Thu.Feb 16, 2017

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5 Ingenious Ways to Keep Your Small Business Running While on Holiday

Lead Change Blog

As an independent micro business owner, I relish holidays. However, I’m also a little fearful of them. This may sound odd. How could one be afraid of taking time off to recharge the batteries? And, certainly, if you hold a salaried position where the paycheck will appear in your bank account each month regardless of whether or not you dip into your holiday fund, the word “fearful” simply doesn’t enter the mind come holiday time.

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Leadership Development and the Role of Millennials

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Philipe Bruce: More than 50% of businesses claim that they do not have the resources or time to train their employees to be leaders. As such none of those business owners and leaders have the resources they need to sustain their enterprises. How serious is this? According to the same study , expenditures on leadership development programs have decreased by about 10%.

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Women on Business

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Be A Time Management GOD.

Rich Gee Group

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been aggregating what time management tips I pitch to clients to get more done in the limited amount of time they have. It’s a mix of managing your time more effectively and procrastination. By the way, if you feel that you’re the worst offender in the world, get in line. We ALL suffer from these ailments: Time management is really prioritization (coupled with organization skills).

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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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The Path to Self-Leadership Made Clear

Leadership Freak

If you feel it’s easy to lead yourself, you aren’t doing it. Self-leadership: Pay attention to yourself. #1. Listen to yourself.

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Employee Engagement Survey Results: Fact or Fiction?

CoachStation

Employee Engagement surveys are barely worth the time and effort taken to produce them. They certainly have questionable content and value for those organisations who rely on survey results for a genuine view of how employees feel. Big statements, perhaps! But only if you have not taken the time to meaningfully investigate the reasons why employees might feel the need to provide over-inflated scoring that does not reflect reality.

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What are We Trying to Accomplish?

Deming Institute

In The Improvement Guide, the authors add 3 questions to the PDSA cycle: What are we trying to accomplish? How will we know that a change is an improvement? What change can we make that will result in improvement? Image of the model for improvement from an article by Ron Moen and Clifford Norman on the history and evolution of the PDSA cycle. As I stated in my previous post on The Improvement Guide I believe anyone using the PDSA cycle to learn and improve should be using The Improvement Guide a

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7 Ways to Help a New Staff Member Succeed

Ron Edmondson

I recently received the following message from a pastor friend: “I have a new full-time associate pastor starting next week. What suggestions would you give for getting such a person off to a great start?” What a great question! I’m so glad someone is actually asking it. Through the years I have hired hundreds of people. I don’t do a lot of things right, but finding good people seems to be one of my strengths.

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Barriers and Profitability in business and organisations

Rapid BI

Barriers and Profitability Every organization strives to capture a sound market share with their products or services. If we take into consideration the progress of market in the last decade, we will realize that all the niches now face stiff competition. The buyers are more aware and the sellers are more elaborate in terms of […]. The post Barriers and Profitability in business and organisations appeared first on RapidBI.

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Frontline Festival: Leaders Give Pointers on Creating Connection

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. This month’s festival is all about creating connection. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! Next month’s Frontline Festival follows up on this month’s with a theme all about team time. The question for the month is: What practical tips do you have for working well with a team and building a sense of teamwork?

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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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Being Engaged at Work Is Not the Same as Being Productive

Harvard Business Review

The holy grail of today’s workplace is high employee engagement. According to Gallup’s oft-cited research on the topic , just about one-third of U.S. employees are engaged on the job. That number drops to 13% worldwide, and has held steady for years. Many companies are investing heavily to identify what leads to high engagement in order to motivate employees, thereby increasing their happiness and productivity.

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Your Legacy in One Sentence

Chris Brady

How will you outlive your life? What will you be known for? The question of legacy stirs people’s hearts every single day. In Chris Brady’s critically acclaimed book, PAiLS, he defines and. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Why You Should Buy a Business (and How to Do It)

Harvard Business Review

Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff, professors at Harvard Business School, spell out an overlooked career path: buying a business and running it as CEO. Purchasing a small company lets you become your own boss and reap financial rewards without the risks of founding a start-up. Still, there are things you need to know. Ruback and Yudkoff are the authors of the HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business.

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Is Corporate Short-Termism Really a Problem? The Jury’s Still Out

Harvard Business Review

McKinsey has a new study out on an important topic — the question of whether corporations systematically take too short a view and do not invest enough for the long term. If they do, as many CEOs believe, this is a serious indictment of current corporate governance arrangements and has important policy implications. To take one close to my heart, if short-termism causes underinvestment, it will be a cause of secular stagnation.

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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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Even Life-Saving Innovations Don’t Sell Themselves

Harvard Business Review

Most businesses wouldn’t survive without driving demand for their products or services, either through marketing and advertising or through involving users so deeply in the design of the product that word of mouth spurs adoption. The same is true for social innovators. However, unlike many business leaders, it is easy for social innovators to overlook making an intentional effort to drive demand because the need for their innovation is so great.

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How Chief Data Officers Can Get Their Companies to Collect Clean Data

Harvard Business Review

In analytics, nothing matters more than data quality. The practical way to control data quality is to do it at the point where the data is created. Cleaning up data downstream is expensive and not scalable, because data is a byproduct of business processes and operations like marketing, sales, plant operations, and so on. But controlling data quality at the point of creation requires a change in the behaviors of those creating the data and the IT tools they use.

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How Non-English-Speaking Countries Stack Up on English Proficiency

Harvard Business Review

It’s the language of international business.

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Requiring Companies to Disclose Climate Risks Helps Everyone

Harvard Business Review

In the movie Forrest Gump , the protagonist becomes a very rich man due to a natural disaster and its unforeseen business consequences. When he first enters the shrimp boating business, Forrest catches no shrimp. His fortunes change when a hurricane strikes and his boat is the only one to survive the disaster. Facing no competition, he becomes a multimillionaire.

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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.