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Shaken Not Stirred

Let's Grow Leaders

'The secret to moving and shaking is stirring. Anyone in power can shake and intimidate. Real leaders stir hearts and minds toward powerful possibility. Growing leaders long to be stirred, not shaken. Shaken Not Stirred Joe was visibly shaken as he left the readout with the senior eam. His results were solid, and he was [.] The post Shaken Not Stirred appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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How to Lead a Successful Sales Meeting

Lead Change Blog

'Posted in Leadership Development Sales meetings are an important process to organizing and motivating staff in order to increase sales and maintain business relationships. Ideally these meetings should be productive and inspirational. However, they can also easily veer off-course, lose focus and in turn, discourage employees. Following a few of these tips will help to improve the productivity of [.

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9 Reasons To Lead In A No Spin Zone

N2Growth Blog

'By Mike Myatt , Chief Executive Officer, N2growth . Leadership not deeply rooted in a foundation of truth is leadership destined to fail. The reality is the best leaders are also absolutists when it comes to truth – they view truth as a non-negotiable. However in the wake of some of the recent, and highly publicized business, financial, and political scandals, it’s not too difficult to understand how some may actually question the existence of truth in business or government.

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Neutralize “Killer Stress” to Boost the Bottom Line

Michael Lee Stallard

'Who experiences greater levels of stress: management or employees? Managers seem to think they do, but hard research data makes it clear: Employees experience greater stress, and that affects the company’s bottom line. It doesn’t have to be that way: Effective leaders can create an organizational culture that reduces “killer stress” and encourages “challenge stress,” which produces gains in productivity and performance.

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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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9 Good Intentions that Aggravate Your Team

Let's Grow Leaders

'I aggravate the teams I lead and the leaders I follow. You do too, even when you’re trying to help. Most aggravating leadership starts with good intentions. 9 Good Intentions that Aggravate Your Team Beware of these easy traps.* 1. Just trying to help Before you know it, your well-intentioned advice is over-bearing. Hanging around [.] The post 9 Good Intentions that Aggravate Your Team appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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What Personal Characteristics Do You Need To Become an Executive?

Lead Change Blog

'Posted in Leadership Development Even though being an executive in any organisation can be a fulfilling job, it can also be a very challenging one. To be successful, you must have certain strong personal characteristics to take you through the day-to-day challenges. Some of these characteristics include: 1. Good Communication Skills The business world is much more than putting [.].

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Leadership Biz Cafe Podcast #13 – Doug Lipp On How Disney Creates A Thriving Workforce

Tanveer Naseer

'How does a storied organization like Disney create an engaged, empowered workforce despite the current economic challenges, and what can other organizations learn from their experience? That’s the basis of my conversation with international keynote speaker and former Disney executive Doug Lipp in this latest episode of “Leadership Biz Cafe”. Doug began his career at Disney as one of the trainers at the Disney University at Disneyland.

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Shackled Truth: Words Left Unsaid

Let's Grow Leaders

'Don’t shackle your truth. When you leave words unsaid… your team loses, your world stays unchanged, and you know it could be better. I worked this week with a mix of fantastic leaders across a spectrum of leadership roles and industries in a keynote I gave at the International Customer Service Association. Early in the game, [.] The post Shackled Truth: Words Left Unsaid appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Meet Instigator Linda Freeman

Lead Change Blog

'Posted in Leadership Development Each month in our newsletter, we feature an interview with one of our Instigators. Recently we featured an interview with Rev. Linda Freeman, who began her career as an engineer with the U.S. Department of Energy in 1986 after completing her M.S. in Environmental Engineering at Stanford University and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering at the University [.].

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Disappointment Sucks. So, Now What?

Next Level Blog

'Yesterday I found what is already one of my all time favorite New Yorker cartoons. I pulled the current issue out of the mailbox, started flipping through it and saw the classic guy on a therapist’s couch. The caption was “I did seize the day. But then it seized me back and used some kind of jujitsu move to flip me on my ass.”. Click headline to continue.

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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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Leadership Lessons from the Banking Upheaval

Great Leadership By Dan

'Guest post from Jean-Marc Laouchez , Hay Group: “Banking is no longer somewhere that you go, it’s something that you do.” - Brett King, Banking 3.0. When was the last time you visited a bank branch? My kids have never seen the inside of one. Chances are they never will. Brett King’s quote sums up the total revolution sweeping through financial services.

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Discover Your Own Potential and Play to Your Strengths for Leadership Success

Women on Business

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Is Sharpening Your Skill Set Along the Way the Fine Print to Your Career Success?

Lead Change Blog

'Posted in Career Development Leadership Development This is a question I have been meditating on for a few months now. A blog post by Julie Winkle Giulioni finally helped me formulate my thoughts enough to externalize. In Julie’s post, OCD: The Unexpected Trait that Employees Want (and Organizations Need ) Most in a Leader, you quickly learn the OCD she is [.

