March, 2015

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What Curve Balls Say About Your Culture

Let's Grow Leaders

'I was recently interviewed by Fast Company on the effectiveness of “curve ball questions” in the interview process. When I received the call, I was intrigued. Surely there would be a pro and con, and I was happy to be the con artist. Don’t get me wrong, I believe in hiring managers conducting deep interviews to get beyond the BS.

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LeadershipNow 140: March 2015 Compilation

Leading Blog

'Here are a selection of tweets from March 2015 that you might have missed: Who are the greatest business pioneers of all time? 7 Practices Of Your Organization’s Top Performer by @BrianKDodd. Holawhat? Meet The Alt-Management System Invented By A Programmer And Used By Zappos by @rzgreenfield. Stanford''s Most Popular Class Isn''t Computer Science--It''s Something Much More Important via @FastCompany.

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The Legend Of Air Man

Lead Change Blog

'Once there lived a man, a man like no other before him or since. This man was made completely out of air. No bones, no skin, no vital organs pumping and digesting. Only air. Although his very nature made him somewhat unique, those who lived, worked and interacted with him didn’t seem to pay any particular attention to him. Most days as he breezed into work, he felt like his boss and co-workers looked straight through him.

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Monday Quote

General Leadership

'GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America''s Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.” Dwight D. Eisenhower. Stars: A Study in Military Character and Leadership. .

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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 5 Best Pieces Of Advice Any New Leader Will Ever Get

Terry Starbucker

'Jack Kent Cooke, my boss back in 1987, when I had my first leadership job. “Terry, my boy… ” When I heard those words from Jack Kent Cooke back in 1987, I knew he was about to teach me something. I had a lot to learn, since he had plucked me from the accounting ranks to be the COO of a cable company at the ripe young age of 27. What was amazing at the time was how little I really knew about leadership.

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Find New Ways to Connect by Discussing a Story a Week

Michael Lee Stallard

'#78 Discuss a Story a Week. Part IV of Fired Up or Burned Out has 20 inspiring stories of great leaders who created Connection Cultures (see pages 132-194). Take your team through one story each week and discuss how you can employ the practices in each chapter to your workplace. To receive a complimentary digital copy of Fired Up or Burned Out , sign up for my Connect to Thrive newsletter , which offers helpful tips and resources on connection.

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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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The Mismanagement of Change (And 5 Ways to Get It Right)

Lead Change Blog

'As humans we are driven to make connections, find patterns, and establish associations in places where they may not inherently exist. We are compelled to bind ourselves to the external world and have a fundamental motivation to believe that our perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors are correct. When elements of our perceived reality change or are shattered, a disconcerting sense of fundamental incongruity motivates us to reestablish a sense of normalcy, coherence, and certainty. 1 This feeli

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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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Pump Up Your Social Skills — How To Approach New People.

Rich Gee Group

'A great post from Reddit — when I read something I like, I try to pass it on. The author focuses on talking to new people, but you can take his technique and apply it to almost any activity you find difficult to master. “So lately I’ve been having crises about not being able to socialize to the best of my ability.” About a month or two ago, I reached a breaking point — and now I’ve finally become desperate to want to do something about it.

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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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A Leadership Manifesto: 10 Keys To Living Courageously

N2Growth Blog

'By Grant Wattie. President, N2Growth Australia. You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor” ~Aristotle. The word manifesto can be traced back to the Latin root manifestum , which means clear or conspicuous. A manifesto is defined as a declaration of beliefs, opinions, motives, and intentions.

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5 Ways to Become a LinkedIn Ninja

Let's Grow Leaders

'Building a strong LinkedIn network takes time. Scrambling to build a profile and connections when your current position has suddenly become “qualified manager seeking opportunities” is not attractive. I hear this again and again from my speaking audiences– stories of folks who waited too late and then had to scramble. And if you think LinkedIn really doesn’t matter, know that Pew Research found that 98% of Recruiters and 85% of hiring managers use LinkedIn.

