Tue.Jan 15, 2013

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7 Ways to Ensure Your New Hire Has a Great First Day

Let's Grow Leaders

Jack and Jill are both new hires who started their new jobs today. Both of them are nervous. Both of them had other offers. Both are looking for validation that they made the right choice. They both still have lots of logistics questions that they were too embarrassed to ask during the interview process. [.] The post 7 Ways to Ensure Your New Hire Has a Great First Day appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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First, We Must Have a Vision

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Self Leadership Over and over again, I talk about vision. It is what pulls us forward and keeps us going. The Miriam-Webster online dictionary defines vision as: 1) Something seen in a dream, trance, or ecstasy; especially a supernatural appearance that conveys a revelation 2) A thought, concept, or object formed by the imagination 3) Unusual discernment [.].

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Engaging Culture One Conversation At A Time

Tanveer Naseer

The following is a guest post by contributing editor of strategy+business Sally Helgesen. The intense focus on corporate change during the last decade has given us a greater appreciation of the role that culture plays in organizations. Change efforts can succeed only if the culture is engaged; getting the strategy and other formal elements right is never enough.

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The Status of Women in Media Is Not Good

Women on Business

The status of women in U.S. media in 2012 isn’t good. In fact, it’s extremely disappointing. Women’s Media Center put together a variety of statistics from research conducted by various organizations over the past couple of years and published the data in a report called “ The Status of Women in the U.S. Media 2012.” The report authors, Robin H.

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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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6 Self-Serving Team Behaviors That Will Torpedo Your Team

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

As a team member, you share responsibility for the success of your team. If your team meetings are boring or wasting your time, explain the problem from your point of view. Then do a reality test. Do others feel the same way? If they do, there is a team issue, and your putting it on the table gives your team the opportunity to discuss and solve the problem.

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Three Ways to Cure Your Executive ADD

Next Level Blog

Believe me, I don’t usually take pictures in restrooms but, in a “can’t believe what I’m seeing moment”, I had to snap the shot that accompanies this post. In case it’s not showing up as you’re reading this, it’s a sink faucet with a working video screen affixed to the top. I saw it today in the men’s room of a major conference center somewhere in America.

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The Death of Veneer Identities

Modern Servant Leader

Amy-Jo Martin coined the term and analogy of Veneer Identities in her recent book, “ Renegades Write the Rules “ What is a Veneer Identity? Two of the most common traditional veneers are dental and wood veneers: Dental Veneer. Veneers in dentistry are a thin, artificial coating over a less attractive or weakened tooth. Wood Veneer. In carpentry, a veneer is a thin layer of finer-looking, artificial wood on top of a lower-grade quality, composite or cheaper wood.

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Social Media Revolution 2013

Chart Your Course

Are you using social media to grow your business? If not, you are missing out. Social media – LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter – can allow you to reach an audience larger than ever before – with more impact and longevity than a Super Bowl advertisement. Watch this video to learn how social media is changing the way consumers choose and interact with their brands, and each other!

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How to Establish Thought Leadership? Interview With Dr. Liz Alexander

QAspire

Thought leadership is important for building careers and for building organizations. It is the most important tool we have as professionals to build our personal brand and establish credibility. What is thought leadership? How does one build thought leadership in his/her area of work? Let’s find out from Dr. Liz Alexander who recently co-authored a book titled ThoughtLeadership Tweet.

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The Ax and the Elevator – Elisha Otis Gives the First, and very real, Elevator Speech (Thanks to Daniel Pink)

First Friday Book Synopsis

Isn’t this interesting? I have now read about Elisha Otis and his elevator demonstration in two different books in the last few months. The most recent (and very thorough) account is in Daniel Pink’s new book To Sell is Human. Mr. Pink tells about the day in 1853 when Elisha Otis, who had successfully invented/designed/built [.].

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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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Mission Control: Putting Our Purpose Above Our Goals

Marshall Goldsmith

At the surface level, “purpose” and “goal” seem to be very similar. In fact, my thesaurus tells me they’re synonyms. It might appear that we can use them interchangeably. But in parsing the definitions of these words, we discover they’re as different as night and day. Goals are the specific objectives we strive to achieve, usually within well-defined parameters of space, time and resources.

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Principles of Leadership Development: Selection

Mike Cardus

An earlier post listed the 7 Principles of Leadership Development in no specific order of importance : Necessary Skilled-Knowledge. Selection. Using Existing Employees as Mentors. Education for Leadership. Strategy for Leadership Development. The Chief Executive. The Chance to Lead. Exploring lessons learned and how an organization and I developed a leadership development process for high potential employees.

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New eBook - The A-List Part 2: Strategic Leadership Through Big-Picture Communication

leaderCommunicator

Can a list make you a better leader? I like to think so. But only if it’s the right list. Or, even better, the right set of lists. In the second of my two-part ebook series, I’ve brought together the best of the leadercommunicator blog—including all of the most popular and most valuable checklist blog posts. In Part 2, “Strategic Leadership Through Big-Picture Communication”, you’ll find lists dedicated to communicating strategy and goals across your entire organization.

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Dare to Polarize

Chris Brady

In life, we have an admirable tendency to conform, to seek harmony, and to build consensus. This is commendable, as we certainly don't want to intentionally cause conflict and wreak havoc. However, [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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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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Team Performance Requires Self-Development

CO2

Skiing as a Metaphor for Team Performance. I rushed off the early morning flight from Minneapolis, slipped into my ski wear, and grabbed the first gondola up the mountain in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Little did I know I would not only be learning to be a better bump skier, but I would learn once again an essential aspect of high team performance.

