Tue.Mar 24, 2015

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A Leadership Manifesto: 10 Keys To Living Courageously

N2Growth Blog

'By Grant Wattie. President, N2Growth Australia. You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor” ~Aristotle. The word manifesto can be traced back to the Latin root manifestum , which means clear or conspicuous. A manifesto is defined as a declaration of beliefs, opinions, motives, and intentions.

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Daring To Serve

Lead Change Blog

'I spent an hour today participating in the Becoming A Dare to Serve Leader webinar with Cheryl Bachelder , CEO of Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, Inc. Cheryl presented the information in such a compelling way. I walked away feeling like I, too, could use the principles she discussed to make a difference in the world. . Cheryl Bachelder has chosen to make a difference in the food service industry.

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Why Successful Leaders Focus On Giving Over Getting

Tanveer Naseer

'One of the wonderful benefits of our digital age is not only how we’re able to discover the talent and artistry of people we might have otherwise overlooked, but also how we’re now able to peek behind the curtain to learn what inspires them; to discover and understand what guides them to create these moments of engaging insights that linger in our mind’s eye.

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The Need for 2-in-1 Hybrid Talent

Women on Business

'We''ve Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven''t already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. [link].

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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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Strong Leaders Ask For Help

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

'If you are in a leadership role, chances are you believe it’s better to give than to receive. Which means you also probably believe you should. … always be competent. … never make mistakes. … always be strong. and that you should only receive when you have something to give in return. The problem with this attitude is that when you are in a situation where you don’t have a choice and must receive, you are likely to feel. … humiliated. … incompetent. … stupid.

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7 Ways to Prepare for a Performance Review so it won’t Feel Like a Root Canal: Manager Version

Great Leadership By Dan

'The annual employee performance review is an essential human resource process for documenting how well an employee performed throughout the year, an opportunity to provide feedback to the employee, and serves as a springboard for setting performance and development objectives for the coming year. However, the annual workplace ritual been compared to a trip to the dentist to get a root canal.

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Ten Ways to Expand Power and Get Things Done

Leadership Freak

'Power is the ability to get things done. The more power you have, the more things you get done. 10 Ways to Expand Power: Make others feel powerful. Expand power by giving authority to people who get things done. Hoarded power shrinks, but shared authority expands your ability to get things done. Expose frailties; never whine.

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WHE21: Can Behavioral Economics Solve Your Company’s Health Care Problems? | with Derek Yach from Vitality Institute

Engaging Leader

'A recent study found that the U.S. lags behind other countries in improving disease prevention and life expectancy. America’s weak link? The workplace, according to the study. But it’s also one of the easiest to strengthen, and the workplace provides a unique platform for engaging people to adopt healthier habits. In particular, the still-evolving field […] A recent study found that the U.S. lags behind other countries in improving disease prevention and life expectancy.

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Remarkable TV: Where’s Waldo?

Kevin Eikenberry

'How can Finding Waldo help you with goal setting and achievement? Check out this Remarkable TV episode to find out! You’ve surely seen the Where’s Waldo? posters, books and more. English illustrator Martin Handford created Waldo in what started as a series of children’s books where readers are challenged to find Waldo amongst many other […]. The post Remarkable TV: Where’s Waldo?

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Really Great Mentors

CEO Blog

'I would like to be a really great mentor so was attracted to Stephen Kohn and Vincent O''Connell''s book: 9 Practices of really Great Mentors - How to Inspire and Motivate Anyone. The book is a self-actualizing and highly motivational read that portrays the many facets that mentors hold. Starting off with more than one definition of what a mentor is, this book is incredibly inspiring and practical making it the fitting last book of a three part series by Stephen E.

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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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Why Do We Have To Make Others Wrong To Be Right?

Lead from Within

'People sometimes have to make others wrong to be right. They do it not to be rude, not to be mean, not to be hateful but because they fear their own bad feelings. Simply put, when we think we’re right we feel good, and when we’re wrong we feel bad. But it’s not always about right or wrong. How can we relate to others without making them, or ourselves, feel bad?

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Embrace Conflict and Transform Discomfort For Better Business Results

leaderCommunicator

'It’s a paradox that every leader faces: create teams that work well together but embrace conflict. Also, drive consensus but encourage individual points of view. Discomfort is emotional. Feelings can be complex and multi-layered. But stifling expression can inhibit a team’s performance and lead to poor decision making. Here are the top 6 strategies to drive discomfort for better decision-making: Make “disagreers” part of your team (but not disruptors).

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Really Great Mentors

CEO Blog

I would like to be a really great mentor so I was attracted to Stephen Kohn and Vincent O'Connell's book: 9 Practices of really Great Mentors - How to Inspire and Motivate Anyone. The book is a self-actualizing and highly motivational read that portrays the many facets that mentors hold. Starting off with more than one definition of what a mentor is, this book is incredibly inspiring and practical making it the fitting last book of a three part series by Stephen E.

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How to Rise to the Top of Your Leadership Game Through Emotional Mastery

The Empowered Buisness

'Imagine …. Being at the top of your mental game with volition. Instantly elevating yourself into a peak emotional and mental state within minutes. Fueling your confidence, passion and motivation on a daily basis that moves you to action. What would that do to your performance … your success … your bottomline results? “He who masters his emotions masters the triumphs in his/her business.”.

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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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Top 10 Questions Business Partners Fail to Ask

CO2

'by Gary Cohen. As a business leader who built a company from 2 to 2,200 employees with a business partner, and as a business coach who has work with many business partnerships for over a decade, I know what gets said between business partners and what is often left unsaid. Today’s post is about the questions business partners should, but often fail to ask.

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Another Duo Welch Book Hits the Charts on April 15 – But Ethics?

