January, 2015

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3 Ways to Help Your Team Get 10% Smarter

Let's Grow Leaders

'Your team is smarter than they look. I promise. If they’re not learning as fast as they you would like, stop and consider. What if it’s not them– but you? Here are three ways to make your team 10% smarter. 1. Stop Interrupting. I didn’t get this right away in my growth as an executive. I figured these were seasoned leaders. If they were busy when I called, they’d tell me.

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To Connect, Reflect Before Offering Improvements

Michael Lee Stallard

'#70 Reflect Before Offering Improvements. Author/executive coach Marshall Goldsmith recommends that when someone offers an idea, suggestion, opinion or plan, take time to reflect before offering a suggestion to improve it. Many people are in the habit of quickly adding their better idea by saying “but…” or “however…” Habitually doing this undermines connection, commitment and engagement.

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Transform One Million Realities

Lead Change Blog

'The confetti from New Year’s Eve has been swept up or blown away. You’ve already had enough time to break and reaffirm your New Year’s resolutions. . Before you know it Valentine’s Day will be here, Spring will have sprung and school will be out. In a year so full of possibilities and fresh potential, what are your dreams for the year?

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Teaser: Tune-In Next Week!

General Leadership

'Tune in Next Week, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 at 9pm Eastern (6pm Pacific) to the #GeneralLeadership Hour on the David Webb Show, SiriusXM Channel 125 for our special guest, Lt General Michelle Johnson. Lt Gen Johnson is the superintendent of the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, CO and a 1981 graduate. Along with being the first female superintendent of the Academy, Lt Gen Johnson boasts being the first female cadet wing commander and the school’s first female Rhodes scholar, havi

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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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Get Off The Strategy Merry-Go-Round

N2Growth Blog

'By Mark Hefner. Global Practice Chair, Strategy N2Growth. Most organizations, and even most strategy consultants, are using strategic planning frameworks built for business models that were designed during the industrial age. These methods are antiquated in both efficiency and effectiveness. They are complex – they are costly – they are slow – they are broken.

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10 Rules for Future-Proofing Yourself

Leading Blog

'The most common problem that modern professionals face is a lack of risk tolerance and a resistance to change. Scott Steinberg writes in Make Change Work for You , Scott Steinberg offers ten rules that successful people follow to future-proof themselves. But underlying it all is how we deal with fear. We need to find a quick way to neutralize its negative influences, find courage, and take positive action.

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Are You Ready For Your Leadership Moment Of Truth?

Terry Starbucker

'It happens to every leader at one time or another – a time when our mettle is tested in a high stress and high stakes environment, when something goes very very badly. Are you ready for your leadership moment of truth? Because HOW you handle that moment will leave a lasting and definitive mark on those you lead. My Story. It happened to me 6 years ago at the cable TV company I worked for, when our entire network suddenly went down.

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Why Character-Based Leadership? (A Book Excerpt)

Lead Change Blog

'In a previous post, we shared how the Lead Change Group was incubated by people who wanted to capture the idea of leadership being espoused by a group of leaders in social media and internet channels in the summer and fall of 2009. . The term character-based leadership rose out of this group’s efforts and eventually led to the book, The Character-Based Leader.

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Act Like You are In Charge …Then Deliver!

General Leadership

'“There are leaders and there are those who lead. Leaders hold a position of power and influence. Those who lead inspire us.”. Simon Sinek. “Act like you are in charge.” I am sure that you have heard this at some time in your career. What does it mean to you? Does it mean that you have to storm around the office using a stern, gruff tone? Does it mean that you are unreasonable and unpredictable because you can be?

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Leaders Need to Walk the Halls

Michael Lee Stallard

'#69 Walk the Halls. Howard Behar, the secret weapon of Starbucks, tells leaders to “walk the halls.” Howard, former President of Starbucks North America and Starbucks International, played an instrumental role in growing Starbucks then came out of retirement to help turn Starbucks around when it went off course. “Walk the Halls” is similar to “Management by Wandering Around,” or “MBWA,” a term coined by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman in their book In Search of Excellence.

