Wed.Oct 28, 2015

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7 Strategic Questions Your Team Should Be Able to Answer

Let's Grow Leaders

I’ve never met an executive who said, “my team’s just too strategic. I just wish they would focus on the day-to-day work.” Nope in fact it’s quite the opposite concern. “How do I get my team to think more strategically?” “Karin, I just don’t think anyone on this team is ready to take on my role… and I can’t get promoted until I find a successor.” And the phone call of the week is, “these millennials just don’t se

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Resolving Conflict While Maintaining Your Composure – Part 1

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.”. William James. Over the course of your professional career you’re going to experience conflict in the workplace.

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Leadership & Motivation

Lead Change Blog

One key aspect of leadership that people often skip over is motivation. Even if it is mentioned, the description lacks depth and useful tools. Rather than explaining how to be continuously motivated, people just receive the sound yet vague advice: you just need motivation. First, let’s break down the two main types of motivation, internal and external.

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Triggers: Do You Underestimate the World You Live In?

Leading Blog

N O MATTER HOW HARD WE TRY, our environment affects us in powerful, insidious, and mysterious ways. Our environment triggers behaviors or responses in us. Marshall Goldsmith explains in Triggers the kinds of things in our environment that derail us from becoming the kind of leader, co-worker, parent, or spouse that we want to be. He illuminates an aspect of self-awareness that is so vital to a leader’s success.

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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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How the Quest for the Best Jobs Keeps HR Innovating

Women on Business

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I’m Afraid I’ll Be Alone

Leadership Freak

I asked a group about their fears. She said, “I’m afraid I’ll be alone.” It was years ago, but I still admire her courage. She wasn’t afraid of alone-time.

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What Creating Sketchnotes Taught Me About #Learning

QAspire

There are people who stick to their primary pursuits for long and then there are those whose energy keeps changing direction. Between these two extremes, there are people who stick to their primary pursuit but still manage to go wherever their energy takes them. I have figured out that I belong to that middle path. My alternative pursuits like writing , blogging, photography , social media etc. are my source of creative energy that helps me become more effective at work.

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Starting Thought: Communication Is a Superpower in Today's World

leaderCommunicator

AS A KID, I LOVED SUPERHEROES. The famous Justice League of America was a huge hit with me. In fact, I spent way too many hours in front of our television. I’m sure I was sitting within three feet of the TV, hurting my eyes, just so I could turn the channel with ease. Those were the days without remote controls—when you actually needed to get up and change the channel when a show didn’t interest you.

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Managing Change in Health Care

Coaching Tip

By Guest Author Pamela Shaheen DrPH. Healthcare organizations seem to be particularly challenged in reinventing themselves when compared to other industries. . Why is that? It's part of the human condition that, in the face of change, we like things the way they are. We have been conditioned to resist change, especially when it requires us to get out of our comfort zone, so it's a tough nut to crack.

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Interview: Grumblers to Allies – Gain Support for Change With The Energy Bar™

Change Starts Here

Rick Maurer, author of Beyond the Wall of Resistance , returns to the show to discuss how to gain support for change, especially how to move people from being grumblers to becoming allies using a tool called The Energy Bar™. Listen to the show here (30 minutes): You can watch a 3-minute video about using the Energy Bar here: [link].

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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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“Wrongdoing for Gain” as Formula for Success – Do We Really Want to Accept This?

First Friday Book Synopsis

wrongdoing noun illegal or dishonest behavior evil or improper behavior Quoting me from yesterday, on the lack of introspection within some (maybe way too many) leaders, There Seems To Be A Shortage Of Introspection Within Today’s Leaders: Sometimes the focus on results can cause some sort of willful blindness toward other important factors. Like treating workers… Read More “Wrongdoing for Gain” as Formula for Success – Do We Really Want to Accept This?

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Partnering With Another Consultant? Read This First

David A Fields

There you are, cruising around the bay on your one-sailed Sunfish, Hobie-cat or multi-sheeted catamaran, fishing for consulting projects. A fellow sailor hails from his small craft, “Would you like to join forces? I’m sure we could catch more together.” What do you think? Will adding more sailboats to your armada result in a better haul? Take a moment to look at the reality and rules of partnering.

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Gerald Posner: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

John Martin of ABC News says “Gerald Posner is one of the most resourceful investigators I have encountered in thirty years of journalism.” The Los Angeles Times dubs him “a classic-style investigative journalist.” Posner is the author of twelve books, including New York Times bestsellers, and one a finalist for the Pulitzer in history.

