Tue.Aug 19, 2014

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An Unconventional Way to Safeguard Employee Motivation

Lead Change Blog

'Create an environment that inspires motivation and engagement through empathy. You can make sure your people are using their natural strengths. You can focus on job fit and culture fit. Is that all there is to ensure motivated employees? When I think of supporting employee motivation, my thoughts go a slightly different direction. What if [.] Author information Mary C Schaefer President at Artemis Path, Inc.

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How To Promote Continuous Learning In Your Organization

Tanveer Naseer

'“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” – William Arthur Ward When it comes to effectively leading teams and organizations in today’s fast-paced, 24/7 global economy, it’s becoming more and more evident that the days of command-and-control leadership are well behind us.

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How to Overcome Biases that Work Against Business Women

Women on Business

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10 Powerful Ways to Develop Your Employees

Great Leadership By Dan

'I know, you''ve heard it a zillion times before: the importance in taking the time and effort to develop your employees. So why aren''t you? Read my latest post over at About.com Management and Leadership for 10 Powerful Ways to Develop Your Employees. How many of these are you engaged in for each of your employees?

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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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3 Must Do’s When Relocating Your Business

Women on Business

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Check Out Today’s “200-Second Soundbite™” Podcast!

General Leadership

'Cruise over to PodBean to hear our latest 200-Second Soundbite entitled “Tearing Down the Walls of Leadership?” or subscribe to our PodCast directly via iTunes at the following link. If you are an insulated leader, you are missing the big picture. As a result, you are making decisions based upon poor—sometimes misleading—information. In today’s climate, you cannot afford to misinterpret the variables that make up your opportunity for a winning equation.

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Remarkable TV: Are Leaders Born or Made?

Kevin Eikenberry

'It’s an age-old question: are leaders made or born? My answer is “yes” and here’s what I mean… We are born with talents that can help us, but we must learn the skills to be a highly effective leader. @KevinEikenberry (Tweet It) You can learn more about the Bud to Boss workshops here. If you […]. The post Remarkable TV: Are Leaders Born or Made?

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Can Empathy Impact Employee Motivation?

ReImagine Work

'What supports employee motivation? Let’s take a minute to go beyond job and culture fit. What happens when employees know their contributions actually make a difference ? I know it’s impacted my motivation. Several years ago I was on a project that “restarted” seven times. Near the end, the project leader told us to just hang out until he and the other leaders got things figured out.

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The Art Of Leadership Is Not Without Struggle

Lead from Within

'At the age of seven, a young boy and his family were forced out of their home. The boy had to work to help support his family. When he was nine, his mother passed away. As a young man was keen to go to law school, but had no education. At 22, he lost his job as a store clerk. At 23, he ran for the state legislature and lost. The same year, a business failure left him with a debt that took him 17 years to repay.

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There’s No “I” in Team (But there is “me”)

Lead by Adventure

'You’ve probably heard the saying. You may have even said it. I think it’s quite funny. It’s probably just my weird sense of humor, but sometimes I just can’t help myself. I know what the saying means, and what people who say it are referring to. There’s no room for selfishness when it comes to being a part of a team, just as there’s no space for egotistical and narcissistic behavior.

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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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Steve Jobs

Joseph Lalonde

'B e a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected. The post Steve Jobs appeared first on Joseph Lalonde.

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New eBook - Cutting to Win: 6 Steps for Getting Employees on Your Side During Cost Cuts

leaderCommunicator

'Talking to employees about cost cuts is a difficult job for leaders and communicators, yet it is vitally important to get it right, especially now that it is such a big part of the way businesses function. Scores of the Fortune 500 clients we’ve worked with at The Grossman Group are cutting costs, and often that’s not because of financial issues. Instead, cutting costs is seen as a smart business practice, designed to help a company prioritize so it can innovate, invest smartly and grow.

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The Reason for Change Management – Signed, Sealed and Delivered

Change Starts Here

'I was at the post office recently to mail a package. The postal worker at the counter was friendly and made funny voices at my 6 year old daughter to make her laugh. He was the picture of good customer service. Then, as he nearly completed the transaction to add postage to the package, he accidentally touched a button on the screen that apparently canceled the whole transaction.

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Make It A Habit To Ask Your Employees These 6 Questions

Eric Jacobson

'As explained in John Baldoni''s, book, Lead With Purpose , Marshall Goldsmith suggests all leaders make it a habit to regularly ask their employees these six questions : Where do you think we should be going? Where do you think you and your part of the business should be going? What do you think you''re doing well? If you were the leader, what ideas would you have for you?

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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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3 Things Creatives Need to Flourish

Ron Edmondson

'There are some lessons that are only learned the hard way. One of those has to do with working with creatives. I used to think when leading creatives, the key was to free them to create. I’ve learned — the hard way — that freedom alone for a creative can spell disaster. Nothing gets accomplished. No one is happy. Please understand.

