Mon.Aug 01, 2016

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10 Signs Your Company Culture Needs a Fix

N2Growth Blog

10 Signs Your Company Culture Needs a Fix. There is little doubt that the best performing firms on the planet have exciting and healthy cultures – think Google, Southwest and Nike – while other organizations seem to be in a constant state of struggle to reach their full potential. Interestingly, the leadership teams at struggling companies are often confounded to understand the reasons for their firm’s “underperformance” Company culture is often to blame.

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Featured Instigator: Susan Mazza

Lead Change Blog

This month we are featuring Instigator Susan Mazza , CEO of Clarus-WORKS , Founder/Author of Random Acts of Leadership ™, and Co-Author of The Character-Based Leader. Susan graduated from Penn State with a BS in Finance and International Business. She believes her “real education” started when she began working. She started out working in a very large accounting department facilitating the communication between the accountants and the IT professionals to develop and deploy new and i

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Leadership Matters

N2Growth Blog

(as featured in mining.com). CEO Interview: Sam Walsh. This edition of the CEO interview features Sam Walsh, the recently retired CEO, of Rio Tinto. Rio Tinto, founded in 1873, is a British-Australian multinational and one of the world’s largest metals and mining corporations. The company has grown through a long series of mergers and acquisitions to place itself among the world leaders in the production of many commodities, including aluminium, iron ore, copper, uranium, coal, and diamonds.

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Why we trust leaders who admit their mistakes

Lead on Purpose

Guest post by Steven J. Stowell Ph.D. Anyone in a leadership position knows that mistakes are inevitable. They can hit at any time and it may not even be a direct result of your actions.

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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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Highlighting Our August Sponsor: Launchbox365

Lead Change Blog

We are elated to have Launchbox365 as our Lead Change Group sponsor for August! Launchbox365 helps companies and individuals achieve bold success through applying their expertise in cross-generational issues to help organizations bridge the gap between managers and their Gen Y workforce to increase employee engagement, productivity, innovation and profits.

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Why we trust leaders who admit their mistakes

Lead on Purpose

Guest post by Steven J. Stowell Ph.D. Anyone in a leadership position knows that mistakes are inevitable. They can hit at any time and it may not even be a direct result of your actions.

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I Think I’ve Figured It Out.

Rich Gee Group

Many clients and colleagues frequently ask me if there are any definitive assessments they can take to learn more about themselves. Candidly, there are no definitive ones — but there are a lot out there that can help you peek in and see some of the drivers of your personality, actions and physical behaviors. Here are just a few (and they’re FREE): Enneagram Test.

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7 Ways Traveling Can Enhance Your Business Skills

Women on Business

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141: Hire, Develop, and Keep Great Employees | with Paul Falcone

Engaging Leader

People power your business — and success can hinge on your hiring, inspiring, and keeping the right ones. As a leader, are you cultivating this vital resource? Is there more you could be doing? Are you just winging it? Every HR executive has a laundry list of things they wish managers knew: best practices that […] People power your business — and success can hinge on your hiring, inspiring, and keeping the right ones.

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Be a Real Leader and Start a Ripple Effect

Leadership Freak

I invited several top leaders, authors, and bloggers to share their wisdom with Leadership Freak readers. Thanks to Jesse Lyn Stoner for contributing this insightful post on creating magnificent teams in uninspired organizations.

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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 You Need to Understand About Adult Learning Theory

Nathan Magnuson

Picture yourself attending two training sessions. In the first, you sit quietly in your row as the instructor lectures on the benefits, nuances and applications of the topic. In the second session, you sit at a table with a group of peers as a facilitator introduces the topic, elicits several responses about the group’s current challenges, has each individual complete a self-assessment, shares the key points, has everyone interact in small groups and then asks each person to record their p

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How Curiosity Creates Real Conversation

Kevin Eikenberry

Real conversation is a worthy goal in all areas of our lives. Real conversation provides a platform for understanding of others and/or issues. Real conversation allows learning to take place, and real conversation promotes the nurturing and deepening of relationships. Perhaps most of all, real conversation can feed our souls in ways few other things […].

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Pokemon comments, literacy and randomness

CEO Blog

The garden is in full production I am enjoying bountiful harvests of herbs - thyme, basil, parsley, chives, tarragon etc. And eating zucchini pancakes, soup, casserole, etc etc. Poor tomato crop. Fair bean crop. Good beets and leeks. Of course what is really going strong is crabgrass and most other weeds that seem persistent and resilient. Thinking we could all learn lessons from them.

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Performance Pressures that Organizations Face

Coaching Tip

Becoming the Change You Wish to See in the World. Change agents create new cultures by fostering relational dynamics among participants that include more respectful interactions and broader systems thinking. Three core dynamics--relational coordination, relational co-production, and relational leadership--need to be present at some level in order to successfully implement the structures that can effectively support them.

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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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Think of Your Strategy as a Journey

leaderCommunicator

Before you embark on a journey, there are many considerations and details to plan. The more you prepare and plan, the more enjoyable and fruitful your journey will be (and you’ll get to your destination faster).

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3 Charts US Economists Want to Keep Secret

Coaching Tip

Like Vanilla is used to make Chocolate. Despite new all-time highs in the stock market, US economic data is lagging. In fact, real GDP per person just dropped to its lowest level in more than 75 years ! While major news outlets never miss a chance to jump on that latest negative trend from society, they seem reluctant to cover basic economic figures that could spell bad news for millions of Americans.

