Job Seekers

Women on Business

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How To Keep Motivated As A Leader

Joseph Lalonde

Y ou can’t keep driving a car without filling up the gas tank or charging the electric car’s battery. By continuing to drive without fueling up, the car will eventually leave you stranded in the middle of nowhere. We can apply the same principle to our leadership. But instead of gas or electricity as our fuel, our fuel is motivation. And sometimes we lose that motivation.

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What are you really competing against?

Lead on Purpose

In our world of work and business, competition is a real thing. Too often, however, we miss the real competitor. We overlook the root of what our products are really competing against.

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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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Highlighting Our October Sponsor: Next Element

Lead Change Blog

We are grateful to have Next Element as our Lead Change Group sponsor for October! Next Element is a global advisory firm specializing in leadership communication. They have built an international reputation for establishing “what’s next” in the interpersonal communication field. In addition, they have enjoyed remarkable success on the world stage as Process Communication Model ® leaders and pioneers.

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Leaders Are Culture Caretakers: 10 Actions For Success

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton There are many ways to understand culture, and some of the definitions are very complicated. My favorite way to think about culture is as an infrastructure or scaffolding that supports the behaviors we want. Culture drives what people do, and is the setting and framework for great work.

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Tippy-Toe Leaders and Other Dysfunctional Problem-Solvers

Leadership Freak

We might be able to fake leadership in breezy weather, but dark seas are bright lights. The way you deal with problems is more important than the problems themselves. 3 dysfunctional problem-solvers: #1. Tippy-toe leaders.

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5 Ways To Make Money From a Blog

Women on Business

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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.