Wed.Aug 25, 2021

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How Leaders Can Unleash Curiosity To Drive Innovation, Learning, And Resilience

Tanveer Naseer

When it comes to conversations around curiosity in today’s workplace, the focus tends to be on how it helps to drive innovation. But as my guest Dr. Shannon Minifie points out in this episode of my leadership podcast, when leaders unleash the full power of curiosity in their organization, they. Click to continue reading.

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Ethical Culture: The Business Case For Prevention

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton After I published "Prevention or Cure: Your Choice" about reducing ethical risk and creating a positive culture a reader asked for more information about the business case for prevention. Here are some compelling reasons why the prevention approach is a better business decision than waiting for ethical problems and applying a "cure" after the organization is already in trouble.

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How to Stay Marketable and Keep Your Job

Lead Change Blog

With the current crisis we are in, so much seems to be rapidly changing, with new information daily causing anxiety. One of the biggest concerns individuals are facing is a new constant fear surrounding their job security. When so much seems to be out of your control, what can you do to stay marketable and maintain your job? . Now, more than ever, there is a strong need to remain relevant and innovative within your career.

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Have Employee Expectations Really Changed?

Kevin Eikenberry

I’ve written often about the importance of setting clear expectations with our team members, including here and here, but expectations run both directions. Do you understand your employee expectations of you as a leader, and about their work and working situation? This has always been an important question, but now that we are living/have lived […].

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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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221: Simple Visual Story (SVS) Model for Effective Communication | with Matthew Pierce

Engaging Leader

This is a special episode of Engaging Leader, featuring part 2 of an excerpt of Jesse’s live interview on TechSmith’s Visual Lounge with Matt Pierce. While part 1 focused on the 5M framework as a comprehensive planning tool for communication, Simple Visual Story (SVS) is a great model for executing the components of the […]. This is a special episode of Engaging Leader, featuring part 2 of an excerpt of Jesse’s live interview on TechSmith’s Visual Lounge with Matt Pierce.

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4 Ways to Be Present that Anyone Can Practice

Leadership Freak

People tend to choose ruminating on the past or worrying about the future over being present. Being present is being engaged in the moment.

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What Makes A City Entrepreneurial?

The Horizons Tracker

Cities around the world have been trying to replicate the success of Silicon Valley and create innovation ecosystems that result in a thriving startup scene. Often these efforts can focus primarily on building glitzy new facilities, but as new research from the University of Indiana reminds us, it’s often an open-minded population that is far more important.

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Tips that will Help you to Achieve Success in Your Career

Strategy Driven

One of the best ways that you can achieve career success is for you to try and keep assessing your performance. Don’t want for an annual review. Do it yourself! You also need to set quantifiable goals for yourself, while also setting a timeline to get certain things done. If you can do this, and follow the below tips then there’s no reason why you can’t achieve success in your career.

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How Trade Competition Boosts Innovation

The Horizons Tracker

For all the narrative around the disruptive nature of innovation, it’s fairly rare for innovators to fully capture the value of their invention. It has long been argued that this mismatch disincentivizes innovation, which in itself creates a mismatch between the potential benefits we could see from an innovation and the reality. Recent research from Stanford explores how international trade can play a role in sparking not only more growth but also more innovation.

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3 Safety Measures For Manufacturing Facilities

Strategy Driven

Feeling safe is an important aspect of life. Being safe at home, on the road or in a job, are factors that everyone desires to have. Since being safe and feeling safe are both highly sought after, society has developed procedures for almost everything that we do. Included in this is workplace safety. Workplace safety is important. It ensures that all employees know how to work safely, avoid any accidents, and reduce the risk of coming into contact with any harm.

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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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Think Differently About Professional Development Investments

Management Excellence

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How to Have Fun with Your Teams

Strategy Driven

When you are in a leadership role, one of your jobs is to make sure that the morale is good within your teams. All places of work will have periods where things will become stressful, and these days, job seekers are looking for more than just a good salary to help them choose which position to accept. This is why you need to be creative and make sure that your teams are kept happy at work and allow them to have a little fun in the office rather than it being all work and no play.

