Sat.Jan 19, 2013 - Fri.Jan 25, 2013

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7 Ways To Prevent False Urgency

Let's Grow Leaders

False urgency can be lethal in organizations, and it become more toxic the higher it starts. Gravity exaggerates false urgency. How You Are Unknowingly Creating False Urgency Even if you are an empowering, enlightened leader, if you are the “boss” and you say “jump” (through your words or unintentional reactions), your team will likely start [.

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5 Harsh Truths Every Aspiring Leader Needs to Know

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Self Leadership So Easy to Forget Whether you’ve led teams for decades or just started in your first leadership role, if you want to be effective, there are fundamental truths you cannot afford to ignore. You may even be familiar with them, but they are easy to forget and many leaders ignore them – at great risk [.].

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Remember, It Was Once Someone’s Good Idea

Leading Blog

Many, if not most good ideas are not good forever. Over time they lose the luster they once had. They become irrelevant and ineffective. The universal danger we all face, is that we get so comfortable with what we do that never recognize that moment when it no longer serves the why. So it is good to periodically take a look at why we do what we do. But it is important to remember that they were once good ideas.

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What Does Success Really Look Like?

Tanveer Naseer

A few weeks ago, I shared with my various networks an article from Forbes on the ten resolutions successful people not only make but carry out. While the list provided some valuable points, what was more noteworthy was the discussions this piece generated with a few of my colleagues about the nature of success. These conversations revealed an interesting paradox.

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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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The Input Paradox

Let's Grow Leaders

When you take your leadership seriously, you are on a constant search for input. “How am I doing?” “What do you think” “How did that go?” “Am I on your short list?” Before I go any further, let me stop and warn you. This is one of those “do what I say… not as a [.] The post The Input Paradox appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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5 Reasons Your Recognition is Backfiring

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Someone gets recognized with the best of intentions… and the eyes start to roll. Or, the audience begins to clap very slowly with plastered-on smiles. Or…a quiet murmur comes over the crowd. and the text messages start to flow. Sometimes recognition backfires. On the other hand, we’ve all witnessed the exuberant celebration when a name [.].

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What Happens When Executives Freak Out

Next Level Blog

So, the Super Bowl this year is guaranteed to have a winning coach named Harbaugh when John of the Baltimore Ravens and Jim of the San Francisco 49ers square off against each other. It’s the first time brothers have ever faced each other in the big game. It should be a good one and is bound to be entertaining if. Click headline to continue.

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The Problem With Opportunities

Let's Grow Leaders

When I first read Karen Martin’s book, The Outstanding Organization, her definition of a problem versus opportunity stuck with me. ”In recent years, it has become popular to avoid the word problem in organizations, recasting it instead as an opportunity for improvement. While proponents of using more positive terms are surely well meaning, I think they’ve got [.

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A System or A Compass – It’s Your Decision

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development What dictates the goals you set? Who sets your goals? What drives them? There are a lot of great books and information available on goal setting. Some simple, some complicated and others really complicated. You can get as sophisticated as you want. You can get as complicated as you want. You can even attend conferences [.].

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Why You Should Conduct Talent Review Meetings and 10 Best Practices for Doing Them

Great Leadership By Dan

I’ll bet a lot of executives and managers reading this post would enthusiastically agree with the declaration “Employees are our greatest asset”. How about you? How successful would your team or organization be without talented, high performing people? At the end of the day, in today’s hyper-competitive global economy, talent just might be the only remaining sustainable competitive advantage.

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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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Create sacred space as a way of honoring yourself and others

Persuasive Powerhouse

. Sacred: devoted exclusively to one service or use (as of a person or purpose); entitled to reverence and respect (excerpted from Merriam-Webster dictionary). . As you get busy with the start of a new year, a new quarter, a promotion, or life and work in general, it’s vital to consider honoring sacred space for yourself and those around you.

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5 Ways to Surface Team Conflict and Live to Tell About It

Let's Grow Leaders

We all know deep in our hearts that teams need conflict. Conflict is “healthy.” Leaders and teams have been talking about Tuckman’s forming, storming, norming, performing model since the mid 1960s. Teams were storming long before that. We get it intellectually. We’ve even seen the value of addressing conflict play out practically.

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When Good Working Relationships Go Bad, Part 1

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Coaching Workplace Issues Leadership is a delicate balance of relationship management. Those you lead must trust and respect you. They can’t trust you until they know you – and you them. Respect comes from time spent working with, listening to, and inspiring your team. They must know where you are leading them. So, you spend time building great [.].

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Why Persuade When You Can Influence?

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by Dr. Mark Goulston and Dr. John Ullmen: Do you like being pushed? Being sold? Being maneuvered? Being manipulated? If you are like most people, your answer is probably not. Do you like being pushy? Selling hard? Maneuvering? Being manipulative? Unless you love the challenge of dominating others and winning at all costs, you probably don’t like those either.

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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 Secret to Defeating Manipulators

Leadership Freak

Don’t get played. Cowards, manipulators, and backstabbers encourage you to take risks so they don’t have to. They posture in shadows. Let others get dirty. They step into the light when it’s safe. Leading requires risk-taking. Don’t lead if you can’t take responsibility. Backstabbers and players, on the other hand, manipulate leaders. They want benefit while [.].

