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7 Fundamentals For Building Real Trust With Your Team

Let's Grow Leaders

Trust is tricky. It sure looks easy on paper (or a blog post.) But get out in real life, and what seems obvious and easy, suddenly becomes more difficult than securing funding for a corporate hover-craft. The sooner we talk about trust, why it works, and how it breaks down the better. That’s why I always start any emerging leader program by talking about trust.

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Why HR Professionals Must Know How Employees Commute

Women on Business

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The gifts you’ll receive from leading well

Persuasive Powerhouse

You might be a leader who is a natural at leading; it’s in your DNA, and somehow you just know how to do it. Most often, I find that the leaders I know have some idea of what it means to lead, but they have to work hard to figure it out. The best leaders master their craft with a lot of blood, sweat, and tears. They are willing to dig deep inside to uncover their true nature, and then they need to use what they found to make a difference through their behavior and actions.

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Remarkable TV: One Key to Goal Achievement

Kevin Eikenberry

It’s that time of the year when many of us either start thinking about setting goals for the next year or are right in the middle of setting our goals. And wherever you are in this process (even if it’s outlining why you won’t set goals), check out this short video for one very important […]. The post Remarkable TV: One Key to Goal Achievement appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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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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No Holiday Party? No Problem

Chart Your Course

While End-of-Year Celebrations Boost Employee Engagement, Leaders Should Focus on Communications First for Maximum Impact, According to CEB ARLINGTON, Va., Dec. 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — A well-run holiday celebration can be just as effective at improving employee engagement as a small cash bonus, according to CEB (NYSE: CEB), a best practice insight and technology company, but… The post No Holiday Party?

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12 Days of Questions for Optimizing Your Leadership, Honoring Yourself, & Crafting a Powerful 2016

Anese Cavanaugh

It’s that time of the year again when people go into reflection mode in looking at what they accomplished over the last year, who they became, and what they want to do moving forward. For your leadership pleasure, here are 12 places to look over the next month as you close out 2015 and get ready to create some amazing impact, and a life you love, in 2016….

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Out of touch or out of their minds? Maybe both!

Strategy Driven

In a survey conducted by a BIG benefits management company (a management and human resource consulting firm), they asked 365 CEO’s and sales management executives, “What are the three key factors that separate high performing sales professionals from moderate to low performing sales professionals?”. Both CEO’s and C-level sales executives (all people who don’t sell, but rely on their salespeople to produce sales so that they can get paid), ranked “self discipline/motivation” as the m

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Leadership Caffeine™—Aligning Your Efforts to Results Ratio

Management Excellence

If you’ve ever worked incredibly hard only to have something run off the rails or just not generate the results you were after, you understand what an imbalance in the Efforts-to-Results ratio feels like.

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Do’s & Don’ts In Holiday Card Etiquette For Your Career Longevity

Strategy Driven

During the holiday season, many employees wonder “Should I send members of my management team (not to mention the boss) a holiday greeting card? If so, is it appropriate to dash off an email with holiday wishes, or is a traditional paper card the way to go?”. I say yes, it is definitely a good idea to send your boss (and his or her boss) an appropriate holiday greeting.

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Send Handwritten Notes to Community Members – Without Knowing Their Address

Managing Communities

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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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The “New Normal”: How to Grow Your Company Through Online Channels Amid Aggressive Competition

Strategy Driven

Sometimes it feels like it’s hard to get noticed online. There are A LOT of voices out there. We live and breathe digital marketing and we know; we see the thousands of voices that are all talking at once online. An overload of messages and brands sending those messages is the new normal in our digital culture. How do you get noticed and ultimately grow your company with the aggressive competition that there is online?

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Data is Important and You Must Confirm What the Data Actually Says

Deming Institute

“Change the rule and you will get a new number.”. Attributed to W. Edwards Deming. Direct quote from The New Economics “If you change the rule for counting people, you come up with a new number.”. Dr. Deming emphasized the importance of understanding what the data actually meant (and how easily we can be mislead when looking at data). Without understanding the operational definition for the data you take a great risk that you make mistaken guesses about what the data means. “An operational

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How to Spot a Bad Boss During an Interview

Harvard Business Review

HBR STAFF. One of the greatest predictors of your happiness at work is your relationship with your manager. So when you’re considering a new job, it’s important to know how you’ll get along with your new boss. This can be hard to assess in an interview when you’re working hard to demonstrate why she should hire you. But it’s important to evaluate her as well.

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Commit to Under-Scheduling in 2016

Harvard Business Review

“Oh, no!” I thought as soon as I spotted the email in my inbox. The message that prompted my sense of dread wasn’t a cancer diagnosis, a huge financial loss, or even a missed deadline. It was an email from a good friend, inviting me to attend an event that evening — a night I had planned for “me time,” including doing some cleaning for a party, running errands, and writing Christmas cards.

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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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A Vision for “Hospital at Home” Programs

Harvard Business Review

As a medical resident in the late 1980s, I made house calls to homebound older adults in Baltimore. I loved seeing patients and their families in their own space, thinking about their medical issues in that context, relying a bit more on my physical exam than I did in the hospital, and developing care plans consistent with patients’ preferences.

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Strategic Humor: Cartoons from the January-February 2016 Issue

Harvard Business Review

Enjoy these cartoons from the January–February issue of HBR, and test your management wit in the HBR Caption Contest. If we choose your caption as the winner, you will be featured in an upcoming magazine issue and win a free Harvard Business Review Press book. “Hey! If there was something biodegradable that did the job half as well, don’t you think I’d use it?

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U.S. Corporations Don’t Need Tax Breaks on Foreign Profits

Harvard Business Review

babo schokker. Many Americans have expressed outrage over Pfizer’s plan, through its merger with Allergan, to move its tax home from the United States to Ireland. Now, in a New York Times op-ed , Carl Icahn, the billionaire corporate raider turned hedge fund activist, has joined the chorus. He labels the Pfizer-Allergan deal a “travesty,” blaming the U.S.’s “uncompetitive international tax system.” The purpose of Icahn’s article is to promote a proposal

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