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Embracing Stress To Lead Others Effectively

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.”. Peter Marshall. Avoiding stress in professional life is like achieving work-life balance or eliminating risk: it’s not possible.

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The Best Damn Doer Syndrome: Why the Hardest Workers Seldom Get Promoted

Let's Grow Leaders

Are you working too hard? Does everything fall apart when you’re not around? Do you find yourself bailing out your boss, your peers, and your team? If you can answer YES to any of these questions, it’s likely you’re being held back by the “Best Damn Doer” syndrome. Be careful. I know. I’ve felt the guilt of being promoted over people working longer and harder than me.

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5 Ways Forgiveness Lowers Accountability and Influence

Lead Change Blog

Forgive and forget…. If we want to be seen as good people, that’s what we do every time someone has caused us pain. Maybe she didn’t hand in that report you needed on time, so you had to work an extra three hours, missing your daughter’s volleyball game. Or maybe your coworker cut you off mid-sentence in a meeting and then later reiterated an idea of yours that he claimed as his own.

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Why More Women Are Starting Day-Trading Careers

Women on Business

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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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Followership: Secret to Military 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]. “It is the men behind who make the man ahead.”. Merle Crowell. Leadership is a continual journey through actions and growth, not merely a journey’s end for a resume. Search your favorite online bookstore for ‘leadership’ and you will find in excess of 22,000 books.

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Is Your Boss A Gamer? Win Well Anyway.

Let's Grow Leaders

Gamers are manipulators. They spend their days playing dirty politics, working one person against one another in their ceaseless quest for status. In their mind, winning is not related to organization results. Their meetings and efforts at delegation usually have two layers of meaning, with political subtext just below the surface. Gamers attract a motley cast of sycophants, other Gamers, and the disaffected.

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Over-led and Under-managed

Leadership Freak

Last night I coached a successful leader who turned an organization around. Now he wonders if he’s the one to solve the problems success has created. Successful leadership creates management challenges. Successful management creates leadership challenges.

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The Best Culture Test May Be A Conversation Away

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 a leader can’t describe the culture, the organization will never achieve it” – Todd Hirneisen. As leaders, we are aware of the importance of culture. Leaders are continually looking for ways to evaluate the culture in their organizations.

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Where Do We Go Next After We Succeed?

Tanveer Naseer

So you achieved that long sought-after success at work – great! Everyone is cheering you on, applauding your success while you enjoy your time in the limelight. But as time moves on, your colleagues start to focus on other matters and that success that garnered you all those accolades and praise slowly dims, leaving you with one uncomfortable and glaring question – what do I do now?

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The Box of Self-Deception

Lead Change Blog

“ Identify someone with a problem and you’ll be identifying someone who resists the suggestion that he has one. That’s self-deception – the inability to see that one has a problem. ” . (The Arbinger Institute in Leadership and Self-Deception , 2nd ed., p. 17). We are “in the box,” as the Arbinger folks say, when we engage in certain behaviors which create or reinforce our self-deception.

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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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Making Sense of Speed, Agility and Innovation

Leading Blog

This is a post by Jeffrey Phillips and Alex Verjovsky authors of Outmaneuver: OutThink, don’t OutSpend. Every executive knows that speed is important. Meg Whitman at Hewlett-Packard declared recently that “the future belongs to the fast.” But is speed enough? If you can simply accelerate the current activities, products and strategies that your business implements, will that help you win in the future?

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If You Aren’t Fired With Enthusiasm, You’ll Be Fired With Enthusiasm.

Rich Gee Group

“If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you’ll be fired with enthusiasm.” – Vince Lombardi. The funny thing is, it happens ALL the time. And people wonder. ‘What Happened?’: I went to work every day. I was there on time. I did what they told me to do. It’s all about PERCEPTION. I know I’m going to get a lot of flak for say it, but it really comes down to how your superiors, your clients, your colleagues, and your team perceive you.

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Make a Plan for Community Giving: Passion, Plans and Philanthropy

Women on Business

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Feedback is Good (Even When it Feels So Bad)

Lead Change Blog

What does “Performance Feedback” mean to you? A painful waste of time, or a great opportunity? Both have been said about the same experience. How? I’ve learned it is possible to find value in even the most poorly delivered evaluation, no matter where it comes from. We can all process feedback so we can benefit from it rather than reject critical comments.

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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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Attitude Impacts Everything

Joseph Lalonde

D id you know that you have the ability to determine how your day will go? It’s true. While we can’t make people do what we want. And we can’t change how others treat us. We can make sure we have a good day. You may be wondering how this could be. It’s simple, yet difficult, to implement. We have control over the biggest influence of how our day goes.

