Mon.Sep 19, 2022

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How to Say No at Work: Powerful Phrases to Stand Your Ground

Let's Grow Leaders

To Gain More Confidence Saying No at Work, Start with Your “Yes” It’s never easy to say no at work. After all, you want to be helpful, responsive, and a team player. And yet, every time you say “yes” to something or someone, you’re saying “no” to something or someone else. When you tell your boss, “Yes, I will work late tonight,” you might have to tell your daughter, “No, I can’t come to your tee-ball game.” Or, when y

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From The Woman King

Joseph Lalonde

A Reel Leadership Article We’ve heard the fictional story of the women warriors of the Dora Milaje in the movie Black Panther. Imagine if they were real. They may have been. The Woman King is based on a true story. The film looks at the Agojie, a band of warrior women that protected Dahomey in the 1800s. They were fierce, deadly, and violent. They were also very effective.

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Should We Monitor Progress or Activity?

Kevin Eikenberry

Should we monitor (or measure) progress or activity? It is a good question – one that you may not have thought about or realized how important the answer might be. That’s why I’m writing this. To give us all some food for thought and perhaps a new perspective on this important question. Let’s start by […]. The post Should We Monitor Progress or Activity?

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Leaders Love the Most

Leadership Freak

Leaders love the most. Haters ruin the most. “All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.” E.B.

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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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Top 4 Questions About Leading & Communicating with Impact in Today’s Reality

leaderCommunicator

At a time when so many employees are feeling stretched, disconnected and overwhelmed by the challenges of our new working reality – and businesses wrestle with significant change and cost pressures – communication leaders are looked to for answers.

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Demographic Change Is Quicker Than We Think

The Horizons Tracker

While recent times have seen considerable concern raised around demographic changes, and especially the falling birth rates across much of the developed world that have coincided with generally aging societies, there remains a sense that these changes aren’t occurring particularly quickly. Research from Bocconi suggests such an assumption may be misguided and that human population trends are somewhat faster than we imagine.

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Female Only VC Funds Don’t Necessarily Help Female Entrepreneurs

The Horizons Tracker

A recent report from European Women in VC revealed that while 2021 was generally a great year for startup fundraising, precious little of that money found its way to female-led startups. Indeed, the data shows that just 2% of available venture capital went to all-female startups, which is a dip from the already rubbish 3% in 2020. Incidentally, it’s perhaps worth noting that mixed teams did little better, securing just 9% of available capital.

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Action-Learning based leadership development using entangled-trios

Mike Cardus

Cross-Functional Collaboration – Action-learning based leadership development. An organization-development process developed for a company. Instead of pulling new and experienced supervisors into a series of classes and lectures, we wanted to engage in action-learning. Internally we developed the acronym GEEKS ( gather, entangle, empathy, knowledge-share ) for the process.

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Avoiding the Pitfalls of Impromptu Speaking

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Speaking spontaneously can be a powerful way for leaders to communicate with their teams. But such spontaneity comes with many pitfalls that can derail the speaker’s message. Beware of rambling on, using inappropriate humor, and not staying attuned to your audience. Today’s post is by Judith Humphrey, author of Impromptu: Leading in the Moment ( CLICK HERE to get your copy).

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7 Wise Leadership Characteristics

Ron Edmondson

As I write this I’m preparing to meet with someone with much more experience in leadership than me. If I had one word to describe him it would be wise. Wisdom is critical to the field of good leadership. Being wise in leadership comes with time and experience. My hope is simply to soak up some of that wisdom during our time together. . All of us can have moments of wisdom.

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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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Is Job Enrichment the Answer to Lacking Employee Motivation?

Niagara Institute

“Forget praise. Forget punishment. Forget cash. You need to make their jobs more interesting.” This type of statement is one that you could easily scroll past on LinkedIn or see as the headline of a news article today. Yet, you may be surprised that this particular statement was actually on the front page of a Harvard Business Review article - from 1968.

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How Your Company Can Encourage Innovation from All Employees

Harvard Business Review

Kaizen, the Japanese management practice of continuous innovation, can be applied to knowledge work.

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Getting Along with a Political Operator

Harvard Business Review

How to work with someone who’s moving their career forward at the expense of yours.

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5 Skills Every Salesperson Needs to Succeed

Harvard Business Review

Takeaways from an analysis of more than 20,000 job listings.

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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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Does Your Family Business Encourage Dissent?

Harvard Business Review

Companies that have diversity of thought are higher performing — and more resilient.