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How to Dramatically Improve Your Team Communication

Let's Grow Leaders

The best way to improve your team communication is to talk about it. Most team frustration stems from expectation violations, not just about what we’re communicating, but how. It’s always inspiring to see a team carve out some time, shut the door, […]. The post How to Dramatically Improve Your Team Communication appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Why Being an Ethical Leader Can Help Your Organization

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Andrew Leigh: First let’s get a little clearer about what being an ethical leader means. It’s someone who promotes and upholds workplace integrity and values. You may not be able to “see” someone is an ethical leader. But what they do in the workplace tells you everything you need to know. For example they: Talk about the importance of integrity and doing the right thing Set a good example Don’t blame others when things go wrong Support employees efforts to do the right thing Hol

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Connecting Your Company Culture with Your Brand with Denise Lee Yohn

Kevin Eikenberry

Organizational culture is almost becoming cliché. Yet, culture is vital to both employee and customer experiences. Brand expert Denise Lee Yohn and author of Fusion: How Integrating Brand and Culture Powers the World’s Greatest Companies shares insight to building a culture unique to you and aligning that culture with your brand. You need to connect […].

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When to Disobey Leadership

Leadership Freak

Book giveaway!! 20 complimentary copies available.

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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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Connecting Your Company Culture with Your Brand with Denise Lee Yohn

Kevin Eikenberry

Organizational culture is almost becoming cliché. Yet, culture is vital to both employee and customer experiences. Brand expert Denise Lee Yohn and author of Fusion: How Integrating Brand and Culture Powers the World’s Greatest Companies shares insight to building a culture unique to you and aligning that culture with your brand. You need to connect […].

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How to Effectively Run a Planning Meeting: Decision-Making Meeting Tips

CO2

The quality of an organization’s meetings is often tied to the quality of the organization’s overall work. Like effective organizations, effective meetings have clearly defined roles and objectives. There are four different types of meetings : decision-making, informational, creative, and motivational. While every meeting type is important, decision-making meetings are perhaps the most common.

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How to Effectively Run a Planning Meeting: Decision-Making Meeting Tips

CO2

The quality of an organization’s meetings is often tied to the quality of the organization’s overall work. Like effective organizations, effective meetings have clearly defined roles and objectives. There are four different types of meetings : decision-making, informational, creative, and motivational. While every meeting type is important, decision-making meetings are perhaps the most common.

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Research: Learning a Little About Something Makes Us Overconfident

Harvard Business Review

HBR Staff/Tom Kelley Archive/Getty Images. As former baseball pitcher Vernon Law once put it, experience is a hard teacher because it gives the test first, and only then provides the lesson. Perhaps this observation can explain the results of a survey sponsored by the Association of American Colleges & Universities. Among college students, 64% said they were well prepared to work in a team, 66% thought they had adequate critical thinking skills, and 65% said they were proficient in written c

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10 Things I’ve Learned About Gossip – And Why I Hate It So Much

Ron Edmondson

I hate gossip. I realize hate is a strong word, but it’s the one I prefer here. I’ve seen so many negative results caused by gossip. Gossip happens in families, in the workplace – wherever two or more are gathered – gossip will be among them. And, gossip is always destructive to building healthy relationships. I hate gossip in any setting, but especially in the church.

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Inside UPS’s Electric Vehicle Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Bloomberg/Getty Images. Passenger electric cars get all the press, especially when someone launches one into space. But something important is going on in the world of commercial vehicles as well. Last year Tesla announced it would produce an electric long-haul big rig. PepsiCo , Walmart , and UPS promptly committed to buying a few hundred. More recently, UPS made an important announcement about its plans to roll out 50 new midsize electric delivery trucks in Atlanta, Dallas, and Los Angeles.

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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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Bitcoin Basics Infographic – What Is Cryptocurrency and Why Should You Care?

Women on Business

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Hospital Budget Systems Are Holding Back Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Gillian Blease/Getty Images. Nearly 800 digital health startups were funded in 2017, an all-time high. Each of the new companies offers the hope of transforming the performance of the U.S. health care system. The audience for such innovation wants to be receptive: A recent American Hospital Association (AHA) survey found that 75% of senior hospital executives endorsed the importance of digital innovation.

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Research: When Retail Workers Have Stable Schedules, Sales and Productivity Go Up

Harvard Business Review

Trina Dalziel/Getty Images. The relentless rise of online retailers has led to deep soul searching among brick-and-mortar retailers to find ways to compete. The traditional methods of competing through convenience, assortment, and pricing are largely ineffective against online retailers who outperform brick-and-mortar retailers in these dimensions. The last arrow in the quiver is to use service as a way to distinguish themselves from online retailers.

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