October, 2015

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7 Strategic Questions Your Team Should Be Able to Answer

Let's Grow Leaders

I’ve never met an executive who said, “my team’s just too strategic. I just wish they would focus on the day-to-day work.” Nope in fact it’s quite the opposite concern. “How do I get my team to think more strategically?” “Karin, I just don’t think anyone on this team is ready to take on my role… and I can’t get promoted until I find a successor.” And the phone call of the week is, “these millennials just don’t se

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LeadershipNow 140: October 2015 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from October 2015 that you might have missed: 12 Simple Steps for Making Yourself Indispensable by @LollyDaskal via @Inc. 20 Behaviors Even the Most Successful People Need to Stop by @coachgoldsmith. The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs via HBR. Transforming Organisations for Sustained Innovation by Hubert Gatignon via @INSEADKnowledge.

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Self-Awareness as an Organizational Leadership Tool

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 more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.”. Erik Erikson. It is very important for a leader to know their natural leadership tendencies. It is equally important that the leader share these tendencies with their leadership team.

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Chip Shots – Finding Your Calling

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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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 Critical First Step For Great Leadership: The Journey From “I” to “We”

Terry Starbucker

There comes a time in a more human leadership journey where something radically changes. The focus of our effort makes a major progression forward that, once accomplished, propels us to greatness. On the other hand, if this progression is NOT made, we’ll be doomed to mediocrity or outright failure. And, I can assure you, this is something that is applicable all generations, from a baby boomer like me to the millennials now stepping up into leadership roles.

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Coaching and Mentoring – The Need For Accountability

CoachStation

To genuinely succeed in business, leaders must know their role, continuously develop their skills and be constantly supported to achieve the best they can as a leader and employee. Finding your own development pathway takes ownership, effort and clarity. However, it is not something you need to do on your own. Whether it is developing yourself or your team, coaching and mentoring can be a powerful tool to enable change and growth, both personally and professionally.

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Leading Teams Toward Success Using People, Products, and Profits

Leading Blog

This si a post by Ken Goldstein, author of Endless Encores : Repeating Success Through People, Products, and Profits. I've written the words People, Products, Profits (In That Order!) so many times over the years it would be easy to think of them as simply a slogan I use, a catchphrase meant to pique your interest. I assure you this is no more the case than Apple using the words Think Different as a clever tagline.

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Resolving Conflict While Maintaining Your Composure – Part 1

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.”. William James. Over the course of your professional career you’re going to experience conflict in the workplace.

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7 Characteristics Of A High Performing Team

Lead Change Blog

When I first started working with teams, I heard the phrase High Performing Team (HPT) used frequently. I understood that a this type of team produced consistent quality results and its members cared about each other. I wondered, though, what it was that made this team different from the rest of the pack? If I knew what it looked like and how it operated, then I would know what to shoot for in my own leadership.

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These Business Leaders Know To Disconnect. Do You?

Joseph Lalonde

P art of the leader’s job is to be available to those they’re leading. Or so we’ve been told. Our culture has taught us that we need to be at the beck and call of those who have our number. After all, what’s a cell phone for except to get in touch with someone? Image via Creative Commons. That’s what we’ve been told.

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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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Five Degrees of Workplace Culture

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from S. Chris Edmonds: How healthy is your workplace culture? Is yours a safe, inspiring, productive culture or far from it? I recently spoke to leaders in two different organizations about the difficult dynamics in their work environment. Both organizations are experiencing “senior leaders behaving badly." The behavior is disruptive, aggressive, and exhausting for anyone that interacts with these leaders.

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6 Simple Techniques to Help Your Employees See the Big Picture

Let's Grow Leaders

If you’re like most managers, you know the importance of helping your team see the bigger picture. You would do more, if you only had the time. The occasional all-hands meetings help, but without interim reinforcement, those motivational meetings can feel like a fire hose of plans and numbers. If you want your team to truly “get it,” sprinkle little bits of big picture reinforcement into their week. 6 Ways to Get Your Employees to See the Big Picture. “The big picture do

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Triggers: Do You Underestimate the World You Live In?

Leading Blog

N O MATTER HOW HARD WE TRY, our environment affects us in powerful, insidious, and mysterious ways. Our environment triggers behaviors or responses in us. Marshall Goldsmith explains in Triggers the kinds of things in our environment that derail us from becoming the kind of leader, co-worker, parent, or spouse that we want to be. He illuminates an aspect of self-awareness that is so vital to a leader’s success.

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Monday Quote

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Nothing in life is to be feared. It is to be understood! “ Marie Curie. . How did you enjoy today’s post? If you liked what you read, sign up for our frequent newsletter by clicking HERE — and you’ll also receive our handy Leader’s Reference List. . … Read the rest.

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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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Leadership & Motivation

Lead Change Blog

One key aspect of leadership that people often skip over is motivation. Even if it is mentioned, the description lacks depth and useful tools. Rather than explaining how to be continuously motivated, people just receive the sound yet vague advice: you just need motivation. First, let’s break down the two main types of motivation, internal and external.

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Visioning is an ongoing journey.