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How To Achieve Change-Friendly Leadership

Eric Jacobson

Because Dr. Rodger Dean Duncan delivers so much timely, straight-forward and relevant wisdom in his book, Change-friendly Leadership , reading it is like talking with your trusted best friend. Or, listening to your favorite teacher. Or, soaking in the thoughts from your respected mentor. That's why you'll want to spend plenty of time reading the book.

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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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7 Attributes of a Wise Leader

Ron Edmondson

I write and speak a lot about leadership. I know lots of good leaders. In fact, I work with many good leaders. I hope some would even say I have days where I meet the standard – whatever the standard is. I also write and speak a good deal about wisdom. And, I think wisdom is critical to the field of good leadership. A wise leader has developed certain attributes – wisdom learned from the personal experience of success and failure and from the insight of other leaders – which se

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My First 500 Push-Ups to Fight Breast Cancer

Steve Farber

Click here to view the embedded video. HELP ME FIGHT BREAST CANCER, AND I’LL DO PUSH-UPS FOR YOU! Barbells For Boobs is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to the early detection of breast ca ncer, with an emphasis on women under the age of 40 and men. Inspired by athletes everywhere, local communities come together and raise funds to help B4B detect potentially life threatening breast cancer occurrences.

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Applying Dr. Deming’s Ideas at the Lakeville Public School System

Deming Institute

Lisa Snyder. Dr. Lisa Snyder, Superintendent of the Lakeville Public Schools shares how the work of Dr. Deming is influencing her as a superintendent and the rewards and challenges of adopting his philosophies in the latest Deming podcast. Lisa will be speaking at the First Annual Deming in Education Conference (in less than 2 weeks). Lisa’s Deming journey began 23 years ago, when in a new job with a school in Winona, Minnesota, she was sent to listen to Dr.

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I Almost Quit Before I Began

Joseph Lalonde

W eeks before, I’d been asked to join a pastor and his friend on a day hike. The journey around the Manistee River sounded like a great hike. Not only that, I’d get to spend time with some awesome guys. As the day got closer, I began to rethink my position on the trip. “Would I be able to hike the whole 20-mile loop?” and “I’m not sure I can do this.

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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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Volkswagen and the End of Corporate Spin

Harvard Business Review

The shockwaves emanating from Wolfsburg, Germany, continue. Thousands of individuals that work for VW, their families and their community are angry, dismayed and fearful. They are incredulous that an immensely successful company, in which many have invested their entire working lives, could have engaged in such large scale, systemic deceit. And millions of customers around the world also feel cheated.

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Why Fraudulent Ad Networks Continue to Thrive

Harvard Business Review

At a medical device company, a brand manager was examining a chart of daily traffic to his website. On the chart he saw that one day in August, web traffic plunged, and locked in at a new normal about half of its previous level. For someone responsible for a website’s traffic, the scale and swiftness of the drop should have made him gasp, but the manager nodded knowingly.

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Your Innovation Team Shouldn’t Run Like a Well-Oiled Machine

Harvard Business Review

Most innovation teams inside large companies are set up to operate like well-oiled machines. They move in a specified direction at a predictable speed. Since the early 1900s, this model has been the prevailing paradigm for how organizations are designed and run. The problem is that while this approach enables large-scale production, it doesn’t seem to work for innovation.

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How People Are Actually Using the Internet of Things

Harvard Business Review

In these early days of the Internet of Things (IoT), much of the focus has been on industrial applications, such as improving operations with autonomous machines, or standalone consumer products, like a Fitbit. But from our research, we’re seeing a more human-centric category of IoT activity starting to emerge. It’s less about automation and more about personal augmentation; less about individual devices and more about “living services” that let people program and connect

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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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The Best Data Storytellers Aren’t Always the Numbers People

Harvard Business Review

Taking a cue from the rise of data journalism, brands that rely on content marketing are starting to use data to tell stories about their brands, customers and products. What makes this kind of “data storytelling” distinct from any other kind of narrative is, obviously, data: it centers on the numbers. And it’s effective; whether you’re talking about holiday shopping or employee health spending , quantitative information is uniquely able to capture attention, convey a sto

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Everyone Says They Listen to Their Customers—Here’s How to Really Do It

Harvard Business Review

Almost everyone in the luxury service industry talks about “listening to the voice of the customer.” But listening is not the same as understanding. How you listen, and to whom you listen, is critical. Even a smart, high-end business can be led astray by misunderstanding the strengths and weaknesses of different customer feedback channels.

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