Fri.May 16, 2014

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What Experts are Saying About Career Advice: May Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

'For May’s Frontline Festival, I asked experts around the world to share their best career advice. It’s amazing how consistent the ideas are across cultures and contexts. Thanks to all the contributors. This great graphic below is from Joy and Tom Gurthrie, Vizwerx Group. Follow Joy @VizwerxGroup. Holding Career Conversations. Jennifer V.

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Crowdsourced from Our Instigators: What Are You Giving Away?

Lead Change Blog

'“We give energy, even life, to our world when we take the best of who we are and give it away.” ~Mike Henry, Chief Instigator of the Lead Change Group. Inspired by this quote, I asked our instigators the following questions: What is the best of who you are? How are you giving it away. [.] Author information Becky Robinson Founder and CEO at Weaving Influence Becky Robinson is the founder and CEO of Weaving Influence.

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Are You Overlooking These 6 Access Management Vulnerabilities?

Women on Business

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Busting Three Employee Engagement Myths

Lead Change Blog

'Don’t believe the myths you’re reading about employee engagement. Here you will see why the myths of employee engagement, employee selfishness, and a one size fits all approach are misguided. Instead, leaders are encouraged to create a compelling vision, equip, energize and empower their employees. Read more here… For more thoughts on employee engagement, here’s another [.

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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 Power Of Having Self Control

Joseph Lalonde

'G od! I just want to kill that person! Whoa, those are strong words but ones I’ve thought myself. Sometimes more frequently than I’d like to admit. Ever been there? Ever wanted to hurt someone? Or maybe it was to extract a painful revenge for a wrong inflicted upon you? Image via Tony Fischer. Yet you held off. You didn’t act on your impulse.

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Changing the game: How partnerships can change you business

Women on Business

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 A Simple Finding, and Tool, To Dramatically Increase the Effectiveness of Training/Learning Sessions - Build in Time at the End for Reflection

First Friday Book Synopsis

'Could it really be that simple? “The secret lies with Charlotte.” Ben Gates (Nicolas Cage), in National Treasure ——————– We look for answers to questions/problems that vex us. And, though everything about the work world seems far more complex, maybe sometimes the answer is not found in complexity, but in simplicity itself.

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Weekly Round-Up: On the Business Efficiency of Integrity, Effective Strategic Planning & Maximizing Productivity

leaderCommunicator

'Welcome to my weekly round-up of top leadership and communication blog posts. Each week I read and tweet several great articles and on Fridays I pull some of the best together here on my blog. So in case you’ve missed them, here is this week’s round-up of top posts. They’ll provide you with tips, strategies and thought-starters from many of the smart folks in my network.

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4 Steps to Tracking Your Commitments

Steve Farber

'In response the challenge in my previous post , Bob “Batch” Batcheler launched himself on a personal Do What You Say You Will Do campaign. He shared his experience in the comments: “One of the things that I am trying to do is to write down EVERY commitment/promise that I make. While that may sound obvious, it is a real change in habit for me.

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The Keys To Strategy Execution

Six Disciplines

'" The Keys to Strategy Execution: A Global Study of Current Trends and Future Possibilities ", was a research study commissioned by the American Management Association and conducted by the Human Resource Institute. The research identified the leading obstacles that hinder strategy execution and what companies can do to overcome them. The following is a quick review of some of the main findings: Higher performers tend to be better at executing strategies.

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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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David Shaked: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

'David Shaked is an independent consultant—a positive change leader for individuals, teams, and organizations. He has been practicing Lean Thinking and Six Sigma for 15 years as a certified Master Black Belt. David is also a practitioner and teacher of several strength-based approaches to change (such as Appreciative Inquiry, Solution-Focus coaching and Positive Deviance) bringing […].

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New report looks at the future of Chambers of Commerce

Chartered Management Institute

'The business world is an increasingly complex one. In the past few IBM CEO surveys, they have highlighted the growing importance of both being able to manage this complexity, and to do so in a collaborative way.

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Darwin the Evolved Consultant – The Irony of Expertise

David A Fields

'The post Darwin the Evolved Consultant – The Irony of Expertise appeared first on David A. Fields. Consultants Darwins Positioning Proposals Relationships adding value agreements positioning positioning.

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How CEO Communication Shapes Financial Performance

Eric Jacobson

'Communications expert David Grossman of Your Thought Partner has published a white paper – What the most successful CEOs know: how internal CEO communications shapes financial performance. "CEOs who communicate often and well inside their organizations have better reputations – and that leads directly to better business results," explains David. "They’ve also got more engaged employees – another strong, measurable driver of positive financial outcomes.

