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Leadership for Kids: A Great Way To Teach Your Kids About Leadership

Let's Grow Leaders

If you are just tuning in to Let’s Grow Leaders, we are in the midst of a Saturday Series about developing young leaders. On weekdays we return to our regular leadership fare. What Does Your Mommy Do? I have never had one of those jobs they sing about on Sesame Street. As with most of us, [.] The post Leadership for Kids: A Great Way To Teach Your Kids About Leadership appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Leadership And Making Choices

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Choice ; it’s a simple, yet critical aspect of leadership. Academics and business theorists often gloss over the basics of leadership preferring to trivialize their importance. It’s far too easy for those with an elitist approach to leadership to dismiss simple as sophomoric, and obvious as irrelevant – nothing could be further from reality.

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12 Ways Leaders Can Build a Winning Culture

Terry Starbucker

There’s a foundation to successful business execution that is undeniably critical – the workplace culture. Bad cultures can’t execute very well. Period. You might even say that they are doomed to failure, rich in dysfunction, seeped in mistrust, and (most often) guided by fear. Leaders have to face the culture building challenge straight on, and almost always in situations where the “nuts and bolts” side of the business still demands a majority of their time.

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8 Reasons Why Pride Is The Core Of Leadership Failure

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Craig looked intently at his staff. Every Monday morning staff meeting was intense. Craig expected results and he held everyone accountable. Not necessarily himself. No one talked, they just listened. Craig was on a rant. This was typical, he had a pretty big ego and drew a line in the sand quite often. This line, [.].

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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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Kid’s Books on Leadership For the Older Crowd: Insights from India

Let's Grow Leaders

Thanks for joining in for our continued Saturday series on developing leadership in kids. Today’s post builds on the exploration of Children’s Books on Leadership. On Monday, we return to our normal leadership fare. A guest post from Sandhya Varadharajan, Age 13, Chennai, India I connected with Sandhya through social media from our shared connections [.

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Resilience: How We Can Learn to Bounce Forward

Leading Blog

All of us will be tested from time to time on our ability to adapt—on our resilience. The goal of resiliency is not necessarily to bounce back , but to bounce forward. It is the ability to maintain your purpose even while adapting your methods. “If we cannot control the volatile tides of change, we can at least learn to build better boats,” write Andrew Zolli and Ann Marie Healy in Resilience.

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Diminish Your Self-Critic

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Coaching Self Leadership And now for something completely different. Is your self-critic stronger than your self-worth? If we’re willing to admit it, that critical voice inside us is usually turned up to full volume. We’re ready to beat ourselves up for even the smallest mistake. To learn from a mistake is useful. But to listen constantly to the [.].

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Create a Life Map: How to Make 2013 A Great Year

Let's Grow Leaders

A Guest Post by Steve Van Remortel, Author of Stop Selling Vanilla Icecream How to Make 2013 A Great Year: Start Today! As we approach 2013 I challenge you to make it a great year. I want to give you one simple tool to help you become better in all the areas of your life: [.] The post Create a Life Map: How to Make 2013 A Great Year appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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The Eight Pillars of Trust

Leading Blog

The Trust Edge explains how you and your organization can become trusted. A lack of trust is your biggest expense. It is the currency of business and life. Author David Horsager, explains that trust is tangible, learnable, and measureable. Trust is a confident belief in someone or something to do what is right, deliver what is promised, and to be the same every time in spite of circumstances.

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8 Things Collaborative Leaders Know

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Are you a collaborative leader? Collaborative leaders understand that organizations are networks of relationships and that relationships are the glue that holds them together. It doesn’t matter what your role is. Anyone can be collaborative leader—whether you are the CEO, a mid-level manager or a front-line supervisor. Collaboration is not an option – it is an imperative.

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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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Managing People: Go from Good to Great

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development If I could change one thing that keeps “good” managers of people from being great managers of people, it would be to redefine what being a “good” manager means. The Good Manager Many think a good manager of people means being… the problem-solver? the answer-giver? the obstacle –remover? Though satisfying, this is a trap. [.].

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The Power of Always: Making Commitments You Can Keep

Let's Grow Leaders

I will always brush my teeth before I go to bed. That’s pretty easy. I will always exercise at least 5 times a week. Unless. I get stuck in the airport… my kid gets sick…there’s a hurricane… A bit harder. As leaders we have long lists of intentions. We do our best to keep our [.] The post The Power of Always: Making Commitments You Can Keep appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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What Leaders Can Do To Encourage Learning And Growth

Tanveer Naseer

Among the many responsibilities that come with leadership, one that I’m particularly passionate about is facilitating the learning and growth of those you serve. This was also the focus of last week’s HCI Learning and Leadership Development conference where leaders from a wide range of industries and backgrounds offered their viewpoints and experiences on learning, leadership and fostering growth in your organization.

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4 Key Personal Characteristics of Successful Women Entreprenuers and What’s Holding Them Back

Women on Business

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Are there certain personal characteristics that successful women entrepreneurs and business owners share? The answer is “yes” according to Marsha Firestone, Ph.D., President and Founder of Women Presidents’ Organization (follow the link to read some of Marsha’s articles here on Women on Business). Marsha offers four key personal characteristics of successful women entrepreneurs that were recently published by SME Toolkit: Successful women entrepr

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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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Living Values. Living Destiny.

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Coaching Leadership Development Self Leadership I’m so glad the election and all the campaigning are over. Aren’t you? I thought it was especially brutal this year. So much negative advertising. So much vitriol. One of the very few things I appreciated about the campaign was that each of candidates talked about their values. During other times of the year, people [.].