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How Leaders can Identify and Establish Core Values That Connect

Michael Lee Stallard

'If you asked your employees what the organization’s core values are, could they tell you? Most cannot. This is a problem for leaders since it is impossible to create a healthy corporate culture, which I refer to as a “Connection Culture,” if employees can’t articulate what the organization stands for. Furthermore, the organization’s values should be ones that encourage connection and teamwork, rather than silos and dysfunctional behavior.

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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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5 Ways to Improve DE&I in the Workplace

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are critical for an organization’s success. And companies that take bold action to help ensure an inclusive workplace will win every time. Discover how your company can create a culture that celebrates DE&I while achieving higher revenue and growth.

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Throwback Thursday: Simulated Leadership

General Leadership

'GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America''s Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. From Our Early Files: Originally Published. 18 April 2013. “No enemy bombs will ever land on Berlin, or my name is not. Hermann Goering.” the leader formerly known as. Hermann Goering. In most organizations, leaders live in an environment of respect, rules, professionalism, and obedience.

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Fighting The Good Startup Fight (Without a Unicorn In Sight)

Terry Starbucker

'Kjell van Zoen and his wife, Kim. Kjell van Zoen isn’t looking for unicorns. The founder and CEO of Portland company Plywerk , Kjell has been fighting the good startup fight for nearly 8 years, handcrafting beautiful wood photo displays with his crew in a warehouse on the east side of the city. It is a classic startup story. When Kjell’s wife Kim, a photographer, needed to mount a photo, she simply took some wood glue to the photo and pasted it on a piece of wood.

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Women Need to Embrace Office Politics to Get Ahead

Great Leadership By Dan

'"Office politics can make or break your career. This is especially important for women to understand. Women avoid politics due to their belief that it’s dirty and underhanded, and it’s a waste of their valuable time. Unfortunately, our avoidance of the workplace dynamics makes us vulnerable to being blindsided and passed over for promotions. We need to embrace office politics to get ahead.

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10 Ways You Can Acquire The Attitude Of Gratitude

Joseph Lalonde

'T he world is a pretty messed up place. We hear story after story of negative news. Violence. Crime. Death. These fill the news headlines. It’s easy to begin to wonder if there’s any happiness left in the world. And I can say that YES, there is happiness left in the world. One way to obtain this happiness is to acquire the attitude of gratitude.

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No Ego: How Leaders Can Cut the Cost of Drama, End Entitlement and Drive Big Results

Speaker: Cy Wakeman, M.S., CSP, President, Reality-Based Leadership

Most HR leadership philosophies are grounded in two completely faulty assumptions — “change is hard” and “engagement drives results.” Those beliefs have inspired expensive attempts to keep change from being disruptive to employees. What these engagement programs actually do is create and reinforce feelings of victim-hood and leave employees unprepared to adapt to real changes that are necessary for the health and profitability of their enterprises.

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Provide Constructive Feedback

Michael Lee Stallard

'#77 Provide Constructive Feedback. When providing feedback to help someone improve, we recommend the following: always communicate it in private, be respectful in your tone of voice and volume, and begin with three positive things you like about his/her work. After sharing the three positives, say “I believe you would be even better if… [insert what you want them to do or stop doing].

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How Can A Leader Of A Virtual Team Express Servant Leadership?

Lead Change Blog

'As my workday begins, I pop into our Facebook group, my team’s virtual water cooler, to say good morning. I often add the request: Let me know how I can serve you today. As I do it, it feels, at times, like an empty offer. My team is scattered across several time zones. We are each working from our home offices, on varying schedules. What does it mean to serve a dispersed, virtual team?

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Encourage TRUST in Your Workplace

General Leadership

'“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”. Ernest Hemmingway. Recently, a friend shared a story that moved me. His grandfather was grieving the loss of his wife. When she died, his grandfather was overcome with grief and inconsolable. Desperate, his grandfather asked my friend if the Air Force could bring his dead wife back to life.

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What is Authentic Leadership?

