Wed.Apr 29, 2015

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5 Leadership Priorities During Times of Crises #BaltimoreRiots

Let's Grow Leaders

“It was only a matter of time before Baltimore exploded,” Michael Fletcher explains in his excellent Washington Post article digging a level deeper into the rioting and destruction in Baltimore this week. He stated, “Baltimore is not Ferguson and its primary problems are not racial.” There’s a huge economic divide that has been eating away the infrastructure of our city for years.

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Champions Don’t Take Shortcuts

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. Vince Lombardi. I’ve been an athlete my entire life.

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The Power Of A Leader

Lead Change Blog

Two years ago today, I stood in my kitchen talking to a few team members via video call on GoToMeeting. My home phone rang. I let it go, and it ended, then started again. The caller ID indicated a local number, and I had a brief flash of concern that it might be my daughters’ school, so I stepped away from the computer screen to pick up the call.

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“Connection Culture” Book is Now Available!

Michael Lee Stallard

I am excited to announce that my latest book, Connection Culture: The Competitive Advantage of Shared Identity, Empathy and Understanding at Work is now available! Connection Culture includes inspiring stories of great leaders who created connection cultures, scientific evidence that people and organizations need connection cultures to thrive, and descriptions of ways to connect that include attitudes, uses of language and behaviors.

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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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Tips for Building Brand Awareness

Women on Business

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Three Questions – Are Our Leaders Ready For The Future?

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton Our future success is in the hands of our leaders. They will be the ones to notice and remove roadblocks, mentor employees and foresee future opportunities. They will be the ones to tackle the seemingly unsolvable problems of the future. Are they ready?

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What To Do When Your Team Leaves

Joseph Lalonde

W hether you’re leading a Fortune 500 company or tending a small church, you’ll experience staff turnover. Sometimes it’s small. Other times it’s a major blow. One team member leaves and then another. Then another and the more. It’s like a dam broke and the water cleared out everyone you thought would always be there. Image by Pierre Guinoiseau.

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What to do when Working Harder Doesn’t Work

Leadership Freak

Mary feels like a caged animal. Barry, her inexperienced manager, just set a goal of increasing her production by 15%. She already works overtime! Mary asks, “What do you suggest I stop doing?

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One Drive to Rule Them All: To Lead Progress, Target the Right Motivator

Engaging Leader

Every organizational leader can learn a lesson from the science behind employee gamification, which is the use of game-inspired tactics to engage employees. As with any initiative a leader undertakes, the purpose of gamification is implemented to create some sort of change or progress. For example, the primary objective may be: Increase employee referrals for […].

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Jason W. Womack, MEd MA's invitation is awaiting your response

Jason Womack

Jason W. Womack, MEd MA would like to connect on LinkedIn. How would you like to respond? Jason W. Womack, MEd MA. www.Momentum.GS - Organizational Development, Talent Management, and Change Leadership. Confirm you know Jason W. You received an invitation to connect. LinkedIn will use your email address to make suggestions to our members in features like People You May Know.

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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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Do you hate networking?

Coaching Tip

. Then stop networking and begin to share knowledge. Effective corporate leaders recognize that there is an 'invisible' structure of personal and business networks within their company that define the true influences and interdependencies -- and they know how to access and leverage those resources. Effective corporate leaders are strategic in the way they share knowledge.

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MasterCard Has Right Idea with "One More Day of Vacation" Commercial

leaderCommunicator

Now MasterCard is getting into the act. They want you to take one more day on your vacation. Because it's "priceless." They - of course - want you to use your credit card liberally on that day, and the rest of your vacation too. I'm all for more employees actually using their vacation days. And making the most of their time off with their loved ones.

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Clive Wilson on how to design a purposeful organisation: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Clive Wilson is a writer, speaker, facilitator and business coach. He is a director of Primeast, a learning and development company based in the beautiful town of Harrogate in the county of North Yorkshire in the United Kingdom, some 220 miles north of London. Primeast works primarily in the oil and gas, power, pharmaceutical and […].

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10 Questions All Leaders Must Ask Themselves

Eric Jacobson

Here are 10 important questions business leaders should ask, according to Ken Blanchard and Garry Ridge, authors of Helping People Win At Work : Does my business have a clear, meaningful, and easily understood vision/mission? Do I have the right people in the right seats on the bus? Do I have a BHAG (big hairy audacious goal), and have I communicated it to my employees?

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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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Level-Up™#4—Six Lessons to Help Grow Your Power at Work

Management Excellence

(Note: this post originally appeared at the Management Excellence blog copyright 2015 Art Petty) Ask and answer a simple question: “How did the three most powerful people in your firm (without a “C” in their titles) arrive at their current positions?” The answer to this question contains some key lessons for you in your own quest to enhance your career and gain more control of your work.

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Eight Steps To Build A Powerful Team

Eric Jacobson

Take some quality time to read the book by C. Elliott Haverlack , Unbunde It , because it explores the issues you face as a leader with a twist that is different from many other leadership books. Throughout, the book offers suggestions on how to overcome the burden that complexity creates in our lives and businesses. Most intriguing for me is Haverlack's straight-forward, unbundled insights on teams.

