Mon.May 18, 2015

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How to Overcome Stage Fright

Let's Grow Leaders

I was deeply worried that my Dad was right, there would be no way I could hold it together to sing at my Mom’s funeral. I envisioned myself as a weepy mess at the front of the church. But for me, singing is a prayer, and after the hundreds of concerts my parents attended to support me over the years, not singing felt wrong. I’m normally not a stage fright kind of girl, I always love a good microphone.

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A Lean Look at Value

Leading Blog

by Jacob Stoller. “Price is what you pay. Value is what you get,” said Warren Buffett, adeptly observing that value is more than just a notion of what something is worth. Customer value that is based on substance as opposed to perceptions is widely pursued by organizations that aspire to greatness, and is also a fundamental building block of the Lean management system.

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Monday Quote

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. “ Dwight D. Eisenhower. . How did you enjoy today’s post?

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Mindful Mondays: Pope Francis’ Nine Rules for Happy Living

Next Level Blog

In case you haven’t been paying attention, it turns out that Pope Francis is one of the most popular people in the world. A recent Pew Research Center survey found that he has a 90% favorability rating among U.S. Catholics and a 70% favorability rating among all Americans. Another Pew study at the end of last year found that he has a median favorable rating of 60% across 43 nations and only an 11% unfavorable rating.

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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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14 Leadership Lessons And Quotes From Mad Max: Fury Road

Joseph Lalonde

N o one really knows what Mad Max: Fury road is. Is it a sequel? Is it a prequel? Or is it a revisiting of the Mad Max tale? I’m not sure and we haven’t gotten a good answer on this Mad Max question. One thing I can tell you is that Mad Max: Fury Road is a darn good movie. Much better than I expected. Having never watched the previous movies in the Mad Max series, I wasn’t sure what the movie was going to be other than a post-apocalyptic dystopia adventure ride.

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360 assessments are just the beginning

Persuasive Powerhouse

. The leader and I sit quietly dissecting the 360 report she holds in her hands. This is an esteemed and seasoned leader who had spent years managing others and was now a “manager of managers” She sits across from me, trying understand the feedback in the report. I sense her distress when she says: “This information must be wrong.

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7 Responses to Employee Complaints

Leadership Freak

If you aren’t hearing complaints from employees: People are lying. Culture is broken. Fear blocks honesty. Things are worse than you think.

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Dr. Deming on Joy of Work, Innovation and Leadership

QAspire

Having worked in Quality management role for a long time, I could not have afforded to miss insights from Dr. W. Edwards Deming whose thinking was way ahead of time. Dr. Deming is remembered for transforming Japan into a formidable business competitor through his management and leadership practices, especially Deming’s 14 principles. In 1994, at the age of 92, Dr.

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Key Takeaways from Leadercast 2015

Nathan Magnuson

I was able to attend my fourth Leadercast seminar earlier this month. This year I attended a simulcast in Orlando, FL. As always, it inspired me with both new and familiar ideas. The theme this year was bravery. Here are some of my key takeaways – and you can also catch up on the social conversation with the tags # leadercast and # thebraveones.

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The #1 Joy Killer and How to Avoid It

Marshall Goldsmith

Dear Followers: I’m excited that my new book Triggers is finally published! Order it now at Amazon! Life Is Good. — Marshall. In my travels, I run across thousands of people all over the world who aren’t happy. In fact, some of them are downright miserable. It’s hard to be an engaged, productive person at work if you’re not happy. And, it can be even harder at home.

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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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New Download: Top 10 Pain Points Leaders Face Today

leaderCommunicator

Today’s leaders often need to enhance their communication to better engage with employees and drive business results. Research shows an estimated $37 billion is lost annually due to employee misunderstanding. On average, employee misunderstanding costs a 100,000-employee company $62.4 million each year. If you identify your pain points as a leader, you can work to correct them, which will improve your business results.

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The Scam of our Life: Our Smart Phone Culture

Chris Brady

It's not that often that I use this blog for a rant, but today I just can't help it. After noticing the marked increase in the terrible affliction known as Left Lane Driving (LLD), and quickly. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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What is Your Focus? – Are You Staying on, or Straying From, Your Focus? – (A Warning from Jim Collins)

First Friday Book Synopsis

What is your focus? What is your organization’s focus? What is your personal focus – in your job, in your life? It seems like such an easy question to answer: “What are you focusing on?” But, if you are like me, there is always the next pull from the next demand – the next time […].

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How to Prepare Your Workplace for the Next Generation of Employees

Anese Cavanaugh

In the first column of this series I talked about shifting your culture's mindset from "j.o.b.s" to "callings" and tapping into purpose to energize, fuel, and bring out the best in your people. In part 2 , I talked about shifting your culture to a healthy mindset of collaboration and competition. This week I'm talking about the most important thing you have in an employee: their personal level of accountability and nourishment.

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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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Observations About Leadership

Eric Jacobson

A relatively small Kansas City-area newspaper for readers over 50 years in age published an article by C.W. Hanson a couple years ago where he offered these keen observations about leadership: The longer the contact with those you offer leadership to, the more scrutiny you will receive and the more self-disciplined you must be. People will pay attention to what you do as well as what you say.

