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The Leadership Wisdom of Kung Fu

N2Growth Blog

You may not remember the hit TV series from the 70s that traced the adventures of a Shaolin Monk, Kwai Chang Caine (played by the late David Carradine) as he wanders the American West armed only with his spiritual training and skill in Kung Fu. But, if you were a young boy back then, as I was, there was really nothing better on TV! The showed aired on ABC from 1972 through 1975.

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How to Ensure Your Team Gets It

Let's Grow Leaders

It had been a long night…and morning…and afternoon at the airport. The kind where cancellations and delays compound into a complex verb of frustration that includes four letters. The kind where you start to notice the characters around you and make up their […].

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Preview Thursday: Help Them Grow, or Watch Them Go

Lead Change Blog

The following post is a preview excerpt from Chapter 3 of Help Them Grow, or Watch Them Go by Julie Winkle-Giulioni in celebration of the book’s five year anniversary! . Your employees’ ability to take satisfying and productive steps toward career goals is directly proportionate to their self-awareness. Looking Back to Move Forward. You can enable career-advancing self-awareness by helping employees take stock of where they’ve been, what they’ve done, and who they are.

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3 Key Steps To Finding Purpose In What You Do

Tanveer Naseer

A few days ago, I got to live one of my dreams. That’s something that not all of us get to say, which is why I realized that it’s worth taking the time to share this important milestone here on my leadership blog. So what was this dream that came true for me? Well, this past Sunday, I had the privilege of giving a TEDx talk as one of the speakers at the TEDxConcordia event , something I’m sure you’ve probably figured out from seeing the picture above of me standing on the

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How to Build the Ideal HR Team

HR doesn’t exist in a vacuum. This work impacts everyone: from the C-Suite to your newest hire. It also drives results. Learn how to make it all happen in Paycor’s latest guide.

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Become a generative listener

Persuasive Powerhouse

There is a kind of non-listening that goes on in our society and organizations that is distracted and disjointed, and often marked by interruptions. This non-listening doesn’t focus on the person speaking. Rather, the listeners try their hardest to get their ideas into the conversation. If you’ve experienced this, you know how frustrated you can be both as someone trying to be heard, as well as the listener who is trying to stay focused.

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How to Delegate Work – One Secret to Ensure Nothing Falls Through the Cracks

Let's Grow Leaders

“You’ve got to be kidding me,” I grumbled and shook my head. For what seemed like the 37th time that week, an assignment I’d delegated had not come back on time. I was so tired of chasing down unfinished tasks and stressed […].

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Ethical Leadership Interview on Culture Hacker Podcast

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton I am delighted that Shane Green, author of Culture Hacker, invited me to be a guest on his podcast to talk about ethical leadership and culture. Culture is what we make of it. As leaders, it's our job to make it an engaging, ethical, high-trust environment where people can do the very best work of their lives. And while we're doing that, the world is watching. .

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3 Keys to Climbing the Corporate Ladder

Career Advancement

“If you’re climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don’t look too far up. Set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don’t think you are progressing until you step back and see how high you’ve really gone.” ~ Donny Osmond ~. Katherine Asks: Your book, Getting Ahead – Three Steps to take your career to the next level focuses on the three key factors that will propel people up the career ladder – improving perception, increasing visibility and exer

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Curiosity Opens Doors

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Thursday Thoughts Curiosity is the key to learning. You’re never too old to learn and grow, and to develop more satisfaction and meaning in your work and your life. Catch yourself when blame and reactivity arise, and instead of quickly dismissing what you don’t like, approach it with curiosity. What would happen if you don’t […].

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Are You Remarkable?

Lead Change Blog

In a world troubled with polarization, patronization and partisan posturing, remarkable leadership is in short supply. As we divide along ideology and certainty, we need remarkable leaders more than ever. Remarkable leaders use their strengths to strengthen others. They believe that everyone is far more capable than they get to demonstrate and are far more capable than they are generally given credit for.

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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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How to Achieve Peak Performance – Business Lessons from a Baseball Mom

Women on Business

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The Best Description of More Human Leadership I’ve Ever Read

Terry Starbucker

Yesterday, while looking for inspiration for this week’s post, I went into my post vault and found this absolute gem from something I posted back in February of 2006. In that post I wrote about a review in the NY Times of the book “Why Should Anyone Be Led by You?” by Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones. There were some quotes from that book that were noted in the review, and when I re-read them yesterday I was struck by their absolutely spot on description of More Human Leadership.

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Why Leaders Should Focus on Outcomes Instead of Solutions

Next Level Blog

Yesterday morning, before delivering a workshop on how to lead and live at your best , I had the privilege of sitting in as a roomful of high-potential managers shared what they’ve learned so far during their company’s multi-month leadership development program. There were a lot of good observations but the one that really landed with me was from a participant who said he’s become a lot more aware of the difference between solutions and outcomes.

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Judging Favorably Gets You Ahead

Lead Change Blog

Everyone makes mistakes. Employees, bosses, spouses, parents, children, friends—no one gets through life without messing up, and mistakes can be painful. Think of the time you heard someone criticizing you behind your back or the time you totally blew up at your spouse. That pain doesn’t always disappear so easily, but with time, mistakes can be fixed and forgiven.

