Sat.Dec 06, 2014 - Fri.Dec 12, 2014

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7 Ways to Deal with Employees Who Drive You Crazy

Let's Grow Leaders

'If you’re just tuning in, I’ve been teaching an MBA course on Managing Difficult Employees and gave these “students” (read that, really smart working millennials with big jobs in our nation’s capital) “homework” to developing an approach to manage their difficult employee and to journal about it. If you missed Monday’s post , best to start there.

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Leading with the Five Be’s

General Leadership

'Leaders of character shine! “Learn from others’ mistakes, you don’t have time to make the all yourself” GK Chesterton. From the time we’re very young we’re presented with a list of “don’ts” to set boundaries. To be sure young people get the lion’s’ share of the boundary setting, but every society and organization has its list of what you can’t do.

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My Dad, The Trucker Hat and The Value of Work

Terry Starbucker

'My Dad used to love wearing trucker hats. He was a carpenter – that is, when he wasn’t working full time for the county sheriff’s department – and he had a closet full of cool hats to wear out on his jobs. He loved helping friends and neighbors that way, hanging a door, installing a window, fixing a roof, repairing siding, or even building an entire garage (I was with him on that adventure , in the summer of 1974).

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Provide Autonomy in Goal-Setting

Michael Lee Stallard

'#62 Provide Autonomy in Goal-Setting. As much as possible, let your direct reports establish their Top Five annual goals after communicating that their goals need to align with your Top Five. Talk through the goals with each employee to find SHARED goals that will advance your organization’s and the individual employee’s interests. It may not be possible to find a perfect set of goals that meet the interests of all so make the effort to find the best possible set of goals and you will be reward

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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 Prepare for a Better Performance Review

Let's Grow Leaders

'It had been an insane but productive year of game-changing projects and really long hours. I was proud, but exhausted. We had our final push just as the holidays were approaching, and I was more stressed then ever. My phone rang and Laura, my boss, told me she needed my accomplishments a week earlier than expected. I was beyond annoyed. Laura knew what we had done.

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Make A Difference: Exceed Expectations

General Leadership

'“Excellence is the Result of Caring more than others think is Wise, Risking more than others think is Safe, Dreaming more than others think is Practical, and Expecting more than others think is Possible.” Ronnie Oldham. Expectation management is critical – at home, at work, in business, wherever it is that you walk – properly managing expectations is a difference maker when it comes to results.

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7 Traits That Indicate You Might Not Be Leadership Material

Great Leadership By Dan

'Guest post from Rosalinda Randall : Are you ready to consistently set a good example? Can you be engaging, good-humored, tactful, available, considerate, courteous, honest, reliable, and understanding, every day, all day? Being an effective leader is a task not everyone can do. At least not without guidance from mentors, experience, desire to think of others first, and the will to absorb his or her staff’s positive and negative traits.

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How to Deal With REALLY Difficult People at Work

Let's Grow Leaders

'Whenever I tell someone I’m teaching an evening MBA class entirely devoted to “managing difficult people” the response is the same. “Oh, boy do I need to take that class.” Or, “Why didn’t they have that when I was in school?” There was a long waiting list for the course. Apparently the working world is full of serious loony tunes.

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Monday Quote

General Leadership

'“Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.” J. Donald Waters. … Read the rest. The post Monday Quote appeared first on General Leadership.

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3 Ways To Harness The Power Of Differences

Lead Change Blog

'Being together again after so many years was pure delight. The connection took up as if we were finishing a conversation begun only the day before. Familiarity is so comforting. Until…there’s too much of it, and its dark side surfaces: lack of innovation, narrow-minded thinking, ingrained and unquestioned bias, outdated practices, and failure to grow as a person.

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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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Eight Critical Questions for Leading with Intention

Leading Blog

'Your leadership effectiveness is a direct result of the level of intention with which you operate. In Leading With Intention , author Mindy Hall says leading with intention means “consciously deciding to lead by design rather than by default; being mindful of who it is you want to be and then living into that picture twenty-four hours a day. It is about seeing opportunities every day, in every interaction, to shape the tone, the experience, and the outcome of those interactions.”.

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Why Leadership Should Be Hard

Tanveer Naseer

'With the arrival of this last month of the year, I’ve been finding myself in a mixed state of mental exhaustion and reflection, which considering the work involved in bringing my first leadership book out into the world alongside my regular workload is quite understandable. What’s interesting, though, is how many of the leaders I’ve spoken and worked with over the past year are also in this dualistic state.

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6 Tips to Improve Your Work-Life Balance

Women on Business

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Making Time For Time

Lead Change Blog

'I grew up in a home full of reminders of the brevity of time. My father, a collector and restorer of antique timepieces, filled the walls with clocks of every shape and size. As a child, I quickly learned the meaning of tempus fugit. As a leader, I embrace the awareness of its reality in every moment. Time is a non-renewable resource; a fixed asset.

