Thu.May 16, 2013

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How To Fire Someone… With Compassion

Let's Grow Leaders

'You really like this guy. You’ve grown close over the years. You care about him. You might even know his family. Perhaps he’s even a strong performer who did something stupid. Now you have to fire him. How do you that? Firing someone is the hardest thing to do as a leader. Layoffs are [.] The post How To Fire Someone… With Compassion appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Leadership Lesson: The Difference Between Google and Apple

N2Growth Blog

'Google and Apple are both highly esteemed brands. Both companies share many common traits which have contributed to their success, but there is one very big difference between the two – Google plays offense while Apple has recently settled for playing defense. Apple is struggling to maintain its position in the market, while Google is expanding its position.

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Employee Appreciation: Good Leadership Through Service

Lead Change Blog

'Posted in Leadership Development Good businesses are run by good people. You can throw around as many buzzwords as you like, but when it all comes down to it, it is the people who make the company. A good leader recognizes that, and knows that whatever they do, they are nothing without their employees. In fact, the way that [.].

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The First Thing Leaders Need to Do When Leading a Big Change

Great Leadership By Dan

'Guest post from Phil Buckley : Most leaders will lead their organizations through multiple big change projects. Constant change is a business reality and organizations must continually adapt to their environments to stay competitive or risk losing relevance and becoming obsolete. For each change, leaders must define it, create a vision of the post-change world, and mobilize their teams to make it.

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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 reverse commencement speech to leaders

Lead Change Blog

'Posted in SmartBlog for Leadership [link] We are entering the time of commencement speeches. Some may go viral while others will evaporate as soon as the words are spoken. It is an important time, nonetheless, as a younger generation enters the next phase of their life and leadership path. Read more here on SmartBlog.

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How to Bring Out the Best

Leadership Freak

'Bringing out your best in yourself is child’s play compared to bringing out the best in others. Leaders who bring out the best in others make courage possible. Nothing meaningful happens without courage. Encourage courage. Everyone is still unlearning the necessary fear parents taught us. Leaders have the courage to develop courage in others. Who […].

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Mobile-Friendly Email Design – What It Is and Why It Matters [Infographic]

Women on Business

'We''ve Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven''t already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. [link].

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Seven Tips for Taming Your Calendar

Next Level Blog

'A couple of years ago, I wrote a post called Five Ways to Get Your Calendar Under Control. Since then, I’ve used it as the starting point for a conversation among high potential leaders in our Next Level Leadership® group coaching program. As the inflow becomes heavier and the expectations become higher, taming the calendar beast is a common challenge for leaders.

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037: How to Engage Others In Creating the Future | with Terry Pearce

Engaging Leader

'How do you inspire people to take action toward a shared goal? To answer that question, we welcome back Terry Pearce, author of Leading Out Loud: A Guide for Engaging Others in Creating the Future. This is the bestselling guide to authentic leadership communication, and the newest edition of this book hit bookstores earlier this year. Terry had many years of experience at IBM and Charles Schwab, he’s taught leadership communication courses at Berkley and the London Business School, and for the

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Team Building and Workable Goals

Mike Cardus

'Image Credit. Every team I work with whether it is team building , leadership development , organization development and 1 on 1 coaching , we establish workable goals. Outside of the standard QQTR goal being a what-by-when: Quality – how good the ‘what’ must be? Quantity – how much of the good stuff is needed? Time Frame – by when? Resources – what do you have?

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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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Executive Coach Helps Medical Practice Experience Dramatic Growth

Tony Mayo

'My medical practice, Potomac Psychiatry has grown dramatically over the past 3 years. We have secured a constant supply of new patients, a growing team of clinical and office professionals, and successfully launched new specialty services. In addition to improved financial results for all of us, I also have more fun at work, [.].

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The Power of Collaborative Leadership

Coaching Tip

' The Power of Collaborative Leadership by Bert Frydman, Iva Wilson and JoAnne Wyer has arisen from the spirit of partnership and mutual inquiry. It is a rare book, one that actually captures "thinking in the moment" from experienced practitioners. It reflects the complexity of feelings and multiplicity of interpretations that coexist in complex change efforts.

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Some of My Best Friends are Black by Tanner Colby — Here are my 11 Observations

First Friday Book Synopsis

'We all know that advertising is a big con to get us to spend money we don’t have on things we don’t need. It works on us anyway. Ads work because they’re aspirational. They tap into some unsatisfied desire and then sell you the solution for it. Buy this product, take it home, and you’ll […].

