Wed.Oct 29, 2014

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6 Ways to Create More Joy at Work

Let's Grow Leaders

'Great leaders are joy inducers. Not the giddy kind of joy, but deeply seeded joy that comes from inspired and meaningful contribution. Inspiring joy is a pragmatic pursuit. I’ve yet to encounter a truly joyful poor performer. Last week, I asked all my social media circles to identify 3 things they liked most about their job. There was a deep feeling of passion and joy throughout the comments.

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How Healthy is Your Team’s Culture?

Lead Change Blog

'How is contribution and teamwork measured in your organization? In many small businesses, tasks and deadlines are all encompassing. Leaders find themselves focusing primarily on results and paying less attention to the quality of their work environment. The reality is that your team’s culture – how team leaders and team members treat each other and how they treat customers – drives everything that happens in your organization, good or bad.

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Global Sentiment About Taking Responsibility

Leading in Context

'By Linda Fisher Thornton A clearer picture of global ethics is coming into view. In this clearer picture, we know what''s important and see how far our responsibilities extend into the global community. We understand that business leadership includes responsibility for much more than just making a profit and obeying the law. Ethical leaders have begun to realize how connected our global community is.

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Let's Kill off our Best Employees!

Great Leadership By Dan

'Organizations don’t always do a good job when it comes to nurturing, developing, rewarding, and retaining their high potential employees. In fact, it often seems like they are going out of their way to sabotage their best employees. Read my latest over at About.com Management and Leadership to learn more: Live. Die. Repeat. 10 Ways to Kill Your Best Employees.

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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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Fearful Leaders Are Bad Leaders

Joseph Lalonde

'L eaders are called to be many things. Leaders need to be brave. Leaders need to be honest. Leaders need to be innovative. But one thing leaders cannot do is to let fear rule their decisions. When fearful leaders rule, bad things begin to happen. Image via Creative Commons. I’ve been trying to catch up on the TV series 24 with Keifer Sutherland as Jack Bauer.

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Seven Ways to Spot Wise Advice You Should Follow

Leadership Freak

'Wise leaders listen to wise leaders. But, the danger of seeking advice is listening to fools. Avoid advice from arrogant know-it-alls who are eager to tell you what to do.

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What is Executive Coaching?

Coaching Tip

'Executive coaching focuses on improving performance and developing individual skills. It can be applied to individual leaders or within a group learning environment. With regard to one-to-one coaching of leaders, often referred to as executive or leadership coaching, it is often used by organizations when a leader has been appointed to a new role or has been identified for one in the near future.

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Online Employee Engagement Course – Classes Begin November 4.

leaderCommunicator

'There’s more evidence than ever before that engaged employees can significantly boost a company''s bottom line. Top employers know engagement is no longer just about work-life balance or employees feeling good about their jobs. Instead, it''s a key strategy for strengthening companies and building profits. Still, what''s less clear is how organizations can actually impact engagement.

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Taylor Swift Seems to Win the Contest at Best at Branding

First Friday Book Synopsis

'I’m not “with it” in the current music scene. My satellite radio music stations are set on Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, and Neil Diamond. My Pandora stations are pretty much all set on instrumental stations. So, if the best known Taylor Swift song crossed my ears, I would not recognize the song or the singer’s […].

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Why we need each other

Deep Imprints

'I’ve written extensively this year on the role of church. One of the foundations that sits in the background, but has not yet been expressed is the need for women in church leadership. The doctoral program that I am in has worked extensively on understanding the theology of women in ministry. Today I’d like to […].

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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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Art of Managing—Moving Beyond A Failure to Execute

Management Excellence

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Prospects Get Impatient with My Process – That Can’t be Good!

David A Fields

'A question I was asked: During a Context DiscussionI was getting good information, but the prospect was getting impatient with all the questions. He just wanted to talk about my approach. How do I get through all the Context Discussion questions without annoying the prospect? What would your suggestion be to this consultant? If you use a process to guide your discussions with prospects (and you should), how do you stick to it without frustrating the prospect?

