November, 2015

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How to Help Your Team Get Results FAST

Let's Grow Leaders

You need to move results– quickly. It’s tempting to try everything you can to make things better. But the all too common “throw everything at the problem and see what helps” approach may make things worse in the long run. Your team will be frantically trying to execute on too many cylinders, and even if results start to improve, you won’t know why.

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LeadershipNow 140: November 2015 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from November 2015 that you might have missed: Do You Have a Contrarian on Your Team? via @StanfordBiz. 10 Winston Churchill Leadership Lessons by @JamesStrock. You Might Have a Dysfunctional Team If. by @bradlomenick. This is Not a Day Care. It’s a University! by @dreverettpiper. Give Thanks For The Circles Around You by @LollyDaskal.

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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]. “Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers. “ Harry S. Truman. . 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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Neutralizing Workplace Negativity

Lead Change Blog

The causes of negativity in the workplace are too many to count, but you can count on any one of them impacting the sense of community present in an organization. The multiplier effect that even one negative personality can have on an organization should be seen as too much to bear. Here are five ways you can keep negativity at bay. Drive awareness of the behavior’s impact.

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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 Most Dangerous Question a Leader Can Ever Ask

Terry Starbucker

“Terry my boy, what do you think?”. There it was, finally, the question I was waiting for from my brilliant but mercurial multi-multi-millionaire boss. I had been pondering the answer for several weeks. We were working on an important project in the fall of 1990, and there was a problem, one demanding some out-of-the-box thinking. As the Project Manager, I had many hours of meetings with all the key players involved, and diligently forged a consensus on a proposed course of action – so we could

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Will Aetna CEO Transform Healthcare (and CEO Leadership While He’s at it)?

Michael Lee Stallard

At the 2015 World Business Forum in New York City, Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini laid out the most important vision at the conference: a vision to save healthcare. Bertolini’s message is that healthcare is broken and that he is committed to fixing it. Although his vision will be difficult to achieve, his resolve and thoughtfulness is evident. He knows fixing healthcare is important.

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Leadership BS

Leading Blog

Leadership BS by Jeffrey Pfeffer, is a very important book. It actually builds on the ideas and thinking presented in his classic book written with Bob Sutton, The Knowing Doing Gap over a decade ago. Pfeffer wants to know why, in spite of the thousands of leadership books, blogs and seminars are there so many leadership failures? Pfeffer believes that the answer is to be found in the systemic processes that produce leaders who often behave differently from what most people might like or expect.

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Happy Thanksgiving from GeneralLeadership.com

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 the only prayer you said in your whole life was, ‘thank you,’ that would suffice.” Meister Eckhart. In 1863, in the midst of a Civil War that had been raging for more than two years and shortly following the Union victories at Vicksburg and Gettysburg, Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation to Americans: “Set apart a

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A Lesson for Team Leaders from the Ship of Theseus

Lead Change Blog

If you are leading a team in any industry, you are likely constantly in search of actionable ideas that will help you to strengthen your culture and inspire better teamwork among your staff. I would like to share an idea from nearly 2,000 years ago that has surprising relevance today. The Greek philosopher Plutarch, somewhere around 100 AD, described the mythical “Ship of Theseus” in his writings this way: “The ship wherein Theseus and the youth of Athens returned from Crete had thirty oars, and

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What Are You Talking About (Ethically Speaking)?

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton There are many layers of meaning in ethics conversations. How far down are you going? Do you stop at surface messages or do you dig into real problems?

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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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Propel Your Team To High Performance

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

What is a high performance team? –> a team that produces outstanding results, where everyone works in synchronicity, appreciates each other’s contributions, and is proud to be a member of the team. Research has revealed the characteristics of high performance teams. And most of us have had an experience on a high performance team at some point in our lives – whether at work, in school, sports or our community.

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3 Roadblocks You Must Remove For Your Team (before they go insane)

Let's Grow Leaders

Even if it all feels warm and wonderful, your team needs you to remove roadblocks. If they’re frustrated with stupidity in the organization, they’re frustrated with you. Sure, they appreciate the check-ins about their kid’s soccer victories. And they want you to prepare them for the next promotion. But, if you’re not out there with them doing some basic blocking and tackling, I’d venture to guess, they’re frustrated.

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22 Leadership Lessons And Quotes From Creed (Rocky 7)

Joseph Lalonde

I wasn’t sure what to expect when I first heard of the Creed movie. The title sounded generic until I saw the movie preview for Creed. Then it was all over. I knew what Creed was about and I was excited, to say the least. Creed is the latest movie in the Rocky film series. It could be considered a legacyquel. A movie that continues a movie series but with a new legacy character.

