Tue.Jul 31, 2018

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3 Powerful Benefits That Come From Empathy In Leadership

Tanveer Naseer

A few days ago, I was interviewed by a reporter about the topic of empathy in leadership. Sadly, it appears with each passing day that we’re moving further and further away from understanding the importance empathy plays in how we lead, as well as in how we connect with others who share different viewpoints, perspectives, […] The post 3 Powerful Benefits That Come From Empathy In Leadership appeared first on Tanveer Naseer.

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4 Essential Security Measures Before Moving to the Cloud

Women on Business

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How to Take Your Retention Strategy to the Next Level

Let's Grow Leaders

There’s no question, the downside of a good economy is that it’s harder to retain your best talent. The challenging underperformers stick around, while your rock stars are suddenly the hottest ticket on LinkedIn. If you’re like most executives we talk to, […]. The post How to Take Your Retention Strategy to the Next Level appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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When Work Has Meaning, The Culture Changes

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from S. Chris Edmonds: In order to value team members, or help them find meaning in their work - that is, contribution to the greater good, to their community or even society - you don’t need to start a formal organizational initiative. Helping employees find significance simply takes time, energy, and engagement. Intention and attention from leaders can have a beneficial impact on employees feelings of contribution, value, and worth, which can boost productivity and service.

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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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LeadershipNow 140: July 2018 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from July 2018 that you might have missed: 6 Big Career Mistakes That Can Sabotage Your Future by @LollyDaskal. Learning How to Learn by @edbatista. The Power of Observation: 6 Ways to Show Up Helpful by Karin Hurt @LetsGrowLeaders. Seeking Discomfort: 7 Ways to Embrace Uncomfortable Feedback by Ken Downer @RapidStartLdr. 5 Core Reasons You Continually Trust The Wrong People And How To Stop by @kathycaprino via @Forbes. 4 Questions Every Leader Should Ask To Be Suc

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What you can do about that person who really bugs you

Persuasive Powerhouse

Photo credit: 123RF. Everyone who works with other people experiences it: an employee, peer or coworker who drives them crazy. Every day you face them increases your frustration. Why don’t they change? Don’t they know they’re (fill in the blank here: annoying, a bully, lazy, unhelpful, etc.)? You’ve had enough. You’re going to confront them and let them have a piece of your mind.

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Have You Changed Your Filter? – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

While the title of this post might have you thinking about the HVAC in your home, let me assure you that’s not what this is about. In today’s video, I’m talking about the filters that you see the world through as a leader – what they are and then how to change them. Tweet it […]. The post Have You Changed Your Filter? – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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The Truth about, “Just Tell me What to Do.”

Leadership Freak

The traditional military model of leadership may be what people think of when they hear the the term leader. Generals tell the rank and file what to do. “When I say jump.

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6 Big Career Mistakes That Can Sabotage Your Future 

Lead from Within

We all make all kinds of mistakes —some because we’re inexperienced, some because we don’t know what we know, and some, unfortunately, because we have a tendency to keep repeating that one mistake until we finally learn our lesson. Thankfully, most mistakes don’t do lasting harm and can even benefit us in the long run. There are, however, some mistakes that are so damaging they amount to career sabotage.

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Your Clients’ Top 7 Obligations to Your Consulting Firm

David A Fields

Consulting can sometimes feel like an unequal, parent-child type relationship. They set rules. They control your payments. They tell you to turn your music down. But the relationship isn’t as unequal as it seems. In fact, it needn’t be unequal at all.

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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 Time and Attendance Software Can Help Business Owners and Their Employees

Strategy Driven

What is time and attendance software? At the lowest resolution time and attendance software is a system that requires employees to manually clock in and out of shifts. Businesses use it, so they can optimize the hours their employees work and pay them more accurately. Is it micromanaging? It is reasonable to assume requiring workers to manually clock in and out of shifts and breaks can send the message their manager doesn’t trust them enough to report the hours they work accurately.

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Getting the Fear Out of Challenging Conversations—Free Webinar

Management Excellence

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The power, and danger, of being liked

Surviving Leadership

There’s a scene in Rush in which the F1 drivers are arguing whether or not they should race the Japan Grand Prix. The weather is questionable…but it’s the last race of the season and the points for the championship are very close. Niki Lauda (played brilliantly by Daniel Bruhl) calls an all-driver meeting to discuss the cancellation of the race.