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Is it Worth Publishing Online?

David A Fields

A consultant asked me the following question: Since everybody is pushing out articles, why would I think Google (or a prospect) is going to find my article or blog? What am I supposed to do so my writing actually is read? What is your advice to this consultant? Is it even worth publishing blogs and articles in today’s cacophonous environment? Please share your thoughts below.

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Heidi Has Been a Moderator with Me for 10 Years

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.

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Ten Things to Know Before Pursuing a New Life Calling

Ron Edmondson

This is a guest post by Bill Blankschaen: It’s time. Or at least you think it might be. You’ve been sensing a struggle within for awhile, but you’ve kept it to yourself. You’ve felt a restlessness, a sense that you should be pursuing a new life calling, something more in line with your God-given gifts — but you’re scared to step out without knowing how it will all turn out.

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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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Creative Problem Solving the Right Way!

My Own Coach

To be better at creative problem solving, imagine an un… The post Creative Problem Solving the Right Way! appeared first on My Own Coach Limited.

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Companies Drain Women’s Ambition After Only 2 Years

Harvard Business Review

Kenneth Andersson. Bain & Company recently launched a study that asked more than 1,000 men and women in a mix of U.S. companies two questions: “Do you aspire to top management within a large company?” and “Do you have the confidence you can reach top management?” Women with two years or less of work experience slightly led men in ambition.

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The Importance of Working with Suppliers Over the Long Term

Deming Institute

End the practice of awarding business on the basis of price tag. Instead, minimize total cost. Move toward a single supplier for any one item, on a long-term relationship of loyalty and trust. Point 4 in W. Edwards Deming’s 14 points for management. Even today many organizations treat suppliers as adversaries to beat at the negotiating table. Dr.

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How to Get Employees Excited to Do Their Work

Harvard Business Review

What keeps you up at night as a manager? Are you worried about hitting your numbers? How to boost the results of lower performers? What about how to keep top performers motivated? We often believe that the most effective way to respond to these concerns is to directly tell our employees what to do. Directing a team is certainly one way to achieve your goals.

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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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Let’s Get Rid of Management

Lead Change Blog

Just one sleepless night on my new $1500 sofa bed purchased for my then getaway lake house was way too much. The sales person neglected to tell me that the pull out sofa bed had a “pretend” mattress guaranteed to give you a morning backache, even after a night of hard partying. So, I elected to call the furniture store to purchase an upgrade mattress.

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Your Employees’ Emotions Are Clues to What Motivates Them

Harvard Business Review

One goal of developing emotional intelligence is to better understand the people around you. This can help you to interact with them more effectively and to understand what they want. It can also help you understand people’s motivations, which even they themselves might have trouble articulating. Emotions can reveal information that people can’t directly tell you, because they arise from the operation of the motivational system.

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What CEOs Have Learned About Social Media

Harvard Business Review

When it comes to social media, today’s CEOs have made a remarkable transition over the past five years. A recent analysis by my firm, Weber Shandwick, found that 80% of the chief executive officers of the world’s largest 50 companies are engaged online and on social media. The results, published in “ Socializing Your CEO: From Marginal to Mainstream ,” show that CEO sociability has more than doubled since we began tracking the social activities of chief executives in 2010

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“Competitive Intelligence” Shouldn’t Just Be About Your Competitors

Harvard Business Review

In April 2010, Mars, one of the world’s largest privately owned businesses, embarked on a breakthrough initiative. For the next year, Jessica Eliasi, then the director of Competitive Intelligence at Mars Chocolate, travelled the world running “competitive simulation” games with local market teams from Russia to Mexico to Turkey to England.

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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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Compliance Alone Won’t Make Your Company Safe

Harvard Business Review

Many, if not all, business leaders would agree that knowing what happens within your company is a prerequisite for business success. Although this intuitively sounds true, it is worrying to see that many companies blame instances of failure or fraud on not knowing what was going on in their own departments. Consider the following examples: In 2007-2008, a former Credit Suisse Group AG trader committed wire fraud and manipulated the books on mortgage-backed securities to enhance performance and b

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How to Be an Effective Executive Sponsor

Harvard Business Review

Over the past decade, the role of the “executive sponsor” has become well accepted and even ubiquitous in organizations. In fact, most of the literature about project and change management suggests that having a C-level sponsor is a key requirement for success. There are a number of reasons: The sponsor makes sure that the project’s goals are aligned with overall company strategy, garners support (and overcomes resistance) from other senior executives, and provides ongoing dire

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Strategic Humor: Cartoons from the June 2015 Issue

Harvard Business Review

Enjoy these cartoons from the June issue of HBR, and test your management wit in the HBR Caption Contest. If we choose your caption as the winner, you will be featured in an upcoming magazine issue and win a free Harvard Business Review Press book. “This is going to screw up my fantasy team.” John Klossner. “Of course they know you’re a dog.

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Explain Your New Strategy By Emphasizing What It Isn’t

Harvard Business Review

It is nearly impossible to translate — let alone execute – a strategy that you don’t understand. Yet, according to Donald Sull’s research in the March issue of HBR, almost half of top executives cannot connect the dots between their company’s strategic priorities; and two out of three middle managers say they simply do not understand their strategic direction.

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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.