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How to Interview For Winning Leadership Competencies

Let's Grow Leaders

You’re working hard to build a Winning Well culture. You’ve identified your MIT leadership competencies and are working to cultivate and encourage the right behaviors. How you staff your key leadership roles matters more now than ever. How will you identify the […]. The post How to Interview For Winning Leadership Competencies appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Ideas Are Not The Keys To Entrepreneurial Success

Tanveer Naseer

The following is a guest piece by Derek Lidow. Most people assume that successful entrepreneurs are created solely based on how innovative and groundbreaking their new idea is. We fantasize about coming up with that invention or idea that solves a gargantuan problem for a lot of people and therefore is the main driver that propels businesses to be wildly successful.

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Eight unexpected ways to continue to develop yourself as a leader

Persuasive Powerhouse

Photo credit: 123rf. You’re a year or two into your dream leadership role and you know you are capable of more, but you don’t know where to start. After the first months of learning everything you need to learn about your job you settled in. Yet you have a nagging feeling that something is missing. You sense that you are capable of even greater success, but you don’t know where to start.

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Introducing The 2018 Leadership Book Everyone Should Read

Joseph Lalonde

There is no shortage of leadership books available to read but Brian Dodd’s Timeless: 10 Enduring Practices Of Apex Leaders stands out. If you read Brian’s popular website Brian Dodd On Leadership , he frequently profiles Apex Leaders – those who are the best in their profession. After years of research, Brian identified over 300 traits and practices of the world’s best leaders.

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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 Winter Olympics and Risk in the Workplace

Lead Change Blog

I’m an unabashed Olympics fan. Years of training, sacrifice by entire families—or in some cases, maybe entire communities—all come down to a few weeks every four years. For some athletes, their moment of glory came when they walked in the opening ceremonies. Their wins came in representing their nation and sport. These aren’t physically bearing their nation’s expectations on their shoulders (or in Tonga’s case, not even bearing a shirt).

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How to Lead Under Pressure and Remain Calm

Lead from Within

All of us face pressure—every working professional, regardless of position, profile, title, experience, or gender. Pressure is real and it’s often a constant. It may take the form of having so much to do that you don’t even know where to begin. Or it may come from burdensome expectations imposed on you, or disappointment with the progress you’ve made on something.

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171: Stop Trying to Multitask — It’s Making You Dumb and Ineffective

Engaging Leader

Multitasking doesn’t save time — it wastes time. When you try to do two things at once, you either can’t or won’t do either well. If you think multitasking is an effective way to get more done, you’ve got it backward. It’s an effective way to get less done. Every time we try to do […] Multitasking doesn’t save time — it wastes time. When you try to do two things at once, you either can’t or won’t do either well.

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Before the Benefit of the Doubt – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

Despite our best intentions, it’s sometimes hard NOT to assume or misinterpret someone’s intentions or jump to the negative. And while we all know that giving someone the benefit of the doubt or assuming the positive is the correct answer to the situation, it’s also hard to make this complete jump from negative to positive. […].

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A Reminder to Be Kind and Gentle to Yourself

leaderCommunicator

I’ve been fortunate enough to make connections with, and get to know, other leadership and communication bloggers over the past several years. One of my favorite bloggers to follow, Jon Mertz, runs the blogging community, Thin Difference , which covers topics from leadership and generations in the workplace to inspiration and creativity. So when the Thin Difference team reached out and asked me to participate in a New Year Series they were putting together on finding joy, whether it’s in work, l

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Jumpstart Your Service Revolution by Tom Schlick: What Does it Have to Do With Me?

CO2

Good question! And the answer is…everything! Even if you don’t consider yourself in the service business. My new book, Jumpstart Your Service Revol ution , has just been launched – and it is chock full of practical examples of how to win an age of disruption. The premise is that almost every company that got into trouble and had their market share challenged – heck, even their very existence put on the line – was sitting in a seemingly stable position.

