Sat.Mar 03, 2012 - Fri.Mar 09, 2012

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5 Ways Leaders Can Teach Instead of Tell

Terry Starbucker

“Just get it done” I was 16, and working in a gas station. A customer had come in to get his flat tire fixed. It was a busy day, and my boss was busy handling other customers, so he told me to fix the tire. The trouble was, I had very little experience doing that, and I especially feared the machine that took the tire off the rim – I had merely one chance to watch someone do it a week or two before.

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Leadership and Resourcing

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. It’s not what you have, but what you’re able to make out of what you have that matters. Every great leader understands the importance of creating leverage via proper resource allocation. The best leaders possess an innate understanding of how to create resources where none exist - they know how to deploy and redeploy resources to maximize opportunities and to minimize risk.

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5 Uncomfortable Observations About Workforce Diversity

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development We base our first impressions on external appearance. Grooming. Teeth. Attire. Accessories. Accent. We notice scuffs on shoes, extra pounds, and age. Then, we unconsciously jump to conclusions about the person’s potential and abilities. We decide in a split second whether individuals are competent, even before they’ve opened their mouths to speak.

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Hiring for Attitude

Leading Blog

“Most new hires do not fail on the job due to lack of skill,” says Mark Murphy. Attitude is a bigger issue than skill. Consequently, most of our approaches to selecting the right people for the job are dead wrong. In Hiring for Attitude , Murphy lists the top five reasons why new hires failed: Coachability (26%): The ability to accept and implement feedback from bosses, colleagues, customers, and others.

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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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Are You Effective In Giving Praise To Your Employees?

Tanveer Naseer

When it comes to what we communicate to our employees, few messages have as much impact as offering words of praise to those we lead. The importance of praise to an organization’s success has been shown in numerous studies performed by management experts, psychologists, and neurologists. One study even demonstrated how just saying ‘thank you’ to your employees can lead to an increase in productivity and employee engagement.

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10 Tips on How to Shine in a Talent Review Meeting

Great Leadership By Dan

If you’re a manager, at some point in your career, if you haven’t already, you’ll be required to participate in something called a “talent review” meeting. That’s HR-speak for a meeting where a bunch of managers get together behind closed doors and talk about their employee’s strengths and weaknesses. Like it or not, employee ranking is still a fact of organizational life.

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8 Essential Principles of Effective Leadership

Leading Blog

Gayle Beebe has written a book on how effective and moral leaders develop and more importantly, how they must continue to develop. Too often leaders think they have made it and stop working on themselves. Eventually they become leaders in title only. He writes in The Shaping of an Effective Leader : Our understanding of leadership does not come to us all at once.

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The Learning Paradox: How Too Much Homework Harms

Leading in Context

How Much Homework is Too Much? As we build awareness about learning, motivation and the general well-being of children, more people are beginning to wonder if the way we use homework is part of the solution or part of the problem.

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The March 2012 Leadership Development Carnival Going Green Edition

Great Leadership By Dan

Welcome to the March 4th, 2012 Leadership Development Carnival Going Green Edition. Nope, it's not sustainable, organic, or renewable. not that green. It's the wearing of the green to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day this month! There's a lot 'o good reading here, so why not pour a mug of your favorite green beverage and take in a wee bit of leadership development.

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7 Best Practice Best Practices

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Self Leadership Value Creation Have you ever watched an artist or athlete who made what they do look easy? Their performance comes so naturally that, as you watch you think, “I could do that.” Whitney Houston opens her lips, amazing music comes out. Michael Jordan goes in for a layup, jumps from the 3-point line and soars through the [.].

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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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The Success of Failure

Women on Business

Entrepreneurs are created for a variety of reason, but the most pressing question is ‘have you been successful because of skill or luck?’ Most entrepreneurs will be very offended at this question, but it has merit and whether we like it or not every story of success is tinged with the luck. You were at the right place, with the right product and you met the right person.

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Team Building is the Unseen Part of Better Teamwork

Great Results Team Building

Every office manager, athletic coach or school principal wants a workplace with better teamwork, but without team building the behaviors that you define as evidence of teamwork will likely go unseen. While it is common for some to underestimate the behaviors that are often defined as evidence of teamwork – collaboration, politeness, rapport, and efficiency in accomplishing a common goal - teamwork is actually a great deal more important than you might think.

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What’s Right About Being Liked

Persuasive Powerhouse

. Leaders are emotionally strong. They don’t express any feelings that might imply that they have weaknesses. This includes any hint of a desire to want to be liked by others. Never, ever, let your guard down in case someone might take advantage of you. Wrong. There are misconceptions about leadership and likeability. When I hear a leader tell me that they are a different person at home than they are at work (a common statement), I wonder if they are hiding a side of them that may be more

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What If We Changed Our Perspective of New Hires?

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Career Development Leadership Coaching Change happens, and we need to hire new people to fill existing or new roles. We go through the typical search: Check our internally and our networks Engage others to check their networks Review and reduce the number of possibilities Interview the candidates Gather feedback Hire Whatever the process is, the thought running through the [.].

