Fri.Oct 24, 2014

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What Do You Like Most About Your Job?

Let's Grow Leaders

'Ray had a long list of things that were wrong with his job. Most of us do. The most important work is never easy and sacrifice can sting. But as I listened, I was struck by the stark contrast between what was wrong and the deep loyalty to stay that went way past trappings of salary or benefits. So I shared that observation and asked the obvious question: What do you like most about your job?

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Resilience: Standing Up Against Life’s Storms

General Leadership

'“A good half of the art of living is resilience.”. Alain de Botton. Resilience is not a new term in academic and preventive medicine circles, nor is the idea of nurturing people’s inner strengths a new idea. In fact, the view that resilience is an important aspect of our well-being has been gaining attention among researchers and health professionals over the last 25 or so years.

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How to Keep Remote Employees Enthused, Energized and Engaged

Michael Lee Stallard

'By Michael Lee Stallard and Colton Perry. As seen on SmartBlog on Leadership. . A 49-year-old father of two hits his alarm clock at 6:30 a.m., starts a pot of coffee and prepares for his daily commute. For the past three years, Bill Lewis has worked for a large company based in the heart of New York City; even though his home in Texas is nearly 2,000 miles from the office, Bill’s daily commute only takes him a few steps.

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Life Lessons From The Ziplining Tortilla

Lead Change Blog

'When my son and I arrived on a North Georgia mountaintop several years ago for our first zip-lining outing, I did not know quite what to expect. I had read many people’s accounts of the zip-lining experience; I had speculated about how I would feel about the heights and the speed. I had wondered if my son (or I) would love it or freak out. Nowhere in the information I read or the expectations I had developed did I run across Mexican food.

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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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The Strength of Approachability in Business

Women on Business

'We''ve Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven''t already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. [link].

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Why Fair Isn’t Always Fair

Joseph Lalonde

'G rowing up, we all heard that we had to be fair to others. This meant not getting an extra cookie in the lunch line. Or maybe being fair meant that everyone got the same sized treat. Still, fair could also have meant we all had to take turns singing a silly song in class. We were taught by making everyone have the same treats or the same amount of time on the ball field or taking turns was the fair thing to do.

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How to Energize Your Organization

Leadership Freak

'The four elements of unhappiness are helplessness, paralysis, isolation, and insignificance. You can’t feel happy and feel like you don’t matter. Energy: Successful leaders energize. Happiness is energy. Success always includes making someone feel happy.

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SERVANT Leaders are Empathetic – Acronym Model

Modern Servant Leader

'Background: This post is part of a series defining the principles of Servant Leadership via the acronym SERVANT ( Selfless , Empathetic, Resolute, Virtuous, Authentic, Needful and Thorough). For more, visit the overview at this link or sign up for the free online course, Servant Leadership 101. The second principle in the SERVANT Leadership acronym is Empathetic.

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Tony Mayo interviewed by client REI 360

Tony Mayo

'Chris Haddon sits down for a high-level conversation with Executive Coach, Tony Mayo, who has been coaching him and his business partners for years. During this time they have made tremendous progress in their professional and personal lives. Check it out here. On this podcast they cover: How can you tell if a coach is […].

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Maybe All Learning Starts with “Unlearning” – Insight from Marie Kondo, The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

First Friday Book Synopsis

'I’ve just read the Kindle sample pages of the new book The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing, by Marie Kondo. I read about it in this New York Times article: Kissing Your Socks Goodbye – Home Organization Advice from Marie Kondo by Penelope Green. I won’t bore […].

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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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Weekly Round-Up: On Making Values as Important as Performance, Creating a Game Plan for Your Goals & Setting the Context That Fosters Collaboration

leaderCommunicator

'Welcome to my weekly round-up of top leadership and communication blog posts. Each week I read and tweet several great articles and on Fridays I pull some of the best together here on my blog. So in case you’ve missed them, here is this week’s round-up of top posts. They’ll provide you with tips, strategies and thought-starters from many of the smart folks in my network.

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Perception is Real

Coaching Tip

' " Perception is real even when it is not reality " Edward de Bono. We can see how vertigo presents a risk to pilots, but how does vertigo pose an issue for leaders? In order to answer that question, let''s first start with a definition of what we are referring to when we talk about leadership vertigo: Leadership vertigo refers to false signals being sent by our brain asserting that everything is moving along as it should when it''s not.

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Requirements Of A Next-Generation Strategy Execution Program (Summarized)

Six Disciplines

'In researching how to build a sustainable strategy execution program, we’ve uncovered three major barriers that have to be overcome if the program is to be successful. They are insufficient expertise, prohibitive economics and simple human nature. We’ve determined that these three barriers are actually the major design requirements any truly effective strategy execution program must be able to address.

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Randy’s Workshop Shows You How to Cope With Change You Did Not Initiate!