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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]. “Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship. “ Omar Nelson Bradley. . 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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Managing Change Through The Reinvention Continuum

Lead Change Blog

Economic uncertainty, industry change, personal evolution—there are many reasons we–or those we know—decide to pursue career reinvention. No matter what the motivation, an understanding of the reinvention continuum is an important part of supporting ourselves and others through this very important process. Before I can explain The Reinvention Continuum, I need to first address the difference between career reinvention and mere change or adaptation.

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What Does Etiquette have to do with Nursing Leadership?

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Kathleen Pagana : Anyone committed to career advancement faces the challenge of interacting well in business and social settings. By using the guiding principles of kindness, consideration and commonsense, professional etiquette can help you initiate new relationships and enhance established ones. Etiquette is about relationships. It can guide you in unfamiliar situations and help you know what to expect from others.

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Be a leader worth following.

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Thursday Thoughts: Be a leader worth following. People follow leaders by choice. Otherwise at best, you get mindless compliance. Read ➤ How to Be a Leader People Want to Follow. * * * * * * * * * * * * * *. In addition to my regular leadership blog, I offer “Thursday Thoughts” – simple truths for reflection and food for thought. The post Be a leader worth following. appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.

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Frontline Festival: Leaders Share about the Power of Gratitude

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. Our November Festival is all about gratitude. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! Next month, in celebration of the launch of the new Star Wars: the Force Awakens movie we’re going to give you two options. You’re welcome to submit your “best of” post of 2015.

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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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Who You Are Matters

Joseph Lalonde

B eing a leader, you’re often in the spotlight. You’ve got people watching you from every which way. Your team is looking to you for leadership advice. The outside world is looking to see if you live up to the standards of a leader. Your family is conscious of how you lead them. Image by John Davis. You can begin feeling like you’re a leader and nothing else.

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Strategic Professionalism Series: Commitment

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. Commitment. As a leader, you must realize no one is as committed to success of the organization as you. Your challenge is to motivate those you lead, those who do the work and enable success of the organization, to be truly committed to success of the mission as well as their individual success.

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The Most Cost Effective Way To Engage Your People

Lead Change Blog

Do you remember Bob Nelson’s series of books “ 1001 Ways “? The titles ran the gamut of 1001 Ways to Take Initiative at Work to 1001 Ways to Energize Employees and 1001 Ways to Energize Employees. Why were these books so popular, and why do they continue to have a place on leaders’ bookshelves still today? It’s because of the power of giving value to your people and acknowledging their efforts.

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Innovation Begins (and remains) at the Top

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post By John Sweeney: Innovation is foundational to business leadership. We empower individuals across disciplines to evaluate, orchestrate, strategize, create and hire, but most importantly, we empower others to innovate. Many leaders may consider empowerment a handoff – a simple process of delegating work. For the most process-oriented tasks, that assumption may be true.

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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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Why Your Vision Statement Puts People to Sleep And Why Theirs Doesn’t

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

If your vision statement is like most, you don’t think about it much, and its best use is for bedtime reading as a cure for insomnia. 7 Reasons Your Vision Statement Puts People to Sleep. 1. It sounds like “God, Mother, and Apple-Pie.”. 2. It is too vague to provide any direction. 3. It’s boring. 4. It was written by the marketing department for customers, and is disconnected from daily life in the company. 5.

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Becoming Excellent

Nathan Magnuson

Excellence is a blessing and a curse. It’s always a noble pursuit. But it can be intimidating as well. With so much information and many high profile examples of what excellence looks like, how can we contribute in a significant way? Regardless of what you aspire to do, excellence is a worthy goal. But it probably won’t be your starting point.

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Don’t Let Criticism Stop You

Joseph Lalonde

A nyone doing a great work will be faced with a major roadblock. That roadblock known by many different names could be summed up in one word – Criticism. Criticism, it’s the killer of mighty men. Criticism, it’s what will keep you from doing your greatest work. Image via Creative Commons. We often think that fear is the greatest enemy of progress.

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Lessons on Leadership from Fishing (part II)

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Many go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after”. Henry David Thoreau. Not too long ago I was fortunate enough to go on a guided fishing trip with a great group of men.

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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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Be Prepared for Opportunity

Lead Change Blog

Growing up, other people’s perception was my reality. I lived in a world where no one thought that I could do anything great, that I was mediocre to say the least. In fact, there was no such thing as expectation when it came to my ability to deliver academically. I supposed my lack of success had something to do with it. But I have to assure you that it was not due to lack of trying.

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Being Thankful is a Virtue

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton Cicero's quote reminds us that before we can act on the important virtues that create a just society, we must see the world with a thankful heart.

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Instrumental in My Transition

Tony Mayo

Tony Mayo Executive Coach. Tony has been instrumental in my transition to a department head. His guidance and support has helped me better structure my department, and become a better mentor and leader for my team. I would highly recommend Tony and look forward to checking in with him throughout my career. —Anais Eslami Marketing Manager Apex Home Loans […].

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How to Make Time to Study When Your Schedule is Full

Women on Business

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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.