Wed.Sep 21, 2016

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Catching Flies with Chopsticks

Lead Change Blog

I ran across a leadership quote that I’d say was a little atypical as leadership quotes go. It got my attention because it was from one of my favorite movies of all time: The Karate Kid. No, not the remake. The can’t-be-copied-original from 1984. The one with Pat Morita as Mr. Miyagi and Ralph Maccio as Daniel Larusso. I absolutely loved this movie because it was about a kid like me, who got pushed around by the more athletic – and blond – big shot of a bully.

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8 Powerful Strategies to Improve Your Credit Score

Women on Business

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How to Lead Meetings People Love to Attend and Get Work Done at the Same Time

Leadership Freak

Unproductive meetings drive productive people nuts. If organizational culture is the way we treat each other while we work, Meetings are culture building activities. 10 reasons the meeting sucked: Bloviators.

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Is Our Ethics Who We Are Or What We Do?

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton This week's question is about what defines our ethics - "Is our ethics based on who we are or what we do?" Some people would argue that we have a persona, a manner, either ethical or not. Others would say that it is our decisions and actions that define how ethical we are, and therefore our ethicality changes from moment to moment.

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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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The 4 Dimensions Of Extraordinary Leadership With Jenni Catron

Joseph Lalonde

T oday’s guest on the Answers From Leadership podcast is Jenni Catron.Jenni is a writer, speaker, and leadership expert committed to helping others lead from their extraordinary best. Jenni’s passion is to lead well and to inspire, equip and encourage others to do the same. She speaks at conferences and churches nationwide, seeking to help others develop their leadership gifts and lead confidently in the different spheres of influence God has granted them.

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Is Our Ethics Who We Are Or What We Do?

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton This week's question is about what defines our ethics - "Is our ethics based on who we are or what we do?" Some people would argue that we have a persona, a manner, either ethical or not. Others would say that it is our decisions and actions that define how ethical we are, and therefore our ethicality changes from moment to moment.

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Starting Thought: The Benefits of Trying

leaderCommunicator

I did something recently I haven’t done in years – water ski. It’s probably been 25+ years since I donned a life jacket, skis and said, “Hit it!” Or as the kids today now say thanks to Star Wars, “Hit it, Chewie!”. My 4-year-old butterfly, Noa, in a less sarcastic moment.

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What I’m Learning From Teaching My 16 Year Old How to Drive (Not for the faint of heart)

Anese Cavanaugh

My boy just got his permit. I’ve aged about 5 years in the last week. It’s a magical time. It’s brought out the best and the worst in me. This a.m. after he set my nervous system on fire driving to school, and I’d had time to drop back into my body and reflect… I realized how much I’m impacting his performance and experience with, YEP, my very own presence and being.

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Featured at Forbes: Learn the unique strengths of your team members

ReImagine Work

Forbes, Sept. 14, 2016 : “Understanding the unique strengths of your team is the surest way to both help your company achieve its larger goals and help employees feel engaged and motivated. But understanding each individual’s strength is a practice in psychology that involves empowering and aligning talent with work opportunities. We asked 13 professional coaches of Forbes Coaches Council how leaders can incorporate a strength-based approach to their management style.

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How to Fast-track and Accelerate Your Human Potential Beyond Perceived Limits

Strategy Driven

What if through every struggle, adversity, illness or ending in your life you adopted a new, simple, and yet a very powerful tool that helps you identify the root cause of your problems, fears, and disempowered mental states that make you feel as if you are broken and in need of a “fix”? What if you discovered that by design you were built with a powerful ALARM that alerts you each time you are not aligned to your true essence?

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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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Lowering Quality Can Yield Better Consulting. Here’s Why

David A Fields

A couple of important distinctions will help consultants like you create better client results and win more business by, ironically, lowering the quality bar on your work. Last week’s article talked about perfectionism being a form of procrastination, and the importance of focusing on big wins while inuring yourself to little losses. (Last week’s article also referenced dinosaurs… as any good consulting blog should.

