Wed.Oct 01, 2014

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A Better Way to Address Performance Issues

Let's Grow Leaders

'“Will or skill” is an insufficient question when addressing performance issues. This model works okay if it’s truly a “skill” issue because managers know what to do next. They train, coach, or assign a buddy. But the “will issue” answer often begins a slide down a slippery slope of assumptive questions: Why doesn’t she care?

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Weaving A New Future For Lead Change

Lead Change Blog

'If you are reading this post, you have landed on the new Lead Change Group site. We are glad you are here. You will notice that we have streamlined and simplified the site and added some new features: pages for Instigators and Leading Voices , new ways to participate, and events (more will be coming soon.). As we re-ignite the movement here at Lead Change, we hope you will choose to make a positive difference with us.

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A Parrothead’s Guide to Leadership

General Leadership

'“Its my job to be cleaning up this mess, and that’s the best reason to go for me. Its my job to be better than the rest and that makes a day for me.”. Mac McAnally. Study leadership theory wherever you find it. Take pride in all we do…and do it well. Recognize those who do mundane tasks for your team. And yes, sometimes just dance like no one is watching….

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First Look: Leadership Books for October 2014

Leading Blog

'Here''s a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in October. The Innovators : How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson. MOXIE : The Secret to Bold and Gutsy Leadership by John Baldoni. The Moment You Can''t Ignore : When Big Trouble Leads to a Great Future by Malachi O''Connor and Barry Dornfeld.

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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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Weaving A New Future For Lead Change

Lead Change Blog

'If you are reading this post, you have landed on the new Lead Change Group site. We are glad you are here. You will notice that we have streamlined and simplified the site and added some new features: pages for Instigators and Leading Voices , new ways to participate, and events (more will be coming soon.). As we re-ignite the movement here at Lead Change, we hope you will choose to make a positive difference with us.

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7 Powerful Qualities of Servant-Leaders

Leadership Freak

'Every act of leadership is an act of service. Anything less is exploitation. The higher you go, the more people you get to serve. People aren’t in organizations to serve leaders.

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Creating a Positive Leadership Legacy

Great Leadership By Dan

'Guest author S. Chris Edmonds explains how leaders can use “the 3 C’s: Context, Courage, and Consistency” to create at positive leadership legacy. Read my latest post over at About.com Management and Leadership to find out how. leadership legacy S.

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Leadership Lessons From The Catalyst Leadership Labs 2014

Joseph Lalonde

'W ednesday was the unofficial start of the Catalyst Leadership Conference in Atlanta. It’s unofficial because it was the lab sessions (but, if I’m honest, the labs have become my favorite part of the Catalyst Conference experience). The labs are an amazing feature of Catalyst. The Catalyst Labs are different from the Catalyst Conference main sessions.

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Promote Your Business with Coupons: Quick and Easy!

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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Here’s Why You Should Hire a Humorous Speaker for Your Next Event

Chart Your Course

'How many boring meetings have you attended? Humor is one of the most valuable resources that human beings possess. It relieves stress, fosters emotional bonding, and encourages creativity. In the professional world, humor can even boost sales and productivity. Research shows that employees prefer to work in a “fun” office environment, where humor is encouraged and workers feel that they’re part of a coherent team.

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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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Top Posts And Commenters For September 2014

Joseph Lalonde

'W ow! I can’t believe another month is down. This year has flown by. Yet, I’m so thankful it’s October and everything that comes along with it. October is the month one of the best leadership conferences happens. That’s right. It’s Catalyst and I’ll be attending the event this week. I look forward to sharing what I learn about leadership and how you can apply it to your life.

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How Do You Define Adventure

Lead by Adventure

'Last Friday, I was privileged to not only meet Mark Collard, but to also get to spend a day with him working on team building. Mark is the author of several books, as well as the founder of Playmeo , a top-notch resource for team building activities. We spent the day working through a number of team building activities and also talking about his new book and his paradigm for designing the funnest and most adventurous team building programs.

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Where's Your Purple Crayon?

Mills Scofield

'In thinking about next week''s Creative Mind Lecture , designing our careers and paths and companies, I remember a classic archetype ~ Harold and the Purple Crayon! So, Where is your purple crayon? And what are you doing with it? © Crockett, Johnson “Harold and the Purple Crayon.” 1955 HarperCollins.

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When you think of the word "Habit" what comes to mind?

Jason Womack

'Do you do things that are challenging? Is there a part of your day that’s more difficult than other times? Are things hard? Think about your habits, and you’ll think about changing your life. The promise.The effect. It''s probably easy to think about the EFFECT of building a habit, but when was the last time you paused to reflect on the question of starting a new habit in the first place?

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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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Why Wednesday October 8th Could Change Your Thinking

Mills Scofield

'What if you gathered with creative minds from all disciplines and talked about how you got to where you were and how you were going forward? Join me, New Yorker Staff Cartoonist Liza Donnelly and Social Entrepreneur Superstar Susan McPherson on October 8th at 6:00pm in the Granoff Center''s Englander Studio at Brown University for a discussion of what kinds of paths, careers, serendipity Creative Minds create!

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Here’s One Reason E-mail is So hard to Deal With – (Insight from Daniel Levitin, The Organized Mind)

First Friday Book Synopsis

'I think I will be thinking about the book The Organized Mind for quite some time. Bob Morris just posted his (very helpful) review of this book to our blog today. I will present my synopsis of the book this Friday at our October First Friday Book Synopsis. And I’ll post my lessons and takeaways, […].

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Do you value diversity?

