Wed.Aug 20, 2014

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A 360 Feedback Tool You Can Do Yourself

Let's Grow Leaders

'Chances are, unless you ask, most people won’t tell. People are holding back their best thinking on how you can improve. In fact, research consistently shows that people rate themselves higher than others do. When it comes to self-assessment, our confidence seems to out-weigh our humility. This is partly because we know our own context, and therefore give ourselves the benefit of the doubt.”Sure, I slacked off a bit on that project, but, I’m only human for Pete’s sake.

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Using Negative Examples to Teach Ethics? Why It’s Not Enough.

Leading in Context

'By Linda Fisher Thornton How many times have we tried to teach people about ethics by explaining every detail of what it doesn''t look like? We describe laws and regulations and ethics guidelines in great detail, then ask attendees if there are any questions. After learning in great detail how to stay out of trouble, the thought on their minds may just be "Okay, now I know what NOT to do.

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Why is Learning So Important in the Workplace?

Women on Business

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How to Identify Team Values that Unify and Guide Your Team

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

'When you agree on your team values, you increase trust and create a language for working together most effectively. Values are deeply held beliefs about what is right and good and evoke standards that you care deeply about. They drive your behaviors and decisions. Most often your values influence your behavior unconsciously. High performance teams are clear about their values and consciously make decisions based on them.

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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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Are You Communicating With Your Team Properly?

Women on Business

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How To Deal With The Rapid Increase In Innovation

Joseph Lalonde

'B link and another innovation has passed you by. You might even be like Blockbuster Video or Blackberry and crumbling as we speak. All because innovation came and you weren’t ready. Image by Tsahi Levent-Levi. Know what I’m saying? Innovation is moving at an ever increasing pace. This leaves many businesses struggling to play catchup. Some never do.

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How to Identify Team Values that Unify and Guide Your Team

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

'When you agree on your team values, there is greater trust and you create a language to discuss how to work together most effectively. Values are deeply held beliefs about what is right and good and evoke standards that you care deeply about. They drive your behaviors and decisions. Most often your values influence your behavior unconsciously. High performance teams are clear about their values and consciously make decisions based on them.

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Tired of the Fire Drills? Appoint a Fire Marshal

Next Level Blog

'One of the things I talk a lot about with my executive coaching clients is the highest and best use of their time and attention. When they think about what they really need to accomplish and how they should be spending their time to do that they often see a gap. The gap is between what they should be spending their time and attention on and what they actually are spending it on.

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Here are my Takeaways (newly revised) from Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazi

First Friday Book Synopsis

'I presented my synopsis of Never Eat Alone (And Other Secrets to Success One Relationship at a Time) by Keith Ferrazi this morning at the Farmers Branch Chamber of Commerce. (Good group!). They were “re-starting” for the fall, and the reminders of this book on how to become a much better networking professional seemed to fit […].

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Slow Decline of Eastman Kodak due to an Inability to Reinvent

Coaching Tip

' In its heyday, Eastman Kodak Company was an icon of innovation in photography; a juggernaut in its field. The film giant gave us the "Kodak Moment," which persists as the quintessential photographic experience even though in today''s digital camera age "selfies" on smartphones are a major factor. Supremely confident, making decisions that presumed the past was an appropriate guide to the future, Kodak executives didn''t understand that the world was changing dramatically.

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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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Starting Thought: The Problem with Practice and the “Try and Try Again” Approach

leaderCommunicator

'Sometimes those of us who are diligent, driven, and focused on getting to that end result can become frustrated when we don’t master something immediately. “Try and try again” is a good motto except when we just keep trying the same thing in the same way. Sometimes we try and try again by just doing more of what we have been trying and then we are surprised when we don’t get the result we want.

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What to do with all that stress

Deep Imprints

'All day long I’ve been thinking about God and money. After all, if I’m submitted to Him, then He provides for what I need. Yet, at certain times of year (like when school starts) the need seems to out way the income. If I’m not careful, I can let this stress distract me and ruin […].

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Art of Managing—Managing Effectively is Hard, Good Work

Management Excellence

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Managing a Remote Team: 12 Best Practices for Better Productivity

Strategy Driven

'The remote and mobile workforce population is steadily rising. Even IBM adjusted its HR policies to accommodate remote workers. Today, it is one of the top companies that make use of a remote workforce, offering flexible work options, alongside Apple, Dell and Xerox. To ascertain staff productivity in teams that are scattered across various locations, below are twelve best practices to effectively manage a mobile/remote workforce: 1.

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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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Do Intangible Benefits Matter?

David A Fields

'A question I was asked: My prospect seems to be talking less about the hard, quantifiable benefits of the project we’re discussing and more about intangibles. Things like alleviation of stress and time to spend with family. Do I include these types of benefits in a Context Discussion? If so, how? What would your suggestion be to this consultant? What has worked for you?

