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The 1-Month Self Development Boot Camp

Lead Change Blog

This month in the Jewish calendar is the month of Elul, the last month of the year. The days of Elul lead up to the new year (Rosh Hashana), which in the Jewish calendar is a time of celebration, but also one of serious reflection and accounting for one’s actions. This Elul, I and countless others across the globe are taking upon ourselves different challenges that are designed to push us to grow, to overcome negative habits, and to nurture positive ones.

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The Cost of Employee Absenteeism

Great Leadership By Dan

The reasons employees may be absent from work are varied and many but the bottom line is, absenteeism has a larger cost associated with it than many people realize. In the United States on a yearly basis, absenteeism costs companies just under $3000 per salaried employee, while the cost is just under $4000 per hourly paid worker. These cumulative costs can become quite significant, which means companies really should look into implementing systems which help them to keep track of work force abse

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The 1-Month Self Development Boot Camp

Lead Change Blog

This month in the Jewish calendar is the month of Elul, the last month of the year. The days of Elul lead up to the new year (Rosh Hashana), which in the Jewish calendar is a time of celebration, but also one of serious reflection and accounting for one’s actions. This Elul, I and countless others across the globe are taking upon ourselves different challenges that are designed to push us to grow, to overcome negative habits, and to nurture positive ones.

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Why Leaders Should Enjoy Entertainment

Joseph Lalonde

The gurus were wrong. When I began diving deep into the personal development world, I was fed a lie. I was told not to do this one specific activity. Years later I regret buying into the lie. Successful people don’t do this. Successful people run fast and far from this. And successful people don’t partake in this activity at all. Lies, lies, and more lies.

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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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Bias When Hiring Mommies, Musicians, and Light Skinned Blacks

Leadership Freak

Everyone has bias. It’s dangerous to think otherwise. When you meet job candidates, you form first impressions that include stereotypes and biases. (Not all stereotypes are bad.

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When panic hits

Deep Imprints

Lately, I have a question rolling through my head way too regularly – sometimes several times a day: “Do you really think God is that small?” Here is how it started: I read (the first half) of a book that wrecked me Gospel Fluency by Jeff Vanderstelt. In the first chapter of this book, Jeff […].

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Off-Site SEO: Maximising Your Search Potential

Strategy Driven

The world of web design is a complicated and often confusing one. Most companies will have a professional to handle their development, along with someone to handle their marketing. But, out of all of this, most businesses will need help with SEO most of all. It’s likely that this aspect of your website is already handled for you. But, this doesn’t mean that you’re doing everything you can.

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Weekly Round-Up: Build Trust, Areas That Plague Teams, Public Speaking as an Introvert, Empathy, & Make Friends with Fear

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The Only Guide You Need For Creating Strong Customer Relationships

Strategy Driven

Creating strong customer relationships is positively key if you’re going to keep them for the long run. If you don’t mind whether they run off to your competitors, go ahead and leave this article. If you want to make sure that your customers love you and stay with you for the foreseeable future, then you need to know how to create a strong customer relationship.

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How To Transform Your Sales Force In Seven Steps

Eric Jacobson

A successful sales force transformation can mean increased revenue, increased sales productivity, and reduced cost of sales. But, up to seventy-five percent of attempted transformations fail, according to the authors of the book, 7 Steps To Sales Transformation - Driving Sustainable Change In Your Organization. Transformation failures are often a result of an organization that neglects to address the human factor (skepticism, resistance, avoidance).

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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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Essential Tips to Deliver an Extraordinary Presentation

Women on Business

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How To Be A Serial Winner

Eric Jacobson

The Cycle of Winning has five parts: Decide, Overdo, Adjust, Finish, Keep Improving. These are the five actions that winners take to get on track and to help stay on tract. Theses actions create Serial Winners, explains Larry Weidel in his book, Serial Winner. "Serial Winners leverage a cycle of winning action to make progress," says Weidel. "They do something every day that puts them on a course for the things they want in life.

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How to Forget About Work When You’re Not Working

Harvard Business Review

When was the last time you got away from work? I mean truly got away from it: didn’t think about it, didn’t worry about it, didn’t have a to-do list rattling around in your brain. Most of us know there are benefits to getting away from work. We know we need time to recharge each day in order to be able to sustain our attention in the office.

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A Survey of 19 Countries Shows How Generations X, Y, and Z Are — and Aren’t — Different

Harvard Business Review

In the near future, three of the most studied generations will converge on the workplace at the same time: Generation X, the age cohort born before the 1980s but after the Baby Boomers; Generation Y, or Millennials , typically thought of as those born between 1984 and 1996; and Generation Z, those born after 1997, who are next to enter the workforce.

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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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The End-of-Quarter Sales Rush Costs Companies Money

Harvard Business Review

Ask any organization what’s happening in the sales department on the last few days of the month and the entire last week of any fiscal quarter. You’ll probably get an uncomfortable laugh and a shake of the head. Sales teams are closing deals, at all costs. The market is pushing companies to hit incredibly high numbers, quarter after quarter and month after month.

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