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Gig Economy Companies Still Failing Workers

The Horizons Tracker

The Covid-19 era has been notable for the clear divide between those in relatively stable jobs and those in highly precarious ones. Pre-Covid, the gig economy was widely cited as being at the forefront of this divide, with many of the jobs in the sector extremely precarious. Indeed, a study from the University of Illinois Chicago highlights that the precarious nature of the labor market is largely a continuation of a pre-existing trend rather than something brought about specifically by the

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LESSONS FROM THE LIVING ROOM: Leadership Lessons Learned From Parenting

CEO Insider

I learned a few leadership lessons from my living room in 2020 – where I raised my nine-year-old daughter as I worked alongside her – that other executives might find useful in their careers. 2020 was a year of many firsts for almost all of us. For me, it was my first year as a […]. The post LESSONS FROM THE LIVING ROOM: Leadership Lessons Learned From Parenting appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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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 Succeed As A New Teacher

Strategy Driven

Being a teacher is a rewarding career to have. You’re helping others and giving back to your community. As a new teacher, you may have a lot of questions on your mind. While you may be excited about your role you might also be a bit nervous and hesitant to get started. Your goal should be to have a positive attitude and do all that’s in your power to ensure you and your students succeed.

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Seeking a pay raise in tough times

HR Digest

Asking for a raise anytime is a difficult task, but in these fraught times when many companies are grappling with the economic fallout due to the pandemic, it is daunting. Last year has seen companies going remote and a large part of the workforce has been spending time feeling disenfranchised, over-worked, and underpaid. If you are feeling all of the above, it is time to consider making a move.

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Building High Performing Teams: Resolving Conflict

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Strong teams often have team members with strong personalities. Learn how to build your team’s conflict resolution skills. More often than not, high-performing teams operate in high-pressure environments. And many times on a high-performing team, you have some strong personalities at play. When you combine pressure and strong personalities there are plenty of opportunities for conflict between the members of your team.

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Think Differently About Professional Development Investments

Art Petty

Having spent millions of dollars of my budget and many hundreds of hours of my time, and probably tens of thousands of hours of the combined time of my team members, I’ve cultivated some strong likes/dislikes and some powerful lessons learned. Use these in outstanding professional development health with your teams and colleagues. The post Think Differently About Professional Development Investments appeared first on Management Excellence by Art Petty.

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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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7 Ways to Be a Community Pastor

Ron Edmondson

I have a theory of pastoring successfully today. To be a kingdom building pastor you MUST be a community pastor. Must is a strong word – and there are few things I’m emphatic about unless they are Biblical, but I do believe in order for us to reach people today we have to get outside the walls of our church buildings. This means we MUST do something intentional to make it happen.

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Drowning in Information While Thirsting for Communication

The Practical Leader

“Nobody ever tells me anything.” “We need to improve communications around here.” “Our biggest problem is we don’t communicate.” “Our leaders treat us like mushrooms — they keep us in the dark and feed us lots of… (manure).” Does your organization need to improve communications? Would you like to get more texts, posts, or e-mails?

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6 Things Employees Google About Their Boss: Should You Be Concerned?

Niagara Institute

What’s the first thing you do when you have a problem or question? You Google it. Well, your employees are doing the very same when they have a problem or challenge in the workplace with you. In the following article, we’ve uncovered six things that employees are searching on Google every month so that you can proactively work to avoid your employees feeling such things about you.

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The Seven Toughest Questions Leaders Ask Their Teams

Eric Jacobson

High-functioning and effective teams can disagree and still produce excellent products and results. Team members can also disagree and still care about each other. And, they can challenge each other to think differently. Best-selling leadership book authors Scott J. Allen and Mitchell Kusy recommend that leaders ask seven tough questions of their teams to help maximize their results.

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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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Think Differently About Professional Development Investments

Management Excellence

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Why You Need to Protect Your Sense of Wonder — Especially Now

Harvard Business Review

Lessons from a physician and a psychologist on cultivating awe.

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13 Maintenance and Design Tips To Create a Healthy and Productive Workspace

Strategy Driven

After the pandemic hit, a staggering number of professionals around the country had to abandon the office and start working from home. While the first few weeks came with all the challenges of an unpredicted adaptation period, most workers then managed to find a new balance. Today, almost 60% of Americans work from home for most of the week, and they are planning to keep things that way.

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How to Speed Up Your Digital Transformation

Harvard Business Review

Insights from a two-year study at one of Europe’s leading banks.

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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.

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The Sales Playbook of Successful B2B Teams

Harvard Business Review

Always be data-driven.

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