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The Blind Spot Leading the Blind Spot

Let's Grow Leaders

“The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.” George Bernard Shaw We all have blind spots– aspects of our leadership style that we think are just fine… and we don’t fully see the impact on others. What’s your blind [.] The post The Blind Spot Leading the Blind Spot appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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100% Of Companies Have This Problem

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Process… just the mere use of the word can spread fear and panic in the workplace. This sad reality exists for a reason - 100% of companies unnecessarily suffer from a process problem. They suffer to varying degrees, but they are nonetheless suffering. The good news is bad process is one of the easiest things for leaders to remedy.

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Why Leaders Need To Give Their Permission To Fail

Terry Starbucker

I remember when I didn’t have permission to fail. Or, to say it a bit more precisely, when I was really afraid to fail. I wasn’t a very productive employee. I never took chances. I never stepped out of the narrow little box I was existing in. I did my job. I did what I was told to do, and nothing more. Because, if I did something wrong – something unacceptable, or way off the mark…… I’d be in trouble.

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Avoid This Seductive Leadership Trap

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Self Leadership Have You Been Here? You’re reading a book – it’s the best leadership development resource you’ve come along in years. The wisdom smacks you right between the eyes and in your heart you know you are reading life-changing words. Or: You hear a speaker present a powerful workshop and provide you with critical tools to [.].

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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 Secret Behind the 9 Box Performance Potential Grid

Let's Grow Leaders

“Our cultural instinct is to wait to get picked…No one is going to pick you. Pick yourself.” –Seth Godin, The Icarus Deception Are You On the Grid? Do you know where you stand in your organization’s succession plan? Most organizations use a deliberate approach like the 9 box Performance Potential Grid (great tool, for more visit [.] The post The Secret Behind the 9 Box Performance Potential Grid appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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5 Key Practices to Earn Trust

Leading Blog

To trust or not to trust is a decision we all make every day. As leaders, we can influence people’s decision to trust not only us, but others in the organization and even the organization itself. Robert Hurley has identified ten specific trust factors in The Decision to Trust. The first three factors are trustor-related: the level of risk tolerance, the trustor’s level of psychological adjustment, and the power position of the trustor.

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To See What Is Not Seen

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development “Vision is the best manifestation of creative imagination and the primary motivation of human action. It’s the ability to see beyond our present reality, to create, to invent what does not yet exist, to become what we not yet are. It gives us capacity to live out of our imagination instead of our memory.” – [.].

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2 Helpful Questions to Ask Yourself Each Day

Let's Grow Leaders

What questions cause you to pause? What questions lead to helpful reflection? Today I share two questions I find helpful… What questions do you use to guide your daily leadership? Q1: How can I be most helpful? “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would [.] The post 2 Helpful Questions to Ask Yourself Each Day appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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First Look: Leadership Books for March 2013

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in March. Fred 2.0 : New Ideas on How to Keep Delivering Extraordinary Results by Mark Sanborn. Leadership and the Art of Struggle : How Great Leaders Grow Through Challenge and Adversity by Steven Snyder. Create Distinction : What to Do When "Great" Isn't Good Enough to Grow Your Business by Scott McKain.

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How To Embrace Change In Today’s Organizations

Tanveer Naseer

When it comes to successfully leading today’s organizations, one skill that’s been growing in importance and need is the ability to manage change. While many of us have read about various organizations to understand how they’ve dealt with change, I’d like to share an experiment done with crows to highlight some key lessons we can glean from this research on how to embrace change.

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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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Ask Great Questions

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Self Leadership One key to become a highly effective leader is learning to think deeply about personal, team, and organizational mindsets. These mental maps drive behavior at all levels and leaders are very interested in cultural patterns shaped by people interactions. Paradigm hunting in turn requires asking great questions, so here are four suggestions on how to [.].

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5 Secrets to a Kick-Butt Kickoff (how to host a motivational meeting)

Let's Grow Leaders

Are you looking to host a kickoff meeting to inspire and motivate your team? When’s the last time you got the whole crowd together to rally around the vision, celebrate progress and have a little fun? What if you got this note in your email today (I did)? “I was approached by one of my [.] The post 5 Secrets to a Kick-Butt Kickoff (how to host a motivational meeting) appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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LeadershipNow 140: February 2013 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from February 2013 that you might have missed: From @GECoachingGroup: Do organisations limit leadership development to 'hi-potentials'? Are You a Leader When No One is Watching? by @toddbnielsen. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's work-from-home memo is childish by Emma Gilbey Keller at The Guardian. Yahoo Marissa Mayer | Management Misstep by @jamesstrock.

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Ten magical thoughts to let go of

Persuasive Powerhouse

. I see plenty of examples of magical thinking by leaders every day about those who report to them. Uncovering this kind of thinking requires some reflection because it’s often below the surface. Magical thoughts create ineffective action. They sap your energy. Letting go of them allows you to be able to use that energy for things that are more positive, realistic, and productive.

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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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Leadership Perspectives: Being Civil

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Self Leadership I’ve been giving a great deal of thought lately to the concept of civility. Pier Massimo Forni, author of Choosing Civility and founder of the Civility Initiative at Johns Hopkins University, says “Civility means a great deal more than just being nice to one another. It is complex and encompasses learning how to connect successfully [.].

