Tue.Mar 13, 2018

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5 Steps To Cultivate Compassion In Leadership

Tanveer Naseer

The following is a guest piece by Stanford professor Dr. Leah Weiss. Modern leadership training is being taken over by a clever but misguided trend. One that’s filled with yoga rooms and entertainment-infused buffet lunches. It’s a train that many corporations are jumping onto, but the intent is often confused and therefore the execution is weak. The idea that organizations will successfully attract the best talent by peddling a laid-back compassionate culture is bound to fail.

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Developing a Positive Culture

Lead Change Blog

Last month we had the opportunity to sit down (virtually) with Marcella Bremer to talk about her work in developing a positive culture in the workplace, her new book, Developing a Positive Culture , and the Positive Culture Academy (classes start April 2nd). Q. How long have you been focusing on a positive culture in the workplace? I’ve been working with culture for more than 20 years, but the focus on a positive culture dates from the last 5 years or so.

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How to Stop Selling Your Ideas and Start Enrolling People in Them

Next Level Blog

Think about the last time you made a big purchase like a car, a major appliance or a mattress. With the possible exception of the car, there’s a pretty good chance you bought the product online after reading a lot of customer reviews. Why was that the case? Of course, one reason is that Amazon and other online retailers make it really easy to buy things online.

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The Five Purposes of Listening

Leadership Freak

The most neglected work of leadership is listening. The reason? It’s hard work. If leadership is about others, listening is about leadership. 4 reasons you hate to listen: A squirrel’s attention span.

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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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Love. Its what makes a leader a leader

Persuasive Powerhouse

Photo credit: 123rf. Subaru took a bold move in the world of marketing cars a few years back. They added the word, “Love” to the front end of their slogan, “It’s what makes a Subaru”. It was bold because who uses the word “love” in the business world? Subaru sales were in a slump prior to adding that word. They increased significantly following the addition of the word “love”.

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Optimization: Surprising Lessons in Efficiency from the Ant World

RapidStart Leadership

“How can you optimize a system that’s error-prone?” As humans, we are fallable. In our efforts to achieve, produce, and progress, we make mistakes, we misjudge, we stumble. Any enterprise that involves humans will, by definition, be imperfect. But is that really such a bad thing? When it comes to optimization and effiency, there are five surprising but critical lessons […].

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This is where I call you on your s _ _ _ !

Jason Womack

Look, I’m not going to say you’re doing not enough; but, I will say you can do BETTER.The problem you have to face is this: Do you even KNOW what #better means? No? Ok, here’s a video I made for.

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Three C’s for Listening Like a Leader

Leadership Freak

Listening is a vast ocean surrounded by empty beaches. I’ve been paying attention to listening, both my own and others.

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Getting Everyone on the Same Page (Does More Harm Than Good)

Lead from Within

Getting everyone on the same page—that is, creating unity of thought and opinion—is a concept that’s highly valued by many leaders. It’s widely thought to make teams more productive and creative. But in my years of experience, that connection is far from reliable. If anything, just the opposite applies: getting everyone on the same page does more harm than good.

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An Effective Coach Helps You Uncover The Solutions You Seek

leaderCommunicator

I’m fortunate to do some selective executive coaching as part of our broader leadership development and communications consulting work. I was working with a senior leader recently who wants to focus our executive coaching time on “concrete projects.” I was trying to help her understand that our concrete project is her – she’s the focus of our work together.

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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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Pringles Leadership – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

The commercials during the Super Bowl have become just as popular as the actual sporting event itself, and this year, there was one that was even more popular and memorable for The Kevin Eikenberry Group. And…it provided some valuable leadership lessons for me, my team and really all leaders. Tweet it out: Your team doesn’t […]. The post Pringles Leadership – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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This is where I call you on your s _ _ _ !

Jason Womack

Look, I’m not going to say you’re doing not enough; but, I will say you can do BETTER.The problem you have to face is this: Do you even KNOW what #better means? No? Ok, here’s a video I made for.

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The Perfect Introduction Email to New Consulting Prospects

David A Fields

Clients and friends are great, but sometimes their greatness could be improved a tad. For instance, when they’re sending an email (or text message) introducing you to a new contact—Peach McPinecone—who could potentially become a client of your consulting firm.