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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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The 4 Common Mistakes Businesswomen Make in Estate Planning

Women on Business

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3 Keys to Climbing the Corporate Ladder

Career Advancement

“If you’re climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don’t look too far up. Set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don’t think you are progressing until you step back and see how high you’ve really gone.” ~ Donny Osmond ~. Katherine Asks: Your book, Getting Ahead – Three Steps to take your career to the next level focuses on the three key factors that will propel people up the career ladder – improving perception, increasing visibility and exer

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Leadership Lessons And Quotes From Kingsman: The Golden Circle

Joseph Lalonde

A Reel Leadership Article In 2014, Matthew Vaughan directed the hilarious movie Kingsman: The Secret Service. Kingsman told the story of a young, unrefined street kid who had the promise to join a secret society. This young man was Gary “Eggsy” Unwin (Taron Egerton). This weekend, Matthew Vaughan returned to direct the sequel to Kingsman, Kingsman: The Golden Circle.

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Workahol is not in my Spellcheck?

Lead Change Blog

Aside from the deformed word “irregardless,” the term I despise most in our language is “workaholic.” I bet a buddy once that irregardless was not in his dictionary, knowing full well that some fool editor at Merriam Webster had defined it as a nonstandard usage for “regardless,” ignoring that it really means “not regardless.” My friend pulled down his big red book with a smile to prove me wrong, only to find that I had utilized a nonstandard metho

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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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Why Expand Your Business in Asia?

Women on Business

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The Complete List of Steps to Take After You Fall Short

Leadership Freak

Poor performance is a pivotal moment for your leadership. The worst thing you can do is plug your nose when your performance stinks. #1. Focus on leadership character. “Character is destiny.

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Podcast: Fighting Small Business Scope Creep.

Rich Gee Group

Are your clients asking for more and more and unwilling to pay for it? Are they adding tasks and activities to your agreement? Are they all looking for a free lunch? Rich & BJ are going to help you diagnose the real issue and show you a number of techniques to keep your clients happy. Fighting Small Business Scope Creep — Why Do All My Clients Ask For More Stuff?

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The Danger In Safety

Lead Change Blog

Insurance is a fairly modern concept, credited in its current form to Ben Franklin, who established the Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses from Loss by Fire in 1752. Centuries prior, merchants were forced to diversify and send loads through multiple routes, assuring that if one ship sank or cargo seized, others may reach their destination.

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The Complete People Management Toolkit

From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.

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Happiness: A Leadership Imperative

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Ray Zinn Having value is the essence of human happiness, and the essence of leadership. In life, we have amusements, distractions and entertainment galore. In the United States, we have great wealth – loads of money. And yet none of these things are happiness, nor do they achieve it. But tour the Silicon Valley corporate landscape and one would think these things, provided in abundance, are the soul of man.

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How to Use WiFi Analytics to Market Your Business

Women on Business

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Small Acts of Courage Create Big Results

Kevin Eikenberry

When most of us think of courage we think about the person who rescues someone from a burning building, leads helpless people to safety or helps others in any number of crisis situations. Seldom do people consider themselves courageous, and in most cases, we don’t even think about that word in everyday situations. Yet as […]. The post Small Acts of Courage Create Big Results appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Nine Practices to Accelerate Your Learning Power

Lead Change Blog

Tom Friedman, the New York Times columnist, and author believes the rate of change has become so rapid that it now outpaces our current ability to adapt. In order to manage during this disorienting instability, leaders need to learn faster and better. Just how do leaders accelerate their learning power? Here are nine practices based on nine learning styles described in How You Learn Is How You Live: Using Nine Ways of Learning To Transform Your Life , that you can use immediately to improve you

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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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What To Expect At Catalyst Atlanta

Joseph Lalonde

What I believe to be the best church leadership conference is happening in just over a week (October 5th and 6th). Atlanta will see the Catalyst Leadership Conference return for another year at the Infinite Energy Center. Today, I want to share with you the Catalyst Atlanta speaker lineup and what you can expect from the Catalyst Conference. What Is The Theme For Catalyst In 2017?

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Five Ways to Make Printing More Cost-Effective

Women on Business

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The Amazing Power of Being Valued by Others and the Path to Get There

Leadership Freak

Don’t scoff when people talk about feelings. Respect – being valued by others – is a feeling. Feelings of respect bring respectful behaviors to life.

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Who’s On Your Board of Directors?

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from regular contributor S. Chris Edmonds: Many companies have a board of directors, but we often don’t think about having a personal board to invest in our professional (and even personal) life. I ask you--do you have a group of people around you that are committed to your success, who push you to keep learning, and who hold you accountable to your values and purpose?

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The First 90 Days: Onboarding Checklist

While onboarding, don’t let yourself get caught up in administrative details. Automate paperwork & training so new hires can focus on the business at hand from day one. Get Paycor’s checklist to see where your company can make HR process improvements.