Fri.Sep 30, 2016

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The Passion of Leadership

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. A leader without passion. is merely a manager. –@ChrisRStricklin. Leadership is Passion. Leadership is the passion to make an organization better. Leadership is the passion toward each team member, pushing them toward a higher level of accomplishment.

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Use Emotional Intelligence To Address Speech Anxiety

Lead Change Blog

What do you feel when you imagine standing up in front of an audience? Visualize the bright lights in your face, see all those people looking at you and expecting you to deliver a top-notch performance. Do butterflies start fluttering about in your stomach? Do your palms start to sweat? Does your head get light? Leaders at all levels of organizations – from the bottom to the top – need to be good at giving speeches.

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What’s Holding You Back? You Are.

Rich Gee Group

I start all workshops and coaching relationships with the discussion of Limiting Beliefs. Why? In life, we run into so many external obstacles. People, institutions, rules, regulations, and hierarchies all play major roles in our life. They get in our way, they make us stumble, we get frustrated, and we give up. They win. The more insidious of life’s obstacles are your internal obstacles.

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LeadershipNow 140: September 2016 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from September 2016 that you might have missed: Criticism, Boundaries and Useful Feedback by @JesseLynStoner. Nobody Rises To Low Expectations by @tnvora. Learn from the Best: Google’s Nine Principles of Innovation via @IXchat. The Ambidextrous Leader by Julian Birkinshaw via @LBS. Want to Be a Good Boss? Start by Understanding Why You Want to Lead via @KelloggSchool.

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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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Communication Skills Are Important: Just Watch the Presidential Debate

Women on Business

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How to Limit Distraction and Feel in Control of Your Day

Leadership Freak

Everyone has priorities. For ineffective managers, it’s the next email, text, phone call, or person who walks through the door. Meaningful work requires a closed door.

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Do You Know How to Get Real Feedback?

ReImagine Work

“Mary, give me some feedback.”. This is from Lydia, my favorite coffee shop manager, who I visit on a daily basis. She asks me this three to five times a week. One day the café was a little quiet, so I asked her what inspires her to asl. Let’s all listen closely to the role model leader at my coffee shop. She told me things like… ( Click here to read the rest of the post ).

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Weekly Round-Up: Learnings From Willy Wonka, Self-Awareness, Leaders Must Deliver, A Key Business Attitude, & Behaviors That Crush Employee Spirits

leaderCommunicator

Welcome to my weekly round-up of top leadership and communication blog posts. As many of you know, each week I read and tweet several great articles and on Fridays, I pull some of my favorites together here on my blog. This week you’ll read articles on employee engagement lessons from Willy Wonka, how critical self-awareness is, how leaders must deliver, why curiosity is key, and leadership behaviors that crush instead of grow your employees.

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Check out the First Friday Book Synopsis “Teaser” Videos on our YouTube Playlist

First Friday Book Synopsis

Most month’s at the First Friday Book Synopsis in Dallas, Doug Caldwell video records our presentations. He then puts up edited versions of these videos – “teaser videos” – on a YouTube playlist. Click here to go to the playlist. You don’t get the full synopsis on these videos, but you’ll get a key story… Read More Check out the First Friday Book Synopsis “Teaser” Videos on our YouTube Playlist.

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Full-time ministry

Deep Imprints

I caught myself thinking this morning. I was contemplating my role in “ministry” and had to stop and shake myself a bit. For some reason, I had switched my definition of ministry to “that which I do for the church” instead of “that which I do for God.” You see, I have specific things that […].

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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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Looking to communicate with your best consumers?

Strategy Driven

The people who spend more for quality, influence their friends and networks and remain fiercely brand-loyal. Every category is being affected by a new wave of interest in living longer, eating better, and demanding more. The pursuit of an active healthy lifestyle is changing the loyalty equation for millions of customers worldwide, and if your company is not speaking to these values and thinking that Active Explorers aren’t relevant to your brand, we urge you to take a second look.

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If God Gives You Influence…

Ron Edmondson

A Reminder to Pastors and Church Leaders If God gives you influence the enemy gives you attention! We shouldn’t be surprised when we see pastors and church leaders struggle. They are human – imperfect humans. I have witnessed over the years – watching others and with my own experience – it’s often in the seasons where everything seems to be going so well when temptation is greatest.

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A WUP Upside the Head 1.7

Steve Farber

Chapter 10. “Tell me the truth now, Cammie Boy. Have you ever listened in on another person’s conversation? Let’s say you’re standing in line at Starbucks, minding your own business, and there’s a couple behind you in line having a little tiff about something or other; his mother, her aerobics instructor, something like that. Tell me that you’re not going to listen in.”.

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Eight-Point Plan To Build A Powerful Team

Eric Jacobson

Take some quality time to read the book by C. Elliott Haverlack , Unbunde It , because it explores the issues you face as a leader with a twist that is different from many other leadership books. Throughout, the book offers suggestions on how to overcome the burden that complexity creates in our lives and businesses. Most intriguing for me is Haverlack's straight-forward, unbundled insights on teams.

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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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To Succeed as a First-Time Leader, Relax

Harvard Business Review

When individual contributors are tapped to manage large-scale projects, oversee direct reports, or participate in strategic planning, they need to develop new skill sets on the fly — skills such as interpersonal dexterity, emotional agility, and communication savvy. As important as these leadership skills are, just as important to the leadership transition is learning to let go of old ways of thinking, and relaxing into the role.

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Everyone’s Network Should Provide Two Things

Harvard Business Review

Marion Barraud for HBR. When I interviewed people for a university research project 23 years ago about networking, many people weren’t familiar with the term. I explained it as “multiperson mentoring.” Evoking the millennia-old concept of mentors and protégés, that description made it clear to everyone that networks included people who could provide you with advice and support.

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The Case Against Pay Transparency

Harvard Business Review

Calls for pay transparency as a cure for pay discrimination are abundant. As the argument goes, if everyone knows everyone else’s pay level, patterns of discrimination will be broadcast, so pressure to remedy them will mount. But the claims of pay transparency’s beneficial powers go far beyond remedying pay discrimination, extending to boosting an organization’s overall morale and performance.

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Every Manager Needs to Practice Two Types of Coaching

Harvard Business Review

Performance reviews haven’t disappeared quite yet. “Despite all the buzz about abolishing formal performance reviews, the vast majority of organizations continue to employ traditional vehicles for sharing performance-related information,” reported a recent study by Human Resource Executive. A similar WorldatWork investigation , of practices like ratingless reviews and crowdsourced feedback, discovered that, in spite of all the chatter, these newfangled techniques are actually b

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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.