Sat.Sep 15, 2012 - Fri.Sep 21, 2012

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Forgive and Refresh: Returning to The Leader You “Meant to Be”

Let's Grow Leaders

Today, Rosh Hashanah, marks the beginning of the Jewish New Year. Although I am not Jewish, I am intrigued by the concepts surrounding this holiday, particularly the ritual of teshuva– a time to forgive and seek forgiveness. When making teshuva, people reflect on the year and consider the people from whom they need forgiveness… and [.] The post Forgive and Refresh: Returning to The Leader You “Meant to Be” appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Leadership Isn’t About Checking Boxes

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth . Today’s post is a short rant, but one every leader should take to heart – STOP CHECKING BOXES. To believe leadership can be reduced to task management is simply flawed thinking. Here’s the thing – you can manage to a list, but you certainly cannot lead to a list. A check the box approach to leadership accomplishes only one thing – it limits your ability to lead.

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10 Guideposts To Leadership Success

Terry Starbucker

I recently celebrated the 30th anniversary of my entry into the business world – I still remember that day in 1982, when, fresh out of college, I walked through the door of Ernst & Whinney in San Antonio, Texas, and started my journey to the place where I now sit and write this post, in Portland, Oregon. It’s been a great ride, full of twists, turns, surprises, thrills, chills, great success, gut-checking failures, and yep, fun.

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Serving as a Leader

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Servant Leadership is one the most effective ways to make a positive impact on your organization and the members within it. We have all heard the saying “Lead By Example,” but Servant Leadership takes leading by example to the next level. Leadership is about developing, growing and serving others. Servant leaders focus on the needs [.].

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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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Who’s Your Leadership Pit Crew? A Saturday Salutation

Let's Grow Leaders

Who most serves as your leadership pit crew? How have they made a difference in your leadership? When is the last time you really thanked them? Support Makes a Difference Last weekend, my friend Julie and I (along with our three, 6 year olds) had an opportunity to serve as cheering squad and pit crew [.] The post Who’s Your Leadership Pit Crew?

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1 in 4 Women Entrepreneurs Left Their Corporate Jobs to Escape Toxic Cultures

Women on Business

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: According to a recent survey of 300 women entrepreneurs, 23% of women entrepreneurs left their secure, well-paying corporate jobs and struck out on their own to escape what they believed to be a toxic culture in the corporate world. Furthermore, 68% of those women entrepreneurs who left corporate jobs claim they [.

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Looking for Team Engagement? Check the Microwave

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Is there anything more nasty than a neglected break-room microwave oven? If a comic-book super-villain ever attacks earth, it will likely emerge from the splatter of last night’s warmed over spaghetti and be fueled by the petroleum fumes of artificially butter-flavored popcorn. Take a Peek Want a quick look at your organization’s culture?

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A Strategic Story about Strategic Storytelling

Let's Grow Leaders

Over the years, I have used strategic storytelling workshops to help drive key messages, build teams, and enhance communication skills. Today, I share the story of how my interest in that began, and why I frequently use it in my leadership today. The Strategic Story Behind Strategic Storytelling Many years ago back in my HR [.] The post A Strategic Story about Strategic Storytelling appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Free Website Design Spotlight: A Tool You Can Use

Women on Business

Being a small business owner myself, I understand the utter terror that grips you when you have to make a purchase for your business. Everything costs you a fortune and your cash flow is never where you want it to be. There seems to be a never ending mantra “I know I need it, but I just can’t afford it right now”. Well ladies the wait is over. We all know that to be successful in today’s global market we need a web presence and I have uncovered the best kept secret in web design.

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How Leaders Are Creating Engagement In Today’s Workplaces

Tanveer Naseer

If there’s one topic that continues to persist in the minds and radars of most leaders today, it’s the issue of employee engagement. Specifically, how do we go about fostering an engaged workforce when we have fewer resources, more competition, and need to accomplish more in less time. This was the focus of HCI’s 2012 Employee Engagement Conference where business leaders from NIKE, Warner Bros.

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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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Absorbed by Day-to-Day Challenges, Leaders Are Failing to Go to the Balcony Robbing Themselves, Their Organizations, and the World

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development In this post, Bill Fox and Samira Askarova of AEGIS.net share their thoughts on the recent bestselling book, The Strategist by Cynthia Montgomery. Our intention is to take a 3,000 ft. view of the book, provide an overview, and talk about the three most impactful ideas that came up for us to intrigue and inspire more leaders [.].

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Post-Mortem of Success: Questions that Drive Sustained Results

Let's Grow Leaders

Most great project managers know that it’s important to do a post-mortem after any major undertaking. In my experience, a post-mortem is much more likely to occur when something went terribly wrong. I have heard (and said) in the heat of frustration, “we just need to get through this now, but afterwards we need [.] The post Post-Mortem of Success: Questions that Drive Sustained Results appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Why Burnout Should Alarm Executive Leaders

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest Post by Ben Fanning , the Burnout Specialist: Let me share with you what happened when I started my job at the largest sporting goods retailer in the world. I took over a supply chain team just a few months before the largest sales day of the year…Black Friday. It’s called Black Friday because it’s traditionally the day that stores move into the “Black” and become profitable for the year.

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WAHM’s Conquering the World

Women on Business

Conquering the world isn’t an easy job. In the world of entrepreneurship there are endless possibilities in the type of work or business you may be running. Many are home based and may even be internet based. This allows us to be home, run our own schedule and take charge of our lives. It also leaves the general public room to wonder what you do for work and in my own experience, if you really even work.

