Tue.Mar 18, 2014

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Meet Instigator Paul LaRue

Lead Change Blog

'Each month in our newsletter, we feature an interview with one of our Instigators. Recently we featured an interview with Paul LaRue, management and sales executive making it a point to be an example of leadership for others to follow. Looking to make a difference in this and the next generation of leaders. Creator of The [.] Author information Mike Henry Chief Instigator at Lead Change Group Mike is the Chief Instigator of the Lead Change Group and co-author with 20 other Lead Change Instiga

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Revealing The Secret To Successful Leadership

Tanveer Naseer

'In leadership circles, we’re constantly on the lookout for sage advice on what it takes to succeed; of what skills, competencies, and/or strategies leaders should employ and exemplify to succeed in today’s challenging, ever-changing work environment. That was certainly part of the focus of a recent conversation I had with a group of colleagues where we shared what we saw as some of the critical factors necessary for leaders to succeed in today’s fast-paced, 24/7 interconnected

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Mentoring Still Not Happening for Women in the Workplace

Great Leadership By Dan

'From Development Dimensions International (DDI): Mentoring Still Not Happening for Women in the Workplace New Research Reveals Subject Matter Expertise A Key Factor PITTSBURGH—Many mid- to senior-level businesswomen have never had a formal mentor even though mentoring is widely considered a critical component to career success, according to new trend research conducted by Development Dimensions International (DDI) titled, Women as Mentors: Does She or Doesn’t She?

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13 Reasons Teams Lose Momentum

Leadership Freak

'Multiply waste by the number of people involved. The capacity of teams to waste time and resources staggers the imagination. It’s one thing to tolerate one person wasting time.

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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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5 Questions to Ask to Learn if Being an Entrepreneur Is Right for You

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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Remarkable TV: The First Step to Effective Delegation

Kevin Eikenberry

'To make the delegation last for the long-term, you must focus more on the other person and help them succeed rather than just getting the task off your plate. Check out this video to find out how this simple step can make your delegation easier and more effective. If you want to delegate and not […].

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Be Distinct: Find The Hero Within

Lead from Within

'A 50-year-old Navy veteran and construction worker named Wesley Autrey was at a New York subway station waiting for a train with his daughters when a nearby man collapsed and fell onto the tracks, where a train was already approaching. While others watched in horror, Autrey took action. He jumped onto the tracks and lay on top of the victim, who seemed to be having a seizure, keeping them both pressed between the tracks.

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Show Employees You Care and Get the Business Results You Seek

leaderCommunicator

'As leaders, we spend much of our time and effort setting business goals, developing plans to achieve those goals and helping ensure employees understand how they fit in. With so much going on, it’s all too easy to get lost in the work and detach yourself from the human element of the workplace. Similar to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, employees have eight key questions on their minds – the answers to which will move them from being focused on themselves to being focused on the organization.

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Interview: Modernizing Change Management with Agile and Lean Practices

Change Starts Here

'Jason Little, author of Lean Change Management, joins the show this month to discuss his collection of innovative practices for managing organizational change. He combines ideas from many communities, including the Lean Startup, Agile and Lean worlds, to create an adaptable and scalable model for managing the complexity of change in today’s world.

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Are You The “Go-To Person” for Useful, Valuable Information? – This is Social Capital Worth Building (Insight from Jonah Berger, Contagious)

First Friday Book Synopsis

'At work; in your “networking” world; what makes you useful – valuable – to those around you? I presented my synopsis of Contagious by Jonah Berger again yesterday, and this idea from the book just jumped out at me. If you are the “go-to” person for relevant, important, useful information – if you know something […].

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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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Keep Asking, Even When the World Says NO

Your Voice of Encouragement

'Imagine this. You have an idea for a book that you believe would be fantastic. You draft a proposal and send it to five publishers as a test. They all say no. You try five more. They say no, too. You’re discouraged but decide to double up and send your idea to TEN more publishers. Still no takers. That’s 20 indicators that your idea has no merit. What would you do at this point?

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When Did Christians Become So Mean?

Ron Edmondson

'Okay, this one will get me into trouble. Especially if the shoe fits. Wait for the comments on this one. But I have to ask…. When did Christians become so mean? Not all Christians. Most Christians I know are nice. Very nice. But, I’ve met some mean ones lately. Now, let me be clear. I am one. A Christian that is. (Hopefully not mean — too often.

