Wed.Jan 15, 2014

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Dealing with Moody People at Work

Let's Grow Leaders

'Maybe it’s a side effect of passion, intensity, or commitment, but some of the most interesting people I know have a moody dark side. Moody at any level is tough to be around. If it’s your boss it’s even trickier. It’s tempting to avoid the mood (and the person who wears it) and […] The post Dealing with Moody People at Work appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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A Time To Reflect and Move Forward

Lead Change Blog

'Posted in Leadership Development With a new year comes new beginnings and a new outlook – it’s time for you to move forward as a leader and reflect on everything that has happened in the previous year. It’s time for you to learn from your mistakes within the previous year and find out what those above and below you [.] Author information Georgina Stamp Georgina Stamp has worked in the executive search business for a number of years and has been lucky enough to recruit for various international

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Leading Views: Pervasive Learning

Leading Blog

'Dan Pontefract is makes a point in his book, Flat Army , about learning at the speed of need. He quotes Samuel Johnson, “Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.” We can’t know everything but we as a connected leader, we do well if we know where we can find it. Success in leadership is not about what you know but the knowledge you can access.

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Understanding (and Preventing) Ethical Leadership Failures

Leading in Context

'By Linda Fisher Thornton Understanding What Causes Ethical Leadership Failures Ethical leadership failures can be caused by different types of problems that may compound. Some of these problems are individual and others may be embedded in the organizational culture.

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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 Ways to Avoid Leadership Roadblocks

Great Leadership By Dan

'Guest post by Great Leadership monthly contributor Beth Armknecht Miller: Several years ago I was working with a business owner who had become stuck because of the way the company structure was set up. As President and part owner, he had two other partners and the company needed to make investments in new product development in order to stay competitive.

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Three Secrets to Heartfelt Engagement

Leadership Freak

'Pressure invites resistance. Demanding conformity hinders engagement. Don’t use authority and pressure to get what you want. Find out what they want. Explore their hopes and dreams. The more energy spent pressuring and convincing, the less relevant you become. But, connection and overlapping vision infuse relationships with energy and engagement. The best way to get where […].

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What Jennifer Lawrence and Colin Kapernick Can Teach Us About Setting Goals

Next Level Blog

'In her Golden Globes acceptance speech last weekend, Jennifer Lawrence talked about how, as a teenager in Kentucky, she loved a movie called I Heart Huckabees. She wanted to know more about the movie so she Googled it and found out its director was David O. Russell and that he had directed three of her other favorite movies. Less than ten years later she was on stage in Hollywood expressing her amazement that David O.

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Tracy Houston Joins the Women on Business Contributor Team

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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Life is a Daring Adventure

Tony Mayo

'Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. Nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing. –Helen Keller.

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Corporate Sponsorship of Events

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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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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Join Us For The 7th International Clean Out Your Inbox Week

leaderCommunicator

'We’re honored to participate in the 7 th International Clean Out Your Inbox Week , which is taking place from January 20–24. Dedicated to tackling email overload and striving for a manageable, clutter-free inbox, Clean Out Your Inbox Week is a great opportunity to start the new year with a fresh email slate. We’re excited to be partnering with 3 email experts, Monica Seeley, Marsha Egan, and Steuart Snooks.

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The Four Decisions, an Overview – People; Strategy; Execution; Cash

First Friday Book Synopsis

'The Gazelle’s Coaching organization (Growing Leaders – Growing Companies) – an affiliation of trained, forward-thinking coaches, help their clients in many ways, but in this specifically: they help their clients make four key decisions. Verne Harnish, the “Growth Guy,” who gave birth to the Gazelle’s Coaching organization, wrote about these four key decisions: 4 Decisions […].

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QAspire Blog: Looking Back at 2013

QAspire

'Looking back at 2013 fills me with gratitude. It was a remarkable year – both personally and for this blog. I did a lot of writing here and elsewhere, participated in some enlightening conversations with folks in-person and virtually, signed a new book deal (details soon), contributed photograph clicked by me on a book cover and did speaking at various respected forums.

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Are You A Good Coach? Or, A Bad Coach? Here's How To Know.

Eric Jacobson

'Former Verizon Wireless CEO, Denny F. Strigl offers these tips for how to be a good coach to an employee. He explains that good coaches help performers by : Keeping them focused. Giving them objective, helpful feedback. Acting as a sounding board for new approaches. Identifying blind spots that may be holding the performer back. Reinforcing key values, principles, and behaviors that improve performance.

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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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The Advisor’s Corner – Does working smarter, not harder apply to leadership positions?

Strategy Driven

'Question : Can “working smarter, not harder” really be applied to leadership positions? StrategyDriven Response : (by Roxi Hewertson, StrategyDriven Principal Contributor). Of course! Leaders already work hard if they are successful with their teams and organizations. The heart of the question is not: “how hard to squeeze the orange,” but rather, “how, with less effort and time, one can get as much healthy juice from the same orange – and perhaps even have time left to plant a new t

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4 Questions To Ask When An Employee Leaves Your Business

Eric Jacobson

'As a leader, it''s critical that you understand the real reasons employees leave your company. To do that, you need to ask specific questions that may not be ones you currently include in your exit interviews. Fortunately, Richard Finnegan , shares in his book, Rethinking Retention in Good Times and Bad , four key questions you should include in your exit interviews : Why did you decide to leave us?

