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Do You Work At A Toxic Company?

Rich Gee Group

More often than you would expect, I find competent, hard-working people trying to survive in dysfunctional organizations. Organizations that: Hold them back professionally by doing the ‘same old stuff’ every day. Frustrate them continuously with bad managers who make bad decisions. Impact their self-esteem and confidence with unhealthy management practices.

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The Skills You Need to Be a Successful Leader

Lead from Within

The foundation of successful leadership is a set of specific skills. You may have earned a leadership position through a combination of knowledge, aptitude and hard work, but once you get there you need new skills and attributes as well. Here are some of the most important: Security in yourself. Leading others is sometimes daunting, and it leaves you open to new levels of scrutiny and criticism.

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80% Fail – Just Quit Now and Begin Again

Leadership Freak

New Year’s resolutions are the triumph of optimism over experience. Why not quit now and begin again realistically? When New Year’s comes around, gyms fill up. Regulars are frustrated. But don’t worry.

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Why Every 21st Century Sales Leader Needs to Be a Creative Problem Solver

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Mark Donnolo : In my new book Quotas! Design Thinking to Solve Your Biggest Sales Challenge , I recount an auspicious meeting I had many years ago with Steff Geissbuhler, a partner at a prestigious New York City design firm. I was in art school at the time, studying graphic design and branding. Thanks to a couple recommendations from professors, I landed an interview with Steff for an internship with the firm.

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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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New Year, New Career: Learn How to Find New Career Opportunities in 2020

HR Digest

January is a popular time for people to quit their jobs and explore new career opportunities. Our experts share insights on how to find a career that makes you happy. If you’re already dreading trudging back to a job that leaves you feeling unmotivated, rather than raring to go, then it could be time to move on to greener pastures. But first, it is important to identify whether this career dissatisfaction is permanent or a seasonal whim.

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Top 20 Innovation Articles of December 2019

Innovation Excellence

Drum roll please… At the beginning of each month we will profile the twenty posts from the previous month that generated the most traffic to Innovation Excellence. We also publish a weekly Top 8 as part of our FREE email newsletter. Did your favorite make the cut? But enough delay, here are December’s twenty most.

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How to Start the New Decade in Deeper Conversations

Let's Grow Leaders

As we start a new decade, what if you took a minute to have some deeper conversations with your team? In addition to your kick-off meetings and goal setting sessions, what if you also paused to have a deeper conversation to build […]. The post How to Start the New Decade in Deeper Conversations appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Ten Ideas to Help You Turbocharge Learning this Year

Management Excellence

We've Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] Update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us.

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Why Fee for Service in Healthcare is Dead

Strategy Driven

The healthcare industry is changing and changing fast. It’s become clear that the industry is no longer sustainable. Healthcare costs have skyrocketed over the last several years. Businesses and employees alike struggle with rising premiums and emergency procedures. The stress is taking its toll on the nation. The industry is in for several major shifts.

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Popular Posts on the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog in 2019

Curious Cat

These posts were the most popular posts on the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog in 2019 (as measured by page views recorded by my analytics application). 14 posts are repeats from the 2018 top 20 list. Of the new top 20 posts 3 were published in 2010, 1 in 2008 and 2 in 2019. The […].

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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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Ten Ideas to Help You Turbocharge Learning this Year

Art Petty

For each of us to truly accelerate learning, we have to fight the inertia of the routines that dominate our lives. Learning demands effort, much like exercise. It’s time to renew your membership to your mental gym. The post Ten Ideas to Help You Turbocharge Learning this Year appeared first on Management Excellence by Art Petty. Related Stories Level-Up as a Manager in 2020—New Live-Online Program Six Things Leaders Must Do More Of to Create Success Leadership and Management Book Podcast

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10 Resolutions That Can Improve Ministry Leadership

Ron Edmondson

The best leadership, in my opinion, comes out of the resolve a leader has made in his or her heart. The resolve of a leader is a pre-determined approach to way a leader will lead. These are personal convictions, values, and personally held beliefs, which shape the decisions a leader makes and the way he or she responds to others. Ultimately a leader’s personal resolves – about anything – determine the way they respond and their actions towards it.

