May, 2016

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Don’t Let This Relationship Undermine Your Success

Let's Grow Leaders

“The opposite of love is not hate– it’s indifference.” – Steven Pressfield. Megan approached me as soon as I left the stage. “Karin, I’m so with you on this not losing your soul thing… I resonated with everything you said… but for me it was the reverse. I wasn’t losing my soul at work, I was finding it.

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Can I Trust You As A Leader?

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” Ernest Hemingway. Do your followers trust you? What about your peers, or your family? Of course, you answer. Are you sure?

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How Great Leaders Value People

Lead Change Blog

Organizations of all sizes and industries are reimagining work cultures in this relationship economy. It’s all about the people. Consequently, servant leadership quickly is becoming the preferred practice for some of the biggest and best companies in the world. Here are three profound ways great leaders go about valuing their people. 1. Great leaders trust and believe in the people they lead.

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The 4 Dimensions of Trust

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Trust is like a bank account. You start a new relationship with a certain amount of trust, and then over time you add to that account to build a solid foundation. And like a bank account, it can be emptied overnight, if you’re not careful about your investment. Why does it matter? Trust is the […]. The post The 4 Dimensions of Trust appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative 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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7 Ways Leaders Can Empower Their Employees To Succeed

Tanveer Naseer

Of the many, many things that today’s leaders are expected to do, one of the most sought-after abilities in a leader is someone who can motivate and support those around them to bring their best selves to the work they do. Indeed, thanks to the transition from managing task workers to leading knowledge workers, being able to tap into the collective insights, experiences, and talents of those you lead has become a critical factor to determining an organization’s capacity to adapt and

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7 Offline Marketing Tactics for Boosting Brand Awareness

Women on Business

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In a square corner with Human Performance

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. Leaders set high standards and refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance. Brian Tracy. Recently I was teaching a leadership course and the discussion migrated to the topic of moving out the 10% of the organization who need to go.

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Stop Trying to Grow Influence. Grow this Instead.

Lead Change Blog

You will never be a leader. You won’t get that promotion. The bonus and salary increase you expect will be given to someone else. Your product won’t change the world. Your idea won’t go viral. Your organization will fade into history. The legacy you leave will be forgotten. And a generation from now no one will even know your name. Be honest. You’ve had these thoughts before.

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Leveling the Playing Field

Great Leadership By Dan

But how, if we do not even know if we are considered a leading player? Guest post by Rosalie Chamberlain It is really common to think we can assess someone and think we know how they will be. There is a certain amount of wishful thinking when a new employee comes on in an organization. After all, the resume is great, the experience may be great, and we really liked them.

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When Leadership Is Just Sucking It Up And Doing The Right Thing

Terry Starbucker

This is another installment of excerpts from my book manuscript of “More Human: A Journey To The Heart Of Great Leadership”. This excerpt tells two very contrasting stories about a job of leadership that is never, ever, easy – having to let people go. There’s an easy and expedient way, one without context or heart, and a more human way, that requires forethought, empathy, and intestinal fortitude.

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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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Don’t Be One Of These Bad Managers (InfoGraphic)

Joseph Lalonde

W e’ve all experienced a bad manager or two. Some of us have even experienced toxic leaders. Today, I want to share with you an awesome inforgraphic that shows 8 types of toxic managers and what you can do to deal with these toxic people. Infographic Courtesy of GetVoip. Don’t be a toxic leader. Rise above this type of poor leadership. You have it in you.

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3 Ways to Help Women Entrepreneurs to Success

Women on Business

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Sustaining High Performance In Your Teams

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.” Harold S. Green. You’re a leader of a team and you’ve invested a lot of time working through the kinks that come with making the members play nice together in the sandbox.

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3 Reasons You Should Listen to Those Pesky Millennials

Lead Change Blog

She stood up, took the microphone that was offered her, looked over the audience surrounding her, then turned to me and said, “Those pesky millennials.”. She paused, waiting for applause that never came, the continued: “What is up with them?”. It was my turn to pause, waiting for the rest of the question. Finally, I asked, “Can you be more specific?”.

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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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Why You Need an Advocate at Work

Career Advancement

“I learned a long time ago that the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.” ~ Maya Angelou. Melanie is in a total funk. She’s been supervisor in her high tech company for almost three years now. When she first came on board, she was considered somewhat of a superstar, a high potential, high achieving future leader.

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Are You Giving The Right Message With Your Leadership?