First Friday Book Synopsis

'Do you work with someone who fights change? Someone who dislikes changes that he or she did not initiate? Someone who “over-resists” when a new corporate mandate comes down from the top? That is a problem! That person undercuts productivity, efficiency, effectiveness, and cannot be a team player. RANDY’S WORKSHOP ON MANAGING CHANGE WILL SHOW […].

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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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Are You Spinning Your Employees In Circles?

Eric Jacobson

'A manager who can''t make a decision or who can''t make a timely decision will frustrate his/her employees. Equally bad, a lack of decision will impede the progress of the manager''s team. Some managers make endless requests for data as a way to postpone their having to make a decision. Employees end up spinning in circles , slicing and dicing the information far beyond what is truly needed for the manager to make a decision.

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Randy’s Workshop Shows You How to Cope With Change You Did Not Initiate!

First Friday Book Synopsis

'Do you work with someone who fights change? Someone who dislikes changes that he or she did not initiate? Someone who “over-resists” when a new corporate mandate comes down from the top? That is a problem! That person undercuts productivity, efficiency, effectiveness, and cannot be a team player. RANDY’S WORKSHOP ON MANAGING CHANGE WILL SHOW […].

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Should You Give Your Book Away?

David A Fields

'A question I was asked: I have a commercially published book and I know i should use it to promote myself, but should I give the book away too? What would your suggestion be to this consultant? If you have a book, have you given copies away? Post your suggestion by using the ‘Leave a Comment’ box below.

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Assumptions and Key Actions for Managing Change on November 12

First Friday Book Synopsis

'My blog posts continue to feature Randy Mayeux’s workshop on November 12 for Managing Change in Richardson. Click HERE for details. I wanted to share with you the assumptions we make and the three major key actions which all the skills he teaches in that program revolve around. This section comes directly from the workbook […].

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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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Seven Reasons Some Churches Experience Revitalization (While Others Don’t)

Ron Edmondson

'This is a guest post by my friend Thom S. Rainer. I have a great love for local congregations. To be sure, I’ve never been in a perfect church. They just don’t exist. But I still love local churches. One of my greatest joys in the past several years has been to see and work with churches that have experienced significant turnaround. While that turnaround is typically evident in attendance numbers, it is much more than that.

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Maybe All Learning Starts with “Unlearning” – Insight from Marie Kondo, The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

First Friday Book Synopsis

'I’ve just read the Kindle sample pages of the new book The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing, by Marie Kondo. I read about it in this New York Times article: Kissing Your Socks Goodbye – Home Organization Advice from Marie Kondo by Penelope Green. I won’t bore […].

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Stop Calling People Out

Harvard Business Review

'Pretend that you occasionally lose your temper in meetings, and my aim is to get you to change. The next time I see you lose your cool, I say one of two things: Hey, timeout. You just did it again — you lost your temper with Mario. This is the third time I’ve seen you do this in the last two days. C’mon, this behavior HAS to stop. or: Hey, can we chat for a sec?

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Assumptions and Key Actions for Managing Change on November 12

First Friday Book Synopsis

'My blog posts continue to feature Randy Mayeux’s workshop on November 12 for Managing Change in Richardson. Click HERE for details. I wanted to share with you the assumptions we make and the three major key actions which all the skills he teaches in that program revolve around. This section comes directly from the workbook […].

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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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What It Will Take to Change the Culture of Wall Street

Harvard Business Review

'William C. Dudley, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, gave a speech Monday in which he used the word “culture” 45 times. Here’s how he defined it: Culture relates to the implicit norms that guide behavior in the absence of regulations or compliance rules—and sometimes despite those explicit restraints. … Culture reflects the prevailing attitudes and behaviors within a firm.

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Engaging in a Vice Can Stimulate Creativity if It’s Framed as a Duty

Harvard Business Review

'In contrast to the belief that autonomy energizes us and heightens our well-being, researchers in Hong Kong found that people experience increased vitality and show greater creativity after being directed to do something — specifically, engage in a (very mild) vice. Participants who were assigned to buy a celebrity photo album (that’s the vice), as opposed to a computer-programming tutoring book, and then asked to write an ad for a bike were judged to show better creative performance than

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The Internet of Things Will Change Your Company, Not Just Your Products

Harvard Business Review

'I have had a front row seat as companies have struggled to enter the emerging world of the Internet of Things — first, 10 years ago as a vice president at Ambient Devices , an MIT Media Lab spinoff that was a pioneer in commercializing IoT devices, and then as a consultant. One of the biggest obstacles is that traditional functional departments often can’t meet the needs of IoT business models and have to evolve.

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My Dentist 3D Printed My Crown

Harvard Business Review

'As a tech junkie and geek wannabe I’ve been paying attention to 3D printing and the exploding maker movement. When I say paying attention, I mean reading about it, watching hackers and hobbyists make stuff, and wondering if there is more to the technology than the brightly colored plastic tchotchkes cluttering my desk. 3D printing really hasn’t affected me yet.

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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.