Mon.Dec 19, 2016

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5 Questions to Help You Resolve Your Conflict

Let's Grow Leaders

We’d both been looking forward to it–our first Thanksgiving together. We’d each been the primary holiday cooks in our previous marriage, which can feel lonely and overwhelming at times. But not this year. Now we had each other. We’d planned the perfect menu the week before while eating sushi over candlelight. We’d had fun shopping.

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How to Be a Top Leader for your Remote Team

Lead Change Blog

Your remote team is the future of your business. Not long ago, the workforce was entirely dependent on an office. This point was the only place where the employees could access vital job-related files and collaborate as a united team. However, everything changed with the advent of the Internet. With every passing day, there are fewer and fewer reasons to sustain an office administration.

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18 Leadership Lessons And Quotes From Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Joseph Lalonde

A Reel Leadership Post With Disney’s $4 billion acquisition of the Star Wars license in October of 2012, a lot of things have changed. One of those changes is that new movies based in the Star Wars universe are rolling out on a regular basis. Friday, December 16th saw the release of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story to theaters across the US. Rogue One introduced us to Jyn Erso, Cassian Andor, K-2S0, Baze Malbus, Saw Gerrera, Chirrut Îmwe, and more.

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Do an Ethics Check to Navigate the Gray Zone

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

It’s easy to know what’s ethical when your choices are clear-cut. If you hit a parked car, should you leave your contact information for the owner? Should you use insider information to make a stock market trade? Should you lie on your expense report? But there’s a huge grey zone where the choices are not so […]. The post Do an Ethics Check to Navigate the Gray Zone appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.

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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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5 Creative and Fun Team Building Activities

Women on Business

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Be careful when you use passion to persuade

N2Growth Blog

Passion can be a real turnoff when it comes to persuasion. The best persuaders seek to connect before they seek to present. Passionate persuaders are just the opposite. They are soapbox orators, not communicators. The challenge is toning down someone who is overly passionate is formidable. Such individuals are so enamored of their own ideas and their own abilities they are difficult to reach.

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How to Lead When the Culture Shifts

Kevin Eikenberry

Sometimes I am asked questions in an email, in a workshop or after a keynote that cause me to pause and think before answering. Sometimes it is because I don’t really understand the question or context, and while that is partially the case this time, sometimes it is because the answer is significantly complex. Both […]. The post How to Lead When the Culture Shifts appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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How to Perform a High Quality After Action Review

Nathan Magnuson

You just finished a project, event, engagement or training exercise. It’s time to get some feedback. What do you do next? The After Action Review (AAR) was originally developed by the U.S. Army to analyze and report on training exercises. Today the military uses a range of formalities (as do countless industries and organizations), but the essence is to capture two elements: what went well and what can be improved in the future.

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Recognizing your path to success

Lead on Purpose

Every successful individual I’ve ever met has told me their path to success was filled with surprises and obstacles they never thought about before they started. Things happened they never anticipated. They experienced both positive surprises and disappointing setbacks.

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Four Business Books To Read In 2017

Eric Jacobson

To find the best business, communications and leadership books to add to my "to read" list for 2017, I reached out to some of the best experts in the field. Individuals I admire and respect. Here is what they read this year and recommend adding to your 2017 "to read" list: Paul Smith Organizational Storytelling Speaker, Trainer/Coach, Author The Elegant Pitch: Create a Compelling Recommendation, Build BroadSupport, and Get It Approved , by Mike Figliuolo.

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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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Don’t Just Focus on Your Destination. Enjoy the Ride Too.

Steve Farber

Well-intentioned friends used to tell Elise Mitchell that the journey is more important than the destination. She never bought it. And with good reason. By nature, she’d always been a destination leader–one who was hyper-focused on the goal, the desired end result of her business. And it paid off. She built a public relations company from scratch in the northwest corner of Arkansas beginning in 1995 and sold it in 2012 to a Dentsu Inc.

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Countering Confirmation Bias

Deming Institute

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge. – Daniel J. Boorstin. After you decide that Deming’s ideas seem valuable you must act to adopt new methods in order to benefit from what you have learned. This takes many forms and I have discussed many possible steps in that direction in past posts. Today lets look at how to counteract confirmation bias once you appreciate the weakness that it introduces into your decision making process (based on an und

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Don’t Just Focus on Your Destination. Enjoy the Ride Too.

Steve Farber

Well-intentioned friends used to tell Elise Mitchell that the journey is more important than the destination. She never bought it. And with good reason. By nature, she’d always been a destination leader–one who was hyper-focused on the goal, the desired end result of her business. And it paid off. She built a public relations company from scratch in the northwest corner of Arkansas beginning in 1995 and sold it in 2012 to a Dentsu Inc.

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Why Aren’t There More Asian Americans in Leadership Positions?

Harvard Business Review

Since the 1960s, Asian Americans have become the country’s “model minority,” largely due to significant increases in mobility that have mostly (though perhaps inaccurately ) been attributed to education. Asians do outperform other minorities and white people when it comes to education, employment, and income. According to 2010 data from the U.S.

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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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The Power of Professional Presentation

Strategy Driven

Photo courtesy of Wikipedia. As a new or growing business, it can be a struggle to compete with larger businesses. In some areas, like customer base and advertising, your budget will simply be too small to compete. But, your presentation can always be improved. This is one area that you have the power to control almost entirely. Your presentation is everything that your customer lays their eyes upon.

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How Physicians Can Keep Up with the Knowledge Explosion in Medicine

Harvard Business Review

Imagine an oncologist with more than a decade of practice experience is evaluating a lung cancer patient today. During her training years ago, there would have been a handful of therapy options to consider. Today there are dozens of additional options, in addition to hundreds of open clinical trials, each representing a potentially more effective treatment for the patient.

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7 of the Most Exciting Things a Pastor Experiences

Ron Edmondson

There are many common factors pastors seem to get excited about in their work. Pastors get to see the best and worst of life, but there are so many positive things we get to experience. Obviously, seeing someone become a follower of Christ or baptism of a believer, has to rank as a highlight of the pastor’s experience. This is what we are called to do.

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How CEOs Can Make Smart Strategic Trade-Offs

Harvard Business Review

One of the challenges of being a CEO is that you rarely are asked to choose between a wrong or right answer. Instead, chief executives are often presented with two “right” answers, but one is slightly worse. Strategy, after all, is about tradeoffs — choosing where to focus. At the strategic level, picking a slightly better option can create tremendous value.

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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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A Payment Model That Prevents Unnecessary Medical Treatment

Harvard Business Review

As payers and providers in the U.S. health care system shift from fee for service to value-based approaches that pay providers for quality, they are turning to two models: One is procedure- and DRG-based bundled payments that pay one price for all the care related to treating a condition. The other is population-based “global” or “capitated” payments” such as accountable care organizations in which a provider is paid a fixed amount to cover all of a patient’s

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Doing Business in a Post-Fidel Cuba

Harvard Business Review

President Obama’s historic visit to Cuba in March 2016 drove excitement for businesses considering the market that the island could become. The move made it possible to imagine an end to the U.S. embargo of Cuba (which remains firmly in place) and a consequently sharp improvement in Cuba’s economic conditions. However, in the subsequent months, Cuba has failed to advance on economic liberalization, encountered a fiscal crisis , watched the U.S. elect a potentially hostile president,