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Frontline Festival: Leaders share tips about professional development

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. This month’s festival gives tips about professional development for leaders. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! Next month’s Frontline Festival is all about favorite apps and technology. What tools do you use to stay productive?

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In a square corner with Human Performance

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. Leaders set high standards and refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance. Brian Tracy. Recently I was teaching a leadership course and the discussion migrated to the topic of moving out the 10% of the organization who need to go.

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How Great Leaders Value People

Lead Change Blog

Organizations of all sizes and industries are reimagining work cultures in this relationship economy. It’s all about the people. Consequently, servant leadership quickly is becoming the preferred practice for some of the biggest and best companies in the world. Here are three profound ways great leaders go about valuing their people. 1. Great leaders trust and believe in the people they lead.

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The 4 Dimensions of Trust

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Trust is like a bank account. You start a new relationship with a certain amount of trust, and then over time you add to that account to build a solid foundation. And like a bank account, it can be emptied overnight, if you’re not careful about your investment. Why does it matter? Trust is the […]. The post The 4 Dimensions of Trust appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.

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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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3 Ways to Help Women Entrepreneurs to Success

Women on Business

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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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Are You Giving The Right Message With Your Leadership?

Tanveer Naseer

A few weeks ago, my friend Whitney Johnson wrote a piece around perceptual biases that was inspired by something her daughter experienced in school one day. As Whitney describes in her piece, her daughter gave a presentation in one of her classes, a presentation she had spent much time and effort researching and practising. After she was done, her teacher commented “that was pretty good.

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4 Simple Ways to Turn Your Hobby into a Business

Women on Business

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12 Books that Shaped My Leadership

Nathan Magnuson

For years I’ve been asked for book recommendations. I always take them seriously because I wouldn’t be the leader I am without my library. It’s been a huge part of my leadership education. As a senior in college, I started reading business bestsellers to see how they compared with my textbooks. When I joined the workforce, I quickly started noticing positive and negative organizational dynamics I had “seen” before in the books – and I knew what needed to chang

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The Greatness of Humility

Lead Change Blog

The 12 th century philosopher Maimonides advocated that the “middle way” was the most harmonious way to live. Every character trait, whether it be generosity, greed, diligence, laziness, or any other trait, should always be tempered with a good dose of moderation. Maimonides classic work Hilchot Deot explains this concept of moderation as it relates to anger: Man should not be wrathful, easily angered; nor be like the dead, without feeling, rather he should [adopt] an intermediate course; i.e.,

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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 Art and Science of Professional Development

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Bill Bartlett : What is your position on professional development? If you are among the top 20% of all executives, you believe it is as necessary as the air you breathe whereas the remaining 80% consider it to be a waste of time or give lip service to it. I have been coaching and training business executives for over 20 years and I find the high performers demonstrate a common need to continuously raise the learning bar to stay ahead of the competition.

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5 Reasons to Outsource Your Payroll

Women on Business

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Top 10 Behaviors of Insecure Leaders

Leadership Freak

Fear begins at the top and flows down through organizations. Insecure teams are led by insecure leaders. You’re forced to be inconsistent, when you’re driven by the opinions of others.

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Rising to Leadership Challenges in Lean Times

Lead Change Blog

In this economic time, leaders are faced with many challenges to keep their respective companies competitive in the marketplace. Factors include the demand from their stakeholders to do more with less, competition from their competitors, and government regulations to have more regulation and oversight that can cause the cost of doing business to go up.

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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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A 90-Year-Old’s Ten Rules for a Healthy and Happy Life

Next Level Blog

One of the more revealing regular features in The New York Times is a little story they run each week called Sunday Routine. In it, someone, usually famous or notable in some way, walks the reader through what a typical Sunday in New York City is like for them. Quite often they have packed so many activities into their Sunday that I leave with the impression that what they’ve actually described is their fantasy of a perfect 48 hour Sunday in New York rather than what they really do.

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How to Create a Training Plan for your Employees

Women on Business

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Six Simple Questions Highly Successful Managers Keep Asking

Leadership Freak

The tragedy of poor management is lost potential and lack of fulfillment. Successful managers create environments where people make a difference for themselves and their organizations. Six simple questions all successful managers ask: #1.