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4 Reasons People You Lead May Not Want to Learn or Grow

Ron Edmondson

And, 5 Suggestions to Motivate Them I’ve learned in leadership – you can’t teach someone who doesn’t want to learn or grow personally. Perhaps you’ve tried. I have. I see one of my jobs as a leader to help people grow – learn new ways to do things better, more efficiently, to improve as individuals – and ultimately, as a team.

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The Ten Laws Of Trust

Eric Jacobson

The new book, The 10 Laws of Trust , is a timely and critical guide to investing in high-trust relationships and reaping remarkable gains in reputation and the bottom-line. "Trust works to everyone's benefit," explains book co-author Peterson. "It benefits individual contributors, work groups, customers, suppliers, vendors -- and the betterment of the whole organization.

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Six Essential Skills for Building and Maintaining Rapport

My Own Coach

Being able to get into rapport with other people isn't just a key for successful influence, it's also one of the most enjoyable skills you can learn. The post Six Essential Skills for Building and Maintaining Rapport appeared first on My Own Coach Limited.

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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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GROW into a coaching model

Rapid BI

The GROW coaching model has been used successfully by coaches in sport and business as well as by many organizations as part of a change towards a coaching style of management. The post GROW into a coaching model appeared first on RapidBi.

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How to Give Feedback to People Who Cry, Yell, or Get Defensive

Harvard Business Review

There’s no denying that performance review season can be a headache for managers. The process of writing reviews and delivering feedback takes a lot of time (especially if you do it thoughtfully) and can be particularly anxiety provoking if you have someone on your team who tends to have a difficult or negative emotional reaction to feedback. So how do you get ready to give feedback to someone who might cry, yell, or get defensive?

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Free Business Health Check

Rapid BI

All businesses have weaknesses as well as strengths. If you want to sustain and grow your business, it's vital to address these issues before they threaten your chances of long-term success. A business health check can be a key part of that process. The post Free Business Health Check appeared first on RapidBi.

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The Businesses That Platforms Are Actually Disrupting

Harvard Business Review

Platforms are all the rage these days. Powered by online technologies, they are sweeping across the economic landscape, striking down companies large and small. Uber’s global assault on the taxi industry is well known. Many platforms, some household names and others laboring in obscurity, are doing the same in other sectors. Surveying these changes, you might conclude that if your business isn’t a platform, you had better worry that one is coming your way.

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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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How to Get Better at Dealing with Change

Harvard Business Review

Change is an unavoidable constant in our work lives. Sometimes it’s within our control, but most often it’s not. Our jobs or roles change — and not always for the better. Our organizations undergo reorgs and revamp their strategies, and we need to adjust. Fortunately, there are ways to adapt to change, and even to take advantage of it.

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Good Sales Teams Know When to Stop Selling

Harvard Business Review

Some customers love the experience of doing business with your company; unfortunately, others have encountered problems with the experience. But aren’t all customers fair game for a cross-selling or upselling pitch? Not so fast. Think hard before blindly committing to another sales pitch. In particular, stop wasting time and energy selling to customers who are detractors of your company.

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How Cybersecurity Teams Can Convince the C-Suite of Their Value

Harvard Business Review

All too often companies misunderstand the value of their cybersecurity teams and underfund their development. At the same time, many of these teams struggle to communicate to leaders the importance of having a well-funded security program. These struggles can lead to serious gaps between the resources allocated to security and the actual support needed to properly protect corporate and customer information.

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Computers Create Jobs and Inequality at the Same Time

Harvard Business Review

How the computer skills gap drives the wage gap.

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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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What Science Tells Us About Leadership Potential

Harvard Business Review

Although the scientific study of leadership is well established, its key discoveries are unfamiliar to most people, including an alarmingly large proportion of those in charge of evaluating and selecting leaders. This science-practitioner gap explains our disappointing state of affairs. Leaders should drive employee engagement, yet only 30% of employees are engaged, costing the U.S. economy $550 billion a year in productivity loss.