Thu.Sep 03, 2020

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Beyond the Basics: Online Meetings that Don’t Suck Your Soul

Let's Grow Leaders

We don’t hate online meetings – we hate soul-sucking wastes of time After months of online meetings, video conferences, Zoom, and Teams meetings, you’ve mastered the basics: You’ve got light in front of you (not behind you) so we can see you […]. The post Beyond the Basics: Online Meetings that Don’t Suck Your Soul appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Leading Thoughts for September 3, 2020

Leading Blog

I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. How to relive stress. It’s not what you instinctively do: “According to the American Psychological Association, the most effective stress-relief strategies are exercising or playing sports, praying or attending a religious service, reading, listening to music, spending time with friends or family, getting a massage, going outside for a walk, meditating

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Unwrapping and Managing Difficult Employees

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Beth Miller: We’ve all been challenged with at least one difficult person at work. Why do they have to be so rude, dismissive, abrasive, etc.? Difficult employees aren’t the person who has a bad day and acts out in appropriately, they are the ones who have gained a reputation for being difficult. And, if they are spreading their bad behavior to others and having a negative impact on the team, then they are more than difficult, they are toxic.

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How to Keep Your Remote Team On The Right Track

Lead from Within

Something I’ve been hearing lately from my executive leadership coaching clients is that their teams aren’t functioning as well remotely as they were when they worked face to face. Among the top symptoms productivity and effectiveness have decreased. Frustrating as it is, none of this is surprising. Remote teams have a different dynamic then in-person teams.

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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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Don’t Pretend Things Smell Good when they Stink – Instead Shift Focus

Leadership Freak

Relentless problems feel like driving around with garbage in the backseat. You wonder if the journey’s worth it. Don’t pretend things smell good when they stink.

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Seven Practices to Ensure Creative Brainstorming in a Virtual World

Engaging Leader

Many of us are used to generating our best ideas by tapping the creativity of a group of colleagues…in the same room with a whiteboard, flipchart, or sticky notes. The interpersonal dynamics and these tactile tools help make something magical happen in the brainstorming process. How do we get the same result with a […].

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The question you may ask yourself is: what does it take?

CEO Insider

In this crisis, leaders are faced with an unprecedented set of simultaneous challenges. They have had and are having to deal with human, health management, operational, financial, strategic challenges, as well as sometimes public policy and public opinion challenges, for which there is no playbook and there has been no training. As a result, they […].

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COVID Media Coverage As Polarized As That Of Climate Change

The Horizons Tracker

It’s fairly well established that media coverage of topics such as climate change is highly polarized, often along political and ideological lines. New research from the University of Michigan explores whether coverage of COVID-19 is similarly polarized. The analysis finds that both network news and newspaper coverage of the pandemic were highly polarized in the early weeks, which the researchers believe played a big role in shaping attitudes towards the pandemic among the public.

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Here’s How to Build a Stronger, More Stable Organizational Culture

The Office Blend Blog

We would all like to build a strong, stable organizational culture. Yet, we often overlook the enormity of the challenge to do so. I’ve spent years, listening to and diagnosing organizational issues. If I have learned one lesson it is this: It is always a shock to face what has gone wrong. We often dance around the issues. We build compensatory mechanisms to manage the fallout.

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Who Are The Most Innovative Countries In Times Of COVID-19?

The Horizons Tracker

Each year INSEAD teams up with Cornell University and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to produce the Global Innovation Index, which aims to rank the nations of the world according to their innovation capabilities. One of the more noticeable aspects of the report is how little it changes from year to year, with Switzerland topping the rankings for many of the 13 years the rankings have been produced, and most of the top 10 also remaining pretty static.

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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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Decide. Commit. Execute: An Entrepreneur’s Journey Of The Heart With Mauricio Mejia

Steve Farber

Born in San Francisco, raised in Los Angeles, and educated in the Silicon Valley, Mauricio Mejia has the best of three worlds all in one. A trailblazer in his own career, Mauricio created his. Read more. The post Decide. Commit. Execute: An Entrepreneur's Journey Of The Heart With Mauricio Mejia first appeared on Steve Farber.

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The 12 Golden Rules For Effective Communication

Eric Jacobson

Here are the 12 golden rules of effective communication from Paul Falcone , as highlighted in his book, 2600 Phrases for Setting Effective Performance Goals. Always remember to: Recognize achievements and accomplishments often. Celebrate success. Deliver bad news quickly, constructively, and in a spirit of professional development. Praise in public, censure in private.

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How do you allocate your time spent with your direct reports?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Our reader poll today asks: How do you allocate your time spent with your direct reports? I spend most of my time with my high performers. 17% I spend an equal amount of time with everyone. 62% I spend most of my time with my low performers. 22% Spend time where it’s needed. While it may seem “fair” to give everyone on your team the same amount of your time, you’re doing them (and yourself) a disservice.

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Amazon ups its tally of UK workers to 40,000 with announcement of new Sorting facilities

HR Digest

Amazon has announced the addition of 10,000 new permanent roles across its UK facilities, taking the company’s total permanent UK workforce count to more than 40,000. Earlier, Amazon had added 3,000 new permanent jobs in its UK fulfillment centers, sort centers, and delivery stations – including at a new hi-tech fulfillment center in the North East of England, which opened in May.

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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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Free Webinar and Early Bird Pricing for First Time Managers Academy

Management Excellence

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Amazon ups its tally of UK workers to 40,000 with announcement of new Sorting facilities

HR Digest

Amazon has announced the addition of 10,000 new permanent roles across its UK facilities, taking the company’s total permanent UK workforce count to more than 40,000. Earlier, Amazon had added 3,000 new permanent jobs in its UK fulfillment centers, sort centers, and delivery stations – including at a new hi-tech fulfillment center in the North East of England, which opened in May.

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Free Webinar and Early Bird Pricing for First Time Managers Academy

Art Petty

We've got two great professional development opportunities launching over the next few days. Our free webinar, Think Differently in a World Where All the Rules Have Changed runs on 9/9 at 11 AM Central. And, our live-online First-Time Managers Academy kicks off on 9/10. Early registration pricing for the Academy ends at 11:59 PM on 9/3. The post Free Webinar and Early Bird Pricing for First Time Managers Academy appeared first on Management Excellence by Art Petty.

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What Flexibility Looks Like for HR

Roundtable Talk

Recently, we held an HR Exchange call with several of the HR leaders we work with to discuss the issues at hand. It was the final exchange of the summer and we spent a fair bit of time digging into the back to school dilemma and what it might mean for employers. While typically “back-to-school” is a celebration for parents — ah, sweet freedom! — this year many parents are filled with a sense looming […].

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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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Marketing in the Age of Resistance

Harvard Business Review

Are you ready to have an honest conversation with your customers?

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How to Measure a Company’s Real Impact

Harvard Business Review

A comprehensive new approach to quantifying an organization’s footprint on the world.

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Public Sector Careers

Harvard Business Review

Dear HBR: answers your questions with the help of Kellogg School professor Bernie Banks.

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What Does Building a Fair AI Really Entail?

Harvard Business Review

Human systems are just as important as tech.

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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.