Wed.Sep 14, 2016

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What’s Really Killing Morale and Employee Engagement

Let's Grow Leaders

Janice shared: I’d had enough: the gossip; the veterans scaring the new hires; more and more people doing just enough to get by… And I was frustrated because we’d done so much to foster employee engagement. I changed out some toxic leaders. We revamped our coaching program to focus on the positive. I’m here every Saturday right along with them.

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End Meeting Nightmares: Manage Results, Not Activity

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost.” Unknown. Want to review housekeeping details weekly? Open a maid services franchise. Admit what you already know: Your meetings are ineffective.

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Developing Leaders

Lead Change Blog

There is a saying that true leaders don’t create followers, but rather they develop leaders. They don’t add to the number of leaders, but multiply their constituents and are able to grow more leaders around them. Every company desires to have the formula to increase their leadership capabilities. I wish there were a secret solution. The reality is that growing leaders starts by showing people you care.

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4 Important LinkedIn Updates For Busy Women on the Move

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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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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Ready to Change the Ethics Quo (For Good)? – Part 3

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thortnton The first post in this series addressed ACCOUNTABILITY. The second asked you to evaluate your IMPACT. These four ways to Change the Ethics Quo (For Good) focus on MANAGING THE SYSTEM.

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The Qualities I Admire Most In Other Leaders

Joseph Lalonde

E ven the best leaders know that they have to follow someone else. Whether that’s the company CEO, shareholders, the church board of directors, or some other person in leadership, we ALL answer to other leaders. That’s why I love looking at the leaders I enjoy reading and following. Being able to reflect on the reasons I admire these leaders opens my eyes to the qualities of great leadership.

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The Real Truth About Empowerment

Leadership Freak

People who feel powerless sleepwalk through opportunities, view change as threatening, and hide behind obstacles. Feeling weak squanders usefulness.

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Your Employees, Leadership, Strengths and Diversity

CoachStation

Understanding what your employees want, who they are and what they are naturally good at provides a solid platform for success: personally, professionally and organisationally. Helping your employees by taking the time to find out these things is good leadership. A gap exists between what employees want and what leaders deliver. So, what is this difference, between what has proven to work, what should leaders be doing and what actually happens in most organisations?

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Have you mastered the fine art of asking a favor?

ReImagine Work

This week I’m making a big ask of a long-time friend. When I talked my plan over with another friend, she asked, “What if he says no? Will it damage your relationship?”. My answer is no. I’m prepared for any answer from him. And I’m going to tell him that. The times I’ve been at peace asking for a favor have been the times when I was not attached to the outcome.

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Four Mistakes You Must Make to Win Consulting Business

David A Fields

It turns out that, as a consultant, committing certain errors isn’t just acceptable, it’s practically mandatory if you want to build your consulting business. Before I became a published author, I worked on a book about the top challenges facing CEOs. It never made it to the bookshelves. Neither did my very first book: “My Dads a Dinasore.” The only difference being that the 250-page CEO book took three years to research and draft, whereas the other I wrote when I was three years old with six pi

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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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I Am a Pastor – And, I May Be Suffering From Burnout

Ron Edmondson

What Now? Pastor burnout is a common problem in the church today. I hear from pastors on a regular basis facing the stress of ministry. Here’s a common scenario, which can cause burnout to happen. These may be some of the more common ones I hear. Perhaps this is your story. The church gets to a certain level. Things start to slow down. The church stops growing.

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Today's Two Leadership Quotes

Eric Jacobson

"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and the self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it." -- Theodore Roosevelt "Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand." -- Colin Powell.

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What Does Peeling Bananas Have To Do With Peak Performance?

My Own Coach

There are always new and better ways to take you beyond the mediocre of ‘okay‘ and reach peak performance. You simply haven’t noticed them…yet. The post What Does Peeling Bananas Have To Do With Peak Performance? appeared first on My Own Coach Limited.

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How to Talk Politics at Work Without Alienating People

Harvard Business Review

Lunch seems pretty tame until your boss announces, “Build a wall, and deport them all! Who is with me?” or “Only lunatics want assault weapons – we should ban them all tomorrow!” An awkward silence descends as your boss awaits your confirmation. Here’s the problem: you vehemently disagree, but you love your job and your colleagues, including your boss.

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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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These Extreme Leadership Qualities are the Gateway to this Healthcare Facility’s Vibrant New Culture

Steve Farber

Allen James is the chief administrator of a post-acute care skilled nursing facility—you know, a nursing home. . For many people, that brings to mind images of elderly men and women sitting alone in wheelchairs and watching televisions turned up to full volume while staff members stand around the water cooler ignoring buzzers and lights and complaining about their long hours and low pay.

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How Senior Executives Find Time to Be Creative

Harvard Business Review

The number-one attribute CEOs look for in their incoming workforce (according to an IBM survey of more than 1,500 CEOs across 33 industries and 60 countries) is not discipline, integrity, intelligence, or emotional intelligence. It’s creativity. After all, every company wants to be at the forefront of its industry and on the cutting edge of innovation.

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Why You Shouldn’t Label People “Low Performers”

Harvard Business Review

HBR STAFF. Employee engagement is the holy grail of management. But while the image of an organization in which every employee’s potential is unleashed in the service of the organization is a compelling one, in a world where 87% of employees worldwide are not even engaged at work , this image may seem unrealistic, even utopian. What can managers do to unleash their employees’ potential?

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Assessment: Is Your Power Corrupting You?

Harvard Business Review

People usually gain power through traits and actions that advance the interests of others, such as empathy, collaboration, openness, fairness, and sharing. When they start to feel powerful or to enjoy a position of privilege, however, those qualities begin to fade. The powerful are more likely than other people to engage in rude, selfish, and unethical behavior.

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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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What If You Could Learn Design from Apple?

Harvard Business Review

Paul Garbett for HBR. Over 4,000 companies have corporate universities. Some of the most famous are run by GE, Disney, and McDonalds. Their purpose is to instill the company’s vision and values and cultivate critical skills and competencies. The best ones are permeable membranes that transfer knowledge from the outside in: Steve Jobs recruited the Dean of Yale’s Business School to run Apple University, while Jeff Weiner recruited business coach and thought leader Fred Kofman to lead

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Should You Chat Informally Before an Interview?

Harvard Business Review

Job interviews typically begin with a set of seemingly innocuous questions unrelated to the job: How is your day going? Got any plans for the weekend? How was traffic on your way in? It is commonly assumed that job candidates and interviewers both prefer to start with these types of questions rather than just diving into the more rigid and formal structured interview topics.

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Men Choose Differently When They Choose with Other Men

Harvard Business Review

We make a lot of joint decisions on a daily basis. Whether choosing to buy a car or house with your spouse, making business decisions with your coworkers, or simply deciding where to have dinner with a friend, we constantly find ourselves having to make choices with others. But when choosing jointly, are we likely to make the same choices we would if we were alone?

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Preparing for a Black Swan Cyberattack

Harvard Business Review

Major institutions such as banks have a long history of establishing redundant systems to survive cyber-attacks. But as severe cyber-attacks hit companies, governments, utilities, and hospitals with greater regularity, it’s becoming abundantly clear that organizations now require two playbooks: the one they already have for common cyber threats like malware, phishing, and denial-of-service attacks; and a new one that covers something even worse.

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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.