Sat.Mar 05, 2011 - Fri.Mar 11, 2011

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Leadership & Influence

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. You cannot be a effective leader without influence. Let me make this as simple as I can – if you’re a leader, influence needs to be a competency. The key to developing influence is understanding that contacts and relationships are not synonymous. Don’t confuse a database with a sphere of influence.

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You Don’t Have To Be Perfect To Be A Leader

Lead Change Blog

Over the years, I have always enjoyed reading articles about some of the great sports coaches. While I’m not a sports fan myself, I find the methods of coaches who consistently produce championship teams very helpful in understanding how to … Continue reading → Lead Change Group - Leaders Growing Leaders.

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A Case for Reconsidering the Way We’ve Always Done It

Leading Blog

A society that doesn’t train their children to think critically, to be aware of those around them, and to serve, must create more rules and regulations than can be accounted for. There will never be enough rules—there are too many variables—especially when people begin to direct their creativity in dysfunctional ways. The challenge is to develop sound minds.

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The Sam Malone Leadership Secret (They Want To Go Where Everybody Knows Their Name)

Terry Starbucker

For 15 years I worked for a man named Bill Bresnan. He was a cable television pioneer and one of the legends in the industry, having built his first cable system in 1958, and quickly rising to the top in the early 70′s as the CEO of TelePrompter. He later started his own cable company, Bresnan Communications, in 1984, and continued to operate cable systems both internationally and domestically until his too-early passing in 2009.

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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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Leadership & Change

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. First the bad news : If you’re not willing to embrace change you’re not ready to lead. Put simply, leadership is not a static endeavor. In fact, leadership demands fluidity, which requires the willingness to recognize the need for change, and finally the ability to lead change. Now the good news : As much as some people want to create complexity around the topic of leading change for personal gain, the reality is that creating, managing and leadi

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Transactional Leadership | Part 5 | Contribute vs. Collaborate

Lead Change Blog

Today we’ll wrap up this series on the differences between Transactional Leadership and Servant Leadership. We’ve seen 4 words to disrupt our leadership foundation. These four words are: Respect, Serve, Trust, and Collaborate. We’ve compared these 4 words of Servant … Continue reading → Lead Change Group - Leaders Growing Leaders.

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Twelve Steps to a Great Networking Conversation

Next Level Blog

A couple of years ago, I wrote a post called Five Principles for Building a Strong Network. It proved to be pretty popular and I've been practicing and coaching on those principles ever since. Today, Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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Why Leaders Shouldn’t Lose Sight of the Basics

Tanveer Naseer

Last week, my wife and I decided to take advantage of the kids’ being off from school for March Break (what we call here la semaine de relâche ) to go on a family vacation at a nearby resort. On the day we headed out from the city, we drove straight into one of this season’s biggest snow blizzards, turning a typical road trip into a more daunting and worrisome affair.

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BlogTalkRadio broadcast March 9: Where Have All The Leaders Gone?

Lead Change Blog

You are invited…to an upcoming LeadChange Group BlogTalk Radio panel discussion. Mark your calendars for Wednesday, March 9, 3-4pm ET for the topic of: “Character-Based Leadership: Where Did it Go and How do We Get it Back?“ Whether you are … Continue reading → Lead Change Group - Leaders Growing Leaders.

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Virtually Attend HCI’s National Human Capital Summit

Michael Lee Stallard

This afternoon I’ll be speaking at the National Human Capital Summit in Atlanta. You can attend the event online by registering at this link. Online attendees will be able to see my presentation as well as those of consultant and author Gary Hamel, Liane Hornsey of Google, Dr. John Fleming of Gallup, author Dan Pink, Vineet Nayar CEO of HCL Technologies and Suzanne Gordon of SAS Institute.

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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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The Questions Leaders Need to Ask About “No-Fly Zones”

Next Level Blog

Every so often, a word or phrase will pick up so much buzz that everyone starts talking about it at once. This week, the catch phrase “no fly zone” has achieved that status. As the Libyan dictator. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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Reinvent Opportunity, Restore Satisfaction

Women on Business

Guest post by LaMae Allen deJongh, managing director for US Human Capital and Diversity for Accenture (learn more about LaMae at the end of this post). LaMae Allen deJongh, Managing Director for US Human Capital and Diversity for Accenture. Experience tells us that when employees are unhappy they look for new jobs. But what if that’s no longer true?

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5 Levers to Raise the Importance of the Group

Lead Change Blog

“There is a tendency to prize a few standout individuals while ignoring how much they draw on their surrounding systems of support,” wrote HBR journalist Michael J. Mauboussin in October 2009. His words were pulled from an article advocating the … Continue reading → Lead Change Group - Leaders Growing Leaders.

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Don’t Wait for the Clouds to Part. Get Going.

Leading Blog

Creating and producing is mostly a matter of getting out of the rut, allowing the process to guide you, letting go of perfection, and showing up. Consistently. Daily. Chuck Close, renown American photorealist painter and photographer, says that in his work, so much is embedded in the process of following the path wherever it leads. The important thing is to get going.

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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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Leadership and… Conventional Wisdom

Leading in Context

Sticking to yesterday's conventional wisdom can make us out-of-date, because it helps us ignore any information that contradicts our beliefs. It can lead us to make decisions based on out-of-date ways of thinking, and that may result in missed opportunities or even to bad decisions that can harm others. In this case, even though we do not set out to make bad decisions, the consequences of those decisions are just as real.

