Mon.Feb 01, 2016

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9 Strategies to Become a Fantastic Listener

Lead Change Blog

Not long ago I was reflecting on a conversation that I had with my spouse. I thought that I had not been a very good listener in a conversation that we had about an hour earlier. Knowing that she was in the next room, I called out to her, “Stephanie, I was thinking about that conversation we just had, and I was thinking I need to apologize for not listening or giving you my full attention when you were talking.

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The New Art of Getting Ahead

Career Advancement

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door” ~ Milton Berle. You’re good at your job – you have great reviews, get excellent results, and you’re well-liked. Maybe you’re fairly new to your career, or maybe you’ve spent years at the same job without a promotion. Either way, if you if you keep performing, your success will be rewarded…right?

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February 2016 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

The Lead Change Group is grateful to Paul LaRue of The UPWards Leader for hosting the February 2016 Leadership Development Carnival. This month, the contributors encourage all of us to continue strong in the new year, develop ourselves and our people, and stay the course of authenticity. Some authors will inspire, others will challenge, but they all empower us to make a positive impact in our leadership spheres.

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129: Stand Out – How to Be a Thought Leader | with Dorie Clark

Engaging Leader

Many people in the business world believe that working hard will be enough to move their career forward. But whether you’re trying to advance inside a large organization, or you’re an entrepreneur hoping to make a difference in your community or the global economy, you need to become recognized as an authority in your field. […] Many people in the business world believe that working hard will be enough to move their career forward.

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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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How leaders create confidence

Lead on Purpose

Great leaders are confident in their ability to succeed. This seems pretty obvious. The question is how did they become confident? What do/did they do differently than most other people?

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Say “Thank-you” to Mistakes

Great Leadership By Dan

This post recently appeared in SmartBlog on Leadership : As a leader, what’s your first reaction when someone comes to you and tells you they made a mistake? While you may or may not verbalize your thoughts, you may be thinking to yourself: Oh crap! Seriously?! What the hell were you thinking? How could you be so stupid?! OMG, how are we going to clean up this mess?

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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2016

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in February. The Industries of the Future by Alec Ross. Strategy That Works : How Winning Companies Close the Strategy-to-Execution Gap by Paul Leinwand and Cesare R. Mainardi. Originals : How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam Grant. Superbosses : How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent by Sydney Finkelstein.

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What Peyton and Cam Can Teach Us About Leadership Styles

Kevin Eikenberry

In case you haven’t noticed, there is a Super Bowl coming up. It features the Denver Broncos and their legendary quarterback in the twilight of his playing career, Peyton Manning, against the Carolina Panthers and their young, star quarterback, Cam Newton. I’m sure the game will be memorable, and that most everyone reading these words […]. The post What Peyton and Cam Can Teach Us About Leadership Styles appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Where Do We Go From Here?

Nathan Magnuson

What happens after a big win? For all the focus (and press) directed at planning and executing, what comes next? Whether your team has achieved a significant goal or is looking to get back on track after a shake-up, here are some basic ways to get everyone back on course. Identify the Next Horizon. Once your team has reached a goal and the celebration is over (you do celebrate big wins, right?

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13 Leadership Lessons And Quotes From The Finest Hours

Joseph Lalonde

F ebruary 1952 saw what is considered the greatest small-boat rescue in history. A disastrous winter storm hit the East Coast, damaging an oil tanker and ripping it in half. The United States Coast Guard is sent in for a small-boat rescue. What comes next is unbelievable but true. The grit and determination of these Coast Guard men can teach all of us a lesson or two.

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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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Three Ways to Avoid a Wipeout

Next Level Blog

In 15 years of coaching , I’ve worked with a lot of high-performing executives. When things go well, they run like a finely tuned Formula 1 race car. But life and humans being what they are, I’ve witnessed the occasional wipeout where, in spite of best efforts and intentions, an exec spins out and crashes into the wall. In the interest of helping you avoid a similar fate, I’d like to share three best practices that are common to the high performers I work with who run at a really high speed yet

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Are you as PRODUCTIVE as possible?

Jason Womack

Starting in 1996, I’ve been studying “The Productivity Problem.” Starting as a high school teacher, I realized early on that it wasn’t “time” that my students needed (or, that I needed, for that matter) as much as it was FOCUS.

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Unsuccessful Leaders Work as Hard as Successful

Leadership Freak

Unsuccessful leaders often work just as hard, if not harder, than successful. What’s the difference? Lackluster leaders are unremarkable because they know too much and grow too little.

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Ideation and Entrepreneurship: Interview with Liz Alexander and Naveen Lakkur

QAspire

Dr. Liz Alexander (who I interviewed in 2013 on the topic of thought leadership ) and Naveen Lakkur (Director, Founder Institute, India) wrote a new book titled “ FOUND – Transforming Your Unlimited Ideas Into One Sustainable Business ”. The book is short but powerful enough to help entrepreneurs and ideators in bringing their ideas to life by following a proven five part framework.

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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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Great Leaders Embrace New Ideas and Seek Them Out

leaderCommunicator

Leaders often fall into the trap of thinking they have all the answers: “I’m the one with the vision and I know what my people need. I don’t need to hear their opinions.”.

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How Do You Say “No” When You’re Hungry for Consulting Business?

David A Fields

A consultant asked me the following question: My business really isn’t strong yet. How can you afford to say No to projects that are not perfect for you when you need to stay afloat, at least in the short term? Here’s the answer I gave the consultant: Let’s be practical. You have to keep the lights on, so take work that keeps your business running… as long as: 1) it’s work you are good at; 2) it’s work you can do very efficiently; and, 3) it doesn’t take up more […].