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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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Things You Can Do to Build Their Future

Leading Blog

'This last summer, my son Mark attended a youth leadership conference for the first time. I attended the opening session with him in a room of about 300 kids that all seemed to know each other. Mark is a very personable and approachable young man but as a parent I naturally thought, “How is he going to get up and running in a group this size? He doesn’t know anyone.

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9 Questions for Ethical Leaders in The New Year

Leading in Context

'By Linda Fisher Thornton As we head into the New Year, use these questions to plan how you will transform your leadership, your workplace and your world.

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Moving to Your Next Level of Success

Women on Business

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Let’s Cut Each Other A Break

Lead Change Blog

'Have you ever had someone accuse you of an offense that you were totally unaware of? Maybe you unknowingly got ahead of them in line at the coffee shop. Or you inched out of a lane in a parking lot so you could see, and someone approaching too fast had to swerve around you, cursing you all the way. I feel icky with this happens. I want to explain it wasn’t intentional.

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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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The Chaos Imperative

Leading Blog

'Our brains need white space to think creatively. We need white space to think more deeply and completely. In The Chaos Imperative , co-authors Ori Brafman and Judah Pollack say that “if we want to foster creativity and innovation in our own lives, we too need a bit of chaos.” We need organization and routines to be sure, but we also need “ pockets of chaos ”—“places where structure and efficiency are set aside or blocked off to create a more organic process that allows new ideas to come to the

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Why Your Company Values Might Not Matter

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

'Why are so few companies values-driven? Even when they start down that path, why do they wind up dead-ended? A 2012 study shows “employees want their organizations to display honesty and integrity in business activities,” and “when leaders behave consistently with the core values, they earn employees’ trust and confidence.” More so, it makes good business sense – research shows high-trust companies significantly outperform those that aren’t in the marketplace

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Do You Vave a Clear Vision for Success?

Women on Business

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Eight Reasons Why Greed Is A Dead End Strategy

Lead Change Blog

'Some people believe that you have to be ruthless in order to achieve success. I’m here to tell you that they’re dead wrong. Here are common fallacies about winning in the game of life. Promote Yourself To Make A Great Impression – Self-promotion won’t always lead to a favorable impression. In fact, the opposite may be true. If you want to make a great impression, spend your time listening and making others feel special rather than telling them how great you are.

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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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quickpoint: Napoleon on Self-Control

Leading Blog

'In Andrews Roberts’ one-volume biography of Napoleon he builds a picture of self-made man who largely succumbed to his own strengths. Roberts shares an interesting note from Napoleon to Louis-Mathieu Molé on self-control. This excerpt provides some insight into Napoleon’s character: In my own case it’s taken me years to cultivate self-control to prevent my emotions from betraying themselves.

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4 Ways To Connect With Other Leaders

Joseph Lalonde

'T here’s a power that is unleashed when we connect with others , whether they’re in our industry or not. By creating a relationship with other leaders, we can potentially extend our networks to untold numbers. And yet many of us struggle with connecting with other leaders, especially introverts who can have social anxiety. That’s why I want to share today 4 ways we can connect with other leaders (And this includes ways even introverts can apply).

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Top 3 Reasons No One Is Talking To You On Twitter

Women on Business

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All About the Performance and Potential Matrix

Great Leadership By Dan

'Regular Great Leadership readers are already familiar with the performance and potential matrix, otherwise known as the "9 box". In case you''d a refresher, I''m writing a series of posts on the 9 box over at About.com Management and Leadership. Here''s part one and two: 8 Reasons to Use the 9 Box Matrix for Succession Planning and Development How to Use the 9 Box Matrix for Succession Planning and Development.

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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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12 Steps that Inspire Exceptional and Defeat Mediocrity

Leadership Freak

'“Good enough” cheapens the people who create it and the leaders who allow it. Mediocrity degrades, de-energies, and devalues. Exceptional elevates everyone it touches. Mediocrity never: Inspires. Calls for commitment. Makes people proud.

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Leadership Insights: Interview With Jonathan Malm

Joseph Lalonde

'J onathan Malm is the author of Created For More. The book is a 30 day devotional for anyone who creates or longs to create something. Having read through the devotional, I thought it would be great to bring Jonathan to the blog and ask him a few questions relating to his new devotional. In this interview, you will learn: What Created For More is all about.

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Is Your Monday a Horror Story? Change It

Women on Business

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Only lifelong learners need apply

Persuasive Powerhouse

'Guest post by my friend and colleague, Sheri Welsh. I remember being a student in the Business School at Central Michigan University. My coursework was rigorous and challenging. After 4 ½ years of hard work, I recall the feeling of accomplishment upon receiving my degree. I also remember feeling like my new found knowledge and degree would successfully carry me into a great career.

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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.