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What I Learned From Marshall Goldsmith: A Simple and Effective Technique

Let's Grow Leaders

When Marshall Goldsmith sent me his new book, Triggers, I read it cover to cover on my flight to Vegas. Great read. But what makes a good book a great book is when it leads you to action. This one did. The Power of Daily Questions. It’s so simple. Goldsmith recommends asking yourself a few “easy” questions each day. Of course, I say easy because they should be straightforward.

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Expanding Professional Development

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.” Harvey S. Firestone. Professional development is one of the most critical areas for an organizational leader to remain focused on.

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So You Want To Be A Leader? How To Unlock Your Leadership Destiny

Terry Starbucker

I remember the day I knew I really wanted to be a leader. Funny thing was, it was 5 years after I “accidentally” became one. I started my career as an accountant, right out of college. I obtained my CPA certificate, rose quickly through the ranks and within 5 years I was a Manager on the fast track to partner. Then, I got a phone call that would change my life.

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Expect the Best of People

Michael Lee Stallard

#90 Expect the Best of People. Frances Hesselbein, the amazing woman who led the turnaround of the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. and whom we wrote about in Fired Up or Burned Out , once told me that her mindset was to always expect the best in others. A mindset or attitude of expecting the best in others helps you connect with them. This is the ninetieth post in our series entitled “100 Ways to Connect.

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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 Ways to Ignite Your Summer Leadership Fitness

Let's Grow Leaders

If you’re like me, you think more about getting fit when the days start to require less clothes. What if you also used summertime as a time to pay a bit more attention to your leadership fitness? Similar strategies apply. In fact, they work all year round (I put that in for my many Aussie subscribers in the midst of Winter). 5 Ways To Ignite Your Leadership Fitness.

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Top Gun Leadership: Increased Performance through Candid Debriefings

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “ Gutsiest move I ever saw, Mav!” Hollywood. Remember the scene in “Top Gun” when Charlie is reviewing previous dogfights and is debriefing Maverick’s latest engagement with the bogies? Charlie says, “The F-14 is defensive, he has a chance to bug out right here…better to retire and save your aircraft than push a bad position….

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5 Ways to Reduce Employee Turnover

Lead Change Blog

Employee turnover costs businesses a lot of money. It is costly, disruptive and ultimately it hurts the company’s bottom line. Some estimates suggest that it could cost as high as twice the employee’s salary to find and train a replacement. In addition, there are recruiting expenses, training expenses and your own time as you interview new candidates.

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Leaders Share about New Beginnings, Fresh Starts, and Project Launches: A Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. Our June Festival is all about new beginnings, fresh starts, and project launches. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! Next month’s Festival is all about leading through influence. How do you lead when you don’t have direct authority?

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Time Machine Tuesday: Leading with Moral Courage

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. From Our Early Files: Originally Published. 10 Oct 2013. “Knowing what’s right doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.”. Theodore Roosevelt. When I think of the term, “Moral Courage,” I recall a presentation I heard many years ago by a former Commandant of the Marine Corp, Gen Charles Krulak.

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The Power of One Minute Goal Setting

Great Leadership By Dan

You learned it in Leadership 101: goal setting is the most powerful motivational tool in a leader’s toolkit. But is your goal setting up-to-date? Read a guest post from management and leadership guru Ken Blanchard, author of the One Minute Manager over at About.com Management and Leadership: The Power of One Minute Goal Setting.

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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 and Faith

Lead Change Blog

A leader is a person who inspires others to act and encourages others to move forward, especially during challenging times. They serve as a role model and a rock to enable others to work through tough times. While they have a burden to shoulder, they need not be the smartest one in the organization to make things happen. They need to be there for their people and show their support for them.

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Why A Leader Must Lead Himself First

Joseph Lalonde

C ulture tells us that one does not need to lead himself before he can lead others. Image by Zach Dischner. There’s a lot of reasons behind this belief. People believe leaders don’t have to lead themselves because: People can be better at getting others to do things they don’t want to do. As long as others are being moved forward, it doesn’t matter where the leader stands.

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Monday Quote

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “ In the military, they give medals for people who are willing to sacrifice themselves so that others may survive. In business, we give bonuses to people who sacrifice others. “ George Washington. .

