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Got a Complaint? Make a Request!

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.” Doris Day. We have all been there. Someone does not do something we asked him or her to do and we get fired up. We are the leader after all, shouldn’t our team or followers do what we asked?

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6 Competencies Your Sales Team Must Master

Let's Grow Leaders

My husband looked at me in bewilderment as I explained why I couldn’t buy that “perfectly good” house in the neighborhood with the great schools, close to his work, UMD where I teach, BWI airport, our church, and our gym. “I love the house. It’s a great community. But I just can’t trust that builder. If they hire someone LIKE HER as their sales manager, I question who’s running the place.

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Thinking Ahead – Millennial Leadership

N2Growth Blog

By Brody Clemmer. Chief Innovation Officer, N2Growth. Leadership is a hot topic today and will continue to be for a while. I don’t want to tell you the things that you already know, but make you think about the things you don’t. Let’s stop discussing trends, predictions, and statistics, and let’s focus on people. The individuals that will shape the next generation of leadership are not a group of millennials, they are a group of leaders just as the generation before them, and the many generati

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6 Ways to Treat Your “True” Customer Well

Women on Business

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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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Stay Strong – Be a Reinforcing Leader

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 way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.” B.F. Skinner. What is a reinforcing leader? Do you know any reinforcing leaders? How do you become a reinforcing leader?

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Frontline Festival: January 2016 DRAFT

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. This month’s festival is all about Vision and Strategy. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! Next month, we turn our focus to Building Productive Workplace Relationships. Submissions due February 12th– new participants always welcome, please us this form.

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Career Advancement – 5 Key ways to Stand Out

Career Advancement

“ The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence.” ~ Pearl Buck. Client Maria Asks: I’ve been with my company for six years now, and I’ve gone as far as I can go. It’s time to move to a bigger playing field. How can I really set myself apart from the crowd? I know I’m good at what I do, but how do I convey that without overselling myself or looking like an egomaniac?

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Tradition Plus Recognition Equals Effective Celebration

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “If you have a culture that understands how to celebrate its successes, people will remain motivated, achievements will be valued more completely, and deeper relationships will be forged within the group.” John Coleman.

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Why Have We Stopped Talking About Diversity At Work?

Let's Grow Leaders

I’ll never forget attending a leadership development program at a fancy hotel in the early 1990s. The main topic was diversity. John, my well-dressed, articulate, black peer, came back from the coffee break with tears in his eyes, saying he was standing outside getting some fresh air, when some guy handed him his keys thinking he was the valet.

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Reality Checks Leaders Must Give Themselves in 2016 (Part Two)

Lead Change Blog

In this post , I presented three reality checks leaders must give themselves in 2016. In today’s post, I complete the list of five with two more. By way of introduction, a recap of why reality checks matter: The essence of leadership lies within who you are and how you behave. You don’t just arrive at great and sustainable leadership with a rub of the genie’s bottle.

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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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Why emotional intelligence is essential to leadership

Lead on Purpose

What makes a good leader? Experience? Vision? Knowledge? These traits are all traditionally associated with effective managers. But nowadays, there’s another factor that is slowly gaining reputation in the workplace: Emotional Intelligence.

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Tuesday Time Machine: Magnify Success – Choose Your Words Wisely

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. 16 April 2014. “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” Aesop. ‘Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.

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The Death of Thank You

Women on Business

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Reality Checks Leaders Must Give Themselves in 2016 (Part One)

Lead Change Blog

Leadership is not for the faint of heart. It never has been. The essence of leadership lies within who you are and how you behave. It is character-driven. In fact, leadership and character are one and the same. Becoming a leader means embarking on a courageous journey of strength and integrity. Not everyone is qualified, but everyone is capable if given the tools.

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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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Now is the Time to Find Your Sweet Spot

Leading Blog

As a twenty-something, Paul Sohn said his life looked so good on paper. But a growing feeling of disappointment overwhelmed him. He wondered, “Is this all there is?”. He was experiencing a quarter–life crisis. It can happen at any age especially when you get caught up in these five approaches that he identifies in Quarter-Life Calling: How to Find Your Sweet Spot in Your Twenties : Fear and Anxiety: Instead of enjoying where you are at you allow the uncertainty of the world around you to overwhe

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Why Strategy Withstands the Test of Time

In the CEO Afterlife

How often have you heard people say, “Our strategy is to become the biggest and the best?” This is not strategy. Strategy is not the what. Strategy is the how – how will you become the biggest and the best? Of course, within the realm of the definition, there are good strategies and bad ones. Good strategies help to define a company or a brand’s point of difference.

