Wed.Jan 08, 2014

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5 Ways to Build Career Resiliency

Let's Grow Leaders

'Bad things happen to good people. Karma doesn’t always show up in time. Even good people may find that the knife in their back sports their own fingerprints. Even the most well-intentioned leaders do stupid stunts from time to time. My time in HR gave me a front row seat to such tragedies. It’s not […] The post 5 Ways to Build Career Resiliency appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Team Building: Trends and Tips for 2014

Lead Change Blog

'Posted in Leadership Development Team building is important for boosting employee productivity and relationships. Team building can help employees to understand each other better, communicate more effectively and start to be more creative when solving problems. In turn, this kind of work environment can attract team players to your company and boost employees’ job satisfaction.

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5 Leadership Lessons: Amplified Leadership

Leading Blog

'Amplified Leadership by Dan Reiland is about developing leaders. While it is written with a church audience in mind, the principles and values work in other arenas as well. It deserves a wider audience. He places the development of leaders into a five-step process: Establish a Relationship, Engage a Follower, Embrace a Team, Coach an Apprentice, and finally, Mentor a New Leader.

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The Slippery Slope of Not Asking Why

Lead Change Blog

'Posted in Self Leadership [link] I’d like to think I’m good at challenging the status quo. To get regular reality checks, I spend time with college kids creating for-profit and not-for-profit businesses aimed at solving wicked problems. They truly challenge the status quo and it is, fortunately, invigoratingly contagious. Sometimes (most of the time?

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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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100 Trends For 2014 (Including Responsibility and Reputation)

Leading in Context

'By Linda Fisher Thornton Staying competent is an important part of today''s proactive ethical leadership. As we head into 2014, the trend reports at the links below will give you a "business leader''s preview" of what to expect in sectors that range from consumer trends, human resources, leadership and marketing to food, and technology. Enjoy!

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Every manager needs to know the secret to presenting well.

Persuasive Powerhouse

' . By John Baldoni. . John Baldoni is an executive coach and chair of the leadership development practice at N2growth, a global leadership consultancy. John is the author of 12 books on leadership and his newest is The Leader’s Guide to Speaking with Presence ; full or practical advice you can use. He can be contacted via his Web site, www.johnbaldoni.com.

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Start Where You’re At

Joseph Lalonde

'S tarting out can be the most difficult part of your journey. I know it was for me. There was a lot of procrastination that I needed to conquer. A lot of mental objections needed to be met before I could start. But I finally learned to start where I was at. And you can start where you’re at as well. Image by Norlando Pobre. While I’d always enjoyed learning about leadership and being in a leadership position, it was tough to take action and call myself a leader.

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Some Uncommon January Advice

Kevin Eikenberry

'My calendar shows January 8th – which means we are already more than one week into the New Year. Which means that a goodly percentage of those who set resolutions have already broken them. Which also means that there are many people who planned to set goals during the holidays – and definitely before January […].

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Management Improvement Carnival – 2013 Edition

QAspire

'I have been hosting the annual management improvement carnival (organized by John Hunter ) for last 3 years and I am glad to be continuing that streak. This year, I am reviewing three blogs and featuring their best 3 posts that I enjoyed reading. This is also my opportunity to thank them for all the lessons they share through their blogs. Jesse Lyn Stoner’s Blog.

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Let Them Fail

Mills Scofield

'This guest post is by fellow mentor/advisor to the Social Innovation Fellowship (formerly C.V. Starr Fellowship) Robin Pendoley , Founder/CEO of Thinking Beyond Borders. This is a must read for innovators and entrepreneurs of any type. Please read on! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. “I have failed.” This phrase opened Natasha Blackadar’s summer blog post about her first social venture.

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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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Team Building with University of Rochester Simon Business School

Mike Cardus

'We had an amazing time with the University of Rochester Simon School of Business MBA students. The Team Building & Leadership development focused on: Developing skills in team work that will be useful throughout their MBA. Meeting fellow students. Creating a strong connection University of Rochester Simon School of Business. It was a really great time!

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New Years is an Artificial Constraint

Mills Scofield

'Seriously ! Thank you Switch & Shift for hosting my (anti)-New Year''s post! "Ah, New Years hype! New resolutions, habits, goals, priorities. We make it so grand and complicated that we set ourselves up for failure. Seriously, what’s the difference between December 31st and January 1st? Is it really different than June 30th and July 1st or October 31st and November 1st?

