Tue.Feb 24, 2015

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The Choice Of Change – Indifferent Or Influential

Lead Change Blog

'Why can some people change and others seem like they can never change? This question is a puzzling one to me. We work and live with people who seem to always be adapting and others who seem to never say or do anything differently. I believe change is a must to be relevant in our home place, workplace, and marketplace. There is a big difference between being relevant and being hip.

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3 Lessons On How To Promote Successful Collaborations

Tanveer Naseer

'One of the benefits I garner through my work are opportunities to collaborate with different groups and individuals. Through these collaborations, I not only get the chance to learn and understand different perspectives, but to discover new ways to work with people who have different approaches to guide things forward. Of course, as with anything in life, not all collaborations are created equal.

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How To Give Killer Phone Interviews.

Rich Gee Group

'Many of my clients who are in transition from one job to another are frequently thrown into the practice of an initial phone interview. Here are a number of key tips and learnings to make you crush it every time: Control your space. Optimally, try to ensure no noises or interruptions. Pick a room where you can safely close your door and separate yourself from the outside world for the entire interview.

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How to Transform Negative Environments

Leadership Freak

'The more you think about what’s wrong, the more wrong you see. Your job isn’t fixing, correcting, and improving. It’s creating environments where others fix, correct, and improve. Criticism deflates. Approval energizes.

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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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Information is not Knowledge, Knowledge is not Wisdom

QAspire

'“Information is not knowledge.” – Albert Einstein. This is even more true in a hyper-connected world where access to information is abundant. Having more information can, at the best, make you look smart at the tea party but it does not move a needle, unless you do something about what you already know. We need to move up in the DIKW hierarchy which attempts to define relationship between Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom.

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Your Attitude Is Everything If You Want To Succeed

Lead from Within

'When it comes to success, many of us never even think about our attitude. Most of us are so busy just trying to live our lives, with all our hundred responsibilities and our thousand tasks and our million commitments, that we find ourselves often reacting to our lives instead of responding to them. Successful leaders don’t have fewer problems than unsuccessful leaders—they just have a different attitude.

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Have you Gotten Any Better – at ? How About at Communicating with Your People?

First Friday Book Synopsis

'So, recently, I had a call about some people serving in the top levels of a company. As a group, they are tasked with pretty important responsibilities. A budget in the many millions. Organizing and overseeing big, big projects. And, a set of skills that they have developed that bring the admiration of the many […].

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New Tip Sheet: 10 Tips for Guiding Culture Change

leaderCommunicator

'Culture change is a journey that takes time and effort at every level in the organization. A strong corporate culture is necessary for strong company performance. And if you are going through or planning a culture change in your organization, know this: Organizations with effective change and communication are 3.5 times as likely to significantly outperform their peers but only one in four change projects are successful in the long run. 1.

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What The Most Successful CEOs Know About Internal Communication

Eric Jacobson

'Communications expert David Grossman of Your Thought Partner awhile back published a white paper – What the most successful CEOs know: how internal CEO communications shapes financial performance. "CEOs who communicate often and well inside their organizations have better reputations – and that leads directly to better business results," explains David.

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Corrective Action Program Best Practice 11 – Check for Duplicate Condition Reports

Strategy Driven

'Leaders valuing continuous performance improvement encourage employee engagement in the corrective action program as a primary input to organizational learning and growth. The text above is only a small portion of this article. Become a StrategyDriven Premium Member to gain access to the entire article and the over 100 other StrategyDriven members-only articles, whitepapers, models, and tools and templates.

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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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Tortoise and Hare Principle in Organizational Leadership

Ron Edmondson

'A few years ago I was running in Philadelphia. It is one of my favorite cities in which to run. I love the Fairmount Park System , because I can run for miles in new territory. On this particular day, I set out to explore a several mile loop around a portion of the park. Shortly into my run, I entered the park in front of a young college-aged girl running at the same pace with me.

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Freelance – Five Golden Rules to Consider as a Consultant

Rapid BI

'Thinking of going freelance as a consultant? I spend a lot of my marketing time on the LinkedIn platform. I find the groups particularly valuable. Today I commented on a group discussion, and it led me to thinking about the golden rules for freelancing or consulting. As an experienced business adviser and a freelance consultant. […]. The post Freelance – Five Golden Rules to Consider as a Consultant appeared first on.

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Navigating the Transition from Friend to Boss

Harvard Business Review

'Guy walks into a bar. Bartender notices how sad he looks and asks, “You OK?” “I just lost my best friend,” says the guy. “How’d it happen?” “I became his boss.” We all need friends at work. Looking for advice on a project? Want to celebrate a major client win or milestone? Need to vent about how demanding, controlling, unreasonable, ignorant, awful, and stupid the boss is?

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WHE20: Does Your Company Make These 6 Common Wellness Mistakes? | with Beth Bierbower from Humana

Engaging Leader

'Today, more than 80% of large and mid-size employers offer wellness programs, and more than two-thirds offer financial incentives to take various wellness steps. However, a large percentage of employers don’t believe their wellness programs are working. In its 2012 national survey, Kaiser/HRET found only 52 percent of employers believed their wellness program was effective […] Today, more than 80% of large and mid-size employers offer wellness programs, and more than two-thirds offer fina

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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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What CEOs Are Afraid Of

Harvard Business Review

'Deep-seated fears — of looking ridiculous, losing social status, speaking up, and much, much more — saddle children in the middle school lunchroom, adults on the therapist’s couch, and even, my research has found, executives in the C-Suite. While few executives talk about them, deep and uncontrolled private fears can spur defensive behaviors that undermine how they and their colleagues set and execute company strategy.

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Can Walmart Get Us to Buy Sustainable Products?

Harvard Business Review

'We all want to buy the best products we can find and afford. But what does “best” actually mean? The ones that offer the best bang for the buck, last the longest, or give us the most pride of ownership? How about a product that minimizes its environmental impacts or tries to make the world a better place? Identifying the companies that make these more “sustainable” products has been nearly impossible… until now.

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When Customers Will (Willingly) Pay More for Less

Harvard Business Review

'Last week, AT&T launched its GigaPower internet service in and around Kansas City with a curious type of tiered pricing : $70 a month if you let the company track your web browsing — and $99 if you don’t. In effect, AT&T is taking its baseline product – internet service with tracking – and, for an additional $29 a month, removing something.

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How to Know If a Spin-Off Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

'There is little consensus as to whether firms that find themselves spun off from other companies – either as new, standalone companies, or under the stewardship of new parent companies – perform better or worse than they did before. An oft-cited 1992 study found that, on average, the performance of divested units after the spin-off does not improve—and is just as likely to decline—compared with the three years before divestment.

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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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Use Your Staff Meeting for Peer-to-Peer Coaching

Harvard Business Review

'One of the unintended consequences of the constant right-sizing and flattening of our organizations is that we now live in a world where managers just don’t have time to do all that’s required of them in their daily jobs, let alone find time for coaching their employees. Yet coaching is a critical job for any manager who wants to improve her team’s performance.

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