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Diversity of thought and social business

Chartered Management Institute

'Back in August I wrote a blog on the importance of diversity to a business. Rather than discuss the traditional measures of diversity based upon racial or gender lines however, it looked instead at diversity of thought.

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5 Good Reasons To Do An Employee Survey

Eric Jacobson

'Business leaders who wonder whether they should conduct an employee survey should think about these five good reasons for conducting surveys, as recommended by John Kador and Katherine J. Armstrong in their book, Perfect Phrases for Writing Employee Surveys : 1. To discover what employees are thinking and doing – in a nonthreatening survey environment.

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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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Human Performance Management Best Practice 12 – Conservative Decision-Making

Strategy Driven

'Not all decisions are made in the boardroom. Employees make decisions that affect the organization, its reputation, and financial wellbeing every day. It is important that these decisions be well aligned with the organization’s values and mission goals. Thus, employees should embody a conservative decision-making approach; being adverse to incurring risks that would make their actions unaligned with the organization’s direction.

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What we know about learning, and the process of learning new things

Rapid BI

'Much of what we know about effective learning was originally taken from the world of academia and higher education; these points can also be translated into occupational and business learning and training spaces. This piece is no different. Taken from preparation for an annual conference for “American Academics and Higher Education” in 1997, this piece […].

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Which Women Are Rising to the Top?

Harvard Business Review

'It’s the responsibility of management to tackle gender diversity, Avivah Wittenberg-Cox recently wrote on this site. Stop blaming women for what they do or don’t do, she argues, and train leaders to manage and develop a more balanced workforce. She makes a great point. Any cultural shift goes much more smoothly with the active involvement of the CEO and his or her (usually his) team.

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RapidBI Daily Business Cartoon #37

Rapid BI

'> ”You’re telling me I’m not allowed to vote just because I’m a dog? I demand equal rights!” This of course is just one version of what could have been going on. I would love to here what you think they were saying, add your one liner below!

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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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The Seven Skills You Need to Thrive in the C-Suite

Harvard Business Review

'What executive skills are most prized by companies today? How has that array of skills changed in the last decade, and how is it likely to change in the next ten years? To find out, I surveyed senior consultants in 2010 at a top-five global executive-search firm. Experienced search consultants typically interview hundreds (in many cases thousands) of senior executives; they assess those executives’ skills, track them over time, and in some cases place the same executive in a series of jobs.

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Indispensable Traits of a Collaborative Leader: Part 1

QAspire

'Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration. —Mike Rutherford. At the core of being an effective leader is ability to analyze the situation and then lead in the most appropriate manner which is best suited for that situation. A leader knows that there is no single optimal style to lead everything.

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Family Business Owners Must Set the Agenda (Without Micromanaging)

Harvard Business Review

'“It’s our money.”. With those three little words, Charles changed the course of his family’s shipping business**, highlighting the role that owners can play in a family business. His father had founded the business in the 1960s and, after building it to $500 million in revenue, had passed ownership down to Charles and his four siblings, then stepped away from the executive suite and ultimately from the board.

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Children’s Feelings About Brands Persist into Adulthood

Harvard Business Review

'Consumer-brand companies’ investments in child-oriented advertising provide brand bene?ts long after the audience has grown up, says a team led by Paul M. Connell of the State University of New York at Stony Brook. For example, people in the UK who had been exposed to the Kellogg’s Frosties character Tony the Tiger as children and the Cocoa Pops character Coco the Monkey as adults rated Frosties as more healthful than Cocoa Pops ( 3.84 versus 3.24 on a 7–point scale), suggesting that the partic

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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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Get Your Virtual Team Off to a Fast Start

Harvard Business Review

'Whether you’re a virtual team leader or team member, there’s no honeymoon period anymore. The pressure to be productive from Day 1 is enormous. We can certainly do a better job of on-boarding people to teams, especially when teams are not co-located. Too often on-boarding plans consist of a dozen or more documents that team members are supposed to read and digest on their own.

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How to Improve Yelp’s Top 100 Restaurant Rankings

Harvard Business Review

'Last month Yelp unveiled its list of its Top 100 Places to Eat in the U.S. , and an unlikely restaurant claimed the top spot: Da Poke Shack, a local Hawaiian Ahi Poke place with average prices under $10. Alinea, perhaps the flagship haute cuisine restaurant in Chicago with a much higher price tag, was ranked #7. The rankings caused a debate between the two of us: Could this list possibly be right?

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