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Imposter Syndrome: 4 Ways to Defeat Self-Doubt

Let's Grow Leaders

Do you ever feel like you’re just a bit under-qualified for your current role? Are you constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop? Do you lie awake at night, thinking of ways to cover up your weaknesses so no one will […]. The post Imposter Syndrome: 4 Ways to Defeat Self-Doubt appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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How To Reignite Our Inspiration At Work

Tanveer Naseer

Let’s face it, all of us want to be inspired at work. So why do studies show that over 70% of us feel uninspired about the work we do? And more importantly, what can we do about it? Those questions serve as the focus of this engaging, insightful, and at times humorous conversation with former Proctor&Gamble executive, Scott Mautz. Scott is the CEO of Profound Performance – a keynote, workshop, coaching, and online training company that helps you “Work, Lead, & Live Fulfilled”.

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5 Tips for Managing Change within Your Team

Women on Business

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The Leader Apprentice: 5 Ways to Master the Learning Mindset

RapidStart Leadership

Kennedy said that “leadership and learning are indispensable to each other,” so how do we make sure we keep learning? It’s easy to get caught up in the daily business of getting things done. But if we’re not careful, though we may accomplish much, we don’t become better in the … The Leader Apprentice: 5 Ways to Master the Learning Mindset Read More ».

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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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4 False Beliefs That Will Destroy Your Leadership

Lead from Within

The other day I sat down with a capable and competent leader. But in spite of her abilities and accomplishments, she didn’t see herself as a leader. Her beliefs about herself were holding her back and destroying her leadership. I asked her to tell me about those beliefs so we could see what was limiting her. Her responses, repeated below, mirror the thoughts of every self-undermining leader I’ve ever worked with.

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7 Ways to Know a Team Member is Ready to Stretch

Leadership Freak

Don’t coddle your team. Trust their ability to grow into new skills and responsibilities. Protecting people from challenges propagates dependence and sends the subtle signal that you don’t believe they will rise up.

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Leading Away From Work – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

Work-life balance is an extremely common topic and while there are many aspects of this that I adhere to and agree with and encourage, there is one aspect of this that I recommend we DON’T leave at work at the end of the day. Tweet it out: The skills of leadership are the skills of […]. The post Leading Away From Work – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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5 Steps to Meaningful Internal Communication

leaderCommunicator

Effective employee communication can improve an organization and drive business success by turning strategy into action. Yet too often, executives measure communication through emails sent or town halls hosted rather than by the one metric that truly matters—how well key leaders and their employees understand and have acted on what’s communicated. Clearly, there’s a real opportunity to make good internal communication great, and organizations would be wise to seize it.

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SERVANT Leadership Acronym – Updated

Modern Servant Leader

It is time to update the SERVANT Leadership Acronym. After 15+ years of research, dozens of authors and hundreds of principles, we created the first ever, comprehensive model of contemporary servant leadership. That was years ago. The intent was never to make this a changing model. Yet, it is time to update the acronym. We’ve come to a point where so many leaders are so divisive that we need to call more attention to listening and compromise.

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What’s the Smallest Project Your Consulting Firm Should Take?

David A Fields

What’s the smallest project your consulting firm should accept? Should there even be a minimum? Absolutely! Sort of. Brrrrng, brrrrng. It’s Phyllis Phinsternoodle calling to inquire whether you can take on a quick, two-week project at her petunia plant. No, she’s called back: it turns out she only needs you for one day.

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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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4 Must Haves for Your Next International Trip

Strategy Driven

Whether you’re headed to an exotic destination for your romantic honeymoon, spending a summer backpacking across Europe or planning a fun filled family vacation; you’ll be busy applying for a visa to whatever country you are planning on visiting, obtaining a passport and much more. These are vital to any international trip and should be done ahead of time so that no sudden surprises stand in the way when it comes time to leave the country.

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How To Use Words That Create Excitement And Passion

Eric Jacobson

"When you convey your vision, you must show your passion for it and commitment to it," explains Bart Egnal in his book, Leading Through Language. And, use words that show how you and your listeners should feel about what you are saying whether that be about your vision or the vision of your organization. For example, here are two examples from Egnal that demonstrate how to take a generic vision and then deliver it with language that shows the speaker's emotions : Emotionless : "To become Florida

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You May Be Annoying Your Customers, And Not Even Know It

Strategy Driven

We all want our customers to like our business. Actually, forget that: it’s better to say that we NEED our customers to like our business. Studies have consistently shown people are more likely to spend money with companies that they, well, like. It sounds simple, and to a degree it is, but it’s also true that some businesses are turning their customers off, and they don’t even realise it.

