Mon.Mar 12, 2012

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Character, Credit and Credibility

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Self Leadership A small group of us had labored for months on a project to improve morale, performance and slowdown turnover in a particular facility. This assignment had been layered on top of already full task lists, yet it was a labor of love for most of the project team. Who can resist the lure of freedom [.].

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Leadership Development and China

Great Leadership By Dan

I’ll be traveling to Shanghai, China to begin discussions with a large state-owned company that’s interested in our executive development programs. I’ve been to China and Asia before, but it’s been a while. Also, I’ve never actually been involved in a business negotiation process with the Chinese. Here’s what I know: 1. You MUST understand the roots of Chinese culture in order to understand the elements of Chinese negotiations.

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There May be Potential in those Mistakes

Persuasive Powerhouse

. One day as I worked as a young researcher in laboratory, a colleague walked in with some photos. Her team had been involved in drug trials in humans of a certain blood pressure (vasodilator) medicine. The photos showed children who had high blood pressure that couldn’t be treated with other blood pressure medications. When the children took the medicine over time, someone became aware that they unexpectedly grew hair all over their bodies – and these photos showed very hairy children.

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What Leaders Can Learn from Spiders

Kevin Eikenberry

Have you ever stopped to really look at a spider web? If you aren’t afraid of spiders, the next time you have a chance, stop and look at a spider web. What you will find ais an intricately designed work of art and engineering marvel. Every part of the web is connected to every other [.].

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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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Overcoming Safe Success Cultures

Leadership Freak

** Ambition makes it nearly impossible to enjoy the success of others. You can shine, just don’t outshine me. In addition, insecure bosses feel threatened when someone outshines them. Furthermore, it’s hard to help others outshine you when you’re in the middle of an organization. A “shiner” might be promoted over you. Safe success: Organizations [.].

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Three Traits Of A Lifelong Leader

Tim Milburn

Look above at the top banner on my site. Located beside the deeply reflective pose I’m striking in the picture, I’ve included a tagline under my name. Developing Lifelong Leaders. I love that statement. It’s both the mission and vision of what I hope to accomplish with my life. It’s my focus and my passion. Leadership development is closely tied to personal development.

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Are You A Bonus Delivery Officer?

Rich Gee Group

What the heck is a Bonus Delivery Officer?

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Partner Separation TeamBuilding Activity

Mike Cardus

This is a sample of my new Team Building Booklet 8 Variations of Infinite Loops. This is 1 variations….for ALL 8 and they are very excellent you can purchase the entire Team Building Book. . CLICK HERE. 8 Variations of Infinite Loops takes a fresh and creative approach to a common team building activity. Each variation can be used as a stand alone, or can be sequenced into an experiential learning and team building program.

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How Can I Delegate More Effectively?

Marshall Goldsmith

My first suggestion in trying to improve delegation skills is for you to always remember: "Delegate more effectively -- don't just delegate more frequently." My good friend and mentor Paul Hersey showed me why more delegation was not necessarily better delegation. If we delegate an assignment to a person who lacks the motivation and ability to do the job, we do a disservice to both the person and our organization.

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Want To Build A Better Corporate Culture? – Consider The Rhythm of the Calendars Used in Religion

First Friday Book Synopsis

Back in my full-time preaching days, (I spent 20 years in full-time ministry), I remember one especially “oh, yeah, that is so true” moment that was so obvious I could not believe I had not seen it/realized it. I was reading a book on preaching (homiletics: sorry, I don’t remember which particular book; I read [.].

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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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Overcoming Safe Success Cultures

Leadership Freak

** Ambition makes it nearly impossible to enjoy the success of others. You can shine, just don’t outshine me. In addition, insecure bosses feel threatened when someone outshines them. Furthermore, it’s hard to help others outshine you when you’re in the middle of an organization. A “shiner” might be promoted over you. Safe success: Organizations [.].

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How to Slay Goliath

LDRLB

My business career is characterized with many David versus Goliath encounters. As a 23 year-old Macleans Toothpaste Brand Manager in 1970, my colleagues and I competed against powerhouses P&G, Colgate and Unilever. When I joined Jacobs Suchard (then Nabob Foods) in 1977, I found myself up against the muscle of Kraft and Nestle. Wherever I went, the major competitor was 20 times larger.

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Baldrige Tools Do Provide a Roadmap - But What If You Really Need Help Getting There?

Six Disciplines

While the Baldrige framework has been proven many times to be the leading performance excellence model, a recent article " Baldrige Tools: Providing a Roadmap, Not a Prescription" reveals a number of scenarios that should raise a certain level of concern and risk. "The Baldrige feedback report is useful - to a degree, but the feedback report will not prescribe specific fixes for identified areas in need of improvement.

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SOLVED Solution Finding Method. Speech

Mike Cardus

SOLVED Solution Finding Method. View more PowerPoint from Michael Cardus. The above slideshare is from a talk I gave at Social Media Uninhibited. The talk and process are effective with technical and inter-personal steps to find solutions. Contact Mike to speak at you next event, conference, meeting or training. Your Solution Will Not Work For Me. You must learn and determine your own solutions.

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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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How to Slay Goliath

LDRLB

'My business career is characterized with many David versus Goliath encounters. As a 23 year-old Macleans Toothpaste Brand Manager in 1970, my colleagues and I competed against powerhouses P&G, Colgate and Unilever. When I joined Jacobs Suchard (then Nabob Foods) in 1977, I found myself up against the muscle of Kraft and Nestle. Wherever I went, the major competitor was 20 times larger.