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7 Causes of Team Idleness

Ron Edmondson

Team idleness. Team idleness is a term I use to describe when a team is failing to move forward towards its desired goals and objectives. Team idleness does not always mean the wrong people are on the team, although it certainly could. It doesn’t always mean the team has the wrong goals and objectives or the goals and objectives are unrealistic, but of course it could.

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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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FIREFIGHTER LEADERSHIP

Izell Leadership

This past weekend I had an opportunity to witness the importance of training and proofing. The pictures attached to this story are Dan Phillips, Chief of the Plymouth Fire Department and the other picture is a 120+ year old house that was donated to the fire department for training purposes. A control burn for fire departments is a rare and unique experience.

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How Managers Can Prevent Their Teams from Burning Out

Harvard Business Review

Kenny Williamson/Getty Images. No organization wants to burn out its employees. And yet, according to new research, companies’ efforts to prevent prolonged stress among their staffs are falling short. When Deloitte recently surveyed 1,000 full-time employees in the United States, we found that that 77% had experienced burnout at their current jobs, and more than half said they’d felt it more than once.

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FIREFIGHTER LEADERSHIP

Izell Leadership

This past weekend I had an opportunity to witness the importance of training and proofing. The pictures attached to this story are Dan Phillips, Chief of the Plymouth Fire Department and the other picture is a 120+ year old house that was donated to the fire department for training purposes. A control burn for fire departments is a rare and unique experience.

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What to Do If an Employer Asks You to Do a “Job Audition”

Harvard Business Review

Ted Soqui/Getty Images. You’ve applied for a job. Your resume has passed the first screen; maybe you’ve been interviewed, once, twice, or even more. You might feel you are in the homestretch, with a job offer on the near horizon. Then, a new hurdle appears in your path to a new role. Enter the job audition — stage left. It’s become typical for employers, as part of the applicant vetting process, to ask candidates to work on or complete a project, or in some other way demo

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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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FIREFIGHTER LEADERSHIP

Izell Leadership

This past weekend I had an opportunity to witness the importance of training and proofing. The pictures attached to this story are Dan Phillips, Chief of the Plymouth Fire Department and the other picture is a 120+ year old house that was donated to the fire department for training purposes. A control burn for fire departments is a rare and unique experience.

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Learning from GE’s Stumbles

Harvard Business Review

Roger Martin, a professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Business, offers two main reasons General Electric has lost its competitiveness. GE’s stock has been removed from the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Martin blames pressures from activist investors as well as a short-sighted mergers and acquisitions strategy. He’s the author of “ GE’s Fall Has Been Accelerated by Two Problems.

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FIREFIGHTER LEADERSHIP

Izell Leadership

This past weekend I had an opportunity to witness the importance of training and proofing. The pictures attached to this story are Dan Phillips, Chief of the Plymouth Fire Department and the other picture is a 120+ year old house that was donated to the fire department for training purposes. A control burn for fire departments is a rare and unique experience.

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Landing Amazon HQ2 Isn’t the Right Way for a City to Create Jobs. Here’s What Works Instead

Harvard Business Review

Melissa Ross/Getty Images. Amazon’s highly visible search for a second headquarters has offered one tremendous public benefit: it has raised public awareness of what bad economic development is. Even Saturday Night Live satirized the lengths to which local officials will go to woo a major company, which include offering massive amounts of taxpayer subsidies, despite dubious economic returns.

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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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FIREFIGHTER LEADERSHIP

Izell Leadership

This past weekend I had an opportunity to witness the importance of training and proofing. The pictures attached to this story are Dan Phillips, Chief of the Plymouth Fire Department and the other picture is a 120+ year old house that was donated to the fire department for training purposes. A control burn for fire departments is a rare and unique experience.

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3 Ways AI Is Getting More Emotional

Harvard Business Review

Wunderfool/Getty Images. In January of 2018, Annette Zimmermann, vice president of research at Gartner, proclaimed : “By 2022, your personal device will know more about your emotional state than your own family.” Just two months later, a landmark study from the University of Ohio claimed that their algorithm was now better at detecting emotions than people are.