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The Virtue of Humility

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by Ron Wallace: When you envision the best boss you ever worked for, what character trait comes to mind? Determination? Integrity? Maybe optimism? What about humility? Contrary to popular opinion, humility is not a sign of weakness -- it is discipline and strength personified. In my more than 40 years of working at UPS International, the values that UPS holds dear became second nature to me and the company’s culture of "we, not me" has inspired generations of employees to create one o

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Asking the Right Questions

Women on Business

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10 Tips for Making Sure People Give You What You Want Every Time

Lead Change Blog

Several years ago I was coaching an executive sales team. During the meeting, someone brought up that the salespeople in the field were struggling. The VP of Sales said something like, “I have been meaning to address that for some time. We really do need to do a better job of training our people.” I was present a couple of months later when one of the directors walked into the room before the meeting began and threw a huge three-ringed binder on the conference table as he exclaimed, “Here it is.

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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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WHE29: Behavioral Economics for Business Leaders: Turn Good Intentions into Positive Results | with Bob Nease

Engaging Leader

The new book, The Power of Fifty Bits: The New Science of Turning Good Intentions into Positive Results, by Bob Nease, PhD, is the first practical guide for business leaders to apply behavioral economics to activate the good intentions of people in their workforce. Behavioral economics has shown that people’s choices and actions often are […] The new book, The Power of Fifty Bits: The New Science of Turning Good Intentions into Positive Results, by Bob Nease, PhD, is the first practical gu

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7 Steps to Holding Millennials Accountable

Leadership Freak

(When this post was first published, it came out blank. Sorry for the inconvience.) For as long as I’ve lived, the older generation has complained about the younger. “What’s the world coming to?

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The True Test of a Vision

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

The true test of a vision is whether it continues to inspire and guide people after the leader is gone. Consider the seamless transition at Southwest Airlines when founder Herb Kelleher stepped down compared with Disney’s two decades of floundering after the death of Walt Disney. Time and again, we see examples of companies that […]. The post The True Test of a Vision appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.

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What Happens When Pride Gets in the Way of Leadership

Lead from Within

Like many things in life, pride can be either a positive or a negative. It’s a great and appropriate thing to feel when you’ve worked hard to accomplish something difficult. But when pride becomes too entangled with ego, it comes across as arrogance. This kind of pride can be personally destructive and dangerous to the effectiveness your leadership.

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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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What We Can Learn From The Hard Times

Joseph Lalonde

E veryone will experience hard times in their lives. These are the times when it seems like you can’t get ahead. Maybe your bills are piling up. Or it could be the initiatives you’ve launched have failed. Hard times try us. You Will Have Hard Times In Your Life. The last couple of years have felt like a mighty battle has been waged in my life.

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What Does “Good Leadership” Mean?

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton We need to talk openly with leaders about what "good leadership" means. Without those conversations, they might think it means making the sales numbers and meeting aggressive work deadlines, being knowledgeable when people come to them for help, or staying within budget. Those things are all important, but "good leadership" requires much more.

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Oh Lord it’s Hard to Be Humble

Leadership Freak

You never fully become a leader. Goals are achieved. Character is pursued. Humility is the most challenging pursuit. Illusive: All character qualities are illusive. Courage, restraint, and love have new expressions in new circumstances.

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Mindfulness at Work Doesn’t End When You Leave Work

Next Level Blog

This week I wrote a piece over at Fast Company about a “minor work habit” that is leading to burnout for countless workers, from junior team members to executives. What’s the habit? E-mail. Or rather, answering work e-mail after 7 or 8 PM. What I prove in the article is that there’s an extremely high chance that all those e-mails you feel obligated to answer from your boss are completely unnecessary — and I have numbers to prove it.

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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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You Don’t Need New

Joseph Lalonde

T here are a lot of sparkly things out there to get our attention. From the latest productivity app to the newest course by the big name leader to the latest and greatest book on leadership, there’s always something vying for our attention. Most of the time we give in. We grab the shiny, new object and adore it. Until we’re finished… Then we put it aside.

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What Does “Good Leadership” Mean?

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton We need to talk openly with leaders about what "good leadership" means. Without those conversations, they might think it means making the sales numbers and meeting aggressive work deadlines, being knowledgeable when people come to them for help, or staying within budget. Those things are all important, but "good leadership" requires much more.

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Become an Artist and Other Secrets to Success

Leadership Freak

Three keys to Success: #1. Become an artist. Paint a picture of personal success in your mind. Avoid artificial goals like money, power, and prestige. Paint with colors that express your values.

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Experience the joy and freedom of leadership

Persuasive Powerhouse

Are you a leader who was promoted into a position of responsibility for a work team because you were smart and successful as an individual contributor? Are you proud of the expertise that allows you to know the course of action to be taken in almost every situation? Do your team members beat a path to your door to ask lots of direction about how to do their work?

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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.