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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 Beautiful Constraint

Leading Blog

'Typically we look at a constraint as a negative. A problem to be solved. But what if a constraint was the gift that opened up previously unimagined possibilities? What if a constraint was the gift that took you to the next level? Authors Adam Morgan and Mark Barden remind us in A Beautiful Constraint that Google’s home page is as simple as it is because that was the limit of Larry Page’s coding ability at the time.

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7 Ways to Show Your Team You Trust Them

Let's Grow Leaders

'Trust begets trust. The best way to get your team to trust you is to trust them. Hire for trust. Require trust. Rid your team of untrustworthy players. And then, show your team how much you trust them. Here’s how. 7 Ways to Show Your Team You Trust Them. 1. Set Audacious Goals. Oh sure your team may grumble. But there’s no greater gift you can give your team than leading them toward head-turning results.

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Basic Résumé Structure For Success.

Rich Gee Group

'Many of my clients frequently ask me for my opinion on the do’s and don’t’s of a good résumé. Let me begin by saying résumé advice is highly subjective. Everyone has an opinion and everyone will find fault in your advice. I am going to go out on a limb and let you in on what I think is a basic, generalized format (IMHO): Contact Info: Name, Cell, Email, Address, LinkedIn URL (this is new – make it like www.linkedin.com/in/richgee).

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Three Stops On The Search For Meaning

Lead Change Blog

'I wish Viktor Frankl had been my uncle or even next-door neighbor. Such a gentle and kind spirit, accomplished, yet humble, very connected to his internal being, yet realistic in his self-appraisals, and with the ability to see how we are and to hold the mirror of words up for us to see ourselves. Yep, I’m in the Frankl Fanatics Fan group, as are many others who I respect and admire. .

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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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Monday Quote:

General Leadership

'“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.” General George Patton. … Read the rest. The post Monday Quote: appeared first on General Leadership.

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Advice to Taylor Swift on Sustaining Success

Michael Lee Stallard

'Photo Courtesy of Wikimedia User MyCanon. Taylor Swift has successfully managed living in the frying pan of fame for nearly a decade now. That is a difficult thing to do, especially for singers who come on the scene in their teenage years (ahem, Britney, Miley and Justin). Personally, I think she may become the Queen of Media who reigns for decades, akin to the first Queen Elizabeth who ascended to the throne of England at 25 and ruled England for more than 40 years during its Golden Age and wa

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How to Set Your Own Goals and Reach Great Results

Joseph Lalonde

'G oal-setting is the key to great things. But the goal is the end game and it doesn’t mean that once you’ve set it you’re done. You have to take into account what you have to do to actually reach the goal you’ve set. So, how do you set your goals? And how do you make sure that you’re able to achieve it? Image By Mark Kaminski. Be SMART about it. Ask any management book – goals and objectives should be SMART.

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Who Do You Trust? An Easy Team Exercise

Let's Grow Leaders

'“Do you trust me?” What a loaded question. It’s tough, even with people we love. “Sure, I trust you to be faithful, but do I trust you’ll remember to pick up the dry cleaning?” Even small actions can build or diminish trust over time. Defining the behaviors that breed trust can go a long way in encouraging more of the good stuff on teams.

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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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How to Plan a Great Off-site Meeting

Great Leadership By Dan

'This post recently appeared on Smartblog on Leadership : To start off the New Year, a lot of leaders will take their teams “off-site” for a day or more. An off-site meeting can be a great way to develop strategy, get creative, develop a team, learn, and re-invigorate a team. Of course, they can also be like a sentence in purgatory if not planned and run well.

