Tue.Feb 11, 2014

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Understanding resistance to change

Lead Change Blog

'Posted in Change Management Is resistance to change truly irrational? Many times, people being impacted by an organizational change initiative are called “irrational” or even worse by those leading the effort. However, even someone who is clinically insane is behaving rationally within their worldview. To themselves, people do not behave irrationally though they may be viewed that way by [.

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Accountability At Work – How To Describe The Gap

Tanveer Naseer

'At some point during the work week, most of us face a gap—the difference between what was expected and what was actually delivered. Gaps, in a nutshell, include violated expectations, broken commitments and bad behaviour. If you’ve felt let down, disappointed or offended, you have experienced a gap. How you deal with gaps makes a huge difference on the quality of relationships and results as a whole.

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Set Boundaries for Your Success

Lead Change Blog

'Posted in Leadership Development [link] In a recent article on Halogen Software’s Talent Space Blog, Sean Conrad asks the question: “Is Working Less the Secret to Employee Productivity?” His question triggered my thinking about the power of setting boundaries to improve performance and fuel our success. While it may seem counter-intuitive at first to think that setting limits has anything to do [.

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10 Ways to Deal with Dark Gorillas

Leadership Freak

'Pushing toward positive environments, while others pull down, discourages and frustrates leaders. What’s the use? To make matters worse, one negative does more damage than one positive does good. It hangs on longer, too. Organizations grow dark unless someone intervenes. But, negativity does just fine on its own. It constantly pulls downward, picking up speed […].

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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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Telecommuting in Action – WordPress Style – Infographic

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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The First Communication Secret

Kevin Eikenberry

'We all spend lots of time trying to get better at communicating. We practice writing better emails, we take public speaking courses, we try to tell stories to make our point, and lots more. And as important as all of that is (and it is), great communication isn’t just about sending a message, it is about assuring […].

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Leadership: The Fallacy of Intimacy

Lead from Within

'The biggest fallacy that some leaders subscribe to is that intimacy has no place in leadership or business. They subscribe to this fallacy out of fear and a need to protect themselves. They fear that if they become intimate—that is, if they allow their true selves to be revealed to others—they might lose respect, lose their importance, and lose their power.

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Martin Luther King Jr

Joseph Lalonde

'E very man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or darkness of destructive selfishness. The post Martin Luther King Jr appeared first on Joseph Lalonde.

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Organizations with Highly Effective Communications Continue to Significantly Outperform Their Less Effective Peers

leaderCommunicator

'We’ve written on using communications to drive behaviors and align employees with a business strategy , and new research sheds some more light on just how effective communications is at achieving results. Companies with high effectiveness in communication and change management are 3.5 times more likely to significantly outperform their less effective peers, according to Towers Watson’s 2013-2014 Change and Communication ROI Study.

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The First Machine Age, “Muscle Power” – The Second Machine Age, “Mental Power”

First Friday Book Synopsis

'I had just selected The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliance Technologies as my book for the March First Friday Book Synopsis when I saw Fareed Zakaria’s interview of the authors last Sunday: Technology? We haven’t seen anything yet: Fareed speaks with Erik Brynjolfsson, a professor of management at MIT’s […].

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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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The 5 C's of People Management

Chartered Management Institute

'Traditional management models stress the development of detailed project plans and the rigorous observation of disciplined models. Developed by engineering and manufacturing organisations they assume workflows with controlled variables and fixed inputs, in short they assume that you are managing machines, not human beings. The list below will be useful in helping us recall 5 key people management requirements that should not be overlooked.

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Are You Really Learning Much? – (Reflections from a rather humbling realization)

First Friday Book Synopsis

'So, if you learn something, and then do it, and keep doing it, and then you learn something else, and then do that, and keep doing it, and then you keep repeating this pattern. Well, I just want you to know I come really close to envying you. For those of us who are native […].

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How Do You React When Others Make Mistakes?

Your Voice of Encouragement

'It was the end of a great week-end. I had coordinated a 3-day field trip for people who love bird-watching. My husband Lee and I had helped lead groups to various locations around the Outer Banks. We had 80 attendees, and everything had gone according to plan – lots of birds, good weather and friendly people. After the tally on the last day – where we gather together and add up all the species seen – several people came up to me to thank me for a great weekend.

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The conditions for sharing help in your organisation

Chartered Management Institute

'Last week I wrote about the idea of having a giving day in your organisation, where employees give help and advice to their peers. It was a simple construct aimed at promoting and encouraging the behaviour of sharing knowledge, and perhaps more importantly asking for help.