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How Leaders Dilute Their Impact

Leadership Freak

'Image source Brevity increases impact. The Gettysburg address had 267 words, give or take a couple. 50 years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke for about 16 minutes. Who doesn’t remember, “I have a dream.” Managing requires more talking than leading. Technicalities and execution require more words than disruption, encouragement, guidance, and inspiration.

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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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Eighth Annual Hay Group Study Identifies Best Companies for Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

'Hollywood has the Oscars, Television the Emmys, publishing has the Pulitzer prizes, and leadership development has its own annual awards. There are a few of these annual leader rankings, and quite frankly, it’s difficult to keep them straight. There’s Chief Executive’s 2012 40 Best Companies for Leaders , Fortune’s 25 Top Companies for Leaders , and the just published Hay Group Best Companies for Leadership Study and Top 20. list.

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Leadership Responsibility: The Movement

Leading in Context

'Leadership responsibility is multidimensional, and cannot be described in one or two words. Fortunately, that level of complexity is not stopping a number of leaders and organizations from taking the lead in demonstrating what it means to take responsibility in leadership.

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Are You Effectively Engaging Your Team?

Lead Change Blog

'Posted in Workplace Issues With all the talk about Employee Engagement it seems as leaders we are primarily asking the question “Are THEY engaged?” You may well be fully engaged, but if you are a leader and expecting something (like engagement!) from others it is critical that you take a look in the mirror and honestly assess whether you [.] Author information Susan Mazza Susan has worked with organizations and individuals around the world for over 25 years in developing relationships that work

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Why staying calm is important

Persuasive Powerhouse

' . As a new employee, relatively fresh out of college and working at a Fortune 100 company, I had some preconceived notions about how people would behave in a professional environment. I learned quickly that people are people and that my ideas about treating others with respect – especially in the workplace – weren’t always top of mind for 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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Lousy Leaders Suck at Difficult Conversations

Leadership Freak

'Lousy leaders build mediocre organizations because they dance around issues. But, remarkable is the result of difficult conversations done skillfully. Mediocrity arrives when difficult conversations are avoided. Why lousy leaders suck at tough conversations? Pretending and transparency: The false face lousy leaders wear invites others to be false too.

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The Knicks and Your Business

Women on Business

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Leading Skeptics and Believers

Lead Change Blog

'Posted in Workplace Issues [link] If you are a leader you will face skeptics. They are the people who will dismiss ideas rather than offer ideas of their own. They will respond to “how can we?” with “why we can’t.” They will question actions planned and judge actions taken. They might even question your motives. The bad news is that [.].

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Dramatize Your Ideas!

Nathan Magnuson

'I don’t think I’ll ever forget one particular college history class. As a business major, I wasn’t extremely invested and this particular class took place right after lunch. Some students were scheduled to give a presentation on Ancient Roman civilization. Just as I was about to zone out, the back door burst open and a […].

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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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Removing the Lid on Your Organization

Leadership Freak

'The lid on your organization is the person’s feelings you’re trying to protect. The conversation down the hallway goes like this. “We can’t bring that issue up because Mr./Ms. ‘I’m The Center of the Universe’ will get upset.” The drama queens you dance around determines how far you go. Sammy Salesman gets bent out of […].

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Women on Business

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Act Now! 3 Leadership Lessons on Handling Life’s Emergencies

Lead Change Blog

'Posted in Leadership Development Light Your World “Act today only, tomorrow is too late.”–English proverb The world was gripped to this story. I know I was. On August 5, 2010, 33 Chilean miners were laboring in a gold mine one-half mile below the harsh Atacama Desert. Boom! There was an explosion – tons of rocks and dirt collapsed on their space inside [.].

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Don’t Like Organizational Politics? Get Over It.

Next Level Blog

'At the end of a Next Level Intensive workshop yesterday, I asked the participants for some ideas on topics they''d like to cover in future sessions or what they''d like to see me address in my blog. As people were leaving the room, one of the managers sidled up to me and said she''d really like to see a post on navigating organizational politics. That''s one that I have some strong opinions on so here we are.

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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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How to Overcome the Perils of Caring Deeply

Leadership Freak

'The things you deeply care about make you dangerous and close-minded. Yesterday, I sat beside a coach who said, “I’m a better coach if I don’t care about the topic of a coaching session.” When you care deeply: Something’s “wrong” with those who don’t care. Your methods are “right.” Others need fixed. Impatience replaces patience. […].

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The Seasons of Leadership

Kevin Eikenberry

'The calendar page turns, and the seasons change. While these seasons are more drastic and obvious in some places than others, there are always four seasons. And your experience tells you that the seasons are all needed, different things can be expected, and different value is derived from each season. In the Bible, Ecclesiastes 3 […].

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Emotions of Normal People | William Moulton Marston | DISC Theory

Chart Your Course

'William Moulton Marston. While most understand how the theory works now, in today’s world, true DISC experts understand where the original DISC came from. Those with the most advanced grasp of DISC have taken the time to study the foundation built by its inventor, William Moulton Marston (1893-1947). Marston, was a psychologist, a lawyer and a Harvard professor.

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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.