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When Your Inner Voice Grabs the Mic

Let's Grow Leaders

As leaders… self-talk is important. We must listen to our inner voice. But what if our inner voice gets scared…and wants to grab the mic? What if our inner voice wants too much affirmation? What if our inner voice needs excessive feedback? Can an extraverted inner voice get in the way? Loud Inner Voices Why [.] The post When Your Inner Voice Grabs the Mic appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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The Invisible Woman

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Change Management Self Leadership As a child, were you fascinated with the idea of being invisible? Or wondered what it would be like to see the world and not have the world see you? Have you ever played spy games and pretended to be incognito? If you are a fan of Lord of the Rings, The Fantastic Four, Disney’s [.].

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How Important is Experience to Great Leadership?

Terry Starbucker

Not as much as you think. I was reading a quote the other day from John F. Kennedy, who in 1960 was battling perceptions in his presidential campaign that he didn’t have enough experience. Experience, he said, “ is like taillights on a boat which illuminate where we have been when we should be focusing on where we should be going “ This quote got me to thinking about the value of experience in being a great leader, and my own struggles to overcome a perceived lack of experience

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Put Your Minutes Where Your Mouth Is

Leading Blog

This is a guest post by Robert Smith, author of 20,000 Days and Counting : The Crash Course For Mastering Your Life Right Now. He asks, " What if you were able to accomplish MORE TODAY than most people accomplish all year? " Decisions you make right now can change your life forever. …We do choose how we will live. May you have a glorious ending by beginning today.

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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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Frontline Finance Fundamentals: How To Talk With Your Team about Money

Let's Grow Leaders

Do you bore your team with finance slides full of terms they may not understand? Does your frontline team know how your business makes money? Do they understand enough about the basic financials of your business to make the right decisions? If they have incentive-based pay, do they really understand how it works? Do you understand [.] The post Frontline Finance Fundamentals: How To Talk With Your Team about Money appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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An Argument for Conflict

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development We’ve all experienced it. The meeting goes well. Everyone nods, smiles, and quickly agrees. There are no objections or even questions to answer. You leave feeling confident that your proposal will be unanimously adopted. Then you hear about the meeting after the meeting… and the lingering concerns and worries that ‘everyone’ has… and you know [.].

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10 Penalties That I Would Call if I Were a Management Referee

Great Leadership By Dan

In the final minutes of the recent Super Bowl, 49ers coach Harbaugh was upset about a holding penalty on Michael Crabtree that he thought should have been called. After the game, he said “there was no question in my mind there was a pass interference, and then a hold on the last play.”. What would professional football be without good officiating? From Coach Harbaugh’s perspective, it would be the difference between winning and losing the most important game of the season.

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An Attitude of Ordeal or Adventure?

Let's Grow Leaders

“C**k your hat. Angles are attitudes.” -Frank Sinatra Today I begin a month-long speaking tour at kickoff events around the country, 5 events this week. As I pack my bag for this 6500 mile trip, I’m feeling excited, optimistic, energized… and nervous. I believe in large team “kickoffs” to inspire, energize and align.

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Purpose and Strategy: Two by Two

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Change Management Leadership Development Purpose and strategy. They seem to fit like peanut butter and jelly. Purpose is the jelly, sweetening our appetites for the work to be done. Strategy is the peanut butter, making it all stick together as we do the work. Even with this thought, leaders lose their desire to define an organizational strategy in terms [.].

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10 Ways to “Deal With” Quiet People

Leadership Freak

Outgoing people have advantages in Western Culture. We’re often perceived to be smarter and stronger than quiet people, at least at first. One of my fatal leadership blunders was underestimating quiet people. Big mouths don’t guarantee great leadership. Quiet doesn’t equal: Weak. Push over. Soft. Stupid. Detached. Uncaring. Untalented. Never assume quiet is weak and loud [.].

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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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10 Phrases that Should Be Eradicated from Business Communications

Women on Business

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Are you guilty of using phrases in your business communications that could be doing more harm to your career than good? Darlene Price, founder and president of Well Said, Inc. and author of the new book, Well Said!: Presentations and Conversations That Get Results , has made it easy for you to make sure you’re not hurting your career with your words by creating a list of the 10 phrases that should be banned from the workplace.

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Advice on Advice

Let's Grow Leaders

“Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it seeks into the mind.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge What’s the best advice you’ve ever received? Ever given? What advice do you wish you had ignored? What guidance do you wish you could retract? I recently met Raul Valdes-Perez, [.] The post Advice on Advice appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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7 Uncommon Ways To Be A Positive Influence On You and Your Team

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Coaching Leadership Development Light Your World [link] The psychology of leadership simply fascinates me, and no more so than when leaders have a positive influence on their team. You may not class yourself as a leader, but you are a leader, whether you’re leading a team, a family or even yourself. In your role, as a leader, the energy you emit is [.].

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9 Steps For Creating The Best Odds For Success

Tanveer Naseer

The following is a guest piece by The Huffington Post columnist and author Bill McBean. When you run a business, there are always some certainties as you look into the future. You know your best competitors will work to become better. You know your customers will demand more. You know you’ll have to work smarter and harder every day to improve your bottom line.

