July, 2016

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Losing Well: 7 Questions to Ask When You Don’t Get the Win

Let's Grow Leaders

A Winning Well post with David Dye. In a recent Winning Well interview, Bob Morris asked “You talk about Winning Well, but what does it mean to lose well? David and I both laughed the kind of half-hearted chuckle that comes only after enough distance from the pain. And as timing would have it, I’ve recently been helping both of my children process through disappointing losses on the college political front and the baseball field.

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What Does Your Accountability Compass Say – About You & Your Leadership?

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.”.

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One Simple Phrase That Will Change Your Life.

Rich Gee Group

“If the the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, it’s time to water your own grass.” Stop trying to compare yourself to others if you always make yourself feel inferior. Stop trying to yearn for a better job, if you don’t first try to make your current job better. Stop making the same mistake again and again because you focus on others and not on yourself.

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Star Systems Hurt Employee Engagement

Michael Lee Stallard

The prevalence and extreme nature of star systems today contribute to widespread employee disconnection and disengagement. Here’s why. Defining Terms: Star, Core, and Struggling Employees. Employees can be regarded as stars, core employees, or strugglers. Stars are superior performers. They are either a part of senior management or on track to move up the organization’s hierarchy.

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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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What Does it Mean to “Be a Leader?”

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton Leadership is not about being "in charge" or standing "at the front of the room" or "exercising personal power." Authentic ethical leadership flips that paradigm.

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5 Questions to Surface Your Leadership Beliefs

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

What you don’t see CAN hurt you. and your team. Unexamined beliefs can undermine your good intentions. Here are five questions to help surface some important leadership beliefs and to consider how well your actions reflect them. 1. What do you stand for? What do you care deeply about? When you know what you hold most dear, […]. The post 5 Questions to Surface Your Leadership Beliefs appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.

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How Mindset Can Affect Organizational Leadership

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Genius is not enough; we need to get the job done.” Carol S. Dweck. The term “mindset” in the context of business typically invokes images of all-star athletes going for the gold or maybe thoughts of positive mental attitude – PMA – the self-development concept first introduced in 1937 by Napoleon Hill in his book Think and Grow Rich.

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How to Get Ahead: Self-Directed Learning

N2Growth Blog

Self-directed learners, or autodidacts, possess the capability to chart their futures in ways that can give them an advantage over their less ambitious contemporaries. I should know, I am one! Back in the day, I didn’t have the Internet to support me. Yes, I did it the old fashioned way — I bought books and read them. It’s laughable by today’s standards, but, back in 1988, I spent countless hours in the New York City Library doing the research needed to complete my fir

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How Inspiring Identity Fuels Team Performance

Michael Lee Stallard

Vision represents the cultural element of inspiring identity. As the following story illustrates, inspiring identity is a crucial factor in team performance and can help organizations overcome tremendous obstacles. Inspiring Identity and the Manhattan Project. In Warren Bennis and Patricia Biederman’s insightful book Organizing Genius , they tell the story of America’s race to make an atomic bomb before the Nazis during World War II.

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6 Things George Washington And The American Revolution Taught Us About Leadership

Terry Starbucker

Washington Crossing The Delaware by Emanuel Leutze, MMA-NYC, 1851. “Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages” – George Washington. I was never a great student of American History and the Revolutionary War when I was younger, only learning the most basic details of what occurred 240 years ago to secure the Independence of the United States of America.

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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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Looking After Myself

Lead Change Blog

I was parked at the beach sitting in my car having just finished a half-hour phone call. In front of me stretched the ocean views of English Bay. Across the bay the North Shore Mountains stood out in sharp relief to the deep blue sky. The sun was shining overhead while people walked or ran along the path in front of me. Nothing was booked in my calendar for the next thirty minutes.

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Inspiration and Advice for Women Entrepreneurs

Women on Business

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4 All-Encompassing Effective Leadership Styles

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. As we yearn to advance our leadership abilities, we continue to search for all-encompassing styles to not only model our behavior but also exemplify the techniques we do not want to portray. After a year away from my family, I have been spending some time at the pool, at the helm of video games and just watching my children in action.

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Three Things I Learned About Leadership From A Book Jacket Blurb

N2Growth Blog

Think well. Write well. Do well. Those three words distill S.C. Gwynne’s book jacket endorsement of Sebastian Junger’s newest book, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging. Gwynne advises us to read Tribe for three reasons: “the clarity of (Junger’s) thought, the elegance of his prose, and the provocativeness of this chosen subject.”. As one who has written more than his fair share of book blurbs, I can attest that when it comes to insight I typically look inside a book rather than to its back jacket

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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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How Our Brain Learns

QAspire

As someone who is committed to lifelong learning, I am very curious about how we learn ( sketchnote here ). We learn the most during our early years and observing/helping my own kids learn and explore new things is such a wonderful learning experience as well. I learn a great deal about learning when I see my 4 years trying to explore language in new ways and my 9 years old daughter learning how to swim.

