July, 2015

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Who are you? Who Who?

Let's Grow Leaders

You used to be sick? Or you ARE a survivor? You used to be a marathon runner? Or you KNOW the power of endurance? You used to be an artist? Or you have the ABILITY to create something beautiful? You used to be successful? Or you understand what it FEELS like to win? You used to be a screw up? Or you UNDERSTAND the importance of mentors? You are what you’ve learned.

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LeadershipNow 140: July 2015 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from July 2015 that you might have missed: At the Intersection of Must And Want We Find Ourselves by @LollyDaskal. 10 Lessons from the World’s Most Successful Talent Hotbed by @PaulJSohn. Disrupting beliefs : A new approach to business-model innovation from @McKQuarterly. 30 People You Want On Your Team by @BrianKDodd.

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Driven to Lead & Succeed: Four Thoughts on Service & Aspiration

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.”. Albert Schweitzer. If you frequent GeneralLeadership.com , then I’m willing to bet even money that you are driven to lead and succeed.

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Chip Shots – Creatively Resolving Conflict

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 6 Most Effective Lessons For The On-The-Job Leadership Teacher

Terry Starbucker

I always thought it was strange how great leadership was always thought to be vitally important to a businesses success, but yet it was quite often the least discussed thing in the meeting rooms, and the budget money allocated to “leadership training” was always limited (or the first thing to get cut back). Why is this the case? It’s a question that has banged around in my head for a long time.

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Create a Book to Celebrate Your Workplace Culture

Michael Lee Stallard

#95 Create a Book to Celebrate Your Workplace Culture. Create a book of employees’ stories or articles about living out the core values of your organization. Two excellent examples are Zappos’ Culture Book and Smile Guide: Employee Perspectives on Culture, Loyalty and Profit, which is about The Beryl Companies. You can read a review of Smile Guide by Bob Morris on ConnectionCulture.com.

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You Can’t Lead If You’re in the Weeds

Leading Blog

Leaders work on a spectrum of effectiveness and the continuum varies with the ups and downs of your work’s natural rhythms. When you are in a good place, with available margin to deal with your load, you take a balanced approach to meeting your demands, use your strengths wisely, and sustain the capacity to manage well against the challenges of the day.

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Changing Organizational Culture Revisited: Dysfunction Junction

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “A dysfunctional company culture does not improve with transparency…it just gets exposed.” Harold Jarche. In my April 9, 2015 blog post, “ Changing Organizational Culture ”, I promised to offer some pointers in a future post on recognizing a target within organizational culture that needs a fix.

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Decisions and Timing

Lead Change Blog

You were not promoted again this year? After putting in so much effort and hard work this year you were still not rewarded? Sitting in your chair idly, looking at those happy faces who got promoted this year, are you asking yourself “what went wrong?” Are you wondering why you didn’t get promoted and wondering what else your employer wants from you?

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Fear Cannot Rule Your Life

Joseph Lalonde

W e are inundated with stories that are meant to create fear in our lives. From the nightly news telling us stories of all the evil happenings to the water cooler gossip about who did what, we know this earth can be a scary place. Image via Creative Commons. A few months ago, my wife and I went to Frosty Oasis, a local ice cream parlor in Muskegon. Normally we will walk to get ice cream but this night we decided to drive over.

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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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Secure Tools and Training

Michael Lee Stallard

#94 Secure Tools and Training. Be sure to get people the tools and training they need to do their work well. Doing so not only helps others to grow, but also helps to reduce unnecessary stress that is harmful to performance. This is the ninety-fourth post in our series entitled “100 Ways to Connect.” The series highlights language, attitudes and behaviors that help you connect with others.

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The Most Important Question to Ask When Facing a Big Decision

Let's Grow Leaders

What if you could pre-screen a movie of your life to help guide you in making your most pivotal decisions? Can you imagine knowing how your screenplay unfolds would guide your answers to the biggies: Should I follow my passion and shift careers? Should I relocate my family for that promotion? Should I take the risk and stand up for what I believe in?

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What Neuroscience Tells Leaders to Pay Attention to

Great Leadership By Dan

G uest post from Amy Brann : The best leaders wear many hats including a Coaching one at times. A leader can help people to grow and develop. Neuroscience may say the leader, in their Coaching role, helps facilitate self-directed neuroplasticity. We’ll explore what this means shortly. There are some similarities between a leader’s overall role and a leader in a Coaching role.

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Tuesday Time Machine: Leadership – The Willingness to Fight the Right Fight

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. From Our Early Files: Originally Published. 15 February 2013. Everywhere you look today it seems as though many leaders are more intent abdicating responsibility than embracing it. The recent political wrangling’s over our countries numerous fiscal challenges certainly seems to bear this out.

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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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Are You Using the Magic Words?

Lead Change Blog

Recently a vice president of human resources shared with me that he had been approached by another senior executive who was having trouble with a particular employee. When he asked her what the problem was, the other executive informed him that her employee was just not doing the work that was required. In response to her query he asked her, “Are you using the magic words?

