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How to Find the Great Idea in Your Best Practice

Let's Grow Leaders

Your Best Practice Might Not Work Everywhere Javier was a well-loved director at an engineering design firm. He was also an accomplished Italian chef. Every year he would conduct an operational excellence rally that he personally catered with spaghetti made from homemade noodles, […]. The post How to Find the Great Idea in Your Best Practice appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Let Go of the Legacy Myth

Lead Change Blog

In a world of billboard companies and blockbuster celebrities, it’s easy for leaders to buy into the legacy myth. The thinking goes something like this: “To leave something behind that lasts, I have to protect what my success has built.” We see this undercutting belief lived out in news headlines almost daily. Everyone from business execs to politicians, from teachers to preachers, is susceptible to self-preservation when their legacy is on the line.

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Perspective and Reducing Assumptions in Leadership

CoachStation

As an effective leader, one of the key skills to develop is the ability to ask questions. More specifically, ask the right question at the right time. The key benefits of mastering this skillset are the additional perspective gained and the reduction in assumptions. This has power within leadership as it ensures you take into account other people’s perspective as well as your own.

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What a Success Plan Is (and Isn’t)

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Chris Meroff: Investing in your people should be the end game for you as a leader. They come to the workplace every day and invest their significant gifts and talents in an effort to help you and your organization reach an agree upon goal. Their success is your success. So, it makes sense that we as leaders would want to create a success plan for our people.

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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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10 Phrases That Will Help You Handle a Micromanaging Boss 

Lead from Within

If your boss is a micromanager—the kind who wants to maintain as much control over you as they can—you know how frustrating and irritating it is. It’s possible, though, to take back some control—and these phrases can help you make that happen. Use them to start an effective dialogue that can result in more autonomy and less micromanagement: I’m going to do everything in my power to make you look good.

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How to Receive Feedback

Leadership Freak

The most important thing about feedback is the way it’s received. How to receive feedback: #1. Aspire to improve. Aspiration makes feedback desirable. “Tell me how to improve.

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One Negotiation Strategy That Will Make You a World-Class Negotiator

Innovation Excellence

There are countless ways to improve your negotiation skills, but none are as powerful as this. Negotiation is complex because people are complex. There’s no way around that. If you’ve followed my Inc columns you know that negotiation is one of my favorite topics to write about. In part that’s because I am fascinated by.

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3 Unprofessional Habits that Secretly Annoy Your Coworkers

HR Digest

Habits can make or break our lives. A lot of what we do every day is based on a habit that we’ve developed at some point. Many habits are helpful, like waking up early, exercising regularly, and eating healthy. Some habits are harmful like smoking, drinking, and spending too much time on the Internet. Not so long ago, we detailed on a few incredibly crappy workplace habits that most of us are not even aware of.

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Why You Don’t Want Supervisors To Be Obsessed With The Bottom Line

The Horizons Tracker

You might imagine that having a manager that is aware of the profitability of their organization would be a good thing, but a recent study from Baylor University suggests this might not actually be true. Indeed, profit-driven managers may so lose the respect of their team that the bottom line is actually hurt rather than helped. “Supervisors who focus only on profits to the exclusion of caring about other important outcomes, such as employee well-being or environmental or ethical concerns

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Do You Really Need To Read Leadership Books?

Eric Jacobson

The answer is yes. And, fortunately, there are lots out there to select from. However, if you don't have time to read books about how to be an effective and good leader, you can select a few words from the list below and then practice what those words mean, as you lead your team every day. Awhile back, leaders on the LinkedIn Executive Suite group came up with these nearly 50 words in answer to a discussion topic I posted in the group forum: " A Good Leader Is [insert one word].

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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 The Smartphone Can Give Us A Better Understanding Of People Dynamics

The Horizons Tracker

Airports and other public places can be confusing places at the best of times, but when people are stressed and time pressured, the ability to navigate effectively can be especially challenging. A new startup from the EIT Digital stable aims to provide the owners of airports and train stations with a better insight into how people navigate their facilities.

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Share The Bad News

Eric Jacobson

Naturally, it's much easier to share good news with your employees, but it's perhaps even more important to share the bad news. If revenue is down, or if you've lost a large customer, or if a new competitor has entered the market, let your team know. Your employees need to know about the health of your company or organization. And it's only when they have the full picture -- the good news and the bad news -- that they can rally together with you to brainstorm possible solutions.

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How do you deal with passive-aggressive people?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Our reader poll today asks: How do you deal with passive-aggressive people? I confront them directly when I see the behavior: 41% I generally ignore the behavior: 47% I behave passive-aggressively right back at them: 13% Don’t stoop to their level. The majority of you either confront passive-aggressive behavior when you see it or you just […].

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3 Ways Silence is Misdiagnosed on a Team

Ron Edmondson

Good communication is so important on a team. Equally important, if the team is to be healthy, is that everyone on the team has their thoughts and opinions heard. I am a firm advocate that everyone on the team should have a vital role. It’s why I write so much about delegation and empowerment. If a leader believes in someone enough to have them on the team then they should believe that person brings something unique and valuable to the team.

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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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The most common financial mistakes graduate entrepreneurs make

Strategy Driven

Amongst the world’s ambitious graduates are some of the next generation’s entrepreneurs and innovators. Some will have a carefully defined business plan. Others will have little more than a dream and bundles of enthusiasm. Starting out in business straight after Uni isn’t easy. For the bright-eyed grad, a lack of life experience and industry expertise, along with a mountain of student debt can make the business journey a particularly tricky one.

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Navigating Change (Live)

Harvard Business Review

Is your organization going through some big shifts? Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Katie Burke, the chief people officer of HubSpot. They talk through what to do when you’re ready to move up but there’s no one to take over your role, you’re expected to work on too many projects with too little support, or layoffs are happening but your boss isn’t giving you more responsibility.

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Are You Harnessing The Full Power Of Social Media For Your Business?

Strategy Driven

Social media is a must for any business in this day-and-age. With three billion people now using one social media site or another, there is a very big reason that your business needs to be represented on the major sites, and that is because so many of your potential customers are on there. The majority of social media users check their accounts multiple times in one day.

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Ranking 42 Countries by Ease of Doing Digital Business

Harvard Business Review

How easy is it for digital platforms to enter, operate, thrive, or exit in markets around the world?

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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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Top management schools in USA

Strategy Driven

A business school is a university level institution that confers degrees in business administration or management. They offer subjects which are relevant to a business environment and those which help in laying the foundation of business studies such as accounting, business strategy, economics, finance, entrepreneurship, etc. Students are fostered in such a manner that they are able to find the coincidence in the past, current and future practices such that they could solve real life problems as

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Are You at Risk of a Mid-Career Rut?

Harvard Business Review

It’s a low point for work-related decision making.

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Switzerland Remains The Most Innovative Country In The World

The Horizons Tracker

Each year INSEAD produce their Global Innovation Index in an attempt to rank the nations of the world on their innovative capabilities. As the rankings seldom change a great deal from one year to the next, the authors like to focus on specific themes to add a bit of spice to proceedings. This year, the theme of the report is healthcare, and the authors highlight some of the innovation emerging from developing countries, with frugal innovations documented in countries ranging from India to Rwand

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When Waterfall Principles Sneak Back Into Agile Workflows

Harvard Business Review

Beware “AgileFall.

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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.