Wed.Apr 22, 2015

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How to Inspire Behavior Change

Let's Grow Leaders

'You’ve tried everything, and the bad behavior continues. You don’t want to say “You need to change this behavior or else,” but the truth is–there will be consequences. Keep that “feedback-is-a-gift-and-I-care-about-you” loving feeling in mind, while having a direct conversation about specifically what must change.

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Isn’t It Time To Rethink Time?

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 trouble is… you think you have time!” Unknown. When time becomes the transactional measure of merit you’d think the more we have of it the more valuable we become – to others and ourselves.

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Carnival of HR – April 22, 2015 Edition

Lead Change Blog

'At the Lead Change Group, we are thrilled to host the Carnival of HR again. As our turn to host approached, we started thinking about Take Our Sons and Daughters to Work Day 2015 or TOSADTW. This year’s event will take place tomorrow, April 23. In honor of that, we asked bloggers to send in submissions that address timeless lessons, things a child could see at work while visiting their parent for TOSADTW that will still hold true for when they enter the workforce.

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How a Lean CEO Thinks and Why You Should Too

Leading Blog

'The Lean CEO by Jacon Stoller gets to the thinking behind why Lean management works. I think "Lean" is a poor moniker to give the approach. It tends to make people think of cost-cutting or how to get the most work out of the fewest number of people. It sounds like a manufacturing thing. But that is misleading. It is a holistic approach to management.

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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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What is Vision?

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

'“Vision is knowing who you are, where you’re going and what will guide your journey.” - Ken Blanchard and Jesse Stoner. Who you are - is your purpose Where you’re going – is your picture of the future What will guide your journey – are your values The Three Elements of a Compelling Vision. Purpose is your organization’s reason for existence.

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How To Gracefully Exit Your Leadership Position

Joseph Lalonde

'L eadership is a temporary position. For a limited time, you’ve been granted the honor of leading people. Whether this position is within a business, non-profit, or a church, one day your time as a leader will come to an end. What do you do when your leadership position ends? You must exit gracefully. Image via Creative Commons. Leaving a leadership position isn’t always easy.

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Want to be a Freelancer? Read This First

Women on Business

'We''ve Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven''t already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. [link].

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How to Solve People-Problems

Leadership Freak

'The problems we have with each other are more dangerous than the problems we have with competitors. People-problems get worse when they’re ignored. Organizational turmoil diminishes, when nagging people problems find resolution.

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Starting Thought: Communicating Change Well Means Dialogue With Employees

leaderCommunicator

'It’s easy to speak in platitudes and general terms when you’re looking to inspire change inside an organization. But the problem is those general messages get lost amid all the other sources of information flooding employees today. What’s more, we often resist what we’re not part of creating.

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Jason Womack

'Jason W. Womack, MEd MA would like to connect on LinkedIn. How would you like to respond? Jason W. Womack, MEd MA. www.Momentum.GS - Organizational Development, Talent Management, and Change Leadership. Confirm you know Jason W. You received an invitation to connect. LinkedIn will use your email address to make suggestions to our members in features like People You May Know.

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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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Dorie Clark on How to Stand Out: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

'Dorie Clark is the author of Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013) and Stand Out: How to Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following Around It (Portfolio/Penguin, 2015). A former presidential campaign spokeswoman, she is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Entrepreneur as […].

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The Ten Golden Rules Of Leadership

Eric Jacobson

'Have you checked out the relatively new book, The Ten Golden Rules of Leadership: Classical Wisdom for Modern Leaders ? As you dig in, you''ll step back in time to learn philosophies of the past and how to apply them today. Authors M. A. Soupios and Panos Mourdoukoutas offer a fresh approach to becoming a great leader by learning from antiquity''s great thinkers, such as Aristotle, Hesiod, Sophocles, Heraclitus, and others.

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Isaacson’s Short List of Three: Edison, Ford, & Jobs – Ed Catmull Helps us Understand Why Steve Jobs Deserves to Be on that List

First Friday Book Synopsis

'Yes, I’ve read Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson (I presented my synopsis of that book shortly after it came out). Yes, I am reading Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli which I will present next week at the May 1 First Friday […].

