Fri.Jul 09, 2021

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Leading from the Middle with Scott Mautz

Let's Grow Leaders

If you have a boss and are a boss, you’ll be very familiar with the messy middle. Leading from the middle requires a special mindset and specific leadership skills. In this episode, former P&G senior executive and author Scott Mautz, gives you practical skills and the mindset to thrive and transform your organization. Have something ready to write with – you’ll want to take notes!

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The Imagination Machine

Leading Blog

I MAGINATION is unique to humans and is key to creativity and innovation. In a time when elementary students today will be working in jobs that haven’t yet been created, imagination is the path forward. Imagination is the ability to picture that which doesn’t exist. In The Imagination Machine , authors Martin Reeves and Jack Fuller say that “For the sake of restoring the vitality of our companies, and for the societies these companies serve, we must better harness imagination.”.

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25 Ways to Think Big

Lead Change Blog

To those of us in the booth across the aisle, she was enchanting. A dark-haired girl, maybe five or six years old, full of spirit and inquiry. Throughout most of the meal, she peppered her parents with an unending blast of questions. “Why does that lady over there have pink hair?”. “Mommy, why is part of my egg yellow?”. “Daddy, when can I have my own phone?”.

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The Secret to Team Building in Atlanta

Great Results Team Building

Every team is unique and made up of individuals from different backgrounds and experiences. These are the strengths of the team. Individual members of the team can benefit from the other members to become a unified group. Is it easy to build a great team? Maybe, but it is essential that it be done right. That means that all the team members are working together for success, and that success means the same thing to all.

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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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Free Speech at Work – Should Discussions of Politics be Banned

Leadership Freak

70% of Americans would support companywide policies that limit the discussion of politics in the workplace or with colleagues.

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Weekly Round-Up: Overcome Vaccine Avoidance, Companies Transforming Work, Transgender CEO Thoughts on Inclusivity, 5 Behaviors of Unethical Leadership, Leadership Insights from 30 Leaders

leaderCommunicator

Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts. This Week's Round-Up of Leadership and Communication Blogs: Effective Communication Can Overcome Vaccine Avoidance By Bill Novelli ( @Bill_D_Novelli via @PRNews ), PRNews Bill Novelli, professor at Georgetown University and former CEO of AARP, details the challenges to increasing vaccination rates along with tips to increase effectiveness. “ At the start of coronavirus, poor resource allocation

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The skills needed to future proof your career

CEO Insider

The last 12 months have been a time of immense uncertainty. The pandemic affected many jobs, uprooted career plans, and left people questioning their professional futures. Most of us, globally, were left wondering how to protect ourselves better and future proof our careers. Job displacements are, of course, nothing new. Industrial revolutions of the past […].

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Is Your Business Struggling To Grow?

Strategy Driven

Life as an entrepreneur is tough, and when your business is struggling, it can make life very difficult for you. You don’t want your business to be pulling funds for your personal bank account for too long, and you should be looking for solutions to help your business pick up the pace again. There are often many solutions when it comes to fixing the problems that your business is having, and it may just need a little push in the right direction to get things as they should be.

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Mentorship Is Critical to the Post-Pandemic Workplace

CEO Insider

The “water cooler talk,” a seemingly casual, friendly conversation with co-workers and managers that was much lamented after the past year of workplace shutdowns. Beyond connecting with coworkers on a personal level, these one-on-one conversations are deeply valuable in solidifying professional relationships by building collegiality with peers and managers, and investing in oneself by developing […].

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Krishen Iyer’s Outline for Middle-Managers Navigating Return-to-Work Anxiety

Strategy Driven

After over one year of navigating an unthinkable public health crisis, the world is beginning to look more normal. As a result, executives and managers alike have started to brainstorm strategies for returning to the office. For some, returning to the office represents a long-awaited victory over COVID-19. However, others do not share that same optimism.

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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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That "Little" Voice: Do You Listen to It?

Anese Cavanaugh

You're in a conversation with a colleague, maybe on a first date, maybe you're meeting someone on the plane, or you keep noticing that every time you think about this person or that situation, you get a funny feeling in your gut. The context may be personal, it may be professional. The sense may be subtle, if you're lucky it may be really strong. And either way, you might not be able to identify exactly what it is.

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Planning a New Business? Avoid These 5 Devastating Legal Mistakes Startups Make

Strategy Driven

Most people dream of starting a business and ponder over countless entrepreneurial ideas. However, only a few act upon this desire with some becoming successful entrepreneurs. If you have overcome the common fears and you’re ready to start, you need to learn as much as you can about your industry. More importantly, you have to research the threats to your new venture.

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How to Write a Sick Day Email (with Examples)

HR Digest

To write a sick day email to your boss isn’t the most enjoyable feeling in the world. You woke up at 7 a.m. with an agonizing headache and you’ve been puking like an exorcist for the past hour. It’s time to call in sick to work as soon as possible and inform your co-workers that you will be off from work. But it can be hard to determine what to include (and what ghastly details to skip) especially when you don’t know how to write a sick day email to your boss.

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Boards Are Undergoing Their Own Digital Transformation

Harvard Business Review

A survey of almost 800 global directors sheds light on common shortcomings.

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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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Why You’re So Anxious About Going Back to the Office

Harvard Business Review

And how to make the transition as smooth as possible.

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