Wed.Jun 03, 2015

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A Powerful Way to Gain the Trust of Your Team

Let's Grow Leaders

The Senior Vice President stood in front of my all hands meeting of 300 and said, “I was wrong.” I’ve never heard a group that size sit in such silence. I’m not even sure we were breathing. You see, she had been a naysayer. She knew the mission our team had been given was necessary, but she didn’t believe it could be done.

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Tune in Tonight! – 9pm Eastern – SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125!

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. It’s that exciting time of the month again when you have the opportunity to interact with us LIVE on SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125 at 9pm Eastern (8 Central, 7 Mountain, 6 Pacific) Wednesday, 3 June 2015.

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“Willy Wonkinate” Your Leadership

Lead Change Blog

I don’t know you very well. OK, I may not know you at all. But I do know this about you without ever talking to you or seeing your face. You can go places, places farther, and wilder and better than you ever imagined. That is, unless YOU get in the way. Self-inflicted limitations keep us from the life that should be. Things like: Poor self-image (how I see myself).

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The Habits Of Successful People VS Unsuccessful People (Infographic)

Joseph Lalonde

T here’s a marked difference between the habits of successful people versus the habits of unsuccessful people. Studies have been carried out by many different researchers over the years and the results have been astounding. SuccessStory.com recently created an infographic to highlight the differences in habits between successful and unsuccessful people and I wanted to share that with you today.

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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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Five Habits of Top Athletes We Can Take To the Workplace

Leading Blog

This is a post by Dr. Greg Wells author of Superbodies: Peak Performance Secrets From the World's Best Athletes Wells is a scientist who specializes in extreme human physiology, draws the parallels between elite athletes and top executives to help business leaders perform at the highest level, even when under the most extreme circumstances. An athlete steps up to the starting blocks in the Olympic stadium.

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How Does Struggle Shape Us as Leaders?

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton On the journey to ethical leadership, we all struggle. We struggle to make ethical choices when there are multiple stakeholders to consider. We struggle to balance competing interests, high expectations, information overload and overbooked schedules. We struggle to be at our best in difficult circumstances.

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How to Delegate Effectively and Minimize the Risk

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Delegating is often one of the hardest things for a manager to do. You give away your authority to make decisions but are still responsible for the outcome if something goes wrong. Often managers don’t delegate because they hold one or more of these beliefs. Do any sound familiar? “If you want the job done right, you have to do it yourself.” “They don’t know how, and it’s not my job to train them.” “They don’t want extra responsibilities.” “They’ve

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Leadership Lessons from Being Fired

Great Leadership By Dan

Speaker and author Henna Inam shares her leadership lessons learned from being fired from her region president position at a Fortune 500 company. Read all about it over at About.com Management and Leadership to learn from her remarkable experience!

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One Minute to Make a Difference

Leadership Freak

Leave a comment on this post to become eligible for one of twenty free copies of, “The New One Minute Manager,” by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson. Big egos move slowly.

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Interdisciplinary Thinking

QAspire

Technology and sociology are two different disciplines. But when technology transcended the boundary and met sociology (or the other way around) – social media was born. It completely transformed how we communicate, consume information and sell. If you are playing a guitar, you are dealing with two disciplines. The art of dynamically arranging musical notes in a certain sequence AND the physics of how sound is produced – i.e. stroking the strings that create vibrations in a hollow space to produ

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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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Overcoming Discouragement: A Prescription for Consultants

David A Fields

*This is a remedy for discouragement, not depression. I am not a therapist. If you are suffering from depression, please seek help from a trained, mental health professional. Text and images are © 2015 David A. Fields, all rights reserved.

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Why do Salespeople Fail?

Coaching Tip

1. They think they can get away with "winging it.". This expression comes from the theater; where it alludes to an actor studying his part in the wings (the areas to either side of the stage) because he has been suddenly called on to replace another. First recorded in 1885, it eventually was extended to other kinds of improvisation based on unpreparedness.

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Want to Cut Down on Email Clutter? It’s Time to Confront your Bad Email Habits

leaderCommunicator

In our recent work to reduce email overload inside companies , we’ve had much success with “Email Personas” that help employees identify and tackle bad email habits. These personas are a funny and effective way to pinpoint the classic bad behaviors that we all use, but that contribute greatly to mounting inboxes.

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2 Reminders about Successful Team-Building – (with insight for Heidi Grant Halverson, No One Understands You)

First Friday Book Synopsis

Supervisors love anything that smacks of team building… Heidi Grant Halvorson, No One Understands You and What to Do About It First, join a team Student speech, on “Always Be a Team Player” ——————– I’ve just finished my careful reading of No One Understands You by Ms. Halverson. (I will present my synopsis of this […].