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What Successful Female Entrepreneurs Know

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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Chip Shots – Favorite Leadership Apps

Lead Change Blog

Here at Lead Change Group, we know that problems are most effectively solved when individuals come together to meld ideas, energies, and approaches. To use a golf analogy, not every shot is a long drive. Many times, golfers have to take a chip shot to move the ball along for a short distance, with incisive accuracy. If you are new to the Chip Shots green, welcome.

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5 leadership behaviors to move up on your priority list

Persuasive Powerhouse

. Many leaders drive others harder than they need to. What results is constant push for their team to achieve those goals. Meetings consist of checking the lists of things to be fixed and get done NOW. Recently I listened with awe as leaders described a change of heart following my Coaching for Breakthrough Performance workshop, where we spent significant time on skills that build relationships.

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6 Internal Sources Of Strength For Leaders To Develop

Tanveer Naseer

The following is a guest piece by Dr. Nancy D. O’Reilly, PsyD. We leaders tend to focus on developing external resources. How can we make the best use of our team’s time, budget, and expertise? Yes, these are important considerations, and leaders who ignore them won’t be leading for long. But too often, leaders focus so much on external factors that they neglect (or completely ignore) their internal resources: their attitudes, perspectives, motivation, and beliefs that make up

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4 Effective Ways to Build an Online Brand

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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The Unexpected Realities of Being an Entrepreneur

Lead Change Blog

How interesting is it to start your own business? Many people say they wish to own their own businesses. Sometimes people tell me, “You must be so lucky,” or “it must be a relief to be out of the rat race.” The truth is that none of these statements are true. As for the “rat race,” while entrepreneurship is very different, it’s a competition like no other.

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How a Disengaged Workforce is Costing You Money

Lead on Purpose

Guest post by Jüri Kaljundi As a CEO, I make sure that at the end of the week I know what every member of my team is up to and they know that I know. Why?

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The Most Important Thing About Us

Leadership Freak

Incompetent leaders are pushed around by negative environments. Skillful leaders create positive environments and manage emotion. The way people feel, while they work, is leadership’s opportunity.

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3 Tips to Prepare for a Job Interview

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 Reduce Employee Turnover

Lead Change Blog

Employee turnover costs businesses a lot of money. It is costly, disruptive and ultimately it hurts the company’s bottom line. Some estimates suggest that it could cost as high as twice the employee’s salary to find and train a replacement. In addition, there are recruiting expenses, training expenses and your own time as you interview new candidates.

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How to Make Better, Faster Decisions

Great Leadership By Dan

Bad decisions can ruin an organization and kill careers. Have you been given feedback that you need to improve your decision making? If so, you are not alone. Managers often get poor grades from 360 degree feedback assessments in the areas of quality and timeliness of decisions. Decision making, like any other managerial or leadership skill, can be improved.

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Finding Meaning Requires Growth

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton When Nicolae Tanase at ExcellenceReporter.com asked me to submit an entry for his Meaning of Life project, I hesitated. It was a question I had often thought about. But it was a big one, and I wasn't sure I was ready to tackle it publicly. After thinking it over, I decided that the question was related to my work in human development and leadership, and that a clear answer could be valuable to readers.

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4 Ways to Deal with Negative 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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3 Ways to Fail Successfully

Leadership Freak

Some failures are useful, but not all. Failure is useless when caused by… Lack of effort. Dishonesty. Intentional deviation. Deal quickly and firmly with useless failure. Useful failure teaches you what isn’t working.

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Mindful Mondays: What I Learned About My Emotions from Pixar’s Inside Out

Next Level Blog

Last Friday night was movie night for our family and I got to pick. The fact that I chose the new Disney/Pixar movie, Inside Out, instead of Jurassic World probably tells you all you need to know about me. In case you’re not familiar with the premise, Inside Out is an animated tour through the mind of an 11 year old girl who’s struggling with her family’s move from Minnesota to San Francisco.

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Embrace The Leadership Pain: Sam Chand Interview

Joseph Lalonde

S o many people run from their pain, even in leadership. We don’t like feeling pain. We think pain sucks (and it can). We want to get as far away from pain as possible. But former pastor Sam Chand has a different take on pain. He believes that we need to embrace pain rather than push it away. Sam Chand recently released his book, Leadership Pain: The Classroom For Growth , where he talks in depth about the issues of pain in leadership and what we should do with the pain.

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3 Tips to Build a List of Email Subscribers

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.