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Top Traits of Socially Responsible Employers

Strategy Driven

When talented workers are looking for new employment opportunities, they tend to go for the companies that have a proven track record of being socially responsible. If you start to demonstrate that you fit the bill, you should soon have a big pool of excellent employees to choose from. Beyond this, treating your staff members right will result in a team who are highly motivated and more likely to stick by 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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Customer service shouldn’t stop at middle management

Surviving Leadership

I’m in Vegas this week for the Ultimate Connections 2018 conference and it’s at a VERY big hotel conference center (the Wynn/Encore, if you must know). I like to wander around a little bit the night before to try and get the lay of the land, which is a good idea when things are spread out like they are here. I stopped in front of a map to orient myself when one of the hotel maintenance workers noticed me and asked if I needed help figuring out where I was.

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11 Words for Pastors I’ve Learned in Leading

Ron Edmondson

I love pastors. I’m not saying that because I am one. I haven’t always been. I was in secular leadership far longer than I’ve been in ministry leadership. I say it because, having now been a pastor, I see the uniqueness of the role and what’s required to be effective in ministry. It’s hard work. I applaud God’s servants who are obedient to their call.

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Engaging Employees Starts with Remembering What Your Company Stands For

Harvard Business Review

HBR STAFF/Caiaimage/Robert Daly/Getty Images. Organizations spend over $100 billion annually to improve employee engagement. Yet according to Gallup , only 13% of employees are engaged — and disengaged employees cost U.S. companies $450 billion to $550 billion per year in lost productivity. The reason why most engagement efforts fall short is that they’re designed to cultivate employees’ commitment in generic, general ways.

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Motivate Your Team – Avoid This Mistake

Let's Grow Leaders

Early in my career, I made a critical mistake that’s very common, even when you’re a leader who cares and wants to motivate your team. I discovered my mistake when Joanne handed me an envelope. Inside was a single page. I unfolded […]. The post Motivate Your Team – Avoid This Mistake appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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Leaders Can’t Shy Away from Sensitive Topics, Even When It’s Awkward

Harvard Business Review

Jorg Greuel/Getty Images. We are living in times when it’s increasingly difficult — if not impossible — to go into the office and leave what’s going on outside behind. We are reckoning with difficult and emotional issues in our society — sexual harassment, racism, and deep political divides — that don’t get checked at the door.

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When It Pays to Collaborate with Competitors at Work

Harvard Business Review

Manchester Daily Express/Getty Images. Managers in an up-or-out organization are expected to advance. Those who don’t are fired, at worst; at best they’re relegated to the outskirts of the organization or placed in stagnant roles. This sort of environment breeds constant pressure to compete with colleagues for the best assignments and promotion opportunities.

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McKinsey’s Head on Why Corporate Sustainability Efforts Are Falling Short

Harvard Business Review

Dominic Barton, the global managing partner of McKinsey&Company, discusses the firm’s sustainability efforts. He talks about the wake-up call he got about sustainability and how he tries to convince CEOs hesitant to make it part of their business model that doing so will improve company performance. He says he sees companies thinking about the environment. “But the speed and scale of what we need to do — I don’t think it’s sufficient.” Download this podcas

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Gathering Health Care Insights from Data About People’s Daily Lives

Harvard Business Review

Vincent Tsui for HBR. While the healthcare industry becomes increasingly adept at applying clinical and claims data to improve care, it has largely ignored other data sources that provide the greatest opportunity to positively impact health and cost at scale. The dependence on this limited data set originates in the system’s orientation toward “sick care” — treating illness.

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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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Why the Automation Boom Could Be Followed by a Bust

Harvard Business Review

Theo Chapel/EyeEm/Getty Images. You may not be sharing your office with a robot yet, but the next wave of automation has begun. Humanoid service robots, machine learning algorithms and autonomous logistics will replace millions of service workers in the coming decade. Experts are rushing to forecast the likely impact on jobs. But most projections overlook two powerful forces that will combine with automation to reshape the global economy by 2030: rapidly aging populations and rising inequality.