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Changing the Atmosphere

Lead Change Blog

After being laid off for eight months. I was so excited, both because I had a new job and because it was my first day in the medical industry after being in banking for more than fourteen years. After experiencing the ups and downs of the banking industry, I was finally going to be learning something new and different. As I walked in and greeted everyone, I noticed everyone was not happy to see me.

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How Do Busy Leaders Make More Time?

Rich Gee Group

One of my clients sent me their daily schedule. I was so blown away by it’s simplicity and it’s ability to fit many professional and personal things in — I just had to publish it for my audience. In their own words: “I want to put myself on a schedule. I need a schedule where I meditate 2x per day, exercise, have ample time for self-education and time to relax.” 5:00 AM – Get Up. 5:00 to 6:00 AM — Meditate for 20 minutes, Walk for 30 minutes, Lift weights for 10 mi

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Laughing and Business: Don’t Be a Buzz Kill

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from William Goodspeed : To understand the challenges of humor in business organizations, it may help to look at the Ivy League. Dartmouth College, the League’s historically most fun school, is suffering from a serious lack of humor. Recently, a fraternity advertised a Cinco de Mayo party featuring margaritas and other typical features of the Americanized holiday.

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5 Ways Talented Leaders Sabotage Themselves

Leadership Freak

The worst enemy to have is yourself. Others may hold you back, but who can help when you sabotage yourself? External enemies are easy compared to the accuser within.

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How to Build the Ideal HR Team

HR doesn’t exist in a vacuum. This work impacts everyone: from the C-Suite to your newest hire. It also drives results. Learn how to make it all happen in Paycor’s latest guide.

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You can’t control what happens to you, but.

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Next time something happens that makes you angry. or you get bad news. or someone hurts your feelings. go ahead and feel angry or sad or whatever feeling arises, BUT … don’t react instinctively. Pause. take a breath. Instead of letting your behavior be driven by reactivity, choose how you respond. Thursday Thoughts: You can’t control what happens to you, but you do have a choice about what you do next. * * * * * * * * * * * * * *.

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122: How to Help People Change | with Art Markman

Engaging Leader

To create lasting behavior change, it’s crucial to understand how the brain’s habit system works, and then develop specific techniques to leverage the power of the brain rather than fighting against it. Psychologist Art Markman joins us to provide insight and practical advice to create sustainable behavior change in the people we lead. He’s the […] To create lasting behavior change, it’s crucial to understand how the brain’s habit system works, and then develop specific techniques to lever

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Spot Opportunities to Coach

Coaching Tip

It is important to recognize teachable moments with your team in which asking them good questions and encouraging them to come up with the answers becomes the far more effective approach. . Why? When they find the answers to their own problems, it will become a richer, more meaningful learning experience. Developing your staff through coaching opportunities can reap the kinds of rewards that make a more lasting, sustainable difference.

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The Starting Point for All Good Teams – A Spirit of Collaboration (with a lesson from Sports Night)

First Friday Book Synopsis

I think, as a New Year’s resolution, you should re-dedicate yourself to the idea that this is a team. You play for a team. A team with many players. See a team’s made up of a group of individuals — Individuals who forsake their own individual needs to pursue a common goal. The team goal.… Read More The Starting Point for All Good Teams – A Spirit of Collaboration (with a lesson from Sports Night).

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Remarkable TV Live: How to Earn People’s Attention in Your Next Presentation

Kevin Eikenberry

In this live video I’m sharing how you can plan your presentation to improve the chances your audience will listen to and care about your message. I’m expanding on the article I wrote here. I talk about a couple of other fun things too! Make sure that you’re following me on Blab so you know […]. The post Remarkable TV Live: How to Earn People’s Attention in Your Next Presentation appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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“It Must be a Struggle” – A Quote for the Day from Frederick Douglas

First Friday Book Synopsis

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one,… Read More “It Must be a Struggle” – A Quote for the Day from Frederick Douglas.

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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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Barriers Communicators Face #7 - Your Leader is Trapped in the Tactical

leaderCommunicator

Communication isn’t just tactical anymore; it’s about strategy. Here are ways you can recognize, respond and help your leader if they are trapped in the tactical.

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How To Pump Up Employee Involvement

Eric Jacobson

Here are 10 tips for how to maximize employee involvement : Have active ways to listen to your employees. Check often with employees to see if the information you are sharing with them is what they need and what they want. Share information about customer satisfaction with employees. Discuss financial performance with your employees and be sure everyone understands the importance of profitability and how they can contribute to profitability.

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What Community Professionals Can Be Responsible for, Beyond “Community”

Managing Communities

Please Update Your ManagingCommunities.com RSS Feed Subscription This feed has moved to: [link] I apologize for the trouble. For more details, please read my post on the matter. Thank you.

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5 Reasons I Recommend the Evernote Application

Ron Edmondson

Let me introduce you to one of my favorite productivity applications. It’s called Evernote. Honestly, I thought everyone knew about Evernote. You are either using it already or you know what it is at least. Recently, however, I was speaking at a conference, I mentioned Evernote, and several people asked me afterward what I was talking about. I was shocked.

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The Complete People Management Toolkit

From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.

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Dramatically Improves Sales Productivity through Systematic Coaching

Your Voice of Encouragement

Many managers fail to engage in one activity that could make a huge difference in the performance of their team members: COACHING I had the opportunity to discuss WHY this happens and HOW to become an effective coach in a recent interview with Andy Paul on his excellent podcast, Accelerate! “Dramatically Improves Sales Productivity through Systematic Coaching” Andy’s show covers topics like sales, leadership, management, training and coaching.

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Think Like an Author, Not an Owner

Harvard Business Review

You might have never heard of Oswald The Lucky Rabbit, but in the late 1920’s he was more famous than Mickey Mouse. Oswald’s story began when Walt Disney and Ubbe Iwerks—Disney’s star graphic artist—moved to California. Disney and Iwerks had made a name for themselves in Kansas making animated shorts, but when the cartoons proved to be less profitable than they expected, they decided to move west.

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Why Big Companies Struggle to Market Online

Harvard Business Review

Kenneth Andersson FOR HBR. For all their rhetoric about a digital future, established firms in most industries still sell mainly through traditional channels, while newcomers seize the virtual territory. Take retail: Walmart sells more than $1 billion a day through its stores but online it sells one sixth that of Amazon. The reasons for this vary to some extent across industry context, but in general one or more of the following factors will be in play: A focus on highest-margin consumers.

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Corporate Wellness Programs Lose Money

Harvard Business Review

Evidence that wellness programs lose money has been accumulating. This evidence has come not just from critics such as ourselves , but even from members of the wellness industry. In total, the evidence is compelling enough that companies planning or currently running their own programs may want to reconsider their commitment to these programs, or at a minimum, recalculate savings using the available calculator.

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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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VW’s Problem Is Bad Management, Not Rogue Engineers

Harvard Business Review

Testifying unhappily before America’s Congress, Volkswagen of America CEO Michael Horn adamantly and defiantly identified the true authors of his company’s disastrous “ defeat device ” deception: “This was not a corporate decision. No board meeting or supervisory meeting has authorized this,” Horn declared. “This was a couple of rogue software engineers who put this in for whatever reason.” Ach, du lieber!

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How Brigham & Women’s Funds Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business Review

One of the biggest challenges in health care is how to provide innovative, high technology specialty care while reining in costs at the same time. Particularly at a large academic medical center like ours, providing ever-improving care and treating the sickest of the sick often seems unavoidably expensive. But it needn’t always be. Since 2013, we have tapped our front lines – our 1,500 physicians and thousands more nurses, PA’s, pharmacists and other clinicians – for ways