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Four Powerful Ways to Get Helpful Feedback From Your Peers

Let's Grow Leaders

I’m sure you ask your boss for feedback. And, I imagine you’re checking in with your direct reports regularly on how you’re doing. If you’re like many managers we work with, you may be less inclined to ask your peers for their […].

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Practical Tips to Practice Empathy

Lead Change Blog

“Empathy is about standing in someone else’s shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place.” Daniel H. Pink. I recently read the book”Hit Refresh” by Satya Nadella. What stuck with me is the episode he narrates about a question that he was asked while interviewing with Microsoft.

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6 Steps To Strengthen Team Cohesion

Tanveer Naseer

If there’s one point all of us can agree on today, it’s that we’re living in increasingly divisive times. As a writer, I can certainly appreciate the irony of this statement. But as a leadership expert, it also highlights a critical function leaders need to play both to drive organizational growth, as well as to boost employee productivity.

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The small business dilemma: Raising capital without selling your soul

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Did you know that small businesses make up 97% of all private-sector companies in the U.S.? What’s more, according to research conducted by the SBA government agency, they employ half of all employees in the entire private sector. That means that half the people in the United States who don’t work for a public agency are […]. The post The small business dilemma: Raising capital without selling your soul appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.

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Individual Development Plan Template

There’s no way around it: sometimes employees need your help. Use this free template to clarify expectations, share resources, and set a timeline. Best case scenario, this process helps them improve. Worst case, your great recordkeeping keeps you compliant even if they move on. Download the template today!

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6 Powerful Ways Leaders Reflect, and how Reflection Makes Your Team Great

RapidStart Leadership

What is reflection for leaders? Reflection sounds like a passive exercise you do by yourself. It seems to involve sitting in a chair in a darkened room and journaling about the meaning of things. Maybe that’s part of it, but I think for leaders there is much more to it than that. Leaders reflect actively, selectively, constantly, and in public.

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How to Disrupt the Gender Inequality Discussion in 3 Steps

Women on Business

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How to help people to change themselves

Persuasive Powerhouse

You’re frustrated with a good employee who reports to you because you feel they aren’t working up to their full potential. You’ve worked with them for some time now, and they appear to want to make the changes you’ve agreed to together, but you don’t see them. You might also be irritated at yourself while you’re working hard to figure out what you should do to be better coach or mentor to this employee.

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I’d be Kind If I had the Time

Leadership Freak

I’d be kind if I had the time. Thankfully, you don’t have to be kind when the house is on fire. And it seems like there’s always a crisis.

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Stop Looking For Leadership!

Lead from Within

Have you found yourself asking where are the leaders? Have you thought to yourself where has leadership gone? I can imagine you might want to know where you can look for leadership so you can find a great individual that you can follow and maybe even emulate. But I am going to tell you to stop looking for leaders. Because the individuals that are leaders, you don’t have to look for them, they are there and they will rise up, they will do so in the following ways: When everyone does what is good

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What Leaders Can Learn from Pumpkin Spices – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

I have a leadership theory about the pumpkin spice craze that seems to be popping up absolutely everywhere. Tweet it out: Remarkable Leaders support change agents to create organizational change. @KevinEikenberry From This Episode: Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter, Unleashing Your Remarkable Potential, here. The post What Leaders Can Learn from Pumpkin Spices – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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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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The Best Way to Come at a Problem

leaderCommunicator

I used to ask a lot of questions as a kid, which got me into huge trouble with adults. I constantly wondered why things worked the way they did (including us humans). “Enough already with the questions,” my mom would say. Like clockwork, she’d shoot back, impatiently, “Ask your father.” I never got a straight answer from him, just a pun, which often made me smile or more often, groan.

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10 Tips to Write the Perfect, Client-Attracting White Paper for Your Consulting Firm

David A Fields

You’ve decided to write a white paper because you’re a serious, deep-thinking, knowledgeable consultant. How do you make that effort yield eager clients lining up to work with your consulting firm? You know you can attract clients to your consulting firm with well placed, pithy articles.

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7 Times I Submit to People I Lead

Ron Edmondson

I’m the leader. Are you impressed? I’m the guy others report to each day. Impressed some more? Don’t be. It just means I have a lot of heartburn and more gray hair than most people my age. Seriously, I think we sometimes take leadership too seriously. We think without the leader nothing good can happen on a team. Not true. Don’t misunderstand.

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Internal and External Factors that impact the employment relationship

Rapid BI

The employment relationship between the employer and employee can often be dynamic. There are many internal and external factors that impact the employment relationship. The environment in which we operate is in constant change or flux. To develop effective employee engagement, leadership and Human Resources teams need to be aware of the factors that can impact […].

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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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Startups Are Turning Customers into Lobbyists

Harvard Business Review

Jurgen Ziewe/Getty Images. In industries being disrupted by new entrants with distinct business models, incumbents often have an important advantage: entrenched regulatory and legal barriers. These have forced AirBnB, Tesla, and Uber to make costly concessions to their operating practices or to exit certain markets altogether. How can new firms overcome the regulations that protect incumbents?

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2017’s Top-Performing CEO on Getting Product Right

Harvard Business Review

Pablo Isla, the CEO of Inditex, is No. 1 on Harvard Business Review’s “ The Best-Performing CEOs in the World 2017. ” He opens up about his management style and reflects on his tenure leading the Spanish clothing and accessories giant, whose brands include Zara, Massimo Dutti, and Pull&Bear. Successful fast fashion takes much more than speed, he says.

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How Health Care Providers Can Help End the Overprescription of Opioids

Harvard Business Review

Bjarte Rettedal/Getty Images. By any metric, opioid-related overdoses in the United States have reached epidemic proportions. Many intertwined causes have led to this crisis, from reduced access to substance-abuse treatment, to increased unemployment spurring use of prescription opioids, to online pharmacies that illegally supply prescription opioids to patients.

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How to Return Home After an Assignment Abroad

Harvard Business Review

MOHD RASFAN/Stringer/Getty Images. You’d think that the biggest cultural challenge when going abroad for an assignment would be acclimating to the foreign culture you’re moving to. After all, it’s well known that expat life compels people to stretch beyond their cultural comfort zones; whether moving from Barcelona to Beijing, or from San Francisco to Stuttgart, you will encounter cultural challenges.

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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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Leading Innovation Is the Art of Creating “Collective Genius” - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Harvard Business Review

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. As Harvard Business School Professor Linda A. Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. What she didn’t find, however, was work linking the two.

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Why Wages Aren’t Growing in America

Harvard Business Review

Glow Images/Getty Images. The majority of Americans share in economic growth through the wages they receive for their labor, rather than through investment income. Unfortunately, many of these workers have fared poorly in recent decades. Since the early 1970s, the hourly inflation-adjusted wages received by the typical worker have barely risen, growing only 0.2% per year.

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If You Can’t Find a Spouse Who Supports Your Career, Stay Single

Harvard Business Review

Neasden Control Centre for HBR. I was at a dinner with eight highly successful professional women recently, ranging in age from 35 to 74. Their stories were typical of research I have been conducting on dual-career couples. One had just been given a huge promotion opportunity in another country, but had struggled for several months to get her spouse to agree to join her.

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