Wed.Oct 09, 2019

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Rights, Responsibilities and Freedom

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton While some people think of rights, responsibilities and freedom separately, in a compartmentalized way, I believe they cannot be separated. According to John Courtney Murray, freedom was always intended to be grounded in ethical values.

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4 Steps To Effectively Train Your Team (Infographic)

Joseph Lalonde

Creating a training plan for your team members can be scary. You will have to spend hours upon hours going over information with your team. All with the thought your team member might leave before they’re fully trained… Or worse, they will leave once they’re trained and take their new skills with them. First, let’s kill […] The post 4 Steps To Effectively Train Your Team (Infographic) appeared first on Joseph Lalonde.

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To Grow Your Team and Get More Done, Let Go of Perfect

Next Level Blog

No doubt, you’ve heard the phrase that the perfect is the enemy of the good. That doesn’t just apply to other people; it applies to you and your team too. And, the thing is, a lot of the time what you expect as a leader is your version of perfect. There are some cases when perfection is truly an objective measurement but most of the time it’s subjective and good enough is good enough even if it doesn’t meet your version of perfect.

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How to Listen – Best Tip Ever

Leadership Freak

If you think listening is easy, you aren’t doing it. Listening is hard: Listening is hard because some people can’t stop talking.

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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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Cheerleading is NOT a Leadership Style!

The Center For Leadership Studies

Sometimes (undoubtedly more than we are aware of) learners leave training experiences with a false impression. Perhaps they were drifting in and out of consciousness during the training itself, perhaps they selectively locked in on a portion of the message that confirmed a personal comfort level, any number of reasons, really, but it happens. For example, I had a boss a hundred years ago when I was an officer in the Coast Guard that took off for a week to go to leadership training.

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Are Smaller Communities The Best Way To Integrate Refugees?

The Horizons Tracker

The ability for communities to integrate refugees successfully is a topic I’ve touched on increasingly in recent months, especially as countries across Europe have attempted to get to grips with the new refugees arriving from north Africa since the Syrian civil war. For instance, recent research from Stanford suggests that communities can play a crucial role in the integration of Syrian refugees.

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Bringing Science To Summer

The Horizons Tracker

Countries around the world have made a concerted effort to try and encourage more young people to take an interest in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM), with an understandable belief that these topics are vital for the competitive edge of a modern economy. One of the more interesting projects in this field is undertaken by pharmaceutical giant GSK, who offer their GSK Science in the Summer program to 2nd-6th graders to help engage them in STEM-related topics.

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Chief Accountant/Financial Officer (2 year degree in accounting required) – After Hours Imaging, LLC – Plattsburgh, NY

HR Digest

HR Jobs. Experience with payroll preparation and reporting, HR and employee benefits. Performing matters of HR, including preparing payroll and payroll reporting. $55,000 - $61,000 a year From Indeed - Wed, 09 Oct 2019 18:07:14 GMT - View all Plattsburgh, NY jobs. Chief Accountant/Financial Officer (2 year degree in accounting required) - After Hours Imaging, LLC - Plattsburgh, NY.

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7 Guaranteed Ways to Grow as a Leader

Ron Edmondson

Do you want to grow as a leader? Do you want to keep growing? One reason I write this blog is I want to help others grow. At the same time, I have to keep growing as a leader. The people who look to me for leadership need me to continually strive to improve. So, how do we keep growing? Here are 7 guaranteed ways to grow as a leader: Desire growth. Sounds simple, but we tend to seek what we desire most.

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It All Matters

Lead Change Blog

What if you suddenly followed your dreams because you weren’t afraid of failure, or lived your life with real intention and purpose instead of duty and obligation? We all have the capacity to create our own destiny. It’s not our circumstances that shape our lives, it’s our response to those circumstances that either propels us to great heights or keeps us stuck in the mud.

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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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Creating an AI-First Business with Andrew Ng

Harvard Business Review

Andrew Ng, former leader of Google’s and Baidu’s AI divisions, joins Azeem Azhar to discuss how businesses should approach AI adoption, and how machine intelligence will change industries and our work.

