Fri.Jan 03, 2014

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Help Your Team Become More in 2014

Let's Grow Leaders

' ”If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” -John Quincy Adams My eyes are crossing and my neck is twitchy after 27 conference calls to finalize our 2014 Performance Agreements. We’ve debated what defines a “balanced scorecard” and negotiated performance objectives down to the […] The post Help Your Team Become More in 2014 appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Developing a Strategic Board of Directors

Lead Change Blog

'Posted in Leadership Development A Board of Directors, Board of Trustees, or an Advisory Board all have overseer function for the organization whether it is for-profit or non-profit. Those serving on these boards often are chosen for their executive role in the organization, their connections to resources, or involvement with partner organizations.

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How do Leaders Gain Deep Insights?

Leading Blog

'Reality and truth and hard for leaders to come by—especially if they think they are the repository of all truth. Leaders can easily get swept up in the “truth” perpetuated by the faithful that surround them. Like in Han Christian Anderson’s story, naked kings parade before followers too insecure and fearful to tell them they have no clothes on. These naked kings begin to believe that the world is a fixed landscape that they only truly understand.

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How to Make Leadership Development a Grassroots Movement

Great Leadership By Dan

'Guest post from William Seidman and Richard Grbavac : Have you ever heard (or said): “I just wish I could clone that person.” Being able to clone the best people in an organization would have tremendous value for any organization. Though actually cloning people may not be a scientific reality just yet, we do believe that everyone can be transformed into a top performer.

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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 Deal With Overwhelm

Joseph Lalonde

'W e’re a couple of days into the new year. How’s it going so far? Excellent, I hope. And yet I fear you may say you’re already feeling overwhelmed with the new year. There’s the goals you’ve set that you’re already behind on. There’s the resolutions you’re no longer committed to. There’s not enough time in the day to get done what needs to be done.

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Energy for a New Year

Leadership Freak

'Lousy leaders drain people; successful leaders energize. Do eyes light up when you’re around? Those who make the biggest difference, energize others. The law of energy is put more in than you take out. Any person or system that takes out more than it puts in is dying. Reserves last for awhile, but death is imminent. […].

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How Baldrige and Six Disciplines Work Together

Six Disciplines

'While the Baldrige framework offers proven characteristics of world-class organizations, it doesn''t provide you with an implementation model that shows you how to develop and maintain these characteristics, behaviors, and processes. . To achieve the benefits of Baldrige faster, Six Disciplines provides the perfect complement to the Baldrige framework, by showing you exactly how to implement a performance excellence program. .

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“Be” about it. Secrets for making your year, and your impact, right.

Anese Cavanaugh

'Diving into 2014 you likely have some intentions, or goals, or resolutions, or (if you’re really going for it) “resoulutions” set for the New Year. If you’re doing this process holistically, you’ve likely set them for yourself, your family, your team, your health, and your organization. And if you’re doing this like a fully embodied rock star, you’ve likely set a big core set of “being” intentions, followed up with sub-categories of “doing” intentions and goals for what you’re going

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Do You Overlook the Obvious?

Your Voice of Encouragement

'Several years ago, my business partner Denny Coates and I used to travel a lot, conducting training programs for clients. I distinctly remember one of our trips because of the lesson we learned one evening at our hotel. It was our first day in town, and we had just gone out for a bite to eat. When we returned, we decided to park near a side entrance to the hotel since our rooms were far from the lobby entrance.

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Looking Ahead: Changes at the Management Excellence Blog in 2014

Management Excellence

'We''ve Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] Update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us.

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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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My 12 Most Popular Tweets of 2013

Ron Edmondson

'Here are 12 of my top tweets from 2013: If your church attracts broken, messed up, can’t get it right people, then it’s not doing something wrong, it’s being the church #NoteToSelf. Weak leaders try to weed out anyone who could compete for their position. Strong leaders recruit them as team members. Don’t mistake the silence of God as the absence of God.

