Mon.Apr 22, 2013

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Resolving Conflict in the Workplace Part II

Lead Change Blog

'Posted in Leadership Development In our last post, we discussed the importance of effectively resolving conflict in the workplace. The ability to resolve conflict will not only mitigate the existing issue but help lead to increased collaboration and even innovation. While we cannot stop conflict from occurring altogether, we can improve our ability to deal with it properly.

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Earth Day Leadership Challenge: How Will Your Garden Grow?

Let's Grow Leaders

'It’s Earth Day. Perhaps you’ll take out the recycling. Or, maybe you’ll sing a sweet song like these little leaders. Good start. Others are doing more. Ron Finley Guerilla Gardener I’m blown away by the leadership of Ron Finley, Guerilla Gardener. Ron’s leading dramatic change in South Central Los Angeles. He’s given new meaning [.

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Experiment Like An Expert

Lead Change Blog

'Posted in Leadership Coaching Leadership Development [link] There’s a lot of pressure, and even hype, out there about the need to be or become an expert. Of course, to be perceived as an expert you need to know something about your area of expertise. “Expert” also implies some depth of knowledge and understanding, as well as expertise in applying it.

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Shaping Tomorrow’s Women Through Mentoring

Women on Business

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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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The Two Sides of Trust

The Recovering Engineer

'Like so many words we use commonly, trust has many layers of meaning. While most of us have similar general perspectives about what it means to trust another person, there are some subtle differences in how we view this simple word. The words I often use to describe the two sides of trust are transactional trust and relational trust, and here is how I define the terms: Transactional trust refers to the trust we have that another person will do what they said they would do or complete and assign

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Business Process Planning – 5 Mistakes to Avoid

Women on Business

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Learn from the unique

Persuasive Powerhouse

' . One of the most common questions I get from the leaders I work with is “Are others (in my company or organization, at my level, in my industry) dealing with the same issues I’m trying to work through?” My honest answer to them is “Yes. You are like others in many ways, and the dilemmas, situations and ways of leading can be very similar to other good leaders’” I love that “yes” It’s our common dilemmas, our shared passions, and our samene

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Introverts: 6 Ways to Maximize Your Natural Strengths

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

'Guest Post by Jennifer B. Kahnweiler. I am delighted to host this guest post by my colleague Jennifer Kahnweiller in celebration of the launch of her excellent new book Quiet Influence: The Introvert”s Guide to Making a Difference. Jennifer is recognized world-wide as the “go-to” expert on the power of introverts following the success of her first book The Introverted Leader.

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How Leaders Must View Opportunity

Kevin Eikenberry

'124 years today, something amazing and historic happened. The United States government made about 2 million acres of public land in Oklahoma available to homestead. Here’s how it worked. Starting at noon April 22, 1889, legal settlers could claim lots up to 160 acres. If the settler lived on the land and improved it, they [.].

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Building a Strengths-Based Leadership Development Program

Nathan Magnuson

'This is the third post of a three-part series on the leadership merits of Gallup’s StrengthsFinder 2.0 strengths assessment. In the first post, I shared the practical benefits of the assessment itself. Then last week, I explained how the each person tends toward one of four leadership styles and how each style significantly impacts 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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Mindful Mondays: Presence in Boston When It Mattered Most

Next Level Blog

'What a week it was for the city of Boston. It’s hard to believe that the citizens there went from the attack at the Boston Marathon to a citywide lockdown as police hunted for the surviving suspect to the celebratory singing of Sweet Caroline with Neil Diamond himself in an afternoon game at Fenway Park all within the span of five days. When I wrote about the resilience of Bostonians last week, I had no clue just how resilient they would prove to be.

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You Can Not Train People to Think Bigger or With More Complexity Than They are Currently Capable

Mike Cardus

'We know the ‘ Peter Principle ’ exist and we all laugh about it. Very few companies know how to deal with it and they repeat the same mistakes , knowing that they are creating failure and organizational chaos. Unfortunately the employee, that is now in the role that they cannot adequately fill, is usually punished by termination or sent to training.

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Why Learning From Failure Works Better When Others Fail

LDRLB

'We’re told that experience is the best teacher. We’re reassured that we can learn from failure. In recent years, we’ve gone so far as to argue that we need to celebrate failure. Mantras like “Fail More” or “Fail Faster” adorn many office walls where our prized motivational posters used to hang. There are definitely positive lessons to be learned from failure, but new research suggests that the failure of others might be a better source of learning than our own short-comings or mis-steps.

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Team Expectations are NOT Team Goals

Great Results Team Building

'Although they are often mistakenly used interchangeably, there is a huge difference between team expectations and team goals. Most leaders are quite familiar with goal setting. There are dozens of programs and books and suggested methods of setting smart and compelling goals for your organization. Goals are your main objectives and the ultimate success that you visualize achieving.

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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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Really, Fully Show Up – Your Communication Tip of the Day (insight from Neil Diamond and Cory Booker)

First Friday Book Synopsis

'Eighty percent of success is showing up. Woody Allen “Thank you, Boston! What an honor it is for me to be here today. I bring love from the whole country.” Neil Diamond, at the Red Sox Game ——————– Last week had the sad and tragic (Boston; West, Texas), and the wonderful. We all know all [.].

