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Empowering your Workforce in Increments

Lead Change Blog

I currently mentor a close colleague, who has recently experienced probably the worst example of organisational restructuring and change management that I have witnessed in over forty years! While he successfully competed and secured a senior management position in the new structure, that badly-handled process has caused significant damage to his belief in the organisation, its vision, mission and values!

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3 Easy Steps To Energize Collaboration And Drive Success

Tanveer Naseer

If you’re like most leaders, the arrival of Fall marks the perfect opportunity to assess where we are today in term’s of achieving our yearly goals, and what we should be focusing on to ensure a successful outcome for the end of this year. This also provides leaders with the opportunity to ensure they are […] The post 3 Easy Steps To Energize Collaboration And Drive Success appeared first on Tanveer Naseer.

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Buying an Existing Business: 5 Steps to Success

Women on Business

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New Manager Nightmares: 11 Creepy Leaders and How to Avoid Morphing Into One

RapidStart Leadership

“Have you experienced New Manager Nightmares?” You are going about your business when suddenly a new manager walks in. A dark cloud seems to blot out the sun, reality distorts, work grinds to a halt, and nothing seems normal anymore. What you may be may be experiencing is a new … New Manager Nightmares: 11 Creepy Leaders and How to Avoid Morphing Into One Read More ».

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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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The Case for Gratitude

Kevin Eikenberry

I recently spoke to a group of sixth, seventh and eighth graders on their first day of school about the ideas in the new culture that they are creating at the school. They call it GRIT. And this week, I am focusing on the first letter, G, which stands for Gratitude. And in today’s video, […]. The post The Case for Gratitude appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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The Most Successful Leaders Do These 10 Things Every Day 

Lead from Within

Leadership is an action, not a position. It’s what a leader does today that will make a great difference in their future. W hether you’re coaching a basketball team, managing a start-up or moving up the ranks of a Fortune 500 company, successful habits are the key to great leadership. Here are the 10 habits that I encourage all my clients to practice every day until they become daily discipline.

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The Scariest Thing about Introverts

Leadership Freak

Introverts drive extroverts crazy. Or should I say, extroverts drive introverts crazy?

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Misunderstanding the Purpose of Corporations

Tony Mayo

Tony Mayo Executive Coach. If you took a business or economics course in the past quarter-century, you were probably taught that the sole purpose of a corporation is to return cash to its shareholders. This widely accepted and seldom challenged idea is a dangerous innovation from the 1960s that radically departs from the centuries-long social contract under which corporations were […].

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The Leadership Lab

Coaching Tip

Leaders schooled in rational, left-brained thinking need to adapt to changing political, social and technological forces. This requires not only the ability to drill down into details, but to look across the horizon and make right-brained connections, say leadership experts Chris Lewis and Pippa Malmgren in The Leadership Lab: Understanding Leadership in the 21st Century.

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How To Deal With Toxic Coworkers

LDRLB

There are some people who just drain your battery. There are some coworkers that are just negative—that are always angry—that have it out for everybody. If you met them driving out on the street, you’d remember that we invented car horns specifically for jerks like these (okay…not really…but we do seem to use car horns more often for them than whatever reason they were invented 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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Relevant Skills Managers Need To Manage Remote Employees

HR Digest

Employment statistics show that remote workers are on the increase. This is obviously due to a continuous advancement in the workplace technology. Employees are better managed, retained and allowed to work flexibly through remote employment. Managers gain opportunities to work with a team that is made up of members in different locations and effectively handling the proximity limitations while managing remote employees.

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How Ed Sheeran Will Make You a Wealthier Consultant

David A Fields

Music superstar Ed Sheeran is going to make you money. Well, indirectly. Okay, he’s not actually going to make you money, but there’s a connection between Red Ed and your consulting firm’s fortunes. Channel your inner Ed Sheeran: hum catchy tunes, look soulful, and grow something scruffy.

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Generativity: The Gift of Giving!

Marshall Goldsmith

Dr. Steven Berglas is my good friend and one of the foremost authorities on career guidance. Steve recently published a new book, Stay Hungry and Kick Burnout in the Butt. In the book, he talks about the pursuit of wealth and happiness. I love his take on this idea and am happy to share it with you! Following is a brief excerpt from our interview.

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Why Work-Life Balance Is a Lie, and What Should Take Its Place

Steve Farber

Striving for work-life balance isn’t a zero sum game. Being fully present wherever you are is what matters. Right up there with “win-win” in the office lexicon, you’ll be familiar with the tired term, “work-life balance.” But, in truth, there is no such thing. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that the very idea is an insidious lie. It implies that “work” and “life” are two different things.

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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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4 Guarantees of New Leadership

Ron Edmondson

As I thought about this post, I tried to remember the number of times I’ve been the “new” leader. I think I counted about 15 times. This includes being in the corporate world with multiple promotions, owning a couple of businesses, pastoring 4 churches, and now serving at Leadership Network. I know what it’s like to be the “new guy”. And, it has taught me a few lessons.

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How Lilly Is Getting More Women into Leadership Positions

Harvard Business Review

Jenner Image/Getty Images. Much has been written about the troubling lack of women in leadership roles generally and in health care in particular. At Lilly, we have tackled this problem head-on. Our approaches, we think, can be helpful to other companies working to address this imbalance. In 2015, we conducted a workforce analysis that revealed a significant shortage of women in leadership at our company.

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When Men Mentor Women

Harvard Business Review

David Smith, associate professor of sociology at the U.S. Naval War College, and Brad Johnson, professor of psychology at the United States Naval Academy, argue that it is vital for more men to mentor women in the workplace. In the post-#MeToo world, some men have shied away from cross-gender relationships at work. But Smith and Johnson say these relationships offer big gains to mentees, mentors, and organizations.

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How the U.S. Can Rebuild Its Capacity to Innovate

Harvard Business Review

Jetta Productions/Getty Images. Many U.S. firms have long had a simple mantra: “Invent here, manufacture there.” But, increasingly, those same companies are now choosing to invent as well as manufacture abroad. From automotive to semiconductors to pharma to clean energy , America’s innovation centers have shifted east, offering growing evidence that the U.S. has lost what Harvard Business School’s Willy Shih calls the “ industrial commons ”: indispensable prod

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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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Your Data Literacy Depends on Understanding the Types of Data and How They’re Captured

Harvard Business Review

Marco Guidi/EyeEm/Getty Images. The ability to understand and communicate about data is an increasingly important skill for the 21st-century citizen, for three reasons. First, data science and AI are affecting many industries globally, from healthcare and government to agriculture and finance. Second, much of the news is reported through the lenses of data and predictive models.

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Why Privacy Regulations Don’t Always Do What They’re Meant To

Harvard Business Review

Maartje Van Caspel/EyeEm/Getty Images. First, California passed major privacy legislation in June. Then in late September, the Trump administration published official principles for a single national privacy standard. Not to be left out, House Democrats previewed their own Internet “Bill of Rights” earlier this month. Sweeping privacy regulations, in short, are likely coming to the United States.