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10 Questions Your Team Is Afraid to Ask

Let's Grow Leaders

'You team has questions they’re afraid to ask. They’ve got limited information, but they figure if you wanted to tell them you would. They worry that raising the issue will look like insubordination, or somehow make them look less in your eyes. Maybe you can share, maybe you can’t. But that doesn’t make the questions go away.

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Tonight – 9pmEST – SiriusXM Ch125!

General Leadership

'Join us tonight – LIVE — at 9pm Eastern (6pm Pacific) on SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125 & the David Webb Show ! Tonight we will be debuting “The 12 Talents” with the first in a new series which will take us through this year. Join us on the air by calling into the show at 866-957-2874. You can also follow along on Twitter @GenLeadBlog and @davidwebbshow with hashtags: # GeneralLeadership #12Talents.

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The Soul (and The Science To Prove It) of Great Leadership

Terry Starbucker

'“People follow people, not ideas” – Dr. Kathy Cramer. My guest on the latest edition of the More Human Podcast is Dr. Kathy Cramer , who has created and has dedicated her life to what she calls asset-based thinking (ABT), a way of looking at the world that helps leaders, influencers, and their teams make small shifts in thinking to produce extraordinary impact.

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How to Accelerate Lerning and Change Lives

Leading Blog

'Teachers are the builders of the future. In a book written for teachers, we find a valuable book for all leaders because leaders are teachers. Leaders are educators. In The Best Teacher in You , you will find the thinking and approaches behind highly effective teachers who accelerate learning and change lives. There are two kinds of change that individuals experience: incremental change and deep change.

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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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5 Secrets to a Successful Panel Interview (and other career tips)

Let's Grow Leaders

'As if you weren’t already stressed enough about the interview, now you realize it’s 3 against one. There’s strength in numbers, and the numbers are on their side. Don’t freak out, with a few careful moves you can leverage apanel interview to your competitive advantage. First, relax. They’re not doing this to intimidate you.

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Starved for Hope

General Leadership

'“Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.” Martin Luther. Imagine a tuxedo-clad butler coming toward you where you are seated at a large, elegant table decorated with priceless crystal and beautiful china. He sets before you a silver tray, its gleaming cover as reflective as a mirror. A gift to you from the master of the house, he states with a crisp English accent.

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Warren Bennis 1925-2014

Leading Blog

'The father of leadership , Warren Bennis died Thursday, July 31 at the age of 89. He had served as a business professor at the University of Southern California for the last 35 years. He wrote nearly 30 books including An Invented Life, which earned him a Pulitzer Prize nomination. His leadership thinking was in many ways ahead of its time. I first met Warren Bennis through his book, The Unconscious Conspiracy: Why Leaders Can’t Lead , in 1976.

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How To Build a Leadership Credo

Let's Grow Leaders

'Too many leaders run through their days without taking time to consider how and why they lead as they do. Days become months and months become years. Pressures, grooming, and politics all create counter-pressures to authenticity. Articulating what you value, helps you to stay true to what you believe. Every year, I take time out to work on my leadership credo.

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Performance or Potential

General Leadership

'Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future. Marilyn Fergusen. Leadership matters! Most people at least implicitly understand this concept and people that have studied and practiced leadership understand this concept at a deeper level. As an example, General Stanley McChrystal’s main takeaway from 34 years of service in the United States Army as a commander and leader, as he describes in his book, “ My Share of the Task ” is that leadership matters.

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Lead with Vision in Group Knowledge Flow Sessions

Michael Lee Stallard

'Photo Credit: StockImages. #44 Lead with Vision in Group Knowledge Flow Sessions – A knowledge flow session is a meeting that allows leaders to both inform and listen to members of their teams. Begin by sharing your Vision, i.e. your thoughts about what actions need to be done, by whom, and when each action needs to be completed. We call this “putting your cards on the table.”.

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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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Leading Views: It's 11:30

Leading Blog

'In Be the Best at What Matters Most , author Joe Calloway relates a story about the importance of the need to get going: Sunday afternoon, my 10-year-old daughter, Jessica, asked me if she and her best friend, Emma, could set up a lemonade stand in our yard. It was a very drizzly, wet, cool day. But I thought a lesson could be learned about disappointment and realistic expectations, so I said "Sure.

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3 Valuable Insights Leaders Can Learn From Neuroscience

Tanveer Naseer

'The following is a guest piece by Jesse Newton and Josh Davis. If you’re trying to instill organizational change in your company, then you face not just a logistical shift, but a cultural challenge as well. Employees will have to think differently, see people differently, and act in new ways. Employees also need to continually reinforce the right habits in one another so that the customer experience is on their minds everywhere.

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Forget Big and Flashy: Go For the Little Wow!