First Friday Book Synopsis

'We’re less than a month away from the release of Jack and Suzy Welch‘s newest work, The Real Life MBA: Your No-BS Guide to Winning the Game, Building a Team, and Growing Your Career (Harper Business, 2015). It is a certain best-seller, and pre-orders for the book are rocking the online outlets. Considering their […]. Karl''s blog entries 10-10-10 Amazon.

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The Importance of Exercising Your Core-4 Professional Muscle Groups

Management Excellence

'Our core body muscles groups…those muscles in your pelvis, lower back and abdomen all work in harmony to provide stability and to help propel us through our daily lives. A strong core is critical to long-term fitness health and stability, while a weak core leaves us susceptible to muscle injuries, lower back pain and other muscle-related maladies. Much like our physical core, there’s a set of professional core muscles that require on-going exercise and development for optimum health.

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5 Musts for Successful Customer Interactions – (Before You Provide Customer Service, You have Customer Interactions)

First Friday Book Synopsis

'So, as you prepare to provide that excellent customer service, that superior customer experience that you intend, you have to first have successful interactions with that customer. Getting this right is crucially, critically important. Here are five musts for successful customer interactions: #1 – Make sure you listen – listen really, really well. “I think […].

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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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Top 10 Questions Business Partners Fail to Ask

CO2

As a business leader who built a company from 2 to 2,200 employees with a business partner, and as a business coach who has work with many business partnerships for over a decade, I know what gets said between business partners and what is often left unsaid. Today’s post is about the questions business partners should, but often fail to ask. Business partners usually value honest communication, but when they’re busy or just starting out, they don’t always know what information

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Maybe Violence Has a Future? Read This Book Before You Decide

First Friday Book Synopsis

'Maybe you never thought violence had a future. It’s been drilled into us since we were very young that violence was awful, even immoral or unethical. We saw role modeling of famous non-violent demonstrations from the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., and throughout history, many passive rather than aggressive reactions to perceived unfavorable change.

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Encourage Employees To Learn From Their Mistakes

Eric Jacobson

'Mistakes happen. The best thing you can do as a leader is to help your employee learn from his (or her) mistake. If your employee is afraid of ever making a mistake, he will be paralyzed from taking action or taking even calculated risks. If he knows that mistakes happen in the course of doing business and that one learns from making mistakes, you will have a more productive employee.

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7 Warning Signs You May Be a Controlling Leader

Ron Edmondson

'I regularly talk to young leaders through my blog and many of them feel they are working for a controlling leader. In a recent post I talked about the 3 results of controlling leadership. In full disclosure, one of my top strengths on the StrengthsFinder assessment is COMMAND. I’ll take over if no one else in the room will — so some of the young leaders on my team may have felt that way about me at times.

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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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Corrective Action Program Best Practice 15 – Condition Report Review Meetings

Strategy Driven

'Effective corrective action programs promptly and consistently screen newly reported issues for their impact on the organization’s vision, mission, values, and goals. The text above is only a small portion of this article. Become a StrategyDriven Premium Member to gain access to the entire article and the over 100 other StrategyDriven members-only articles, whitepapers, models, and tools and templates.

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Top 10 Questions Business Partners Fail to Ask

CO2

As a business leader who built a company from 2 to 2,200 employees with a business partner, and as a business coach who has work with many business partnerships for over a decade, I know what gets said between business partners and what is often left unsaid. Today’s post is about the questions business partners should, but often fail to ask. Business partners usually value honest communication, but when they’re busy or just starting out, they don’t always know what information

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3 Team-Killing Church Cultures by Ryan T. Hartwig and Warren Bird

Ron Edmondson

'Folks often preach the value of teams and try to instill teams in their churches, all the while cheerleading and propagating organizational cultural dynamics that squelch any possibility for those teams to thrive. If you want to improve your team (especially your leadership team), don’t ignore these three cultures that will kill your team’s ability to thrive. 1.

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Very good to excellent – or why most customer service training fails

Rapid BI

'When it comes to customer service training, or anyone else for that matter, many people in operations and HR make a fatal mistake. They believe people “need fixing”. Over the last 10 years many organisations have reduced the level of structured training they provide. This drop in activity coincided for the majority with the financial […]. The post Very good to excellent – or why most customer service training fails appeared first on.

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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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The 5 Biases Pushing Women Out of STEM

Harvard Business Review

'By now, we’ve all heard about the low numbers of American women in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Some argue it’s a pipeline issue – that if we can interest more young girls in STEM subjects, the issue will resolve itself over time. But that’s not convincing. After all, the percentage of women in computer science has actually decreased since 1991.

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Meetings: When to Present and When to Converse

Harvard Business Review

'Steven Moore. Meeting hosts often think that presenting to a room full of people is the best way to share ideas. Westerners in particular, with their Greco-Roman oratorical roots (think Aristotle and Cicero), tend to craft a verbal case and then declare their views to the audience. But sometimes it’s better to have a conversation , where other voices are considered and different views are exchanged.

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You Can Have Constructive Conflict Over Email

Harvard Business Review

'When email was novel 20 years ago, managers began asking us if it should be used for sensitive conversations, such as performance problems or salary negotiations. For years we said “no way.” But as work became more and more virtual, the question changed. People no longer asked, “Should I?” Instead, they demanded, “How can I?

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Starbucks’ “Race Together” Campaign and the Upside of CEO Activism

Harvard Business Review

'Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has faced intense criticism for asking his baristas to engage customers in a discussion about race in America. But this kind of “CEO activism” is actually a step forward for corporate involvement in the public square. As researchers who study the intersection between business and public policy, we’ve noticed the rise of CEO activism and its increasing influence – and we see a need both to encourage it and define its limits.

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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.