Leading Blog

MAY 3, 2024

Embrace Visibility: Brené Brown, a luminary in the study of vulnerability, posits that true leadership requires the courage to be seen, warts and all. For emerging leaders aiming to chart a successful course, remember that vulnerability, wielded wisely, is not your Achilles’ heel but your strength —fortifying you face the world head-on.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 5, 2024

What once involved ledger books and manual calculations has transitioned to software-based systems that offer precision and simplicity. They provide a seamless way to capture and organize financial transactions, manage payroll, generate invoices, and produce comprehensive financial reports.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 5, 2024

What once involved ledger books and manual calculations has transitioned to software-based systems that offer precision and simplicity. They provide a seamless way to capture and organize financial transactions, manage payroll, generate invoices, and produce comprehensive financial reports.

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Management Books Outsourcing Software 87

Strategy Driven

APRIL 5, 2024

What once involved ledger books and manual calculations has transitioned to software-based systems that offer precision and simplicity. They provide a seamless way to capture and organize financial transactions, manage payroll, generate invoices, and produce comprehensive financial reports.

Management 85

Management Books Outsourcing Software 85

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Businessman and former ambassador Donald Blinken explains the motivation behind this book in the foreword: This book was born out of Bob Dilenschneider’s concern about how demoralizing it is for many young people to consider their futures. What was the fledgling reporter to do now?

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This time each year, I select from all the leadership books I read during the year my pick for the best new leadership book of the year. It was a tough choice, so for 2022, I'm picking two books: Both books are timely, highly relevant, full of great teachings and well worth reading for leaders at any stage of their careers.

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Books Leadership Open-book Learning-by-Doing 79

Lead Change Blog

MARCH 12, 2015

The term character-based leadership rose out of this group’s efforts and eventually led to the book, The Character-Based Leader. As this book will explore, the leadership crisis is really a crisis of character. What’s important to realize here is that individuals who have attained a position of importance come from all of us.

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Crisis Books Ethics Incubator 150

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 28, 2019

There is an important difference between giving your employees positive feedback and giving them praise. Positive feedback focuses on the specifics of job performance. Praise, often one-or two-sentence statements, such as “Keep up the good work,” without positive feedback leaves employees with empty feelings.

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Positioning Mentor Report Career 50

Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Today on Asking for a Friend I talk with Sara Canaday about tips from her new book “Coaching Essentials for Managers.” Position yourself as a partner in their success. Underestimate the potential of your direct reports. Sara reminds us that employees “want to learn, want to grow, and want to progress.”

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Great Results Team Building

MARCH 1, 2023

In my book, The 10 Commandments of Winning Teammates , the main character has lost his job and is traveling to take on a new position in a nother town – and during the journey, he asks each of the people he talks with one very interesting question: “Who is the best teammate you ever had?

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The scale of this global fluency was underlined by a recent report from Education First, which detailed both how many people are fluent in English, and the importance of this fluency to individual and collective success. The report chronicles the journey of the 2.3 “The incentives to learn English have never been greater.”

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 4, 2019

There is an important difference between giving your employees positive feedback and giving them praise. Positive feedback focuses on the specifics of job performance. Praise, often one-or two-sentence statements, such as “Keep up the good work,” without positive feedback leaves employees with empty feelings.

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Positioning Mentor Report Career 50

Career Advancement

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Identify skilled leaders in high-level positions in your organization, and hold leadership seminars where they share best practices with a large group of managers. On-the-job simulations where a coach assumes the role of direct report and asks for guidance in a particular area.

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RapidStart Leadership

JUNE 29, 2017

A book I recently read does a great job of helping to answer those questions. [In The book tells the story of a fictitious tech startup, DecisionTech. And she interviews her direct reports. Lencioni follows up by adding some helpful tools at the end of the book so we can apply his framework to our own situations.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

He reported that he had spent many hours preparing for this final exam, memorizing lots of formulas to use during the test. Bryant reports Bettinger’s words this way: “I’ve taught you everything I can teach you about business in the last ten weeks,” said his teacher. He had maintained a 4.0

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 28, 2022

Between the leaders I’ve worked with in our Next Level Leadership® group coaching program and the individual executives I’ve coached over the last 20 plus years, I’ve delivered around 2,000 colleague feedback reports. Yeah, yeah, all those positive comments are nice, but just tell me what I need to fix to be better.” Big mistake.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

There is an important difference between giving your employees positive feedback and giving them praise. Positive feedback focuses on the specifics of job performance. Praise, often one-or two-sentence statements, such as “Keep up the good work,” without positive feedback leaves employees with empty feelings.

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Positioning Mentor Report Career 96

Great Results Team Building

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Research conducted by the Center for Creative Leadership demonstrates that leaders with higher levels of social awareness and emotional intelligence are more likely to have positive and trusting relationships with their teams. And leaders who cultivate awareness create a culture of accountability, engagement, and continuous improvement.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 25, 2023

Use Reporting Software to Educate Yourself and Others Leaders require access to the latest corporate information and performance statistics. These platforms commonly contain reporting applications that can transform corporate data into meaningful and actionable insights.

