Fri.Aug 04, 2017

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4 Qualities Every Leader Must Possess To Be Successful

Joseph Lalonde

Ask a random person walking down the street what quality must a leader possess to be successful and you’ll probably get a different answer from each person. Everyone views leadership in a different light. And how someone views leadership will mold the way they see the answer to the question. However, there are qualities every leader must most.

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Anticipation as Leadership Advantage

Leadership Freak

The way to maximize the present is to anticipate the future. Anticipation enhances influence and expands leadership: Don’t simply meet today’s challenges. Anticipate tomorrow’s opportunity.

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Weekly Round-Up: Why Millennials Quit, Things Smart Leaders Do, Great Change Leaders, Employees Who Disengage, & Leaders Who Freak Out

leaderCommunicator

Welcome to my weekly round-up of recent top leadership and communication blog posts. As many of you know, each week I read and tweet several great articles and on Fridays, I pull some of my favorites together here on my blog. This week you’ll read articles on the primary reason millennials quit and what organizations should do about it, 4 rare and brilliant things smart leaders do to get respect, 5 roles of great change leaders, when employees think the boss is unfair, they’re more likely to dis

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First-Time Manager #9—12 Ideas to Help You Build Better Meetings

Management Excellence

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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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Staffing Problems: How To Start Hiring The Right People

Strategy Driven

Photo courtesy of Pexels. Forget the advancements in tech, the improvements in your management systems, and the upgrades you have made to operational functions; there is only one place true success comes from in business and that is your employees. It may not be easy to measure, but that is a fact by the way. Unfortunately, hiring the right employees isn’t easy, which is a slap in the face because getting your staffing wrong can have a negative effect on both your bottom-line and your reputation

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Be A Manager Who Makes Decisions

Eric Jacobson

A manager who can't make a decision or who can't make a timely decision will frustrate his/her employees. Equally bad, a lack of decision will impede the progress of the manager's team. Some managers make endless requests for data as a way to postpone their having to make a decision. Employees end up spinning in circles, slicing and dicing the information far beyond what is truly needed for the manager to make a decision.

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What to Do When You’re Returning to a Company You Used to Work For

Harvard Business Review

The idea of boomerang employees — workers who voluntarily leave a job at an organization and then rejoin that same organization at a later date — is gaining more and more acceptance from hiring managers and in the labor force. If you’re one of these employees, how should you handle your comeback? What’s the best way to get back into the fold?

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Fairness and Respect for Women Executives

Lead Change Blog

Is there enough fairness and respect in the workplace for women executives? I asked this question to myself many times in the past several weeks. In the last couple of months, most of the coaching cases and prospective clients that I was dealing with involved facing issues related to the workplace. In one case the boss had changed and the new boss did not have much respect for the fairer sex.

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How Consumer Brands Can Connect with Customers in a Changing Retail Landscape

Harvard Business Review

When news broke earlier this year about Amazon’s courtship of some of the world’s biggest consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands, it touched off a wave of speculation. Was the e-commerce giant engaged in a long game to alter the relationships between consumer goods makers and their brick-and-mortar retail partners? However it plays out, Amazon’s outreach exposed a digital divide in the consumer products world.

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How to Get Your Team to Use Their Vacation Time

Harvard Business Review

Photo by Vicko Mozara. Evidence is piling up that vacations are good for business. Not only does taking vacation contribute to enhanced productivity but it also immunizes our teams against the toxic negative attitudes that can be contagious in the workplace. So if vacation has such a good ROI, why are people taking less and less of it? In one study, researchers found that employees fear that their manager will think less of them for taking vacation.

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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