Tanveer Naseer

A few weeks ago, my friend Whitney Johnson wrote a piece around perceptual biases that was inspired by something her daughter experienced in school one day. As Whitney describes in her piece, her daughter gave a presentation in one of her classes, a presentation she had spent much time and effort researching and practising. After she was done, her teacher commented “that was pretty good.

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Robert Gates on the Essentials of Leading Change

Leading Blog

I N A TIME when change is not just inevitable, but must be encouraged and led, Robert Gates’ A Passion for Leadership is a must read. Gates has led and continues to lead in a wide variety of organizations and organizational cultures. His collected wisdom serves to inspire us to lead others where they don’t often want to go and improve people’s lives.

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5 Reasons to Outsource Your Payroll

Women on Business

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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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Perfection Found in a Fighter Debrief

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. Perfection. Precision. Flawless Execution. As leaders, whether in combat or a Fortune 500 company, we strive for something that can never be achieved: Perfection. While flawless execution and perfection is likely impossible, it’s the pursuit of perfection that will get you closer to achieving it.

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The Greatness of Humility

Lead Change Blog

The 12 th century philosopher Maimonides advocated that the “middle way” was the most harmonious way to live. Every character trait, whether it be generosity, greed, diligence, laziness, or any other trait, should always be tempered with a good dose of moderation. Maimonides classic work Hilchot Deot explains this concept of moderation as it relates to anger: Man should not be wrathful, easily angered; nor be like the dead, without feeling, rather he should [adopt] an intermediate course; i.e.,

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12 Books that Shaped My Leadership

Nathan Magnuson

For years I’ve been asked for book recommendations. I always take them seriously because I wouldn’t be the leader I am without my library. It’s been a huge part of my leadership education. As a senior in college, I started reading business bestsellers to see how they compared with my textbooks. When I joined the workforce, I quickly started noticing positive and negative organizational dynamics I had “seen” before in the books – and I knew what needed to chang

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10 ways to foster relationships in 10 minutes or less

Persuasive Powerhouse

Many leaders don’t take the time to nurture relationships with their stakeholders. Making the effort to do that that will develop the relationships necessary for their – and their organization’s – success. I often hear from leaders that they have higher priorities on their plate than making connections with others. The truth is that things don’t get done if you don’t connect to the people who are contributing to those deadlines and bottom-lines.

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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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The Art and Science of Professional Development

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Bill Bartlett : What is your position on professional development? If you are among the top 20% of all executives, you believe it is as necessary as the air you breathe whereas the remaining 80% consider it to be a waste of time or give lip service to it. I have been coaching and training business executives for over 20 years and I find the high performers demonstrate a common need to continuously raise the learning bar to stay ahead of the competition.

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How to Create a Training Plan for your Employees

Women on Business

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The Best Culture Test May Be A Conversation Away

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “If a leader can’t describe the culture, the organization will never achieve it” Todd Hirneisen. As leaders, we are aware of the importance of culture. Leaders are continually looking for ways to evaluate the culture in their organizations.

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Three Characteristics Needed to Champion Change

Lead Change Blog

Experience is a tough teacher; you receive the test first then learn the lesson. We’ve all learned quite a few lessons at the hands of that instructor. When underperforming firms, or firms which have issues they are ill-equipped to solve, need to make changes in order to right their ship, so to speak, interim leadership is sometimes brought in to provide experience and an extra set of hands to implement change.

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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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It’s Time to Take a Stand for a #TrueLeaderCreed

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

The news these days is filled with disturbing accounts of bad leadership behavior. The current U.S. elections have been particularly contentious… with attacks on the personal instead of the issues… reinforcing fear instead of articulating a vision for the country. This is not True Leadership. Leadership is about going somewhere. If you don’t have a […].

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Top 10 Behaviors of Insecure Leaders

Leadership Freak

Fear begins at the top and flows down through organizations. Insecure teams are led by insecure leaders. You’re forced to be inconsistent, when you’re driven by the opinions of others.

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A 90-Year-Old’s Ten Rules for a Healthy and Happy Life

Next Level Blog

One of the more revealing regular features in The New York Times is a little story they run each week called Sunday Routine. In it, someone, usually famous or notable in some way, walks the reader through what a typical Sunday in New York City is like for them. Quite often they have packed so many activities into their Sunday that I leave with the impression that what they’ve actually described is their fantasy of a perfect 48 hour Sunday in New York rather than what they really do.

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How leaders create great companies with stakeholders

Lead on Purpose

Thanks to the Industrial Age we (still) live in a world where most companies hire employees. They look for people with the right education, who have been trained with the right skills to do their job.

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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.