Mon.Jan 25, 2021

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Leadership U: The Six Degrees of Leadership

Leading Blog

T O LEAD people from one place to another in good times and in challenging ones requires a framework like the one presented in Korn Ferry CEO Gary Burnison’s concise book, Leadership U: Accelerating Through the Crisis Curve. The framework is called, The Six Degrees of Leadership. These six degrees are mastered separately but work together in practice.

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Psychological Safety or More Courage? What Your Team Needs Now.

Let's Grow Leaders

Psychological safety pioneer, Dr. Amy Edmonson discusses the difference between psychological safety and courage at work, and why both are so critical in our teams right now. An excerpt from her foreword of Courageous Cultures: How to Build Teams of Micro-Innovators, Problem Solvers, […]. The post Psychological Safety or More Courage? What Your Team Needs Now. appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Vision Block: 5 Barriers to Crafting a Compelling Vision

Lead Change Blog

Unlike Mission, Vision is “seeing” language. But sometimes we cannot…or will not see. Something blurs or blocks our vision. More than ever in recent history we need leaders with a clear vision. Leaders to guide us forward. What stands in the way of having a clear, compelling vision? 1) INSECURITY “I am not a good vision caster – it is just not my area of expertise!”.

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The Forgotten Tool for Improved Remote Work Communications

Kevin Eikenberry

When I was a kid, many kids spent hours talking on the phone. Now, kids the same age spend hours on their phones too. But more likely, they are texting rather than talking. When I first joined the workforce, I spent lots of time on the phone. Now, I have more communication options than ever, […]. The post The Forgotten Tool for Improved Remote Work Communications appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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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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5 Must-Do Steps to Share Expectations With Your Team

leaderCommunicator

You’re off and running in the New Year. Deadlines are looming. You’re busy planning and setting responsibilities. With so much going on every day, are you forgetting to share your expectations with your employees? Are you simply assuming your staff understands what you expect of them? Increase Your Employees' Chances of Success. My Mom used to say to me, “I’m not a mind reader.

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How to Use Story to Fuel Vitality

Leadership Freak

Admiration is energy. Your story is the channel of vitality. My story: My people were farmers on both sides. Dad’s family grew potatoes. Mom’s family milked cows.

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You Really Don’t Need a Title to be a Leader

Mark Sanborn

Do you aspire to lead—to make a positive difference in the world? If so, don’t worry about whether or not you have a title. Although much is sometimes made of a person’s title, the reality is that little actual power exists in a title alone. . An article in The New York Times described a corporate communications officer at Amtrak whose title had been changed from “Vice President” to “Chief.

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A Truly Great Boss is hard to find, difficult to leave and impossible to forget.

Brigette Hyacinth

A former manager of mine once told me, “If I am going down, you are going down with me.” That was in relation to having a bad sales quarter. From that point on, there was no need to pay attention to her. It becomes difficult to continue to feel passion for the job once you see a lapse in integrity in your boss. It only got worse from there, so I knew it was time to start planning my exit strategy.

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5 Tips for Work from Home Parents

HR Digest

Five tips for work from home parents who want to maintain productivity by creating a distraction-free workspace. The coronavirus situation has forced a large part of the workforce to work from home. And if you are a parent with children also in lockdown, then the difficulties of putting in a full-day work are something you grapple with every day. Parenting while juggling calls, emails and an approaching deadline is not a laughing matter.

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Essential Elements Of A Business Website in 2021

Strategy Driven

Early adopters of the internet will remember just how odd our early engagements with the web were. While there was increasing access to the web from the middle of the 1990s, Google didn’t arrive until 1998, and wasn’t in particularly widespread usage for a while after that. Often, as an early adopter, you would type in a URL from a piece of paper you’d scrawled it upon, and this would take you to a website with a background that made overly heavy use of graphics.

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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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Why Leaders Can No Longer Ignore Their Employees’ Social Media Content.

CEO Insider

Business leaders everywhere can no longer afford to ignore what their employees are saying on social media. Here’s why. There’s just too much valuable information shared by your people that impacts your organization’s climate. Face it; your employees look to social media how my father turned to the newspaper back in the 1990s. Whether or […]. License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article Why Leaders Can No Longer Ignore Their Employees’ Social Media Content. are those

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No matter how educated, talented, or rich you are, how you TREAT OTHERS ultimately tells all.

Brigette Hyacinth

According to Gallup’s research, 85% of employees are not engaged or actively disengaged at work. One reason for this is, many employees feel like their boss does not respect or appreciate them. The truth is great leaders don’t talk down to their employees or make them feel inferior. They make everyone that they come in contact with, feel like they are the most important person in the room.

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The Potential Brexit Brain Drain

The Horizons Tracker

The Brexit referendum in 2016 was notable for many things, but few more so than the clear age divide in the voting. Whereas older voters were more uniformly in favor of leaving the European Union, their young compatriots were uniformly in favor of remaining. It is perhaps understandable, therefore, that new data from professional services firm Adecco reveals a similarly stark divide between young and old when it comes to their plans to remain in the UK to work.

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Feedback For Staff Is Essential, Now More Than Ever

Strategy Driven

Among all the challenges that work from home poses, the challenge of having a feedback call when employees and managers work from home should be noted. The big question is how to have a zoom feedback conversation with an employee who is at home, when the manager who delivers the feedback is also at home. Despite the difficulties and challenges, it is important to be careful about the feedback, for several reasons: First, performance testing has a significant impact on employee motivation.

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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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Employees are a company’s greatest Asset!