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Miscommunication: The Reasons, The Cure, The Prevention

Strategy Driven

Have you ever been absolutely certain you heard someone say something they later claim they didn’t say? Or inaccurately interpret requests from your spouse or colleagues when you could swear you’re right and they’re wrong? It’s interesting how mutually defined words end up causing such havoc. Spoken language is a mutable translation system – a best attempt to impart thoughts, feelings, and world view between dialogue partners for the purpose of shared understanding, intimacy, and maintaini

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Act Quickly To Build Loyalty

Eric Jacobson

A customer who complains and receives a fast response will actually be more loyal to your company in terms of future sales and referrals than a customer who never complained at all. That is what author Mark Thompson and Brian Tracy proclaim, and I agree with them. They also say in their book, Now.Build A Great Business! , that: a slow response to a customer complaint triggers fear and anger.

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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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How to Grab a Magazine Editor’s Attention

David A Fields

Text and images are © 2015 David A. Fields, all rights reserved.

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14th Annual In2:InThinking Network Forum June 10-14 in Los Angeles

Deming Institute

The 14th Annual In2:InThinking Network Forum ( Break the Mold: Aspire, Inspire, Achieve ) will be held June 10-14, 2015 in Los Angeles, California, USA (to be hosted by Woodbury University in Burbank). The conference itself begins on Friday, June 12th with Happy Hour at 5pm and dinner at 6pm, followed by a keynote presentation. The program continues with a full day on Saturday, June 13th, and ends at noon on Sunday, June 14th.

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Why training fails – time for a new approach?

Rapid BI

I have looked at a number of blogs and articles across the internet and in various LinkedIn groups. Many of these are about management, leadership and developing people for the future. There seems to be a common theme… new ways of doing things. A reinforcement of the message that the old ways did not get […]. The post Why training fails – time for a new approach?

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A Story from Google Shows You Don’t Need Power to Drive Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Brian Fitzpatrick joined Google as a senior software engineer in 2005, shortly after the company’s IPO. Brian specialized in open-source software development and he quickly became a champion within the company for various initiatives focused on end users. One such project addressed a user’s control of his personal data. Brian started out working with two like-minded colleagues, but he soon attracted a broader team of coders and supporters.

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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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Adding Credits, not Debits, to your Brand’s “Account” – Insight from Steve Jobs

First Friday Book Synopsis

For those of you who are branding experts, you know this. But for those who are maybe not as knowledgeable on the subject of “branding,” this is a good reminder. It comes from the book Becoming Steve Jobs: Steve Jobs embraced the marketing adage that every single moment a consumer encounters a brand—whether as a […].

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Will That Cross-Cultural Coach Really Help Your Team?

Harvard Business Review

It’s not uncommon for global businesses to face increasingly complex cross-cultural challenges. How do make an international merger a success? How can you help teams spanning countries and continents better collaborate? To deal with these issues, many companies are turning to coaches who specialize in helping diverse teams deal with cultural tripwires.

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WHE22: How Wellbeing Engagement Trumps Wellness | with Doug Stover from Gallup

Engaging Leader

According to The Gallup Organization, only 24% of employees at companies that offer a wellness program actually participate in it. What’s more, only 12% of employees strongly agree that they have substantially higher overall wellbeing because of their employer. Today we’ll discuss what’s wrong with the traditional approach to workplace wellness, and how your organization […] According to The Gallup Organization, only 24% of employees at companies that offer a wellness program actuall

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How Technology Has Affected Wages for the Last 200 Years

Harvard Business Review

Today’s great paradox is that we feel the impact of technology everywhere – in our cars, our phones, the supermarket, the doctor’s office – but not in our paychecks. We work differently, communicate with each other differently, create differently, and entertain ourselves differently, all thanks to new technology. Yet since the beginning of the personal computer revolution three decades ago, the median wage has remained stagnant.

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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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What to Do When Your Future Strategy Clashes with Your Present

Harvard Business Review

From time to time, the basis of competition in an industry shifts so dramatically that shifting with it requires a new long-term vision that calls for the organization to do things it never would have done in the past. The hardest part is connecting long-term goals to near-term actions — especially when those new actions directly threaten the way you make money right now.

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How to Respond When Someone Takes Credit for Your Work

Harvard Business Review

There’s nothing more infuriating than someone taking credit for your work. We’ve all had this happen at one point or another: you share an idea with a colleague and then hear him repeat it in a meeting; you stay late to finish a presentation yet your team member accepts all the praise; you lead a long overdue project to completion and your boss tells the higher-ups it was his doing.

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How to Look for Emotional Intelligence on Your Team

Harvard Business Review

Of all the ways to test for emotional intelligence, the marshmallow test might be my favorite. You put a child in a room, set one marshmallow in front of her and explain that, if she’s able to wait 10 minutes before eating it, she’ll get an extra marshmallow to enjoy. Then you leave her alone. If the child can hold off, it means she has is able to self-regulate — a key component of emotional intelligence.

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Get More Value from “Gray Social”

Harvard Business Review

NASA/ESA. Marketers today depend on social media’s vast public buzz to fuel our market research, customer connections, and sentiment analysis, to name only a few applications. Every day we hear of a product, a movie, or even a person that rises or falls based on buzz alone. But most content transmitted by consumers never hits our dashboards. Research shows that as much as 70 percent of social sharing is unknown to us.

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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.