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Management Futures: A resolution for self-awareness

Chartered Management Institute

'Are you as good a manager as you think you are? It’s now well established that, as human beings, we’re not terribly accurate in our perception of how we come across to others, how good our judgement is, or how effectively we manage.

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How to Grow Your Strategic Mindset

Strategy Driven

'“It just completely caught us off guard.”. That’s a statement you never want to hear as a business leader. But today’s VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) world makes it incredibly difficult to plan and predict the future. At the same time, we’re all under pressure to move faster and get more done. So while thinking – and strategic thinking, in particular – is a key leadership responsibility, it often gets pushed aside in the midst of the day-to-day challenges of running

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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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7 More Tips for Finding Great Team Members

Ron Edmondson

'I can form a team. I don’t have many specialities, but this is one of them. I’ve posted before some of my thoughts on how to do this, but it is one of the leading issues about which church leaders talk to me, so I keep coming back to the issue. These are considered an addition to THIS previous post. Here are 7 tips for finding the best team member: Hire based on culture.

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The Degree Is Doomed

Harvard Business Review

'The credential — the degree or certificate — has long been the quintessential value proposition of higher education. Americans have embraced degrees with a fervor generally reserved for bologna or hot dogs. Everyone should have them! Many and often! And their perceived value elsewhere in the world — in Asia in particular — is if anything even higher.

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How to Be a Family-Friendly Boss

Harvard Business Review

'I have a friend who is an ascending executive at an international financial firm. His career has always been demanding- long hours, lots of travel, ultra-high performance standards (which he always has met or exceeded). Several years ago, when his daughter was quite young, he was considering changing employers due to the incompatibility of his work’s demands with his need to be a present father.

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Does Taking Paternity Leave Give Men a Longer Life?

Harvard Business Review

'Men who take time off from work to care for their children live longer than other men, sociologist Scott Coltrane writes in The Atlantic. According to a study in Sweden, fathers who took paternity leave in 1978 and 1979 had a 16% decreased death risk by 2001; those who took the longest leaves had the greatest benefits. The study says increased involvement in parenting may reduce some of the detrimental effects of traditional masculinity on men’s health behaviors.

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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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What’s That You’re Calling a Bubble?

Harvard Business Review

'The bubble has become an inescapable element of modern economic discourse. Every day somebody is proclaiming a new one , arguing that there isn’t one , proposing ways to prevent one , or complaining about how hard they are to prevent. What wielders of the term seldom do, though, is say exactly what they mean by it. And the definitions that do get offered can vary pretty dramatically.

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In Sales, Can You Manage What You’re Measuring?

Harvard Business Review

'It goes without saying that there is a significant amount of pressure on every sales force to deliver its number. Sales management plays a crucial role in reaching that objective, but can sales performance really be managed? I mean, tactically managed? Our research suggests that it can… sort of. Vantage Point Performance and the Sales Education Foundation recently conducted a study on the measurement and management of sales forces.

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Research: We Should Speak Up About Ethical Violations More Often

Harvard Business Review

'Whistle-blowing reveals not just acute misdeeds, but chronic and longstanding patterns of misconduct. For example, Edward Snowden’s bombshell release of more than 200,000 documents revealed questionable government surveillance programs that existed for years. Miami Dolphins player Jonathan Martin withdrew from play, alleging more than a year of emotional abuse from teammate Richie Incognito.

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Why Continuous Deployment May Mean Continuous Customer Disappointment

Harvard Business Review

'For the last 75 years products (both durable goods and software) were built via Waterfall development. This process forced companies to release and launch products by model years, and market new and “improved” versions. In the last few years Agile and “Continuous Deployment” has replaced Waterfall and transformed how companies big and small build products.

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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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Creating a Culture of Unconditional Love

Harvard Business Review

'During my first decade working in the Buenos Aires office of Egon Zehnder in the late 1990s, our Argentine executive search practice soared, recording the highest per capita financial performance in the whole firm for five consecutive years. But we all know what happened in 2001. By the end of the year, Argentina’s economy had collapsed. It was the largest sovereign debt default in world history, and GDP fell by some 30% coupled with a 300% currency devaluation.