Sat.Oct 20, 2012 - Fri.Oct 26, 2012

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The 3 Gifts: Grateful for Growing

Let's Grow Leaders

They say “feedback is a gift,” but much of the time it does not feel that way. So, what was different this time? It was a cool, crisp night. The warmth of the make-shift spotlight was both frightening and friendly as I stood ready to give my final speech at the SCORRE conference. Frightening because [.] The post The 3 Gifts: Grateful for Growing appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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No Excuses = Real Leadership

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth . Leaders don’t offer, nor do they accept excuses. True leadership demands the character to demonstrate personal responsibility for one’s actions, and the courage to hold others accountable for theirs. Excuses attempt to conceal personal or professional insecurities, laziness, and/or lack of ability.

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Playing the Part of Leader

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Coaching Leadership Development “Don’t just act like the character. Be the character.” I’ve heard these words from theater directors many times, and so have countless other actors and actresses on stage and screen. The best actors are the ones who cause you to forget that you’re watching a movie or attending a live play, who can convince you [.].

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The Truth About “If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Manage It”

Terry Starbucker

“How did you KNOW it was a success?” I asked that question several times last week in a forum that I participated in with a group of business people. We were trading best practices about process and training initiatives that had been considered “successful” I have a problem with using that kind of word without some facts to back it up.

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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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Cheer in the Next Gear: How to Make Your Support Count

Let's Grow Leaders

Each time a cyclist peddled past our corner at the Ironman triathlon , the woman sitting next to me on the curb would clang her large cowbell. No words. No sign of emotion. This went on for hours. It was almost a Pavlovian response. See bike, ring bell. She was committed. She never missed an [.] The post Cheer in the Next Gear: How to Make Your Support Count appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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quickpoint: The Long Tail of Talent

Leading Blog

The labor markets are changing. With the Internet proximity is not an issue. Chris Anderson describes it this way in Makers: The New Industrial Revolution : "The Web allows people to show what they can do, regardless of their education and credentials. It allows groups to form and work together easily outside of a company context, whether this involves “jobs” or not.

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Are Your Actions Setting Up Your Employees To Succeed?

Tanveer Naseer

At one time or another, we’ve all had to deal with a customer service department whose response and actions left much to be desired. A recent experience my wife and I had with the customer service department for a major retailer also illustrated how a leader shows up in those moments can influence their employees’ perceptions of their roles and consequently, impact their organization’s ability to turn a problem into an opportunity to succeed.

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The View From a False Summit Can Change Your Course

Let's Grow Leaders

I thought I was at the top. I glanced with pride at the view of the long staircase disappearing down the mountain. It’s been a dream of mine to climb the Pikes Peak Incline, the steep, mile-long staircase at high elevation. I was glad to have scratched that off my endurance sports “bucket list.” [.] The post The View From a False Summit Can Change Your Course appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Renegades Write the Rules

Leading Blog

Amy Jo Martin ( @AmyJoMartin ) has written a book about connecting. About being human. Renegades Write the Rules is about how to connect with other people using the medium of social media. But you’ll find you can apply the principles in many other ways too. She stresses the importance of just being you. Especially when it comes to exposing yourself using social media, that can be an uncomfortable place.

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6 Things That Make Someone A Great Leader

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development There are a lot of good leaders in business today. But what separates the good from the great leaders? In golf, the difference between making the PGA tour and playing on a mini-tour can be less than a stroke average. The margin is very slim. That’s true of most professions. Those that put in [.].

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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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Laws of Attraction – Attracting the People You Want

Women on Business

What kind of people are you attracting? Are you attracting the kind of people you want to work with? Or the contractors you want working for you? When writing on your website, twitter, help wanted ads, whatever it may be; it’s important to write for the people you want to read it. If you have everything written in very professional language with a very professional website, those are the sort of people that will be attracted to your ad, or website etc.

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Give The Guy a Brake: The Power to Stop

Let's Grow Leaders

So you’ve got everything rolling on all cylinders. The right people, all on the proverbial right bus, all moving in the right direction. Excellent. You’re a motivational leader with a strong vision, inspiring the team toward unprecedented results. This team is fired up… everyone’s with you. Fantastic? Or just about to get dangerous?

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Your 10 Worst Days as a Leader?

Great Leadership By Dan

Bad things happen to good people, including good leaders. Stuff happens – you deal with it, learn from it, and move on. Reflecting back over my own career as a leader, there were some days I’d just assume forget and never have to repeat. Having worked in various HR and leadership development roles, I also had a chance to hear about some serious bad hair days from leaders on the front lines.

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Don’t Let Aristotle Limit Your Leadership!

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Have You Seen These People? You know her… The manager who expects everyone to do what she said – simply because she said it. “It’s their job…they’re being paid to do it. Why should I have to do any more than that?” She leaves a trail of bitter, frustrated staff in her wake. Her staff [.].

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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 12 Toughest Challenges of Leadership

Leadership Freak

The challenges of leadership are inside leaders. Stop blaming organizations and others for your shortfalls and failures. Take the bull by the horns. You are the bull. The 12 Toughest Challenges of Leadership: Humility during success. Confidence during setbacks. Stepping back so others can step up. Putting plans into action – Follow through. Experience shows [.].

