June, 2012

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You’re Not Special

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. This video applies to us all – especially those in leadership. I highly recommend watching this video as a recommencement of sorts – to being grounded in humility, reality, authenticity, and transparency. The reason people want to be led by you is not because your special, but because you understand you’re not.

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Nine Attitudes of Emotionally Intelligent Leaders and Managers

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Workplace Issues Like learning to drive, leading, and managing people is an experiential journey. My entrance onto the leadership stage was when I was promoted, having stood in for the team leader from time to time. I don’t know about you, but although I had practiced at managing people, I hadn’t experienced it properly until I had [.].

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Leadership Evolution: In a World Of Big Change, Do The Great Lessons Endure?

Terry Starbucker

“Things change.” Yes, they do. And leaders who fail to absorb this concept into their core being are perfect candidates to be left behind the pack in a cloud of business dust. As change happens, we must change. We must adapt to new technologies, new theories, new business models, new people and attitudes – sometimes within weeks, or even a day.

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10 Essential Leadership Models

Great Leadership By Dan

While there have been thousands of books written about leadership, there are a handful of leadership models that have served me well as a leader and leadership development practitioner. These are the tried and true models that have shifted my thinking about leadership and help create teachable leadership moments for others. Mind you, I’m not a scholar, so the models I favor tend to be simple, practical, and I have to had seen evidence that they are effective.

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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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A Big Goal Is Not The Same As a Vision

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

When you have a vision, you know where you want to go and you can see your next steps – but you won’t be able to see the entire path. Vision is not about the path, it’s about the destination. As you take each step, the next step becomes clear as long as you stay focused on your vision. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

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3 Leadership Lessons From Queen Elizabeth II

Next Level Blog

The past few days in London have marked the Diamond Jubilee celebrating the 60th year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. It’s been a pomp and circumstance extravaganza, and the members of the Royal Family have all had parts to play. One thing the Windsors appear to understand better than anyone is that appearances matter for people in leadership. Click headline to continue.

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Time Management Tips to Reduce Stress: Part II

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development In Part I, we discussed the first three steps to better manage your time. Remember, time management is the act of exercising conscious control over how you spend your time in an attempt to increase efficiency or productivity. The key words here are conscious control. Time management is impossible without the person making an honest [.].

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What They Don’t Teach You in Business School: The Commencement Speech I Wish I’d Heard 30 Years Ago

Terry Starbucker

Starbucker Graduates, 1982. Dear Business School Graduates of 1982: Congratulations! It’s graduation time, and I always get a bit nostalgic this time of year, remembering my good old days at college. For me, college was this cool utopia, where I had all the trappings of adulthood, but not quite all the responsibility that came with it. The professors tried to teach us as much as they could about business and #leadership, and in turn, I tried to absorb as much as I could.

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Authentic Leadership Development: Your Past, Present, and Future

Great Leadership By Dan

There’s been a lot written about the concept of “authentic leadership”, that is, being a leader that is comes across as sincere, genuine, and real. Authentic leaders lead from the heart and are true to their values and principles. Authenticity builds trust, credibility, and inspires – all essential elements of great leadership. Becoming a leader isn’t just about studying famous leaders or role models and then trying to emulate them.

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5 Key Steps To Cultivating Success In Your Organization

Tanveer Naseer

Over the last two summers, I’ve been working on renewing the various gardens around my house. As I came to the end of the process this year, I noticed some interesting parallels with the nature of today’s organizations and in particular, the periodic need to take steps to help rejuvenate your team and their collective efforts. Whether your organization is looking to address the challenges being brought forth by today’s global economy or simply to make some changes to keep on co

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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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Leaders Open Their Ears Wide

Persuasive Powerhouse

The ability to hear sound comes naturally, but the ability to understand a sound’s meaning (including someone’s words and emotions) is learned. Listening at the level where we understand someone’s meaning doesn’t come easily for leaders who are surrounded with distractions. It takes hard work, especially for those of us who have spent the better part of our lives with our brain (if not our mouths) chattering away.

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Leadership & History

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth . I love history, and have always enjoyed being a student of history. Earlier this week we launched a new project: The History of Leadership. The project consists of an interactive historical timeline of the world’s greatest leaders dating as far back as 2000 BC. Since history has been recorded, so have great lessons in leadership.

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Stone Soup: Answers For Our World Today, From A Children’s Fable

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Light Your World Workplace Issues Do you remember the children’s story “STONE SOUP…?” It is a children’s fable, about a hungry traveler that comes to a small village and begins knocking on doors asking if someone will feed him. Unfortunately it is a very poor village that is concerned they will not have the resources they need to feed their [.].

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The Last (and Most Personal) Stop on The Road To Leadership Greatness

Terry Starbucker

You’ve framed your vision, set your strategy, built your model, hired your team, designed your processes, set expectations, and pushed confidently forward on executing your path to success. And yet, there’s one last thing that you need to do to get it all to true greatness. It’s gut check time. How do you really FEEL about this road you’re on?

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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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Behaviors of Collaborative Leaders

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by By Ron Ricci and Carl Wiese: In order to become a chief catalyst for collaboration, you will have to model behaviors that embody the way you'd like your employees to work. For 150 years, corporations, governments and militaries were built for up-and-down leadership, with incentives and rewards that discouraged cross-organization thinking and, in many cases, actually created or encouraged internal competition.