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Prove Yourself

Women on Business

What are you afraid of? What turns your legs to jelly? What gives you heart palpitations? Perhaps your fear is the pathway to your greatest triumph. Believe that your current, most pressing, most disturbing issue is here to give you insight, awareness, strength, and renewed vigor in your purpose here on Earth. Perhaps you’re dealing with personnel or relationship issues.

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Five Ideas for Dealing with Complacent People

Lead Change Blog

Leaders sometimes have to deal with complacent people – those people who are seemingly happy with their current position or status or job performance. Gather leaders and coaches for any length of time and this challenge is likely to come … Continue reading → Lead Change Group - Leaders Growing Leaders.

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A Senior Executive Shares His Leadership Rules of the Road

Next Level Blog

One of the most popular aspects of my company’s group coaching program, Next Level Leadership™ for high potential leaders is the senior executive guest speakers who come in for a lunch time “what. 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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The Art of the Dumb Question

Mills Scofield

When I was a child, my parents always answered a question with an answer that led to another question. So early on, I learned to just keep asking questions. It drove my teachers nuts (don’t get me started on education!) and drives my husband nuts (like that’s the only reason!). Just to bug my husband further, I’ve taught our kids to do the same thing!

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Time Wasting Awareness: How is your perception of time?

Women on Business

Did you know that your awareness of time has a direct impact on your social intelligence? It’s easy to spot someone with poor awareness of time. They talk longer than what seems necessary in a meeting, they’re difficult to get off the phone, and they don’t get anywhere quickly (be it to an appointment, the point of a conversation, etc.). They are your classic time wasters.

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Leaders Take a Chance

Lead Change Blog

After Lyle hired me, I saw the position profile the recruiter had used for the placement: 10+ years management experience in a B2C service industry, bachelor’s in accounting required, law degree preferred, and a working knowledge of telecommunications. I met none, absolutely … Continue reading → Lead Change Group - Leaders Growing Leaders.

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Leaders Cannot Be Blamers: 3 Things

QAspire

The true test of a leader is when things don’t go as planned. Worst yet, when things fail. In an organizational context, I have seen so many leaders who drive the project/initiative right from the beginning – yet when the project fails, they blame others. The blame senior management, the organization culture, their own team members and sometimes even the customers.

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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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My Treadmill Desk: Why & How I Built It.

Tony Mayo

Treadmill Desk wwww.tony mayo.com View more presentations from tonymayo. Why & How I Made My Treadmill Desk Here is the text from the slide show in case the PowerPoint above does not work in your browser. I read in Scientific American about the mounting evidence that many health problems and premature deaths were attributable [.].

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Get Your Organization In Sync To Sustain Change

Women on Business

Guest post by Suzanne Weinstein (learn more about Suzanne at the end of this post). Change is the one constant we know is going to occur and it is also one of the biggest challenges a leader will face. Leaders are acutely aware that change never ends. In fact, most organizations are interested in changing, not because they want to change, but because our fast-changing economic environment requires it in order to stay relevant.

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Possibility Maximizer: Human Capital Institute's Top Talent Blogs

Sales Wolf Blog

Each week I like to feature a resource that I feel can help you to grow as a business professional that Maximizes Possibility in your organization. Today I would like to feature a great blogging resource from the Human Capital Institute that I was recently honored with inclusion in. Enjoy! The Resource: Human Capital Institute's Top 50 Talent Blogs What it is: Each year the analysts at the Human Capital Institute (HCI) evaluate hundreds of blogs in an effort to identify the top talent blogs to f

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10 Key Lessons On Leading Virtual Teams Effectively

QAspire

We live in times where more and more work is executed by teams that are geographically distributed. Leading a virtual team, fostering collaboration and binding them to common set of objectives is one of the key challenges for business leaders. In most of the troubled projects I have seen, the real challenges were not technical/engineering ones but communication/collaboration ones.

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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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Plan:Do:Check:Act: Team Building Processing & De-Briefing

Mike Cardus

Processing Team-Building Activities: When facilitating a team through a challenge taking breaks to evaluate what is happening during the action and what is the teams next step proves useful. Individuals on teams when involved in challenges are really close to the problem and taking a Plan:Do:Check:ACT (PDCA) break will create clarity and teach a model of action steps and solutions finding in real-time examples.

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There’s No Crying in Baseball!!! (I mean business)

Women on Business

Guest post by Amber Little (learn more about Amber at the end of this post). Most of us have been there (unfortunately). We are at work and things are going horribly wrong. Not only are we being under extreme pressure from the job, but we are also feeling the added pressure of not having support from our direct supervisors and bosses. In fact, the ones that we rely on the most to be our support system can be, in a very real way, responsible for making matters worse.

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The Rainmaker 'Fab Five' Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

Wow, it was sure a great week for reading HR, talent management, and leadership development blogs! With all the great posts hitting the wires this past week it was especially hard to narrow it down to just five to share. Without further ado, here are five choice blog posts from February 28th - March 6th 2011 to get your week off to a great start. Enjoy!

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"Think About What You Have To Do, and Do Something You're Thinking About"

Jason Womack

Etc. Hard Choices. (Inspired by Bloomburg Businessweek Magazine.the very last page of each issue.). "Think About What You Have To Do, and Do Something You're Thinking About.". Serving my local community as a high school teacher for 4 years, I learned a lot about customer service and the ability to take action. With classes as big as 34 students, it was absolutely necessary for us to work together to make things possible.

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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.