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Developing influential leadership

Lead on Purpose

How do you effectively motivate others to do their best work? One of the keys to becoming an influential leader is learning the skills—you can practice every day—that will establish your leadership.

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How to Make Your Undeniable Mark as a Leader

Lead Change Blog

This post is part of our 2016 Lead Change Group Guest Blogger Series. Today we are pleased to introduce you to speaker, coach, and author JoAnn Corley. I start every leadership group coaching session with these two questions: What is leadership? What’s the point of it? Those questions usually generate looks of confusion, blank stares and the painful expression of “why are you asking that?”.

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4 Hard Truths about Small Business HR

Women on Business

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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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Happy Independence Day – 4th of July

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” When the Second Continental Congress voted to approve a resolution of independence declaring the United States independent from King G

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Freedom to Shine: Empowerment through Free Will

N2Growth Blog

There is recent research that points to the notion that the belief in free will is a significant predictor to personal achievement. It is suggested through this work that one’s motivation is often accelerated when they believe that their effort can determine results – and, that their progress will not be slowed or redirected by outside influencers that exist beyond their control.

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Be Direct & Ask For What You Want.

Rich Gee Group

If you want something, ask for it. Pretty simple, eh? Actually, it’s not. Many people run into external (and more frequently) internal obstacles. Even though more women are affected than men, it’s not just a woman’s thing. Many men also run into the same obstacles when direct requests are required. Why does it happen? Why do we shirk from being direct with a boss, colleague, or client?

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Under New Management

Leading Blog

It is hard to let go of the thinking behind some of the management tools we still use today. Designed for types of work that are no longer prevalent, these systems were designed for another time. David Burkus reports on a number of seemingly radical management ideas in Under New Management. He stresses that we look for the practices that are limiting employees’ potential and eliminating them.

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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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July 2016 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Welcome to the July 2016 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Although mid-summer is a time when many of us slow down (as we should), this compilation of excellent cutting-edge leadership thinking will help motivate you to hit the ground running when your vacation or other summer relaxation period ends. Let’s Get Started. Art Petty of About Money Management and Leadership provided Reinventing the Organization and Leadership for a Digital Era.

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5 Tips to Improve Your Company’s Working Capital

Women on Business

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Choose The Right Bus

Joseph Lalonde

Y ou’ve probably heard of Jim Collins and his book Good To Great. In this book, he shares that we must make sure the right people are on the right bus. So we focus on that. We put our effort and energy into putting our people into the right areas. While doing this, we forget to ask ourselves an important question: Am I on the right bus? What Bus Is The Right One?

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Work Performance and the Perils of Comparison

N2Growth Blog

Let me take you back in time. You’re in 8th grade. You’ve signed up for your first guitar lesson and the teacher plays Led Zeppelin’s “ Stairway to Heaven.” She offers it up as an example of a great song that you can learn to play. You’re motivated to learn, right? Wrong! She no sooner finishes her sentence about “ you can learn how to play ,” when you hear Jimmy Page rips into his classic solo and you decide then and there that it’s t

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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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How to Host a Productive Generational Conversation

Nathan Magnuson

A decade ago, American organizations were largely unaware of the predicament they faced. The initial wave of Baby Boomers (many of whom occupied senior leadership roles) was set to begin a mass retirement. Many organizations were completely unprepared. Then something curious happened. The recession hit and many would-be retirees stuck around. In one somewhat morbid sense, the recession turned out to be a blessing in disguise.

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Be honest and caring when giving feedback

Persuasive Powerhouse

Giving feedback may make you feel vulnerable and exposed, causing you to avoid or delay important observations that your team and other stakeholders need to hear. You’re not alone. Many leaders dread giving honest feedback to others, thus avoiding it or sugar coating the message. Good feedback requires you to be clear, direct, and empathetic. It comes from the heart, and it shows that you care about the person you’re giving it to.

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Two Keys to Leading Healthy Teams

Lead Change Blog

How healthy are your teams at work? Are functions siloed or is there proactive communication and cooperation? Do team members work purely on their own individual tasks or do they also help their colleagues when the pace demands it? If your team’s interactions fall somewhere between those extremes, effective team work is eroded. Doing team work right, every time, requires clarity and discipline from leaders and team members.

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Why Incorporate in Your Home State?

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.