Wed.Sep 03, 2014

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7 Ways to Build Trust When Your New Team is Skeptical

Let's Grow Leaders

'You’ve got a long track record of leading well. You just wish your new team would talk to your last team. That would save a heck of a lot of precious time. If they would just trust you, you could get on to making your usual magic. But it’s never as simple as that. If you’re good, at this stage of the game you may feel you deserve a better reception from your new team.

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Frozen Leadership

General Leadership

'“That’s when you put someone else’s needs before your own. You know, like when Kristoff brought you back here and left you forever.” Olaf, Disney’s “ Frozen “ Day in and day out here at Walt Disney World, I continue to be impressed by impact of our latest animated hit, “ Frozen.” For those who have not yet seen it, I won’t attempt to summarize or play spoiler.

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6 Strengths to Cultivate as an Entrepreneur

Women on Business

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Do You REALLY Know What The Problem Is?

Rich Gee Group

'John lost his job a few months ago. And for some reason, he has no idea why he was let go instead of someone else. In addition, his interviews are not panning out and he’s getting nervous about his available prospects. The clock is ticking. Mary is having a hard time communicating with her new team. For years, she has been an exemplary manager.

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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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Leading For Ethics Future? (Or Ethics Past?)

Leading in Context

'By Linda Fisher Thornton We are expected to make ethical decisions in a rapidly changing global society, where there is increasing awareness of what "ethical" means. The question of where ethics is headed has been the focus of my research over the last four years. I have learned that to be considered ethical, we must consider more constituents, honor more dimensions of ethics, and lead ethically through higher levels of complexity.

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10 Rock Solid Truths About Management vs. Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

'Stop me if you’ve heard this one…. Three guys walk into a bar – a boss, a manager, and a leader. The bartender says “whadda ya have?” The boss abruptly orders a round of beers without asking the other two what they want. The manager asks how much the beers are going to cost. The leader inspires everyone to reach their full potential. Bad jokes aside, there is a difference between management and leadership.

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Are You a Complainer or a Contributor?

Modern Servant Leader

'Are you a complainer or a contributor? The complainer likes to point out everything that is wrong. The contributor likes to change what is wrong. The complainer likes to talk. The contributor likes to take action. Complainers take from others. Contributors give to others. A complainer offers feed back. A contributor offers feed forward. A complainer says, “I could do better” A contributor does better.

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What Any Leader Can Learn from Pope Francis

Next Level Blog

'Jeffrey A. Krames has been involved in publishing more than 400 business books over the course of his career and has written books on business and government leaders like Jack Welch and Donald Rumsfeld. As Krames describes himself, he is the son of Holocaust survivors and believes that Pope Francis is the most authentic leader he has ever seen. As he told me in a recent conversation, he felt moved to write a book on the Pope.

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The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do

Leadership Freak

'Confusion is common. Confusion is the gift of those who think they know but don’t. Wisdom seeks clarity; evaluated experience delivers it.

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No Substitute for Time in - But Perfect Time in

CEO Blog

'I love the early mornings. So many things I love to do in these hours. Cannot say I am a great fan of the darkness at 6 AM now though. One of my favourite thought leaders and authors, Malcolm Gladwell , studied what made people experts in their field. Through his studies, he found that people who put more time in became more proficient and more expert.

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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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Se7en Deadly Sins Blog Post Series: Materialism

leaderCommunicator

'As a leader, are you output focused instead of outcome focused? Are you too focused on the trees to see the forest? Then you’re likely a victim of what I like to call “shiny object syndrome.” In terms of our Deadly Sins, this translates as Materialism, or finding more value in counting short-term deliverables than in achieving long-term goals. Instead of thinking about end results and achieving goals, leaders often put too much emphasis on the importance of managing individual tasks and project

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Talk to Someone; Then Work; Then Repeat – The Modern Hard Skills, Soft Skills Work Mix

First Friday Book Synopsis

'Recently, I described the world of work this way: You talk to someone. Then, you go do some work. Then, you talk to someone, Then, you go do some more work. Work consists of talking to someone (a boss, a supervisor, a colleague – sometimes getting work assignments, sometimes getting help, sometimes getting ideas, sometimes […].

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How to find the positive

Deep Imprints

'You know the sayings. “Turn that frown upside down!” Are there days where you just can’t find the positive? That no matter how you look at things, they just seem bleak? You aren’t alone. Some days just feel bleak. We so want to reach for comfort food, a few moments of rest in a dark […].

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What does a healthy company look like?