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Children’s Advice For President Obama

Let's Grow Leaders

What advice do you have for President Obama? We’ve been asking kids for their advice for Obama since the election results came in. We asked them to consider… What would you say to the President to help him with his next term? If you were President what would you change? In one word, what is [.] The post Children’s Advice For President Obama appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Whatever You Do, Be Outstanding

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Coaching Leadership Development [link] A couple years ago, I heard General Colin Powell speak about the man who cleaned his office when he was the U.S. Secretary of State. The man displayed enormous pride and took his job seriously. He wasn’t a janitor, rather he was a man who had a place in history because history was made in [.].

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Remaining a Beginner

Persuasive Powerhouse

. If you’re a long-time leader, one of the hardest (but most important) things you do is to continue to learn and stay fresh in your development and learning. It’s called “beginner’s mind”, a child-like state of curiosity that will allow continuous learning to help you stay agile, to be able to respond to the changes around you, and to foster innovation in yourself and others.

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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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Capturing (positive) attention for your brand

Women on Business

When you’re trying to grow your business, it’s your job, 24/7, to capture attention, and when you have it, to make a meaningful connection. You do this by being clear about what you do, who you do it for and why your product or service is useful. And, by getting others to care about who you really are and what you actually do. You can make this info-gathering easier for others by subtly and sincerely conveying integrity between who you are and what you’re selling.

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Mentoring 101 | Thoughts for the Everyday Leader

Nathan Magnuson

Home About Coaching Contact Guest Posts Archives. Thoughts for the Everyday Leader. by Nathan Magnuson. Home / Leadership / Mentoring 101. Mentoring 101. January 21, 2013. — 11 Comments. Telemachus consults Mentor. It’s said that King Solomon was the wisest man who ever walked the earth. From the stories it seems his leadership ability was pretty astonishing as well.

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Accountability is Not About Justice

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Coaching [link] We seem to have developed a belief that the purpose of holding someone to account is to make sure they know they did something wrong and/or are to blame and make sure they pay the consequences. Holding someone to account all too often seems to be equated with bringing someone to justice in both context and [.].

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How to Run a Staff Meeting

Next Level Blog

One of my favorite things in our Next Level Leadership® group coaching program is when the high potential participants come together in the fourth session to debrief each other on their Executive Shadow Days. Before they show up for a day of coaching on Organizational Presence, they spend a day shadowing a senior executive in their organization. During their shadow day, they do whatever the executive does.

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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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10 Tips to Get the Best Google Search Results

Women on Business

How many times have you typed a phrase into the Google search box–thinking you’ve got the perfect keywords to get just the thing you’re looking for–only to have the actual Google search results be a jumbled mess of content that doesn’t help you at all? If so, you’re not alone. While finding the right keywords is important, their usefulness is limited when Google has to search through 634 million websites (and even more individual pages) in order to deliver relevant results to you.

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One Thing All Outstanding Organizations Do

Leadership Freak

Aspiration is useless, on its own. You aspire to excellence, success, and fulfillment. Big deal. Who doesn’t? Aspiration apart from definition, method, and means is life lived by blind hope and dumb luck. Furthermore, defining isn’t enough. Defining organizational excellence apart from developing clear strategies to achieve it is, “Equivalent to telling a middle-school basket-ball player [.].

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Top Quotes On Leadership From Mike Henry

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Light Your World Self Leadership If you’re familiar with LeadChange Group, then you’re familiar with the name Mike Henry. Mike is more than just the founder of LeadChange Group; for nearly everyone he encounters, Mike becomes a blend of confidant, encourager, sage, & friend. His vision for Character-based Leadership has ignited that same passion in hundreds of other leaders, and [.].

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How Is Ethical Leadership a Strategic Advantage?

Leading in Context

Businesses that are proactive and that make ethical leadership a priority will benefit in many ways.

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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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7 Ways Networking Can Change Your Career and Your Life

Women on Business

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Do you have a negative perception of networking? A lot of people do, but the truth is that networking can significantly affect your career and your life. Networking guru Lirone Glickman shared her recent article about the seven ways networking can change your life on the Women on Business Facebook Page this week, and her insights are fantastic.

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Needy Leaders

Leadership Freak

I can still find my way around grocery stores but I don’t do the shopping anymore. I used to see young moms with toddlers tugging on their pant legs. It was cute to me but not always to them. You can love someone and hope they leave you alone, at least for a while. In [.].

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When Stressed.

Kevin Eikenberry

One of my TV memories growing up was of Lee Iacocca selling cars for Chrysler. As I thought about it later, he wasn’t really even selling cars, he was selling himself – asking the American people to trust him and then buy his cars. He brought Chrysler back from near financial death, wrote a business [.].

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021: How to Use Podcasts to Engage People | with PodcastAnswerMan Cliff Ravenscraft, plus Jonathan Mast

Engaging Leader

'In this episode, Jesse gets tactical and explores a specific method of engaging with external audiences such as customers, as well as with internal audiences such as employees. His special guests for this episode are two pioneers of podcasting: Cliff Ravenscraft : Cliff has been podcasting since 2005, and as the Podcast Answer Man he has been consulting and teaching others to podcast since 2007.

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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.