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CNN Reports Women Vote According to Their Ovulation Cycles

Women on Business

You just can’t make this stuff up. According to a study reported by CNN (which has since been removed from the CNN website), women vote according to their ovulation cycles. When a women is ovulating, she is more likely to vote for the liberal candidate. Really CNN? Really study sponsors? There is nothing I could possibly write about this report that would do it justice, so I bow to the humor of Stephen Colbert whose reference to “Monty Python’s The Holy Grail” is just too

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How a CEO’s speech can backfire

Persuasive Powerhouse

. We were sitting in a large auditorium with the new CEO of our company at the front of the room. Those of us in the audience were the backbone of research and development in the company — the people who designed the products that made the money for the Fortune 500 we worked in. This company was thriving, economically speaking. Yet, you could almost touch the apprehension in the room.

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3 Steps to Confront Procrastination

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Self Leadership This is a follow up to “What do you do instead of what you are supposed to be doing?” I introduced 10 things people (like me) do when we should be doing something more important. It also introduced the idea that shame and fear came from BS inside our heads. To catch up, check out [.].

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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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You Have to Speak for the Work

Next Level Blog

Lots of us grew up believing in the idea that if you just do good work, the work will speak for itself. That’s one of those beliefs that’s true until it isn’t. When it isn’t is that when so much is going on that top management probably won’t notice good work unless you speak for it. The more senior top management is, the more likely this is to be true They simply have too many things to pay attention to to recognize or acknowledge all the things that are going right.

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Twitter Helps Leaders “Think Global”

Leading in Context

Twitter helps us learn to "think global" in a connected global society. It can transform us and the way we do business. It keeps us current, connects us with a global network of information and provides real-time data. I've sprinkled in some statistics along with my own observations about the learning benefits of Twitter.

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Nearly 1 in 2 Americans Do Not Use All of Their Vacation Time [Infographic]

Women on Business

Americans get the least amount of required vacation time each year (none for employees with at least 10 years of service) when compared to workers in other developed nations around the world (10-28 days for employees with at least 10 years of service). However, nearly half of Americans do not use all of the small amount of vacation time they are given.

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How to Lead a Strong Team Part I

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development The challenge of every team is to build a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another, because the question is usually not how well each person performs, but how well they work together. — Vince Lombardi Each member of a team has an important role, including the leader. When businesses or projects fail it is [.].

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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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6 Ways Successful Leaders Think

Leadership Freak

Only fools plan to fail. Leaders always plan to succeed. Working on plans is working to anticipate and nullify reasons for failure. But, failure happens in spite of plans. There’s more to success than hard work. The uncomfortable truth is sincere, smart, hardworking people fail all the time. Success demands hard work and right thinking. Learning [.].

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What the Lance Armstrong Story Teaches About Sustainable Leadership

Next Level Blog

Anyone in the market for a 24” by 36” signed color portrait of Lance Armstrong leading the Tour de France? I’ve had one on my office wall for four or five years but I’ll be taking it down now. Over the past several weeks, Armstrong has experienced one of the most dramatic self induced falls from grace ever. The guy who thrilled and inspired millions of people and raised millions of dollars for cancer research has been stripped of his seven Tour titles, lost his endorsement deal with Nike and for

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Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg Shares 3 Big Tips to Build a Business

Women on Business

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has played a part in growing two of the biggest brands and businesses in the world — Google and Facebook. Recently, she sat down with Michal Lev-Ram of Fortune to discuss business growth. During the discussion, Sheryl shared her three tips to build a business : 1. Think big. Sheryl explains that leaders like Mark Zuckerberg who have big and inspiring goals for their businesses motivate their teams. 2.

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Jesus on Leading From Our Strengths

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Light Your World Self Leadership But the obvious question that follows “Why should I lead by my strengths?” is then, “So how do I do that?” I believe the question is answered by one of the greatest teachers on leadership ever, as He spoke about the “HOW” of Character Based Leadership. We find the plan laid out in another passage [.].

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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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So You Screwed Up …

Leadership Freak

Mistakes make you feel dumb, even though they are the path to wisdom. Few things change us more than mistakes. Not making mistakes is worse than making them. Sometimes the best way to move forward is looking back. Rather than ignoring mistakes, relive them. I asked, Irv Rothman, CEO of Hewlett-Packard Financial Services, about making [.].

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Six Keys to Better Impromptu Speaking

Kevin Eikenberry

Have you ever found yourself in a situation like these? You are sitting in the meeting, when your boss’ boss asks you – “what do you think?” Or you are asked to stand and share your thoughts on a topic you haven’t considered before or weren’t prepared to discuss. If you have, you’d likely agree [.].

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12 Signs You Need More Scale in Your Service Business

Women on Business

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: For many business women, giving up control ofanypart of your company and client relationships can be challenging. However, there comes a time in the lifecycle of every business that you must decide whether you want to limit your growth and stay small or scale to grow with your business. Nina L. Kaufman, Esq. of Ask the Business Lawyer offers 12 signs that you need more scale in your service-based business: You’re fed up not making the kind of money that can suppor

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Don Shapiro: The Character-Based Leader Co-Author Interview

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Character Based Leader Book Check out this great interview with Author Don Shapiro: Chapter Title: ”A Crisis in Character” Don Shapiro President, First Concepts Consultants, Inc. Don Shapiro is president and founder of First Concepts Consultants, Inc., a management and marketing consulting practice that since 1985 has helped firms in 30 different industries to increase their rate of growth [.

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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.