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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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The Secret to Self-Confidence

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Self Leadership I used to think self-confidence meant I would never have a doubt. When I think a back on this significant experience in my life, I realize that’s not true. In 1997, this I knew… I would leave my corporate job in my 20th year with my employer, in 2004. I made plans to start my [.].

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Career Development: It’s All About Becoming Dispensable

Persuasive Powerhouse

This guest blog post by Julie Winkle Giulioni celebrates the September 18 launch of her book with Beverly Kaye, Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go: Career Conversations Employees Want. Julie has spent the past 25 years improving performance through learning. She consults with organizations to develop and deploy innovative instructional designs and training worldwide.

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Leadership Development is not Supposed to be FUN

Great Leadership By Dan

When it comes to leadership development, I’ve always been a bit of a curmudgeon. Here’s the way I’ve always thought about leadership development: There is no such thing as a natural born leader - it takes a lot of HARD work to become one. If it was easy, then we wouldn’t be having discussions about a lack of leaders. Geoff Colvin, in his book Talent is Overrated , was right on.

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Women Still Lag in Journalism – By A Wide Margin

Women on Business

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Journalism is part of the larger media business, so it’s not surprising that women still lag significantly behind men in that industry just as they do in other industries. Susan Antilla whose journalistic credits span a 30-year career and include Bloomberg View, TheStreet.com, and more, shares some insights into this inequality on CNN.com: “Men make up 60% of newspaper employees, write 80% of newspaper op-eds and author most articles in ‘thought leader

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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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DIY Leadership Development: Easy Leadership Programs You Can Run Yourself

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Formal leadership development programs are invaluable when developing leadership talent. Getting outside perspective is vital, and external facilitation can make all the difference. It’s also possible to supplement these programs with workshops leaders run themselves. Such programs provide leaders an opportunity to share mindset, enhance transparency, and review lessons learned.

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Failure is Part of Innovation

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton To Innovate, Rethink the Blueprint If we just try to make something better using the design blueprint that we've always used, it is very difficult to innovate. Using the blueprint we have used in the past ties us to the assumptions and limitations of those blueprints.

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Are You Consciously or Unconsciously Values-Driven?

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

To live intentionally, you must surface your values – not the ones you think you should have, but the ones you really do have. Our values are our deeply held beliefs about what is right and good. They drive our behaviors, whether we are conscious of them or not. Many people adopt the values articulated by their parents, organizations or institutions.

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How Big Is the Gender Wage Gap in Your State? Now You Can Find Out

Women on Business

Want to know how big the wage gap is in your state? Thanks to a comprehensive analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data released today (and a handy interactive online tool ), you can find out just how big the wage gap is between men and women in each of the 435 Congressional District in all 50 states of the country. The analysis was conducted by the National Partnership for Women & Families.

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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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Driving Diversity: 3 Ways for Leaders to Effectively Navigate Their Workplace

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Diversity. Much discussion has surrounded this small but powerful word over the past twenty years in our workplaces. So what is it? Defined at its simplest, diversity it is the sum of differences as well as similarities among and within all people added with the glorious power that comes from that truth. As a force [.].

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Secrets to Leadership Development

Leadership Freak

The more time you dedicate to developing leaders the more successful you’ll become. Successful leaders develop leaders. You may think your job is explained in a list of responsibilities that include oversee financials, cast vision, hire and fire, etc. That’s only half the picture. If you plan to do great things you must develop great [.].

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How to Use a Leadership Coach

Next Level Blog

One way to go is to hire an experienced leadership coach that can help you take an objective look at your performance and guide you in the process of making adjustments that will make a positive difference to you, your team and your organization. Don’t have the budget for a leadership coach? Lots of organizations have a cadre of trained internal coaches you can call on.

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Women in Business: Taking the Lead and Making a Difference

Women on Business

Guest Post by Michelle Patterson, CEO of EventComplete (Learn more about Michelle at the end of this post). The balance of power is tipping toward the feminine with more women taking on the workforce by graduating en masse from higher education well and above their male counterparts as well as starting businesses and taking a leading role in how major companies around the world are run.

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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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Do You Make These 4 Mistakes When Leading?

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Coaching Leadership Development Self Leadership Let’s review the leadership errors that hurt our credibility when we lead. Leadership errors get magnified. Why? Because it’s easy for people to point fingers and blame. When leaders make mistakes, they stand out. They impact the entire organization. There are some leadership errors that are not intentional, and even then some people will still assume [.].

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Making the First Move

Leadership Freak

If you don’t move first you aren’t leading. But, don’t move first every time. Passion, vision, and compassion propel leadership-action. Leaders step in where others step back. All leaders move toward: Opportunity. Challenge. Change. Achievement. Wise leaders move toward: People over opportunities. People are leadership’s greatest opportunity, period.

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A Powerful Definition of Power

Kevin Eikenberry

I love today’s quotation (more on that later), but here is the back story to my selection today. While the quotations on which I base these Friday posts sometimes come from something I’ve recently read, often the quotations I select come from my files and database – and that is the case today. When I [.].

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Trade Unions Are Missing Women Leaders

Women on Business

In both the United States and United Kingdom, few women hold leadership positions in trade unions despite the fact that female membership in trade unions has been continually growing. A study from Queen Mary, University of London reveals some of the details about the trade union leadership gender gap. “Among the UK’s 10 larger unions, there are now four women general secretaries; however only two unions have achieved proportionality on the National Executive. “In the US, women&

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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.