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Teach Millennials how to use their Power

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Dan Negroni : When we think of leaders and when we think of millennials, there are usually conflicting descriptions. We describe great leaders as honest, hard working, empowering, transparent, generous and so many other positive traits. Millennials are often described as lazy, entitled, selfish and so many other negative traits. However, after working with thousands of millennials, I can assure that these assertions about millennials are myths.

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Management Lesson: Turning Pain Into Laughter

N2Growth Blog

“Pain plus time equals humor.”. That’s a “formula” that the late Garry Marshall, creator and producer of memorable sitcoms like “Happy Days,” “Laverne and Shirley” and “Mork and Mindy,” said he learned from observing comedian Lenny Bruce. Humor emerging from pain is man’s way of coping with something that hurt you. Some people would turn that pain into rage; others turn it into a catalyst for self-improvement.

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3 Keys to Ensure a Smooth Succession

Lead Change Blog

Advancing to the head of a company requires some additional leadership competencies that aren’t quite as important in lesser positions. It’s a given that to be effective, all leaders must be good at interpersonal and communication skills, along with good decision making and being highly productive. But the person at the helm – guiding the organization into the future – needs additional, essential competencies.

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Featured on Blog Talk Radio with Maia Aziz: Putting the Human Back Into Human Resources

ReImagine Work

Maia Aziz, host of Morning Moments at Blog Talk Radio was good enough to invite me to her show. We talked about what it means to be human at work and create a pro-human workplace. Hear Maia and I discuss answers to questions such as those below : ( Check your volume setting because the show will start playing a few seconds after you click the link.).

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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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3 Ways to Boost Small Business Online Security

Women on Business

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The Leader’s Role in Motivation with Susan Fowler

Kevin Eikenberry

In today’s episode, I’m talking with Susan Fowler, who is the author of various by-lined articles, peer-reviewed research, and six books, including the bestselling Self Leadership and the One Minute Manager with Ken Blanchard. In her new best-seller, Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work…and What Does, she applies psychological discoveries that lay out a successful, research-based […].

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Common-Sense Answers To Difficult Questions About Investing

Coaching Tip

An understanding of how funds, economics and investing work in our country is essential for anyone concerned about their future. In Illusions of Wealth by Doug Eberhardt, he provides the framework for making better choices. "I hope to give my readers the awareness and confidence they need to develop investment strategies on their own,” he says. "To keep your wealth from being an illusion, you must possess the ability to adjust your portfolio as the economic and investment climates change.

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You get 60 seconds to speak your message; Go! – Thoughts from Digital Fight Club Night at Digital Dallas

First Friday Book Synopsis

But the biggest obstacle in identifying a throughline is expressed in every speaker’s primal scream: I have far too much to say and not enough time to say it! We hear this one a lot. TED Talks have a maximum time limit of 18 minutes. (Why 18? It’s short enough to hold people’s attention, including… Read More You get 60 seconds to speak your message; Go!

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The Difference Between Marketing and Sales

Strategy Driven

Marketing and sales are one of the most important components of a business’s survival in the market. While both are dependent on each other many people confuse marketing with sales and vice-versa which is a big mistake. Marketing involves designing a product according to the needs of the market and customers, promoting the product through advertising etc. and setting up a competitive price for the product.

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How To Spot A Leader During A Job Interview

Eric Jacobson

The next time you are interviewing a candidate and you want to access their leadership skills, consider asking the candidate these questions: What personal qualities define you as a leader? Describe a situation when these qualities helped you lead others. Give an example of when you demonstrated good leadership. What is the toughest group from which you've had to get cooperation?

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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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5 Suggestions When Firing Someone in Ministry

Ron Edmondson

Whenever I talk about firing people in ministry I create a great deal of interest. Some feel it makes the church seem too much like a business. I get it, but the other fact, and many understand through difficult experiences, if we don’t address this very serious issue, Kingdom dollars are often misused. And, if we are honest, this has been allowed in ministry far more often than it should be.

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What Topics Would You Like Us to Discuss on Our Blog?

Deming Institute

What topics would you like us to explore in future posts on this blog? What questions would you like us respond to? One of the goals for this blog is to engage the community of readers in sharing there thoughts on the ideas we discuss. Please share your comments on the blog posts and respond to the questions people share. Many of the readers of The W.

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How the Big Data Explosion Has Changed Decision Making

Harvard Business Review

Organizations I work with increasingly struggle to straddle two painfully polarizing operating principles. On the one hand, they desperately seek greater agility; on the other, they genuinely want to include all the right stakeholders in their processes. This conflict uncomfortably transcends traditional “centralization/decentralization” debates.

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Friday Five: Leadership, Learning and Intrinsic Motivation

QAspire

Image Source: Unknown. Friday Five is a new weekly series at QAspire where I curate five articles (with excerpts)/quotes/tweets/visuals shared on my personal learning network each week that I found particularly useful, and hopefully you will find some of them valuable too! This edition features insights on motivation, leadership, future of work and the multidisciplinary mindset.

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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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Leadership May Not Be the Problem with Your Innovation Team

Harvard Business Review

Last November we published an assessment on HBR.org to help readers diagnose the extent to which their organizations create conditions that favor successful innovation. About 1,500 people completed the assessment, representing organizations across industries at different stages of maturity. Despite enormous attention placed on improving innovation effectiveness, 80% of participants thought their companies were underperforming on this front.

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Impact of Office Lighting on Employee Productivity

Strategy Driven

Improving your business day to day and over the long-term can be expensive and involved. But there’s an easier way to make work life better for your employees immediately and without huge cost: light. The light in your office has a direct impact on mood and energy, as well as physical ailments such as eye strain and headaches. Most offices have too much artificial light, which makes it difficult for employees to respond to various tasks with the necessary illumination.

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Using Data to Strengthen Your Connections to Customers

Harvard Business Review

Marion Barraud for HBR. Customer insight, segmentation, and behavior tracking have proliferated in recent years. But their impact on sales has been underwhelming, primarily because they ignore the needs of one key constituent: the frontline employee working to make the best possible marketing decisions day by day. Across industries, staff such as retail category managers, sales representatives, financial advisers, and wealth managers are awash with reports and insights that comfort their compani

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The Connection Between Speed and Charisma

Harvard Business Review

Bill von Hippel, professor at the University of Queensland, on how the ability to think and respond quickly makes someone seem more charismatic. Download this podcast.

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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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Timeless Advice for Making a Hard Choice

Harvard Business Review

Laura Schneider for HBR. The more responsibility you take on at work and in life, the more often you face gray-area problems. These are situations where usually you have done a lot of hard work, on your own and often with other people, to understand a problem or a situation. You’ve assembled all the data, information, and expert advice you can reasonably get.

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