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Consider your vision at each step along your path. “Vision and action” are a continuous process, and neither should occur without the other. Thursday Thoughts: Visioning is an ongoing journey, not a one-time activity. * * * * * * * * * * * * * *. In addition to my regular leadership blog, I offer “Thursday Thoughts” – simple truths for reflection and food for thought.

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7 Signs that it May be Time to Step Down as a Manager

Great Leadership By Dan

How do you know when it’s time to step aside, or down from being a manager? Read my latest post over at About.com Management and Leadership to find out more: 7 Signs that it May be Time to Step Down as a Manager.

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Defining Your Unique Value Proposition: A LGL Virtual Meet and Greet

Let's Grow Leaders

What is your unique value proposition? What unique set of experience, skills, and style do you bring to the your work? If you’ve never tried this before I challenge you to give it a shot and share it with our community. That’s not bragging, that’s confidence. Why I’m Writing About Unique Value Propositions Today. When I recently published a post on the Lead Change Group Website, How to Promote Yourself Without Being Annoying , my first tip was “be confident in your

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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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When to Cooperate and When to Compete

Leading Blog

As we navigate through life, we must be able to cooperate and compete. Knowing what to do when is very important to getting where you want to go and to where you want to go next time. In Friend and Foe , authors Adam Galinsky and Maurice Schweitzer, state that all of our relationships are both cooperative and competitive and we get more out of life when we learn to find the right balance between acting as a friend and acting as a foe.

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Strategic Professionalism Series

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. Leadership is a way of life. From the way you dress, to your demeanor, to the organization with whom you spend more of your life than you do with your family. From the action you deliberately take to the reactions you subconsciously display.

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Corporate Innovation Through Daring Personal Disruption

Lead Change Blog

What do you perceive when you walk through your company building? I mean literally: state the facts that you can observe. You see people working, meeting, and crossing the hallways. You hear what they say (or you hear silence). You notice situations and what people are doing. Notice energy, speed of speech and movements, tone of voice, and other nonverbal cues such as eye contact, body posture, facial expression.

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13 Leadership Lessons And Quotes From Jem And The Holograms

Joseph Lalonde

D on’t laugh guys, but this past weekend my wife and I went and saw the new Jem And The Holograms movie (Don’t worry, we also saw The Last Witch Hunter with Vin Diesel). Yes, that movie. The previews looked entertaining and a throwback to growing up. So, I had to give it a shot. Movie companies are digging deep into the childhoods of those born in the ’80s.

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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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Stop Criticizing and Start Leading Your Youngest Workers

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Claudia St. John: “ The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.” -- Socrates circa 400 B.C. Some things never change. It sounds like Socrates is talking about our current millennial generation – those currently between the ages of 18 and 34.

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Take Positive Action When You See Unethical Leadership

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton While I specialize in positive, proactive ethical leadership, I frequently get asked questions about unethical leadership. In particular, readers ask about the damage that toxic leaders do in organizations and what situations and circumstances lead to ethical failures.

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Collaboration Begins with You

Leading Blog

In Collaboration Begins with You , Ken Blanchard, Jane Ripley and Eunice Carew weave the tale of Dave Oakton, the head of a cross-departmental project that fails due to self-serving silos. What’s more, the company offers “no incentives that encourage people to work together toward organizational goals. Managers get promotions and bonuses based on their own individual success and the success of their siloed groups—regardless of the success of the projects they work on or the company as a while.

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Strategic Professionalism Series

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. Leadership is a way of life. From the way you dress, to your demeanor, to the organization with whom you spend more of your life than you do with your family. From the action you deliberately take to the reactions you subconsciously display.

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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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Is Grumbling Your First Response To Cutbacks?

Lead Change Blog

If senior management cuts your budget, says no to replacing broken equipment, or reduces your headcount, what is the first feeling that wells up inside you? Irritation? Anger? Panic? A sense of unfairness? Probably not gratitude. A situation on the home front recently triggered my thinking on this topic. When I opened my refrigerator a few weeks ago, the typical chill was absent.

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The World Keeps Changing

Joseph Lalonde

O nly a few things are guaranteed in this life of ours. We are guaranteed that one day we will day. And we are guaranteed there will be change. Image via Creative Commons. Change Comes In Many Different Forms. You never know where change will come from. It seems like it was out of left field. Sometimes the change will hit you like a train wreck. Over the last couple of years, Pam and I have seen 2 youth pastors leave the church we were attending, we’ve left a church I’ve attended for

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Five Questions Every CEO Should Ask

Great Leadership By Dan

According to John Manning , “there are Five Vital Questions you can ask to get razor-sharp clarity around your organization’s productivity. Answer these questions to get the facts and you can improve goal-setting, make more empowered decisions about your company’s strategic direction, and discover how to more effectively lead and inspire performance.

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Are You Unconsciously Perpetuating an Outdated View of Leadership?

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

In 2014 I wrote a blog post of “The 40 Best Leadership Quotes.” I find it fascinating that with almost 20,000 views, over 1600 social shares, and many comments, no one seems to have noticed that 85% of the quotes are by women. This percentage is significant because most of the “best leadership quotes” lists include less than 10% women. I created my list after discovering this gross imbalance while doing an Internet search for a pithy leadership quote.

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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.