Deep Imprints

'Today, I had the opportunity to watch the Town Hall on women in ministry that our denomination put forth last week. You can watch it here: [link] Here is a valuable quote in a section on the need for diversity: “The church is God’s masterpiece. It is something unique that nothing else demonstrates in society and […].

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A Quote for the Day from The Woz – on Creativity

First Friday Book Synopsis

'There are times when one simple quote is worthy of standing alone… “Creativity doesn’t come from doing what you already know how to do…” Steve Wozniak, from The Wisdom Of Woz — Apple Cofounder Steve Wozniak Shares Nine Tips For Starting Companies, Solving Problems, And Finding HappinessFiled under: Randy''s blog entries.

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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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Putting a Hard value on Soft Projects

David A Fields

'A question I was asked: I’ve been asked to be on a retainer for six months to advise a team who are heading a major re-organization. How do I write a proposal that specifies the value in a situation like this? It’s hard to predict the outcomes upfront and I don’t work on concrete deliverables. What would your suggestion be to this consultant?

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The Organized Mind: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

'The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload Daniel J. Levitin Dutton/The Penguin Group (2014) How to “recapture a sense of order and thereby regain the hours of time wasted by a disorganized mind” Clutter can fill up our minds the same way it fills up closets, drawers, cabinets, attics, and basements […]. Bob''s blog entries Cluttered thinking results in a cluttered life Daniel J.

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My Favorite "Moral Of The Story" Tips From Harvey Mackay

Eric Jacobson

'I''m a big fan of best-selling author Harvey Mackay. He writes about business, sales and leadership and typically ends his articles with a moral of the story. Culled from his writings of the past few years, here are some of my favorites of his moral of the story endings: Change your thinking, change your life. It''s not enough to know how to do things - you must know why you do them.

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12 Indicators You’re NOT an Empowering Leader

Ron Edmondson

'I love all the talk these days about delegation and empowering of leaders. I think it’s critical. I wrote earlier about leading leaders and not followers (Read that post HERE ), so I certainly agree with the trend. I talk to people in ministry and business frequently, however, who are led by insecure, controlling leaders. It led me to write the following list.

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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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Don’t Judge the Economy by the Number of Start-Ups

Harvard Business Review

'More new businesses are better for society, right? That’s a common assumption. For instance, take this recent Washington Post piece , headlined, “More businesses are closing than starting. Can Congress help turn that around?” Sounds ominous at first. But wait a minute – is starting more new businesses always a good thing? Isn’t it a basic economic tenet that well-functioning markets will have many entrances and exits, that weak businesses (including thousands of one-person enterprises) will ge

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When Not to Use Feminism to Sell Stuff to Women

Harvard Business Review

'Marketing to women by championing feminist ideals has never been more timely, or more popular. But it’s a dangerous proposition that businesses now and in the future need to treat very carefully. Case in point — yesterday in Paris, the Chanel SS15 runway show ended with a “protest” march that included a group of (all white) models strutting in couture wielding signs that read pro-women statements that said things like “Ladies First” and “Feminist but F

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What the Mission to Mars Shows About India’s Innovators

Harvard Business Review

'The success of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in placing the Mangalyaan satellite into orbit around Mars last week has three important lessons for companies about winning in emerging markets: big ambitions are critical, constraints can be liberating, and India can be an R&D powerhouse. There have only been three other successful orbiter missions to Martian orbit: probes from the United States, Russia, and the European Space Agency.

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A New Approach for Managing Organizational Time

Harvard Business Review

'Companies have elaborate processes for allocating and investing capital. Yet, in contrast, in most organizations, time goes largely unmanaged. Companies are awash in e-communications and teleconferences. Meeting time has skyrocketed. Dysfunctional meeting behavior is on the rise. But formal controls for managing organizational time are rare and there are few consequences when employees waste precious organizational time.

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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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What to Do When Anger Takes Hold

Harvard Business Review

'I had just sat down to look over my calendar and plan my day when the phone rang. It was my contractor. Several of his workers were at my apartment ready to finish some work, but the building management company refused to let them in. This news made me furious. We have been renovating our small apartment, and it’s painfully over budget and six months overdue.

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Online Bootlegging Surges Ahead

Harvard Business Review

'Despite crackdowns and arrests by U.S. authorities, illegal file sharing still accounts for a large proportion of online traffic: Media analytics firm Tru Optik reports that of the nearly 10 billion movies, television shows, and other files downloaded globally in the second quarter of 2014, only about 6% were legal, according to The New York Times.

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Understanding China’s Hard Line on Hong Kong

Harvard Business Review

'When Chinese students first took to the streets of Beijing in April 1989 — initially to mourn the death of reformist former Premier Hu Yaobang, then to protest for more democracy — nobody in the Chinese leadership seemed to have been planning for it to end with tanks rolling into Tiananmen Square. As Ezra P. Vogel tells it in his painfully long but hugely informative biography Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China — which I read on trains and planes and in hotel rooms during a trip to C

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The Most Engaging Ideas Leave Something Out

Harvard Business Review

'The white circles you see in the grid below don’t really exist, nor do the white diagonal lines you see connecting them. Yet they are the most interesting part of the illustration. Even if you try to ignore the white space, your brain will override the order: As any visual artist will tell you, the white space is just as important as the drawing.

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DOL Final Overtime Rules: Quickstart Guide for Employers

On August 30, 2023, the DOL unveiled a proposed overtime rule that would raise the weekly salary threshold under the Federal Labor Standards Act. Paycor is closely monitoring the proposal and will provide updates as new information becomes available.