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5 Mistakes that Will Derail Your Credibility as a Project Manager

Let's Grow Leaders

Whether you’re a professional PMI certified project manager or juggling projects on top of your day job, you know your credibility matters — a lot. Even if you’ve got everything under control, one simple mistake can cause a cascade of doubt that […]. The post 5 Mistakes that Will Derail Your Credibility as a Project Manager appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Gardens Bloom. Do you?

Lead Change Blog

If a picture is worth 1000 words, a metaphor is worth 1000 pictures. There’s great wisdom to learn from the spring growth that breaks out of the cold grasp of winter. This year, at the 35th Annual Tulip Festival in Woodburn, OR, I was reminded of how the human spirit resembles the tulip bulb. Before me spread acres and acres of magnificent tulips, proudly displaying depths of colors and varieties that only photographs could capture.

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The 6 Conditions Required to Scale a Creative Leadership Culture

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by Robert J. Anderson and William A. Adams : We all look up to the great leaders among us—the men and women who seem to have a knack for creating inspiring visions of the future while building company cultures that bring out the very best in employees. And while individual leaders are key to an organization’s success, collective leadership effectiveness carries the day.

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4 Important Reasons Why People Refuse to Learn And Grow 

Lead from Within

As a leadership coach, I have learned that you cannot teach someone who doesn’t want to learn or grow. Without that desire, there is no use in advising or coaching, because it just won’t work. I have never been a big believer in making people do something they don’t want to do. What I have found is that many times people just want to keep doing the same thing over and over again without creating much change.

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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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The Subtleties of Obstruction

Leadership Freak

You don’t intend to sabotage your team, but good intentions aren’t the only factor in successful leadership. It’s self-defeating to punch yourself in the face and expect high-performance at the same time.

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Career Reinvention Journal—Get Out of Your Head and Start Moving

Management Excellence

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Kellogg Company’s Melissa Howell on The Value of Recruiting Veteran Talent

HR Digest

"Presence in the Present" As a branded company whose success depends on change management, Kellogg Company puts a premium on its internal culture. From the vantage point of a lifelong career in human resources, Melissa Howell talked with The HR Digest about the various Diversity & Inclusion programs which have put Kellogg on the global map as one of the top companies for veterans, LGBT employees, and executive women.

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How Entrepreneurial Negotiations Can Improve Your Success

Skip Prichard

Negotiations Can Improve Your Success. Entrepreneurs and startups face an uphill battle as they launch. That’s not surprising, because statistics show that 80-90% of them will fail. Against these daunting odds, entrepreneurs must not only be innovative, but determined to succeed not matter what happens. And, according to Samuel Dinnar and Lawrence Susskind’s book, Entrepreneurial Negotiation , the biggest threat they face is an inability to negotiate.

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Southwest Airlines’ Julie Weber on What It Means To Create a Purpose-Driven Culture

HR Digest

Living the Southwest Way! A desire to act with courage, persevere and innovate; the ability to put others first, and a fun-LUVing attitude – these are the values that Southwest Airlines, the World’s Most Loved Airline, looks for in its employees and fosters through its talent management. Talking to The HR Digest, Julie Weber explains how the company’s “Hiring for Attitude” motto has helped forge an outstanding performance culture.

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Strategy as a Problem Solving Process

Strategy Driven

“The old paradigm of strategy departments and planning cycles has been overthrown by agile and rapid team-based problem solving, providing better solutions and better organization alignment to implement.” These comments by Mehrdad Baghai, strategist and author, commend our book Bulletproof Problem Solving: The One Skill that Changes Everything. But what does it mean to adopt agile and rapid team-based problem solving, where strategy becomes a problem solving process?

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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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Career Reinvention Journal—Get Out of Your Head and Start Moving

Art Petty

The biggest challenge faced by many individuals who desperately believe they need to do something different with their careers is moving from recognition to action. Here are some ideas to help you start moving. The post Career Reinvention Journal—Get Out of Your Head and Start Moving appeared first on Management Excellence by Art Petty. Related Stories Career Reinvention Journal—When It’s Time To Do Something Else Career Reinvention Journal—There’s a Process, But It&#

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The Crippling Pressure Of A Business

Strategy Driven

Running a business is one of the most stressful things that a person can do. Unless you have an already set up business passed down to you, then starting from the bottom is risking it all. You will have most likely dropped out of the job you’re doing to set up your own business, thrown your life savings into it, and will probably feel like you’ve already thrown a lifetime worth of effort into it as well.

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Rockwell Automation’s Karen Keegans on the importance of AI and Automation in the workplace

HR Digest

"Creating Shared Value" Karen Keegans, SVP & CHRO of Rockwell Automation, is not short on ambition. Having joined the world's largest company dedicated to industrial automation and information, she is now out to raise the bar for leadership talent across the organization. In an interview with The HR Digest, Keegans explains the crucial importance of AI and Automation in the workplace.

