Sat.Mar 12, 2011 - Fri.Mar 18, 2011

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Form Over Substance

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. All sizzle and no steak is not a formula for leadership success. If your organization looks good, but lacks substance, then I would submit this unfortunate condition is a reflection of your leadership team. Great leadership isn’t meant to be proprietary – it’s not exclusive, but inclusive.

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13 Bad Excuses for Letting Poor Performance Slide

Lead Change Blog

Is there ever a good reason for letting poor performance drag on? This post lists 13 excuses managers sometimes lean on to postpone or offload the responsibility for confronting bad behavior. Are these 13 reasons valid—or simply adult versions of “the dog ate my homework”? Continue reading → Lead Change Group - Leaders Growing Leaders.

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At Google, Starbucks (and Life Outside of Work), Success = Connection

Michael Lee Stallard

The New York Times has had a number of great articles related to connection and how it leads to success at work and in life. In an article about what Google discovered from Project Oxygen, a rigorous study of its successful managers, Laszlo Bock, the leader of the study stated: “In the Google context, we’d always believed that to be a manager, particularly on the engineering side, you need to be as deep or deeper a technical expert than the people who work for you…It turns out that

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Beyond Words: 4 Great Tips For More Effective Speaking

Terry Starbucker

As leaders, we utter a lot of words, and in doing so, we trust that those who follow us will process them in just the way we intended. That can be quite difficult to do, given today’s short attention spans, and the usual times we do our talking. Take first thing in the morning, for example. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve stared into everyone’s morning “fog&# and tried to get a message across (sometimes I was just better off declaring “time for coffee&# a

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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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How did they get Ten Steps Ahead of the Rest of Us?

Leading Blog

Erik Calonius wants to know what makes a visionary? What allows a Steve Jobs, Walt Disney, Berry Gordy, John Lennon, Richard Branson and others like them, to do what they do? How do they see what the rest of us are missing? Blending cognitive psychology, neuroscience and (mostly) first-hand accounts of the visionary’s life, in Ten Steps Ahead , he builds a picture of what makes them tick.

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Hockey, Teams and Self-Leadership

Lead Change Blog

We are a hockey family. That’s for sure, and most of the time we are knee deep in it. Yes, for eight months out of the year our time is devoted to coordinating the crazy hockey schedule while still making … Continue reading → Lead Change Group - Leaders Growing Leaders.

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The Leaders Among Us

Terry Starbucker

I’m in Austin for the SXSW conference, and as usual, it’s a whirlwind of meetings, parties, more meetings, panels, more parties, and great conversations. Not the kind of place you’d expect to “see&# leadership. But if you look carefully, and listen well, you find out that there are a lot of layers here – layers of human caring and communal spirit.

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Employee Engagement Webinar: The Power of Connection

Michael Lee Stallard

David Zinger and I will be doing a 45 minute webcast on the power of connection to boost employee engagement. David is host of the Employee Engagement Network. During the webinar, we will include: a five minute presentation on connection; 3 poll questions for participants; dialogue between David and your’s truly; invited text questions from the audience; and, 3 tips for connection action.

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Five Steps For Leaders To Elevate Their Purpose

Lead Change Blog

I’ve read two different posts in the past few weeks that caused me to think about how we treat people in the workplace. The first was actually a series written by Chad Balthrop about the trap of Transactional Leadership. Sometimes, … Continue reading → Lead Change Group - Leaders Growing Leaders.

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The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

I like to start off each week by featuring five posts from the HR, talent management, and leadership development blogosphere that I found to be particularly good reading. Here are my picks for the week of March 7th - 13th, 2011. Enjoy! Seth Godin, Fast Company: Are You Afraid of Good Ideas?- If you had not heard, Seth Godin is publishing what promises to be another powerful book: Poke the Box.

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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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Just 1 Little Secret You Can Use Today

Jason Womack

Start your day by thinking about the day. If possible, sit down at your desk or (even better, in a conference room or quiet office) and "imagine" it's 5:30 or so in the afternoon. What can you imagine will have happened over the next 8 (or 10, or 12!) hours? Some questions to ask: - Who did you talk do? - What did you work on? - What meetings did you attend?

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Make Mine a Million Event from Count Me In Is Coming to Denver on April 4th

Women on Business

Calling all women business owners… the acclaimed Make Mine a Million Program is holding its next event in April. It’s a chance for female entrepreneurs (all over the country) to get financing and tools to grow their businesses – to and beyond the million dollar mark. I thought you might have interest in sharing with your readers. The leading non-profit, Count Me In, is bringing its Make Mine a Million event to Denver on April 4.

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Becoming Visible

Lead Change Blog

“The most important decisions of our lives will require us to forsake invisibility and risk becoming visible. Whenever you choose to seize a divine moment, you move from the isolation of invisibility to the dangers of visibility in order to … Continue reading → Lead Change Group - Leaders Growing Leaders.

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Literary magazine published exclusively in audio form

Six Disciplines

Last fall we featured Underwood: Stories in Sound, a magazine that's produced twice a year on vinyl LPs, so we were particularly interested when we recently came across The Drum , a literary magazine that's also published exclusively in audio form. Featuring short fiction, essays, novel excerpts and interviews, The Drum is a Boston-based nonprofit that publishes 10 issues each year.