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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 Stay Focused

David A Fields

'A question I was asked… How can I stay focused? Often I am in the middle of something and a new idea pops into my head and completely gets me off track. Any advice?…See my response in the Solo Consultant’s Network. The post How to Stay Focused appeared first on David A. Fields.

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Where your company is headquartered makes a big difference to your bottom line

Strategy Driven

'Where a business is headquartered can make a huge difference in the skill level of your employees, raising capital and attracting customers. This time of a year is an important reminder that where your company is headquartered also can have a significant impact on your bottom line. For startups deciding where to establish roots or for growing companies looking to relocate, these factors should be top of mind when deciding on home base, since corporate taxes differ greatly by state.

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RapidBI Daily Business Cartoon #81

Rapid BI

' “A Nigerian prince wants to invest ten million dollars in my company!

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Make Your Emotions Work for You in Negotiations

Harvard Business Review

'Your emotions matter in negotiations. They fuel your behaviors, energize you, and allow you to strengthen—or distance and damage—relationships with the people you’re negotiating with. But too often, people refuse to acknowledge their full range of feelings because they’re afraid of losing the ability to think rationally and act strategically. So researchers and experts in the fields of psychology and business have offered solutions to help people manage, defeat, or even ignore their emotions.

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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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Help Leaders Be Less Useless at Strategy

Harvard Business Review

'At some point in the formulation of a strategy, its creator must review his or her work with the leader, either by choice or by procedure. If the strategist is a CEO, the reviewer is the board (or a committee thereof). If the strategist is a business unit head, the reviewer is the CEO, and so on down the organization. Regardless of the specific players, the process looks much the same; typically, we wait, and wait, and wait until the strategy feels iron tight.

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Apple’s Patently Absurd Smartphone Crusade

Harvard Business Review

'Look out across today’s ultra-competitive smartphone market and you’ll see something resembling the religious wars of the Middle Ages. This is no quaint summer-weekend reenactment. The weapons being brandished are devilishly constructed patents; the rules of engagement the arcane procedures of federal courts. And the havoc being wreaked — in higher prices, banned devices, and stifled innovation — is laying waste to the industry landscape.

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How GE Trains More Experienced Employees

Harvard Business Review

'Trainee programs for new recipients of bachelor’s, master’s, and PhD degrees have been around for years. Each year, organizations race toward campuses and grab hold of the recruits they consider best for their talent pool. Once in the program, the newly minted graduates are rotated through various functions and departments, interspersed with periodic training and mentoring.

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Dialing Up the Volume on Strategic Innovation

Harvard Business Review

'As generations-old business models are upended by innovations in retail, financial services, bookselling, and a host of other industries, companies must continually adjust their strategic positioning to edge out rivals. But senior executives often find it difficult to conceptualize all the tweaking and retweaking that must be done — let alone explain it to their employees.

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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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Does the New York Times Know How to Fire Someone?

Harvard Business Review

'As media observers explore every angle of Jill Abramson’s unceremonious sacking from the New York Times, one key Management 101 question is whether she was given a fair chance to address the management issues that, according to Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr, led him to dismiss her. On the day after Abramson was fired, officials at the Times countered reports that she had angered Sulzberger with demands to increase her salary – which she alleged was lower than her male predecessor’s R

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Should You Approach Your Audience When Giving a Talk? Maybe Not

Harvard Business Review

'People feel better about objects and people–whether positive, negative, or neutral–that are seen to be receding rather than approaching, says a team led by Christopher K. Hsee and Yanping Tu of the University of Chicago. For example, research participants viewed a neutral-looking person in a video more positively when he was walking backward away from the camera than when he was walking toward it ( 3.67 versus 2.70 on a seven-point scale).

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Who’s Afraid of Data-Driven Management?

Harvard Business Review

'From a management perspective, making decisions based on data is a clear win. Yet it’s often difficult to adopt a data-informed culture. In every organization, there are teams and employees who embrace this transition, and those who undermine it. To convert your biggest data skeptics, the first step is to understand the psychology of their resistance.

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How Sleep Became the Enemy of Productivity

Harvard Business Review

'Wake Up, It’s Nighttime Thomas Edison and the Cult of Sleep Deprivation The Atlantic Sleep no more! Thomas Edison doth murder sleep. The inventor claimed he slept just four hours a night and apparently forced the same standard on his employees, who responded by falling asleep a lot. “At first the boys had some difficulty in keeping awake, and would go to sleep under stairways and in corners,” Edison said.

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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.