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How Regular Exercise Helps You Balance Work and Family

Harvard Business Review

'Matthew Beason is a well-respected executive at a non-profit with a multi-billion dollar endowment. On top of continual domestic travel, countless dinners with donors, and constant planning meetings, Matthew is also a married father of four children. While his work schedule sometimes leaves him exhausted, Matthew consistently attends school and athletic events and is, while at home, fully there for his family.

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The Big Picture of Business – Doing Your Best Work on Deadlines: Mobilizing the Energy for Best Business Success

Strategy Driven

'We just had the first live TV musical play extravaganza on television after a 50-year hiatus. The production was The Sound of Music , starring Carrie Underwood. This TV special got a lot of attention because it was unique live, just like opening night of the Broadway show on which it was based. Truth is that throughout the 1950’s (the Golden Age of Television), there were comparable live TV extravaganzas on the air every night of the decade.

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Overcome the Eight Barriers to Confidence

Harvard Business Review

'To get a more confident You in the new year — or a more confident company, community, family, or team — first know what gets in the way. The best resolutions will go nowhere without the confidence to stick with them. Confidence is an expectation of a positive outcome. It is not a personality trait; it is an assessment of a situation that sparks motivation.

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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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Leadership Communication

Coaching Tip

'Getting the people side right in leadership communication can make all the difference. Cultural transitions are times of heightened emotion where perceptions, feelings and hunches trump logic. Everyone''s decision making is emotional, not rational. subconsciously under the control of their emotional brain (limbic system), not their analytical (neocortical) brain.

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If You Were a Poor Performer, You Wouldn’t Be Aware of It

Harvard Business Review

'In a logic test administered to people who had volunteered over the internet, a team of researchers found that the lowest scorers vastly overestimated their performance, believing, on average, that they had gotten 7 out of 10 items right, when the actual figure was 0 , according to Thomas Schlösser of the University of Cologne in Germany. People who lack the skill to perform well also tend to lack the ability to judge performance (their own or others’); because of this “dual curse,” they fail t

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Africa’s Companies Need to Become More Like Training Schools

Harvard Business Review

'Youth unemployment is an issue that keeps many African politicians awake. Though data unavailability and informal economic activity make estimates difficult, youth unemployment rates in sub-Saharan Africa are believed to hover around 30-50% (and even higher in parts of North Africa). The World Bank puts the figure at 38% in Nigeria , while the Economist projects 55% for young black South Africans.

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Life After the Death of a Colleague

Harvard Business Review

'You Realize the True Nature of Your Workplace What Happens When One of Your Coworkers Dies The Billfold Six things, according to Michael Hobbes in this thoughtful essay about something we hope never happens (but most likely will). First, at least in Hobbes''s office, someone tells you that Colin, the guy in communications, died. It''s an awkward and difficult conversation.

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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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Headhunters Reveal What Candidates Want

Harvard Business Review

'Given the shortage of talented executives, how can companies attract the best and brightest? What do executives look for in new employers? How does a company become a destination of choice for talent in the aftermath of the financial crisis? To answer these questions, we surveyed several dozen senior search consultants at a top global executive-placement firm in 2010.

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Zappos’ CEO on Using Corporate Relocation to Preserve Customer-Led Culture

Harvard Business Review

'In the years since Zappos was founded, we’ve had to make some big decisions. One of the most significant came in early 2004 when we decided to relocate from San Francisco to Las Vegas. Our biggest problem then was customer service—specifically, finding the right employees to staff our call center. A lot of people may think it’s strange that an internet company would be so focused on the telephone, when only about 5% of our sales happen through that channel.

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Who Will Create the Future?

Harvard Business Review

'Who will offer the world more than a dead end? Consider: Walmart is the biggest employer in America. The typical Walmart “associate” (sorry—I meant Highly Exploited and Vulnerable Person With No Access to Healthcare, Job Security, Or Other Benefits, All of Which Are Subsidized By the Public Purse, Who’s Sometimes Locked in the Store Overnight) earns the princely sum of about fifteen and a half thousand dollars a year.