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How to Achieve the Impossible

Let's Grow Leaders

IT managers, Lori and Ann, were both shocked when they were given their latest projects. What this new client wanted was really complicated, and their teams were already about to tip over, not to mention the ridiculous time frame the sales team had committed to. “Why don’t they ask us before making these impossible commitments?” “What are they smoking?

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T is for Taking Care of Your People

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care.

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Get a Mentor or Coach to Help You Connect

Michael Lee Stallard

#89 Get a Mentor or Coach. No one becomes great without mentoring and coaching. We all have blind spots – things we do that are disconnecting – and we need coaches and mentors to help us see our blind spots then advise, encourage and hold us accountable so that we grow to become Intentional Connectors. This is the eighty-ninth post in our series entitled “100 Ways to Connect.

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The Leadership Heresy You Can’t Live Without

Lead Change Blog

I’m In Trouble Now… I’m about to commit heresy. On a site dedicated to leadership…with the very word “lead” in the title, I want to address what I believe to be one of the most important aspects of your workplace leadership. In my work with thousands of business leaders across industries, geography, and over many years, I’ve repeatedly seen people lose their influence because they don’t address this one thing.

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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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On a Double Dutch Tight Rope: Your New Boss and You

Let's Grow Leaders

Over my career, I’ve underestimated the need to adapt well to a new boss more than once. Trust me, it’s harder to recover… but doable. Working for a new boss often feels like a tight rope. If you’ve got a new boss, you may be experiencing that nauseous feeling that comes from walking a fine line. That’s good. You need to be paying attention.

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The Practice of 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]. “We are shaped by practices and shape ourselves through practices. ”. Bob Dunham. What are you practicing as a leader? Leadership, like any endeavor is a skill that can be learned and honed through practice.

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Can You Manage Up? Eight Questions for Increasing Your Influence

Lead Change Blog

As I travel around the country speaking and training people to hold potentially difficult conversations, I am frequently asked if the skills and processes which I teach can be used with one’s boss. I forcefully affirm that one can be more effective as a communicator no matter to whom they may be speaking. Many times people respond with something like, “Well, sure it works if they have had the training.”.

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It’s 2015! Why Are These Annoyances Still Around?

Rich Gee Group

As you know, I am an avid follower of Reddit and I found this wonderful question posed on AskReddit — here are some of the better responses. Enjoy! Bathroom doors with the handle on the inside. I just washed my hands and now have to grab the same handle after that person didn’t???? Why are they still delivering phonebooks to my house? I always thought we would have separate highways for trucks by now.

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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]. “There is no victory at bargain basement prices. “ Dwight D. Eisenhower. . 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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How I Created a Comfortable Work-Life Balance

Women on Business

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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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Exploring the Unknown

Lead Change Blog

I was inspired by John Smith’s post “Don’t Know Nothin’ About This …” to appreciate the value of inexperience. When I look back at my life, some of the most powerful experiences came about because I just didn’t know better. Here are a few examples of times when I went into new adventures inexperienced. Career Launch. In my 20’s, when I was still in university I joined Robelle, a young software startup, as the first employee.

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2 Techniques That Transform Leadership Communication

Tanveer Naseer

The following is a guest piece by Dr. Alan Zimmerman. It was the most memorable line in the movie Cool Hand Luke. When the prisoners wouldn’t listen, the prison guard uttered that ominous line: “What we have here is a failure to communicate.” In a similar sense, almost every employee survey complains about a “lack of communication.” Perhaps you work in one of those places.

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Time Machine Tuesday: The One Reason Why We Still Insist on Honesty

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. From Our Early Files: Originally Published. 4 Sep 2013. “Never separate the life you lead from the words you speak.”. Paul Wellstone. Americans seem to be split down the middle on every public issue that comes before them these days, with one possible exception.

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22 Leadership Lessons And Quotes From Jurassic World

Joseph Lalonde

W hen Steven Spielberg’s cinematic interpretation of Michael Crichton’s 1990 novel Jurassic Park was released 22 years ago, the world of movies changed. Realistic dinosaurs took to the big screen. Science fiction seemed a bit closer to science fact. And people were once again terrified of dinosaurs roaming the earth. I have fond memories of seeing Jurassic Park in the theaters.

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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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Which Values Are Ethical Values?

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton My Applied Ethics students asked a great question that I want to answer in today's post: "Which Values Are Ethical Values?" Quick Overview Not all values are ethical values. Some values, such as efficiency, do not have an ethical component. Some ethical values involve qualities of an ethical self (such as honesty and integrity).