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10 Positive Paradigms in Church Leadership

Ron Edmondson

'I recently posted 10 dangerous paradigms in the church. Obviously, there are positive mindsets in the church also. I decided to share some from the perception of a pastor. Here are 10 positive paradigms in the church: We can do it Pastor – The “can do” attitude. Who can’t work with that? Jesus will make a way – So, if that’s your paradigm, then all we have to do is follow Him…right?

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Vijay Govindarajan: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

'Vijay Govindarajan (“VG”) is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on strategy and innovation. He is the Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He was the first Professor in Residence and Chief Innovation Consultant at General Electric. He worked with GE’s [.].

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Trolls and Destructive Members Less Frequent on a Well Managed Online Community Than Facebook and Twitter

Managing Communities

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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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George Kohlrieser: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

'George Kohlrieser is an organizational and clinical psychologist. He is Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour at IMD and consultant to several global companies including Accenture, Alcan, Amer Sports, Barclays Global Investors, Cisco, Coca-Cola, HP, IBM, IFC, Morgan Stanley, Motorola, Nestlé, Nokia, Roche, Sara Lee, Tetra Pak, and Toyota.

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The Twitter you may not know. But should.

Strategy Driven

'What’s in a tweet? For most people it’s a post and a prayer. For me, it’s value, information others can use, followers, reputation, image, re-tweets, customers, referrals, sales, and money. Is that enough? Twitter has the power to generate awareness, create value attraction, keep you or your brand at top-of-mind status, and build relationships. Is that enough to get you to participate?

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I Need More Video to Promote My Business

Rapid BI

'Whereas not so long ago, video used to be a costly marketing tool that took hiring professionals, paying fees and using extensive valuable time, but it has now become easy to do on your own as well as affordable. It’s also become kind of a necessity in the business world, and small business owners can [.]. guest minifig promote.

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Sharing Highlights At CIPD HRD

My Own Coach

'If you are going to the CIPD HRD exhibition at Olympia on Thursday 25th April, send me a tweet , drop me a line or give me a call. I''d love to meet up and share notes over a latte.

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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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Do I Give the Company Blog Enough Love?

Rapid BI

'The company blog can do much for your business if you are doing it right. Often, companies just have a blog because they feel they must and do not work it enough or properly to get their traffic up. Taking some of these tips and tricks into account can help your business blog take off. [.].

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Are You Playing It Safe?

My Own Coach

'Confidence can be a fragile thing, even for successful people. Possibly the most fundamental step in building confidence is to open up your eyes to the reality of change and to accept what is in reality quite a daunting challenge – taking responsibility for yourself and your own future. This is about taking a grip on your own direction in life and not drifting aimlessly in a sea of unpredictable currents.

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How to Really Understand Someone Else's Point of View

Harvard Business Review

'The most influential people strive for genuine buy in and commitment — they don''t rely on compliance techniques that only secure short-term persuasion. That was our conclusion after interviewing over 100 highly respected influences across many different industries and organizations for our recent book. These high-impact influencers follow a pattern of four steps that all of us can put into action.

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Untapped Talent

Coaching Tip

'Most of us have untapped talents that are tied to something unique in our makeup. Race, gender, physical factors, socioeconomic factors--anything that shapes us--all work together to define the talents that we either tap or fail to tap. Extremely intelligent, well-educated men and women with master''s degrees have a strong desire to succeed in their work but face unique organizational obstacles.

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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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The New Kind of Worker Every Business Needs

Harvard Business Review

'We live in a world in which amplified individuals — people empowered by technologies and the collective intelligence of their social networks — can do things that previously only a large organization could. Indeed, they can do some things that no organization could do before. For better and worse, this is the world in which weekend software hackers can disrupt large software firms, and rapidly orchestrated social movements can bring down governments.

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What We've Learned About Communicating with Employees in an Emergency

Harvard Business Review

'On Friday, with the Boston metro area on lockdown, many folks stuck at home were running an experiment in how much information can be consumed at once. I maxed out with a laptop streaming video coverage, iPhone full of tweets, TV blaring footage, and radio providing analysis — all simultaneously. (I''d have been using the iPad too, but was limited by having only two hands, dangit.

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Men: Win at Work by Leaning In at Home

Harvard Business Review

'Research shows that many men want to have richer lives , with greater emotional engagement and joy in their family lives and bigger contributions to their households. But they face substantial barriers at work, in their homes, and inside their own heads. Just as women need support from their organizations and their families to surmount the hurdles of fear and tradition, men need help in getting past the roadblocks that keep them from engaging more fully as caregivers and homemakers.

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Experiencing the Media's Pro-Am Future in Boston

Harvard Business Review

'Last week began in the Boston area with reenactments of bloody battles fought 238 years ago. I got there at 5 a.m. for one of them, standing with my family near the edge of Lexington Green as dawn broke and then, a little while later, a guy on horseback (presumably supposed to be Paul Revere, although in reality he''d lost his horse by then ) rode past us to Buckman Tavern to warn the gathered patriots that the British Army was not far behind.

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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.