November, 2012

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Leadership for Kids: A Great Way To Teach Your Kids About Leadership

Let's Grow Leaders

If you are just tuning in to Let’s Grow Leaders, we are in the midst of a Saturday Series about developing young leaders. On weekdays we return to our regular leadership fare. What Does Your Mommy Do? I have never had one of those jobs they sing about on Sesame Street. As with most of us, [.] The post Leadership for Kids: A Great Way To Teach Your Kids About Leadership appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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The 3 Must-Dos of Great Leadership

Terry Starbucker

In the seven years I’ve been writing and talking about my concepts and lessons of personal leadership, I’ve often been asked, “What does it take to be a great leader?” That’s a BIG question, isn’t it? So big that there are thousands and thousands of books, articles, posts, podcasts, videos, and e-books that have tried to tackle it.

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Leadership And Making Choices

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Choice ; it’s a simple, yet critical aspect of leadership. Academics and business theorists often gloss over the basics of leadership preferring to trivialize their importance. It’s far too easy for those with an elitist approach to leadership to dismiss simple as sophomoric, and obvious as irrelevant – nothing could be further from reality.

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8 Reasons Why Pride Is The Core Of Leadership Failure

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Craig looked intently at his staff. Every Monday morning staff meeting was intense. Craig expected results and he held everyone accountable. Not necessarily himself. No one talked, they just listened. Craig was on a rant. This was typical, he had a pretty big ego and drew a line in the sand quite often. This line, [.].

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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 Perils of Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Miles Anthony Smith: If we go into management to earn more, have more power/prestige, and work less, we are either naïve or ignorant. (And let’s admit right now that those are precisely the reasons most of us go into management.). 1. Prepare to be Hated. Wise leaders accept that some decisions will be unpopular. If you can’t handle others’ disapproval, then leadership probably isn’t for you.

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8 Things Collaborative Leaders Know

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Are you a collaborative leader? Collaborative leaders understand that organizations are networks of relationships and that relationships are the glue that holds them together. It doesn’t matter what your role is. Anyone can be collaborative leader—whether you are the CEO, a mid-level manager or a front-line supervisor. Collaboration is not an option – it is an imperative.

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12 Ways Leaders Can Build a Winning Culture

Terry Starbucker

There’s a foundation to successful business execution that is undeniably critical – the workplace culture. Bad cultures can’t execute very well. Period. You might even say that they are doomed to failure, rich in dysfunction, seeped in mistrust, and (most often) guided by fear. Leaders have to face the culture building challenge straight on, and almost always in situations where the “nuts and bolts” side of the business still demands a majority of their time.

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10 Best Countries For Women In 2012 (Spoiler Alert: U.S. Did Not Make the Cut)

Women on Business

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Forbes released its annual list of the 10 best countries for women last week, and the United States is noticeably missing from the list. According to Forbes, the 10 best countries for women in 2012 are: Iceland: Taking the top spot for the third year in a row, Iceland is “lauded for its women in political and economic positions of leadership.” Finland: Up from the third spot on the list in 2011, Finland’s new position at #2 matches its jump in the WEC

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Find Your Blind Spot: A Self-Reflection Activity for Managers

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Workplace Issues We humans tend to evaluate others through the lens of our own best traits. We often value people who have our same strengths and undervalue people who don’t. Are you doing this unwittingly? And if you are, what effect does it have on your team’s morale and performance?

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What Leaders Can Do To Encourage Learning And Growth

Tanveer Naseer

Among the many responsibilities that come with leadership, one that I’m particularly passionate about is facilitating the learning and growth of those you serve. This was also the focus of last week’s HCI Learning and Leadership Development conference where leaders from a wide range of industries and backgrounds offered their viewpoints and experiences on learning, leadership and fostering growth in your organization.

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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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12 Things Collaborative Leaders Do

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Collaborative leaders create communities where people unite around a common purpose and values, working collaboratively to accomplish a shared vision that makes a powerful and positive impact. Their job is to champion the vision, provide resources and remove roadblocks. How do they do this? Some of these 12 behaviors could describe any leader. But when you look at them altogether, a pattern emerges that is quite different from traditional leaders.

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Kid’s Books on Leadership For the Older Crowd: Insights from India

Let's Grow Leaders

Thanks for joining in for our continued Saturday series on developing leadership in kids. Today’s post builds on the exploration of Children’s Books on Leadership. On Monday, we return to our normal leadership fare. A guest post from Sandhya Varadharajan, Age 13, Chennai, India I connected with Sandhya through social media from our shared connections [.

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5 Leadership Roles To Get Your Team Walking Through Brick Walls

Terry Starbucker

“Wow, they would walk through a brick wall for that guy!” I’ve heard this sentence a few times in my career, spoken about great leaders I have known and respected. I’ve even uttered it myself on a couple of occasions. It’s one of the highest complements a leader can get, because of its underlying connotation – that person is an uppercase LEADER.

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Research Shows Startups Run by Women Are More Successful

Women on Business

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Venture-backed startups with women at the helm are more successful than startups led by men. That’s according to a study conducted by Dow Jones which analyzed more than 15 years of venture-backed company data and executive information to compare successful versus unsuccessful companies. The Women at the Wheel study revealed: A company’s odds for success (versus unsuccess) increase with more female executives at the VP and director levels.

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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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How to Take Charge of Your Leadership Fears

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Self Leadership Have You Been There? You’re at your desk, head pounding, anxiety gnawing deep in your gut. The email you just received stares back at you from the screen and you: Worry that the problem in front of you is too big. Are fearful that you’ve screwed up and there’s no saving it. Are anxious that [.].

