Fri.Mar 27, 2015

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How to Stop Having Stupid Staff Meetings

Let's Grow Leaders

'I asked the crowd, “Raise your hand if you’ve been to a really stupid staff meeting.” Every hand in the room went up. “Keep your hand up, if you find most staff meetings in your career could have been more efficient.” Nearly all hands stayed raised, with the exception of the new kid, who’s in his first job, sitting next to his current boss.

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Leading the Right Team

General Leadership

'GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America''s Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, & profits. Unless you’ve got a good team, you can’t do much with the other two.” Lee Iacocca.

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The Curse of the Professional

Lead Change Blog

'What do you do easily and with little thought? As leaders, we are usually very aware of what takes conscious effort on our part, but less so about other things. Those things you do unconsciously and easily are important, although they probably range from trivial to essential actions. Maybe we learned something so long ago that we have forgotten any effort required to gain the skill in the first place.

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Getting the Attacker’s Advantage

Leading Blog

'To Ram Charan, The Attacker’s Advantage is the ability to detect ahead of others those forces that are radically reshaping your marketplace, then position your business to make the next move first. The key is not fearing uncertainty but immersing ourselves in it. It is in the uncertainty that we find the possibilities we can combine to create something new and immensely valuable.

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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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Graphic Designs for Women Entrepreneurs – How Crowdsourcing Can Help

Women on Business

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Jack and Suzy Welch on Marriage and Career

Leadership Freak

'“Where marriages go off the rails is where you get married to your job and you start making decisions with your boss first, and then you come home and inform your spouse.

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Employee Retention Articles

Chart Your Course

'Employee Retention Articles. Employee Retention Strategy. Workforce Shortage Crippling Many Industries. The Friendly-Factor: Creating a Work Environment that Attracts and Keeps the Workforce. Preparing for the Mass Exodus: As the Economy Improves Employee Retention Takes Top Attention. Assessing Business Talent for Jobs. If the Economy Is Getting Better, Where are the Jobs?

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Performance Management and Coaching.

Coaching Tip

'Every organization has its own approach to performance management and coaching. But all models view coaching as interactive. Coaching helps individuals grow as professionals and contribute fully to the success of an organization. Done well, it can turn performance management into a collaborative process that benefits everyone. In today''s environment of changing technology and evolving organizations, coaching can have a strategic impact.

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The Ten Myths of Strategic Planning

Six Disciplines

'CEOs of small businesses often appear to believe in myths surrounding the subject of strategic planning and execution - myths that can prove dangerous to the health of their organization. Myth #1: “We don’t need a strategic plan!” The truth is that every organization needs some form of plan to guide its actions or it will simply “drift off course” in the chaos businesses often face in their daily operations.

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Weekly Round-Up: The Case for Being a Generous Leader, 5 Tips to Be a More Impressive Speaker & 13 Ways to Re-Energize Your Team

leaderCommunicator

'Welcome to my weekly round-up of top leadership and communication blog posts. As many of you know, each week I read and tweet several great articles and on Fridays, I pull some of my favorites together here on my blog. This week you’ll see articles on the best ways to manage both your introverted and extroverted employees, tips to become a better public speaker and why successful leaders focus on giving over getting.

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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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Book Titles That Deliberately Inhibit Sales – It’s a Bad Idea!

First Friday Book Synopsis

'What kind of sales strategy allows a title of a book to inhibit sales? You may be all in favor of “telling it like it is,” but shouldn’t that be confined to the pages inside, and not on the spine? I remember delivering a synopsis several years ago at the First Friday Book Synopsis of […]. Karl''s blog entries Business Plus Dr.

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Five Ways To Get More Ideas From Your Employees

Eric Jacobson

'Your employees have lots of ideas. So, be sure you provide the forums and mechanisms for your employees to share their ideas with you. Hold at least a few brainstorming sessions each year, as well. And, when you are brainstorming with your employees, try these five tips : Encourage ALL ideas. Don''t evaluate or criticize ideas when they are first suggested.

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I Was On TV! How Do I Leverage the Exposure?

