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Go Ahead and Quit!

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “You’ve got to know when to hold them…and know when to fold them.” Kenny Rogers – The Gambler. How many times in life were you told to never give up? Vince Lombardi , legendary coach of the Green Bay Packers from 1959-1967, famously said, “Winners never quit and quitters never win!

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How Losing Focus Threw Me Off Track

Lead Change Blog

This post is part of our 2016 Lead Change Group Guest Blogger Series. Today we are pleased to share a post from leadership coach and author Kimunya Mugo. This was completely new. Waking up every morning was a major struggle. It was like someone glued my eyes shut every night. My mind was tired, my body wrecked and my spirit crushed. For two months, I survived through life.

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What We’ve Got Here Is A Failure to Communicate

N2Growth Blog

Many firms suffer from poor communications. It’s my theory is that too few firms have the necessary communications program in place to do it well. Take the following steps to develop an effective communications program plan: 1. Delineate your objectives – Determine what you expect to gain from your communications program. Objectives could range from enhancing service delivery and improving staff loyalty to gaining a bigger marketplace influence or upgrading relations with the media a

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So You’re a New Boss? 6 Tips to Gain Authority and Trust

Women on Business

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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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5 Leadership Lessons From My Tour Of Chick-Fil-A Headquarters

Joseph Lalonde

O n my recent trip to Atlanta for the Catalyst Conference , I had the pleasure to tour the headquarters of Chick-Fil-A. To say it was a humbling experience would be putting it mildly. I wasn’t sure what to expect when I was informed that my wife and I, along with Paul Sohn, would be able to visit Chick-Fil-A headquarters. Chick-Fil-A has a corporate culture that will astound you.

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4 Ways to Develop Talent by Coaching Through Success

Leadership Freak

Success is a terrible thing to waste. Problems, challenges, and mistakes are so magnetic that leaders might forget to coach team members through success.

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Psst…It’s Not About You

Kevin Eikenberry

Leadership training focuses on a variety of skills; communication, influencing change, coaching, building teams, stimulating collaboration and innovation, attaining goals and much more. Building these skills is important; which is one reason why so much time and money is invested in these efforts. We have been proudly helping leaders and organizations build these skills for […].

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Putting People First: Leading in an Era of Constant Transformation

QAspire

Leading in an era of constant disruption, change and transformation is not easy. In such transformation efforts, soft aspects of leadership play as crucial role as the hard aspects like systems thinking, innovation and execution of change. Last week, I saw an insightful TED talk by Jim Hemerling where he outlined 5 ways to lead in an era of constant changes.

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How To Be More Influential By Negotiating Better and Reading Body Language

Strategy Driven

Are you a small business leader or midlevel corporate manager that seeks to advance your business, or your career? Do you find your initiatives challenged by information and resource gaps by those that don’t “get you” at times? If so, this article will be of value to you as it highlights ways to cast a greater level of influence, gives insight into how you can negotiate better, and raises your awareness per being able to read body language.

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5 Ways Ministry Has Changed in 20 Years

Ron Edmondson

It's gotten harder. I began this blog a number of years ago for one primary reason of encouraging other ministry leaders. I came into ministry later in life – after a long business career – and, so I’ve always seen the role differently from some who have been spent their career in ministry. Recently I was reflecting on how ministry has changed in the 15 years I’ve been in vocational ministry.

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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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How positive emotions can act as a learning booster: Three tips for practical implementation

CQ Net - Management skills for everyone!

We’ve all had positive moments in our lives that you just won’t forget. It doesn’t matter if those moments were part of personal life or professional life, occurred during studies or other forms of education: Situations that are associated with fun, inspiration, hope, interest, admiration, and pride are etched into our memory and can be recalled in great detail and with great emotional depth many years later.

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Speaking Workshop—Powerful Public Speaking by Dr. Nick Morgan

Management Excellence

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How positive emotions can act as a learning booster: Three tips for practical implementation

CQ Net - Management skills for everyone!

We’ve all had positive moments in our lives that you just won’t forget. It doesn’t matter if those moments were part of personal life or professional life, occurred during studies or other forms of education: Situations that are associated with fun, inspiration, hope, interest, admiration, and pride are etched into our memory and can be recalled in great detail and with great emotional depth many years later.