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How Corporate Culture Underpins Conflict Resolution Strategies

The Horizons Tracker

It perhaps stands to reason that the culture of our workplaces plays a big role in how it behaves, but that this culture truly comes out in times of stress. A new study from the University of Illinois illustrates this aptly by documenting how conflict resolution in the workplace, and our approach to it, is indelibly marked by the culture of the workplace.

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SEO vs. PPC: Which Is Most Valuable?

Strategy Driven

You can find countless articles and blogs about SEO and PPC when you browse around the web. A lot of people are writing about these topics, and it can be hard to know what to think when you’ve read so much. Of course, though, one of these marketing tools has to be better than the other, right? To give you an idea of how they stack up, this post will be exploring search engine optimisation and pay per click advertising.

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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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How Can Private Data Be Leveraged For The Public Good?

The Horizons Tracker

The value of data has become quite evident over the past decade, and while there has been a growing appreciation of the societal value of public data, there has been much less success in opening up ostensibly private data sources to aid in the delivery of societal benefits. Many of the early efforts to do just this have revolved around data collaboratives, and a new report by The GovLab explores just how prominent such efforts have been, and what lessons can be learned from early movers.

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If the last boss you worked for recruited you again, would you go work for them?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Our reader poll today asks: If the last boss you worked for recruited you again, would you go work for them? No! There’s a reason I stopped working for them!: 42.1% Absolutely! They were great. 29.1% Maybe … if the role and money were right. 28% Boomerang boss. Clearly, a huge portion of you would never go work for a nightmare boss again.

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How Anxiety Traps Us, and How We Can Break Free

Harvard Business Review

Some exercises for reframing your fears, doubts, and uncertainties.

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Lose those News Blues and Leave the Dark Side: The World’s Never Been Better

The Practical Leader

It’s the most wonderful and inspiring time of year. After many hours of researching books, articles, and websites, let’s kick off 2020 with what’s become my annual New Year’s blog on how the world keeps getting better, and better, and better, and better… This tradition started six years ago with “ A Dose of Reality: Our World is Dramatically Better.” The following year we reported, “ Despite Dire Headlines, the World is Getting Much, Much Better.&#

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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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Survey: What Makes You Accept or Reject a Pitch?

Harvard Business Review

Your answers will help inform a better approach.

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Expert Q&A: Understanding the DOL’s Overtime Rules

HR Digest

The United States Department of Labor has issued a new set of rules that will cover an additional million-plus workers under it. The overtime rules went into effect on January 1, 2020. Under the new proposal, people earning a salary level of $679 for 40 hours per week (about $35,308 annually), will be eligible for overtime pay based on varied duties.

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Leadership Step By Step

Eric Jacobson

Yes, it will take you some time to read Joshua Spodek 's book, Leadership Step by Step. Yes, it will be a little like doing "homework." Yes, this is a book you'll read and likely need to revisit a few times for the concepts to fully sink in. Yes, this is a book you must read if you want to become the person others will follow. The time and effort you put into, Leadership Step by Step , will be well worth it!

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Social Media Success: 10 Keys to Social Media Marketing

Strategy Driven

Did you know Facebook alone has over 2 billion active users ? That’s an ocean of potential leads, paying customers, and more! Don’t forget there are other social media platforms to consider, like YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest, and LinkedIn. However, you can’t simply post randomly and hope you’ll succeed. There are certain keys to social media marketing that you need to grab and take advantage of.

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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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Should The Brightest Talent Coalesce In ‘Cognitive Hubs’?

The Horizons Tracker

The concentration of talent in cities is a topic I’ve touched upon numerous times over the past year or so, with there being evident challenges presented by the benefits of gathering talent into cities set against the harm that causes to smaller communities who find themselves relegated to second place. This regional inequality has been a major talking point in the various political ructions seen in recent years, and there has been an understandable desire to spread talent and opportunity

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