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Trust From The Inside Out

Lead Change Blog

I have had a challenging time with my left eye over the last fourteen months. It started with a torn retina that became a detached retina, which was immediately operated on, until finally a cataract developed in my left lens as a result of the retina surgery. For over a year my vision has been impaired. The cataract, first diagnosed in March, developed so fast that almost every fifteen days I could tell of negative changes in my vision.

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What Are Your Hidden Strengths?

Leading Blog

Your strengths will get you in the door, but to make progress you are going to have to become more of who you are and draw on your hidden strengths. Hidden strengths are not weaknesses. They are capacities you have that have yet to be recognized, developed and utilized. They become your Learned Strengths. Your strengths and weaknesses need to be managed.

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Ethical and Unethical Sales Leadership: What’s The Difference?

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton Unfriendly Sales Techniques. Times are still tight for consumers and salespeople are concerned about their jobs. It seems that is more tempting now than it would be in a booming economy to use high-pressure tactics or other unfriendly approaches in order to get business. And pushy, unfriendly sales techniques stand out even more in difficult economic times.

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Where Did All The Good Leaders Go?

Joseph Lalonde

H ave you looked around lately? If you have, you might have been surprised to see a shocking lack of good leaders. Image via Creative Commons. We see leaders failing all around us. Leaders are failing in their marriages. Leaders are failing in their willingness to speak up for what is right. Leaders are failing in taking care of those they lead. Leaders are failing in their push for more.

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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 to psyche yourself up for difficult conversations

ReImagine Work

What do you do when you’re really ticked off. A client asked me for coaching to help deal with a colleague. The colleague made false accusations, talked about him behind his back and micromanaged. Overall he made him look bad. We talked over several ways to deal with the situation. My client knew some of the options he considered were vengeful and accusatory.

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I Felt Compassion in His Voice

Leadership Freak

Some leaders are jerks. The good news is, you can have heart and lead.

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Starting Thought: What It Takes To Be Your Best At Work

leaderCommunicator

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it takes to be my most productive self at work. My thoughts have changed on this over time. Because I run a consulting firm that is all about providing the very best service to our clients, I naturally went into this business thinking that one of the keys to success was to work a lot. Bottom line: stop to eat (or not) and I’ll work until I drop, with little downside to myself or to my clients.

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Greater Than Yourself: A Success Approach Whose Time Has Come

Steve Farber

When my third book, Greater Than Yourself , was published in 2009, it seemed to many that the world was going to hell in the proverbial hand basket. Wall Street had melted down, the market had crashed, and folks were losing their homes and getting laid off in the process. Then I came along with a book that said, in essence, the surest way to success is to focus on helping others to be more successful than you.

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Susan Packard: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

In this competitive marketplace, an organization’s ability to innovate by staying ahead of the competition and delivering products that command the market’s attention is more important than ever. As co-founder and chief operating officer of HGTV, Susan Packard was the second employee to join HGTV and create a niche in the lifestyle marketplace, and also… Read More Susan Packard: An interview by Bob Morris.

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Study The Top Leader’s Style Before Signing On

Management Excellence

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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 Should Coaches Be Listening For?

Strategy Driven

A coach's job is to facilitate potential change, usually by asking questions to identify the components of the problem and decide between solutions while reinforcing the changes and maintaining a trusting relationship. To achieve the excellence that all coaches seek, it's necessary to avoid the listening filters that could prejudice the interaction, such as: Bias.

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Hard Advice for Young Leaders

Ron Edmondson

I have some hard advice for young leaders. Before I share , I feel the need to be clear — in case you’re a new reader — to assure you I’m a supporter of young leaders. Ask anyone I work with, or look at decisions we’ve made as a church, or the personal investments of my time into young leaders and you can clearly see I believe in the next generation of leaders.

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How to Get Promoted At Work: The ASK Strategy

Let's Grow Leaders

A guest post by Bruce Harpham. Getting promoted at works increases your responsibility, power and ability to grow as a leader. When you are seeking your first management role, getting promoted is a mysterious process. If you are seeking an executive role, the process is even more challenging. This three-part strategy is built on timeless principles that will deliver results in all industries.

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Stress Is Your Brain Trying to Avoid Something

Harvard Business Review

Stress exists in every workplace, and all of us have probably tried a few trendy stress-management approaches. But rather than trying the latest fad, it may be more effective to understand how stress works and where it comes from, so that you can create your own methods for dealing with it. Stress is an emotional response; like all emotional responses, it emerges from the functioning of the motivational system.

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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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Research: Technology Is Only Making Social Skills More Important

Harvard Business Review

Automation anxiety reached new heights in 2013, when Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne, researchers at the Oxford Martin School, published a paper estimating that 47% of all U.S. jobs were “at risk” of being computerized over the next two decades. Although the jury is still out about robots stealing jobs , the pace at which AI and deep learning technologies have been advancing isn’t ebbing concerns over a future of disappearing work.

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The False Promise of the Single Metric

Harvard Business Review

Managers and boards are often pushed by investors, fund managers, and analysts to focus intently on a single measure of success, such as shareholder value or profit, and then they do everything they can to maximize it. As a result, they tend to overlook other important measures — for instance, customer satisfaction, employee motivation, and supplier support — and their narrow view of the organization can do long-term damage.

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The Reason Smart People Sometimes Struggle with “Aha” Moments

Harvard Business Review

HBR STAFF. I’m increasingly jealous of people with fantastic working memories — as psychologists define it, the ability to ”hold and manipulate information in a temporary active state.” These people can get where they’re going without constantly staring at the GPS, can remember new people’s names from the beginning to the end of the conversation, and don’t have to re-read the recipe between every added teaspoon.

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Why People Are Drawn to Narcissists Like Donald Trump

Harvard Business Review

HBR STAFF. Donald Trump is an official phenomenon. The real estate tycoon and TV celebrity’s ongoing success as a presidential candidate shows that he has clearly struck a chord with many voters. It has also confounded many citizens and pundits who predicted that Trump’s arrogant putdowns and grandiose claims would doom him to quick rejection by Republican voters.

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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.