Wed.Oct 07, 2020

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Five Qualities Genuine Leaders Have in Common

Leading Blog

C OVID-19 reminds us that we live in a world full of uncertainty—and this will continue well beyond the pandemic. But it only intensifies something we were already seeing in the world of work: organizations need to adapt constantly to keep up with market dynamics. Unfortunately, this can take a toll on employees if businesses focus on efficiency but don’t create an environment where people feel they belong.

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8 Tips To Succeed As A First Time Leader

Tanveer Naseer

Succeeding as a first time leader doesn’t simply require an MBA degree and a few years of experience. There’s a lot more to organizing, managing, and leading workers to reach their full potential so the organization can move forward. In addition, many first time leaders are confused about how to. Click to continue reading.

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Good Leadership Serves, Respects and Uplifts

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton What is the ultimate goal of leadership? This question seems simple enough at first, and then begins to get tricky because it can’t be answered in one simple statement.

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Compassionate Accountability in Action

Lead Change Blog

Conflict is a word that carries negative connotations for many. We avoid conflict, abhor conflict, and see conflict as a major stress. What if you could transform conflict to bring positive change in your relationships? Dr. Nate Regier, author of Conflict without Casualties and Seeing People Through , has been collecting data about how people respond to and view conflict.

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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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Does Your Batting Average Suck?

Joseph Lalonde

Stats fascinate me. The numbers tell a story. The stories they tell may be hidden deep within the numbers or examples but they are there. One sport that constantly looks at stats is major league baseball. They have stats for everything. Some of the statistics baseball fans and announcers follow are: Batting Average At Bats […].

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Decisions are hard. But they're really easy.

Rich Gee Group

I want you to watch “The Ten Meter Tower”. It’s one of my favorite NY Times/YouTube videos. The premise: “Our objective in making this film was something of a psychology experiment: We sought to capture people facing a difficult situation, to make a portrait of humans in doubt. A high dive seemed like the perfect scenario.” “Through an online advertisement, we found 67 people who had never been on a 10-meter (about 33 feet) diving tower before and had never jumped from that high.

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It Only Takes A Few Reviews To Be Influential

The Horizons Tracker

It’s well known that online reviews are highly influential in the purchasing process. New research from Ohio State University highlights just how quickly their influence emerges. The research found that the first few reviews are often enough to influence the long-term ratings for a restaurant. “These online platforms advertise themselves as being unbiased, but we found that that is not the case,” the researchers say. “The way these platforms work, popular restaurants g

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How to Start Up Your Own Business

Strategy Driven

What an exciting time for you! You have decided to start up your own business, and your heart beats faster and a trickle of sweat creases your forehead. A million thoughts bombard your brain as you have your epiphany moment when you realize that all the events in your life have been leading to this grand moment – your destiny! Maybe you should put the brakes on for a minute, though, and begin to think of things like business growth strategies for your masterplan.

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Company Culture Must Remain Front and Center During These Uncertain Times

CEO Insider

With Covid-19 continuing to wreak havoc across corporate America today, many major companies are choosing to remain remote for the foreseeable future, If that’s you, don’t make the mistake of inadvertently putting company culture on the back burner. It is essential to stay diligent in maintaining and enhancing your culture so that staffers feel connected […].

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Young and Determined: 5 Tips to Start Walking Towards a Bright Future as a Student Athlete

Strategy Driven

Student athlete? To many people, that’s the ultimate oxymoron. After all, you’re either a student or an athlete, right? And never the two shall meet. While on campus, if you happen to be an athlete, it often feels like you have a sign on your back that says, “Dumb Jock.” Many people don’t stop to realize that being in your situation serves two purposes: it helps a student get through school and it polishes a school’s image.

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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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Hard Working Scientists Are Better Role Models Than Geniuses

The Horizons Tracker

Role models are great in any walk of life, not least in the scientific domain. New research from William Paterson University explores whether scientific role models are more beneficial if they’re the perspiration type rather than the inspiration type. “There’s a misleading message out there that says you have to be a genius in order to be a scientist,” the researchers explain. “This just isn’t true and may be a big factor in deterring people from pursuing sci

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Six Ways To Help Improve Your Online Security As A Business Owner

Strategy Driven

Your business is always something that you can improve, and when it comes to your online security, there should certainly be some active attention towards this area of the company. The online world is a wonderful place, and it can bring with it a lot of opportunities. However, it’s important to recognize that you acknowledge the dangers of the internet and what it can bring.

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A Practical Approach to Managing Workforce During COVID-19

HR Digest

COVID-19 is the most severe crisis since the Second World War: companies are losing workforce rapidly around the world. A structured strategy for managing workforce can bring consistency into overall operations during today’s challenging times by putting people first. At the heart of any organization’s talent management strategy is headcount planning to ensure that it has the right number of talent with the right skills.

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Certain Kinds of Country Do Best On Gender Equality

The Horizons Tracker

The last few decades has seen growing support for gender equality and fairer representation of women’s causes, but this support has not been equal across either individual nations or across the world more broadly. New research from Anglia Ruskin University paradoxically suggests that such support is often poorest when countries are more gender egalitarian.

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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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“Covering” Your Career Trajectory: Climbing up the Insurance Industry Ladder

Strategy Driven

Every career path usually comprises a ladder of sorts. Arguably, the only exception to the rule is those working in the creative industries. But if you have been eyeing up a career path in the insurance industry, what is the best trajectory? The Wide Variety of Gateway Roles. You could start out as a broker or claims agent, as well as numerous other roles, but this gives you a thorough grounding to progress within the industry.

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How To Be Your Best

Eric Jacobson

My favorite takeaways from the book, Becoming The Best , by Harry M. Jansen Kraemer, Jr. , are: Your best self is not about perfection (an impossible and, therefore, futile goal). It is about becoming consistently disciplined and focused, making sure you challenge yourself to truly be your best self—instead of becoming complacent, convinced that you have arrived.

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Tips You Need to Use to Help Your Business Become a Success

Strategy Driven

Make sure you do as much as possible to focus on this right now, and there are a lot of elements that play a part in this moving forward. Think about what it takes to move things to the next level as a business owner. You have to focus on the best ways of being able to do this right now, and it is important that you do what you can to take things forward in the right way.

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Fighting Tension – Stay in a Supporting Leadership Role – or Jump into the Lead Role

Ron Edmondson

There is a fighting tension among many young leadership. The tension is whether to stay in a supporting leadership role – or jump into the lead role. Young leaders I work with ask this question a lot – are they ready to be in a lead position? I want to be helpful. Most of these people are leaders now – usually leading some area of ministry, but they aren’t in the senior leadership position.

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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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CEOs, Don’t Let Fear and Paranoia Sink Your Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Fresh perspectives and honest communication will help keep you grounded.

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How GPT-3 Is Shaping Our AI Future

Harvard Business Review

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman explores the ethical and research challenges in creating artificial general intelligence.

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How AR Is Redefining Retail in the Pandemic

Harvard Business Review

A closer look at augmented reality and the “digital lipstick effect.

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Don’t Let Election Passions Roil Your Workplace

Harvard Business Review

Research-based advice on how to help employees engage in productive discourse.

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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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How to Manage a Hybrid Team

Harvard Business Review

What to do when not everyone has returned to the office.

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Women’s Career Trajectories Can Be a Model for an Aging Workforce

Harvard Business Review

The two-phase career is taking on a new shape.

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