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What Was My Greatest Success in Life?

Ron Edmondson

I was interviewed a few years ago for a leadership podcast. One of the questions took me by surprise. I have been interviewed for podcasts many times, so answers usually come fairly easily. They didn’t this time. At least to this question. The question: What has been your greatest success in life and what did you learn from it? Greatest success?

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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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Making a Success of Your Next Big Meeting

Strategy Driven

When you hold a meeting of any sort, it’s highly likely that you will feel a little nervous beforehand. This is to be expected. Meetings are relatively intimidating situations, and the pressure is on to perform to the best of your capability. However, there are certain steps that you can take in order to ensure that awkward situations are avoided, and you make a success of the entire venture!

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When You Need to Take Time Off Work for Mental Health Reasons

Harvard Business Review

the korus/unsplash. Personal health should be a private matter. But when you need to take time off work due to a mental health condition, often it isn’t possible to maintain that privacy. As a board member at the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), and a former managing director at two global banks (UBS and Deutsche Bank), I’ve been approached by hundreds of colleagues and clients over the past 30 years seeking advice for themselves or a colleague, friend, or family member on

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Getting to US

Leading Blog

S ETH DAVIS writes, “A team begins as a collection of mes , hims , and yous. It is the job of the coach to figure out a way to get to Us.” Davis asks, “ How do great coaches turn a collection if individuals into a coherent us ?” He narrows it down to four personal qualities that are the core requirements all great coaches must have in order to get a group of individuals to Us.

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How Your Phone Can Help You Set Better Habits

Harvard Business Review

VANDAL Photography/Getty Images. We often blame tech for our worst habits, like distraction or bad spelling. But our phones, computers, and gadgets can just as easily help us build good habits — if we understand how habits work and the right technology to use. Devices can even help us break bad habits, if we use them to create new habits that replace the bad.

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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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How Managers Can Better Support And Retain Millennial Colleagues

Eric Jacobson

Millennial turnover is a huge problem for leaders. Millennials account for nearly 40 percent of the American workforce, and by 2025, that number balloons to 75 percent of the global workplace. “Over 60 percent of millennials leave their company in under three years,” explains Elizabeth McLeod , a Millennial and cum laude grad of Boston University. “And, there are four reasons why Millennials dump their middle-aged managers,” adds McLeod.

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Here Are All the Reasons It’s a Bad Idea to Let a Few Tech Companies Monopolize Our Data

Harvard Business Review

James Graham/Getty Images. “It’s no good fighting an election campaign on the facts,” Cambridge Analytica’s managing director told an undercover reporter, “because actually it’s all about emotion.” To target U.S. voters and appeal to their hopes, neuroses, and fears, the political consulting firm needed to train its algorithm to predict and map personality traits.

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Why CEOs Are Taking a Stand

Harvard Business Review

Professors Michael Toffel, of Harvard Business School, and Aaron Chatterji, of Duke’s Fuqua School of Business, discuss the emerging phenomenon of CEO activism. They explain how political polarization in the U.S. and employee expectations around company values are pushing corporate leaders to enter into controversial political and social debates.

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The Authenticity Paradox

Harvard Business Review

Learn how leaders can develop an “adaptively authentic” style in this video slide deck. Download a customizable version here.

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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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AI Will Change Radiology, but It Won’t Replace Radiologists

Harvard Business Review

Corbis/VCG/Getty Images. Recent advances in artificial intelligence have led to speculation that AI might one day replace human radiologists. Researchers have developed deep learning neural networks that can identify pathologies in radiological images such as bone fractures and potentially cancerous lesions, in some cases more reliably than an average radiologist.

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If You Fire Someone for Sexual Harassment, What Do You Say If You’re Called for a Reference?

Harvard Business Review

yangleephoto/Multi bits/Getty Images. Many victims of workplace sexual harassment tell the same frustrating story: Their harasser got fired, but then he landed a plum new job in the same industry. In 2016 Reuters terminated a senior editor after his subordinate filed a sexual harassment complaint. Not long after, that editor was hired as an executive at Newsweek.

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Software Asset Management: A New Defense Against Cybersecurity Threats - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM MICROSOFT

Harvard Business Review

To combat cybersecurity threats, companies are spending millions of dollars in malware protection, firewall solutions, and security consulting. Yet even with these expensive measures, most are unaware of their greatest vulnerabilities. That’s because cyber criminals are opportunists who seek the path of least resistance. Rather than wasting efforts attacking hardened firewalls, they instead snoop out the often-overlooked back doors to a company’s network, such as unsupported or unapp