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Shortcuts on the Long Road to Success

Let's Grow Leaders

Are there really “shortcuts” to success? That’s what I asked Mark Hopkins, author of Shortcut to Prosperity: 10 Entrepeneruial Habits and a Roadmap for an Exceptional Career. His “shortcuts” seemed to me more like habits… that require a lot of work– worthwhile work. He shared, “You’re right, figuring out what prosperity means to you and achieving it [.

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Leaders: Bullies by Nature or Nurture?

Great Leadership By Dan

February seems to be anti-bullying month here at Great Leadership. Here's a guest post from Colin Gautrey: Many of the behaviours exhibited by leaders can easily be classified as bullying behaviours, especially when many of them converge to form the essence of a leader’s style. In a recent article, I cited 31 behaviours which could be viewed as legitimate yet prone to being misconstrued.

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Dealing With Complexity in Leadership

Leading in Context

Dealing with work complexity has become a major leadership development issue. And it has ethical implications. As our work becomes more complex, so do our ethical dilemmas.

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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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The mysterious lever of success

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Change Management Culture is a big deal, and as my colleague Beth Doolittle puts it, “Culture is not what we say it is, it is what it is.” Culture is the great invisible hand, and that hand determines much of what is possible for our organizations to achieve. But because it is invisible, shaping it is one [.].

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Six Principles of Persuasion for Leaders

Lead on Purpose

Guest post by Brad Zomick. There is no worse feeling then when you are trying to lead a group and no one on the team is taking you seriously. Nobody listening to you makes it difficult, or even impossible, to achieve your shared goal. With these short principles of persuasion, we hope to put those experiences in the past. Many studies have been done about the science of persuasion, and Robert Cialdini is perhaps one of the most respected experts in the field.

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MEN, WOMEN, & THE GLASS ESCALATOR

Women on Business

Much research has been done on the phenomenon of the glass ceiling, but over the last decade we have witnessed many women shatter it. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), gender segregation among occupations in the United States is lessening to a small degree. CNNMoney.com reported that in 2011 there were 12 FORTUNE 500 companies headed by women (although that was down from 15 in 2010).

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Three Qualities Traditional Leaders Reject

Leadership Freak

Image source by Petr Kratochvil Regurgitating and recycling what you already know bores others, antiquates leadership, and destroys organizations. Get out of yourself before you shrivel and die. Growth, innovation, and future-building centers on what you don’t know and haven’t done. Three surprising qualities of growing leaders: #1. Receptivity: Traditional leaders are unwelcoming.

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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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Who Cares? – The Origins of the Lead Change Group Part 7

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Leaders care. One thing I care about is that I not do nothing. When I see something that needs to be done, especially in the leadership space, I don’t want to be a tourist, trying something a little and then going back where I was. What we do should impact us and change us as [.].

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6 Important Elements of an Executive IDP Process

Great Leadership By Dan

Leaders at the top of the organizational pyramid need ongoing development just as much as newly promoted supervisors. One of the challenges organizations face in developing their senior executives is the need for "mass customization". By "mass customization", I'm referring to the the need to address very unique leadership development needs for an organization's top executives, while at the same time, doing it in a consistent, measurable, effective, and scalable way that yields a strong return on

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Make Tomorrow a Better (Work) Day

Women on Business

Surfing the web gets a bad rap, but when you stumble upon articles and posts that have workplace relevance (and that are so smart, you wish you’d penned them), there’s real satisfaction. Such was the case yesterday, when a little aimless clicking led me to 14 Things You Should Do at the End of Every Work Day , an engaging summation of how ending your workday on a positive note, and with a few routine rituals, can enhance overall effectiveness and on-the-job enthusiasm.

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When work passion goes awry

Persuasive Powerhouse

. It seems everyone is talking about having passion about the work they do these days. Having (or finding) passion seems especially important for leaders who need to infuse the energy of their passion into the workplace to get done what needs to be done. Yet there needs to be note of caution here. Is it possible that passion can go awry? For some well-meaning leaders, is there a possibility that they can have too much passion for the work?

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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 Secret of Teams by Mark Miller

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Reviews Teams bring energy to life. Well, at least good teams do. Sometimes teamwork can be a real drain. We’ve all been part of a team that asked more from us than it delivered or failed to ask anything of us at all. Like most things, the greater the potential, the greater the disappointment that results [.].

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The Real Secrets to Creating Ownership

Leadership Freak

Image source by George Hodan No one cares like you when you own it. But, the more you own the less they own. No one wants to own what you own too. Individuals take ownership, you can’t give it. When someone gives you something you don’t want, you protest. “No thanks.” If it’s forced on [.].

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Makers – Women Who Make America

Women on Business

Hilary Clinton and Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook are just two of the women who were interviewed for MAKERS: Women Who Make America, a documentary of social history narrated by Mery Streep which will air on PBS on February 26th. MAKERS was developed by PBS and Simple Facial Skincare. The documentary chronicles the last 50 years of the women’s movement by highlighting the stories of trailblazers and groundbreakers that have paved the way for future generations of women.

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Listen Your Way to the Top

Nathan Magnuson

In recent years, we’ve seen a new emphasis on the art of listening. It can’t be because listening is all of a sudden more important than it ever was before. Maybe the nature of work in the information age means the the cost of misunderstanding is higher. Or maybe our experts and trainers have been [.].

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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.