First Friday Book Synopsis

'Based on everything I have experienced, observed, and learned over the years, here’s what I think a healthy company looks like: o First-Person Plural Pronouns: Everyone thinks in terms of “serving our customers,” “what we can accomplish working together, ” and “how all of us can help each other to improve what we do and […].

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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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4 Ways To Create Customer Satisfacation

Eric Jacobson

'Here are four great customer service tips from author Micah Solomon''s book, High-tech, High-touch Customer Service : You provide value when you deliver the four components that reliably create customer satisfaction : A perfect product or service Delivered in a caring, friendly manner On time (as defined by the customer) With the backing of an effective problem-resolution process.

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How to Research a Prospective Client

David A Fields

'A question I was asked: What are the best sources to research a company that I’m pitching? What would your suggestion be to this consultant? What has worked for you? Post your suggestion by using the ‘Leave a Comment’ box below. Consultants Context Discussion Creating Value Positioning Proposals Relationships adding value Consultative selling Context Document positioning.

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7 Ways to Be a Community Building Pastor

Ron Edmondson

'In my recent post I contend that… To be a kingdom building pastor you MUST be a community building pastor. I admit that “must” is a strong word — and there are few things that I’m emphatic about unless they are Biblical, but I do believe that in order for us to reach people today we have to get outside the walls of our church buildings.

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RapidBI Daily Business Cartoon #159

Rapid BI

'“Stop whining – Vice President of Post-It Communications is a very important job!” Office based cartoons, funnies or humor can help to communicate important messages or tips in a non threatening way. see more office humor.

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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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Your Company’s Purpose Is Not Its Vision, Mission, or Values

Harvard Business Review

'We hear more and more that organizations must have a compelling “purpose” — but what does that mean? Aren’t there already a host of labels out there that describe organizational direction? Do we need yet another? I think we do, and I’ve pulled together a typology of sorts to help distinguish all these terms from one another. A vision statement says what the organization wishes to be like in some years’ time.

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Leaders cannot be nice all the time

Rapid BI

'Being a leader is not about being hard, aggressive or overly “macho”. It is about doing things through others, often for their reasons. The goal of the leader is to get things done on the journey to a set destination. Of course often the leader is setting the destination, other times it is set by […].

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How to Market Test a New Idea

Harvard Business Review

'“So,” the executive sponsor of the new growth effort said. “What do we do now?”. It was the end of a meeting reviewing progress on a promising initiative to bring a new health service to apartment dwellers in crowded, emerging-market cities. A significant portion of customers who had been shown a brochure describing the service had expressed interest in it.

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Trust Trumps Everything & Everything Flows From Trust

Mills Scofield

'Thank you Peer Resources for the quote on page 30 in your latest issue, September 2, 2014 !

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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 Corporate Folklorist’s Credo

Harvard Business Review

'Storytelling is key to a strong brand and culture — if it’s done right. Having a corporate folklorist on staff helps to convey an organization’s purpose and values through stories and artifacts. But since it’s a relatively new function, it could use a credo to inform and inspire good work. Physicians have the Hippocratic Oath , reporters have the Journalist’s Creed , and military recruits have the Oath of Enlistment.

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Learn from Your Analytics Failures

Harvard Business Review

'By far, the safest prediction about the business future of predictive analytics is that more thought and effort will go into prediction than analytics. That’s bad news and worse management. Grasping the analytic “hows” and “whys” matters more than the promise of prediction. In the good old days, of course, predictions were called forecasts and stodgy statisticians would torture their time series and/or molest multivariate analyses to get them.

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You Perform Better When You’re Competing Against a Rival

Harvard Business Review

'A runner can be expected to finish a 5 kilometer race about 25 seconds faster , on average, if a personal rival is also running, according to a study by Gavin J. Kilduff of New York University of 184 races conducted by a running club. Although past research has shown that competition imposed on strangers can be demotivating, Kilduff’s findings suggest that longstanding personal rivalries between similar contestants can boost both motivation and performance.

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Uber-Style Talent Poaching Happens in All Industries

Harvard Business Review

'How much does it cost you when your employees are chatting with recruiters from other organizations, polishing up their LinkedIn pages, or just networking with employees at rival organizations? The dust-up between two popular app-based car services, Uber and Lyft, has produced some very heated competing calculations of the economic damage of aggressive recruitment.

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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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Learn from Your Analytics Failures

Harvard Business Review

By far, the safest prediction about the business future of predictive analytics is that more thought and effort will go into prediction than analytics. That’s bad news and worse management. Grasping the analytic “hows” and “whys” matters more than the promise of prediction. In the good old days, of course, predictions were called forecasts and stodgy statisticians would torture their time series and/or molest multivariate analyses to get them.

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