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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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What the Heck is a “Ding in the Universe”

Leadership Freak

I never appreciated Steve Jobs’ quote, “I want to put a ding in the universe,” until I talked with Gary Hamel, Wall Street Journal’s #1 most influential business thinker. I asked Gary what leadership behaviors have the most impact on organizations. Gary took a swing at the reason we don’t put a ding in the [.].

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What GE Aviation Knows About Inspiring Workers

Next Level Blog

Last week, I wrote a post that asked if your organization is ready for the era of connect and collaborate. Today, I want to go a little deeper on the connection part. In particular, I want to talk about how leaders can accomplish big things by connecting their people with the higher purpose of their work. You’ve probably heard the. Click headline to continue.

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What is Organizational Culture, Anyway?

Kevin Eikenberry

Have you ever been in the woods, walking on a trail? If so you know that while you see the trees in front of you it is hard to describe the whole forest. At that moment, the forest for you is the trees – because you just see the trees around you. Patterns, dimension and [.].

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Persistent Leadership

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Self Leadership Yesterday was my 29th anniversary. My how time flies. It seems like just a short time ago that Vicky and I were saying “I do” in a small church in rural west Tennessee. It was pouring rain too, which was great because my fraternity brothers had all driven miles to decorate my car and get [.].

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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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Replace Jealousy and Defensiveness by Building Team Trust

Great Results Team Building

If you are currently part of a group that lacks team trust or is struggling with issues like petty jealousy or defensiveness, rest assured that there is hope. Any negative environment you are now experiencing can be improved by investing time in building or repairing relationships – but once you have acknowledged that there is a problem, the next step is accepting that you CANNOT just “get rid of” those negative behaviors!

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Ken Blanchard and Chick-fil-A’s Mark Miller, on What It Takes to Grow as a Leader

Next Level Blog

Ken Blanchard is the co-founder and chief spiritual officer of The Ken Blanchard Companies, an international management training and consulting firm. One of the most influential leadership gurus in the world, he is the author or co-author of dozens of books, including the international bestseller “The One Minute Manager.” Mark Miller is vice president of training and development for Chick-fil-A. .

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Your Values in Action

Kevin Eikenberry

Last week, my son Parker was telling me about an exercise he completed in one of his college courses. Students were asked to list the most important things and people in their lives in various categories. During the course of the exercise, they were continually asked to take one item away. One by one, important [.].

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Local Leadership Impact

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Would you like to increase your impact in your local community? We began a community of leaders in the Tulsa, Oklahoma area last year that began with the Chick-fil-A Leadercast and we’ve gone on to host breakfast panel discussions that have a number of people in Tulsa sharing, discussing, and collaborating on the idea of [.].

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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.

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Creating a Hoop Free Zone

Leadership Freak

Dogs enjoy jumping through hoops, people don’t. Sluggish organizations require employees to jump through hoops before they act. Hoops represent frigid control. Passion is inversely proportional to the number of hoops required. Hoops are roadblocks masquerading as protection. Why it matters: Fewer hoops fuel passion. Dynamic organizations eliminate controlling hoops and develop energizing stepping stones that propel [.].

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A Day In Your Life

Persuasive Powerhouse

More years ago than I care to count, I attended a corporate program by an efficiency consultant who is now very well known. He was teaching us to set personal and career goals, at the time a concept that was something new to me. He facilitated a session where we were mind mapping (also a new concept to me) our desired future. It was fun and engaging, since at that point, I really had spent most of my time reacting to life rather than doing any actual planning.

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Measure Carefully

Kevin Eikenberry

Today, a metaphorical quotation packing a powerful punch. “The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measure anew each time he sees me, while all the rest go on with their old measurements and expect them to fit me.” – George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, Nobel laureate Questions to Ponder What old beliefs [.].

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The March 2012 Leadership Development Carnival Going Green Edition

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development [link] Welcome to the March 4th, 2012 Leadership Development Carnival Going Green Edition. Nope, it’s not sustainable, organic, or renewable… not that green. It’s the wearing of the green to celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day this month!

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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Leadership Lessons From Car Tires

Leadership Freak

Organizations and individuals remain stuck because they don’t understand and/or can’t endure the disorienting unbalance “new” always creates. Wise leaders understand prepare for, accept, and work through the pains of disequilibrium. Unbalance always precedes balance. From the garage: The tires on your car are balanced on spin balance machines. Technicians spin the tires and add [.].

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Why Should I Hire You?

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

In this guest post, Thabo Hermanus, owner of a recruitment firm in South Africa, offers sage advice that is helpful for people at all stages of their career, not just those actively seeking a new job. Your life is one big interview! People tend to think that the chance to shine is limited to when they sit in the formal job interview going through the motions of a Q&A session.

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The True Believer

Kevin Eikenberry

Today’s Resource Recommendation is The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer. If I wanted to start a religion (or a cult), I can think of no better place to begin than this book. Since I don’t want to do those things, why would I be recommending this book? Yes, the [.].

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Start Living Like The Main Character In Your Life Story.

Rich Gee Group

It's time to make a decision.

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How to Write OKRs: 45 Effective Examples

Discover how to align everyday employee priorities with company goals. Many companies are embracing objectives and key results (OKRs) as the best practice for committing to goals and following through. Objectives are outcomes that reflect current company priorities. Each employee should write OKRs that roll up to larger company goals. Show employees how they contribute to the larger mission.