Wed.Apr 22, 2020

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How To Support Your Team During The Coronavirus Crisis

Joseph Lalonde

The Coronavirus has shown us how quickly businesses can be shut down. Government mandates can come quickly. They can effectively make your business grind to a halt. If you’re not prepared. Once a government mandate comes to close your business, what do you do? You’ve probably chosen to send your team home to work remotely […] The post How To Support Your Team During The Coronavirus Crisis appeared first on Joseph Lalonde.

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5 Ethical Dimensions of IoT Leadership (Part 3)

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton Part 1 in this Series on 5 Ethical Dimensions of IoT Leadership focused on the importance of Ethical Foresight. Part 2 introduced 5 Ethical Dimensions of the IoT and explored the 1st dimension - Ethical Design. Part 3 discusses Legal Compliance, the 2nd dimension.

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CEO Marketing Priorities

N2Growth Blog

COVID-19 has made CEO marketing priorities synonymous with survival. CEOs who have a focused, crisp, creative, and clear message, and who understand how to best communicate that message, will navigate the pandemic better than their less-skilled peers. The following are five tips to help CEOs refine and distribute their message during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Master Your Motivation

Lead Change Blog

Motivation is at the heart of everything you do and everything you want to do but don’t. Unfortunately, the ways we typically motivate ourselves don’t work. Relying on sheer determination eventually becomes exhausting—it’s not sustainable. And even setting goals can backfire, if you’re not setting them for the right reasons. Traditional “motivators” such as fear, guilt, or the promise of a reward provide low-quality, short-term energy.

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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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How to Build Teams that Trust Each Other

Leadership Freak

I asked top leaders to respond to three questions: What three words describe a great team? What three problems hinder great teamwork? What three things do great teams habitually do?

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The Opportunity to Slow Down and Straighten Everything Out

Sales Wolf Blog

How do you buy your milk? Still walking through the grocery store to get your milk? Thanks to the COVID-19 crisis, we no longer buy our milk in a grocery store. Entering a grocery store represents an unnecessary risk. After COVID-19, I will not return to the old way of buying groceries. What a colossal waste of time! How many other sacred habits can / should I sacrifice next?

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Leading the Way: 13 Approaches to Navigate Through the Storm

The Practical Leader

Many people can sail the ship when the sea is calm. The real test is during fierce storms. Even mediocre managers can get by during calm times. Today’s massive storm calls for strong leadership. The American Pulitzer Prize winning author, Willa Cather once observed, “There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.” Lots of leadership learning opportunities these days!

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Does Your Company Website Look Professional?

Strategy Driven

It’s important that your company website gives off a professional feel. Consumers are unlikely to trust you if your website feels amateurish or overly informal. To help your company look professional, here are a few steps that you can take. Use suitable fonts and colors. Kaleidoscopic colors and kooky fonts should be avoided – unless you’re promoting a fun or wacky product.

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How Virtual Reality Can Ease The Psychological Stress Of COVID

The Horizons Tracker

A few years ago research from the University of Georgia explored the use of virtual reality in mental health. The paper examines the current state of VR in psychiatric treatment, with the most common current application being in the treatment of anxiety disorders. For instance, users might be exposed to frightening situations. VR is capable of recreating exposures that would be either costly or impractical to recreate in real life.

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3 Strategies To Help Your Business Weather COVID 19

CEO Insider

There’s no doubt that businesses are being severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 is a tiny, invisible virus that has created a large and visible change around the world. Seemingly overnight, and with little advance notice, our world and the business landscape changed. Business routines have been uprooted. But, with every wind of change […].

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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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How COVID-19 Is Taking Startups To The Brink

The Horizons Tracker

Businesses across the world have been struggling under the huge weight imposed by the coronavirus pandemic. Those who have been able to continue operating have faced uncertainty over staffing and customer demand, with a great many more forced to shut their doors entirely during lockdown procedures. Indeed, data from the Enterprise Research Centre showed that 61,472 limited companies went bust between March and mid-April, with a similar fall in the number of new businesses being created during t

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How to Run a Business from Home

Strategy Driven

The idea of starting a business is something that appeals to a lot of people, but there are some restrictions that might stop them from going forward with their dream. One of these is that they feel the need to have an office or business premises away from home. Although this will be true of cafes, restaurants, retail stores and the like, there are many other businesses which you can start and run successfully from home.

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Defining the Factors of Resiliency

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Maureen Metcalf, thoughtLEADERS Principal, sat down with Jim and Jan of The Leadership Podcast to discuss her thoughts on resilient leadership. In continuation of our new collaboration with The Leadership Podcast, Maureen talks about developing and being a resilient leader in this short form “chalk talk.” These chalk talk series are bitesize sessions on a common (but challenging) leadership issue.

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The Importance of Lifelong Learning for Professional Development

Strategy Driven

What do the likes of Michelangelo, Gandhi and Eleanor Roosevelt have in common? They have all advocated the importance of fostering a love of learning and continuous personal growth. These values are synonymous with the idea of lifelong learning, which is the ongoing process of pursuing knowledge, be it for personal or professional reasons. Without really thinking about it, most people believe that their education is over when they graduate from high school or university.

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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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The benefits of capitalizing on flow

CEO Insider

It’s quite possible greater creativity, productivity, problem-solving, answers and progress are a result of a heightened mindset not yet widely or fully understood or practiced. Flow is that state of mind and skill set and it has been defined in different ways. In writing about it, Jory MacKay has described it as, “the state of […]. License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article The benefits of capitalizing on flow are those of the author Michael Toebe alone and not the CEOW

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Today’s Leadership Thought

Eric Jacobson

“ Leadership is a choice, not a position ” – Stephen R. Covey.

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ThreatModeler CEO Archie Agarwal Talks Cyber Security, Its AWS Technology Partnership and the Company’s Future Plans

CEO Insider

We live in uncertain times, and our digital infrastructure is essential to our daily lives. We rely on technology and, to a certain extent, trust it to provide critical services, for example, in finance and healthcare. But our increasing reliance on technology also makes us incredibly susceptible to cyberattacks. Companies worldwide are taking their digital […].

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Apple and Google Team Up for Contact Tracing, and the Federal Reserve’s Rescue Plan

Harvard Business Review

Youngme, Felix, and Mihir debate Apple and Google’s collaboration on Covid-19 contact tracing and the Federal Reserve’s rescue plan.

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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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Why Workplace Design Should Extend To The Home

The Horizons Tracker

Place someone in the hustle and bustle of Grand Central Station, and it’s unlikely that they would perform well in the kind of tasks we require of people in the workplace. As such, environmental psychologist Sally Austin argues that the way our workplaces are designed is crucially important to the effectiveness of employees. In Built to Thrive: How to Build the Best Workplaces for Health, Well-Being, & Productivity , she highlights how important seemingly esoteric factors, such as th

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The New Science of Aging

Harvard Business Review

Harvard geneticist David Sinclair joins Azeem Azhar to discuss his pioneering research into aging.

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Why You Miss Those Casual Friends So Much

Harvard Business Review

Social distancing has left us longing for the daily interactions we often took for granted.

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How the Coronavirus Crisis Is Redefining Jobs

Harvard Business Review

Three ways to shift work, talent, and resources to where they’re needed most.

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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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Give Your Workers the Latitude to Learn on the Job

Harvard Business Review

Learning and development doesn’t have to be so formal.

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How to Communicate Your Self-Care Needs to Your Partner

Harvard Business Review

Practical suggestions for a productive conversation.

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The Psychology Behind Effective Crisis Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Good leaders need more than vision.

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