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Talent Timeout: Sharing Your Hidden Talents

Let's Grow Leaders

“A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage” -Sydney Smith He trembled a bit as he approached the microphone. His thoughts crystalized into a profound truth. I have a been unemployed for several years. I have many talents. I have much to offer this community. Just a statement. [.] The post Talent Timeout: Sharing Your Hidden Talents appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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In Praise of Average Joes

In the CEO Afterlife

This website was created to share my views and experiences with the next generation of business leaders. That meant reflecting on past situations and determining the factors that were critical to the outcome. The times have changed, but the tools that determine success or failure have not. Companies, large and small, cannot survive without great leadership, sound strategy and flawless execution.

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Cultivating peace at work

Persuasive Powerhouse

. We’re watching organizations come close to imploding daily. Violence – if you take a broad view of what that means – abounds everywhere in our workplaces. The kind of violence I speak of is not as readily obvious as bodily harm, war or mass killings, but it could be a form of violence nonetheless. The slow killing of employee’s spirit with the stress of expectations beyond what is humanly possible is a kind of psychological battle in and of itself.

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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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Please Help Me Fail: Learning How to Fail Better

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development [link] Failing happens. Helping our teams to learn from failure can be one of the most vital aspects of our role as leaders. Even when the situation seems devastating, how we show up can make a tremendous difference in someone’s growth. John Maxwell talks about this well in “Failing Forward.” In fact, I have bought many copies [.].

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Hot Mess Leadership: When Image Becomes Dangerous

Let's Grow Leaders

The term ”hot mess” typically refers to someone disheveled on the outside with some redeeming qualities on the inside. Urban dictionary defines a “hot mess” as “when one’s thought or appearance are in a state of disarray, but they maintain an undeniable attractiveness or beauty” Leaders can go a long way by getting clothes that fit, [.

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What is Conscious Capitalism?

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton What is Conscious Capitalism? In last week’s post, I explored how Ethics Means Acting Beyond Self Interest. This week, I’ll explore the same question at the organizational level. What are an organization’s ethical responsibilities? How is conscious capitalism a way to understand them? Ethical Leadership is to the Moral Leader as Conscious Capitalism [.].

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Women Offered Fewer Career Advancing “Hot Jobs” Than Men

Women on Business

According to research from Catalyst, women get fewer of the high visibility, mission-critical roles and international experiences (i.e., “hot jobs”) that are necessary to get ahead at global companies. The Catalyst report , Good Intentions, Imperfect Execution? Women Get Fewer of the Hot Jobs Needed to Advance , suggests that this unequal access to those “hot jobs” may be an underlying cause of the senior-level gender gap in business.

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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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The World in Your Lap – Leadership, Social Media and Authenticity

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Coaching Leadership Development Light Your World I’ve read a number of articles recently about whether it is a good idea for CEOs to embrace various social media platforms. One of the latest to add to the debate is Richard Branson. In his article “Why aren’t more business leaders online?, he quotes IBM’s 2012 Global CEO Study which reports only 16% of CEOs use [.].

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Fearful Leaders are Followers

Leadership Freak

Image source Every morning I put my fingers on the keyboard not knowing what will come out. An hour or two later, I post 300 word or less on this blog. (Technically its fewer not less.) Writing is thinking and often I think differently when the hour’s over. Yesterday it happened again when I typed, [.].

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What is Strategic Leadership?

Lead on Purpose

Guest post by Sarah Rawson. Throughout the ages, leaders and followers alike have wondered whether the process of leadership depends on inborn traits or whether it can be taught. Great leaders are either born or trained. Still, some people who strive for leadership never quite achieve it. This leads many people to believe that there must be some factors out of a person’s control.

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Professional Envy: the dirty little secret within us

Women on Business

Admit it: as much as you value social media, professionally and personally, every so often you get a twinge of angst while sifting through your peers’ posts—the latest client conquest, dinner with an industry celeb, a headline-making accolade… You know what I’m talking about: The posts that you publicly “like,” but privately loathe, and that send you spiraling into a heightened state of insecurity, muttering things like, “I’ll never have a high-profile client,” “What am I doing wrong?

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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 “Bright Spots” in Leadership

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Let’s face it, no one is perfect. Most of us strive to be and others think they are, but no one will ever be perfect and it is the strive to be perfect that keeps us motivated and on top of our game, right? Or does it hinder our ability to lead effectively? Think back [.].

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The Real Reason Teams Don’t Work

Leadership Freak

Overwork prevents teamwork. Imagine the feeling of being close to missing a deadline. At 3:00 p.m. a team mate needs your expertise on their marketing project. Are you eager to serve? Or, are they an irritating pain in the a**? You’re frustrated because you want to help but feel you can’t. People who can’t get [.].

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What Does Professionalism Look Like?

Kevin Eikenberry

Some time ago, I was delivering two workshops in Toronto. During the first, there were a couple of comments about professionalism, along the lines of, “I want my people to act like professionals.” Others in the room nodded their heads, and while I considered asking a follow up, clarifying question, I opted to move on [.].

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2 out of 3 Women Earn up to 60% Less When Returning to Work after Giving Birth

Women on Business

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: According to research from the U.K.’s Association of Accounting Technicians, women who are “forced by time or financial constraints” to leave their careers after giving birth earn 60% less now than they did before they went on maternity leave. That translates into a pay cut of up to £20,000. In fact, the average working mother earns £9,419 less per year in comparison to her pre-maternity leave income, and nearly 1 in 4 women (25%) have had to

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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.