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How to Deal with Team Conflict

Let's Grow Leaders

Handling team conflict well distinguishes outstanding leaders. You’ve got a clear focus on what matters most, your team seems to work well together, but then you get that call: “I need to talk to you about…” It’s conflict, a disagreement, or a clash of personalities. What you do next will reinforce your leadership and influence—or erode your credibility.

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To Cope with Labor Shortage, Raise Emotional Compensation

Michael Lee Stallard

The current labor shortage and employee retention are concerning issues for organizations. Many leaders are scrambling to attract and retain the workers they need. A combination of factors has resulted in an insufficient number of workers to meet available jobs: job quits hitting historic highs , declining immigration, and fewer individuals who are of working age (16-64 years old).

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Case Study—Implementing Change

Lead Change Blog

Did you know? Countless organizational changes are currently underway all over the world. Despite good intentions, many of these efforts will fail. Various studies have found that 60-to-70 percent of change initiatives don’t achieve the desired results. To increase your success, start by getting specific answers to these questions: Why is the change needed?

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Is It Wise to Have Friends at Work?

Kevin Eikenberry

Friends at work. Is that a good idea? What about as a leader? In working with groups of leaders for thirty years, I know this question will always create a variety of opinions, some pretty strongly held on both sides of the fence. Let’s unpack the question and give you some clearer direction. But first […]. The post Is It Wise to Have Friends at Work?

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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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Confidence: Proof You Can Face Any Challenge

Leadership Freak

I haven’t had a warm shower in more than seven months. If you’re counting, it’s 226 days, but whose counting. The water I use is 54 degrees Fahrenheit, 12.2 degrees Celsius.

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Your Round-Up of The Grossman Group’s Top 10 Blogs on Leadership & Communication in Q2 2021

leaderCommunicator

If you are like me, summer often serves as a good time to slow down a little and catch up on some reading. If you find yourself with a few extra minutes, take a look here at some of the most-read content on my blog the last few months. There’s a great variety of posts with quick tips and strategies to help you lead and communicate in engaging ways. Top content ranges from delivering difficult messages and connecting with hard-to-reach employees, to how to spark dialogue with your team and commun

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Leaders and culture: how to handle power?

Leadership and Change

Being aware of power and how power alters your and others’ perceptions and responses helps to handle power better. This is crucial if you want to develop a positive culture at work and achieve high performance. Here’s part 2, based on Julie Diamond’s book “Power – a user’s guide”. This is recommended reading for leaders […]. The post Leaders and culture: how to handle power?

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9 Lessons for Leadership Success No One Teaches You About

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Learn nine principles that can help you become a better leader. Today’s post is by Angela Civitella, a business leadership coach and founder of Intinde. Most employees have big dreams of one day having the big title, the corner office, and being able to lead an organization. Industry knowledge is certainly part of the job, but it won’t make you a great leader all by itself.

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The Lost Art of Keeping Your Word

Mark Sanborn

The chasm between “promises made” and “promises kept” seems to keep widening. Consider: How many times have you unsubscribed from emails and continued to receive them? I’ve noticed that a high number of “unsubscribes” are illusionary. How often have you met with a vendor who promised a quote or proposal that you never heard from again?

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Overcoming The Barriers That Stop Would Be Entrepreneurs

The Horizons Tracker

Entrepreneurship is one of those things that people often think you either have or you don’t. It’s not something you can learn in a classroom but that’s forged in the marketplace. A few years ago I covered a study that examined this in more detail. It suggests that it is very much a skill that can be learned, with the ability to think in an entrepreneurial way something that exists within most of us, even if we don’t know it.

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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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7 Reasons I Dislike Email Criticism

Ron Edmondson

As a pastor, I grew to dislike email criticism. And I use the word dislike, but hate might even be the right word. I grew to hate email criticism. I was talking to a new leader once. He had received a scathing email from someone. It was one of his first. And it was a doozy. Hard hitting. No grace. No value recognized for anything the leader has accomplished.

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The Changing State Of Geographic Pay Policies

The Horizons Tracker

As the popularity of remote work has mushroomed during the Covid restrictions, the conversation around so-called geographic pay has also shifted. Recent data from WorldatWork’s Geographic Pay Policies Study highlights this shift. It highlights that 62% of organizations have compensation that is tailored to local conditions, but of these, 44% of them are considering changing those policies as a result of any increase in remote work, whether full-time or part-time.

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Business Mentoring What is it?

Rapid BI

Mentoring in a business sense is a vehicle for self development. Having a formal/ official relationship with a respected senior within an industry or organization is valuable to both the mentee and mentor, and had advantages to the organization in that it is an effective people development strategy and one that can support succession plans. The post Business Mentoring What is it?

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The Role Beauty Plays In Our Success At Work

The Horizons Tracker

The lack of equal representation across various industries has been well documented in recent years, and the evidence is clear that despite the evident appeal of a meritocratic world, we’re often a long way from it. Recent research from the CEPR explores how equality is, or more pertinently is not, operating in economics. “In academics, we really want to believe that it’s all about merit,” the researchers say. “There are some papers showing that teaching evaluation

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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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How To Host Post-Mortem Meetings That Actually Add Value

Niagara Institute

Have you ever wondered why a project didn’t turn out the way you had planned? Or why a task you delegated to an employee went sideways? If the answer is yes, and you want to turn those types of situations into learning opportunities going forward, then it’s time to consider hosting post-mortem meetings. To begin, let’s clarify what post-mortem meetings are exactly.

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How the Best in the World Reverse Engineer Success

Leading Blog

R EVERSE ENGINEERING is systematically taking things apart to discover how and why they work. It is routinely done in tech—Steve Jobs and Bill Gates copied and improved on Xerox Palo Alto Research Center’s Alto computer to bring us the Macintosh and windows—but it is also done in with the best speeches, art, movies, music, and literature to discover what makes them so successful.

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Your Company Needs a Digital Nomad Policy

Harvard Business Review

It will help you retain in-demand workers and protect you from legal risk.

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Words of Wisdom for Aspiring Writers from John David Mann

Skip Prichard

The Power of Fiction. If you are even a casual reader of this site, you know that I am passionate about reading and books. Though we usually feature non-fiction on this site, I am often found lost in a book of fiction and most often thrillers. My friend John David Mann sent me an early copy of Steel Fear and I made the mistake of picking it up way too late in the day.

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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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Leadership Training Can Pay Huge Dividends for Midsize Companies

Harvard Business Review

Here’s how to design a development program that works.

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ADHD, Neurodiversity, and Bias

Harvard Business Review

What it’s like to work – and advise others about their careers – as a woman with ADHD.

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Should Your Company Provide Mental Health Apps to Employees?

Harvard Business Review

Guidelines to help HR managers think through the decision.