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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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3 Tools To Help You Get More Done

Women on Business

Guest Post By Sandy Sidhu, Founder of SidekickPM (Learn more about Sandy at the end of this post). Let’s face it, we all have 24 hours in a day but why does it feel like some entrepreneurs get more done? Are they not sleeping? Do they have superpowers that you and I weren’t blessed with? Fortunately, for the rest of us, who do enjoy our 7 hours of sleep and haven’t managed to clone ourselves (yet)- there’s hope!

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How to Transform Mid-Team

Let's Grow Leaders

The best time to transform to a radically new leadership style is when you start fresh with a new team. But that’s not always practical or feasible. You’ve been reading blogs, books, and maybe attended a course or got some 360 feedback… but your team doesn’t know all of that. If you transform your style [.] The post How to Transform Mid-Team appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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How to Be Wrong – Origins of Lead Change Group Part 6

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Have you ever choked? I’m not talking about dinner. Choking is a performance analogy. I’ve been fortunate to play Pebble Beach Golf Links. In the golf world, it’s about as close as you can get to the center of the universe. The course is beautiful and often so is the weather. Incredible. When you spend [.].

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Alfred’s Wake Up Call or How to Create the Life You Want to Be Remembered For

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Alfred came from a long line of Swedish scientists, engineers and inventors. He learned the principles of explosives at a young age from his father who owned a machine tool and weapons factory in Russia in the mid 19 th century. He studied chemistry in Paris and the United States and filed his first patent for a gas meter at the age of 24. At the age of 34, Alfred invented dynamite.

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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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Do you know where your business network is?

Women on Business

As business owners, we network a lot. Networking means different things to different people, but it’s suppose to help you build relationships that will turn into tangible business either directly or indirectly. The problem with networking is that if your aren’t careful you can waste your most precious commodity, your time. Here are a couple of tips that I have found to decide whether or not you networking group is a keeper.

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When you feel inadequate

Persuasive Powerhouse

A common “secret” I hear from some of the leaders is that they lack self-confidence that they can rise to being the leader they envision. This feeling of inadequacy might happen with a new job, a new promotion, a new goal, or when there is a change to deal with (in other words, at any time!). Like many of you, I’ve struggled with self-confidence for much of my life.

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February 2013 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development [link] Lead Change Group is excited to be represented in the February 2013 Leadership Development Carnival. Here’s what David Burkus at LDRLB offers in way of introduction: “This month’s Carnival offers an array of fresh insights for a fresh year. There’s a lot of good material here, so don’t be afraid to bookmark this page or [.].

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Compliance With Laws Isn’t Ethical Leadership (There’s More)

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton Beyond Compliance I have intentionally avoided using the C-word (Compliance) in most of my posts, and I decided that it was time to explain why. In this post I'll explain why laws are not enough, and why complying with laws does not mean that we are leading ethically.

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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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Slaying the Politics Dragon

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Robert Murray (and great advice): I have been getting an unusually high number of inquiries this week from young leaders asking about office or corporate politics. One person asked me if I thought they should take a course in it. Another asked if I thought they should keep their mouth shut when their boss tells them one thing and then abruptly changes their position in a meeting.

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Being known for more

Persuasive Powerhouse

. How many of you want to be known as someone who did a good job at minding the store? Raise your hands. Hmm…very few hands went up. You are reading this blog because you want to be known and remembered for more than that. I’ll venture a guess that only a few of you have actually put much time into thinking about the legacy you’ll leave.

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Responsiveness in the New Era of Responsibility

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Community Involvement Self Leadership Consider the state of Tennessee, where I live. 932 deaths occured by suicide, a rate of 14.7 per 100,000, in 2010. This is an improvement since 2008 but it represents too many losses that were totally preventable. Consider the case of Adam Lanza who perpetrated the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

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10 Ways to Fail Your Way to Success

Leadership Freak

I hate failing. Failure feels like wasted life. Yes, I know I’m supposed to embrace failure and learn. But, given the choice, I’d succeed more! I haven’t failed for lack of good intentions. Frankly, I’m troubled that the path down is faster than the path up. Fear of failure: Afraid to fail is afraid to [.].

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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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The February 4th Leadership Development Carnival

Great Leadership By Dan

The February 4th Leadership Development Carnival is up! This month's edition is being hosted by David Burkus from LDRLB (leader lab). You can find it right here: February 2013 Leadership Development Carnival. 37 outstanding posts on leadership, innovation, and strategy. Go - read - enjoy!

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(20 Steps to) Effective Media Relations

Women on Business

The first step to effective media relations is shaking off the notion that editors and reporters are the enemy. Sure they may not be the best at returning phone calls and emails, and occasionally turn their nose up at your pitch, but get them alone in a dark alley, and they’ll admit to needing you just as much as you need them. Even when you’re doing the chasing, they’re still the ones that have to turn in a good story at the end of the day.

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Why leadership requires prudence and temperance

Lead Change Blog

Posted in SmartBlog for Leadership [link] Courage is an important virtue for leadership. It is critical for leading people, disrupting the status quo and having significant impact. But I also think two other virtues, prudence and temperance, are also critical for leadership. Of course, I can easily argue that all the virtues are important! Increasingly, leaders are asking me for help with [.].

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Finding Real Leadership Power

Leadership Freak

Humility is real power, arrogance façade. 15 Ways to be an arrogant leader: Rush. “Important” people don’t have enough time. Look serious. The more important you are the more serious you look. Detach. “Arrogance comes from detachment.” Henry Mintzberg. Take calls or text during meetings. Now we know you’re important. Ooooo! Know. Act like 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.