Mon.Jan 10, 2022

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Hope Is What People Need from Leaders Today

Michael Lee Stallard

Wouldn’t it be nice if a new year truly ushered in a fresh start? The optimism we may have ordinarily had in past years as we turned the calendar to January and considered all of the new possibilities that lay ahead of us is a little harder to muster up this time. The Covid-19 pandemic, now in year three, and other stressors have taken a toll. Many people are exhausted and struggling.

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From American Underdog

Joseph Lalonde

A Reel Leadership Article. Have you ever felt like an underdog? Were you picked last for sports or business? Sometimes we feel like no one wants us. That’s how the football player Kurt Warner (Zachary Levi) felt. He knew he was good. He knew he could play. Yet, the teams in the NFL didn’t want him. American Underdog tells […].

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How to Develop the Habit of Finishing Stuff

Leadership Freak

Bad habits – in the beginning – are easier than good. The habit of almost finishing stuff destroys effectiveness, diminishes respect, and drains energy. Anyone can start. Leaders finish.

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What is the Future of Work?

Kevin Eikenberry

We would all like to see the future more clearly. In times of cataclysmic change, the desire to look into the future is more important than ever. That is why the question “What is the future of work?” is the most important question for leaders to consider right now. While the future will come whether […]. The post What is the Future of Work? appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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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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Employee Retention: What You Can Do to Reduce Burnout

leaderCommunicator

Through the "Great Resignation," employees are sending a strong message that their needs aren’t being met at work. The demands and challenges of the pandemic have led people to reexamine their lives and priorities and one topic in particular comes up often: burnout. What is employee burnout? Burnout results “from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed,” according to the World Health Organization , which updated its definition in 2019 to classify it as an occupational phe

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Conversations That Build Psychological Safety

QAspire

Growth in today’s world is driven by how talented people bring their best ideas on the table, work with each other in a conducive environment and choose to deliver their best effort in order to achieve the desired outcome. Companies often do great at recruiting the most talented people but fail at providing them a safe environment that enables people to exert their discretionary effort – that people do the work because they “want” to do it rather than “have” to do it.

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Conversations That Build Psychological Safety

QAspire

Growth in today’s world is driven by how talented people bring their best ideas on the table, work with each other in a conducive environment and choose to deliver their best effort in order to achieve the desired outcome. Companies often do great at recruiting the most talented people but fail at providing them a safe environment that enables people to exert their discretionary effort – that people do the work because they “want” to do it rather than “have” to do it.

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Companies Commit To A Net Zero Future

The Horizons Tracker

It can be extremely tempting to take a cynical view of a company’s environmental aspirations. After all, the Friedman doctrine has dominated for so long that it can be hard to look past the view that shareholders are everything. Of course, as yesterday’s article illustrated, there is a growing sign that companies are malleable in their environmental activities.

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Rachel Lipton Joins the Women On Business Contributor Team

Women on Business

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The Skills that Every Entrepreneur Must Have

Strategy Driven

Whether you’re a homemaker turning a hobby into a business or a dedicated innovator looking to create the next big thing, there are certain basic skills that you can improve and build upon to enhance your chances of success. The simple fact is that most entrepreneurs have a great idea, yet have no idea how they can make this into a business. The following basic skills can be developed to enhance entrepreneurial businesses’ creative and innovative aspects.

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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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Investors Can Influence Firms Via Dear CEO Letters

The Horizons Tracker

Such is the popularity of CEO letters, famed biographer Walter Isaacson wrote his latest book largely around the letters to stakeholders from former Amazon boss Jeff Bezos. These letters often highlight the direction of the business and the things they find important, with many underlining the commitment of the firm to corporate social responsibility.

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Tips For Improving The Way Your Team Works

Strategy Driven

Do you find that your team could be working much more effectively? There are many ways that you can improve the way that your team works, and these will depend on the kind of team that you are running and whether you are in the position to make some changes or not. Here, we are going to give you some of our top tips for improving the way in which your team works.