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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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When to Start Fee Discussions with Consulting Prospects

David A Fields

It’s the topic that everyone has on their mind, but is uncomfortable bringing up. The one you know will have to be raised at some point, and you’re shy about broaching it too early. Male pattern baldness. Fees and pricing.

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How to Argue Better

Daniel Coyle

Every group aspires to be the kind of place where the best idea wins. The reality is, most fall short of that goal. . The problem is, it’s really hard to argue well. Like any collision, every argument brings risk — will it damage our relationships? Hurt our status? As a result, many of us tend to avoid arguments, or (worse) engage half-heartedly, surrendering our position at the first sign of pushback.

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What does Jumpstarting a Service Revolution Have to Do with Me?

CO2

Good question! And the answer is…everything! Even if you don’t consider yourself in the service business. My new book, Jumpstart Your Service Revol ution , has just been launched – and it is chock full of practical examples of how to win an age of disruption. The premise is that almost every company that got into trouble and had their market share challenged – heck, even their very existence put on the line – was sitting in a seemingly stable position.

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The 12 Golden Rules Of Effective Communication

Eric Jacobson

Here are the 12 golden rules of effective communication from Paul Falcone , as highlighted in his book, 2600 Phrases for Setting Effective Performance Goals. Always remember to: Recognize achievements and accomplishments often. Celebrate success. Deliver bad news quickly, constructively, and in a spirit of professional development. Praise in public, censure in private.

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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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7 Potential Barriers to Sustained Church Growth

Ron Edmondson

In church planting, we defied the “rules” of growth for several years. By rules I mean things which happen that naturally stall growth. They are true in every organization. If you don’t understand them you will not be prepared to address them. We were falsely convinced the rules didn’t apply to us. What we learned is it just takes more time – sometimes.

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How to Collaborate Effectively If Your Team Is Remote

Harvard Business Review

Hulton Archive/Hayon Thapaliya/Getty Images. Remote communication isn’t always easy. Do you recognize yourself in any of these examples? At 10 p.m., a corporate lawyer gets a text from a colleague and wonders (not for the first time) if there’s a protocol about work-related texts after a certain hour. After a long and liquid client dinner, an advertising executive opens an email from his boss reminding him to submit his expenses on time.

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Miss Universe Connection

Coaching Tip

Donald Trump kept the Miss Universe Pageant true to its origins as a swimsuit competition by setting the ceremony in warm-weather locations. Only once did Trump steer the pageant away from temperate environments--in November, 2013, when Miss Universe took place in Russia. Today, the Miss Universe Pageant in Moscow looks like a harbinger of the Trump campaign and Presidency, featuring some of the same themes and characters.

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We Won’t Get Value-Based Health Care Until We Agree on What “Value” Means

Harvard Business Review

HBR STAFF. Some health care leaders view with trepidation the new, disruptive health care alliance formed by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase. But I’m excited because disruption is all about delivering a new level of value for consumers. If this trio can disrupt the United States’ health care system into consistently delivering high-value care, we will all owe them our gratitude.

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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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Make Tools Like Slack Work for Your Company

Harvard Business Review

Tsedal Neeley, a professor at Harvard Business School, and Paul Leonardi, a management professor at UC Santa Barbara, talk about the potential that applications such as Slack, Yammer, and Microsoft Teams have for strengthening employee collaboration, productivity, and organizational culture. They discuss their research showing how effective these tools can be and warn about common traps companies face when they implement them.

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Do Academic Journals Favor Researchers from Their Own Institutions?

Harvard Business Review

dave wheeler for hbr. Are academic journals impartial? While many would suggest that academic journals work for the advancement of knowledge and science, we show this is not always the case. In a recent study , we find that two international relations (IR) journals favor articles written by authors who share the journal’s institutional affiliation.

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3 Ways Your Online Side Gig Can Earn Customers’ Trust

Harvard Business Review

Dorling Kindersley/Hayon Thapaliya/Getty Images. Building trust with customers can be challenging – that’s especially true online, and it’s especially true if you are trying to launch a new venture that doesn’t have an existing track record of success. If you’re trying to get your Internet-based side venture off the ground, how can you build trust right away?