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How To Build a Better Leadership Development Program

Let's Grow Leaders

Don’t launch a leadership development program until you ask yourself these important questions. If you’ve been a manager for more than a minute, chances are you’ve gone to a lousy leadership development program. We’ll pause here to let you vent your frustrations. […]. The post How To Build a Better Leadership Development Program appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Business Chemistry: What Type Are You?

Leading Blog

T HE BETTER YOU UNDERSTAND yourself and those around you, the easier it is to work with other and as a leader, to give them what they need to excel. Business Chemistry is a tool for self-understanding and empathy—a way to identify meaningful differences between people’s working styles and perspectives. Kim Christfort and Suzanne Vickberg of Deloitte helped to develop Business Chemistry.

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Realign Your Team to Finish 2018 Strong

Michael Lee Stallard

September has arrived and if you’re with an organization that plans by the calendar year, you’re less than a month away from the start of the final quarter. I’ve always felt September is the ideal time to gather the team together and check our alignment. By that I mean, are we focused on what needs to be completed before year-end? Are we set as a team, and individually, to finish strong?

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Workout Wisdom

Lead Change Blog

Seven Tips To Keep You Celebrating And Growing The Fruits Of Your Labor—and all from a Gym! The dictionary defines workout as a “physical or mental effort or activity directed toward the production or accomplishment of something.”. Sounds just like our workplaces, where effort is expended to provide either a product or a service. Look closer at a gym, and you can learn seven lessons in leading both self and others for performance improvement.

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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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The Skill Leaders Neglect to Their Peril

Leadership Freak

Make a list of essential leadership qualities and you’ll likely leave off an essential to success. The top 21 skills and behaviors of successful leaders: Grit. Compassion. Integrity. Vision. Courage. Passion. Communication. Decisiveness.

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How to Lead Former Peers

Nathan Magnuson

Have you ever received the good fortune of being promoted to the new leader of your team, only to find that life got complicated and edgy the moment you started? All of a sudden, your peers knew you as “boss” and not just their buddy. There’s a vast difference between the two. What did you do in that situation? What should you do? Many leaders of former peers struggle at first.

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Prescription Stimulant Addiction in the Workplace: What You Need to Know

Women on Business

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Kin The Movie

Joseph Lalonde

A Reel Leadership Article Kin tells the story of Elijah Solinski (Myles Truitt), his ex-con brother Jimmy Solinski (Jack Reynor), and former stripper Milly (Zoe Kravitz). Eli (what Elijah goes by in Kin) and Jimmy are fleeing Taylor Balik (James Franco), a crime lord who Jimmy owes $60,000. Also starring in Kin is Dennis Quaid as Hal Solinski, Jimmy’s father and Elijah’s stepdad.

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Quick Tips To Nurture Leadership Skills

HR Digest

Nurturing authentic leadership skills is a forever work-in-progress task. The baseline here is to reflect the best version of you while being true to others. Though it resembles a yet another theoretical concept, there are multiple studies available online which prove that leaders scoring high for authentic leadership are also likely to be rated as more effective by the higher authorities at a workplace.

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How To Delight Customers

Eric Jacobson

My two favorite learnings from Stephen Denning ’s book, The Age of Agile: How Smart Companies Are Transforming theWay Work Gets Done , are the following: First, where Denning explains the 10 elements of an organization/company that is passionate about, and driven by, the goal of delighting customers. Those elements are: There is a shared goal of delighting the customer.

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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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25th Annual Deming Institute Conference: Oct 5-6, 2018

Deming Institute

Guest post by John Hunter , author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. In this interview with Quality Digest, Kelly Allan discusses the Deming philosophy and the 25th annual Deming Institute conference which will be held Oct 5-6, 2018 in Manhattan Beach, California. Related: Deming 101, Kelly Allan’s Presentation at Our 2014 Annual Conference – Podcast with Kelly Allan on Dr.

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The #1 Office Perk? Natural Light

Harvard Business Review

Wong/Unsplash. The news headlines about what perks or elements of office design make for a great employee experience seem to be dominated by fads — think treadmill desks, nap pods, and “bring your dog to work day” for starters. However, a new survey by my HR advisory firm Future Workplace called “The Employee Experience” reveals the reality is that employees crave something far more fundamental and essential to human needs.

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Protecting Your Small Business: How to Cover the Basics

Strategy Driven

The market offers a lot of opportunities for small businesses to thrive at the moment. There are more chances to expand than ever before, despite many market uncertainties. You have the internet turning the world into one global market and allowing you to tap into more potential customers. Rapid growth, however, should never blind you from establishing a strong foundation for your small business.

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How to Talk to a Grieving Customer

Harvard Business Review

Westend61/Getty Images. “I’m calling on behalf of my partner. He died, and I need to close his account.” When Matt drowned in a fast-moving river, it fell to me to cancel his credit cards, close out the utilities at his apartment, and manage his cell phone account. I called his doctor’s office, his bank, the hardware store, his student loan processor, and every other agency with whom Matt had an account.

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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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Don’t Underestimate the Power of Women Supporting Each Other at Work

Harvard Business Review

alice mollon/Getty Images. Don’t underestimate the power of women connecting and supporting each other at work. As my experiences from being a rookie accountant to a managing director at an investment bank have taught me, conversations between women have massive benefits for the individual and the organization. When I graduated college in the 1970s, I believed that women would quickly achieve parity at all levels of professional life now that we had “arrived” — I viewed t

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