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Create a Successful Thought Leadership Strategy

Lead Change Blog

It is easy to say that the critical component of your content marketing can be successfully put through with other marketing strategies like getting to know your audience or being concise and brief in your communication. However, some fundamentals should not be confused with real working strategies that give you an edge. More than just writing compelling and engaging content, here are some excellent methods that will help you create a successful Thought Leadership strategy that works.

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How To Increase Trust With The Power of Intention

Tanveer Naseer

The following is a guest piece by Will Wise. Have you ever been in a meeting and wondered, “Why am I here?” Or worse yet, have you ever lead a meeting while others quietly asked themselves, “Why am I here?” If so, my guess is there was one thing missing that could have made a profound difference in how you or others felt about a meeting. Something that not only does away with the ambiguity of why this meeting is taking place but also increases connection, belonging and trust.

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The New Face of Competition: The Role of Competition in Today’s World

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

It’s time to rethink the role of competition. The idea that “it’s a dog-eat-dog world” no longer holds true, and cut-throat competition doesn’t benefit anyone, including yourself. In business, the lines between competitors and customers have become increasingly blurred. Netflix competes with Amazon and at the same time is their customer.

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Turning Your Hobby into a Business

Women on Business

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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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New Two Heads Podcast: Why Mobile Matters.

Rich Gee Group

The newest episode of Two Heads podcast, “ Why Mobile Matters ,” has just launched on iTunes. Listen today! Marketing your site for laptops while your customers use their smartphones? Time to change your strategy. We can help. About Two Heads. Rich has teamed up with BJ Flagg, president and Founder of Nurenu, Inc. to bring you a weekly podcast, “Two Heads: Brand Marketing & Strategic Coaching for Today’s Marketplace.”.

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What You Can Learn About Self-Observation and Self-Improvement from Kevin Durant

Next Level Blog

If you pay any attention at all to sports, you’ve probably noticed that the Golden State Warriors are a really good basketball team. So good, in fact, that four of their five starters are playing in the NBA All-Star Game next month. With Steph Curry and Kevin Durant leading the team and (my idol) Steve Kerr coaching, Golden State is so good that it’s been reported that other teams in the league are suffering from Warriors Derangement Syndrome.

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7 Important Reasons Leaders Crash and Burn

Lead from Within

Whether you’re in a formal leadership role or not, if people are relying on you and you are responsible for their success, you’re serving as a leader—and that means experiencing all the highs and lows of leadership. Generally, leaders want to do their best and maintain high standards of excellence. They push themselve s for the benefit of their team and put their own interests at the bottom of the list.

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How to be a Great Boss: 9 Ways to Get a 5-Star Rating From Your Team

RapidStart Leadership

What does it take to be a great boss? Some bosses are more memorable than others, and some perhaps you’d like to forget. But what does it take to be a great boss? What distinguishes the one that people remember years later as the leader who made a difference? I was fortunate to work for many great bosses, but there were nine things that one of those great bosses did that really made him stand out.

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The companion that your passion for leadership needs

Persuasive Powerhouse

“Follow your bliss and the world will open doors where there were only walls.” ~Joseph Campbell. Copyright: lzflzf / 123RF Stock Photo. Sixteen years ago, I decided to become an executive coach and a year later left the corporate environment to start my own business. It was a heady time with the excitement about becoming my own boss and the prospect of helping executives to become great leaders.

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21 Ways to Fuel Vitality in Challenging Reality

Leadership Freak

Drooping shoulders and hanging hands point to dark water ahead. There’s a word for low energy leaders and low aspiration teams. Dying!

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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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Focus on Accomplishment – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

We are all busy. Ask five people how they’ve been and I can almost guarantee that you will hear more than once, “I’ve been busy.” In fact, the idea of “busyness” has almost become a badge of honor. But the whole idea behind busy is it’s all about activity. We’re doing a bunch of stuff, […]. The post Focus on Accomplishment – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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167: How Top Performers Work Less and Achieve More | with Morten Hansen

Engaging Leader

Why do some people perform better at work than others? This deceptively simple question continues to confound leaders, as well as all professionals who want to advance and succeed while maintaining balance and wellbeing. We often equate working longer hours with success, but the fact is that type of work leads to stress, burnout, and […] Why do some people perform better at work than others?

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9 “Whys” Every Consultant Should Master

David A Fields

As a consultant and leader of a consulting firm, inquiry is your most powerful tool. Last week’s article drew from toddlers’ propensity to say No. Consultants can learn even more from little tykes. Children are inquisition machines, pestering their parents and teachers with scores of questions every day.