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Tips Software Objective Report 129

Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

What if you are a manager and your direct reports have strong opinions on a topic - and you believe their suggestions just won't work? Sometimes this means disagreeing with your direct reports and taking a stand on tough issues. * If it is important to your direct reports and insignificant to the company, let it go. *

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Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 25, 2010

The Resource:    LinkUp Monthly Jobs Report What It Is:   LinkUp is a job search engine that finds and displays employment openings directly from the career section of employer websites for companies of all sizes.  Enjoy! .  Enjoy!

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Great Results Team Building

AUGUST 21, 2023

In fact, Salesforce reported that “ 86% of employees and executives cite lack of collaboration or ineffective communication for workplace failures.” A report by Forbes highlights that collaborative environments have a positive effect on overall organizational performance. – WHAT IS BLOCKING YOUR PROGRESS?

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 22, 2013

There is an important difference between giving your employees positive feedback and giving them praise. Positive feedback focuses on the specifics of job performance. Praise, often one-or two-sentence statements, such as “Keep up the good work,” without positive feedback leaves employees with empty feelings.

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Positioning Mentor Report Career 69

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 26, 2024

The book, Power To The Middle , shows how managers are the crucial link between a company’s ground floor and top brass. Most importantly, by the end of their book, the authors sum up their insights and provide a playbook that will help senior leaders let go of the command-and-control mindset that has hobbled their managers for so long.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 5, 2022

“Four out of five adults report feeling that they have too much to do and not enough time to do it,” reports Ashley Whillans , author of the book, Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time and Live a Happier Life. Thank you to the book's publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book. They laugh less.

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CEO Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2010

CEO Blog - Time Leadership Sunday, December 26, 2010 10 Book Reviews in 10 Days There is a nasty storm going on outside. I am way behind in my book reviews (not my reading - just my reviews). Stormy weather is a great time to stay in an "book report". I am CEO between positions. Ellsworth Olsen M.A.

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CO2

DECEMBER 20, 2023

When starting a new position, it’s only natural that we do what we’ve already done before & know how to do. Based on which stage, what leadership style and what role do you want to emphasize in your position? I ask my clients to usethe focus questions from Brad Smart’s book Top Grading.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2016

At one point in his career, he reports the strangest question he was asked in a job interview was, “Why do you want my job?” ” when he had not applied for the interviewer’s position. The best moment in his career occurred in 2008, when he recommended a direct report for a job within their company.

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Leading Blog

JULY 28, 2023

Minorities also report being passed over in favor of white or male counterparts when the “good” assignments are given out. When you do this, you strategically position yourself to advantageously call out bias any time you sense it without being accusatory in your approach and invoking defensive fragility in the sensed perpetrator.

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Career Learning-by-Doing Long-term Report 215

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In his book No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality , he writes that the fall brought him “down in more ways than one. How could he put a positive spin on this? Robert Frost told a reporter in 1954: “In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. And then he fell. The accident created doubt.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 27, 2016

There is an important difference between giving your employees positive feedback and giving them praise. Positive feedback focuses on the specifics of job performance. Praise, often one-or two-sentence statements, such as “Keep up the good work,” without positive feedback leaves employees with empty feelings.

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Positioning Mentor Report Career 50

Leading Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

He dropped out of business school and threw away the rule book. Throughout the book, his colleagues, friends, and family members weigh in on Taylor’s remarkable journey, and at the end of each chapter, he summarizes lessons he had learned along the way. My counsel is to be the most positive person in the room.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

There is an important difference between giving your employees positive feedback and giving them praise. Positive feedback focuses on the specifics of job performance. Praise, often one-or two-sentence statements, such as “Keep up the good work,” without positive feedback leaves employees with empty feelings.

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Positioning Mentor Report Career 50

Leading Blog

JULY 20, 2020

You’ve probably asked your direct reports to work things out at their own level, too. You, your colleagues, and your direct reports are grappling with what I call “the authority conundrum.” The same goes for your direct reports. Align with Your Direct Reports. What does it take to attain such vertical alignment?

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 17, 2024

Here is a book that provides workplace leaders an urgently needed methodology for helping companies to reduce worker loneliness, and it delivers a blueprint for building strong, high-performing workplace teams. The book is, Connectable: How Leaders Can Move Teams From Isolated To All In , by Ryan Jenkins and Steven Van Cohen. “72%

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 18, 2022

How you are REALLY feeling… I was recently catching up with a client (turned into a friend) whom we had worked with several years ago, right after our first book came out. method for performance feedback and accountability conversations really helps them to start from a position of curiosity. Let’s call him Fred.

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Great Results Team Building

MAY 1, 2024

A 2023 blog by Tech Report found that “ 86% of employees cite the lack of effective collaboration and communication as the main causes for workplace failures.” Team members feel valued and appreciated for their unique contributions, fostering a more positive and collaborative work environment. DISC can help bridge these gaps.

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