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The Role Leaders Play In Developing Great Teams

Tanveer Naseer

While last week heralded the end of the current school year, it also marked the completion of my first year serving as the chairman of the Governing Board for the regional high school my oldest daughter attends. Having worked with a number of teams and committees, I can honestly say that this team was one of the most effective and collaborative teams I’ve ever had the pleasure to work with.

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Stop Interrupting!

Persuasive Powerhouse

. I am a habitual interrupter. Although I felt I’d made some changes, I became aware that I had much further to go on this goal during a meeting when I interrupted someone recently before she barely got a word out. She let me have it (deservedly so). After that, I started observing my communication to see if this was just a one-time mistake on my part.

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10 Ways to Encourage Discouraged People

Leadership Freak

Leaders who lift get further than those who push down. Performace improves when people feel encouraged and declines when they’re discouraged or hopeless. You don’t have to beat up high-performers – they do it to themselves – lift them instead. All successful leaders encourage; they fill people with hope. The added responsibility of encouraging others may [.].

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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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3 leadership rules for being authentically real without being rude

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Self Leadership Gene was upset with his new team’s quarterly business results, and his withering criticism of their performance during the staff meeting had brought a stunned hush to the room. Not one of the ten people sitting around the table had been exempt from having their deficiencies cruelly described and even mocked during the meeting.

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How A Public Embarrassment Can Lead to Riches

Terry Starbucker

(Writers note: It’s ironic that this post about embarrassment was the first one in 7 years where I hit the “publish” button prematurely. Apologies to my RSS feed readers for the “blank” post yesterday). It was December 16th, 1993, my 34th Birthday. I was in suburban Washington DC, working for a certain professional football team that was looking to build a new stadium.

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5 Essential Skills for Contemporary Leaders

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by Nan S. Russell: The great recession and economic crisis have accelerated shifts in how people view their work and their leaders. Studies confirm what many see – no longer are title and authority the driving force behind results. Leader credibility is down and the trust deficit is up. The post-recession workplace harbors a new reality for leaders.

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10 Reasons to Embrace Complexity

Leading in Context

Leading Through Complexity and Uncertainty In The Center For Creative Leadership's White Paper, The Future of Leadership Development, Nick Petrie describes the new work environment as "typified by an increased level of complexity and interconnectedness." This new work environment requires new leadership skills, including a willingness to lead when the situation is complex and the outcome uncertain.

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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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10 Insights from the 100 Most Creative People in Business

In the CEO Afterlife

Why is creativity so important in business? Because it is the idea, and not the money that drives entrepreneurship. This month’s Fast Company names the 100 Most Creative People in Business, with an emphasis on global leaders in technology, design, media, music, movies, marketing, television and sports. To be honest, I’d never heard of the vast majority on these people.

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Are You Headed Toward Burnout?

Next Level Blog

It was 7:30 on a Sunday night on the campus of one of the world’s best-known companies, and I was the guest speaker for a group of about 70 of the company’s top high potentials. They had just finished the first week of a two-week program that had wrapped up with a weekend project two hours earlier. Week two was. Click headline to continue.

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How Leaders Can Nurture Their Emotional Intelligence

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development As a leader, you’re required to utilize more than your logical management skills. It is also necessary to connect and understand yourself and those around you to make informed decisions. In order to do this you need to be connected with your emotions and the emotions of the people you are managing. One way to [.].

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Hope or Potential?

Persuasive Powerhouse

Oscar Pistorius (in case you haven’t heard) is a fast runner – one of the fastest. He may also be the first double amputee to run in the Olympics, using prosthetic legs called Flex-Foot Cheetahs. Everyone seems to be watching and rooting for him. Oscar was born in South Africa (where he still resides) without a fibula (the long thin bone that runs from the knee to the ankle) in either of his legs.

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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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How to Explain Leadership Development to a 5th Grader (A Leadership Development Glossary)

Great Leadership By Dan

All occupations will develop their own special jargon. It’s one of the ways we “professionalize” the unique work that we do in order to sound and feel important. That’s all well and good, except when: 1. You’re new in the field and don’t yet understand the jargon; 2. You’re not new in the field, but you still don’t know the jargon, and you find yourself pretending that you do; 3.

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Stop The Overwhelm! Creating Order In Your Business

Women on Business

I just received an email letting me know that I can download over a $1,000,000 as a gift if I put my name into a poll to see if I was to be chosen. Really? There is already such an overwhelming amount of information consuming our sacred time and vying for our attention, that the amount of overwhelm is consuming us. The first time I recognized this online was a book launch claiming that I would receive $10,000 in bonuses to purchase a book for $19.00, I was disappointed in the author and her appr

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Leadership Biz Cafe #8 – Shama Kabani On How Organizations Can Succeed With Social Media

Tanveer Naseer

There’s no question that social media is becoming an important channel through which organizations can share and converse with their audience, as well as attract potential new customers for their products/services. But how can organizations successfully navigate this growing field to order to ensure an ROI from their online efforts? That’s the basis of my conversation with author and renowned marketing CEO Shama Kabani in this episode of “Leadership Biz Cafe”.

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The Strategy of Hustle

In the CEO Afterlife

I’ve read a lot of books on strategy. The best ones influenced my mode of operation as an executive of Jacobs Suchard , the maker of coffee and chocolate brands, Jacobs , Nabob , Toblerone , Suchard and Côte d’Or. I was devoted to master strategies and “big play” innovations that ideally positioned a company to dominate their chosen market(s) and enjoy sustainable competitive advantage.

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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.