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Show People the Leader You Are in a Moment

Lead Change Blog

I was sitting in a colleague’s office. I could hear a person on the other end of his phone from across the room, several feet away. It was tense. You could tell my colleague was pacifying an angry somebody. We had gone through a downsizing event. I had facilitated the process for my part of the organization. The person on the other end of the phone was a director from a different part of the company altogether.

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Ask Not What Your Habit Can Do for You, but What Your Habit Can Do for Others

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Michael Bungay Stanier: For those in a leadership role, the responsibility to lead and direct employees falls to you. Let’s assume that your employees respect you, like you and feel that you’re leading them down a good path. You work hard and your workplace runs smoothly. But what if you could work a little less hard, positively change the way you lead and do it all by simply asking a few more questions and talking a little less — by creating a new habit?

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5 Easy Ways Busy Business Women Can Stay Organized

Women on Business

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Trying not to Lose is Different than Trying to Win

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Michael G. Winston: Today’s winning leader is not just here to weather the storm; they are here to completely change the game. To survive and prosper in 2017, companies must adopt a way of managing that is based on their capacity to learn and change—consciously, continuously, and quickly. Anticipating and preparing for change is the essence of competitive advantage.

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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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The Power of Enterprise Engagement with Bruce Bolger

Kevin Eikenberry

Want better business results and success? Then today’s episode is one you won’t want to miss! Join Bruce Bolger, “Mr. Engagement” and Managing Director of EEA (The Enterprise Engagement Alliance) as we discuss what REAL engagement means, and how fostering proactive involvement with others will get you on the fast track to sustainable success!

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12 Ways to Confront Doubt with Certainty

Leadership Freak

Ignorance never doubts. Times are always uncertain. Uneasy leaders understand: Decisions impact others. Circumstances change. Failure is possible. Boldness without doubt is tragedy waiting to happen. When stakes are high, explore your doubts.

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12 Ways to Confront Doubt with Certainty

Leadership Freak

Ignorance never doubts. Times are always uncertain. Uneasy leaders understand: Decisions impact others. Circumstances change. Failure is possible. Boldness without doubt is tragedy waiting to happen. When stakes are high, explore your doubts.

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How to Deal with Difficult People

Chris Brady

Have you ever had to deal with a difficult person in your life? Of course you have! So, since we already know we will face difficult people, the question should really be, how do we do it? First: [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Adding Mentors to Your Holiday Plans

Jason Womack

Recently, several Get Momentum members met at a local Alabama coffee shop for a session to discuss their goals for next year. You can start this holiday season with powerful conversations with important people who have impacted you -- these.

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Your Gift to the Planet Matters

ReImagine Work

I was sitting in the waiting room at my doctor’s office. A twenty-something woman was at the desk making her next appointment for a checkup. She said it had to be at the beginning or end of the day because of her job. She must have been acquainted with the person behind the desk because they asked what she was working at. She responded that she was (I didn’t hear it), even though she double-majored in journalism and communications, minoring in business.

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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 You.Reach?

Coaching Tip

Do you feel comfortable delivering bad news? Do you look forward to speaking in public? Do you enjoy networking? Is it easy for you to speak your mind and be assertive with friends and colleagues? A professor of organizational behavior at Brandeis University's International Business School, Andy Molinsky, Ph.D., specializes in behavior change and cross-cultural interaction in business settings.

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How to Leverage Organizational Silos to Implement Change

Change Starts Here

When implementing change, it can seem impossible to get conflicting organizational silos to work together towards a common goal. But what if silos aren’t as big of a roadblock as we make them out to be? Silos are a natural occurrence when large groups of people organize into smaller groups to create a sense of order. Since the dawn of civilization and especially since the industrial revolution, organizations were designed to amplify specialization, efficiency, and effectiveness through division

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4 Ways to Keep Your Marriage from being Injured During the Holidays

Ron Edmondson

The Christmas season can be hard on relationships. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve met with a couple after the holidays because of problems developed – or were exaggerated – between Thanksgiving and New Years. How can you protect your marriage this Christmas? Sounds like a good goal, right? Here are 4 suggestions to keep your marriage from being injured during the Christmas season?