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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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Mid-Week Recommended Leadership Reads

Eric Jacobson

'Here are my Mid-Week Recommended Leadership Reads. Each week, I share with you one recommended blog post , video , and profile about leadership, communication and/or marketing. The recommendations are be some of my favorite finds that I hope you''ll think are equally interesting and helpful. So, here goes : Blog Post : Dean Brenner on Making Lasting Impressions Video : Brian Tracy on Time Management Profile : Leadership Profile: Brett Gibson Please let me know if you have a recommended post, vi

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How a Man After God’s Own Heart Responds to Naysayers

Ron Edmondson

'Those who seek my life lay their snares; those who seek my hurt speak of ruin. and meditate treachery all day long. But I am like a deaf man; I do not hear, like a mute man who does not open his mouth. I have become like a man who does not hear, and in whose mouth are no rebukes. But for you, O Lord, do I wait; it is you, O Lord my God, who will answer.

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T is for Teaching

Rajesh Setty

'Teaching is one of those evergreen triple-win opportunities. You rarely go wrong with it when you do it well. Think about it: If you teach something well, whatever you are teaching becomes clear in your own mind and you will become better at it. On the other hand, the people you are teaching to will learn something and they will grow. There is an additional bonus: Teaching is a valuable gift and when you engage in teaching with genuine care, more often than not it will activate the power of re

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RapidBI Daily Cartoon #12

Rapid BI

' Due to the recent budget cuts, there is no room in our budget to implement the recent budget cuts. This of course is just one version of what could have been going on. I would love to here what you think they were saying, add your one liner below!

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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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Tackle Conflicts with Conversation

Harvard Business Review

'My husband and I got married after only three dates. Three weeks after the wedding, we had our first fight. An extreme conflict avoider, I packed my bags and walked out. Rich chased after me. “Turn around,” he said. “Let’s sit down and have a conversation. There are two things we have to learn to do — one is to fight, the other is to make up.” We’ve now been practicing both for 44 years.

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15 Hours: A Common Sense Action Blueprint for Congress

Mills Scofield

'What if our youth started to take government back? Well, it''s happening. Sam Gilman and Andrew Kaplan , college juniors started Common Sense Action in 2012 with one chapter. Now they have over 20 chapters in 15 states with AGE, The Agenda for Generational Equity to get their voice impacting policy. Read on, be proud of our next generation and get on board !

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Star Performers Need Extra Affirmation After a Setback

Harvard Business Review

'There are two major reasons baseball has been such a boon to statisticians trying to measure human performance. First, sample size: the United States alone fields 30 major league teams — each with a 40-man roster — that play 162 regular-season games. Every game comprises hundreds of plays. Second, because of the way the game is designed, you truly can measure individual performance as well as team performance.

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Is Your Innovation Problem Really a Strategy Problem?

Harvard Business Review

'Sometimes, the problem that we think we’re solving isn’t the real problem that we face. I was running a workshop with a multinational engineering firm when I ran into a perfect example of an air sandwich, which illustrates this point. This dangerous obstacle to innovation is described by Nilofer Merchant in The New How as “the empty void in an organization between the high-level strategy conjured up in the stratosphere and the realization of that vision down on the ground.”.

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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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The Unexpected Benefits of Rapid Prototyping

Harvard Business Review

'I had the great pleasure of hosting my dear friend David Kelley for a talk and on-stage conversation at the Rotman School last week. Apart from designing objects like the first commercial mouse, David is famous for being one of the earliest proponents of user-centered design and for being the originator of the concept of rapid, iterative prototyping.

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Italy’s Government Unwittingly Helped Spread the Mafia to Northern Cities

Harvard Business Review

'One reason for the recent pervasive infiltration of southern-Italian crime organizations into the country’s northern regions is a government policy that punishes mafiosi by forcing them to resettle far from their home towns, say Paolo Buonanno of the University of Bergamo in Italy and Matteo Pazzona of Universidad Catolica del Norte in Chile. The Italian government assumed that if gangsters were removed from the south and immersed in the more-law-abiding north, they would reform; nearly 3,000 s

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The Eight Phases of Brand Love

Harvard Business Review

'“I really think of Diet Coke as my boyfriend.”. A wave of laughter hit the focus group observation room that was so loud that I’m sure the respondents could hear us on the other side of the 2-way mirror. Did that woman really say she thought that Diet Coke was like her boyfriend? Commitment, intimacy, dependability—she felt all of these, not about Diet Coke, but from it.

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