Tue.Jun 09, 2020

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Have You Been Seduced By The COVID Trap?

Lead Change Blog

As more and more team members have started working from home as a result of the lockdown, great leaders have been taking the time to check in with them and ensure that they are staying engaged and motivated. As a result, many businesses have seen their employee engagement scores increase at this time. According to Engagement Multiplier, engagement levels have risen 5% since the start of the COVID quarantine.

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Learning Leadership: Why a Little “Disease” Might Do Us Some Good

RapidStart Leadership

Learning leadership is no simple matter; in fact it requires a certain kind of disease; here's what I mean and why you may want to catch it. The post Learning Leadership: Why a Little “Disease” Might Do Us Some Good appeared first on RapidStart Leadership.

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How Do You Give Feedback Without Someone Losing Face?

Lead Change Blog

Have you ever given feedback to someone and gotten a surprisingly negative reaction? Have you received negative feedback that made you feel humiliated, even worthless? Given correctly, feedback can inspire a team to reach its highest potential. Deliver it improperly, and things can unravel quickly. In my book, Saving Face: How to Preserve Dignity and Build Trust , I detail how “face”—our sense of personal dignity—can be lost, recovered, and honored.

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209: Giving Feedback Without Hurting Psychological Safety | with Maya Hu-Chan

Engaging Leader

Psychological safety is a team member’s sense of confidence that the leader and the rest of the team will not embarrass, reject, or punish them for speaking up. They feel safe to take risks, fully contribute, share ideas, and raise concerns – all of which are necessary for an organization to innovate, solve problems, survive, […]. Psychological safety is a team member’s sense of confidence that the leader and the rest of the team will not embarrass, reject, or punish them for speaking up.

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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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Protecting Employees from Covid-19 through Connection

Michael Lee Stallard

How can we protect people in the workplace so they don’t contract Covid-19? The Centers for Disease Control just released guidelines for offices that include temperature and symptom checks; encouraging employees who have Covid-19 symptoms or sick family members to stay home; prohibiting hand-shaking, hugs, and fist bumps; wearing face coverings; physical distancing of work stations (or separation by plastic shields); and eliminating seating in common areas.

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Important Questions To Ask Your Team In A Time Of Crisis

Lead from Within

As an executive coach of leaders around the world, I spend much of my time asking important questions of my clients. It’s one of the skills I always try to pass on to them. My goal is to help them become not just a great leader but a great coach—one who knows how to ask the right question at the right time. Questions are the key not only to building a strong bond but also to keeping people on track, motivated, and growing.

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The 10 Most Powerful Consulting Skills for This Moment in History

David A Fields

Extraordinary times present you and your consulting firm with the opportunity to make extraordinary contributions. You can employ the toolkit you’ve assembled for consulting to support broader, deeper impact. As noted here, you’re already doing good by promoting your consulting firm, building relationships, helping clients and sending chocolate-covered espresso beans to worthy colleagues.

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A Futurist’s Advice on Navigating through the Technology “Valley of Death”

CEO Insider

Even as a young person, I have always held a long-term vision of humanity being a true spacefaring people. When I co-founded Tethers Unlimited in 1994 with the late sci-fi author and space physicist Dr. Robert L. Forward, I’m certain many thought our ideas were very far-fetched. But we were dedicated to figuring out how […]. License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article A Futurist’s Advice on Navigating through the Technology “Valley of Death” are those of the author

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Are You Calling Me Old and Fat

Leadership Freak

NEW BOOK GIVEAWAY!! 20 copies available!!

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How The Stress Levels Of Medical Staff Affects The Care They Give Patients

The Horizons Tracker

Medical personnel are stressed out at the best of times, but given the intense pressure placed on them this year by the coronavirus outbreak, this has only worsened. New research from the University of Massachusetts Amherst highlights how this stress affects the quality of care staff are able to give their patients. The staff, from eight hospitals across the north-east of the United States, reported a wide range of emotions that were triggered by their experience with patients, the resources th

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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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Positive Culture and Ego needs

Leadership and Change

Do you aim for an open, inclusive, diverse, and positive culture in a flat organization, where all employees take ownership and feel responsible, proud, and motivated? A workplace that benefits from different perspectives and positive criticism? That’s agile and ready for innovation and change? A culture that embraces learning, and can handle uncertainty?

