Sat.Sep 29, 2012 - Fri.Oct 05, 2012

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A Question of Intimidation: Questions that Shut People Down

Let's Grow Leaders

Questions are powerful. They can motivate, and inspire deeper thinking. Great questions empower. Questions can also intimidate, frustrate and shut down people down. The most dangerous are those where the leader already ”knows” the answer… and is looking to see if the person will “get it right.” Closed ended questions can have a similar impact, [.

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The 3 Secrets To Fantastic Work

Terry Starbucker

(Note: While I’m at SOBCon NW this weekend, I wanted to repeat one of my favorite past posts (from June of 2009), that is also featured in my free e-book “ Leadership From a Glass Half-Full “ ). After doing something for 27 years, you’d think that you could figure it all out and know how to “do” it really, really well, and gain fulfillment too.

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3 Things Great Leaders Do To Set People Up For Success

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Career Development Leadership Coaching Leadership Development Jimmy walked slowly down the hall to his supervisor’s office. His thoughts were on a sales presentation. The presentation was in two hours and he really needed to put the finishing touches on it. He clutched the small coffee cup in his hand, careful not to spill it. His mind raced as he thought about [.].

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Feedback Can Be Fun

Leading Blog

This is a guest post by Jack Zenger, co-author of How To Be Exceptional: Drive Leadership Success By Magnifying Your Strengths. Readers will learn not only how to pinpoint their best leadership traits but will learn ways to leverage their strengths into ones that truly distinguish them. Why do people all over the world enjoy participating in games and sports?

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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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Connect, Influence, Inspire: A Growing Leaders Salute to Bill Gessert

Let's Grow Leaders

Great leaders connect with, influence and inspire those around them. Bill Gessert, who has served as President of the International Customer Service Association since 2007, has spent his career creating forums and opportunities for leaders to connect and grow. And so, on the eve of Customer Service Week, first founded by the ICSA in 1988, I [.] The post Connect, Influence, Inspire: A Growing Leaders Salute to Bill Gessert appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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What is Unethical Leadership?

Leading in Context

Exploring "Unethical Leadership" How do we define unethical leadership? While there are hundreds of stories that illustrate examples of unethical leadership in the news, those stories taken together still do not clearly define the boundaries of what unethical leadership includes.

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First Look: Leadership Books for October 2012

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in October. The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth : Live Them and Reach Your Potential by John C. Maxwell. Makers : The New Industrial Revolution by Chris Anderson. The Wisdom of Failure : How to Learn the Tough Leadership Lessons Without Paying the Price by Jim McConoughey and Laurence G.

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Beginning Well to End Strong: Stories and Tips for Successful Starts

Let's Grow Leaders

“Let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.The blessing is in the seed.” Muriel Rukeyser How we begin a new project or an important day matters. Preparing your team for the day is vital– reinforcing the vision, energizing the plans, refreshing the excitement. A Sweet Story [.] The post Beginning Well to End Strong: Stories and Tips for Successful Starts appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Is Too Much Stress Damaging Your Chromosomes?

Michael Lee Stallard

Too much stress, including stress in your workplace, damages “telomeres” on the ends of your chromosomes and causes rapid aging. Interestingly, when people connect in supportive relationships it triggers the production of enzymes called “telomerase” that heal damaged telomeres. Check out this outstanding 58 minute National Geographic documentary entitled “ Stress: Portrait of a Killer ” about this and other research on the effects of stress.

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A Rising Tide in Leadership

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Character Based Leader Book Leadership Development The Problem There is a rising tide of character-based leaders in our world. Some are tired of the tactics and motivations that caused our global economic challenges and are self-motivated to help bring about change starting with themselves. They search out, create and share information and resources as they coach and develop friends, coworkers, or [.].

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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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LeadershipNow 140: September 2012 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from September 2012 that you might have missed: @davidrock101: 3 ways to think deeply at work. 10 unexpected ways to show your staff that you value them by @mjasmus. World's top brands of 2012. The Process is as Important as the Product : 7 Tips to Manage Both by @JesseLynStoner. The Power of Genuine Commitment by @TimElmore.

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Hold that Question: The Art of Big Questions, Held Long

Let's Grow Leaders

“The number one difference between a Nobel prize winner and others is not their IQ or work ethic, but that they sit with the questions longer.” -Peter Drucker I’ve been thinking a lot about the value of big questions. As leaders, our days can become so full of questions which we feel immediate pressure to [.] The post Hold that Question: The Art of Big Questions, Held Long appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Being Quiet

Persuasive Powerhouse

. “Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.” ~ Napoleon Hill. . Many of us are continually re-learning the wisdom that tells us when it’s important to stay quiet. Yet that is what important conversations should strive for – lots of pauses and silence ripe with thought and ideas.

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S. Max Brown: The Character-Based Leader Co-Author Interview

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Character Based Leader Book Check out this great interview with Author, S. Max Brown Chapter Title: ”The Real Power of Humility” S. Max Brown Vice President, Leadership Initiatives, Rideau Recognition Solutions In the last ten years, Max Brown has made over one thousand presentations in locations all around the world. He’s taken clients rappelling off the Great Wall of [.

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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 8 Strengths of Humility

Leadership Freak

I ask G.J. Hart, when he was CEO of Texas Roadhouse, if he could spot emerging leaders. He didn’t rule out talent, education, or leadership presence, but he replied, “I can usually tell if they have the humility to make it.” Hart’s statement so deeply impacted me that I wrote about humility in, “The Character Based Leader.” [.].

