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5 Ways To Manage Your Energy Levels

Lead Change Blog

No one doubts that we live in a world that is moving at lightning pace. In fact, the speed of change has never been faster. As a result, the most common theme I keep hearing my clients and colleagues say is “there are not enough hours in the day.” How can I get everything done? I need to learn to manage my time better. I need to become more productive.

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Wife, Mother, Entrepreneur? 6 Tips to Help You Get Started in Business

Women on Business

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From The Predator 4

Joseph Lalonde

A Reel Leadership Article. The Predator is the fourth film in the Predator movie series. This time around, a Predator ship crash lands on Earth. An Army Ranger team is attacked by the Predator (Brian A. Prince). And then we discover there’s more to this Predator than we had once believed. The Predator is a fast-moving, violent (it is […] The post Quotes And Leadership Lessons From The Predator 4 appeared first on Joseph Lalonde.

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Why It Takes More Than Skills to Be a Great Leader

Kevin Eikenberry

More is written about and more time and money are spent on leadership development and leadership effectiveness than ever. The reasons are many, and yet the results often fall far short of the hopes and expectations of those involved. While leadership and leadership development are complex, I believe there is a fundamental reason why there […].

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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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Unplug from Technology!

Career Advancement

“Turn off your email; turn off your phone; disconnect from the Internet; figure out a way to set limits so you can concentrate when you need to, and disengage when you need to. Technology is a good servant but a bad master.”. ~Gretchen Rubin~. Vincent found himself obsessively scanning email when he was trying to focus on other tasks. Incoming communications were dominating his focus.

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How to Disagree with Your Boss—And Still Have a Good Relationship

Lead from Within

How many times in your career have you totally and wholeheartedly disagreed with your boss? It’s a tricky situation. You don’t want to hurt the relationship, but you want to do right by the company, client or customer, and you’re compelled to say something. So what’s the right approach? Here are some proven strategies I share with my coaching clients on how to disagree respectfully—and, in particular, how to disagree respectfully with someone who’s above you on the org chart.

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Have You Insured Your Business Correctly?

Strategy Driven

Insurance: if you don’t have it, you’ll only wish you did if the time comes to call upon it. Indeed, it’s far safer, smarter (and sometimes more financially viable) to invest in insurance, just in case. This protection becomes even more important when you’re running a business — you’ve certainly got a lot on the line if you fail to insure your business properly.

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5 Ways to Choose Important Over Urgent

Leadership Freak

People tend to choose urgent tasks they can complete quickly and put off important tasks that take longer to complete.

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Happy John Jorgensen Day!

Surviving Leadership

Every once in awhile, the blogger community likes to get together and say nice things about a person who sits behind the scenes, unheralded for their contributions to what’s going on. Today, we celebrate the ultimate “behind the scenes” guy – John Jorgensen. Who the heck is John Jorgensen, you ask? John is an ardent SHRM volunteer, he teaches certification preparation, he is heavily involved in the ILSHRM state conference, and he will passionately discuss and defend anyth

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Two Tweets & A Blog

Deming Institute

Guest blog by Bob Browne , author of Sys-Tao – Western Logic and Eastern Flow and former Chairman and CEO of the Great Plains Coca-Cola Bottling Company. Tweet One. The question, “If Japan can, why can’t we?” conjures up the works of W. Edwards Deming. It also begs another question, “If the Japanese so easily understood what Deming was saying, why is it still so difficult for people in western societies to understand?”.

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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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7 Characteristics of a Wise Leader

Ron Edmondson

I write and speak a lot about leadership. I know lots of good leaders. In fact, I work with many good leaders. I hope some would even say I have days where I meet the standard – whatever the standard is. I also write and speak a good deal about wisdom. And, I think wisdom is critical to the field of good leadership. A wise leader has developed certain characteristics – wisdom learned from the personal experience of success and failure and from the insight of other leaders – whi

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Why Companies Are Creating Their Own Coworking Spaces

Harvard Business Review

UpperCut Images/Getty Images. Nestled in the Silicon Sentier district of Paris, the Villa Bonne Nouvelle (“House of Good News”), or VBN, initially appears to be another new coworking space. But what sets it apart is that only half of its 60 occupants are freelancers. The remainder work for Orange (née French Telecom), which launched VBN in 2014 to teach its programmers and engineers how to work with and learn from people outside of the company.

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Managing Parental Leave (Yours or Someone Else’s)

Harvard Business Review

From the Women at Work podcast: Listen and subscribe to our podcast via Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS. Download the Discussion Guide for this episode. Download this podcast. Having a baby is exciting — and exhausting. Figuring out how to take parental leave, or manage someone who’s doing it, can add an extra wrinkle. No matter how long you’ll be away from work, there’s preparation to be done: talking to your boss, making sure colleagues can cover your p

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What Managers Should Know About Postpartum Depression

Harvard Business Review

Francesco Carta fotografo/Getty Images. Going back to work after having a baby is tricky stuff. After all, the new parent is simply not the same person they were before. This personal struggle, combined with a misguided workplace view of what a parent was actually doing on leave (no, they were not just lounging about and cuddling with their baby) add to a cultural disconnect.

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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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Lifestyle Brands Are Building Hotels Now. Here’s Why That Actually Makes Sense.

Harvard Business Review

Barry Winiker/Getty Images. These days, it seems, every brand wants to be a “lifestyle brand.” Peddling burritos? “Our ultimate marketing mission is to make Chipotle not just a food brand but a purpose-driven lifestyle brand,” the company’s new head of marketing said. Selling sweets? Godiva wants “to be seen as a lifestyle brand by leveraging [our] culinary experience to expand beyond chocolates,” a statement read.

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