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Chip Shots – The Power of Interdisciplinary Efforts

Lead Change Blog

'Here at Lead Change Group, we know that problems are most effectively solved when individuals come together to meld ideas, energies, and approaches. To use a golf analogy, not every shot is a long drive. Many times, golfers have to take a chip shot to move the ball along for a short distance, with incisive accuracy. If you are new to the Chip Shots green, welcome.

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Integrity is the Cornerstone of Leadership

General Leadership

'“Since you were faithful in small matters, I will give you great responsibilities.” Matthew 25:21. Integrity must be at the core of who we are as leaders if we’re to successfully inspire confidence in our teams. Because leadership is fundamentally about human relationships, integrity must be the very cornerstone of any leader’s foundation.

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What Corporate Culture is Best for Change?

Michael Lee Stallard

'Photo Courtesy of FCB. Consider this: few of the 500 largest corporations from 50 years ago exist today. They failed to change and became irrelevant, left behind by emerging competitors more in tune with the market. How is it possible that so many top companies made this same fatal mistake? The answer may lie in a very simple explanation. Humans run corporations, and humans have a biological aversion to change.

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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 Advice I’d Give To My 5 Year Old Self

Joseph Lalonde

'T ime flies. Before you know it, you’ve reached your 30’s, 40’s, and 50’s. You’ll often wonder where the years went. I know I do. I look back and wonder how I got to where I’m at today. It seems like just yesterday that I was a 5 year old boy, having the time of his life. When you’re 5 years old, there’s not much you have to worry about.

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Another Way to Outsmart the Competition

Let's Grow Leaders

'The hard-sell is so old school. Anyone with a passing interest in what you’re saying has 17 ways to get 17 different perspectives on what you’re saying in 17 seconds. Your customers and employees have become conditioned to respond to any hard sell with a google search for the truth. The minute the google-search has begun, you’ve inadvertantly outsourced your explaining authority to the vortex.

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Five Ways to Lead Product Teams More Effectively

Great Leadership By Dan

'In order to bring quality products to market that delight your customers and meet their needs, a company must have leaders that run the product teams effectively. Read Brian Lawley’s guest post over at About.com Management and Leadership for 5 Ways a Product team leader or Product Manager can be more effective in accomplishing this and leading the team and the product to success.

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Infuence Mapping – How To Lead Your Project To Success

Lead Change Blog

'Even the most powerful people rarely act alone. The decisions they make are usually influenced by their coworkers and advisors. Understanding the nature and intensity of these changes can be vital to your project’s success. Recognizing the stakeholders of your project is what influence mapping is all about. Where should you start? First of all, you need to discover who your true stakeholders are.

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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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What If?

General Leadership

'“We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.”. Bill Clinton. I’ll admit I fell asleep in history class a few times. I remember one particular college professor lecturing at length about the British Corn Act of 1855 (or maybe it was some other vegetable he was talking about). Sure enough, minutes into his rambling I felt the fuzzy feeling that afflicts so many students of history begin to wash over me.

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It’s All About The Trust

Leading in Context

'By Linda Fisher Thornton Monday I received the wonderful news that I was in the Trust Across America-Trust Around the World 2015 Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trust. I consider this a great honor because trust is critical to successful business. Trust improves communication, culture, performance, engagement and results.

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Is Fear Holding You Back?

Joseph Lalonde

'T he last couple of years I’ve had a fascination with most things aviation. From planes ( I jumped out of a plane and would still like to learn how to pilot a plane) to helicopters (RC helicopters and quadcopters), I’m drawn to things that fly. These inventions that can defy gravity. They can move about in the sky unhindered. It’s absolutely fascinating.

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Do You Have a Blah, Blah, Blah Vision or a DRIVING Vision?

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

'Is your vision no more than abstract art hanging on the wall? The closer you look at it, the less sense it makes? Does it sound something like this? – Our vision is to provide aggressive strategic marketing with quality products and services at competitive prices to provide the best value for consumers. If so, do yourself a favor and take it down.

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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.