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How To Make Your Email Communication More Effective

Eric Jacobson

'Author Joseph McCormack offers these six tips for ways of making your written communication shorter and more appealing : Deliver a strong title or subject line that''s your invitation. Limit your email to the original window. Make sure there is white space and balance throughout the text. Call out key ideas by calling them out in bold type. Start each bullet point with a strong word or catchy phrase.

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Do You Want to Join Our Team?

Ron Edmondson

'I’ve never used this blog for this purpose but I decided to give it a try. We are looking for a worship leader. The job title is actually Associate Worship Pastor at Immanuel Baptist Church. . But, who needs titles anyway. (Okay, some do). But, this is so much more than a title. And, we are so much more than just the name of a church. We are experiencing a movement of God upon our city.

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To blog or not to blog – Internal or corporate blogs

Rapid BI

'A Blog (short for web log) is a public communication that enables interactions between the author and their readers. Whilst not all bloggers in the public arena allow comments and dialogue, the vast majority do, indeed it is this interaction (or the possibility of the interaction) that makes the blog different from other communication tools. […].

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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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3 Behaviors That Drive Successful Salespeople

Harvard Business Review

'Most people consider selling to be an art rather than a science: some people have it and some people don’t. But this leaves a lot of uncertainty in what is often a company’s most profitable department, and it makes managing a high-functioning sales force notoriously difficult. The prevailing thinking is that the amount of time salespeople spend with customers is the most important determinant of how much they are able to sell.

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RapidBI Daily Business Cartoon #149

Rapid BI

' “I’d like you to do a presentation on business ethics. If you don’t have time to prepare something, just steal it off the Internet.” 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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The Most Productive People Know Who to Ignore

Harvard Business Review

'A coaching client of mine is managing partner at a very large law firm, and one of the issues we’ve been working on is how to cope more effectively with the intense demands on his time—clients who expect him to be available, firm partners and other employees who want him to address their concerns and resolve disputes, an inbox overflowing with messages from these same (and still other!

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How to Make an Impact: Think Big, Lead Small

General Leadership

'“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”. Lao Tzu. To be a great leader doesn’t mean one has to take the flag and charge into cannon fire or make a drastic change in the organization. Those leaders do tend to get all the fame, but the ones that can make a real difference in peoples’ lives are the ones who constantly set a good example, reward positive performance and steer their team to 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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How Google Has Changed Management, 10 Years After its IPO

Harvard Business Review

'Google went public 10 years ago today, and since then has dramatically changed the way the world accesses information. It has also helped shape the practice of management. Staying true to its roots as an engineering-centric company, Google has stood out both for its early skepticism of the value of managers as well as for its novel, often quantitative approaches to management decisions.

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If You Haven’t Gone Social, You Should Be Very Very Worried

Mills Scofield

'Mark Babbitt and Ted Coiné have written a book you MUST read, A World Gone Social , if you don’t want to fall prey to Darwin’s survival of the fittest. Mark and Ted make it clear, with concrete examples, that the Social World’s implications for 21 st Century business are enormous: Customers have more power than they’ve had before; Settling for mediocre won’t work!

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How to Present to a Small Audience

Harvard Business Review

'It’s easy to associate delivering presentations with standing in front of an audience and gesturing toward projected slides. However, many meetings or pitches involve fewer than ten participants in a room, where everyone remains seated and walks through the same slide deck together. This is quite a different scenario with greater constraints on the presenter and fewer tools to engage the audience.

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Fixing a Work Relationship Gone Sour

Harvard Business Review

'Sometimes you get stuck in a rut with someone at work — a boss, a coworker, a direct report. Perhaps there’s bad blood between you or you simply haven’t been getting along. What can you do to turn the relationship around? Is it possible to start anew? What the Experts Say. The good news is that even some of the most strained relationships can be repaired.

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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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2% of Your Coworkers Have Face Blindness

Harvard Business Review

'If you’re in management, much of your job consists of creating the conditions under which people in the organization can do good work. You work to understand what makes it hard for them to be productive, and help them clear those hurdles. It should interest you, therefore, to know of a challenge that likely affects a percentage of your colleagues, but is rarely acknowledged: face blindness.

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The Benefits of Male Small-Talk

Harvard Business Review

'In a hypothetical scenario, research participants were willing to pay 6% more for a parcel of land if the male seller engaged in friendly small-talk before negotiating the deal, demonstrating that men benefit from striking up casual conversation before negotiations, says a team led by Brooke Shaughnessy of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Germany.

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I Was a Cyberthreat to My Company. Are You?

Harvard Business Review

'It seems like every other day, I receive a notification of yet another update of Adobe Flash Player to install on my computer. At first I thought these messages were merely annoying. But then I realized that they’re also potentially dangerous, after working with the University of Oxford’s David M. Upton and Sadie Creese on their HBR article “The Danger from Within.