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4 Benefits an Organizational Psychologist Brings to the Workforce

Strategy Driven

Psychology is traditionally associated with aiding those who suffer from mental illness to better their capability to function. In recent times an alternative approach called positive psychology has emerged. The aim of positive psychology is to thrive beyond just functioning. These principles can be applied to all aspects of life, especially in the workplace.

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The Three Pillars Of Executive Presence

Eric Jacobson

After two years of research, forty focus groups and a national survey, author Sylvia Ann Hewlett contends the three pillars of Executive Presence are: How you act ( gravitas ) How you speak (communication ) How you look ( appearance ) All three work together to help you telegraph (signal) to others that you have what it takes and that you're star material.

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4 Things You Should Know Before You Buy a Website

Strategy Driven

Before you decide to start an e-commerce business from scratch, you should know that you always have the option of buying a website that is already profitable and build it from there. This can be a great way to generate instant income if you have the capital to invest and it allows you to start much faster without the hassle of building a website and a brand.

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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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Has Covid Restored Our Faith In Scientists?

The Horizons Tracker

During the Brexit referendum, the electorate were told by leave campaigners that experts were not needed. The bemuzing argument was that they were sometimes wrong, and so could not be trusted. Suffice to say, the argument was made in large part because their chosen policy was not supported by practically any expert, but it nonetheless resulted in a reduction in public faith in experts.

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Managing a Dropshipping Business Requires a Few Tricks of Its Own

Strategy Driven

Most people reading this probably has a decent idea regarding how profitable and hassle-free dropshipping can be as a business model, which is undeniably true. However, as it is with any type of business model, there are a few tricks to it that a shrewd businessperson needs to be well aware of if they hope to make it all work in perfect synchronization.

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Freelancers Continue To Fall Through The Gaps In The Covid Safety Net

The Horizons Tracker

As countries began to offer financial support to those affected by the lockdown measures designed to slow the spread of covid-19, the freelance community were notable for their absence in initial measures. The initial fears were sparked in large part to ongoing concerns that the social safety nets in many countries are ill suited to the various forms of work that have emerged in the last decade.

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Addressing Racism Directly: JOIN Global #PeopleSkillsChat Sun. June 14th | #EndRacism

Kate Nasser

Addressing racism is critical. Please join Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™ in global Twitter #PeopleSkillsChat SUN. June 14th 10am ET. | Leadership. The post Addressing Racism Directly: JOIN Global #PeopleSkillsChat Sun. June 14th | #EndRacism appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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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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#leadershiptruth – You can’t drink half a cup of poison

Roundtable Talk

Sometimes it doesn’t pay to be collaborative. I don’t know about you, but every time I’ve waffled on a decision that I feel strongly about in my gut because people have told me to think with my head or softened my approach to appease the desires of peripheral stakeholders, I’ve suffered the consequences. Sometimes you […]. The post #leadershiptruth – You can’t drink half a cup of poison appeared first on The Roundtable.

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Corporate America’s Work in Fighting Racism is Just Beginning

Harvard Business Review

Georgetown University’s Ella Washington explains how to build more a more just workplace — and society — over the long term.

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Living the Golden Rule

Frank Sonnenberg Online

Everyone knows the Golden Rule. In fact, numerous religions espouse it, the most familiar version being, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” The question is, if most people know, and agree, with the principle, why don’t more folks live by that standard? Do you abide by the Golden Rule? When you do nothing, nothing happens. If you truly want to live by this principle, the first place to start is to understand its true meaning and how to apply it effectively.

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Feeling Uncomfortable with Reentry? You’re on the Right Track.

Harvard Business Review

Uncharted territory ought to be outside your comfort zone.

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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.

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A Primer on Restructuring Your Company’s Finances

Harvard Business Review

Understand your options, both in and out of court.

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In a Pandemic, What’s the Best Strategy for the Global Vaccine Alliance?

Harvard Business Review

How experimentation, judicious risk taking, and entrepreneurship in finance and capital markets could lead to a Covid-19 vaccine.

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Run Your Business So You’ll Never Need Layoffs

Harvard Business Review

Treat your people as trusted partners.

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When More Information Leads to More Uncertainty

Harvard Business Review

A framework for coping — both cognitively and emotionally.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.

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3 Things You’re Getting Wrong About Organizational Change

Harvard Business Review

Invert your assumptions about risk-taking.