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3 Basic Skills / Attributes Entrepreneurs Need

Women on Business

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How to Build a Better Meeting: Part One

Great Leadership By Dan

This week’s posts are all about running better meetings! We start with a new article over at About.com on how to run better team meetings. Follow these 10 tips and you’ll have more productive team meetings where your employees walk away feeling engaged and valued. One-on-one meetings are another way for managers to demonstrate leadership. Follow these 12 tips to learn how.

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What To Do When Change Is Difficult

Joseph Lalonde

O ver the last couple of years it seems my wife and I’s lives have been turned inside out. We lost a beloved dog. A great mentor of ours moved from youth pastor to senior pastor at a different church. Another youth pastor we served under made choices that led to a moral failure and his removal from his leadership position. To top things off, we made the difficult choice to resign our position as youth leaders and leave a church we’d attended for years.

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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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A Dripping Faucet on a Quiet Night

Leadership Freak

The statement, “Everything rises and falls on leadership,” nags me like a dripping faucet on a quiet night. I told John Maxwell that I feel the weight of his statement.

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7 Tips to Build Your Confidence and Achieve Success

Women on Business

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How to Build a Better Meeting: Part Two

Great Leadership By Dan

More on running better meetings, from the Great Leadership archives: The burden of running better meetings don’t just fall on the meeting leader’s shoulder – we all have a responsible for better meetings. Read 8 Meeting Commandments that we all Need to Follow to learn how. There’s nothing like a meeting with a CEO to raise your anxiety level! See How to Survive a Meeting with the CEO.

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The Steps You Can Take To Become A Great Leader

Joseph Lalonde

Y ou’ll hear people say that great leaders are born. That’s rubbish, I say. While it’s true some people have a predisposition towards leadership, you don’t have to be born a certain way to be a great leader. Great leaders aren’t born, great leaders are made. Image via Creative Commons. The thing is, you can’t be willy-nilly about becoming a leader.

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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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15 Ways to Invite and Ignite Commitment

Leadership Freak

The ability to inspire commitment is the ability to create the future. Poor leaders invite apathy. Successful leaders ignite commitment. Uncommitted people: Lack energy. Pull back. Hang around for selfish reasons.

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2 Reasons to Be Glad You’re a ‘Broad’

Women on Business

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Welcoming the messenger

Persuasive Powerhouse

When two apparently drunk Secret Service agents crashed into a barrier while driving in front of the White House recently (later reported to be more of a “bump” than a crash), the agency’s director Joseph Clancy was not told about the incident until five days after it happened via an anonymous email. The incident created a feeding frenzy in the press that further undermined an agency that was already under scrutiny for a string of bad behaviors amongst its agents.

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How Managers Can Solve the Problem of Employee Retention

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Employees are not a replaceable commodity. According to recent research, the tide has turned and employee retention has become a critical issue for organizations. One of the easiest and most effective ways keep top talent is through “stay interviews,” developed by Bev Kaye and Sharon Jordan-Evans. First described in their bestseller, Love ‘Em or Lose ‘Em, they have fleshed out how this works in their new book Hello Stay Interviews; Goodbye Talent Loss.

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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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Solution Saturday: My Head Hurts

Leadership Freak

Dear Dan, I feel so frustrated. I just keep banging my head against the wall. Any suggestions are appreciated. Sincerely, Head Hurts Dear Hurts, Opportunities hinge on personal growth and open handed service.

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Your Development Belongs to You

Kevin Eikenberry

Yep, I’ve stated my premise in the title. Your development is yours. It doesn’t belong to your boss or your organization, it belongs to you. I’ve stated my premise, now let me state my case. Who Benefits Most? When we think about you becoming more effective at work, whether that is technical skills, interpersonal skills […]. The post Your Development Belongs to You appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Mindful Mondays: Choosing How You Want to Show Up This Week

Next Level Blog

As I wrote here earlier this year, a word that's working for me this year is the Sanskrit word sankalpa. As explained to me by one of my teachers, Sara Ivanhoe, sankalpa encourages us to focus less on what we're going to do and more on how we're going to be. Of course, those two ideas are not mutually exclusive. How we show up in any given situation has an enormous impact on what we actually accomplish.

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How to Deliver Performance Feedback That Sticks

ReImagine Work

Have you heard of the feedback sandwich? It’s when you start with something positive, share what needs to change, and finish with something positive. The concept has been around a long time. From what I gather, the foundation of it is sound. Over the years, it’s gotten misinterpreted to where it’s applied something like this: “Good to see you.

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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.