Thu.Jul 16, 2015

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Managers: What’s Your Plan B?

Lead Change Blog

Some people miss out on life’s opportunities. They freeze themselves into inaction by overthinking worst-case scenarios and shying away from imagined calamities. Others, full of optimism, forge ahead with gusto, experience meteoric success, and later face a precipitous change in fortune due to a circumstance that could have been planned for. For career and business success, it’s worth pursuing a middle ground—one where we take calculated risks but have a fallback strategy in case Plan A craters.

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Six Things Great Leadership Teams Do

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from regular contributor S. Chris Edmonds : When I consult with executives on crafting a high performance, values-aligned culture, one of the first things I do is to examine the effectiveness of their leadership team. Whatever that team is called - an executive team, a leadership team, a management team, etc. - that core team must model, reinforce, coach, and drive their desired culture.

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How Etch A Sketch Helps Creativity

Women on Business

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Find Better Answers – Ask Better Questions

Leadership Freak

We ask questions to learn. When a coach asks questions, it’s to help others: Learn about themselves. Expand their potential. Find their path forward. Deliver results. Enhance their fulfillment. (Most important.

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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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Mobile Engagement: 5 Ways to Reach More Employees, Faster

Engaging Leader

With 75% of Americans now regularly sending and receiving text messages, there’s good reason to consider adding mobile to your toolkit for workforce communications. How many employees will actually read an e-newsletter or other email communication? Statistics show only about a third of salaried employees will open it … and even fewer hourly employees.

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Stubbornness and Strategy: Birds of a Feather

In the CEO Afterlife

From as far back as my days in brand management, I have held a deep affection for strategy. This might have something to do with the fact that I can be stubborn. Good strategists are also stubborn, even pigheaded. Why is that? Because without strategic stubbornness, the hard barrier lines that contain the strategy will blur. And when a brand or company’s positioning blurs, customers become confused.

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Is Yours An Email or Bust Organization? It's Time to Consider Fresh Options

leaderCommunicator

With email volume mounting by the day, it’s no wonder that some organizations have floated the idea of banning email. One of the most famous ban attempts was from global technology firm Atos, which has been working to eliminate internal company email among employees through a multi-year process (employees still send external emails to people outside the company).

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Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States by Felipe Fernández-Armesto – Some Lessons and Takeaways

First Friday Book Synopsis

So let us not be blind to our differences, but let us also direct attention to our common interests and the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For in the final analysis, our most […].

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How Trustworthy Are You?

Eric Jacobson

"In business, trust is one of the most valuable coins of the realm," explains Bob Rosen , in his book, Grounded. "You can lose it in a moment's thoughtlessness, and you must keep earning it every day."And, you can never have too much. So, just how trustworthy are you? Rosen suggests that you answer the following questions. They offer you a way to assess whether or not your beliefs about trustworthiness are more than words.

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Your Online Community Does Not Allow Free Speech

Managing Communities

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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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What Box? How to Turn Problems into Opportunities

Strategy Driven

Albert Einstein once said, "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." Put another way look in the mirror the next time you have a problem. Maybe it is actually a blessing in disguise. Maybe it is a lesson you need to learn. Maybe you have something to do with it. Take ownership and use these tips to guide you in finding creative solutions when others are trapped by paranoia, resistance, drama and disempowering paradigms.

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How Do You Balance Expert Language with Avoiding Jargon and Consulting-ese?

David A Fields

A consultant asked me the following question: How do you balance expert language with avoiding jargon and consulting-ese? What do you think? How do you manage your language given that, 1) we know there’s a direct correlation between vocabulary and perception of intelligence; 2) you have to present yourself as an authority, with deeper understanding of the subject than your prospects/clients; 3) you don’t want to be perceived as a double-speak consultant?

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7 Statements Every Leader Needs To Use Often

Ron Edmondson

Recently, I shared 7 questions every leader should use often. It also made me think there was a similar set of phrases leaders should consider using frequently. These are not questions, but statements. One of the goals of a leader should be to encourage, strengthen and challenge a team to continually improve. Almost as a cheerleader rousing the crowd at a game, the leader uses his or her influence to bring out the best in others.

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Why Intentional Behaviour Will Lead To Your Marginal Gains

My Own Coach

For over twelve years, I've been helping leaders reflec… The post Why Intentional Behaviour Will Lead To Your Marginal Gains appeared first on My Own Coach Limited.

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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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Dispel Your Team’s Fear of Data

Harvard Business Review

Kenneth Andersson. Most people are uncomfortable with data. Estimates, analytics, and data-driven predictions — they can all be confusing and overwhelming. Some of this discomfort is based on experience. Everyone remembers a time when their data was simply wrong, a prediction was misleading, and the consequences were serious. Until recently people could easily ignore data in their daily work.

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Beyond Software Releases Version 7

Six Disciplines

Beyond Software , a Solomon Cloud Solutions company, and sister company of Six Disciplines , announces the availability of a new feature allowing the approval of timesheets by project. Timesheet approval by project now allows managers to stay on top of labor costs one project at a time. Previously timesheets could be approved one at a time, providing insight into what the employee worked on daily or weekly.

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Will Africa’s Growth Help Africa’s People?

Harvard Business Review

The Mediterranean Sea has become a graveyard for Africa’s youth. Every day, we see images of what would appear to be a continent racked by conflict and poverty, and people risking – often losing – their lives in an attempt to flee. Yet Africa has 11 of the 20 fastest growing economies in the world. Africa has enormous resources, and almost half of the world’s uncultivated land that is suitable for growing food crops.

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What We’ve Learned About Fighting Ebola

Harvard Business Review

Last week, an expert panel commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO) issued its findings on the organization’s mishandling of the West African Ebola epidemic. The epidemic, already the deadliest in history with more than 27,000 cases and over 11,000 deaths , is now in its sixteenth month with new cases still occurring in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia.

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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 Emotional Impulses That Poison Healthy Teams

Harvard Business Review

Is anyone really an individual contributor at work anymore? I think not. Pretty much everything we do is done with others in groups. We’re tasked with planning and completing projects together. We negotiate roles and resources. We talk to one another—or text, tweet, email—and sometimes we listen, too. We’re dependent on and beholden to people above, around, and below us for collective success.

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