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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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Coffee House Book Review – “Wikibrands” by Sean Moffitt and Mike Dover

Tanveer Naseer

In the second edition of this series, I’ll be reviewing the book “ Wikibrands: Reinventing Your Company In a Customer-Driven Marketplace ”, which examines the issue of brand marketing in this social media age, as well as providing a blueprint for organizations to help them navigate and showcase their brand in this increasingly noisier communications world.

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Promises to Clients You Can’t Keep

Women on Business

Did you ever make a big promise you can’t keep? Oftentimes there is a disconnect separating what we commit to do and what we actually can deliver. And not delivering on a promise is far worse than never committing to do something in the first place. At a hotel this week I was offered 3 things at check in. It was midnight and I was tired, but I did answer the questions of the employee at registration.

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Purpose-Driven Productivity

Lead Change Blog

A LeadChange “Best of Blogs&# post, originally shared on KnowledgeBishop.com A woman and her small boy are walking down a cobblestone path in the sweltering summer sun. As they round the bend, they come upon three men on their knees, … Continue reading → Lead Change Group - Leaders Growing Leaders.

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Why Google is Teaching Its Managers to Wash the Dishes

Next Level Blog

The New York Times recently ran an article about what Google has done lately to share the practices of its best managers throughout the company. Being Google, a bunch of statisticians started looking. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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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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Guidelines for Communication that Supports “Team”

Tony Mayo

Guidelines for Communication that Supports “Team” Speak for yourself about yourself. Starting sentences with “I” is a powerful shortcut to this skill. You can state facts, opinions, emotions, concerns, requests, suggestions—whatever—if and only if you take ownership of them. It is okay to carry a message or speak for someone else; just be clear about [.].

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Women Leaders: Taking a Second Chance

Women on Business

I had the pleasure of attending an Ewomen’s Network event in New Jersey aptly put together by Marilyn Kleinberg and the featured speaker was the women who founded this fabulous organization, Sandra Yancey. Over 100 bright, creative women, mostly solopreneurs, mompreneurs, with a smattering of corporate women listened to Sandra talk about CASH. Yup, cash, the kind you want in the bank, the kind you want in your wallet, the kind that you love to see multiply like yeast rising into bread.

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Thought Leaders Usually Aren’t

Lead Change Blog

Every now and then I read an article by so-called “thought leaders” that just leaves me wondering “do people really believe this stuff when they write it, or are they just so busy cranking out new content for the marketing … Continue reading → Lead Change Group - Leaders Growing Leaders.

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18 Leading in Context® Resources For Building Ethical Cultures

Leading in Context

This week's post offers 18 resources that will make ethical leadership easier to understand and implement in your organization. 17 of the 18 tools are free. The list of resources is organized around questions that you may have about how to build an ethical culture.

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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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Leadership: Not Rank But Results!

QAspire

In organizations, I have seen people who are “designated” as leaders. I have seen many such designated leaders, who raised their game to meet the expectations that come along with leadership. They make an effort to learn about leadership, read books, blogs and consciously put those lessons in action. On the other hand, I have also seen designated leaders who create a shield of air around themselves.

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Can a CEO be brutally honest?

Women on Business

Can a CEO be brutally honest? Everyone from sales clerks to CEO’s have been talking about the ‘burning platform memo’ from Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop. In the memo, Elop points out where the company is failing compared to its competitors and effectively asks what the staff plans to do about it. ( Read the full memo here, here.) In the memo, Elop takes a hard and critical look at Nokia and its performance.

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Japan: What You Can Do

Next Level Blog

Like many other people around the world this past weekend, I was transfixed by the news of the epic disaster that hit Japan on March 11. I’ve noticed that almost all of the coverage so far has been. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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Google's Project Oxygen

Coaching Tip

Google clearly hopes to recapture some of the nimbleness and innovative spirit of its early years. But the key question is: Will Project Oxygen help a grown-up Google get its start-up mojo back? They wanted to build better bosses. So, as only a data-mining giant like Google can do, it began analyzing performance reviews, feedback surveys and nominations for top-manager awards.

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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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Learned Resilience

Tony Mayo

Study after study has shown that people who function well under stress share several core beliefs: see times of change and uncertainty not as dangerous but as exciting opportunities; focus on what they can do to improve a stressful situation, rather than growing helpless; and maintain a sense of commitment to the world around them, [.].

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Important Steps to Licensing Your Ideas from Licensing Expert Stephen Key

Women on Business

Guest post by Stephen Key (learn more about Stephen at the end of this post). My experience as a mentor to entrepreneurs and inventors has taught me that women are especially well suited to picking up the skills and knowledge needed to license their ideas. I think it might have something to do with your capacity to juggle multiple tasks at a time and to gather information quickly.

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Shadow Weeks? A Jolly Good Idea

Next Level Blog

A brief article in the Financial Times of London recently reported that Mark Prisk, England’s enterprise minister is drawing up a plan in which government ministers and senior civil servants would. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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Possibility Maximizer: Japan Relief Funds

Sales Wolf Blog

I'm going to take a break from the usual format for my weekly Possibility Maximizer and focus on something much more important and pressing at the moment: helping Japan in a time of need and crisis. You have seen the videos and read about the horror and devastation that hit Japan a week ago. The situation is not good and for thousands of Japanese citizens it will take months and years to recover - if they ever do.

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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.