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Staying Healthy in The Workplace

Lead Change Blog

Your health is a critical aspect of your job. You have to be mentally healthy to provide stellar customer service, and you have to be physically healthy to handle the bodily demands of the position. The following are some tips that can help to ensure you remain fit and safe during your work shift, so you can be a model employee and a testimony for creating healthier workplaces.

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Toot Your Own Horn

Career Advancement

“If you don’t toot your own horn, don’t complain that there’s no music.”. ~Guy Kawasaki~. Janet Asks: I feel like my accomplishments go unnoticed at work and I’m not comfortable bringing them up. I want others to see my strengths and achievements, but I don’t want to come across as bragging. What should I do? Joel Answers: No one wants to sound like they’re bragging about their own accomplishments.

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Conducting a Public Product Launch? Hire an Event Planner

Women on Business

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Rob Bell’s The Heretic

Joseph Lalonde

A Reel Leadership Article The Heretic is an original documentary about the former pastor of Mars Hill, Rob Bell. Rob Bell rose to fame in West Michigan as he began preaching at Mars Hill church and started a series of short films that were spiritual reflections on life. Being from West Michigan, I was very interested in seeing the story of the once adored, and now often despised, Rob Bell.

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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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You Don’t Have to Lie in the Bed You Made

Leadership Freak

“You’ve made your bed, now lie in it,” is fatalistic and final. Yes, deal with consequences but don’t lie in them. All decisions are imperfect because information is incomplete and results are uncertain.

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Balancing Your Three Types of Outcomes

Kevin Eikenberry

As a leader, you have a lot on your plate. Part of your focus is likely on the outcomes you are expected to reach. You might think of these leadership outcomes in different terms: goals, strategies, or objectives, but regardless of what you call them, you must think about and work on them regularly. In […]. The post Balancing Your Three Types of Outcomes appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Authenticity and Compromise

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Does Being Authentic Mean Never Compromising Who You Are? For nearly a decade now, Joe and I have been running around preaching the power of finding authenticity in your personal and professional life. It’s not a hard sell. It seems that most people are longing to find a way to be more true to the person they are meant to be. They are longing for authenticity.

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Why Many Leaders Feel Like Misfits and What They Do About It

Management Excellence

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Reasons to Have a Newsletter

Strategy Driven

Although social media marketing is having its moment in the spotlight right now, email marketing is still very much a relevant and a powerful tool for your business to utilise. One way you can really take advantage of email marketing is via a newsletter, something which appears to be a dying trend. When you consider just how many of us use email and have access to it around-the-clock through our smartphones, you start to see the raw potential of properly using email marketing to reach your custo

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#SHRM18 Speaker Bobby Zaepfel: Dragging records into the 21st century

Surviving Leadership

When you think about record-keeping in HR, what does it typically bring to mind? If you’re like a lot of long-time practitioners, it probably means a dark, dusty room filled with file cabinets or shelving, file folders filled to bursting with documents that track the course of an employee’s employment and benefits. It may be orderly, it may be messy, but it’s probably on paper.

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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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GDPR Get your head out the sand – Part 2 for sole traders and Micro businesses

Rapid BI

GDPR is just around the corner and it is time to get your head out of the sand if you are a sole trader or micro-business. In my recent piece – GDPR Checklist – for sole traders and Micro businesses, I summarised my learning on the recent journey for RapidBI. In that journey, I thought I […]. The post GDPR Get your head out the sand – Part 2 for sole traders and Micro businesses appeared first on RapidBI.

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7 Ways to Attract and Keep Younger Leaders

Ron Edmondson

I talk to pastors and leaders my age and older who want to see a new generation of leaders on their team. They claim to love investing in younger leaders. They recognize the huge need in churches and organizations. Our future depends upon doing so. The problem they claim is either they don’t know how or can’t seem to find them. Or, when they do find them they can’t seem to keep them.

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Go Ahead, Skip that Networking Event

Harvard Business Review

Christopher Stevenson/Getty Images. We’ve probably all been to at least one networking event, those initially promising but inevitably awkward meet-ups where most people arrive hoping to meet new contacts that can further their career — but end up stirring their drink in the corner of the room chatting with someone they already knew. To an introvert, these events are terrifying, but it turns out that these events aren’t all that effective for extroverts either.

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We Cannot Lead Others Without First Leading From Within

Lead from Within

What makes a great leader? Leadership and management expert Lolly Daskal takes the stereotype of the single, superior figure wielding power over the masses and turns it inside out—literally. “We think leadership is an external quality, but it is and always has been an internal quality,” Daskal says. “Leaders aren’t great because they have power, but because they can empower others.”.

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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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What Amazon’s Board Is Getting Wrong About Diversity and Hiring

Harvard Business Review

David Ryder/Stringer/Getty Images. Amazon came under fire last week after its board opposed a shareholder proposal to increase the diversity of the board. CtW Investment Group, an activist shareholder group, requested that Amazon implement something much like the “Rooney Rule,” a requirement instituted by the NFL in 2003 that every team must interview at least one minority candidate for an open head coach or general manager position.

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Forex Strategies That Still Work in 2018

Strategy Driven

Trading isn’t an easy game to break into. Like any form of investing, it is not without risk. Most people know this going in, yet they still end up falling into the usual traps. With so much, often contradictory, advice being thrown around new investors, it’s no surprise that there is so much confusion over what the best trading strategies are. One way that you can improve your chances of success in trading is to find a winning strategy and stick with it.

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How to Keep a Global Team Engaged

Harvard Business Review

Catherine MacBride/Getty Images. Global teams have the potential to help organizations reach new markets and provide a seamless brand experience for customers across the world. But for global teams to work, team leaders need to make sure all members feel connected and engaged, regardless of their location or culture. From what I’ve seen when advising global teams, the psychological and emotional reaction people experience when participating on these teams can sink its effectiveness.

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A Platform Strategy Won’t Work Unless You’re Good at Machine Learning

Harvard Business Review

Pm Images/Getty Images. Platform business models are booming—becoming bigger and more powerful than ever. Just consider that a few tweets from the president caused Amazon’s market capitalization to fall by about $40 billion, or that Russian influencers were able to reach 126 million people through Facebook. At OpenMatters, we spend a lot of time studying network orchestration —business models where companies facilitate relationships and interactions, rather than serving up all

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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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Remaining Objective Is Hard, But the Best Leaders Figure Out How to Do It

Harvard Business Review

Danae Diaz/Getty Images. There is no single leadership trait that guarantees success in any profession, but there is, based on my experience, one that many of the best leaders share: a fierce commitment to objectivity. And yet I realize it’s often not easy for leaders to remain objective. In my nearly three-decade career in the intelligence community, I have worked for and with 11 Directors of CIA and all five Directors of National Intelligence.

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What Blockchain Could Mean for Marketing

Harvard Business Review

Marcia Straub/Getty Images. Companies are collecting more data than ever before, and are making significant business decisions based on it. Of the 4 Vs of Big Data (Volume, Velocity, Variety, and Veracity), we have now seen ample evidence of the impact and importance of the first three. A higher “Volume” of data has led to more efficient decision-making in numerous instances, such as in programmatic marketing and in banking.