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Taylor Swift Seems to Win the Contest at Best at Branding

First Friday Book Synopsis

'I’m not “with it” in the current music scene. My satellite radio music stations are set on Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, and Neil Diamond. My Pandora stations are pretty much all set on instrumental stations. So, if the best known Taylor Swift song crossed my ears, I would not recognize the song or the singer’s […].

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Human Feedback is the Greatest Path to Efficiency

Strategy Driven

'Feedback, at its core, is simply information about the results of past action that can improve the results of future actions. An airplane’s navigation system, the thermostat in your home’s heating unit, and a flashing electronic sign that displays your car’s speed are all examples of feedback that drives improvement. The plane adjusts its course, the heat turns off in the warm afternoon, and you slow down to the speed limit.

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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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How To Make Better Decisions

Eric Jacobson

'Many years ago, I worked with a person who could not make decisions. Neither big nor small decisions. That indecisiveness paralyzed our business in many ways. Unfortunately, the book, Decide: Work Smarter, Reduce Your Stress, and Lead by Example , had not been published. Had it, I would have shared it with my co-worker. Decide , published this past February, teaches readers how to make better decisions based on the real results they want to experience.

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7 Common Ways to Lose the Support of Senior Leadership

Ron Edmondson

'As a rule, I’m pretty hard on senior leadership. Having been in such a position for over 25 years I know the bad side of senior leadership. I’ve witnessed it and, in full candor, I’ve been it. My goal is always to improve senior leadership for all of us. That’s a chief goal of this blog. But, what about supporting senior leadership?

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Tailor Your Presentation to Fit the Culture

Harvard Business Review

'Fourteen years ago I moved from Chicago to Paris. The first time I ran a training session in France, I prepared thoroughly, considering how to give the most persuasive presentation possible. I practiced my points, and anticipated questions that might arise. The day of the session, my actions were guided by the lessons I had learned from many successful years of training in the U.S.

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Why Leaders Don’t Brag About Successfully Managing Stress

Harvard Business Review

'Imagine what it’s like to be General Motors CEO Mary Barra. In her brief tenure, GM will have recalled almost 28 million automobiles worldwide. Her firm is besieged by allegations of having a culture of carelessness and a dysfunctional bureaucracy. Surely these problems crowd her thoughts. Her body is no doubt dumping cortisol and epinephrine at astonishing rates.

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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 Value of Keeping the Right Customers

Harvard Business Review

'Depending on which study you believe, and what industry you’re in, acquiring a new customer is anywhere from five to 25 times more expensive than retaining an existing one. It makes sense: you don’t have to spend time and resources going out and finding a new client — you just have to keep the one you have happy. If you’re not convinced that retaining customers is so valuable, consider research done by Frederick Reichheld of Bain & Company (the inventor of the net promoter score ) that show

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Get Ready for a Brand New HBR.org

Harvard Business Review

'We have some exciting news to share. Starting next week, HBR.org will look completely different. For more than a year, we’ve been hard at work designing and building a brand-new website, and we can’t wait for you to see it. The new site isn’t just a better-looking version of the HBR.org you know. We’ve rebuilt it from the ground up, and we’ve added a lot of new features, all in response to your requests and feedback.

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What to Do After a Bad Performance Review

Harvard Business Review

'It can be hard to recover from a less-than-stellar performance review, especially one that you didn’t see coming. You might feel angry, embarrassed, and confused. How do you regain your professional confidence? And how do you make the best use of the critical feedback? What the Experts Say. Negative feedback often contradicts the stories that we tell about ourselves — what we’re good at, what we’re capable of — and sometimes confirms our worst fears.

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Hurricane Sandy’s Lesson: Resilience Isn’t Enough

Harvard Business Review

'Two years is enough time to get some perspective on a major event. We can move from immediate and emotional reaction to some semblance of calm assessment. It’s been two years since Hurricane Sandy crashed through the Caribbean and northeastern United States, leaving lost lives and tremendous damage in its wake. Now is the time to ask: have cities and the business world learned the right lessons?

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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.