December, 2012

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How To Build a Strong Team Vision

Let's Grow Leaders

Whenever I take over a channel or team, one of the first questions I ask is “what is the vision?” Most of the time, this is tough to answer. There is usually strong alignment and attachment to the greater organization’s vision and values, which is vital. However, what I find frequently missing is a sense [.] The post How To Build a Strong Team Vision appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Leaders: Stop Trying to Be Efficient

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Let’s cut right to the chase; stop focusing on being efficient – it’s a waste of time. Nobody other than perhaps you really cares how efficient you are, but everyone cares how effective you are. Not only do they care how effective you are, but they also care about the effectiveness of those whom you lead.

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Starting Points: 6 Important Reminders For The First-Time Leader

Terry Starbucker

It was 1987 - I had just arrived in Los Angeles to start my new job as the VP of Operations for a cable TV company. This job was a big leap for me, given that my previous position was an auditing manager at an accounting firm. I’ll never forget that first day, walking into my new office and being suddenly thrust into the role of “leader” I’m sure many people noted the slight trembling in my voice that day as I jumped into the pool headfirst, shuffling budgets and rear

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Leadership Lessons From an American Revolution General

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Character Based Leader Book Leadership Development I just finished a book titled, “Henry Knox, Visionary General of the American Revolution.” (Puls, 2008) If you will allow, here are a few leadership lessons drawn from the read. Be Curious Henry Knox began his education at the esteemed Boston Latin Grammar School founded by Harvard College.

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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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Coach Bill Snyder's 16 Goals for Success - by Nathan Magnuson

Nathan Magnuson

Home About Coaching Contact Guest Posts Archives. Thoughts for the Everyday Leader. by Nathan Magnuson. Home / Core Values / Coach Bill Snyder’s 16 Goals for Success. Coach Bill Snyder’s 16 Goals for Success. December 24, 2012. — 3 Comments. I’m a sucker for leadership philosophies embraced by successful athletics coaches. Whether it’s John Wooden’s Leadership Pyramid , Vince Lombardi’s What It Takes To Be Number One speech , or just catching up with Coach Burton and Coach Mo

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25 Coaching Questions to Create your 2013 Leadership Development Plan

Great Leadership By Dan

As the year winds down, it’s a good time to reflect on what you’ve accomplished and learned as a leader and what you’d like to focus on for the coming year. Creating an Individual Development Plan (IDP) is a great way to capture those actions and increases your chances of keeping your commitments to yourself. Senior leaders often hire executive coaches to help them create their development plan.

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Is Entrepreneurship Worth the Risk? [Infographic]

Women on Business

A new year is just a couple of days away and with the start of a new year comes reflection and resolutions. If you’ve been thinking about entrepreneurship as your next career step but you’re not sure if it’s worth the risk, then the infographic below that made the rounds online a couple of months ago might help you make your decision.

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The Must-Have Pet Peeve Of Every Successful Leader

Terry Starbucker

We all have them – those annoyances that really gnaw at us, (affectionately) known as pet peeves. Most are petty and not worth much time or deep discussion. (Here’s a good example – I once had a boss that would fly into a rage if we used smooth paper clips instead of ridged ones. Never quite understood the problem, but after a couple of chew outs you can bet I stuck with the ridged ones.).

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Managers of People, Teach Them to Fish

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Workplace Issues Managers of people, it may seem expedient and even helpful to give answers, but to truly be a leader, it’s best to follow that sage advice about teaching them to fish. One of my clients recently told me about the wake-up call he had when his 10-year-old son accompanied him to work one day. After [.].

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Resilience and the PanAm Flight 73 Hijacking - by Nathan Magnuson

Nathan Magnuson

Home About Coaching Contact Guest Posts Archives. Thoughts for the Everyday Leader. by Nathan Magnuson. Home / Inspiration / Resilience and the PanAm Flight 73 Hijacking. Resilience and the PanAm Flight 73 Hijacking. December 10, 2012. — 6 Comments. A couple summers ago I had the incredible opportunity to attend a one week Dynamics of International Terrorism course with the Air Force Special Operations.