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What Leaders Must Have Faith In

Joseph Lalonde

L eading others will take you to places you never knew you’d go. Those places may be to the highest of highs or the lowest of lows. I’ve experienced both in my time in youth ministry. You’ve probably experienced similar, whether it was in church leadership or business leadership. Image by Javier Morales. And through these ups and down, leaders must have faith.

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Webinar “Leading For the Future”

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton Many leaders wonder how to prepare for an uncertain future – one that is filled with complexity, changing expectations and an increasing global awareness about ethical responsibility. On October 13, 2015 I will be presenting a webinar for CUPA-HR (College and University Professional Association For Human Resources) that explores strategies for helping leaders […].

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3 Guidelines that Help Avoid Resistance to Change

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

People don’t resist change. Change is a normal and natural part of living. The only time you stop changing is when you’re dead. What people resist is having change imposed on them. Here are three guidelines that invite people to participate in the change process and minimize resistance to change. 1. Involve people at all levels in planning and implementing the change.

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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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Goodbye Handbook, Hello Facebook: Onboarding in the Age of Millennials

Great Leadership By Dan

Onboarding today looks nothing like onboarding of ten or twenty years ago. Acclimating new millennial employees to company culture requires creative thinking and modern tactics. Read Beth Miller’s new guest post over at About.com Management and Leadership to find out how.

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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]. “ I know of no better reputation for an officer or noncommissioned officer to have with his team than he is a good manager and does not waste his soldiers’ time.”. General Bruce Clark. .

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Creative Conflict?

Lead Change Blog

The two words do not seem to go together, do they? Creativity might be defined as the ability to make something come into existence that did not previously exist. It often refers to artistic endeavors, such as painting, acting, or music. We do not often think of our daily lives as creative. Many people do not think they are particuarly creative. In reality, we are all creative to varying degrees and much of our creativity is well within our individual control, if we choose to exercise that contr

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14 Leadership Lessons And Quotes From Adam Sandler’s Pixels

Joseph Lalonde

P am and I like to take in a good comedy every once in awhile. We also like to be reminded of the great things of our childhood. That’s why we were excited to see the newest Adam Sandler movie Pixels. Having watched the previews, Pixels looked hilarious. Going into Pixels, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Would it be classic, humorous Adam Sandler a la Happy Gilmore, The Waterboy, or Anger Management?

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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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Just Say No To 10 Behaviors That Kill Competence

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton On the lifelong quest to become our best selves, we must S-T-R-E-T-C-H and grow and learn from our mistakes. Being a flexible and willing learner, we can more easily stay competent as the world changes.

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The Best Way to Listen

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

The best way to listen is with your mouth shut. When the best techniques don’t work, simply close your mouth and pay attention. This poem is an oldie, but still on-target. I couldn’t think of a better way to make the point. Please Listen Poem. When I ask you to listen to me and you start giving me advice, you have not done what I asked. When I ask you to listen to me and you begin to tell me why I shouldn’t feel that way, you are trampling on my feelings.

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Understanding the Mystery That Is Generation Y

Great Leadership By Dan

Whether we like it or not, there is always a regular infusion of youth into the workforce. It is essential to understand the psyche of youngsters before making heroes out of them or, at the other extreme, deriding them as being immature. Read Carolin Rekar Munro’s guest post over at About.com Management and Leadership for practical insights into the millennial workforce called generation Y.

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A Legacy that Matters

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. If you want to leave a legacy, invest in people, and encourage those you develop to pass on everything they learn from you to others who will do the same. – John Maxwell. A leader owes it to his organization to lead in a way that will benefit the organization in the future.

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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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This is the Most Important Lesson You Will Learn Today

Lead Change Blog

We’ve moved through the Information Age at light speed over the last few years, and find ourselves lost in the deep space of the Information Overload Age! Knowledge from the ancient thinkers, wisdom from our founding fathers and the most current insights from some of the best minds of the world are at our fingertips. A simple Google search turns up hundreds of thousands of answers to the very same question.

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7 Effective Tips for Leading Millennials

Joseph Lalonde

I know a lot of millennials and I know exactly what type of leadership does not motivate them: dictatorship. They may appear a bit distracted at times and in love with their cool, new techy devices, but then again, I guess that’s just how millennials are. Unlike the baby boomers who value hard work, education, and job security, millennials tend to value “following their heart” and “achieving their dreams”.

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What Should I Get Mentoring For?

Nathan Magnuson

Congratulations – you’ve just been selected to participate in a corporate mentoring program. Or maybe you took the initiative and enlisted a mentor yourself. Or perhaps, a seasoned pro has begun to formally or informally take you under his wing. Whatever the case, way to go! Now comes the tricky part: what should you get mentoring for? One of the difficult parts of entering a new mentoring partnership – especially for first-time mentees – can be deciding what exactly to invest a ment

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How to Deal With a Steamroller Personality on Your Team

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

In this guest post, Mike Figliuolo explains how to deal with a steamroller personality, one of the personalities described in his new book, Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide Their Teams to Exceptional Results. Heather joined your team a year ago. You hired her after interviewing many qualified candidates. Her résumé was far and away the best you saw.

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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.