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It Takes “Distraction-Free Concentration” to do Deep Work – Quite a Challenge in this new Era

First Friday Book Synopsis

Well, wouldn’t this be nice?… In this book I’m interested in Carl Jung’s commitment to the following skill, which almost certainly played a key role in his accomplishments: Deep Work: Professional activities performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that push your cognitive capabilities to their limit. These efforts create new value, improve your skill, and… Read More It Takes “Distraction-Free Concentration” to do Deep Work – Quite a Challenge in this

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5 Tolerations Hindering Your Leadership - Eliminate Them Now

Anese Cavanaugh

I moved into my house 7 months ago. There’s a doorstop the previous owners placed by the garage door that every time I walk by it, it annoys me. It’s not a big deal. It’s just that I get a momentary flinch of “ugh ick” every time I walk by it. And then it’s gone, I forget, and I leave it there and go about my business. Only to repeat the cycle the next time I see it.

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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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Answering the “How Much Money Do You Make?” Job Interview Question, As a Community Professional

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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The BIG Secrets of Enthusiastic Emotional Engagement

Strategy Driven

What is engagement? Better stated, how can you engage other people to become interested in you and your product or service? Dale Carnegie ( How to Win Friends & Influence People ) says by becoming genuinely interested in them. And he’s partially right. The reality, and the secret of engagement is that BOTH people must be mutually engaged and mutually interested, and BOTH people must be intellectually stimulated and emotionally connected.

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10 Things You Can Do Today to Improve as a Leader

Ron Edmondson

Most leaders want to improve. I hear from leaders weekly who want to get better in their role. They want to improve so the organization they lead can improve. As much as leaders desire improvement, many leaders wonder where they should go to grow. Here are 10 things you can do today to improve as leader: Read the Bible. I know you’d expect this from a pastor, but seriously, this is not a clever attempt to get you to read your Bible.

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HR trends survey 2016 in just one word #hrblog #cipd #oneword

Rapid BI

Introduction to One Word HR Trends Survey What is the One word HR trends survey 2016? Early in 2015 we ran a simple survey among HR professionals. They were given 10 topics and asked for one word which represented there understanding or meaning for that word or phrase. This produced some interesting results. So twelve months […]. The post HR trends survey 2016 in just one word #hrblog #cipd #oneword appeared first on.

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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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3 Principles of the Art of Persuasion

My Own Coach

What is the difference between persuasion and manipulation? When hearing the word persuasion, some people think of it as simply another word for manipulation. There is, however, a big difference. Manipulation is using any means necessary to motivate or force a person to do something that fulfils YOUR needs or desires, whether or not they… The post 3 Principles of the Art of Persuasion appeared first on My Own Coach Limited.

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HR trends survey 2016 in just one word #hrblog #cipd #oneword

Rapid BI

Introduction to One Word HR Trends Survey What is the One word HR trends survey 2016? Early in 2015 we ran a simple survey among HR professionals. They were given 10 topics and asked for one word which represented there understanding or meaning for that word or phrase. This produced some interesting results. So twelve months […]. The post HR trends survey 2016 in just one word #hrblog #cipd #oneword appeared first on RapidBi.

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Your High-Intensity Feelings May Be Tiring You Out

Harvard Business Review

Why are we always exhausted at the end of a workday? Why do we come home wiped out, with barely enough energy to make dinner before collapsing for the night? Normally, when we think about being tired, we think of physical reasons: lack of sleep, intense exercise, or long days of physical labor. And yet, as Elliot Berkman, professor of psychology at the University of Oregon, pointed out to me in an interview, in our day and age, when few of us have physically demanding jobs, we are wiping ourselv

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Are you Chewing Your Way Through Life?

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “The choices you make on a daily basis affect what you will have, be, or do in the tomorrows of your life” Steve Brown. We hear it all the time…right? “It’s all about Attitude!” “If only so and so had a better attitude, they’d be unstoppable.

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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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Make IT Delightful, and Other Ways to Enchant Your Employees

Harvard Business Review

The word “enchantment” originally meant to surround with song or incantation, to cast a spell with sounds. The modern-day definition is a bit broader: to engage the senses, elevate the spirit, and leave a person “transfixed in a simultaneously pleasurable and uncanny state of wonder,” as Jane Bennett writes in her book Enchantment.

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Do You Choose Your Arguments Wisely?

Marshall Goldsmith

The #1 bad habit of successful people is winning too much. It is easily the most common behavioral problem I observe in successful people. You might think this is okay. How can winning too much be a problem? Isn’t winning too much why people are successful? No, not really, it’s oftentimes in spite of it. Winning too much is the #1 challenge for many of us, because it underlies nearly every other behavioral problem.

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How Businesses Can Support a Circular Economy

Harvard Business Review

Since the industrial revolution, we have been able to get away with relying on natural resources to raise our standard of living. But as these resources become scarcer and more expensive, we need to find new ways to create a more sustainable environment. This was the focal point of the recent Paris Climate Summit. While most of the discussion revolved around reducing emissions targets, global leaders also discussed the need for a circular economy , which essentially involves decoupling economic

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Hiring Star Salespeople Isn’t the Best Way to Grow

Harvard Business Review

Dave Wheeler FOR HBR. You see Pareto’s Principle applied to sales all the time — the top 20% of a sales force produces 80% of a company’s revenues and margins — and it’s applicable in a variety of sectors. In B2B contexts, for example, rep performance in similar territories often varies by 300% between top and bottom quintiles, and in retail stores selling productivity typically varies by a factor of three to four.

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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.