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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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Parkinson's Law of Triviality

Great Leadership By Dan

This post was first published in SmartBlog on Leadership on 11/29/2012: Have you ever noticed that committees or management teams tend to spend way too much time in meetings endlessly debating the most unimportant or mundane topics, while at the same time, not enough time on the most important or strategic issues? Most of us have either led or participated in a meeting where this phenomenon has reared its ugly head.

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Building Behaviors that Inspire Sustained Results

Let's Grow Leaders

If you are just tuning in this week, we are in the midst of a series on Building Results That Last Beyond Your Tenure. An important component to achieve your vision and accomplish your goals, is identifying the right behaviors at every level. Just as with creating the vision, you have choices. You can identify the [.] The post Building Behaviors that Inspire Sustained Results appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Women CEOs and the State of Female Executives [Infographic]

Women on Business

What’s really happening to women executives in the business world? According to Catalyst, women held just 2% of Fortune 500 CEO positions in 2011. Jump ahead to 2012 and women held a record 20 Fortune 500 CEO positions. That means only 4% of Fortune 500 CEOs are currently women. Motif Investing put together an infographic that visually explains the stage of female executive.

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In Praise Of The Open Mind: A Year-End Meditation on Leadership

Terry Starbucker

It’s that time for reflection – on the year that is about to pass, and what’s to come in the year ahead. I’ve been thinking a lot about leadership lately, because I’m in the middle of writing a book about leadership that I hope to publish in 2013 (stay tuned on this!). What I’m realizing through this deep dive in my cranium is that leadership should never be a “static” thing.

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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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The Teen Test for Your Leadership Skills

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Just how good of a leader are you? A quick test may be how well you are “leading” with your teenage son or daughter. Leading as a parent is one of the most challenging, purpose-filled jobs we have. Maybe it is just me, but parenting changes when your child is in the middle of those [.].

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“Leadership is Marketing” – Peter Drucker Said What?

Tanveer Naseer

The following is a guest post by William A. Cohen. Peter F. Drucker was a genius. Unlike Sir Isaac Newton he didn’t choose to spend his time observing that an apple fell down rather than up. Nor did he ponder on the inner workings and hidden mechanisms of the human mind as did Sigmund Freud. Drucker didn’t even care to emulate Albert Einstein and imagine himself on the business end of a beam of light.

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Managing An Older Team As A Young Manager

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by Sean McPheat : With more and more graduates finding themselves in a managerial role fresh out of university, it’s interesting to analyse the way that young managers are able to manage and interact with their older team members. I myself was a young manager, working with a team of much older and more experienced sales people in my role as Head Of Operational Planning at only 21 years old!

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The Problem with Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Let's Grow Leaders

Joe (not his real name) began the team meeting by covering the team’s scorecard and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). ”Great work on your sales KPIs, we’re in the top-tier across the board. We are so close to beating Sharon’s district. If everyone just sold one more today, I think we can do it! Also, we [.] The post The Problem with Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) 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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2012 Women in Business and the Gender Gap Research and Statistics

Women on Business

The year is almost over, and as we prepare to enter 2013, it’s the perfect time to reflect on the data that quantifies the gender gap that women in business face. With that in mind, I went through all of the research-related articles published on Women on Business during 2012 and pulled together 20 articles that provide the most compelling data.

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10 Ways to Spot Authentic Leaders

Leadership Freak

Talk isn’t always cheap. Words change lives and organizations. However, when it comes to authenticity, talk is nearly meaningless. Authenticity, like trust, feedback, and empowerment are words tossed around in leadership circles likes nuts at a squirrel buffet. Words apart from practice make you feel you know when you don’t. Using the term “authentic” doesn’t make you [.].