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“Concentration is the new black,” says Andrew Sullivan – And, maybe, the next whopper sought-after skill

First Friday Book Synopsis

Right now I’m working on my next essay for New York, about the culture of mass distraction. Concentration is the new black. One thing I realize, I thought I was living a life and blogging; in fact I was just blogging. It’s zero-sum. You can’t do both at once. Andrew Sullivan, from this New York… Read More “Concentration is the new black,” says Andrew Sullivan – And, maybe, the next whopper sought-after skill.

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Signs You’re Sucking Energy Out of the Room (and What to Do About It)

Anese Cavanaugh

I had a meeting with my team last week. All of us were prepared, we had some good stuff to dig into. Everyone showed up on time, checked in, confirmed our agenda, and then…. I blew it. Yep, me, as the team leader… blew it. How? My presence. Despite being prepared, having all the “stuff” I needed to have to have a great meeting, and all the right “actions” – my presence was off.

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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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Are You Ready to Be the Boss?

Strategy Driven

More than six million new businesses launched in the U.S. in 2015, according to the Kauffman Index. Given that volume, it’s certain that some of these new businesses were rolled out by people who had never led a company before. Budding entrepreneurs devote considerable time to developing products and business plans, but they may not adequately prepare to become a boss.

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The Four Things To Ask During An Exit Interview

Eric Jacobson

As a leader, it's critical that you understand the real reasons employees leave your company. To do that, you need to ask specific questions that may not be ones you currently include in your exit interviews. Fortunately, Richard Finnegan, shares in his book, Rethinking Retention in Good Times and Bad , four key questions you should include in your exit interviews : Why did you decide to leave us?

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Do you have the character and characteristics of sales success?

Strategy Driven

Here is list of sales success characteristics. They represent the elements of what will make a salesperson successful. But here’s the secret – before you make judgments about others and how they compare to the list, FIRST judge yourself. Measure yourself against the elements that make salespeople who they are, and successful at what they do. And for those of you who hire salespeople, a checklist of the real things to look for in a potentially successful person.

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7 Ways to Stop Gossip

Ron Edmondson

In my job, I hear far more junk than I care to hear sometimes. One part of the drama of messiness which always frustrates me is how gossip begins about other people’s problems. As if dealing with the consequences of sin is not enough, many times the hardest repercussion is the gossip which occurs about the people involved and the situation which occurred.

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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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Leadership Lessons And Quotes From Jason Bourne

Joseph Lalonde

T he first time I heard the name Jason Bourne, I had no clue who he would be. Then I heard he was the main character, played by Matt Damon, in an upcoming movie called The Bourne Identity. That was in 2002. Image from Universal Studios. The premise behind the movie sounded interesting: A man is picked up by a fishing boat. His body is riddled with bullet holes.

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Can You Really Power an Organization with Love?

Harvard Business Review

Vincent Tsui for HBR. Tolstoy asserted that “ one can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love.” Freud said, “l ove and work… work and love, that’s all there is.” Love and work. Tolstoy and Freud suggest we need to do both. I suggest we need to do both at the same time. For centuries, outside the business context, we have heard about the power and virtue of love.

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LeadershipNow 140: July 2016 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from July 2016 that you might have missed: 7 Questions the World's Top Executive Coach Asks Every Single Time by @pauljsohn 5 Things Insecure Leaders Wrongly Believe by @cnieuwhof. 7 of the Hardest People to Lead via @RonEdmondson. How to Create an Exponential Mindset by @MarkBonchek. The Test Every Great Leader Must Pass by @LollyDaskal.

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Until You Have Productivity Skills, Productivity Tools Are Useless

Harvard Business Review

Back in the days of paper based planners, I depended on mine to help me stay on top of my to-do list and commitments. Making the switch to electronic tools was difficult and disruptive, and initially I didn’t want to do it. But once I had, I realized how much the software and gadgets helped me to kick my productivity into high gear. But the truth is, it wasn’t the tools alone, it was also the workflow management process —or methodology—I applied to the tools.

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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 Don’t Always Win Well: My Struggle With Being a Pleaser

Let's Grow Leaders

David Dye and I are on a mission to rid the world of soul-crushing leadership behaviors. I’m confident in our vision and our approach. I know it’s what I’ve been put on this planet to do, and that I’ve partnered with the right person to make it happen. And yet, despite my passionate desire to make an impact, I sometimes let my own fears get in the way of asking for what I need.

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Why You Should Interview People Who Turn Down a Job with Your Company

Harvard Business Review

Successfully competing for top talent involves both selling jobs to the best candidates and retaining the highest performing incumbents. In order to be seen as an employer of choice with a compelling value proposition for employees, many companies measure turnover and conduct exit interviews with departing employees to gather feedback about the experiences people had working there and the reasons why they’re leaving.

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Virgin Atlantic Tested 3 Ways to Change Employee Behavior

Harvard Business Review

An estimated 21% of carbon emissions in the United States are attributable to companies, and yet to date there is scant research on how to make firm operations more efficient in terms of reducing pollution. However, the numbers suggest that getting employees to change their behavior could significantly impact climate change. So we partnered with Virgin Atlantic Airways on a field experiment to understand how the behavior of employees—in this case, airline captains—influences fuel eff

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How Today’s Political Polling Works

Harvard Business Review

So far this year, pollsters have put out more than 400 national Presidential general election polls, an average of about two per day; if the 2012 election is any guide, pollsters will be releasing as many as four per day as Election Day nears. While these poll releases are the subject of intense media interest, that interest is focused on the results of the polls, with much less attention given to how the polls are actually carried out.

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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.