Sat.Jan 21, 2017 - Fri.Jan 27, 2017

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A Fresh, Fast, and Fun Way to Focus Your Team

Let's Grow Leaders

If you’re like most managers, you’re neck deep in performance agreements, stretch goals, and the dance between managing your boss’s expectations and warning your team not to sandbag. How you spend January can make the difference between a breakthrough and mediocre 2017. Too many managers take the goals handed to them, wring their hands for a day or so, and then pull the team together to figure out how the heck they’re going to accomplish all THAT and still “Do their

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How to Manage Business Transformation and Keep Your Sanity

N2Growth Blog

Transforming a business is a lot like changing the tires on a truck while it is slamming down the highway at 90 miles an hour. The business world doesn’t stop just because you need to optimize your operations. No, your business still needs to be able to quickly respond to customer demands with high quality service delivery even when it’s in the midst of great transformation.

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Why You Want to Lead a Team with Transferable Skills and How to Build One

Lead Change Blog

When companies talk about talent development, retention, and succession planning, words like “cross-training,” “knowledge transfer,” and “redundancy” tend to crop-up. I’m a big fan of these techniques, as they work in organizations large and small. By developing a workforce this way, companies create employees with overlapping skill sets, skills that may be applied intra-departmentally or inter-departmentally.

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How Would You Answer This Question About Your Leadership?

Tanveer Naseer

When it comes to leadership, there are many facets that we examine and explore in our drive to learn how we can succeed in leading our team and organization. But one aspect that’s rarely looked at is how the way we view our role can leave us creating more of a polarizing effect than a unifying one. It’s a notion that I’ve been pondering about as I observe the reactions to the last week’s inauguration of of the new US president.

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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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3 People to Throw Off the Team

Leadership Freak

Teams have more potential than individuals, only if individual members make them function effectively. Danger: Poorly functioning teams: Waste time. Squander resources. Discourage talent. Drain organizational energy.

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Overcome speaker anxiety to become a fearless and engaging speaker

Career Advancement

Guest Post by Deborah Shames. I confess. To this day, I experience anxiety before delivering a keynote or leading my business group. I have trouble quieting my mind and sleeping the night before. I imagine everything that could go wrong, and question whether I’ve prepared enough. This may not sound like a surprising admission, since 74 percent of the US population surveyed in 2013 shares a fear of public speaking.

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The Best Tool To Communicate Effectively With Your Manager.

Rich Gee Group

Everyone has a manager/boss. Even if you are in business on your own, someone is out there plucking the puppet strings of your career. I work with a myriad of people who have incredible success and terrible issues with their manager. Some bosses are insane, some are saints, some are psychotic, and some are surprisingly normal. One area I find where most people begin to see the cracks appear in their relationship concerns how they communicate with their manager.

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3 People to Throw Off the Team

Leadership Freak

Teams have more potential than individuals, only if individual members make them function effectively. Danger: Poorly functioning teams: Waste time. Squander resources. Discourage talent. Drain organizational energy.

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Trust Energizes Organizations

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton How transformational is the power of trust in organizations? It increases capacity and improves performance.

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The Biggest Barrier to Your Team’s Development? You.

Lead Change Blog

Years ago I had a peer (I’ll call her Nancy) who complained constantly about her team. We were both managers of large sales teams, worked for the same overly demanding boss, and had to manage in a period of never-ending restructuring and downsizing. I’ll admit, it certainly was trying and stressful most days, and there were definitely times when I was frustrated with my team.

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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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Do Whatever It Takes.

Rich Gee Group

If you read Stop Playing In The Kiddie Pool the other day, you got a harsh introduction into running your business. You need to be SERIOUS, COMMITTED, & FEARLESS in yourself and your business. This is a ‘Part Two’ to that article. When people run a race or push themselves when they exercise, they tend to hit a physical and mental wall that tells them to stop running or exercising.

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Work with True Believers – Smile and Ignore the Rest

Leadership Freak

Someone who doesn’t believe in your vision never helps you achieve it. Unbelievers: Don’t waste time convincing unbelievers to support an effort they understand, but don’t believe in. Work with true believers.

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6 Ways to Manifest Your Dreams Using the Power of your Brain

Women on Business

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Ain’t That a Kick in the Pants

Lead Change Blog

Isn’t it funny how obvious and oblivious are so close? — Author unknown. My work with leaders sometimes involves inviting the leader’s direct reports to purposely kick him or her in the emotional keister. One of the most effective ways of doing this is having the leader go through a 360-degree feedback process, where the people they are leading rate the leader’s style and performance.