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Feedback: Getting Great Insights From People Who Matter

Let's Grow Leaders

As leaders, getting enough feedback on your leadership can sometimes be a challenge. Of course, it’s important to know what your boss thinks. What is equally important are the broader impressions your leadership is making up down and sideways. Today I share some formal and informal tools to get the conversation started. Who Are You [.] The post Feedback: Getting Great Insights From People Who Matter appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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How Leaders Build Employee Loyalty In The Most Trying Times

Tanveer Naseer

The following is a guest post by Jeremy Kingsley. Lack of loyalty is a serious problem in organizations everywhere today. No longer do people join a company and devote the rest of their working lives to it. Companies are, of course, not exactly known for offering up thirty or forty years of employment, a gold watch and pension plan. Times have changed.

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Tara Alemany: The Character-Based Leader Co-Author Interview

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Character Based Leader Book Check out this great interview with Author, Tara Alemany: Chapter Title: ”The Importance of Perseverance” Tara Alemany Owner, Aleweb Social Marketing Tara R. Alemany is the owner and founder of Aleweb Social Marketing. (In keeping with the times, her teen-aged daughter created the “Aleweb” name as a mash-up between their last name and “the web.

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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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25 Tips for New Managers

Great Leadership By Dan

?This post was recently published as a guest post on SmartBlog on Leadership : Congratulations, you’re now the boss! Welcome to the deep end of the pool - now it’s time to learn to swim. Managing your first direct reports is one of the most challenging transitions a leader will ever have to navigate. If I was to sit down over a beer or cup coffee and mentor a new first-time boss, here’s what I’d have to say (over a series of meetings, not all at once): 1.

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Insights for Women Leaders: Motivate Team Members for Success

Women on Business

Guest Post by Grayce Belvedere Young, president of the Organization Development Practice at Prouty Project (learn more about Grayce at the end of this post). Women in leadership are well positioned to influence and guide their team members for greater success. How can they tap into their team members’ intrinsic motivations to fully engage them for both personal and professional success?

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What Leaders Can Learn from How Romney Won the Debate

Next Level Blog

Almost immediately after the first U.S. presidential debate on Wednesday, practically every major news outlet from Fox News to MSNBC to the Financial Times of London declared Mitt Romney the outright winner over Barack Obama. Having watched it myself, I have to agree. Romney cleaned Obama’s clock. As I was watching it, I thought of that scene in The Untouchables where Kevin Costner’s Eliot Ness says to Sean Connery’s Malone, “I want to get Capone.

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Mike Henry Sr. Interviewed by Bob Burg

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Character Based Leader Book [link] Chief Instigator Mike Henry Sr. was interviewed this past week by the one-and-only Bob Burg! Mike talks about the origins of the group and what triggered the project that became The Character-Based Leader: Instigating a Leadership Revolution… One Person at a Time. Bob Burg is a best selling author of The Go Giver and 3 [.].

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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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Purpose Must be a Priority

Great Leadership By Dan

This week's Thursday guest post by Jeremy Kingsley: As the leader of your team, you must clearly understand and be able to pass on the purpose of your organization and your team’s role within that organization. If you don’t know the purpose of your efforts, you certainly won’t be able to inspire your team to success. Communicating purpose will take more than requiring your team to memorize the company mission statement, however.

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How to Quickly End Useless Meetings

Leadership Freak

More lying happens in meetings than any other place in your organization. Most lies are lies of silence. In meetings, silence isn’t consent, its cowardice, self-interest, manipulation, or political expediency. Honesty, more than anything else, transforms meetings. Truth-telling ends useless meetings. When there’s more honesty in the “meeting after the meeting,” excellence is a myth.

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How Women Can Build Careers as Business Leaders

Women on Business

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Women have unique skills and abilities that make them innately great leaders, but women are still very much in the minority in the world of business leadership. Susan M. Heathfield, the About.com Guide to Human Resources, interviewed Susan Lucas-Conwell, global chief executive officer at Great Place to Work, to gain perspective on how women can build careers as business leaders.

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Christina Haxton: The Character-Based Leader Co-Author Interview

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Character Based Leader Book Check out this great interview with Author Christina Haxton: Chapter Title: “Professional Intimacy as the Key to Become a Sustainable Leader” Christina Haxton Founder and President, Sustainable Leadership, Inc. Christina Haxton offers a unique combination of professional experience, training and education in the psychology of interpersonal communication, the brain science behind motivation and HUMOR with more [.

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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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Are you Ready for the Next Level?

Great Leadership By Dan

At my last company, where I was responsible for leadership development and succession planning, I once received a phone call on a Friday afternoon from one of my favorite managers. It went like this: “Dan, I just found out I’m going to promoted to a senior manage on Monday. Is there a senior manager school I could go to ASAP?”. My first reaction was, “Seriously?!”.

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Letting Go of the 12 Behaviors Holding You Back

Leadership Freak

12 Behaviors that always hold leaders back: Avoiding. Avoiding is the path to mediocrity. Copying others and loosing you. Copying others is useful when it aligns with your strengths. When it doesn’t align, it creates stress, pressure, frustration, and failure. Over thinking and under acting; stressing preparation over execution. Most organizations plan well and execute poorly. [.].

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5 Things to Put on Your Do-Not-Do List to Be a Successful Business Woman

Women on Business

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: To be a successful business woman, you need a focused To-Do list, but you should also create a Do-Not-Do list and stick to it at all times. On the She Takes on the World blog, Fauzia Burke of FSB Associates shares five things you should put on your Do-Not-Do list to ensure you’re positioned for success in your business career rather than failure.

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Feedback & Coaching: Putting the Pieces Together

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Feedback is apart of every organization and a very important part of leadership and employee development. Daniel Pink’s book Drive explains, “We inhabit a landscape of lush feedback in most realms of our life. We play a video game and we get a score. We press a button on the ATM and we get our [.].

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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.