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The Influence of C. I. Lewis on Walter Shewhart and W. Edwards Deming

Deming Institute

W. Edwards Deming had a large and varied collection of influences. One of the most difficult for people to grasp is C.I. Lewis. The ideas Dr. Deming drew from the work of C.I. Lewis provide one of the ways his ideas on management are different from others. But trying to read the original work of CI Lewis is not easy, you can try yourself with his book: Mind and the World Order.

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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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Join me on a Bible Lands Cruise

Ron Edmondson

Cheryl and I are leading a Bible lands cruise in the fall of 2017. This is a once in a lifetime kind of trip, and obviously not for everyone, but if you have interest, watch this video. We can send you a flier if you email me at ron.edmondson@gmail.com. The Lands of the Bible Cruise with Ron Edmondson (PF17 103017D) from Educational Opportunities Tours on Vimeo.

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How the Most Emotionally Intelligent CEOs Handle Their Power

Harvard Business Review

Most of the CEOs I’ve met and worked with had years to prepare for their jobs. As they entered middle management, most of them learned that being a good leader is more important than being a good do-er. Many have stories to tell about stumbling along the way, about micromanaging people, about destroying a team’s morale with unreasonable demands, about losing a great team member because enough time and attention weren’t given to the relationship.

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6 Reasons to Get Better at Leading Meetings

Harvard Business Review

Most people see meetings as a burden, a waste of time, or a general annoyance. But meetings aren’t going away. The good news is that leaders have the opportunity to significantly improve how meetings are run at your company, which could boost your influence and your career. A recent study , published in the Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies, found that leadership behavior is a crucial factor for meeting outcomes and attendees’ overall satisfaction.

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Design Your Employee Experience as Thoughtfully as You Design Your Customer Experience

Harvard Business Review

Improving customer experience is often a top business priority, but what about employee experience? Temkin Group reports a correlation between employee engagement and success in customer experience. In its 2016 Employee Engagement Benchmark Study, the firm showed that companies that excel at customer experience have one-and-a-half times as many engaged employees as customer experience laggards do.

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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 “Jobs to be Done” Theory of Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Clayton Christensen, professor at Harvard Business School, builds upon the theory of disruptive innovation for which he is well-known. He speaks about his new book examining how successful companies know how to grow. Download this podcast.

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Did Trade with China Make U.S. Manufacturing Less Innovative?

Harvard Business Review

In early 2016 economists David Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson published an influential paper that highlighted some of the costs of global trade. They reviewed the literature and reported that trade with China had cost the U.S. as many as one million manufacturing jobs since 1999, had lowered wages, and had not led to the new jobs and industries that trade proponents had promised.

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A.I. Could Liberate 50% of Managers’ Time

Harvard Business Review

Here’s what they should focus on.

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A Guide to Solving Social Problems with Machine Learning

Harvard Business Review

It’s Sunday night. You’re the deputy mayor of a big city. You sit down to watch a movie and ask Netflix for help. (“Will I like Birdemic? Ishtar? Zoolander 2?”) The Netflix recommendation algorithm predicts what movie you’d like by mining data on millions of previous movie-watchers using sophisticated machine learning tools.

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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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Case Study: Is Holacracy for Us?

Harvard Business Review

Rogier Maes, the CEO of Contect, wrapped up his year-beginning speech to all the company’s employees. Listening, Derek Melis, his friend and CFO, was relieved. Rogier hadn’t once mentioned holacracy or self-managed teams, even though the executive team and the board had been talking for months about transitioning to just such a system at the global construction company.

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A Simple Way to Measure Health Care Outcomes

Harvard Business Review

Despite the current uncertainty surrounding the fate of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), health care leaders must not let debates over access detract from what needs to happen regardless of the legislation’s fate: Their organizations must improve the value of care they deliver. When the ACA was passed, in 2010, many observed that although the ACA expanded access to health care, it did less to address the equally critical issue of improving the delivery of that care.