Wed.Sep 01, 2021

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Getting The Right Talent: Eight Benefits Of Building An Effective Project Team

Tanveer Naseer

Business success depends not only on strategy, planning, and capital investment. A carefully selected team of employees and well-functioning business processes play a leading role. Every leader’s dream is to create a mechanism that works like a Swiss watch and requires minimal intervention. A close-knit team is a reliable basis. Click to continue reading.

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Don’t Let Your Ego Undermine Your Leadership

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton Ego has a way of undoing even our best intentions as leaders. We have to be aware of our ego and manage it to avoid getting off track. In a world that requires rapid adaptation to changing events and circumstances, ego tries to maintain the status quo and works against our ability to pivot in response to change. Think of the adaptable leader as piloting a boat, able to turn at a moment's notice as the situation warrants it.

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First Look: Leadership Books for September 2021

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in September 2021. Don't miss out on other great new and future releases not listed here. The Art of Statistics : How to Learn from Data by David Spiegelhalter. In The Art of Statistics , world-renowned statistician David Spiegelhalter shows readers how to derive knowledge from raw data by focusing on the concepts and connections behind the math.

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Win Every Day: Proven Practices For Extraordinary Results

Lead Change Blog

All high-performance organizations have one thing in common: execution. The men and women who work there sustain performance at seemingly otherworldly levels of precision, accuracy, and consistency. But what happens when your employees aren’t reaching their highest potential? How can you engage them in new ways to create more extraordinary results?

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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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Yes, Hybrid Teams Can Collaborate

Kevin Eikenberry

In facilitating learning experiences (virtually) over the last 18 months with leaders who want to be more effective in leading remote or hybrid teams, one of the most common concerns I hear is, “We can’t collaborate without a whiteboard.” This is a limiting view (I’ll explain in a second), but if you want hybrid collaboration […]. The post Yes, Hybrid Teams Can Collaborate appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Blame: It’s E. B. White’s Fault

Leadership Freak

I slept late this morning. I slept late partly because my friend is vacationing in St. Martin. I slept late partly because our granddaughters started school and I didn’t. But mostly, E.B.

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The Gender Pay Gap & the Importance of Retirement Planning

Strategy Driven

While there has been progress made in terms of gender equality in recent times, it is clear that there is still much more that needs to be done. The gender pay gap is one of the biggest issues in the workplace right now, especially when you consider that it is not just career earnings that this will impact as it will also result in women having a smaller pension at retirement.

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Do Female Entrepreneurs Need To Exhibit Masculine Traits To Succeed?

The Horizons Tracker

That female entrepreneurship continues to lag behind male entrepreneurship is one of the great untapped opportunities in the economy today. You can read a previous article in which I discuss some of the main ways society currently holds back female entrepreneurs. For instance, society has a bias towards viewing men as more creative and innovative, despite the opposite being the case.

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The benefits of getting professional qualifications

Strategy Driven

If you are already working in a job that you are happy with and an industry that you love, you might think there’s no need to study for further qualifications. However, the reality is that there are a huge number of benefits to be gained from continuing your official studies while you’re working. Not least of these is that your company may well be willing to cover the cost of your tuition fees as long as you remain employed by them!

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Do Gender Norms Influence Political Engagement?

The Horizons Tracker

It’s fairly well established that gender roles are absorbed and established at a very young age, with significant implications for children as they age. New research from the University of Bologna illustrates how these roles influence the subsequent engagement with politics of children as they get older. The researchers studied adolescents and young adults aged between 15 and 30 from across Italy, and found that young males were far more likely to be engaged with politics, whether that be

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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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Introducing 5T Leadership

Ron Edmondson

Let me introduce you to something I’ve been working on for years, but formalized over the last few weeks. Introducing 5T Leadership. In my previous post , I shared that we were in another life transition. Here’s part of what’s next. 5TLeadership. Ron (and his strategic partners) coach and consult churches, organizations and leaders in 5 critical areas of leadership.

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Are Heavy Workloads Causing Problems? You May Be the Solution

Niagara Institute

Let’s say you have a highly ambitious and accountable employee with a proven track record of delivering projects on time. This employee typically has no problem managing their workload. In fact, they often have the capacity to help you with your own tasks or to take on stretch assignments.

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China’s top court rules 996 work culture illegal

HR Digest

China’s 996 culture of working from 9 am to 9 pm, six days a week , has been called illegal by China’s top court and Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security. The Supreme Court and the labor ministry issued guidelines for proper work hours and what should be deemed as overtime. The court has published a memo of 10 clear examples of what it thinks are violations in work places.

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Balance in the Nine Box Grid for Talent Management

Rapid BI

Talent is required at all levels. If all a business employed were high fliers then staff turnover would be unsustainable. This innovative nine box grid application. The post Balance in the Nine Box Grid for Talent Management appeared first on RapidBI.

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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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Group Coaching Vs. Individual Coaching

Roundtable Talk

Today’s organizational environments are more fluid and faster paced than ever before. And, adding to the complexity, there’s more pressure to stay lean and agile. So, how do you help your organization meet its strategic imperatives without burning people out? One-to-one leadership coaching can be powerful, but it’s only one part of the puzzle. Knowledge … Group Coaching Vs.

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How Freelance Developers Can Help Your Midsize Business

Harvard Business Review

It can be hard for smaller firms to compete for top talent. But they might not have to.

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4 Forces that Shape an Organization’s Success

Skip Prichard

Leaders know that culture is often the key to their organization’s success whether they’re trying to enhance employee satisfaction, boost productivity, or launch a new initiative. But all too often, they assume it will take care of itself. Corporate anthropologists Mario Moussa, Derek Newberry, and Greg Urban have a combined 75 years of experience in the field, and I had the opportunity to talk with them about their new book, THE CULTURE PUZZLE ; the four forces that shape culture; and how leade

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6 Strategies for Exhausted Working Parents

Harvard Business Review

Feeling disempowered and burned out? You’re not alone.

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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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The Great Resignation Doesn’t Have to Threaten Your DE&I Efforts

Harvard Business Review

Six strategies to avoid backsliding on your diversity goals.