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Your Greatest Leadership Opportunity with Germaine Hunter

Let's Grow Leaders

Episode 234: Leaders and managers face an ever-expanding level of complexity and demands on their time and skills. At the same time, there’s more of a need than ever before for managers to truly connect with their people – often across geography and time zones. These are big challenges, but they also present a leadership opportunity for leaders who can show up with transparency and vulnerability.

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The Flexible Method: How to Survive and Thrive Through the Next Crisis

Leading Blog

S OMETIMES you can see it coming. More often than not, you can’t. But you can be prepared and follow a method to futureproof your business against the next crisis. James Burstsall, the CEO of Argonon, an independent production group, offers what he calls The Flexible Method. It is a way through the next crisis you will face. Argonon fared better during the pandemic than most of the other organizations in their industry using this method.

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Your Greatest Leadership Opportunity with Germaine Hunter

Let's Grow Leaders

Episode 234: Leaders and managers face an ever-expanding level of complexity and demands on their time and skills. At the same time, there’s more of a need than ever before for managers to truly connect with their people – often across geography and time zones. These are big challenges, but they also present a leadership opportunity for leaders who can show up with transparency and vulnerability.

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How to Spot a Manipulative Boss

Leadership Freak

The line between influence and manipulation is intention. Manipulators seek their own interests. Ethical influencers seek your best interest. “We can’t live if you’re promoted,” is baloney with a capital ‘B’.

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How to Build the Ideal HR Team

HR doesn’t exist in a vacuum. This work impacts everyone: from the C-Suite to your newest hire. It also drives results. Learn how to make it all happen in Paycor’s latest guide.

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Do You Know the 9 Warning Signs of Burnout in Leaders?

Lead from Within

As an executive leadership coach, one of the most common concerns I hear from leaders is the fear of burnout. Burnout is a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by prolonged stress. It can lead to decreased productivity, increased absenteeism, and even health problems. As a leader, it’s essential to be aware of the warning signs of burnout and take steps to prevent it.

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Tax Savings Made Simple: Practical Tips for Business Owners

Women on Business

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A Comprehensive Guide to Receiving Feedback Effectively

CO2

Feedback is an essential tool for growth. Let’s break down the journey of receiving feedback into actionable steps, ensuring you’re well-equipped to make the most of it. Understand the Importance of Receiving Feedback Why It Matters: Feedback isn’t just about the giver. The real transformation happens when the receiver is open and ready.

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Building?Confidence in Leadership

The Center For Leadership Studies

First and foremost, a confident leader values the outcome they are pursuing. It energizes them. As the saying goes, it is literally “what keeps them up at night!” That pursuit can take the form of solving a problem, responding to an unforeseen challenge or diving into an opportunity. They care about the outcome, and people around them have no trouble picking up that vibe!

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Giving Feedback–Secret Formula

CO2

Givng Feedback is a real gift to your team mates! Traditionally, the feedback loop has revolved around the giver – a leader, manager, or supervisor. Many leaders champion this belief. Surprise! They’ve got it backward! While organizations invest heavily in training leaders on feedback delivery , the real magic lies in empowering the receiver. However, the spotlight should be on the giver, ensuring feedback is constructive, actionable, and delivered with empathy.

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Making Team Meetings Worthwhile

The Center For Leadership Studies

More work than ever before is done completely through teams. These can be globally dispersed and remote teams or matrixed across departments and functions. With the amount of time spent in meetings, they need to be worthwhile! Allow me to explore why and then provide practical steps to transform meetings in your workplace. How many of these dynamics have you experienced in team meetings, just in the past week?

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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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How to Stop Taking Work So Personally

Harvard Business Review

Taking things personally at work is not a sign of weakness, but a reflection of your passion, commitment, and deep sense of responsibility. But what if your professional role has become too intertwined with your sense of self. While equating your value as a person with your performance at work is common, it’s also possible to break free from the pattern.

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Three Tips to Improve 1:1s

The Center For Leadership Studies

Let’s not beat around the bush. There is one single activity that develops high performance and retention more than any other single leadership activity. It is the consistent, meaningful conversations of managers with their employees. 1 Truly, it is what every employee wants at every level of the organization at some consistent interval with leaders who have influence on their success and engagement at work.

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The Conflict Resolution Skills Every Project Manager Needs

Harvard Business Review

It’s best to start any new project by fostering the right conflict mindset among team members. Productive conflict requires that all parties appreciate the competing demands and necessary trade-offs. But don’t expect stakeholders to show up with clarity about their position or empathy for the needs and demands of others. As a great project manager, you need to foster awareness, understanding, and respect for the different perspectives around the table.

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Four Do’s and Don’ts for Leading Remote Teams

The Center For Leadership Studies

Effective leadership in a global workplace requires more creativity and diligence than ever before. Never in the history of the world have more people worked so far apart geographically, yet more closely for critical deliverables. Gallup recently reported that 29% of remote-capable jobs are exclusively remote, while another 52% are hybrid. 1 The challenges are amplified with remote team members who are likely scattered across time zones of states and provinces, regions and continents.

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The Complete People Management Toolkit

From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.

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Creating a Happier Workplace Is Possible — and Worth It

Harvard Business Review

Being happy at work isn’t just a win for employees; it’s also a win for employers. Research shows a causal link between happy workers and a 13% increase in productivity. On the flipside, unhappiness at work costs the world $7.8 trillion in lost productivity, equal to 11% of global GDP. But too many of us are disconnected, disengaged, and bored at work. 50% of the global workforce is quiet quitting and 18 percent are loud quitting – sharing openly that they are unhappy at work.

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Take a Deep Dive into These Career Goals Examples with Us

HR Digest

Earning stacks of money, starting a family, and going on expensive vacations are goals that we can all probably relate to but they are not the right answer when asked about career goal examples. It is very easy to combine your personal goals with professional ones as it can feel like success in one area must equate to success in another. However, this is not always the case.

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How ENGOs Can Support Corporate Climate Change Efforts

Harvard Business Review

Nearly half of CEOs view climate change as affecting their companies now or within the coming decade, but there is also a wide gap between what CEOs say is progress on tackling climate change and what many of their investors believe are effective actions. Companies need to adopt strategies to become more resilient to climate change and identify ways to reduce emissions.

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