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Leadership Caffeine-4 Big Reasons to Kill Your Weekly Status Meeting

Management Excellence

Few events do more to suck the life and energy out of a team than the boss’s weekly status meeting. If you are the boss, it's time to exorcise these from your operating routine.

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Rare Video: Clayton Christensen explains disruptive innovation

First Friday Book Synopsis

Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business School professor and the world’s most influential management guru according to the Thinkers50, lays out his landmark theory about disruptive innovation. To view it, please click here. Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He is also co-founder of Innosight, a management [.].

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Thank you – I’m not dead

Deep Imprints

Do you ever jump traditions? Lately I’ve been having a bit of fun with morning and evening prayers. This morning on the bus, I read morning prayers, and on the way home I read evening prayers. Now, from what I can tell, there are lots of morning and evening prayer manuals. The one I am using is free on Kindle. I was struck this morning by the simplicity of the prayer -. thank you that I am alive, that You saw me through the night.

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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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Three Terrific Quotations

First Friday Book Synopsis

Over the years, I have accumulated hundreds of quotations that caught my eye and am always on the alert for others previously unknown to me. Although the three that follow may be well-known to others, I was thrilled to encounter them for the first time. “There are two ways to live life — one as [.].

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Atmosphere and Energy is the Difference Between a Great Community and a Feeble One

Managing Communities

photo credit: Lars Plougmann I’m down at South by Southwest Interactive right now and, having spoken at numerous events over the years, what strikes me most about SXSW is the atmosphere and the energy. It is incomparable to any event I’ve been at. If you go to a big conference in New York, you don’t [.].

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For the Health of It: The Bottom Line on Healthy Workplaces

The Practical Leader

We’d expect that healthy employees in healthy workplaces create healthy bottom lines. What may be unexpected is just how big the impact is. We’d expect that work-related stress is also considered a big problem. Did you expect it to be far more critical than smoking or high blood pressure? Consider these research findings: . Employees with four lifestyle risk factors are absent over 50% more often than those without risk factors, and cost two to three times more in health costs.

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Making Decisions versus Finding Solutions

Ron Edmondson

I was working with a church recently that has a leadership issue, which is causing harm to the church. One of the staff members is extremely popular with the people in the church, but he is considered a lousy team player by the rest of the staff. He’s lazy, divisive, and disrespectful to the senior pastor. The pastor and key leadership realize a change needs to occur.

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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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To email or not to email… now that is the question…

Rapid BI

To email or not to email. now that is the question. From time to time we all have a moan or complain about the volume of emails we get, of course its always other people that send the stuff we don't want or are not interested in. We would NEVER d.

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Pride Comes Before the Fall: A Sermon

Ron Edmondson

Pride comes before the fall from Gcomchurch Sermons on Vimeo. Related posts: The Trust of a Widow: A Sermon. The Affirmation of God: Living Your True Identity. Disecting Galatians 5: What Does it Mean to Be Free? Galatians 6: You Reap What You Sow.

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Positivity at Work by Chris Edmonds and Lisa Zigarmi

Rajesh Setty

My friends Chris Edmonds and Lisa Zigarmi have written a wonderful book called Positivity at Work Tweet. [Full Disclosure: Apart from Chris and Lisa being friends, the book is also published by our publishing company ThinkAha ]. First, quick bios of the authors: S. Chris Edmonds is a speaker, author, and senior consultant with the Ken Blanchard Companies.

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The Career Doom Loop Revisited: are you on a slippery slope?

Roundtable Talk

I’ve been having lots of career discussions with members recently, so thought I’d revisit this post from 2009. Enjoy. Years ago I was introduced to this great model called “The Career Doom Loop” The concept was created by Charles Jett and popularized in Dory Hollander’s book The Doom Loop System. It’s a simple model that stuck in my head and made my own career path make so much more sense.

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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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MBAs Should Take Competency Tests

Harvard Business Review

MBA education is changing. As a result, it's fair to ask what, exactly, students now are learning. For one thing, there are far more institutions in the game. Nearly 500 accredited business schools in the U.S. now grant MBA degrees, a huge expansion of an industry that began a century ago at Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School. There's no mystery why. Business schools give students access not only to learning but also to social networks, job recruiters, and considerably higher pay than they'd get witho

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Your readers will benefit from this!

Rajesh Setty

I was recently contacted by “Joe” asking if I would be interested in looking at an infographic his team had created that he thought would be useful to my audience. He also mentioned that I could use it however I want. I knew the trick, so I politely replied that I will pass for now. Joe responded back saying that he understood my position and included a bunch of stuff (and that infograhic) just in case I was curious to see them.

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Looking for a Job When You're No Longer Young

Harvard Business Review

We operate in a business landscape driven by an obsession with youth. I should know. I used to work in the red-hot center of one of the most youth-oriented companies on the planet, Nickelodeon. Nickelodeon is part of the MTV Networks where even the unwritten code of dress and grooming and behavior has one non-negotiable axiom: no matter what kind of work you do, it is essential to come across as youthful, or at least not too square.

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How to Avoid Team Decisions That Plop

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

When was the last time you were with a group of people that needed to make a decision, where people tossed out ideas and at least one suggestion was totally ignored? If you’re like most of us, it was probably within the last few weeks, whether in a business meeting or a social setting. Did you realize that the group actually did make a decision? The decision was “no” – it just wasn’t acknowledged.

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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.