Mon.Jan 26, 2015

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7 Ways to Show Your Team You Trust Them

Let's Grow Leaders

'Trust begets trust. The best way to get your team to trust you is to trust them. Hire for trust. Require trust. Rid your team of untrustworthy players. And then, show your team how much you trust them. Here’s how. 7 Ways to Show Your Team You Trust Them. 1. Set Audacious Goals. Oh sure your team may grumble. But there’s no greater gift you can give your team than leading them toward head-turning results.

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Monday Quote:

General Leadership

'“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.” General George Patton. … Read the rest. The post Monday Quote: appeared first on General Leadership.

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10 Rules for Future-Proofing Yourself

Leading Blog

'The most common problem that modern professionals face is a lack of risk tolerance and a resistance to change. Scott Steinberg writes in Make Change Work for You , Scott Steinberg offers ten rules that successful people follow to future-proof themselves. But underlying it all is how we deal with fear. We need to find a quick way to neutralize its negative influences, find courage, and take positive action.

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10 Ways To Become An Approachable Leader

Joseph Lalonde

'W e’ve all been subject to the leader who wasn’t approachable. And that made our jobs miserable. That’s why we’ve got to be aware of what makes a leader approachable. We’ve also got to implement the actions of approachable leaders. Image by JD Hancock. What Is An Approachable Leader? This is a million dollar question. What makes a leader approachable?

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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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5 Ways to Save Money on Business Insurance

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 Hang on to your Superstars

Great Leadership By Dan

'The cost of turnover is often way underestimated. The obvious costs are hiring and training costs, but there is also lost opportunity, morale, reputation, customer relationships, and other intangibles that are harder to measure. The cost of turnover is even higher when you lose a great employee, one of those “A player” superstars. The results of the first one focus on the output differential produced by top performers.

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Do You Have a Blah, Blah, Blah Vision or a DRIVING Vision?

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

'Is your vision no more than abstract art hanging on the wall? The closer you look at it, the less sense it makes? Does it sound something like this? – Our vision is to provide aggressive strategic marketing with quality products and services at competitive prices to provide the best value for consumers. If so, do yourself a favor and take it down.

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Coach those who want to help themselves

Persuasive Powerhouse

'Do one of the following scenarios hit close to home for you? Scenario 1: You’ve been watching one of your regional managers closely for some time, and gosh, can he ever generate sales. He treats customers with great care and his salespeople are bringing in the dollars; the numbers for his region were up significantly last year. Just one little thing – his employees and peers are streaming into your office telling you that he’s volatile, “going off” on them for every litt

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How to Overcome a Negative Past

Leadership Freak

'The past is a weight that grows heavier with the passage of time. Little mistakes grow larger. Offenses get heavier. Failures persecute. The past crushes those who hang on to it.

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Beating Blue Monday – the “Worst Day of the Year”

Kevin Eikenberry

'About ten years ago Cliff Arnall, a British scientist, reportedly created a calculation to determine “the most depressing day of the year.” The equation includes seven variables: (W) weather, (D) debt, (d) monthly salary, (T) time since Christmas, (Q) time since last failed attempt, (M) low motivational levels and (NA) the need to take action. […].

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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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Mindful Mondays: What’s It Going to Be This Year? Doing or Being?

Next Level Blog

'One of the unexpected pleasures of completing a yoga teacher training course a couple of years ago, was that I had to learn a little bit of Sanskrit – the language of the people who first came up with yoga thousands of years ago. And when I say I learned a little bit of Sanskrit, I mean like a thimbleful. Most of my very limited repertoire is focused on the names of different poses and a few words that represent some of the key concepts from the tradition.

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Hector and the Search for #Happiness

QAspire

'“ Hector and the Search for Happiness ” is a novel written by Francois Lelord which was converted into a movie by the same name in 2014. I have not read the book but I am fortunate to have seen the movie last week while I was on the flight back home from Finland. Hector is a psychiatrist who loves helping people but is not happy with his own mundane life.

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Do You Work with a Credit Hog?

Marshall Goldsmith

'You know, someone who withholds recognition of your contribution to the team or organization’s success? Even worse do you work with or for someone who steals your ideas or takes credit for the performance of your products/projects? If you do, you probably feel unjustly treated and deprived, as this person claims credit they do not deserve. It’s theft!

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Top 100 Thought Leaders on Trust

Mills Scofield

'Honored, humbled and daunted to be named 1 of the top 100 Thought Leaders on Trust by Trust Across America. Thank you so much, Barbara Kimmel and team for your trust!

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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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Since “Focus” is Required to Actually Get Work Done, then Maybe it is Time to Schedule a Serious Get Rid of the Clutter/Stacks of Stuff Tidy-Up Day

First Friday Book Synopsis

'Stop for a minute. Look around. What do you see? First, one problem: research is now saying that 40-50% of the folks reading this are reading it on their SmartPhone or Tablet. So, there is no telling where you are when you read this. But, if you are reading this at your workplace; and, you […].

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Celebrate Community Manager Appreciation Day 2015 #CMAD

Managing Communities

'Please Update Your ManagingCommunities.com RSS Feed Subscription This feed has moved to: [link] I apologize for the trouble. For more details, please read my post on the matter. Thank you. ManagingCommunities.

