Fri.Oct 13, 2023

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Ready or Reactive with Josefine Campbell

Let's Grow Leaders

Episode 233: Is your team ready or reactive? To be ready, deal with change, and be flexible, people need energy. Meanwhile, stress, anxiety, and loss of engagement at work are major factors in modern work life and statistics are staggering in a negative direction. In many corporate workplaces, the brains of the people working there are the biggest asset of the business.

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The Unlocked Leader

Leading Blog

T OO MANY LEADERS have not made the journey from their head to their heart. It is not uncommon to assume that to be effective, leaders must be superhero leaders. That is, they must be infallible, unflappable, and fearless. Hortense Le Gentil writes to dispel that notion in The Unlocked Leader and become what she terms human leaders. Hiding behind their superhero leader façade, they’re not sure how they can connect differently with people at work.

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Drink and Forget

Leadership Freak

A stream gurgles alongside the road to success. When thirsty travelers drink, they transform into barbarians. More.

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How To Be A Leader When It Doesn’t Come Naturally

Lead from Within

Leadership is a trait that many people strive to possess, but it doesn’t come naturally to everyone. Some people are naturally charismatic and confident, while others may struggle to assert themselves in a leadership role. But being a leader doesn’t always come down to natural talents, it is something that can be developed and nurtured. Here are some ways to be a leader when it doesn’t come naturally: Core Values Will Define You: The most important aspect of leadership is havin

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How to Build the Ideal HR Team

HR doesn’t exist in a vacuum. This work impacts everyone: from the C-Suite to your newest hire. It also drives results. Learn how to make it all happen in Paycor’s latest guide.

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Strategic Transformation: Mobile Work Order Technology for Maximum Maintenance Processes Efficiency

Strategy Driven

In the evolving world of manufacturing, one cannot underscore the importance of optimization. Maintenance supervisors, managers, and directors continually strive to refine processes, ensuring that production lines run smoothly. Central to these efforts is the implementation of digital transformation and the burgeoning role of mobile devices—particularly in the utilization of Mobile Work Order systems.

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Accelerate Your Growth through Agile HR Practices

HR Digest

Change is the only constant and agile HR appears to be the next evolutionary stage of human resources in an organization. The word agile invokes a lot of synonyms—lithe or limber, for those more inclined to literature, or quick and light-footed for those more focused on conveying its meaning. All these words work well to define how the agile HR approach is leading the change to fast, immediate action and results.

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Structure Sales Compensation Plans That Can Fire Up Your Employees

HR Digest

Salary and wages are simple compensation plans that let us know what to expect—a standard amount at the end of every pay cycle. Sales compensation plans take a lot more work to get right. Due to the quota-based performance measures that follow the work of sales representatives, employers often prefer to provide sales incentive plans to motivate them to perform better.

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5 Reasons Why You Should Use Color Printing Flyers for Your Marketing Campaigns

Strategy Driven

Flyers are very reliable when they are well-targeted. Companies must get clear on their target market and marketing message before releasing the flyer. Black, for example, communicates power and luxury and effectively communicates boldness. When combined with white or a bright color, it allows the text to stand out. Versatility Using suitable color printing flyers is critical to selling a product or promoting an event.

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When Confidence Helps Project Managers — and When It Gets Them into Trouble

Harvard Business Review

There’s a popular fallacy that encourages big-project managers to forge ahead as quickly as they can, on the basis that the payoffs will likely be bigger than they imagine. A careful empirical analysis of more than 2,000 big-project outcomes by the authors of this article, experts in project management and behavioral science, suggests that this is not the case — a Just-Do-It strategy ends badly 80% of the time.

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Navigating Generative AI as an Older Worker

Harvard Business Review

Generative AI has revolutionized the professional landscape. McKinsey’s recent findings suggest that by 2030, 30% of tasks across the U.S. economy might be automated, up from 21% before generative AI. But what does this mean for those senior professionals who have dedicated decades to developing skills in a specific field? A study from the impact of AI on the future of workforces in the European Union and U.S. explains that older workers are most exposed to AI, because AI performs tasks that bel

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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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Is Your Team Overworking But Underperforming?

Harvard Business Review

Hard work comes in two equally important forms: effort to perform and effort to improve. But too often, we only focus on the first part and become trapped in lengthy to-do lists. The author calls this the “performance zone.” When we switch our lens to include efforts to improve, entering what he calls the “learning zone,” we can get things done in ways that make us more effective.

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Making Your Products Accessible to Underserved Markets

Harvard Business Review

When a certain problem gets overt focus, others tend to get overlooked. Case-in-point: the Bottom of the Pyramid theory, created by Indian-American researcher and author CK Prahalad. Prahalad argued that the world’s poorest people constituted the “bottom of the pyramid” (BoP) and presented a massive opportunity for the world’s wealthiest companies. He posited that this segment was an untapped market opportunity and that companies, by developing products and services accessible to them, could cre