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Senior Leaders: Set Clear Expectations For Values

Leading in Context

Senior leaders set the tone for the organization's ethics, but the senior leadership responsibility for values leadership includes much more than that. Today, I'll look at the senior leader responsibility for sharing clear expectations, and explore more important roles that go well beyond setting the bar for expected behavior.

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How Will You Remember 2020?

Tanveer Naseer

With only a few weeks left to 2020, I’ve noticed a growing sentiment of wanting to put this year behind us and focus instead on what the new year will bring. Granted, this makes sense when we consider the severity and extent of challenges and hardships we’ve collectively experienced or. Click to continue reading.

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The Leader Who Helps People Become Their Best Self

Lead Change Blog

Everyone needs a positive influence in their lives. If you think about the various types of leaders you’ve encountered—parents, teachers, coaches, bosses—you can probably pinpoint one leader, perhaps more than one, who provided the support, the skills, or the inspiration that helped you become your best self. According to Michael and Glenn Parker, authors of The Positive Influence Leader , there are four types of positive influence leaders, and we can all leverage the strengths of each to become

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Leadership Trust: The Secret to Achieving Impossible Things

RapidStart Leadership

Achieving great things requires a leadership trust between leader and led; in one simple story, here's what that means. The post Leadership Trust: The Secret to Achieving Impossible Things appeared first on RapidStart Leadership.

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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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Small Actions Build Big Confidence

Joseph Lalonde

Four years ago I installed a ceiling fan in my bedroom. I’d never tried anything like that before. I was scared and anxious. When I was done installing the fan, I was beaming with pride. I’d installed a new fan and it worked! It’s always good when something like this works. And then it happened. One night while […].

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The 5 Most Important Leadership Quotes of All Time – with Personal Affirmations

Leadership Freak

Alan Alda: “Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.” Alan Alda I will enter conversations open to learning and willing to adapt.

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Are you Building or Hallucinating a High-Performance Service Culture?

The Practical Leader

How reasonable would it be to hold a shipping dock worker responsible for the quality of the products in the boxes he or she is shipping? So how reasonable is it for managers to hold the final deliverer responsible for the quality of the products or services he or she is delivering? The person on the front serving line is a symptom carrier of their organization’s processes, systems, and culture.

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Here is how to Improve Customer Service with AI Chatbot

Strategy Driven

You can’t run a business without connecting with your clients. That said, your customer service needs to be of top-quality. Your customer should be connecting with you through your efficient team and, of course, the AI Chatbot. It doesn’t matter how excellent your products and services are until you aren’t providing your clients with the services they are looking for.

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Encouraging Diverse Applicants To Apply

The Horizons Tracker

The value of diverse workforces are widely accepted, so it’s no surprise that organizations are striving to achieve greater diversity at all levels. Their success has been somewhat mooted, however, new research from Columbia Business School highlights how difficult it can be to even get diverse applicants to apply in the first place. The research provides a clear link between the gender of leaders in a business and the values of the organization, and the gender split of applicants to vaca

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Free Job Search Apps for Specific Careers

HR Digest

Nowadays, there are apps for everything – be it looking for love, ordering something to eat, or booking a hotel. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that job search apps are also among the slurry of apps to improve our lives. In the present digitized world, one doesn’t need to browse through newspaper listings and websites to search for jobs.

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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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Breaking the Taboo: How to Talk About Financial Wellness With Your Employees

CEO Insider

Business leaders influence the behaviors of everyone around them. When they invest in understanding their employees’ financial wellness, they can build deeper levels of trust and dedication. Here are a few tips for business leaders who want to discuss financial health with their team members. Humans are feelings-based creatures. As business leaders, we need a […].

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Checklist for HR Department: A Step by Step Guide

HR Digest

A step-by-step checklist for HR department can help minimize risk for your business. An HR Department is the foundation stone of any office and establishing one takes some work and preplanning. Most new offices make do with the boss acting as the recruiter, administrator and everything else, or they hire a man Friday who acts as the general administrator and janitor. .

