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How Do I Stay Motivated When My Peers Are Lazy?

Let's Grow Leaders

Dear Karin and David, How do I stay motivated when my peers are lazy? I’m working twice as hard as them and I’m sick of picking up the slack. My boss doesn’t seem to notice. Signed, Tired and Frustrated #AskingForAFriend Do’s and […].

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How to Attract Graduates to Your Company

Lead Change Blog

Young, bright and bursting with enthusiasm, fresh graduates often make excellent employees. Unfortunately, the younger demographic has a highly defined set of generational workplace preferences that may make it hard for some companies to tap into their labor. If yours is one of them, here are four things you can do to start drawing in more of that promising new talent now.

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Built to Win

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from regular contributor S. Chris Edmonds: Built to win doesn't mean you're going to win. It means that you are setting your team up to win more often than not. Recently, I spoke to 300 leaders at a client's annual conference. Between the banners hanging on the walls demonstrating their past successes and industry awards, the celebration of their terrific financial results, which were the best in the company's history, and the praises sung of their unique organizational culture, which

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How One Question Sparks Engagement

Leadership Freak

People aren’t engaged because the questions they hear are dull. Easy questions: If you’re on my team, you’re committed to constant improvement. Meetings always include, “What can we do better next time?

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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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How to Tell if You Are Sinking or Swimming as a Leader

RapidStart Leadership

How can 80% of people believe themselves to be above average leaders? One of the many challenges of being a leader is knowing how well you are doing. Are you sinking or swimming? It can be hard to really know, and yet knowing is the key to becoming better at it. As I was surprised to re-learn at the local pool a few weeks a go, what it takes is the perspective of others.

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How to Build a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility

Leadership Freak

This post is based on my conversation with Patty McCord, former Chief Talent Officer at Netflix and author of Powerful. “People have power; don’t take it away.

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John C. Maxwell Leadership Quotes

Eric Jacobson

The real gems in John C. Maxwell's book, Everyone Communicates Few Connect , book are the abundant leadership and communication quotes, such as these: To add value to others, one must first value others. People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude. All good communicators get to the point before their listeners start asking, "What's the point?

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Professionalize Your Business

Strategy Driven

The world of business is always seen as professional. But how professional is yours? If you’re a new business then the chances are high that it might not be as good as it can be. The main things customers look for is professionalism. Both from yourself, and how your business is run. You need to give the customers what they want if you want to keep bringing them back.

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7 Critical Abilities Senior Leaders Must Have

Ron Edmondson

I have held a senior leadership position for over 20 years and been in leadership over 35 years. In this post, I want to express some things I’ve observed (and experienced) as some of the critical abilities a senior leader must have in order to be most effective. Please understand, I’m not saying you can’t be effective without all of them, or that you have to excel in each of them, or that you won’t stumble in most of them at times.

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Unique & Creative Employee Incentives You Could Be Offering

Strategy Driven

Everyone who is a part of a business expects to work for a company who cares. It’s one of the very basic needs of an employee, that they are treated well and rightly so. There is an increasingly competitive marketplace for top talent out there and companies are desperate to recruit people who have charisma, brains and talent for the role that they work in.

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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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Recommended aim, with examples

Deming Institute

Guest post by Keith Sparkjoy, vice president of the Sparkjoy Foundation , originally featured as a post at www.keithsparkjoy.com Follow this link to listen to our first podcast with Keith. Of all of Deming ‘s work, I think the bit with the most potential impact is also the bit that Deming kept close to his vest because it doesn’t advocate company growth as an aim , and his clients would not have understood.

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If You Multitask During Meetings, Your Team Will, Too

Harvard Business Review

Nick Vedros/Getty Images. Managers have hard jobs. They coordinate the work of their teams, align this work with company goals, serve as a primary source of professional development for their employees, deliver results, and many other critical tasks (all while keeping people engaged). We’ve previously written about what great managers do differently , but even great managers are not fully aware of how their work habits can impact those they supervise.

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When Burnout Is a Sign You Should Leave Your Job

Harvard Business Review

Hamish Blair/Getty Images. You have the right to have work that enriches and enlivens you, rather than diminishing you. This is my own personal declaration of human rights at work. It informs everything I do as a coach, management professor, and human being. Yet it’s surprisingly controversial. Managers and employees in organizations around the world have bought into the assumption that pay and other contracted rewards are all you can expect to receive from work (and all that you owe your

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How to Get Employees to Stop Worrying and Love AI

Harvard Business Review

tyler garrison/Getty Images. David Maister was angry. He had been surprised and annoyed to learn that his company had set up a new AI-based marketing system that was doing most of what he thought was his job as digital marketing manager at Global Consumer Brands: deciding what ads to place where, for which customer segments, and how much to spend. And when he found that the system was buying ads for audiences that didn’t fit the company’s customer profile, he stormed in to his boss&#

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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 Setting Your Data Scientists Up to Fail?

Harvard Business Review

Aron Vellekoop Len/Getty Images. Getting as much as they can from analytics is critical for companies seeking to monetize their data, become data-driven, and put their data to work. Yet most find this difficult. Indeed, the failure rate of analytics projects remains distressingly high. A key reason for this is that senior managers fail to manage their data scientists properly.

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Why We Modeled Our Hiring Process on the NFL and NASA

Harvard Business Review

hank walker/life/Getty Images. What’s the best way to assess elite talent — those people you expect to play a critical role in your organization’s success? Most management experts would say in-depth interviews , reference-checking , and work sample reviews. Some forward-thinking companies might even use “auditions.” But at Citadel and Citadel Securities, we’ve decided to go a step further.