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Is Your Smartphone Killing Your Relationship?

Women on Business

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The 10 Practices of the Coaching-Leader

Leadership Freak

Top talent doesn’t like being told what to do. Authoritarian leaders are becoming dinosaurs. Expect to coach, if you expect to lead. The practices of coaching maximize talent and enable fulfillment.

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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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Are You Using Those Fun New Technologies to Monitor, Mentor or "Motivate" Your Employees? Prepare for Sabotage

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Robert Galford: It has been hard to ignore the recent spate of stories about the newest techniques and technologies designed to increase employee efficiency, motivation and/or engagement. A list of workplaces from Amazon to Zappo's have found themselves, perhaps unexpectedly, in the midst of a rather public discussion of the virtues, pitfalls and impact of these approaches on the workplace.

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The Physics of Change

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Masters of change like Martin Luther King, Jr, Mahatma Gandhi, and Nelson Mandela understood that vision alone is rarely enough. Real change masters leverage the physics of change to bring about transformation. Newton’s First Law: An object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalancing force.

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10 Unique WordPress Themes for Your Design Business

Women on Business

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What Gratitude Really Means

Leadership Freak

It doesn’t matter how much you accomplish in the world, there’s a voice in your head that wonders if you might matter more. Successful leaders over-come their inner accuser, even if it isn’t silenced.

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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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Are You Anchored In Your Convictions?

Joseph Lalonde

I n a world that tells us that we need to be tolerant, standing firm in your convictions is difficult. By voicing your opinion on a matter, you’ll face public criticism. You’ll hear people cry out against you. You’ll be called a bigot or they’ll say you’re intolerant. Maybe even worse. Image via Creative Commons. Convictions Are Crucial.

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3 Steps to Reach for Your Next Milestone

Lead on Purpose

Guest post by Bob Pritchett, President/CEO of Faithlife Corporation Has anyone ever told you that you have permission to do something incredible? You can have the life you’ve always wanted. And, you can start right now.

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The Best Leadership Education You Can Get for Free

Nathan Magnuson

Just about all of us are Monday Morning Quarterbacks when it comes to leadership. Everyone has an opinion. But how grounded are those opinions, especially if we’ve never been there before? Here’s the thing: if you wait until you receive a leadership role to get a leadership education, you may not last long. We all need a leadership development plan that includes work experiences, formal training, networking and self-study.

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When Does Real Learning Happen?

QAspire

Learning, the real learning, happens…. When you are intentional about learning When you are driven by an intrinsic need to advance and not only by external triggers and rewards. When you ask more questions to get to the WHY of things (and then to what and how) When you carry an open frame of mind that is receptive When you look for process and patterns even in discrete situations And when you use your understanding to connect the dots and look at a larger picture When you enjoy the process of le

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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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Leadership Lessons And Quotes From 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi

Joseph Lalonde

M ovies such as 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi are always hard for me to watch. Not because I ever served in the military. But because I know that these stories are based on real events. Real events where people rose to the occasion and where other people failed to act. This puts a whole new spin on the movie. Viewing a movie like this isn’t about having a good time.

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The Real Truth About Dreams

Leadership Freak

It doesn’t matter how inspired you feel, if others don’t feel it. Martin Luther King Jr. inspired people, not because he had a dream, but because others felt the dream in themselves.

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When brass bands won’t work for you

Persuasive Powerhouse

Many leaders don’t like promoting themselves, even as they are encouraged (or required) to do so in order to make a bigger difference in their organizations. Does the idea of self-promotion leave you with a sinking feeling? The alternative is to hide and risk your ability to have greater influence. If you remain in your shell without stepping out, you’ll continue to hold tight to the magic you have within you that isn’t being used to its full potential.

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Say Yes to Training: How to Get Approval for Your Development

Kevin Eikenberry

If you are reading this, I think I know something about you. You have an achiever’s mindset. You might not be satisfied with what you have achieved to date or in a certain area of your life, but you have an achiever’s mindset because you want to get better; you want to make a bigger […]. The post Say Yes to Training: How to Get Approval for Your Development appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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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.