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Deming Scholars Seminar, November 9, 2016 in Cheyenne, Wyoming

Deming Institute

The Wyoming Business Alliance, in partnership with The W. Edwards Deming Institute®, presents the Deming Scholars Seminar on November 9, 2016 in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The seminar is a pre-conference event at the 2016 Governor’s Business Forum. Presentations include. Dr. Joyce Orsini, Fordham University, New York – Learn how to apply Deming principles to have a proud impact on your organization.

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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 to improve your customer service

Lead on Purpose

Customer service continues to capture the attention and focus of companies, but many organizations still struggle to raise it to the level for which they are striving. What factors play in to good customer service? What do customers really expect?

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Is Your Employee Ready to Be a Manager?

Harvard Business Review

You have an ambitious team member who’s asking to be promoted to manager. He’s great at his job, but is he really ready to lead? How do you judge his skills and experience? What’s the best way to measure his potential? What the Experts Say. As a manager, you’re always on the lookout for the next generation of talent in your organization.

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How to improve your customer service

Lead on Purpose

Customer service continues to capture the attention and focus of companies, but many organizations still struggle to raise it to the level for which they are striving. What factors play in to good customer service? What do customers really expect?

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Make Time for the Work That Matters

Harvard Business Review

Reclaim up to one day a week for your most important work with this video slide deck. To download a customizable version, visit the Visual Librar.

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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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How To Be A Superboss

Eric Jacobson

"Superbosses embrace certain practices that good bosses don't, and they do even more of the productive things that good bosses do," says Syney Finkelstein , author of the book, Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent. What's more, according to Finkelstein's findings from ten years of research and two hundred interviews, superbosses focus on identifying promising newcomers, inspiring their best work, and launching them into highly successful careers, while also expanding th

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Leaders Who Get Change Right Know How to Listen

Harvard Business Review

Organizational change comes at a cost. It requires people to sacrifice something they value, whether it’s time, money, responsibilities, control, status, comfort, or relationships. The more your change effort disrupts those things, the more people will resist or even rage against it. That helps explain why failure is so common, but there’s more to it.

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7 Things Your High-Performing Employees Long To Hear You Say

Let's Grow Leaders

These are all real statements I’ve heard in the last few weeks: “Oh we don’t worry about observing our high-performing call center reps. We just focus on the ones who are struggling.” “John doesn’t really need a training and development plan like everyone else, he’s got his job nailed.” “Well, he’s a bit a rough around the edges, but we don’t say anything.

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Proactivity Can Be a Double-Edged Sword

Harvard Business Review

A friend of ours recently told us a story about a new colleague – let’s call him Max. When Max first began his new job, his supervisor encouraged him to come forward with new ideas on how to improve the team’s ways of working. Over time, Max found there were several procedures that unnecessarily complicated his work and so he raised these issues with his supervisor.

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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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Leaders Need Different Skills to Thrive in Tech

Harvard Business Review

You accept your first job as a manager in a fast growth tech company, thinking: “How much different could this be from my former company—a financial services firm? Management is management, right?” But by the end of the first month you feel confused and disoriented. A series of jarring experiences have taught you that: Your management authority is meaningless in a culture that worships engineers.

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How to Hire with Algorithms

Harvard Business Review

HBR STAFF. Choosing the right person for a job can be challenging. The sheer number of resumes can be overwhelming. But even for organizations patient enough to review each application, poor choices can arise from psychological biases ranging from racial discrimination to narrow bracketing (in which people overemphasize subsets — rather than the universe — of choices, for example, choosing the best candidate interviewed that day rather than the best candidate interviewed over the cou

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Help Employees Innovate By Giving Them the Right Challenge

Harvard Business Review

Vincent Tsui for HBR. Companies trying to create a culture of innovation often seem to rely on office decor like ping-pong tables tables or multi-colored bean-bag chairs, or one-off events like hackathons. But most of us who want to be more innovative would like to do so in our day-to-day work. What should we be focusing on? In a 2007 meta-analysis , Samuel Hunter, from the University of Oklahoma, and his colleagues Katrina Bedell and Michael Mumford set out to understand which variables had the

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Employees Donate More to Their CEOs’ Preferred Political Candidates

Harvard Business Review

CEOs have a profound impact on the firms they run, affecting how their employees interact with customers , suppliers , and among themselves. But do CEOs also affect how their employees make choices in areas not directly related to firm operations, such as politics? This is the question we investigated in our recent research , and we found that political preferences of CEOs do have a significant influence on the political decisions of their employees.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.