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32 Pivotal Leadership Gifts to Improve Performance and Productivity

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Self Leadership Tis the Season In a recent survey, 65% of Americans said they would choose a better boss before a raise in pay. I venture to guess that the teams these folks work in could be far more productive. If you’re reading this, you’re already on your way to improving that statistic. Can you find another [.].

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Life In A High-Performing Company – An Insider View

Tanveer Naseer

The following is a guest post by Mark Royal from The Hay Group. What is it like to work for a high performing company? Hay Group’s High Performing Companies Norm provides an insider view. Our High Performing Companies Norm is based on survey data gathered from employees working in approximately 40 companies that are financial performance leaders. Indeed, these organizations roughly double industry averages on five-year ROA, ROI and ROE.

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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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Are You Managing Penguins or Polar Bears?

Great Leadership By Dan

"Leadership is about managing energy, first in yourself and then in those around you.". - Professor James Clawson , author of Level Three Leadership. In a recent UNH Executive Development Program , the instructor, Professor Jim Clawson, challenged a group a senior managers to reflect on how they are managing their personal energy, and as leaders, the impact they are having on their employee’s energy.

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Thermostat or Thermometer? Helping Kids Feel the Leadership Climate

Let's Grow Leaders

Today I present our final post in this year’s Leadership Padawan Saturday series, Growing Leadership in Kids. On Monday, I return to our normal leadership fare. Today I offer a guest post from Eric Dingler, a great example of a Thermostat leader. Eric has been the Director and lead communicator for an expanding Christian summer [.] The post Thermostat or Thermometer?

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Top 2013 Resolution for Business Women Should Be Saying No

Women on Business

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: For many business women, saying “no” is difficult, but learning to say that two-letter word can have a very positive effect on your career, your business, and your life. Stephanie Chandler shared the story of her personal Just Say No campaign on the Forbes Work in Progress blog, and it’s a great read for anyone who has trouble saying no.

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Make coaching others more than a one-time event

Persuasive Powerhouse

. There are lots of indications that leaders who coach the people in their organization are more effective than those who don’t. These leaders, through the people they coach, are able to effectively steer the organization in the direction it needs to go, experience the paybacks of a motivated workplace and spend time on the high level of activities that will provide the most payoff in the long run.

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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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Tips for Professionalism in the Workplace Part I

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Professionalism is knowing how to do it, when to do it, and doing it. – Frank Tyger While skill set and talent are essential to having a successful career, one aspect that many people often overlook is the major role social skills play in boosting a career. Sure, work is not a high school popularity [.].

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Leadership Biz Cafe Podcast #10 – Doug Conant On Leadership And Organizational Success

Tanveer Naseer

How can leaders be attentive to those they serve when their time is becoming increasingly fragmented and demands on it growing? How can recognizing the efforts of our employees lead to a sense of purpose and community and with it, a drive towards achieving excellence? These are a few of the topics I discuss with retired CEO and renowned leadership expert Doug Conant in the 10 th episode of my leadership podcast series, “Leadership Biz Cafe”.

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The 10 Elements of Positive Performance Management

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from John Mattone: The fundamental belief underlying Positive Performance Management (PPM) is this: Leaders and their employees must strive to make performance reviews complete, honest, and timely. As a leader, it is critical that you engage in crucial conversations to let employees know where they stand at all times. In the course of executing PPM, you should hold yourself to the highest standards of character, always being fair and honest and never injuring a person’s sense of digni

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Connected, Creative, and Courageous: How Kids are Changing the World

Let's Grow Leaders

If you are new to Let’s Grow Leaders, on Saturdays I have been doing a connected series on Developing Leadership in Kids. On Monday, I continue with grown-up leadership fare. Today’s post is multi-generational in nature and should be of interest to leaders of all ages. “Social media is about building a platform for leaders [.] The post Connected, Creative, and Courageous: How Kids are Changing the World appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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.