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5 Powerful Ways to Ensure Leadership Training Sticks

Let's Grow Leaders

“Don’t bother me with this crap. I don’t believe in leadership training. It’s a complete waste of time. It’s nothing against you as the new Training Director. I get that I have to work with you in some way. If you MUST […]. The post 5 Powerful Ways to Ensure Leadership Training Sticks appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Diverging…to a Point

Lead Change Blog

Linking Leadership to Learning. Merriam-Webster defines diverging as “moving or extending in different directions from a common point.” For Alaina, the VP of HR for a healthcare organization, diverging is common practice. Her strengths in generating alternatives and seeing the big picture allow her to be at the forefront of innovation and engagement year after year.

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A New Theory of Management

Michael Lee Stallard

With employee disengagement remaining at very high levels in America and globally, and growth in significant new scientific findings that shed light on conditions necessary for human flourishing, it’s time to reconsider management theory and our approach to maximizing the performance of individuals and organizations. As such, my colleagues and I recently submitted our paper titled “Theory C: Connection Culture as a New Theory of Management” to an award-winning leadership journal.

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From The Maze Runner: The Death Cure

Joseph Lalonde

A Reel Leadership Article This past weekend, the last movie in the Maze Runner series released. First, we were given The Maze Runner in 2014. The sequel was The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials in 2015. Last, but not least, we were treated to The Maze Runner: The Death Cure. The Maze Runner: The Death Cure completes the story of Thomas (Dylan O’Brien) and his friends as they fought their way out of the WCKD maze and destroyed the organization that wiped their memories and killed their frie

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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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Turning your desires into purpose

Lead on Purpose

Success depends as much on the desire of an individual as anything else. Hard work, persistence and intelligence also factor in, and depending on the endeavor, these may play a big role.

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How to be a Badass Without Becoming a Jerk-hole

Leadership Freak

You can’t succeed as a leader if your need to be liked exceeds your drive to achieve. There are three options in the tension between results and relationships. Results without relationships. (Jerk-hole.) Results through relationships. Relationships without results. (Pushovers.) Counterpart: My wife and I are watching Counterpart on TV. The main character is Howard Silk.

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Drive For Results Vs. Need for Approval

Leadership Freak

Successful leaders have high drive for results (hi-DFR) and low need for approval (lo-NFA). The rule: The rule of drive: As drive for results (DFR) goes up – social courtesy goes down.

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Someone to Know: Hill-Rom Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) Ken Meyers

leaderCommunicator

This year, I’m starting a series that focuses on some of the smartest, kindest and most talented people I’m fortunate to work with and know. In every interaction with them, there’s much wisdom that they share, and they do it in a way that makes one appreciative and grateful. Here’s the first in our series of people I think you’d want to know! Q&A with Ken Meyers, CHRO of Hill-Rom.

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Steps For Optimizing Your Company’s Processes

Strategy Driven

Whether your business or company venture is new or just in need of being redesigned, then keeping on top of rules for optimization is crucial to effective business management and room for growth. In business, time is money, so, in order to maximize sales, longwinded and time consuming processes and procedures must be avoided. Processing documents digitally can save you a significant amount of time, providing the software you’re using is running as efficiently as it can and you’re utilizing your

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Eight Ways To Show You Value Your Employees

Eric Jacobson

There are eight specific actions business leaders can take to show that they value their employees , according to Andrew Leigh , author of the book , Ethical Leadership -- Creating and Sustaining an Ethical Business Culture. Those eight behaviors are: Attention -- Pay attention to what people say to show your interest. Listen -- Make time to hear what colleagues, peers and employees have to say to show you care.

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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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Reinventing Your Career—Purpose and Cause

Management Excellence

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What to look for when hiring college graduates

Strategy Driven

In business, hiring new recruits is crucial to success — they bring fresh thinking and can challenge the existing paradigms of your corporation. A steady stream of prospective employees is likely knocking on your door daily, and even more so around summer time when college and university students finish their final year. As a recruitment officer, it’s your responsibility to bring in the talent.

