Sat.Jun 02, 2012 - Fri.Jun 08, 2012

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Leadership Evolution: In a World Of Big Change, Do The Great Lessons Endure?

Terry Starbucker

“Things change.” Yes, they do. And leaders who fail to absorb this concept into their core being are perfect candidates to be left behind the pack in a cloud of business dust. As change happens, we must change. We must adapt to new technologies, new theories, new business models, new people and attitudes – sometimes within weeks, or even a day.

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Time Management Tips to Reduce Stress: Part II

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development In Part I, we discussed the first three steps to better manage your time. Remember, time management is the act of exercising conscious control over how you spend your time in an attempt to increase efficiency or productivity. The key words here are conscious control. Time management is impossible without the person making an honest [.].

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The Myth of Potential: 5 Ways to Develop Talent

Great Leadership By Dan

Here's a guest post from executive coach Joel Garfinkle : In high school, I wasn't an amazing athlete, but one of my closest friends sure was. Most people didn't know it, though. He was quiet, even shy, and spent most of his time either practicing or studying. Nothing he did off the court—not the way he acted, how he dressed, or who he talked to—shouted "jock!

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3 Leadership Lessons From Queen Elizabeth II

Next Level Blog

The past few days in London have marked the Diamond Jubilee celebrating the 60th year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. It’s been a pomp and circumstance extravaganza, and the members of the Royal Family have all had parts to play. One thing the Windsors appear to understand better than anyone is that appearances matter for people in leadership. Click headline to continue.

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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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7 Reasons Ethics Matters in Brand Value

Leading in Context

Customers shop globally now, and when they buy, they compare products more and more often based on ethics. In addition to shopping cautiously during the recession when money is tight, there's also a trend toward thinking about how each purchase impacts the global community and the planet.

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Stone Soup: Answers For Our World Today, From A Children’s Fable

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Light Your World Workplace Issues Do you remember the children’s story “STONE SOUP…?” It is a children’s fable, about a hungry traveler that comes to a small village and begins knocking on doors asking if someone will feed him. Unfortunately it is a very poor village that is concerned they will not have the resources they need to feed their [.].

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Leaders vs. Managers: The Real Answer to What’s Better

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Leadership is about a journey – where you’re going and your actions along the way. It involves changing the status quo in order to create a desired future. Leadership behaviors include: Challenging the current way of doing things: searching for opportunities and taking risks. Creating shared meaning and understanding of actions and events. Inspiring a shared vision.

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Stop The Overwhelm! Creating Order In Your Business

Women on Business

I just received an email letting me know that I can download over a $1,000,000 as a gift if I put my name into a poll to see if I was to be chosen. Really? There is already such an overwhelming amount of information consuming our sacred time and vying for our attention, that the amount of overwhelm is consuming us. The first time I recognized this online was a book launch claiming that I would receive $10,000 in bonuses to purchase a book for $19.00, I was disappointed in the author and her appr

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Are We Completely Honest Leaders?

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Self Leadership Honesty is a simple thing yet, in practice, it is done in an incomplete way. We create a spectrum of honesty in how we practice it. At one end, there is the complete truth, and the other end is no truth. We try to practice honesty in the upper middle, leaning toward complete truth and [.].

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The Most Powerful Thing About You

Leadership Freak

“I have a picture of myself from when I was about two years old. It shows me with a bowed head and stooped shoulders, in despair, peering through sad eyes that wondered what I was doing in this world …” Shirzad Charmine. A surprising quote from a bestselling book titled, “Positive Intelligence,” wouldn’t you think? [.].

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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 Difference between Strategists and Strategic Planners

In the CEO Afterlife

I’ve met both over my long career as an executive, a consultant, and a board member. Strategists and Strategic Planners may read the same periodicals and have similar destinations in mind, but there is a difference between the two. Strategic Planners, at the outset, are disadvantaged by the definition of their role. They are staffers, not line managers.

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The Myth of Talented Applicants

Women on Business

David Castillo Dominici/freedigitalphoto.net. Yesterday I had the wonderful experience of attending a STEM collaboration workshop and the one question that kept running through my mind was, is it really a lack of talented applicants or are small businesses just inept at using technology to help us recruit the right people? Here are the three things that stuck.

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Ambition of Great Leaders

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Resources Self Leadership “They didn’t define themselves by money, fame or power. They defined themselves by impact and contribution and purpose.” Jim Collins & Morten T. Hansen, Great by Choice. Is ambition bad? Wikipedia defines ambition as simply, “the desire for personal achievement.” Like many attitudes and behaviors of great leaders, ambition can go either way.

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How to Disarm Your Inner-Critic

Leadership Freak

I live with an inner critic who loves pointing out my faults, failures, and shortcomings. I’m never good enough for that bastard. How about you? “In all my years of coaching, I have never worked with anyone who was not substantially sabotaged by a persistent Judge character… Your Judge Saboteur is your private enemy number [.].

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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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About

Let's Grow Leaders

I have been a lifelong student of leadership, which began with an academic grounding in organizational communication, enhanced by a combination of exciting challenges, fabulous mentors, and learning. By day, I am a leader in corporate America, and all of the time I am a wife and mother of two energetic, aspiring leaders—ages 17 and [.].