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Interview: Gaining Agreement on a Blueprint for Change

Change Starts Here

In this episode of The Change Agent’s Dilemma, Martha Greenway, former Deputy Superintendent of Fulton County Schools in Georgia, recounts a fascinating story about gaining agreement on a blueprint for change as she lead the initiative for the organization to become a charter school system. Listen below to hear the approach she took to gain consensus with a variety of stakeholder groups on a politically charged project.

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9 Time Saving Tips from a Social Networking Junkie

Chartered Management Institute

As a self confessed ‘girl geek’, when Social Media Networking came along, I couldn’t resist getting involved. However, as my time spent on the different media started to get longer and longer, I decided that I had to have a strategy for how I used it. After talking to many different people, and trial and error, I came up with the following tips to help you get the maximum results from the minimum time.

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Quotations of Timeless Relevance

First Friday Book Synopsis

o “Enjoy the little things in life, for someday you will realize that they were the big things.” – Source Unknown o “I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” – Douglas Adams o “The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far [.].

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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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A Personal Conviction About Change

Ron Edmondson

I had a convicting experience recently. It was one which will actually help me in the current church work I am doing, but also in the future as I implement change. One Saturday night during December I went to three church Christmas parties. Cheryl was out of town, so I made a quick pass through each of them. I was watching a football game before I left home and didn’t turn off the television.

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Talent Management Best Practice 4 – Know Your Artificial Employment Retainers

Strategy Driven

Every manager should seek to know the stay/leave propensity of his or her subordinates and certainly that of top performers. While true knowledge of others’ intentions is unknowable and unpredictable opportunities arise, there are artificial retention mechanisms and observable signs that together suggest an individual’s inclination. Recognizing these signs and factoring them into an assessment of employee loss risk is important to a manager’s ability to retain top talent.

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Why You Should Care About The Revenue Forecast

The Idolbuster

Chapter 9: Paint Your Environment: Part 5. As I argued in the last post , if you want the company to do the right thing, make sure you have a set of numbers to back it up. To fully understand why I think this is critical, lets step back for a moment and look at where a revenue forecast come from. The Cambridge dictionary online defines a revenue forecast as “a calculation of the amount of money that a company will receive from sales during a particular period.”.

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Nine Rules for Stifling Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Innovation has become the holy grail. Finding innovation is almost a sacred quest for the solution that will create growth, and open new eras of prosperity and well-being. Unfortunately, like many things called holy, the concept of innovation is invoked ritually and ceremonially more than it is embraced in practice. For all the talk about innovation, I see many leaders in numerous organizations in every sector who actively stifle it.

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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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The Right Way to Conduct a Job Interview

Harvard Business Review

Michael Mauboussin , investment strategist and author of The Success Equation , relies on the behavioral descriptive interview technique (BDI) when choosing new hires.

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Business Can't Solve the World's Problems — But Capitalism Can

Harvard Business Review

Business and capitalism get conflated — in our media, our language and in our thinking. They are not the same thing. One is a sector, the other a methodology. By inextricably linking the two, we confine the practice of real, turbo-charged capitalism to business, and we dangerously limit the capacity of non-business organizations to innovate, fund, and bring to scale the kind of breakthrough ideas that will begin to solve the huge social problems we face today.

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Being Authentic Can Feel Inauthentic

Harvard Business Review

Being authentic requires that you know who you are. This is, of course, easier said than done. All too often our self-image is hopelessly idealized. At other times it can be punishingly severe. And decisions that are driven by aspirations and insecurities inevitably lead to inconsistent and inauthentic behavior, reflecting the divide between reality and self-image.

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Creative Destruction Visits the Legal Profession

Harvard Business Review

Some years ago, I had the rather thankless task of directing a program on strategy for law firms. It was thankless in part because about half the participants didn't think law firms needed a strategy. They figured if you were smart, served your clients well and worked hard that things would be fine, as they historically often have. Just keep billing those hours!

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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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Morning Advantage: Lance Armstrong's Brand Bound With His Charity

Harvard Business Review

As the media awaits Lance Armstrong’s taped interview with Oprah Winfrey (airing Thursday on her OWN network), where it’s expected that Armstrong will admit to using performance-enhancing drugs, Armstrong’s charity, Livestrong — one of the largest cancer charities in the U.S. — hangs in the balance. This New York Times examination of Livestrong explores the degree to which the charity, Armstrong’s business interests and those of his associates have long been intertwined, and how the

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Yes, You Can Make Money with Open Source

Harvard Business Review

Open source technology is everywhere. It's in your phone, your laptop, and it may run even the website where you're reading this article. Thousands of companies have placed open source software at the center of their business. But how do they make money from something being given away for free? Red Hat is the global leader in open source software solutions — and has a clear strategy in how to generate revenue.

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Is Target's Price Matching Policy a Mistake?

Harvard Business Review

Target recently announced that its brick and mortar stores will match prices offered by major online retailers such as Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. Initially rolled out as a holiday promotion, this policy is now in force year-round. Simply visit any Target store with proof (a print out) of a lower online price and they'll match it. This policy touches on one of the biggest strategy questions that brick and mortar retailers are facing today: should in-store prices be the same as those on their

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