Brigette Hyacinth

Employees are a company’s greatest asset. Yet many companies treat their employees poorly. Sadly, our system has fallen into a self-reinforcing command loop construct as follows: Increase shareholder value at all costs without regard for the human factor. The greatest investment you can make is in people. Employees are the backbone of any organization.

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Autonomous Vehicles Could Decimate Parking Revenues

The Horizons Tracker

Of all the stakeholders involved in, or impacted by, the development of autonomous technology, parking vendors are unlikely to be at the top of anyone’s sympathy list. The high pricing for parking in major cities is something few motorists enjoy, so the finding from new research from the University of Oregon that they will be significantly hit by the development of autonomous technology may elicit a cheer from motorists everywhere.

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8 Tips for a Smooth Auditing Process

Strategy Driven

After you file your small or midsize business’s taxes for the year, you think you’re done with taxes. However, sometimes you’re contacted about the process that most business owners dread: an audit. While being audited is a long process that takes extra time, by following these eight tips, you ease your worries and help the process go more smoothly. 1.

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Addressing Resiliency & "Self-Care" with Your Workforce.

Anese Cavanaugh

I recently had a conversation with an executive team who wanted to work on ways to make their culture feel better right now. People are tired, they're trying to connect remotely and do their jobs while walking their dogs and managing their kids' Zoom rooms, workload is high, connection is low, and presence is extra tricky right now. This organization was particularly interested in exploring ways to build resiliency and create a healthy culture now in this new business environment.

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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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Communication Levels- Importance of Quality Communication Channels

Strategy Driven

Communication is an integral part of any business’s operations and growth. Employees understand their roles, coordinate with one another, and operations run more smoothly. There are different levels of communication ranging from an upward, lateral and downward movement of information. Upwards Flow. Communication starts from the subordinate levels to the supervisors, then the managers and finally reaches the executive.

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"Exposed: The Financial Matrix" by Orrin Woodward

Chris Brady

What follows is the Foreword I wrote for Orrin Woodward’s latest book. It’s a great read, and obviously one I would highly recommend. Congratulations on picking up this book. I guarantee you have. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Top Tips on How to Reduce Your Debt in 2021

Strategy Driven

While the coronavirus may have had a dramatic impact on household finances in the UK, it only really accelerated a trend for rising debt levels that was already prevalent nationwide. More specifically, people in the UK owed an estimated £1,688.5 billion by the end of October 2020, with this having increased by 21.8 billion year-on-year. This translates to a rise in debt of £412 per UK adult over the year, which is worrying when you consider the wide scale job losses that have already occurred as

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Seven Tough Questions Leaders Ask Their Teams

Eric Jacobson

High-functioning and effective teams can disagree and still produce excellent products and results. Team members can also disagree and still care about each other. And, they can challenge each other to think differently. Best-selling leadership book authors Scott J. Allen and Mitchell Kusy recommend that leaders ask seven tough questions of their teams to help maximize their results.

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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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Five Ways To Increase Productivity During Business Expansion

Strategy Driven

Every business aims to achieve and surpass its annual goals. The growth and expansion measure achievement of goals in entrepreneurship. It is a challenging task to steer your company through a new business opportunity. It would be best to focus on the new business and its seamless union with the existing activities. It requires a lot of patience and decision making, which is a crucial factor in business.

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A Constant Challenge: Whether to Initiate Change or Not

Ron Edmondson

Whether to initiate change or not is a constant leadership challenge all leaders face on a regular basis. . Personally, I love continual improvement. I am someone who actually enjoys change. If things stay the same too long I get bored and begin looking for a new challenge. I even stir things for fun sometimes – just to keep life interesting around me.

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5 New Year’s Resolutions to Make Your Business Culture a Winner

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Meeting company goals begins with employees and managers working well together. Mark McClain shares his advice for improving business culture in 2021. Today’s post is by Mark McClain, CEO of SailPoint and the ForbesBooks author of Joy and Success at Work: Building Organizations that Don’t Suck (the Life Out of People) (CLICK HERE to get your copy). New Year’s resolutions are not only for individuals but businesses too.

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When Every Employee Is a Risk Manager

Harvard Business Review

Lessons from Switzerland’s electricity network.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.

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THINKING OF CHANGING JOBS?… Jump!!

Brigette Hyacinth

The day I left the comfort of my old job is that day I decided to jump. I was stuck in a dead-end job with a micromanager who kept blocking my attempts to move up. That fateful day, I sat with my resignation letter second guessing myself if I really should do this. I had been planning my exit for months, but it seemed the circumstances were never perfect.

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How to Stay Motivated When You’re (Still) Stuck at Home

Harvard Business Review

You’re tired, mad, and lonely. So, what can you do about it?

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The Schizophrenic Attitude Of Americans Towards Immigration

The Horizons Tracker

Immigration is one of those topics that seldom elicit rational discourse. This is emphasized by new research from Rutgers, which highlights how it’s surprisingly common for Americans to simultaneously support strict immigration policies while also wanting the DREAM Act, which provides legal status to some immigrants who were brought to the United States as children.

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Why Did Companies Take So Long to Divest from White Supremacy?

Harvard Business Review

Even some that claimed a commitment to diversity tacitly (and financially) supported causes and rhetoric that led to the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

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DOL Final Overtime Rules: Quickstart Guide for Employers

On August 30, 2023, the DOL unveiled a proposed overtime rule that would raise the weekly salary threshold under the Federal Labor Standards Act. Paycor is closely monitoring the proposal and will provide updates as new information becomes available.