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7 Rookie Mistakes New Leaders Should Avoid

Ron Edmondson

'I deal with a lot of new leaders. I’ve been one myself numerous times. To some, as I approach 3 years in my position, I’m still the “new guy” Starting as a leader is difficult regardless of the experience one has as a leader. Each time a leader is new there will be new experiences that challenge everything the leader knows or has experienced previously.

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Can All This Visibility-Building Effort Be Right?

David A Fields

'A question I was asked: It seems like all the visibility-building and outreach efforts you recommend are an immense amount of work with a success rate of maybe a few percent. Can that be right? Other parts of large enterprises aren’t managed that way. For instance, if R&D had such a low return, companies would go out of business. What is your answer to this consultant?

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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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The Leadership Test

Eric Jacobson

'One of my favorite books about leadership is The Leadership Test by Timothy R. Clark. You can read it in an hour and its message will guide you through your entire career. Here are some important points from the book that are particularly powerful: Leadership is the process of influencing volunteers to accomplish good things. The spectrum of influence ranges from manipulation to persuasion to coercion.

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To ensure promptness. An old and new tradition.

Strategy Driven

'Ever leave a tip? Sure you have. And most of the time, the amount of the tip is based on the perceived service or quality. Sometimes it’s a combination of qualities: food plus server’s performance. But these days, tipping has changed. Everyone seems to have his or her hand out, asking – no, begging – for more money. If you go into a Starbucks, there’s the familiar plastic bin by the cash register that’s always filled to some varying degree with change and a few bucks.

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Gamification – #oneword #CIPD #HR

Rapid BI

'In 2015 100s of HR professionals were asked a simple question in a survey… in one word describe…GAMIFICATION Participants were invited from the CIPD Members LinkedIn group, the CIPD communities, and the CIPD Facebook group. 613 participated. Of those, over 70% have been in HR for more than 11 years. Not all questions were mandatory […].

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When to Sell with Facts and Figures, and When to Appeal to Emotions

Harvard Business Review

'When should salespeople sell with facts and figures, and when should we try to speak to the buyer’s emotional subconscious, instead? When do you talk to Mr. Intuitive, and when to Mr. Rational? I’d argue that too often, selling to Mr. Rational leads to analysis paralysis, especially for complex products or services. And yet many of us continue to market almost exclusively to Mr.

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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 Will CEO’s of the Future be Different from CEO’s of Today?

Lead Change Blog

'The Brighton School of Business shared the following infographic with me and I thought to share it here as a catalyst for conversation in the Lead Change Group. So take a look and post your answers to one or more of the following questions. Or perhaps even ask a question of your own! Do any of the assertions below, current or predictions about the future, surprise you?

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What Kind of Leader Do You Want to Be?

Harvard Business Review

'It’s the question missing from so much of leadership development: “What kind of leader do you want to be?” We facilitate and encourage self-awareness among up-and-coming leaders (what kind of leader you are), get them to map their journeys so far (what has made you the leader you are), share knowledge and ideas (what kind of leader you should be), and help them acquire new skills and adopt new behaviors (this is how you can become that kind of leader).

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Mobile Social Recognition

Coaching Tip

'The workforce is becoming more global, multigenerational, social, and mobile. Employers are borrowing from consumer technologies to design new systems of employee management. Any recognition solution worth the name should be flexible enough to change with new and emerging technologies. In social recognition, thinking globally and acting locally is absolutely necessary.

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A Consultant’s Guide to Firing a Client

Harvard Business Review

'We all have limited time, and despite our best efforts at triage, email and meetings will probably always remain low-grade annoyances. But if you want to dramatically enhance your productivity, it pays to zero in on the biggest source of stress and wasted time: problematic clients. Some entrepreneurs and executives fight to hold onto business at all costs, recognizing that it’s easier to retain a customer than to win a new one.

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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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GE’s Culture Challenge After Welch and Immelt

Harvard Business Review

'It’s an established fact that the life cycles of companies and many products have been shrinking. But what’s often not appreciated is that culture also has a life cycle and that it, too, is getting shorter. Culture is often associated with the individual at the helm — so much so that the return of a former chief (Steve Jobs returning to Apple, A.G.

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A No-Layoffs Policy Can Work, Even in an Unpredictable Economy

Harvard Business Review

'In today’s economy, organizations are supposed to treat employees almost as free agents, with low expectations of loyalty on either side. The concepts of lifetime employment and generous employee benefits are seen as old-fashioned throwbacks to paternalism. But paternalism works — even in the twenty-first century, and even in an industry undergoing disruption.

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Assessment: What’s Your Personal Productivity Style?

Harvard Business Review

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When Do Regulators Become More Important than Customers?

Harvard Business Review

'While working with a huge Russian hydrocarbon company in Texas last year, our innovation conversation quickly zeroed in on customers. Who was the energy giant’s most important customer? Which customer had the biggest impact on new value creation? What customer would matter most in five years? The wide-ranging English/Russian debate raged for 20 minutes.

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DOL Final Overtime Rules: Quickstart Guide for Employers

On August 30, 2023, the DOL unveiled a proposed overtime rule that would raise the weekly salary threshold under the Federal Labor Standards Act. Paycor is closely monitoring the proposal and will provide updates as new information becomes available.