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DIY Marketing: Does it Work?

Strategy Driven

As a small business owner, chances are you often find yourself in DIY situations. From managing your social media accounts to writing your own blog, there are many forms of DIY marketing. There’s no cap on what you can spend on marketing your product or service. However, to save money people often rely more on DIY than giving this over to the professionals.

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Are Older People Getting Younger?

The Horizons Tracker

That the world is getting older is one of the most visible trends in recent times. Concerns have been raised, however, that while we are generally living longer, we may not be having a greater number of healthy years. New research from the University of Jyväskylä, Finland suggests those fears may be somewhat unfounded. The study suggests that the functional ability of older people is better now than it was a few decades ago.

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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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Phrases to Ban When Developing Ideas

Ron Edmondson

The best ideas in an organizational setting often come by getting a group together and throw out random new ideas or ways of doing things. You can usually come up with better solutions if you put the right people in a room and let them throw lots of ideas on the table – or on a white board – even seemingly bad ideas (at least at first). But there are some phrases you must ban when developing ideas.

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Can Power Reduce Influence In Groups?

The Horizons Tracker

It’s tempting to think of leaders as the most dominant, often the most aggressive member, of a group, but new research from the University of Konstanz highlights how this is seldom the case, at least in the animal world. The study suggests that while dominant individuals can elicit certain behaviors and outcomes through force, passive leaders are better at deriving consensus within the group.

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6 Tips for Preparing Your Business Move

Strategy Driven

The move is not a stage reserved exclusively for individuals. Indeed, whether it is to integrate a more modern space or for economic reasons, a company may also have to change premises. In this case, the company has to hire a professional mover. You should know that moving a business turns out to be a very specific task and that not all movers are able to carry it out.

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First Jobs, Foundations & the Movies

The Office Blend Blog

Our early experiences with work are foundational. We tend to write these jobs off as our careers progress, likely because of our age or the role. Yet, whether these occurred at 16 or 22, with a second look — there is always more there than meets the eye. While these roles may not correlate with what we do down the line, they offer opportunities to learn about people, expectations & environments.

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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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Collaborating with Someone You Don’t Really Know

Harvard Business Review

Five questions to ask when you’re working with someone for the first time.

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6 Rules for Defense Start-Up Innovators

Strategy Driven

The defense industry is changing in the United States of America. For years now, huge corporations such as British Aerospace Engineering and Raytheon have completely dominated the market and swooped in to poach promising innovators. Inventors and programmers have found themselves swallowed up in vast bureaucracies, working on projects that they feel morally uncomfortable on and with less than savory people.

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Cisco’s Fran Katsoudas: How to Talk About Race at Work

Harvard Business Review

What we can learn from the Cisco Chief People Officer’s response to employees who posted racist comments at an all-hands meeting.

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The Answer to This One Question Reveals Your Success as a Leader

Leading with Trust

Judging the performance of a leader can be tricky. One person’s notion of a successful leader can be the polar opposite of another’s. It’s hard to agree upon a common definition of leadership, much less the definition of success. Do you define a leader’s success as hitting the revenue goal? Is it the satisfaction scores from your customers? How about employee engagement statistics?

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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.

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Getting Your Team to Buy into a Big Change

Harvard Business Review

Researchers studied backlash to change at five elite law firms — and how leadership eventually won the skeptics over.

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We’re Back! Our Reflections on 2020

Harvard Business Review

Youngme, Felix, and Mihir reflect on 2020 and discuss what to watch, read, and do over the holidays.

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Making Venture Capital Work for Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

How a new model for venture capital could align incentives for investors and entrepreneurs.

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U.S. Financial Reporting Is Stuck in the 20th Century

Harvard Business Review

Current accounting rules don’t always communicate real value to investors.

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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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Are You Worried That Your New Colleagues Resent You?

Harvard Business Review

How to address the problem quickly.

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How a New Collaboration Is Using “Intelligent Efficiency” to Improve Healthcare - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM GE HEALTHCARE

Harvard Business Review

Sponsor content from GE Healthcare.