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Just One Thing: How to Defuse Difficult Workplace Discussions

Management Excellence

'Almost all of us get this wrong in the professional environment at some time or another. Myself included. We find ourselves in a tense situation with someone or some group who is attempting to assert a direction or insert themselves into the area we perceive as our domain, and we react by aggressively defending our position and by challenging or attacking their position.

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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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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Strategic Marketing

First Friday Book Synopsis

'HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Strategic Marketing HBR Editors and various contributors Harvard Busxiness Review Press (2013) How the right strategy can help create or increase demand for whatever is offered This is one in a series of volumes that anthologizes what the editors of the Harvard Business Review consider to be the “must reads” […]. Bob''s blog entries " "Marketing Myopia “Harvard Business Essentials” “Harvard Business Review on” Bob Markey Clayton M.

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Amy’s Baking Company: Lessons For Community Managers

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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Amy Jen Su and Muriel Maignan Wilkins: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

'Amy Jen Su, managing partner and co-founder of Isis Associates, is an executive coach and speaker on issues of leadership presence and executive endurance that make a difference to a leader’s performance success. She has a proven track record helping senior leaders more clearly articulate vision, socialize their message, and build key follower-ship as well […].

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Recommended Resources – The 4 Disciplines of Execution

Strategy Driven

'The 4 Disciplines of Execution : Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals. by Jerry Weissman. About the Book. The 4 Disciplines of Execution provides the steps needed to repeatably translate one’s business strategy into the day-to-day activities instrumental to realizing organizational goals. These disciplines include: Focus on the Wildly Important – Give your best effort to those few goals that really matter instead of giving mediocre effort to dozens of goals.

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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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Consider Honest Feedback As Generous, Not Critical

Eric Jacobson

'Negative feedback is part of growing as a leader -- both delivering that feedback and sometimes receiving that type of feedback. Keith Ferrazzi , CEO of Ferazzi Greenlight , a research-based consulting and training company, suggests practicing " caring criticism ," as he explained it in a past issue of the Harvard Business Review. "Negative feedback can hurt, but usually it''s a gift aimed at helping the recipient improve performance or avoid mistakes.

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5 Steps When You’ve Offended Someone

Ron Edmondson

'All of us say things we wish we hadn’t said. We all offend people at times. Everyone knows what it is like to put foot in mouth. Doing so is common, but what do we do afterwards? Here are 5 Steps When You’ve Offended Someone: Recognize that you will offend some people. – Actually, that should come before the incident. Even the most gentile-minded, peace-pursuing people are occasionally offensive.

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Quick and Painless interventions and solutions

Rapid BI

'Quick and Painless? In our fast and busy lives we are often looking for that ‘quick fix’ the ‘painless solution’ – but are they? Does it work? All too often on professional forums and networking groups I hear people asking for quick and painless solutions. Do they really exist in the worlds of business, Human [.].

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Six Numbers Reveal the Booming Business of Auto-Analytics

Harvard Business Review

'For millennia people have run by feel, an "art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain," says Christopher McDougall in his anthropological study of the topic. Many of us still run this way, of course, but for how much longer? Now we can lace up a pair of "smart" sneakers and instantly shift from running by feel to running by metrics.

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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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Talent Strategies for the Post-Loyalty World

Harvard Business Review

'An interview with Ben Casnocha and Chris Yeh , coauthors of the forthcoming HBR article "The New Employer-Employee Compact.". Download this podcast. A written transcript will be available by May 24.

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How To Get Others To See Your Potential

Harvard Business Review

'Overcoming people''s past perceptions of you isn''t easy. When I launched my consulting business seven years ago, I was astonished to find — years later — that acquaintances and even friends hadn''t kept up with my career transition. They''d ask about my past work in politics or nonprofit advocacy, oblivious to the changes that had been consuming my life.

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Just How Useless Is the Asset-Management Industry?

Harvard Business Review

'Writing under a pseudonym in the Financial Analysts Journal in 1960, mutual fund executive Jack Bogle made "The Case for Mutual Fund Management." Bogle took the track records of four leading mutual funds going back to 1930 and compared them to the performance of the Dow Jones Industrials. Not only had the four beaten the Dow, handily, but during the period from 1950 through 1956, for which the brokerage Arthur Wiesenberger & Co.

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No One Likes to Be Changed

Harvard Business Review

'Listen to the language that any leader, consultant, or HR professional uses, and you''ll hear them expound at length about how "we" need to change "them." That says it all: the fact is, no one likes to be changed, even if the change is ultimately beneficial. In his recent HBR blog post , Ron Ashkenas argues that the reason most change management initiatives fail is due to stunted managerial capability to implement change.

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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.