Wed.Apr 27, 2016

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Embracing Stress To Lead Others Effectively

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.”. Peter Marshall. Avoiding stress in professional life is like achieving work-life balance or eliminating risk: it’s not possible.

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The Best Damn Doer Syndrome: Why the Hardest Workers Seldom Get Promoted

Let's Grow Leaders

Are you working too hard? Does everything fall apart when you’re not around? Do you find yourself bailing out your boss, your peers, and your team? If you can answer YES to any of these questions, it’s likely you’re being held back by the “Best Damn Doer” syndrome. Be careful. I know. I’ve felt the guilt of being promoted over people working longer and harder than me.

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How to Lead Through Your Blog Content

Lead Change Blog

In many ways, there is no longer a need to make a compelling case for business blogging in 2016. After all, there are a myriad of statistics which support this practice, with businesses that commit to regular blogging known to generate 67% more leads than those that do not. Marketers who prioritize blogging are also thought to be 13 times more likely to achieve a positive Return on Investment (ROI), and this underlines the reach of the cost-effectiveness of publishing branded content.

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Over-led and Under-managed

Leadership Freak

Last night I coached a successful leader who turned an organization around. Now he wonders if he’s the one to solve the problems success has created. Successful leadership creates management challenges. Successful management creates leadership challenges.

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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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Make a Plan for Community Giving: Passion, Plans and Philanthropy

Women on Business

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What We Can Learn From The Hard Times

Joseph Lalonde

E veryone will experience hard times in their lives. These are the times when it seems like you can’t get ahead. Maybe your bills are piling up. Or it could be the initiatives you’ve launched have failed. Hard times try us. You Will Have Hard Times In Your Life. The last couple of years have felt like a mighty battle has been waged in my life.

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Thanks to Jobjet for featuring my TEDx talk among 21 other essential HR resources

ReImagine Work

21 Brilliant Training Resources to Turbo Charge Your HR Career – Justin Dennis, Jobjet. Thanks to Justin Dennis for including my TEDx talk (Putting the Human Back into Human Resources ) among resources like Daniel Pink’s books, in his article over at Jobjet. Over the past few years, online learning has skyrocketed. With it, hundreds of training websites and learning resources have sprung up for just about every topic imaginable, human resources included.

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What Does “Good Leadership” Mean?

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton We need to talk openly with leaders about what "good leadership" means. Without those conversations, they might think it means making the sales numbers and meeting aggressive work deadlines, being knowledgeable when people come to them for help, or staying within budget. Those things are all important, but "good leadership" requires much more.

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When Someone Opens the Door, Walk Through It

Change Starts Here

About 14 years ago, there was a pivotal moment that started my journey to being a change practitioner. And I could have easily missed it. At the time, I was the industrial engineering manager for a manufacturing company. No stranger to implementing change, especially process improvements, I was in the middle of a part-time MBA program in Leadership and Change Management.

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Be Decisive, Stick to your Decisions, Except when you Shouldn’t – a lesson from the Yom Kippur War (from Charles Duhigg)

First Friday Book Synopsis

Put differently, an instinct for decisiveness is great—until it’s not. When people rush toward decisions simply because it makes them feel like they are getting something done, missteps are more likely to occur. Charles HuHigg, Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business ——————– I’m just about finished reading Smarter Faster… Read More Be Decisive, Stick to your Decisions, Except when you Shouldn’t – a lesson from th

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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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Reluctant Prospect? How (and When) to Win the Consulting Project

David A Fields

You provoke native desire during the discovery process by tapping into the emotional drivers behind the project. If they exist. You can’t manufacture these; you can only brush the ashes off the ember of desire then fan it into flame. The key is to leave your prospect with an incomplete vision of the future. If you paint the entire future, their interest will fade when you leave.

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George Couros on the Innovator’s Mindset: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

George Couros is a leading educator in the area of innovative leadership, teaching, and learning. He has worked with all levels of school, from K-12 as a teacher and technology facilitator and as a school and district administrator. He is a sought after speaker on the topic of innovative student learning and engagement and has… Read More George Couros on the Innovator’s Mindset: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris.

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Webinar 5/17 - Be More Authentic! And Help Leaders Speak in Authentic Voices, Too

leaderCommunicator

This 75-minute webinar for communications professionals is designed to help you - and the leaders you support - find your authentic voice in business.

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Selling is not a ‘common’ practice.

Strategy Driven

Selling is not a ‘common’ practice. It is NOT easy. There are so many people who believe anyone can sell anything and really believe that if you can ‘schmooze’, drink the ‘booze,’ and work the room, you can sell. That is so far from the truth and anyone who has made a lot of money in sales will be able to give you consistent guidelines as to how they achieved their success.

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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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7 Default Zones Every Leader Should Implement

Ron Edmondson

There are a lot of gray issues in leadership. So many times I simply don’t know what to do. I try to lead by consensus building, but even with the strongest teams there will always be decisions about which we just aren’t certain what is the best decision. This is why I like to have some default zones in leadership. When I can’t make a decision – I know where to default.

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The Strange Relationship Between Power and Loneliness

Harvard Business Review

Both power and loneliness are studied extensively in the social sciences, yet few researchers have examined the relationship between the two. So my colleagues and I conducted eight studies to do exactly that, finding evidence that it’s not quite as lonely at the top as most of us assume. In our research, attaining power actually led people to feel less isolated from others, and lacking it led them to feel more isolated.

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Importance of Life Focus

Coaching Tip

Over the ages, many famous thinkers have grappled with the choices people make and how these choices affect their lives. Indeed, the message is that choices are daring declarations that we are masters of our own fate. Who am I? Why is this question so difficult for people to answer? One reason is that there is no single answer. We may see ourselves as shy when in full truth we are just introspective or careful or uninterested.

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The Innovative Coworking Spaces of 15th-Century Italy

Harvard Business Review

Coworking spaces are on the rise , from Google’s “Campus” in London to NextSpace in California. Much has been made of these shared workspaces as a brand-new idea, one that barely existed 10 years ago. But the way they function reminds me of a very old idea: the Renaissance “bottega” (workshop) of 15th-century Florence, in which master artists were committed to teaching new artists, talents were nurtured, new techniques were at work, and new artistic forms came to li

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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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Don’t Talk Yourself Out of Trying a Second Career

Harvard Business Review

As we move through life, we inevitably close doors that cannot be reopened. There is the romantic partner we turned down, the child we had or did not have. But some of these doors aren’t really locked; the challenge for us is to recognize which ones still have a key within reach. If we assume a closed door will never reopen, we are building our own prisons, limiting ourselves by default and fear.

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Do Women Make Bolder Leaders than Men?

Harvard Business Review

A common stereotype is that men have a tendency to be bolder than women. And numerous studies have shown that male business leaders do tend to take more risks. But looking through our database of 360-degree assessments from 75,000 leaders around the world, we noticed that on average the women were bolder than the men. We created a “boldness index” out of seven behaviors we commonly assess.

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How Labor Standards Can Be Good for Growth

Harvard Business Review

Last May, President Obama chose Nike headquarters in Oregon for a major speech on the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal — emphasizing its “strong, enforceable provisions” on labor standards — and was roundly criticized. On one hand, many noted that in the 1990s, following scandals in Indonesia and Vietnam, the shoe giant’s name had become, in the words of the company’s co-founder and former CEO Phil Knight, “synonymous with slave wages, forced overtim

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What Leadership Requires, According to Global Leaders

Harvard Business Review

Ten traits.

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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.