Mon.Jul 27, 2015

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To All the (Jerky) Managers I’ve Known Before

Let's Grow Leaders

I had asked the group to share their teachable point of view on leadership in the form of a TEDdy Talk (e.g. learn to improve your speaking Karin Hurt style). Ultimately everyone would have their 5 minutes of TEDdy Talk fame, but tonight we were just practicing “Wow” openings. “Carrie,” who hadn’t said a heck of a lot before this, stood up and gave the most impassioned imitation of a horrible boss I’ve ever heard– as her “wow” opener. “

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This is the Most Important Lesson You Will Learn Today

Lead Change Blog

We’ve moved through the Information Age at light speed over the last few years, and find ourselves lost in the deep space of the Information Overload Age! Knowledge from the ancient thinkers, wisdom from our founding fathers and the most current insights from some of the best minds of the world are at our fingertips. A simple Google search turns up hundreds of thousands of answers to the very same question.

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Monday Quote

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “ I know of no better reputation for an officer or noncommissioned officer to have with his team than he is a good manager and does not waste his soldiers’ time.”. General Bruce Clark. .

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3 Guidelines that Help Avoid Resistance to Change

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

People don’t resist change. Change is a normal and natural part of living. The only time you stop changing is when you’re dead. What people resist is having change imposed on them. Here are three guidelines that invite people to participate in the change process and minimize resistance to change. 1. Involve people at all levels in planning and implementing the change.

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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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Surviving Virtual Interviews with the 5 Ps

Women on Business

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Model and encourage well-being

Persuasive Powerhouse

. Flat organizations, new technology, increased competition, and greater complexity define workplaces today. These are only a few of the things that have made your life and the lives of your employees difficult. You work inhumane hours, receive hundreds of emails a day, and strive to make your quarterly goals while leading others. Work is only a part of your life, yet you sacrifice for it, and may expect your employees to sacrifice too.

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Giving Teeth to the Lion

Leadership Freak

Organizations without guiding values have lost control of their identity and future. Values guide during good times, anchor during tough times, and create stability during change.

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14 Leadership Lessons And Quotes From Adam Sandler’s Pixels

Joseph Lalonde

P am and I like to take in a good comedy every once in awhile. We also like to be reminded of the great things of our childhood. That’s why we were excited to see the newest Adam Sandler movie Pixels. Having watched the previews, Pixels looked hilarious. Going into Pixels, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Would it be classic, humorous Adam Sandler a la Happy Gilmore, The Waterboy, or Anger Management?

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Mindful Mondays: Three Easy Ways to Unplug on Vacation

Next Level Blog

One of the big reasons you need a vacation this summer is to take a break from the chronic state of fight or flight that an overworked and overwhelmed lifestyle generates. By doing some quick math based on email statistics collected by the Radicati Group, I’m ball parking that the average business person gets 113 emails per day. When I ask the people in my leadership workshops how many they get in a day the responses are usually in the range of 200 to 300.

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Five Keys to Overcoming Virtual Team Conflicts

Kevin Eikenberry

When we think about remote or virtual teams, we may think about flexibility, freedom and perhaps even high productivity. And when people are working out and on their own, we typically think that interpersonal issues might not matter as much or happen as often. Unfortunately, this isn’t always true. And, when we do experience conflicts […]. The post Five Keys to Overcoming Virtual Team Conflicts appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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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 Got You Here Won’t Get You There

Marshall Goldsmith

Let’s dive into one of my favorite coaching exercises. This exercise will help you determine where you are and who you want to become. I love this exercise. I hope you do too! First imagine you’re 95 years old. You’re just about to die. You’re given a gift. To go back in time, to this moment and to tell yourself what was really important and what wasn’t, what really mattered and what didn’t.

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Remarkable TV: Working the Matrix

Kevin Eikenberry

If you’ve ever been frustrated with working in a matrixed organization, here are 4 tips to help you survive and thrive. Click here for just the audio of this episode. Click to learn more about the Remarkable Leadership Workshop. Regardless of your role, you can succeed in a matrixed organization by helping everyone remember the […]. The post Remarkable TV: Working the Matrix appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Since January 1st about 4,968 hours have passed.

Jason Womack

Where were you about 4,968 hours ago? And, what will YOU be doing in about 3,768 hours! To this day, people are asking me how to be “better” time managers. I continue to tell them, there are more questions to.

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Employee Engagement

Coaching Tip

Few organizations truly understand employee engagement or have failed to see improvement in employee engagement in their company. Other organizations have increased engagement but find their employees are drained and depleted. Why is that? In Brady G. Wilson's newest book, " Beyond Engagement: A Brain-Based Approach that Blends the Engagement Managers Want with the Energy Employees Need ," is constructed with busy leaders in mind.

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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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Managing Yourself is Only Half the Battle – Supervising Yourself is Just as Important

First Friday Book Synopsis

Being your own manager is only half the battle. In the old days, as you learned a trade (a skill), you would work under a journeyman (it was pretty much always a journeyMAN), until you became a journeyman yourself. (And then, if you made it to the pinnacle, you would become a master). Today, so […].