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Ecommerce Websites Need To Focus On Quick And Easy Shopping

Strategy Driven

Ecommerce is the rocketship that doesn’t run out of fuel. Year-on-year, ecommerce continues to grow. It’s the way of the future and it makes perfect sense. One of the best reasons why it makes perfect sense is because it makes shopping easier and quicker. These two things lay in the website design field. Navigation is one thing, but the user experience is going to cater for outright speed.

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The Race for Space, and the Invasion of the Electric Scooters

Harvard Business Review

Does Space represent a real economic opportunity or are expensive endeavors like SpaceX a form of billionaire hubris? Youngme, Felix and Mihir discuss the Race for Space, before debating the viability of the electric scooter market in cities around the world.

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Got Employees AND A Home Business? Make Your Home Safe To Work

Strategy Driven

A lot of business owners work from home these days – it’s a flexible working arrangement, and works out in favor of most modern career minds. And when you’ve got a home business, the world really is your oyster! You create and innovate when at home, and you talk to customers and solve their problems from your own desk , and that really helps to boost your confidence and your business acumen.

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10 HR Metrics to Track in 2024

Discover the power of HR metrics. Master recruiting, control skyrocketing labor costs, and reduce turnover rates. Get insights into key metrics like Time-to-Fill, Cost-per-Hire, and Turnover Rate. Equip your business for success in 2024.

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Why Skills Training Can’t Replace Higher Education

Harvard Business Review

It’s a disservice to students and civil society.

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Three No-Brainer Outsourcing Opportunites for Growing Businesses

Strategy Driven

Is your growing business falling behind your competitors because you’re stretched too thin? Entrepreneurs know better than anybody that there are only so many hours in a day. If you’re spending too many of them attempting to manage your whole operation and too few of them doing the creative thinking and growth-oriented work required to take your business further, you need to think about outsourcing.

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3 Ways to Make the Most of Your Alumni Network

Harvard Business Review

Stay in touch with peers from university — without seeming awkward.

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6 Tools You Need for Your Construction Business

Strategy Driven

If you’re working in construction, then you’ll know there are some key tools you just can’t do without. Having quality tools you know you can rely on is a requirement for the job and helps you to carry out your work to the highest standard. While there are some tools that are an added luxury, there are some that are absolutely essential for the job.

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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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How a CEO’s Personality Affects Their Company’s Stock Price

Harvard Business Review

It pays to be conscientious. Extroverted, not so much.

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Using a credit card to finance your business

Strategy Driven

Every company is different, and so every business owner needs to decide which finance options they want to use for daily expenses and longer term investments. Here, we weigh up the pros and cons of using business credit cards. Many small business owners decide to use credit cards to cover costs, buy stock and seize opportunities. It’s easy to see why – they’re relatively straightforward to apply for and offer a flexible way to access credit quickly.

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How Engaged Is Your Team, Really?

Harvard Business Review

Even seemingly engaged employees are often disengaged by some measures.

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Review of “You Are Awesome” by Neil Pasricha

The Practical Leader

Resilience is a vital skill. It’s crucial to our health, happiness, and leadership. Resilience is a muscle that we can strengthen – ideally before we really need it. Positive psychology research and best practices show that we can build resilience strengths or habits for Post-Traumatic Growth. Since I enjoyed and reviewed Neil’s previous book, The Happiness Equation , he sent me an advance copy of his new book, You Are Awesome: How to Navigate Change, Wrestle with Failure, and Live an Intentiona

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2024 Payroll Calendar Templates

These calendars provide pay period dates and paydays for biweekly, semi-monthly, and monthly payroll in 2024. Use them as a reminder or share with employees so they can celebrate payday.

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Predicting The Shifting Values Across Society

The Horizons Tracker

Public values are a largely fluid affair, with what is the norm today considered extreme in days of yore (and vice versa). When examined globally however, it’s clear that some countries change values at a different pace to others. New research from Stockholm University aims to explore whether these shifts can be predicted or not, and how this might influence political debate. “Our study shows that the connection between a certain moral position and the type of argument that is rais

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