David A Fields

'A consultant asked me this question: I recently did a TV interview and it created a lot of buzz. People reached out to tell me they saw me on TV. How do I convert this attention into business? What advice would you give this consultant? How have you leveraged exposure in the past? Post your thoughts by using the ‘Leave a Comment’ box below.

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Leading the Project? Define Your Charter to Support High Performance

Management Excellence

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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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Every Life On Mission Matters – By Aaron Coe

Ron Edmondson

'Here’s a truth you can count on: God is on a mission to reconcile people to Himself, and this mission sweeps both history and the globe. More importantly, it includes regular, ordinary people like you and me. But, if we’re honest, we might say we don’t feel much like we’re a part of God’s grand mission. Right now you may be navigating a busy airport wondering if you’ll make your next flight because of a late connection.

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5 Key Strategies To Help You Get The Best From Networking

My Own Coach

'Networking - why do it? Are you doing it? Are you any g… The post 5 Key Strategies To Help You Get The Best From Networking appeared first on My Own Coach Limited.

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Fun Friday – weekly office cartoon #260 #ff

Rapid BI

'Some Fun for a Friday Office Cartoon I guess things have been kind of stressful at the office. Tomorrow is bring your therapist to work day. If you like our Fun Friday office cartoon please share with your colleagues or social network. Office based cartoons, funnies or humor can help to communicate important messages […]. The post Fun Friday – weekly office cartoon #260 #ff appeared first on. cartoon Business.

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Relearning the Art of Asking Questions

Harvard Business Review

'Proper questioning has become a lost art. The curious four-year-old asks a lot of questions — incessant streams of “Why?” and “Why not?” might sound familiar — but as we grow older, our questioning decreases. In a recent poll of more than 200 of our clients, we found that those with children estimated that 70-80% of their kids’ dialogues with others were comprised of questions.

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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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Your Key To Getting Things Done

Joseph Lalonde

'D avid Allen is known as the Getting Things Done guy. He’s created a process that will help you get things done but I think there’s another way. Image by Derek Gavey. Right now, I know I need to write a blog post. This one, in fact. There was a struggle to write. I didn’t want to create a blog post but I knew I needed to. There’s also days I find myself not wanting to go to church or head into the office.

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The Most Productive Way to Develop as a Leader

Harvard Business Review

'Everybody loves self-improvement. We want to get smarter, network better, be connected, balance our lives, and so on. That’s why we’re such avid consumers of “top 10” lists of things to do to be a more effective, productive, promotable, mindful — you name it — leader. We read all the lists, but we have trouble sticking to the “easy steps” because while we all want the benefits of change, we rarely ever want to do the hard work of change.

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How to Run a Great Virtual Meeting

Harvard Business Review

'Virtual meetings don’t have to be seen as a waste of time. In fact, they can be more valuable than traditional face-to-face meetings. Beyond the fact that they’re inexpensive ways to get people together – think: no travel costs and readily available technology – they’re also great opportunities to build engagement, trust and candor among teams.

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Case Study: Is It Teasing or Harassment?

Harvard Business Review

'“My, my, how tiny you are! You must be the smallest woman on earth. Hello, Dot!” These were the first words Jack Matthews spoke to Sema Isaura-Mans. Editor’s Note. This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. If you’d like your comment to be considered for publication, please be sure to include your full name, company or university affiliation, and e-mail address.

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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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Reassess Millennials’ Social Sharing Habits

Harvard Business Review

'Millennials are often maligned for their constant technology use and obsession with the social approval signaled by likes, shares, and retweets. But organizations need to start recognizing the benefits of such behavior and harnessing it. This generational cohort will, by some estimates , account for nearly 75% of the workforce by 2025. And, according to a recent Deloitte survey of 7,800 people from 29 countries, only 28% of currently employed Millennials feel their companies are fully using the

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The Sales Director Who Turned Work into a Fantasy Sports Competition

Harvard Business Review

'Now that everything we do at work can be observed, measured, tracked, and reported — thanks to sensing technologies and cheap processing power — more organizations are relying heavily on “the data” to manage employees’ performance. They’re striving to assess people strictly on merit: how productive they are, how well they collaborate, how much value they create.

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