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3 Leadership Tweaks That Will Boost How You Impact People

Anese Cavanaugh

Give acknowledgements, not compliments. An acknowledgement speaks to who the person "is" and who they're "being", whereas a compliment speaks primarily to what they "did". "Good job George on getting us ready for that client meeting, you did an awesome job leading it." —is nice. But, "George, I really saw your dedication, courage, and care for the client and what we're all up to and it made a big difference on everyone's experience, ultimately landing us that work.

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Three Easy Ways to Unplug on Vacation

Next Level Blog

One of the big reasons you need a vacation this summer is to take a break from the chronic state of fight or flight that an overworked and overwhelmed lifestyle generates. By doing some quick math based on email statistics collected by the Radicati Group , I’m ball parking that the average business person gets 113 emails per day. When I ask the people in my leadership workshops how many they get in a day the responses are usually in the range of 200 to 300.

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Where to Start to Reduce Domestic Violence and Sexual Abuse Against Women

First Friday Book Synopsis

Since our focus at the First Friday Book Synopsis is on business, we have covered very few books of interest to general society. However, a great friend of mine encouraged me to investigate domestic violence against women and sexual abuse. I have made several FB posts about this, and am preparing a formal persuasive presentation […].

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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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Three Millennial Mindsets to Embrace and Encourage

Strategy Driven

What drives leadership performance? Is it having the right principles or the right mindset? Some may say neither do. Principles and mindset are not discussed often as being performance indicators. Communicating a vision, hiring the right people, and designing the right systems are more often highlighted as ways leaders can ensure performance. Although each are important, mindset and principles are the starting point, and Millennials are getting this right.

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Leadership Caffeine™—Resist the Urge to Shield Your Team from Bad News

Management Excellence

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The BIG Secrets of Enthusiastic Emotional Engagement.

Strategy Driven

What is engagement? Better stated, how can you engage other people to become interested in you and your product or service? Dale Carnegie ( How to Win Friends and Influence People ) says by becoming interested in them. And he’s partially right. The reality, and the secret of engagement is that BOTH people must be mutually engaged and mutually interested, and BOTH people must be intellectually stimulated and emotionally connected.

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How Do You Discover Consulting Client Needs in Advance… and Should You?

David A Fields

A consultant asked me the following question: I’ve received an introduction to a prospect and have a meeting scheduled. How should I find out about their needs prior to the meeting? Beyond looking at their website, how do I get very specific information that will lead to a real working relationship? What advice would you give this consultant? Do you have a process for discovering needs before an initial meeting?

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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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Community Manager in Residence

Managing Communities

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5 Suggestions to Make Family Time More Effective

Ron Edmondson

Frankly, I wish it happened more often, but I am always encouraged when it does. Occasionally a young father will come to me wanting to know how to be a better husband or father. One thing they specifically ask is how to take advantage of the time they have with their family and to be more effective with the family’s time together. Time seems more at a premium these days than ever in my life.

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First Annual Deming in Education Conference

Deming Institute

Join us November 6 to 8 for the First Annual Deming in Education Conference at the Cedarbrook Lodge in Seattle, Washington. See the agenda. Hear the stories of leaders who are challenging the status quo to create exceptional learning environments that preserves our children’s natural curiosity and “yearning for learning”. Learn how the systems approach of Dr.

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Why Businesses Use Coaching To Improve Performance!

My Own Coach

Over the last ten years, organisations have increasingl… The post Why Businesses Use Coaching To Improve Performance! appeared first on My Own Coach Limited.

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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.

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Why I Write in PowerPoint

Harvard Business Review

When writing business documents (aside from emails), most people turn to word-processing software. That’s not the only option. You can do everything — outlines, drafts, revisions, and even layouts, if you’d like — in PowerPoint or similar presentation programs. That’s what I’ve used to write my books, internal documents, sales collateral, and web copy, for several reasons: I can brainstorm with abandon.

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Greece’s Problem Is More Complicated than Austerity

Harvard Business Review

It is easy to see Greece as a clash between “austerity” and “progressive economics,” with the Germans (and Finns and Dutch, alongside various international public servants and economists) on one side, and Keynesians and progressives on the other as Paul Krugman’s recent CNN interview suggests. This has certainly been the picture painted by Syriza, the left-wing political party of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, and by many friends of Greece and progressive econ

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B-Schools Aren’t Bothering to Produce HR Experts

Harvard Business Review

A few decades ago, U.S. companies were making progress on the operations front, but now they seem to have lost their way—and business schools are in a position to help set them right again. Let me explain. In the 1980s, our organizations learned a great deal about how to improve productivity, quality, and costs from Japanese practices. Lean production , which includes a vastly expanded role for front-line workers in addressing problems, was brought to the United States by Toyota in its aut

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Why Cybersecurity Is So Difficult to Get Right

Harvard Business Review

It seems like hardly a week goes by without news of a data breach at yet another company. And it seems more and more common for breaches to break records in the amount of information stolen. If you’re a company trying to secure your data, where do you start? What should you think about? To answer these questions, I talked to Marc van Zadelhoff, VP of IBM Security, about the current state of cybersecurity and the Ponemon Institute’s 2015 study of cybersecurity around the world, which

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DOL Final Overtime Rules: Quickstart Guide for Employers

On August 30, 2023, the DOL unveiled a proposed overtime rule that would raise the weekly salary threshold under the Federal Labor Standards Act. Paycor is closely monitoring the proposal and will provide updates as new information becomes available.