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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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My Personal Facebook Business

Steve Farber

“It’s not personal; it’s just business.” –Too Many People. I’ve always felt that the lines we draw between business life and personal life are mostly artificial. Granted, some demarcation between the roles we play at home and at work is healthy, but it makes me shudder a little when I hear people say things like, “in business and in life.” They are not different endeavors.

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Fred Kiel: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

KRW International co-founder and principal, Fred Kiel, brings years of experience in leadership consulting from Fortune 500 companies and large, privately held organizations. He has advised individuals who have become CEOs of complex businesses, most with multi-billion-dollar top lines. Fred understands that business success starts in the heads and hearts of leadership—creating an enthusiastic, creative, […].

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Art of Managing—Humility, Teamwork and Focus

Management Excellence

(Note: this post by Art Petty originally appeared at the Management Excellence blog.) In a sea of books and articles published regularly on navigating complexity in our world today, few capture the solution as succinctly as the three words: humility, teamwork and focus. One defines the attitude required for success from the top to the bottom; one defines the essential obligation of each and every individual engaged in any initiative and the other describes the need for context or common purpose.

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Training vs. Learning: do you want to train? Or have someone learn?

Strategy Driven

Training successfully educates only those who are predisposed to the new material. Others may endeavor to learn during class but may not permanently adopt it. The problem isn't the value of information or the eagerness of the learner: It's a problem with both the training model itself and the way learners learn. It's a systems/change problem. How We Learn.

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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 Effective Internal CEO Communication Shapes Financial Performance

Eric Jacobson

Communications expert David Grossman of Your Thought Partner awhile back published a white paper – What the most successful CEOs know: how internal CEO communications shapes financial performance. "CEOs who communicate often and well inside their organizations have better reputations – and that leads directly to better business results," explains David.

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The Future of Quality is to Actually Do What People Talked About Decades Ago

Curious Cat

In the current ASQ Influential Voices post , Laurel Nelson-Rowe, ASQ managing director, asks: What’s the Future of Quality? The report they link to is hidden behind a register-wall. Hopefully in the future ASQ will have better User Experience (Ux) practices in place on the web site. But it is a good example of the failures to adopt well known, decades old recommended practices.

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7 of the Most Dangerous Church Cultures I’ve Observed

Ron Edmondson

I was talking with a couple of pastors recently about leading in church revitalization and growth. Both of these pastors are seasoned church leaders — having far more experience in total than I have in vocational ministry. Mostly I listened to their stories. Both are currently in difficult pastorates. One of them serves in a church that has a history of very short-term pastorates.

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How to Know If You Talk Too Much

Harvard Business Review

You may have heard the saying, “When you’re in love, smoke gets in your eyes.” Well when you’re talking, smoke gets in your eyes and ears. Once you’re on a roll, it’s very easy to not notice that you’ve worn out your welcome. You may not even realize that the other person is politely trying to get a word in, or subtly signaling that they need to be elsewhere (possibly, anywhere else if you have been really boring).

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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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From customer service training to great customer experience

Rapid BI

Customer service training is about more than just being polite! One of the challenges in many businesses today is improving “customer services”. We need to look at how organizations set up and manage their customer service teams. Often people that are customer facing are the most junior in the business. They have the least amount […]. The post From customer service training to great customer experience appeared first on.

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Developing Employees Who Think for Themselves

Harvard Business Review

When we talk to managers about what their workers are lacking, we hear a common refrain: “We need employees who can think, not just follow orders.” The complaint is usually followed by an observation about how the world is changing too quickly to predict customers’ demands, or that competitors are at their throats. The only way to thrive, or even survive, these managers conclude, is to find workers who can co-create value with customers and constantly improve operations.

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Get Buy-In for Your Crazy Idea

Harvard Business Review

Your boss told you to “think outside the box.” You and your team burnt the midnight oil and brainstormed until there were no more clichés left to describe how hard you worked. You found a great idea, prepared an amazing pitch, and still your idea was shot down. We like to think that great ideas are recognized as such from the beginning, but in fact that is rarely the case.

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Make It Easier for Your Boss to Say Yes to a Vacation Request

Harvard Business Review

Photo by Andrew Nguyen. In an office where overworking is a badge of honor — if not a competitive sport — a request for vacation can be daunting, even if vacation time is part of your compensation package. The worry is not so much the request itself, but feeling judged for making it. What if your manager makes it seem like you’re not a team player?

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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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Zappos and the Connection Between Structure and Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Leaders of large enterprises struggle to balance the need to make their core business more efficient with the need to move nimbly to new processes and business models, particularly in the face of threats from disruptive startups. This is a fact we know, and know well. But it’s less well known that efficiency is a problem for startups too, whose processes also become less flexible as they focus on efficiencies in their quest to move up market.

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