Fri.Jul 10, 2020

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Taking A Stand Hurts

Joseph Lalonde

Are you willing to take a stand for what you believe? Most leaders aren’t willing to truly stand for what they believe. Instead, they’re willing to sprinkle pleasant words that skirt around important issues. This happens in the church world and the business world equally. People are afraid to take a stand for what they believe. They […] The post Taking A Stand Hurts appeared first on Joseph Lalonde.

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A good story to tell

Lead Change Blog

“I just can’t,” said Allie. “There’s no way I have the skills to do it. Why frustrate myself trying?” Her determined expression seconded her defeatist words. If you replaced Allie’s name with yours, could you hear yourself saying the same thing? If you can, please read on! Can’t is a wickedly powerful word. It’s a limiting and telling word. Using can’t —and believing it—speaks volumes about our confidence, resilience, and the stories we tell ourselves.

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The Lowdown on the Available Types of T-Shirt Printing

Women on Business

Brought to you by Thrive Screen Printing: T-shirt printing is definitely an art. Although shirt or garment printing does require a certain level of skill, that doesn’t mean there’s only one way to get the job done. In fact, there are several ways to print amazing logos, designs, and graphics on T-shirts. Of course, you […].

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Nurture Your Leadership Intuition

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by Martha Alderson: Leaders often rely on surveys, empirical data, conscious reasoning, concrete evidence, facts, logic, and scientific research before making decisions or changing the current course of action. We turn to experts for insight as we attempt to understand and solve a complex problem. We lean into tried-and-true strategies hoping to replicate past successes.

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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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Hinges of Destiny: Decision-Making for Leaders

Leadership Freak

“Choices are the hinges of destiny.” Poet, Edwin Markham 4 advantages of being decisive: #1. Speed. Decisive leaders choose and move. They waste less time exploring options.

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Weekly Round-Up: 6 Ways Humility Makes Better Leaders, Wisdom From PRSA Chief, Inspiring Empathetic Leadership and More Leadership Tips & Insights

leaderCommunicator

Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best leadership and communication blog posts I've seen recently. As we move forward through the COVID-19 pandemic and social crises, we wanted to share a few of the most thoughtful and compelling resources to help you respond courageously and compassionately as leaders, and take positive action as an organization.

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Learn How to Be More Creative in Any Field and in Life

Strategy Driven

Just as IQ is an indication of your share of intelligence and EQ connotes your share of empathy, it is also possible to have a share of creativity, or CQ. A creativity quotient is not fixed. It is dynamic and increases as you practice building it and exercising it. What’s more, CQ isn’t reserved for artists. Anyone in any field—farming, law, plumbing, architecture, perfumery, real estate, medicine, education, and technology, to name a few—can learn to be more creative and apply creativity to be

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What are the signs of retaliation in the workplace?

HR Digest

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) saw 76,000+ discrimination charges filed in the year 2018, with a majority of them stating that more than one-half of the cases were retaliation cases against the employer. What exactly is workplace retaliation? Any retaliatory action that is taken by an employer against the employees after they have filed a harassment or discrimination complaint is called a workplace retaliation.

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Where to make your first steps into property investment

Strategy Driven

Whether it’s something you’re considering as a new career path or a way of making your savings grow further, property investment can be advantageous. With so many options, it can often be hard to decide where exactly to invest your money in first. Here’s a look at the different types of properties you could invest in, and the advantages and disadvantages of each.

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How To Overcome Organizational Drag Within Your Company

Eric Jacobson

The average company loses more than 25 percent of its productive power to organization drag , reports the authors of the book, Time, Talent, Energy: Overcome Organizational Drag and Unleash Your Team's Productive Power. Organizational drag is all the practices, procedures, and structures that waste time and limit output. Michael Mankins Authors Michael Mankins and Eric Garton demonstrate in the book through in-depth examples how the best companies manage their people's time, talent, and energy w

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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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What are the signs of retaliation in the workplace?

HR Digest

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) saw 76,000+ discrimination charges filed in the year 2018, with a majority of them stating that more than one-half of the cases were retaliation cases against the employer. What exactly is workplace retaliation? Any retaliatory action that is taken by an employer against the employees after they have filed a harassment or discrimination complaint is called a workplace retaliation.

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7 Misunderstandings of the Leadership Vacuum

Ron Edmondson

Many times a leader can be clueless about the real health of the organization they lead. The best leaders avoid what I call the leadership vacuum. I once watched as a church crumbled apart while the pastor thought everything was wonderful. He always had an excuse for declining numbers and never welcomed input from others. Eventually the church asked him to leave.

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#leadershiptruth Video: Vulnerability is the New Black

Roundtable Talk

When leaders show vulnerability, it can create a safe place to harness both courage and strength — where teams can innovate and take risks together. In this video, I explore how leaders can open up, without letting it all hang out! Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel to see all our #leadershiptruth videos.

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What Should We Do with 45,000 Half-Empty Public Buildings?

Harvard Business Review

Local officials have a huge opportunity to repurpose underutilized real estate for the public good.

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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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The Upside of Virtual Board Meetings

Harvard Business Review

Think shorter agendas, crisper presentations, and more exposure to outside experts.

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What Would It Take to Reskill Entire Industries?

Harvard Business Review

Three policies to make it a reality.

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Are You Prepared for Bad Press About One of Your Suppliers?

Harvard Business Review

Research shows that customers will hold you accountable.