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Reinventing Your Career—Purpose and Cause

Management Excellence

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The benefits of getting out of the office

Strategy Driven

It might feel safe behind that desk, but there’s nothing quite like getting out into the world and just getting things done at your own pace. The office may have everything that you think you need, but you might be amazed by the mental adjustment that occurs when you step into the outside world. Between fresh air and natural light, as well as more control over your working day, there are a number of reasons that make it worthwhile to escape the cubicle.

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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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7 Things Which Happen When I’m Tired

Ron Edmondson

I remember returning from Africa late one Sunday night. I was physically exhausted, but emotionally energized, so I hit the floor running at full speed Monday morning. I had back-to-back meetings from early morning until late night my first day back to work. Tuesday was no different. Wednesday we had an extended family emergency, which occupied most of the day.

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Competencies – are they dead? Or are we ignoring the true 3 core competencies?

Rapid BI

Competencies – are they dead? Are competencies and how HR (and managers/ professional bodies) often relate to them irrelevant in today’s business world? Do we actively ignore true core competencies? I was at a training workshop recently, and the trainer was talking about competencies. He was talking about the fact that the core competencies had changed […].

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Do You See What I See – Bill Bellows

Deming Institute

Guest post by John Hunter. This webcast shows Bill Bellows’ presentation, Do You See What I See, at the 2012 Annual Deming Conference. Bill is now the Deputy Director of The W. Edwards Deming Institute. I previously posted on a snippet from this presentation: How Did We Do on the Test? As long as we do an investigation of the root cause, and there is only 1 root cause of course*, as long as we can eliminate that root cause then we will only have good parts and that is the model. … A Boeing

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“Thriving in the Middle”: A Book Inspired by CoachingOurselves

Coaching Ourselves

Over the years, we have met and collaborated with many wonderful people, but Mike Cook stands out as one of the most experienced and interesting partners we have ever worked with. CoachingOurselves co-founder Phil LeNir and Mike developed a close relationship and decided to write a book together on the importance of experience and human based management learning.

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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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Why Do So Many Managers Forget They’re Human Beings?

Harvard Business Review

H. Armstrong/Roberts Classic Stock/Getty Images. In our assessments, surveys, and interviews of over a thousand leaders, many comments stood out, but one in particular was especially powerful and thought-provoking. “Leadership today,” Javier Pladevall, CEO of Audi Volkswagen, Spain, told us, “is about unlearning management and relearning being human.” What Javier means is, the power of leadership lies in our abilities to form personal and meaningful bonds with the people

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How to Build Trust with Colleagues You Rarely See

Harvard Business Review

sarah wright/Getty Images. When you exchange pleasantries with a co-worker in the elevator, the two of you are building trust. When you stop by a colleague’s office and see their family photographs on a desk, you learn about that person’s life outside the office and, as a result, usually feel closer. Face-to-face meetings, office parties, and opportunities to socialize together after working hours can all contribute to the feeling that your fellow employees will be reliable in what t

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How Likely Is Your Industry to Be Disrupted? This 2×2 Matrix Will Tell You

Harvard Business Review

Jorg Greuel/Getty Images. The topic of industry disruption — “a process whereby a smaller company with fewer resources is able to successfully challenge established incumbent businesses” — is rife with misconceptions. One of the biggest is that it is a mysterious, random, and unpredictable event. Another is that it happens to you in ways that are beyond your control.

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How to Ask for a Promotion

Harvard Business Review

Maguma/Getty Images. Asking for a promotion can be nerve-wracking. But when you think you’re ready for the next step, it’s important to say so. How do you prepare for that conversation with your boss? What information should you have at the ready? And how exactly do you make your case? What the Experts Say. “Asking for a promotion makes you feel vulnerable,” says Sabina Nawaz , the global CEO coach , leadership keynote speaker, and writer. “You’re not in contr

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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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As AI Meets the Reputation Economy, We’re All Being Silently Judged

Harvard Business Review

TongRo Images Inc./Getty Images. In the Black Mirror episode Nosedive , the protagonist, Lacie, lives in a saccharine world of pleasantries in which every personal or business interaction is scored. Everything depends on the social score, and everyone is desperate to move up in the rankings. But the omnipresent rating game has one big catch: ranking up is incredibly hard, while ranking down is rapid and easy, like a free-fall.