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How to Develop a Radical Product Thinking Mindset

Skip Prichard

Creating world-class products and services is a discipline that some organizations seem to master, and others struggle to achieve. We read about the visionaries like Elon Musk and Steve Jobs and may think it is a magical gift bestowed on the few. Radhika Dutt presents a different approach in her book Radical Product Thinking. She argues that it’s a new mindset that is needed and shares a repeatable model that anyone can master.

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Are Women Really Worse At Negotiating?

The Horizons Tracker

One supposed reason for the gender pay gap is that women are worse negotiators than men, and therefore when it comes time to push for a higher salary, they tend to lag behind their male peers. It’s a stereotype that is put to the test in research from the University of Southern California, which finds that, generally speaking, men and women are just as bad as each other at negotiating.

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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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3 Steps for Protecting Your Most Important Asset

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Today’s guest post is from Joel Garfinkle, thoughtLEADERS instructor, executive coach and author of Getting Ahead: Three Steps to Take Your Career to the Next Level (CLICK HERE to get your copy). Are you protecting your most important asset? No, it’s not your buildings, your equipment, or your investment accounts. It’s your people. Especially those rising stars whose contributions affect your bottom line and your future success.

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Boss Very Reluctant to Praise Any Hard Work or Initiative

HR Digest

I work as a research assistant at a think tank. My boss heads the most important division —fund development —for the organization. My problem is, however hard I work and whatever hours I put in, my boss never notices or praises the efforts. However, she is very good at catching out my mistakes and is patient enough to explain how to do it better and give proper guidance.

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Simple Advice for New Leaders Attempting Change

Ron Edmondson

New leaders bring new ideas. The organization is expecting a new leader to energize the organization and interject momentum. That means change and brings its own set of challenges. Therefore, I have some simple advice for new leaders attempting change. I have been the new leader many times. The early days of a leadership position are perhaps the most important in shaping the future success of the leader.

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How Leaders Can Balance the Needs to Perform and to Transform

Harvard Business Review

It’s about learning how to manage time, the stress of leadership, and rank-and-file morale.

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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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101 Remote Team Communication Approaches for Stronger Teams

Let's Grow Leaders

Master remote team communication with variety and consistency. If you’re serious about becoming a better remote leader, you’re going to want to become a master in the art of remote team communication. Key initiatives, motivation, strategic priorities, updates, celebrations–there is so much to communicate with your team. But here’s the big question.

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When Being Indispensable Backfires

Harvard Business Review

Being too helpful may end up hurting your career progress. Here’s how to set some boundaries.

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Platform Launches To Aid Health Data Sharing

The Horizons Tracker

I’ve written numerous times about the potential for health data to improve not only our own health but healthcare services, public health, and medical research. Unfortunately, the last few years have seen precious little progress in unifying the numerous sources of health data into a single, secure source to chronicle our health on a daily basis.

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How to Get People to Speak Up in Virtual Meetings

Harvard Business Review

Be specific about what you’re asking for — or you’ll keep getting crickets.

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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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The plain English no-nonsense guide to demand-side platforms (DSP)

Strategy Driven

When paying for online advertising space, your business probably dips into a wide array of digital ad platforms – think the likes of Google Ads, Facebook Ads and probably many alternatives not quite as well-known to the average marketer. However, approaching all of these platforms individually can be a cumbersome process costing you more time and money than strictly necessary.

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The Secret Ingredient of Thriving Companies? Human Magic.

Harvard Business Review

Your company purpose can’t materialize without it.

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4 Business Services To Outsource In 2022

Strategy Driven

Throughout the turbulent, unpredictable, and often even distressing business climate the worldwide coronavirus pandemic has, and is continuing to cause, if you are either the owner or manager of a business that has continued to trade then you are to be commended. With the Covid-19 pandemic still exceedingly prevalent as the new year arrives, it is time to start buying yourself more time to give attention to the areas of concern within your business model.