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How To Lead During Six Moments That Matter

Eric Jacobson

'The book, Step Up , shows readers how to step up to the plate during six critical leadership moments. Readers learn how to: Use anger intelligently in the workplace. Recognize and deal with terminal politeness. Make decisions when no one else is making them. Take ownership when others are externalizing a problem. Identify and leverage pessimism. Inspire others to take action.

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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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Motivation Is An Inside Job

Strategy Driven

'Why do we do what we do? What causes us to succeed, fail, procrastinate? Is it our environment? Our biology? Our New Year’s resolutions? There’s much debate why our motivation goals fail and how to resolve them. I believe we’re addressing the wrong issues. Why Promoting Behavior Change Causes Resistance. Everything I’ve read on resolving ‘motivation’ issues focus on behaviors: why, how, when.

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Stop Fantasizing About the Perfect Job

Harvard Business Review

'Some careers seem to maintain a powerful allure. Many people fantasizing about leaving their jobs for careers that seem to offer deep meaning, like teaching or non-profit work, or apparent autonomy, like entrepreneurship. Others are attracted by high-status, high-pay occupations such as law and consulting. Still others want to work in broadcasting or publishing, for example, which maintain a glamorous allure.

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Change is Bad

In the CEO Afterlife

Okay, so I’m going to start by admitting that my heading was a ‘hook’ to get you into this post. Here’s the deal; the notion that “change is bad” is blasphemy in today’s world of business. In fact, c hange is one of the most proliferated subjects in blogs, books, and social media chats. I understand why, and so do you; change is vital to progress in every field of endeavor.

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A Brief History of the Ways Companies Compete

Harvard Business Review

'Since the late nineteenth century, we have seen five distinct movements in the way companies compete. The first was efficiency. This was the original purpose of forming corporations — to facilitate the production of products and services with the least amount of wasted time, materials, and labor. The attempt to turn business into a science of efficiency, also known as “ Taylorism ,” marked the high point of this movement.

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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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The Power of Tenacity By Samuel R. Chand

Ron Edmondson

'The statistics on the longevity of pastors isn’t encouraging. A major survey of pastors says 80 percent leave the ministry within five years.(1) Jimmy Draper, former president of the Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention and former president of Lifeway Research Group, observed that for every twenty people who enter the ministry, only one retires from it.(2) That’s only a 5 percent retention rate.

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Why Certain Managers Thrive in Tough New Jobs While Others Get Fed Up

Harvard Business Review

'Career development is supposed to keep young managers engaged and motivated, but sometimes it backfires, prompting them to start looking for an exit from the company. That’s because the new responsibilities that facilitate on-the-job learning can take them well beyond their comfort zones, making them feel frustrated, angry, or fearful of failure.

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Employees Will Use Tools They Helped Build

Harvard Business Review

'To build new technologies your frontline employees will use and trust — tools that will actually improve the customer experience — you need to ask for their feedback at every stage of development. For example, at Verizon we recently developed and introduced two new technologies to our call centers. The first was Mobile Coach , an app that compiles service rep performance metrics in real-time so that call center supervisors can engage with their teams more quickly.

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Is the End of GE Capital Good News for Ecomagination?

Harvard Business Review

'GE recently announced that it would sell off most of GE Capital , ending a decades-long experiment with becoming more about money and less about industrial manufacturing (for most of the last 15 years, the capital side of the business contributed nearly half the company’s earnings). Most of the coverage of the divestment has focused on the rise of financial regulation, which, so say the press , made the money business less profitable.

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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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Time Management Training Doesn’t Work

Harvard Business Review

'Nicholas Blechman. Today, knowledge workers use devices and platforms we wouldn’t have dreamed of 15 years ago, in workspaces we probably didn’t see coming, either (goodbye, private offices; hello, telecommuting). But while work has changed, the training we get about how to manage our time looks pretty much the same as it always has. Traditional time management teaches us to “start every morning making a list of things to do that day.” But once you check your email, that