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Examining the State of the U.S. STEM Workforce: Today and Tomorrow

Strategy Driven

'One of the major STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) debates currently underway today in the United States revolves around whether or not there is, in fact, a STEM workforce shortage in the country. To further examine the myth versus reality discussion, this year’s Bayer Facts of Science Education survey, the 16th in the series, polled talent recruiters at Fortune 1000 companies both STEM and non-STEM alike, about their companies’ current and future STEM workforce supply and

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A Good Reason To Begin Volunteering On January 20

Eric Jacobson

'As the nation honors Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Monday, January 20 , volunteer or make the decision to volunteer in your community. King routinely asked “What are you doing for others,” and January 20th is the ideal day to ask yourself that question. The federal holiday was first observed 27 years ago and in 1994 Congress designated it as a National Day of Service, inspired by King’s words, “ everybody can be great because anybody can serve.

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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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5 Stages of Organizational Development

Ron Edmondson

'Every organization goes through life cycles. This includes the church. These cycles can be natural or forced, but part of leadership is recognizing them and adapting leadership to them for continued health and growth. Each stage has overlap, but understanding this can help a leader decide how best to lead…which is different in each cycle. Here are 5 life cycles of any organization: Birth – This founding period usually involves a few people with a big vision.

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Why We Love Narcissists

Harvard Business Review

'Have you ever wondered why selfish, arrogant, and entitled individuals are so charming? These narcissistic people have parasitic effects on society. When in charge of companies they commit fraud, demoralize employees, and devalue stock. When in charge of countries they increase poverty, violence, and death rates. And yet, there is no shortage of examples to illustrate the cultural appeal of narcissistic antiheroes , whether fictional ( Walter White of Breaking Bad; Batman, and James Bond), all-

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Why Positive Leadership Energy?

Coaching Tip

'At the heart of positive leadership lies the concept of positive energy. Whereas much popular literature is dominated by discussions about the toll of stress, burnout, depression, tension, anxiety, fatigue, disengagement, and fear, less attention is paid to positive energy, even though it is one of the most powerful and important predictors of organizational and individual success.

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Your Employees Want the Negative Feedback You Hate to Give

Harvard Business Review

'Would you rather hear positive feedback about your performance or suggestions for improvement? For the last two weeks, we’ve been compiling data on this question, and on people’s general attitudes toward feedback, both positive and corrective. So far we’ve collected it from 899 individuals, 49% from the U.S. and the remainder from abroad. Before we tell you what we found, we suggest you take the same assessement here so you can put our findings within your own personal context.

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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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Research: Using a Smartphone After 9 pm Leaves Workers Disengaged

Harvard Business Review

'Smartphones are enormously valuable for helping people to fit work activity into times and places outside of the office. Now that workers are able to access email and websites at any time from almost any location, they can be responsive to professional demands in ways unimaginable just a few decades ago. Customer-centric organizations can remain attentive to customers’ needs around the clock.

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Take the Bias Out of Strategy Decisions

Harvard Business Review

'Some time ago, a London friend of mine in was diagnosed with a severe medical condition, which required urgent yet complex surgery. The condition is rare but, fortunately, there appeared to be several specialists both in Germany and France who had each treated hundreds of cases during their careers. When it comes to specialist operations, experience is key, so he was going to visit each of them and then make a decision.

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Stop Trying to Predict Which New Products Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

'When is it possible to predict a product’s success? How you answer this question may be the most important factor in how you design your product development process — and, ultimately, in whether your business succeeds or fails. Is market performance predictable for a specific product or class of products? If so, we should use a set of processes when designing and launching businesses that are geared for prediction — ask the right questions, perform the right analyses, plan production and

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Chile’s Attempt to Cut Traffic Meets the Law of Unintended Consequences

Harvard Business Review

'Within months after Santiago, Chile, implemented a drastic overhaul of its antiquated bus and subway routes with the intention of reducing car use, congestion, and pollution, many commuters abandoned public transportation in favor of cars. In part because the 2007 implementation of the hub-and-spoke system required many more transfers, average daily commuting time increased from 77 to 90 minutes , demand for taxis doubled , the stock of private vehicles rose 5% to 8% , and carbon-monoxide level

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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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Moving to a Safety Culture in Mining

Harvard Business Review

'When I became the CEO of Anglo American in 2007, the company had suffered nearly 200 fatalities over the previous five years. Some company veterans insisted that deaths were inevitable at such a large mining company, because mining is simply a dangerous business. I fundamentally rejected that assumption, so I began a tour of our operations. There were safety concerns everywhere I visited, but our platinum business in South Africa, which at the time employed more than 86,000 people, had a partic

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The CEO of Ciena on Surviving an Industry Collapse

Harvard Business Review

'The dot-com bust not only hurt Internet start ups—it pummeled telecom companies, many of which went bankrupt or were forced into mergers. Ciena CEO Gary Smith, the company’s CEO since 2001, describes how his company survived, regrouped, and resumed its growth. How was Ciena doing when you became its CEO? SMITH: I’d joined in 1997, around the time it went public, and became CEO in 2001.