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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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Do team values unite or divide your team?

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Your team’s ability to work together effectively hinges on trust. And when values are violated, trust disintegrates. Values are our deeply held beliefs about what is right, and we all have values that guide our choices and actions whether consciously or unconsciously. We care passionately about our values, and the most contentious misunderstandings occur when we […].

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Work with True Believers – Smile and Ignore the Rest

Leadership Freak

Someone who doesn’t believe in your vision never helps you achieve it. Unbelievers: Don’t waste time convincing unbelievers to support an effort they understand, but don’t believe in. Work with true believers. Encourage weak believers. Ignore unbelievers. One passionate unbeliever has more power than many half-hearted believers.

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3 Accounting Terms Your Business Can’t Live Without

Women on Business

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7 Bible Verses Every Leader Needs To Memorize

Joseph Lalonde

One of the greatest business books ever written isn’t even considered a business book. Many people call it a religious tome. That book? The Holy Bible. Image by Dwight Stone. There’s so much wisdom contained within the good book. We can read the Bible and learn how to lead others, take care of our families, and treat others. But business leaders often overlook the wisdom of the Bible.

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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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5 Elements of Working Out Loud by @JohnStepper

QAspire

When I started this blog in 2006, I only thought of it as a repository of my own lessons as a new manager. Little did I know that this space will become one of the most important learning and sharing tools for me over years. The benefits of putting myself out there in a way that it helps others has been immense both intrinsically and extrinsically. I have evolved as a professional and human being writing this blog, sharing my work and getting plenty of constructive feedback and validation in ret

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The Three Dumbest Things Leaders Do When Things are Going Well

Leadership Freak

Play to win or get out of the way. Successful leaders focus on success. Progress, momentum, and growth are precious things. Fuel them with all you have in you.

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How to Boost Morale in Your Office

Women on Business

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How you know you have a winning product

Lead on Purpose

In many ways, creating new technology based products and services has become much easier in recent years. With mobile apps, software as a service (SaaS) and other new tools, the cost of turning ideas into real products has significantly decreased.

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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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Going Global? Choose Your Country Wisely

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Anna Schlegel : More than half of Google’s revenue comes from outside the United States. Facebook, Apple, or PayPal, all enjoy global success. These companies have “going global” down—they perform strongly in international markets, and can execute across borders because they embed globalization on their daily executive discussions. Develop a Globalization Strategy Part of the agility for a company to stay strong globally is the makeup of their country investment.

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The Three Dumbest Things Leaders Do When Things are Going Well

Leadership Freak

Play to win or get out of the way. Successful leaders focus on success. Progress, momentum, and growth are precious things. Fuel them with all you have in you.

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Women on Business is Sponsoring the 2017 Women in Strategy Summit

Women on Business

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Write what you think, hear what you say

Jason Womack

Years ago, I realized I think I in pictures. I'm a visual person. Quickly. I see things come together, it's easy for me to jump from A to M to Z. It happens so fast, it amazes me; sometimes it's.

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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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How to Be a Real Leader And Great Manager

Lead from Within

From time to time through the years, I’ve written on the difference between leadership and management. I am revisiting the subject now because it’s not enough to understand that leadership and management are two different things. I believe that the two are complementary; to be truly effective, you need both. Of course we do have defined tasks as leaders, and managers have a specific role to play too.

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How to Accept Imperfection Like a Leader

Leadership Freak

If I could begin my leadership journey again, I’d accept imperfection. Leadership begins after you accept imperfection.

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3 Steps to Rebrand Yourself When You Want to Pivot into a New Area

Women on Business

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Enlist The Right People To Your Team

Joseph Lalonde

No man is an island. And no leader leads alone. Every leader has the responsibility to fill his team with players who will take the organization to the next level. Too often, we see leaders fill their teams with yes men or people just like themselves. There’s no diversity to their teams. The lack of diversity also leads to another problem: Creativity will be limited.

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How to Write OKRs: 45 Effective Examples

Discover how to align everyday employee priorities with company goals. Many companies are embracing objectives and key results (OKRs) as the best practice for committing to goals and following through. Objectives are outcomes that reflect current company priorities. Each employee should write OKRs that roll up to larger company goals. Show employees how they contribute to the larger mission.