Leading in Context

'How Do We Define Authenticity in Leadership? Most people would agree that authentic leadership is a good thing. But what does it mean? What qualities do authentic leaders possess that set them apart from other leaders?

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Innovation: Five Signs You Might Be Faking It

Every company wants to be a leader in innovation, but how can you tell if your company is really innovating or just going through the motions? See the 5 signs you might be faking innovation and what to do if you are.

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How Leaders Can Get People to Tell the Truth

Great Leadership By Dan

'Guest post from Peter Romary: Harry S. Truman once said, “My definition of a leader. is a man who can persuade people to do what they don’t want to do, or do what they’re too lazy to do, and like it.” If we can be generous enough to overlook the sexist element of that quote, and disregard for a moment the notion of labeling anyone as “lazy,” we can learn a lot from the crux of Mr.

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7 Inspiring Quotes From The Confident Father’s Guidebook: 5 Steps To Personal Transformation

Joseph Lalonde

'H ave you wandered through life wondering what your purpose really was? Do you know who you truly are? I know a lot of us grow through periods of time when we are completely lost. We don’t know what to do or where to turn. That’s why I smiled as I read through Jason Pockrandt’s new book, The Confident Father’s Guidebook: 5 Steps To Personal Transformation.

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Strong Leaders Ask For Help

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

'If you are in a leadership role, chances are you believe it’s better to give than to receive. Which means you also probably believe you should. … always be competent. … never make mistakes. … always be strong. and that you should only receive when you have something to give in return. The problem with this attitude is that when you are in a situation where you don’t have a choice and must receive, you are likely to feel. … humiliated. … incompetent. … stupid.

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The Five Greatest Qualities Of An Effective Event Facilitator

Lead Change Blog

'If you are searching for an effective event facilitator to help with any group productivity meeting, there are a number of things you should consider. A strong facilitator will discuss goals with the meeting planner and have a thorough understanding of the meeting’s purpose prior to his or her arrival. It is vital that the facilitator understands expectations.

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Tough Comp Conversations: A Guide For Doing Them Right

Speaker: Rusty Lindquist, VP Strategic HR Insights at Bamboo HR

Compensation can be tricky, few things carry as much emotional weight as comp. And with the increased transparency in the market, combined with our collective propensity to rate ourselves against others, the frequency of these very difficult conversations is increasing. In this webinar, we will deconstruct some of the psychology around comp. We’ll take an analytic look at comp’s role in the employee experience, and then we’ll get really tactical with guidance on very specific compensation conver

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Check Out Today’s Tuesday Soundbite!

General Leadership

'[link]. GeneralLeadership Co-Founder and Senior Curator, Brigadier General John E. Michel, was a recent guest on Transformational Leadership. In this broadcast, he shares how transformation truly works within organizational structures beginning with investing in the relationship with others, and then realizing to go fast, we must go slow. .

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Emotions are the Greatest Barrier to Change

The Recovering Engineer

'I often say that facts dictate the need for change and emotions create the barrier to it. The issue of understanding and addressing the emotional factors that slow change efforts – both organizational and personal – appears in many ways across the landscape of change management and behavior change literature. Changing from one way of doing things (behavior) to a different one always involves loss , and loss triggers powerful negative emotions.

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How to Prepare for a Performance Review so it won’t Feel Like a Root Canal : Employee Version

Great Leadership By Dan

'The annual employee performance review is an important opportunity to get feedback from your manager in order to make sure your performance is meeting expectations and to learn what you need to do to improve. Performance reviews can be used to justify raises or promotions, so it’s important to make sure you performance is accurately documented. However, the annual workplace ritual been compared to a trip to the dentist to get a root canal.

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14 Leadership Lessons And Quotes From Insurgent

Joseph Lalonde

'T he second book in the Divergent series by Veronica Roth hit the big screens on Friday. Insurgent begins shortly after the first movie ends. You can tell things are frantic and fast paced, and this keeps up for the whole movie. Watching Insurgent reminded me so much of leadership. Each scene progression provided another leadership lesson we could take away.

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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.