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When Is The Right Time To Hire Your First Employee?

Strategy Driven

Although it’s entirely possible to run your business by yourself for as long as you want to – maybe even forever – that’s not what every business and every business owner needs. In fact, for some businesses, not taking on staff can be detrimental and reduce growth, or even cause the business to stagnate. Knowing when it’s the right time to hire your first employee, however, can be difficult to determine, especially if you are nervous about doing so.

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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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How do you accommodate people with learning disabilities on your team?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Our reader poll today asks: How do you accommodate people with learning disabilities on your team? I’ve never dealt with someone with a learning disability: 40% I do all I can to accommodate their needs: 43% I sometimes accommodate but business goals are more important: 8% I don’t accommodate. If they can’t keep up, they need […].

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Singapore’s Employment Pass – How Difficult It Is to Get One

Strategy Driven

Are you planning to work in Singapore? If so, you will need an employment pass that corresponds to your skills and qualifications or the job you are interested in. Although Singapore has tried to make it a straightforward process, some people still find it a hassle. So, it is good to know how difficult it is to get an employment pass. The truth is that the Ministry of Manpower in Singapore does not approve all of the applications.

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Freelancers: Stop Making These 5 Mistakes if You Want to Survive

Women on Business

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5 Business Benefits of Good Health and Safety at Work

Strategy Driven

Instilling good health and safety practices in your workplace is essential. In fact, it should always be at the top of a business’s priorities, even if the industry your business is part of isn’t considered to undertake high-risk activities. Failing to put in place appropriate health and safety measures can have serious repercussions that may negatively impact the overall success of your company.

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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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Michael Fraccaro, CHRO at Mastercard, on the value of business resource groups

HR Digest

"Unleashing Collective Genius" As globalization takes a sharp turn from government to business, the issue of global talent mobility rapidly moves up the agenda. In an interview with The HR Digest, Michael Fraccaro, Chief Human Resources Officer at Mastercard, explains the importance of business resource groups and the vital role it plays to deliver real business results.

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Leading Small Teams

Harvard Business Review

Do you have a hard time managing team dynamics? Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Facebook executive Julie Zhuo. They talk through what to do when your subordinate is bossing around others on the team, a star performer you’ve hired threatens your status, or you want to help an underperforming team member.

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INTERVIEW: Helena Gottschling, CHRO at RBC, On Creating Business Impact with People Analytics

HR Digest

Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders, Today The purpose of people analytics, according to Helena Gottschling, CHRO at Royal Bank of Canada, is to enlighten and balance talent conversations. In an interview with The HR Digest, Gottschling talks about people analytics and building a reliable pipeline of leadership talent. The HR Digest: People analytics has a strong place on the strategic agenda of the Royal Bank of Canada.

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Internet Trolls & Crazy Rich Asians: The Wild World of Vintage Watch Collectors

Harvard Business Review

Eric Wind, former senior watch specialist at Christie’s and a “watch-preneur,” reveals how you can navigate the often irrational world of collection to make money while having fun in the process. The views expressed on this podcast are those of its hosts, guests, and callers, and not those of Harvard Business Review.

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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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Try to Kill Your Ideas, It Will Make Them Better

Ron Edmondson

Sometimes I try to kill my own ideas. Especially with an idea that has major consequences for change and potential, I see what I can do about getting rid of it before we implement it. It’s important to know: I brought the idea to the table. I believe in it. I likely want it to happen. I heave usually already gotten people excited about it. I energized the team around a potential.

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HBR Presents: Cold Call

Harvard Business Review

Harvard Business School’s Brian Kenny is joined by professors to distill the school’s legendary case studies into podcast form, giving listeners important takeaways they can use in their own businesses and careers. In this episode, Harvard Business School professors Leslie John and Mitch Weiss discuss a case on the city of Toronto, and how it is experimenting with various smart city ideas born of the Google spin-off Sidewalk Labs. “Cold Call” is part of HBR Presents, a ne

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How to Stop Worrying About What Other People Think of You

Harvard Business Review

Pay less attention to them and more attention to your values.

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The Stigma That Keeps Consultants from Using Flex Time

Harvard Business Review

Findings from interviews with 50 management consultants.

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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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The Future of Drug Trials Is Better Data and Continuous Monitoring

Harvard Business Review

It will help patients and bring new treatments to market faster.

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Can AI Nudge Us to Make Better Choices?

Harvard Business Review

Machine learning, meet behavioral science.

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How PXT Select™ Can Help Organizations Hire the Right People - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM PXT SELECT

Harvard Business Review

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