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How Effective is Your Thinking Style?

Steve Farber

Few things warm my heart more than coming across more proof that the heart of success in business is found by cultivating matters of the heart. As an Extreme Leader , you’re no doubt working to cultivate certain effective behaviors in yourself and in the people who work with you or for you, all with the grand goal of advancing the mission of your business.

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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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Today’s the Day (and How it Started)

Daniel Coyle

Wanted to let you know that The Culture Code is officially out today in hardcover, ebook, and audio. Love to hear what you think; you can find me on Facebook here , LinkedIn here , and on Twitter here. A lot of people have asked me where the idea originally came from. And there are a lot of valid answers to that question, because, like you, I bump into the mysteries of group culture all the time.

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What To Do When You Are New

Eric Jacobson

I wish the book, What To Do When You're New , would have been published twenty-five years ago. Being more introverted versus extroverted, the author's advice and teachings would have helped me during new jobs and after promotions, when relocating to new cities, when joining new clubs and organizations, and whenever I became a member of a new team. The book, by Keith Rollag , is all about how to be comfortable, confident, and successful in new situations.

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Creativity: Jenny Kenyon’s Wise Words to Live By

QAspire

How will we create and learn if we don’t step down the endless treadmill of consumption? If we keep on adding things and stuff without practicing the fine art of subtraction? Creativity and learning stems from our inner connection, meaningful conversations and mindful consumption that truly feed us internally. Here are some wisest words from Jenny Kenyon to live a creative life.

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7 Ways I Deal With Fatigue as a Leader

Ron Edmondson

I posted previously on what happens when I’m tired. It isn’t pretty. (See that post HERE.) I hear someone say every day “I’m so tired” It’s epidemic it seems. There appears to be a lot of fatigue in our world these days. I know it’s true of those in ministry. I have often been asked how to deal with the issue, besides the simple answer of rest.

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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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8 Questions to Ask Someone Other Than “What Do You Do?”

Harvard Business Review

Grant Faint/Hayon Thapaliya/Getty Images. We’ve all been in the awkward situation of meeting someone new and having to build rapport quickly — at networking events, industry conferences, charity events, dinner parties, and other social-professional situations. If you’re like many people — especially most Americans — you break the awkward silence with a pretty standard question: “So, what do you do?

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Women at Work: Make Yourself Heard

Harvard Business Review

In this special episode, HBR IdeaCast host Sarah Green Carmichael introduces Harvard Business Review’s new podcast “ Women at Work ,” about women’s experiences in the workplace. This episode about being heard tackles three aspects of communication: first, how and why women’s speech patterns differ from men’s; second, how women can be more assertive in meetings; and third, how women can deal with interrupters (since the science shows women get interrupted more

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How the World’s Oldest Company Reinvented Itself

Harvard Business Review

Matt Lyon/Getty Images. The decline in demand for paper hit Stora Enso hard. By 2011 the pulp and paper giant — the world’s oldest corporation, dating back to 1288 — had laid off over one-third of its 30,000 employees. Though profitable again, the company needed to transform itself into a global renewable materials company. Jouko Karvinen, the CEO at the time, and his team decided not to depend on consultants, which would have been the typical way to go.

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How and Where Diversity Drives Financial Performance

Harvard Business Review

Juj Winn/Getty Images. Diversity is both an issue of fairness and, some say, a driver of innovation and performance. To assess the latter claim, we undertook a large, cross-country study into the relationship between multiple aspects of managerial diversity, the presence of enabling conditions such as leadership support for diversity, and innovation outcomes.

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2024 Payroll Calendar Templates

These calendars provide pay period dates and paydays for biweekly, semi-monthly, and monthly payroll in 2024. Use them as a reminder or share with employees so they can celebrate payday.

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NDAs Are Out of Control. Here’s What Needs to Change

Harvard Business Review

hans neleman/Getty Images. Nondisclosure agreements, or NDAs, which are increasingly common in employment contracts, suppress employee speech and chill creativity. The current revelations surfacing years of harassment in major organizations are merely the tip of the iceberg. New data shows that over one-third of the U.S. workforce is bound by an NDA.

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What Changes When AI Is So Accessible That Everyone Can Use It?

Harvard Business Review

Bernard Van Berg/EyeEm/Getty Images. Mazin Gilbert has an ambitious goal. As vice president of advanced technologies at AT&T, Gilbert wants to make AI technologies widely available throughout the corporation, especially to those who might not have a computer science background and may not even know how to program. Call it the “democratization of AI.” To accomplish that goal, AT&T is building a user-friendly platform with point-and-click tools that will enable employees —