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Why Your Vision Can’t Suck

Joseph Lalonde

O ne of the best ways to engage your team and ensure that they are really working towards the success of your business is to craft a vision that your team can believe in and can buy into. As leaders, we need to focus on what we are trying to accomplish and how our teams can get involved. This rings painstakingly true on an everyday basis. It is our responsibility as leaders to craft a vision that is clear, consistent, inspirational, and aligned with our core values.

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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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How leaders create great companies with stakeholders

Lead on Purpose

Thanks to the Industrial Age we (still) live in a world where most companies hire employees. They look for people with the right education, who have been trained with the right skills to do their job.

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The 5 Times Your Leadership Is Guaranteed to Fail

Lead from Within

We all want leadership to be successful. But some circumstances are reliable pointers to failure. Learn what they are and how to avoid them. Done right, leadership is difficult. It brings great rewards, but at great risk. You have to put yourself on the line—so when you do, you want the best possible odds of success. In some situations, though, failure is all but guaranteed.

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Managing the Second Thing

Leadership Freak

Obstacles make leaders relevant. Exemption is not an option. Positive thinking never eliminates obstacles. Doing great work doesn’t give you a pass on challenges, resistance, frustrations, complications, disadvantages, impediments, or hurdles.

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Facilitating silence

Persuasive Powerhouse

You need to have more meetings with less talking and more silence in them. Maybe you’ve experienced the “awkward” moment when nobody has anything to say. Relationships not be established yet, or the room becomes silent because someone said something that was “out of the box” and nobody knows what to say about that. This isn’t the kind of meeting with less talking and more silence that I’m suggesting you facilitate or encourage.

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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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3 Steps To Be A Courageous Leader

Joseph Lalonde

G reat leaders will embrace their pain. Great leaders know there will be danger ahead. Great leaders see challenges and run towards them. Do you know what each of these traits have in common? They are the epitome of a courageous leader. What Is Courage? Webster’s Dictionary defines courage as: The ability to do something that you know is difficult or dangerous.

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How to Stop Micromanaging

Kevin Eikenberry

When I ask people to list the qualities or characteristics of great leaders, I never hear “they are a micromanager.” Shocking, isn’t it? No one wants to be micromanaged, and yet we all know what it is, which means that someone is doing a lot of it. And it could be you. While you may […]. The post How to Stop Micromanaging appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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The End of Creative Thought

Leadership Freak

We choose between fakery and creative thought. Organizations where everyone “has it all together” are sick. When you maintain the illusion of competence you, propagate fakery, inflame stress, dilute relationships, and end creativity. One benefit of authenticity is creativity. Fakers: Fakers focus brainpower on preserving image. There’s little brainpower left for creativity.

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The Future of “Leadership” (Do We Need a New Word For It?)

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton While we are experiencing many global challenges, there is also a gradual global push toward better leadership.

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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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Stand On The Shoulders Of Others

Joseph Lalonde

A trait I often see in weak leaders is that they’re afraid to ask for help. They don’t want to be seen as needing help from anyone. Leading in this way is dangerous. We can’t lead alone. We must stand on the shoulders of others who have gone before us. Leading Alone Isn’t Worth It. Leading alone is a bad idea. I hope you know that.

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136: Sticky – 7 Keys to Making People Notice, Care, and Act

Engaging Leader

In a typical communication strategy, part of the plan involves leadership actions, but also involves communication content — words, images, videos, and so forth. You’ve probably heard the phrase Content Is King. You can do a great job with other aspects of your strategy, but if the content isn’t effective, you’ll fail to meet your […] In a typical communication strategy, part of the plan involves leadership actions, but also involves communication content — words, images, videos, and so fo

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What I Would Say to My Younger Self

Leadership Freak

The first time I was asked what advice I would give my younger self, I instantly knew the answer. “Get over yourself.” The trouble with the question is my younger wouldn’t listen.

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The Future of “Leadership” (Do We Need a New Word For It?)

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton While we are experiencing many global challenges, there is also a gradual global push toward better leadership.

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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.