Mon.Mar 17, 2014

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Start a More Meaningful Conversation #meanit

Let's Grow Leaders

'As the “Mean it” Madness continues, I’m delighted to share insights from sincere people around the world who have reached out to share their stories. Today’s post is inspired by Cat Willliams a relationship counsellor and author of Stay Calm and Content. She shares how meaningful conversations start by telling yourself the truth.

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10 Ways to Provide Quality Feedback

N2Growth Blog

'By Joel Garfinkle. Chair, Executive Coaching, N2Growth. Employees want feedback. They want an honest assessment of their behavior to help them improve their work. They know that if they listen to, and take action on, clear and constructive feedback, their overall performance will improve. And so will their job satisfaction. However, most managers feel uncomfortable delivering feedback, especially when it involves a problem or concern.

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20 Questions on Selling Change

Lead Change Blog

'I saw an interesting phrase the other day that I felt I needed to address: selling change. Wondering through several facets of the analogy presented by the idea of selling change, my mind began to chase a series of questions. See if any of these strike you. And at the end, please offer your own [.] Author information Mike Henry Chief Instigator at Lead Change Group Mike is the Chief Instigator of the Lead Change Group and co-author with 20 other Lead Change Instigators, of The Character-Based L

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How to Avoid One-Dimensional Thinking

Leading Blog

'What undermines far too many leaders is that they don’t want feedback; they don’t like to be or feel they should be questioned. Unfortunately, this position takes them out of “leading” and into their own heads. They become focused on their own one-dimensional thoughts and agenda. As human beings, we easily deceive ourselves in ways that are completely unknown to us.

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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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Surfacing elephants and new ideas

Persuasive Powerhouse

' . There are many leaders who talk too much. They can suck the life out of a room by shutting out other voices that need to be heard. Any wisdom those other voices have may be lost in the plethora of words that gush out of the leader’s mouth. I’ve also known leaders who are quiet and need to be heard. They may have wisdom to share, but can’t get a word into the raucous cacophony going on around them.

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Catch People Doing Something Right

Nathan Magnuson

'Several years ago I needed to perform a complicated banking transaction on a certain day but wasn’t going to be able to arrive during lobby hours. Having worked as a bank teller back in the day, I knew it would probably prove an impossible request. But to my surprise the bank informed me it would be no problem and they would have an envelope waiting for me in the drive-through.

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The Signature File that got me Chewed Out

Leadership Freak

'The story in your head always finds expression in your life. But, it’s dangerous when behaviors and attitudes are based on fabrications. He doesn’t like me. I’m not appreciated.

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What To Do When Life Hits You Square In The Face.

Rich Gee Group

'Ever have a REALLY bad day? One that really SUCKS? Maybe you lose a bunch of clients in one fell swoop? Or you get dressed down by your boss for doing something stupid (and you thought it was brilliant)? We all have those days. As Rocky Balboa said, “But it ain’t about how hard you get hit. It’s about how hard you can get it and keep moving forward.

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3 Questions You Must Ask Yourself Before Choosing To Lead

Joseph Lalonde

'L eadership is an honor. It’s often a title or role that gets bestowed upon us without our choosing to lead. But to lead effectively, we must choose to lead and run with the title given to us. This can be daunting and we’ll have questions. In fact, I think there are 3 questions we must ask ourselves before choosing to lead. Image by Alexander Henning Drachmann.

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Mindful Mondays: Five Ways to Stay Sane When You Have to Slog Through

Next Level Blog

'From the archives of the Department of Irony, I found myself overwhelmed this past week while working on a book whose title is Overworked and Overwhelmed: The Mindfulness Alternative (coming to a web site or book store near you this Fall). I was at the point in the process where I had to read through about 400 pages of interview excerpts and sort them into working files for each of the 19 chapters of the book.

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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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Why Leaders Can’t Delegate Onboarding to HR

Kevin Eikenberry

'Onboarding. It’s that very corporate sounding work for what used to be called New Employee Orientation. If you work in a large organization, your HR department likely has created a process for doing this – and while the depth and success of these efforts may vary widely, chances are your process is helpful. Let me […].

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0506 | Shawn Hunter

LDRLB

'Shawn Hunter is the author of Out Think: How Innovative Leaders Drive Exceptional Outcomes. Shawn is Executive Producer & Vice President for Leadership Development Channel at Skillsoft. For over a decade Hunter has interviewed, collaborated with, and filmed, hundreds of leading business authors, executives, and business school faculty in an effort to assemble video learning solutions, as both an entrepreneur and later as a product developer for Skillsoft.

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Five Ways To Find Fulfillment In Your Day

Tim Milburn

'When you lay your head on your pillow at night, you drift off to sleep with a sense of fatigue. But that fatigue can be caused by a couple of different things. 1. You’re tired and frustrated from spinning your wheels all day but not having much to show for it. 2. You’re tired and fulfilled from putting your energy into activities that moved you forward in life.

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Turning Those Flabby Abs Into That Sexy Six-Pack

Marshall Goldsmith

'I don’t watch much TV. But on a recent Saturday morning, I found myself channel-surfing for about 15 minutes. I was amazed at how many of the ads were about getting in shape. Here are some of the exact phrases I heard: “Six-second abs.” “Easy shaper.” “Incredible — a miracle!” “It feels terrific!