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Bullied by a Monopoly

In the CEO Afterlife

A long time ago, I’d bought some jam and fruit syrup from British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley. The quality of the product was outstanding. The branding wasn’t nearly as good. So I approached the maker and negotiated a deal whereby they would produce for me under a brand that I would create for a niche market – the tourist and gourmet trade. To make a long story short, I created a little business under The Black Bear Fruit Company brand name.

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Leadership is Not For You

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Community Involvement Leadership Development As self-labeled “leaders,” we are familiar with all the lingo. We know that by definition being a “leader” requires “followers,” and that cases can be made on both sides of the “Are leaders and managers different things?” argument. From John Maxwell’s work on leadership alone, we know that there are at least 21 laws about [.].

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The Surprising Power of Stopping to Begin Again

Leadership Freak

The longer you work at something the fewer improvements you make. Gold Medal swimmers work unending hours shaving hundredths of seconds off their time. Not so, when they began swimming. Improvement – at the beginning – is quick and easy; excellence – over the long haul – is slow and hard. Large organizations may have [.].

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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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Real Leaders Model a Life of Fulfillment

Persuasive Powerhouse

The cold hard facts are that most organizations are insatiable. They will take whatever you are willing to give, making it easy to get caught in the trap of endless stress and sixty-hour workweeks. Meanwhile your health suffers, your family is falling apart and the downward spiral continues as you lose sleep and allow yourself to be sucked into the vortex of work.

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Emergency!

Kevin Eikenberry

I sit in meetings, facilitate training, and walk through public places, and it is all the same. The minute someone’s phone beeps or vibrates with a text or email notification, they seem compelled to check and see what is going on. This compulsion leads to a lack of focus and productivity, and well, it makes [.].

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When Do Leaders Need to be Patient?

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Self Leadership Value Creation [link] Good question. In this post, Susan Mazza discusses the difference between patience that is an act of leadership, and patience that is not. “Patience IS an act of leadership when…you are patient with people as they learn and go through the often difficult work of putting into practice what they are learning.

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Overcoming the Reason People Don’t Listen

Leadership Freak

Tune into others if you expect them to tune into you. Discouraged or defeated people need strength before they’ll listen to ideas or solutions. Give strength before giving answers or solutions. Six Ways to Strengthen others: Agree with frustrations; don’t explain why. If they feel frustrated they are frustrated. It’s frustrating when you’re told why you’re [.].

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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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Architect Your Leadership – Part 2 – Architectural Style

Modern Servant Leader

We’re discussing how to build your leadership like an architect builds a home. There are specific steps you should take: choose the location, select a style and finally, create the blueprint. Last time, we covered how to select a location. Next time, we will cover designing the structure. Today though, we dig into selecting the style of structure.

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Guest Post: 3 Steps to Magnetic Leadership

Lead on Purpose

By Alan E. Shelton. Perhaps one of the thorniest problems in business today, is how to create quality output without being specifically in charge. Product managers in coalition organizations know this all too well. How do you drive your goals when you are not in a line on an organizational chart? My largest client is in the apparel industry with a multiplicity of brand names.

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Do You Have the Right Perspective on Your Current Situation?

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development How easy is it to spot the airport from the air? Apparently, not as easy as we may think. In this article, Bill Fox explains that his “personal take on this is that we all fall into familiar patterns of looking at things and performing our work.We repeat the same familiar patterns and don’t shift [.].

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Succeeding in Emotionally Charged Situations

Leadership Freak

Image source The only progress you can make in emotionally charged situations is dealing with emotions. Warning: Emotionally charged people may want you to fix things. If you’re able to change frustrating processes or procedures, do it. But, fixing may reinforce negative behaviors. The person who gets what they want after throwing a fit learns to throw 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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Five Creativity Lessons From the Shopping Cart

Kevin Eikenberry

Behold the shopping cart (or depending on where you live, the trolley, carriage, trundler, buggy, wagon, or basket). Regardless of where you live or what you call it, one of the forerunners of the modern shopping cart was introduced on this date in 1937 in Oklahoma City by Sylvan Goldman, owner of the Piggly Wiggly [.].

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Architect Your Leadership – Part 1 – Four Leadership Culture Locations

Modern Servant Leader

If you were an architect, there are steps you would take to build your home: choose the location, select a style and finally, design the specific structure. To architect your leadership style, you need to follow similar steps. Today, we begin by covering the selection of location. For your home, location matters. In real estate , the theme is “Location, location, location!

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Want more leaders? Catch them in the act

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development SmartBlog for Leadership [link] Each month the Leadchange Group contributes a post to the SmartBrief on Leadership blog. This month’s post by Susan Mazza encourages you to encourage others. “There are opportunities to lead every day, right in front of anyone who has a commitment to make a difference for others or contribute to a shared goal or vision.” [.].

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How Judging Blocks Your Best

Leadership Freak

“The Sage Perspective accepts every outcome and circumstance as a gift and opportunity.” Shirzad Chamine, author of, “Positive Intelligence.” Do you find Shirzad’s use of the term “gift” challenging? I don’t want to minimize the tragedies that happen in life. On the other hand, how many times have you heard someone explaining that their tragedy [.].

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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.