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A question of courage

Persuasive Powerhouse

. I never fully understood the negative impact of fear in the workplace until I had left it and could look at it as an “outsider” I write about it often now because when the doors are closed and I’m in conversations with even the best leaders, I hear them speak of what they cannot do. We dig deeper and find that fear is holding them back.

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Are You Letting Pink Elephants Hold Back Your Team’s Creativity?

Tanveer Naseer

In today’s highly competitive global market, creativity and collaboration are becoming more and more valued as the necessary ingredients for organizational success and growth. Naturally, the thread that weaves and connects these two elements together is communication, not just in terms of what we convey to one another, but also in regards to what we tell ourselves.

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Making the Invisible, Visible For Our Children

Let's Grow Leaders

How do we make the invisible, visible for our children? The next in our Saturday Series in developing leadership in kids. On Monday we return to our regular leadership fare. A Guest Post from Sonia Di Maulo, Canada Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. ? Jonathan Swift Samuel picks up [.] The post Making the Invisible, Visible For Our Children appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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Simplifying Leadership with the 3C Disciplines

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by Great Leadership regular contributor Beth Armknecht Miller: I, and others, have been guilty in the past of making leadership so complicated. Both new and current leaders can become overwhelmed with the long lists of leadership “how tos” and “need tos”. How can any leader master all of these? But does great leadership really have to be so complicated?

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More Female Board Directors Equals Improved Sustainability Performance

Women on Business

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: It’s been proven again and again that businesses perform better and stocks rise when women are on corporate boards , but did you know that the number of women on a corporate board directly correlates with a company’s sustainability performance? It’s true according to research from the University of California Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.

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Adverse selection: 6 ways employers repel top talent

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Workplace Issues Is your company inadvertently pushing good people away? Are some of your best performers leaving? If so, “adverse selection” may be at work in your organization. Have you pinpointed all the ways you are driving diversity out of your enterprise?

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Leadership Lessons from Yoga: The Benefits of Staying in the Room

Next Level Blog

Over the past couple of years, I've been in one yoga class or another five or six days a week on average. That might sound like a lot, but it's pretty much the only form of exercise I do anymore so it's a good way for me to keep the lights on. As I've written here several times, I've made a number of connections between what I learn on the yoga mat and leadership development in general.

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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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Building A Sense Of Community To Help Your Organization Thrive

Tanveer Naseer

As my family, friends and neighbours can attest, celebrating Halloween is a pretty big deal at our house, as seen in the picture above that provides a partial glimpse of what our Halloween display was like this year. While it may last for only one day, I’ve always approached Halloween as an event that can have a lasting impact, not just on the children in helping to create a fond childhood memory, but on the community at large by providing an opportunity for people to connect, and showing

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Gratitude Parade: Great Posts on Gratitude and Thanksgiving

Let's Grow Leaders

In the spirit of Thanksgiving, there have been so many great posts on gratitude this month. Today, I offer you links to insights from fellow bloggers on the art of gratitude. Why Be Grateful? The Pursuit of Peace: Thanksgiving as a Lifestyle by Andy Tix Andy Tix shares the positive psychological benefits of gratitude and offers [.] The post Gratitude Parade: Great Posts on Gratitude and Thanksgiving appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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5 Big Ideas: What’s Next for Leadership Development?

Great Leadership By Dan

In MHO, when it comes to leadership development, the Center for Creative Leadership is second to none. I’ve sung CCL’s praises before – I love their research-based approach, resources, programs, and products. So when I came across CCL’s 2011-2012 Annual Report called What’s Next for Leadership? 5 Big Ideas, I got all geeked up and couldn’t wait to dig in.

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Women Named Presidents of the 3 Largest Organizations for Attorneys in the U.S.

Women on Business

Today, I received exciting news from DRI , the international membership organization of all lawyers involved in the defense of civil litigation. For the first time in history, women have swept the presidencies of the nation’s three largest organizations for attorneys. The women who hold these esteemed positions are Mary Massaron Ross, President of DRI – The Voice of the Defense Bar, Laurel Bellows, President of the American Bar Association, and Mary Alice McLarty, President of the Am

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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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Diminish Your Self-Critic

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Coaching Self Leadership And now for something completely different. Is your self-critic stronger than your self-worth? If we’re willing to admit it, that critical voice inside us is usually turned up to full volume. We’re ready to beat ourselves up for even the smallest mistake. To learn from a mistake is useful. But to listen constantly to the [.].

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Five Common Responses to Conflict

The Recovering Engineer

In my work with clients of all kinds, I have noticed five basic types of response to conflict. I see people who are… Conflict Rock Stars. Conflict Rock Stars are almost always in control of their responses. They know how to communicate calmly and assertively in nearly every situation. Their response seems easy and effortless to the outside observer.

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3 Lessons From Nature On Sustainability, Collaboration, and Growth

Tanveer Naseer

The following is a guest post by Sonia Di Maulo. “The Apple in the Orchard” is a story about finding the courage to emerge as a leader, a story I orginally viewed as my own. However, as I run workshops, continue to speak about my book, and get feedback, I realize that it’s everyone’s story. There have been many interpretations of the story.

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Plan Your Epitaph Day: Living and Leaving a Legacy

Let's Grow Leaders

Apparently today is “Plan Your Epitaph” Day. So, although I don’t usually post on Fridays, I couldn’t resist a short one. We move so fast, working through the urgent. It’s a nice reminder to consider the legacy we are working to leave. In her meditation “Set in Stone”, in Walking Towards Morning Meditations, Victoria Stafford urges [.

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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.