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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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We Need to “Upgrade Our Jobs” with a “Good Jobs Strategy” – (Insight from Richard Florida and Zeynep Ton)

First Friday Book Synopsis

'Between 2000 and 2008, just 2 percent of all American workers – those with a professional post-graduate degree such as doctors, lawyers, and MBA’s – saw gains in their “mean real money income.” Every other group, including college graduate and those with PhDs, saw their income decline. Economic growth is increasingly powered not just by […].

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Caught On Video: A Rock Star’s Lesson for the Rest of Us

Steve Farber

'It’s not every day you get to sit down and chat with a rock star, is it? Jay Jay French is the founder, manager, and guitarist for the iconic rock ‘n roll band, Twisted Sister. And after performing over 9000 shows in front of millions of people, he found himself in the unusual situation of sitting with a relatively intimate group of business folks, entrepreneurs, educators, and other leaders to share his remarkable experiences – and the lessons he’s learned from them – in the

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How To Be A Collaborative Leader In The Workplace

Eric Jacobson

'Edward M. Marshall''s book, Transforming The Way We Work -- The Power Of The Collaborative Workplace , remains relevant today, more than a decade after Marshall wrote it. Particularly useful is the book''s section that teaches readers how to be a collaborative leader. Marshall says that there are seven different, important roles and responsibilities of collaborative leaders when leading teams , and those leaders should select the appropriate style to meet the team''s needs.

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The Second Machine Age: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

'The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee W.W. Norton & Company (2014) “Technology is not destiny. We shape our destiny.“ Opinions vary as to the timeframe of the Industrial Revolution and there is also disagreement as to whether or not it was in […].

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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 Suggestions to Recover after You’ve Made a Leadership Mistake

Ron Edmondson

'You know you made a mistake. It’s just a matter of time before someone finds out. What do you do now? I have often watched leaders struggle to recover from a mistake made that probably didn’t have to be as personally or professionally damaging to them as it was. They simply didn’t respond well enough and it cost them more than it should have.

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Writing my own legacy. One word at a time. Yours?

Strategy Driven

'What do you do when you get up every day? Anything to do with your legacy? I doubt it. Here’s a short version of your morning: Shower. Coffee. TV. Get dressed. Check your calendar. Check your email. Check your social media. Maybe even make a follow-up call (or two) or read a few pages. No legacy there. More like ‘routine.’ Me? I write something.

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RapidBI Daily Business Cartoon #36

Rapid BI

'> ”Nobody can accuse us of lying. The chart is lying.” 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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How Companies Can Attract the Best College Talent

Harvard Business Review

'Over the past year, my firm Collegefeed met with more than 300 companies to understand their college hiring strategies and tactics — from employers with large university hiring infrastructures to recently funded start-ups looking to hire fresh grads, interns, and young alum. Not surprisingly, 84% understand that college hiring is important.

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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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Can Design Save Silicon Valley?

Harvard Business Review

'The tech titans of Silicon Valley are actively circling the strategic value of design. I didn’t take their interest seriously until I saw the news in December that John Maeda, the former President of the Rhode Island School of Design, joined venerable VC firm Kleiner Perkins. He’s the Valley’s first-ever Design Partner. That’s a serious step into the mover-shaker circle for the design profession.

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When Women Take Over Family Firms, Profitability Increases

Harvard Business Review

'A study of thousands of family-owned firms in Italy reveals that, on average, replacing a male CEO with a woman improves a company’s profitability, an effect that becomes more pronounced as the proportion of women on the board of directors increases, says a team led by Mario Daniele Amore of Bocconi University in Milan. Overall, the more women on the board of a female-led firm, the more profitable it is likely to be.

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In Search of a Less Sexist Hiring Process

Harvard Business Review

'The hard truth is that the gender balance at the top of the business world won’t change until the gentlemen currently in power want it to — and learn how to do it. The challenge is that both men and women seem to buy into the mistaken notion that business today is built on meritocracy. A recent study by three business school professors illustrates why this is so rarely true.

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A Presentation Isn’t Always the Right Way to Communicate

Harvard Business Review

'We rarely think about whether presentations are the best way to express our ideas; we just blindly create and deliver them. By some estimates, 350 presentations , on average, are delivered every second of every day. Unfortunately, presentations can’t be the Swiss Army knife of communication. Though they’re one of the most powerful tools we have for moving an audience, even the most carefully crafted talks won’t be effective if they’re not delivered in the right context.

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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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The Future of Prototyping Is Now Live

Harvard Business Review

'Those tasked with developing new products and experiences have long valued prototyping as a way to fuel creativity, explore options, and test assumptions. By making concepts real, we can more intimately understand the underlying mechanics and make informed judgments. There are two main ways that organizations prototype new products and services: rapid prototyping and piloting.

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Give Impact Investing Time and Space to Develop

Harvard Business Review

'Impact investing has captured the world’s imagination. Just six years after the Rockefeller Foundation coined the term, the sector is booming. An estimated 250 funds are actively raising capital in a market that the Global Impact Investing Network estimates at $25 billion. Giving Pledge members described impact investing as the “hottest topic” at their May 2012 meeting, and Prime Minister David Cameron extolled the potential of the sector at the most recent G8 summit.