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Tactical Execution Best Practice 7 – Clearly Defined Organizational Roles and Responsibilities

Strategy Driven

'All too often, duplicate effort is unknowingly expended by an organization’s various workgroups. The text above is only a small portion of this article. Become a StrategyDriven Premium Member to gain access to the entire article and the over 100 other StrategyDriven members-only articles, whitepapers, models, and tools and templates. Become a StrategyDriven Premium Member for only $9.95 / month or $94.95 / year !

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RapidBI Daily Business Cartoon #148

Rapid BI

'“Remember when I walked past your desk this morning and I didn’t fire you? In today’s economy, that counts as a raise and promotion.” Office based cartoons, funnies or humor can help to communicate important messages or tips in a non threatening way. see more office humor.

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What People Are Really Doing When They’re on a Conference Call

Harvard Business Review

'If you’re reading this while on a conference call — perhaps even in the loo — you’re not alone. It turns out many U.S. employees would rather do just about anything rather than listen intently to their coworkers from a remote location. According to InterCall , the world’s largest conference call company — it’s used by 85% of Fortune 100 firms — the percentage of people using mobile phones to dial into conference calls has been rising steadily over the past three years, f

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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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Two Questions That Will Change Your Life In A Powerful Way.

Rich Gee Group

'DO THIS TODAY. I did it and found it COMPLETELY EXHILARATING & POWERFUL. Find a quiet place, no distractions (see below). Turn off your phone and email, close your door — this time is for you. Use your laptop to write down the answers to these two questions: 1. EXPLAIN YOUR CURRENT SITUATION TO YOUR ‘FIVE-YEARS-AGO’ SELF. Example: Tom — you’re going to be fired from your job, you’re going to feel like ‘fired’, but they’re really letting you go.

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Managing Your Emotions After Maternity Leave

Harvard Business Review

'When you’re a new mother, it feels like everyone wants a piece of you — literally, figuratively, and emotionally. Add physiological changes, a lack of sleep, and hormonal fluctuations into that mix and it’s easy to understand why returning to work after maternity leave can be one of the most fraught, challenging, and stressful times in a woman’s life.

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The Lines Keep Blurring in this Eclectic Time – (Insight from Thinkers 50: Future Thinkers)

First Friday Book Synopsis

'Expertise: expert skill or knowledge in a particular field Eclectic: • selecting what appears to be best in various doctrines, methods, or style • composed of elements drawn from various sources Eclecticism: a conceptual approach that does not hold rigidly to a single paradigm or set of assumptions, but instead draws upon multiple theories, styles, […].

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The First Mile: A Launch Manual for Great Ideas

Harvard Business Review

'That first mile—where an innovation moves from an idea into the market—is often plagued by failure. In fact, less than 1% of ideas launched inside organizations have any real impact on the bottom line. The ideas aren’t the problem. It’s the process. In his new book, The First Mile: A Launch Manual for Getting Great Ideas Into the Market , innovation expert Scott Anthony has created a road map to improve the process and the chances of success.

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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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Help Employees Think on Their Feet

Harvard Business Review

'When employees don’t have enough information about projects or goals, the fog of indecision can settle in – people make the wrong decisions, or no decisions at all. In the corporate landscape, many employees aren’t given enough business context to be able to spot or distinguish threats and opportunities. They’re unable or unwilling to make critical decisions without being told what to do.

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4 Ways to Fix the Q&A Session

Harvard Business Review

'As a professional public speaker on innovation, I’ve often wondered why people seem so attached to the idea of ending keynotes with a Q&A session. Most Q&A sessions are mediocre experiences at best: an instantly forgettable interlude before the coffee break. The very format, I’d argue, is a dysfunctional relic of the past, unthinkingly added to agendas everywhere, and I believe we need to rethink it.

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Pity the Poor Local Government Worker

Harvard Business Review

'35% of insect-related injuries to U.S. workers affect state and local government employees, even though those workers constitute just 14% of the nation’s workforce, according to a Labor Department tally reported in the Wall Street Journal. New Mexico leads the nation in insect injuries of workers, with 8.3 per 100,000 people living in the state in 2010, well ahead of No. 2 Georgia, which has 6.3.

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Case Study: Do Business and Politics Mix?

Harvard Business Review

'As soon as Harold Leeson, the CEO of Natural Foods, pulled into the parking lot of his company’s headquarters, his phone rang. It was Kenneth King, one of his board members. Harold braced himself before answering. “This is a total mess,” Ken said immediately. “I know,” Harold replied, exhaustion creeping into his voice. “But our publicity team is telling me it’s going to calm down soon — people will forget about it.”.

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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.