General Leadership

'A few years ago, I had the opportunity to attend a Disney Institute program in Orlando. One of the topics we covered concerned “wows”. There are lots of wows that we experience every day, but in the entertainment and theme park business, most people think of the big wows. They think of the big, new attraction, the super cool computer-generated imagery of a movie, or that monster roller-coaster that raises your heart rate.

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Making The Right First Impression

Women on Business

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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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8 Things I Wish I Learned In College.

Rich Gee Group

'I loved going to college. I learned a lot and grew a lot while I was there. In addition to all the facts and figures, I also learned many intangibles – how to communicate with very intelligent people, how to do real research, and how to solve difficult problems (to name just a few). But there were a few things I either missed or was never exposed to in my four years.

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How to Create Persuasive Presentations with PowerPoint

Great Leadership By Dan

'Guest post by Laura Brown : According to one estimate, 30 million PowerPoint presentations occur every day throughout the world, and most of us are pretty jaded by now. PowerPoint was originally conceived as a persuasive tool; in a 1986 marketing report for its predecessor, an early program called Presenter , developer Robert Gaskins writes enthusiastically about the "very large number of businesspeople" who regularly make presentations to "persuade others to make a decision, to approve a cours

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Check Out Today’s 200-Second Soundbite™ Video Spotlight!

General Leadership

'Lifelong learning leads to Lucky Leadership. Colonel Chris Levy discusses the two bags of leadership that only experience can fill. by … Read the rest. The post Check Out Today’s 200-Second Soundbite™ Video Spotlight! appeared first on General Leadership.

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Corporate Diversity Yields Postive Bottom-Line Results – Infographic

Women on Business

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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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Two Steps to Overcome Fear and Find Courage

Leadership Freak

'Cowards dream of meaningful impact but waste life engaged in meaningless activities. The courageous act when it matters. Cowards observe. Contemplation without action is the cowards retreat. Cowards: Refuse to make decisions.

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What Exactly is a "High Potential"?

Great Leadership By Dan

'Organizations will often use labels to such as ‘rising stars”, “fast trackers”, or “high flyers” to classify employees who are seen as promotable to the next one or two levels, or the having the capacity to grow significantly – above and beyond their current role. The most common label I’ve heard used is “high potential”, or sometimes “Hipo” as an abbreviation.

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Check Out Today’s “200-Second Soundbite™” Podcast!

General Leadership

'Cruise over to PodBean to hear our latest 200-Second Soundbite entitled “Lessons of How Not to Lead” or subscribe to our PodCast directly via iTunes at the following link. “…bad leaders can teach you what NOT to do, and those results can be just as beneficial in developing desired leadership qualities.”. Col. Christopher P. Levy reminds us we can learn as much from bad leaders as we can from the effective ones. by. … Read the rest.

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Tips to be an Effective Team Leader: Lessons from West Point

Women on 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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5 Ways to Face What You’d Like to Avoid

Leadership Freak

'The problems you’d love to avoid make your leadership relevant. While facing difficulties, successful leaders demonstrate: Emotional stability. Adding drama doubles every problem. Lower your voice and calm your spirit.

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The August Leadership Development Carnival

Great Leadership By Dan

'The August Leadership Development is up! This month''s Carnival is all about Motivational and Inspiring Leadership. It''s hosted by Shawn Murphy and his team over at Switch and Shift. You can find it right here.

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Make Your Next Meeting as Engaging as a Video Game

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

'Guest Post by Dick Axelrod. Are meetings in your organization places where productivity goes to die? If you answered yes, you are not alone. There are 11 million meetings a day in the U.S. alone. Half are ineffective. The problem with most meetings is that meeting leaders and participants do not think of them as places to do productive work. An efficiency mindset prevails.

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4 Critical Management Techniques for Difficult Employees

Women on Business

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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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10 “B” Words for Successful Leaders

Leadership Freak

'Begin: Start something. Leaders find ways to step forward even when the path is uncertain or unclear. Lisa asked, “What can we try,” when the best decision was unclear.

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Please Don't Make me Wear a Funny Hat at Work in the Name of Having "Fun"!

Great Leadership By Dan

'I’m all for creating and maintaining a work environment where people can feel like winners, have a high degree of autonomy, and enjoy the people they work with. Coming to work should not feel like going to the dentist to get a root canal. Work should be challenging, engaging, energizing, and maybe even enjoyable (at least more often than not). But should work be “fun”?

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How deep is your desire to succeed?

Lead on Purpose

'As I’ve gotten older and seen more the of what the world offers, I’ve come to realize that success depends as much on the desire of an individual as anything else.

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Top Ten Due Diligence Mistakes Made by Board Candidates

Women on Business

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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.