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How Smart Leaders Help a Team Work Better Together: Plan Breakdowns

Let's Grow Leaders

Expect common breakdowns to help your team work better together. Does your team get derailed by miscommunication, hurt feelings, customer service challenges, or another department’s dropped balls? These common relationship breakdowns don’t surprise effective leaders. On the contrary–smart leaders know it’s not a matter of if they’ll happen, but when.

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6 Barriers to Achieving Your Dream Job

Nathan Magnuson

Photo by Randy Tarampi on Unsplash. One of the highlights of last year was the time I spent hosting a webinar on dream jobs with my brother, U.S. Marine Harrier pilot Capt Cale “Rowdy” Magnuson. The concept of “dream jobs” has always been a fascinating subject to me, so much so that I dedicated an entire chapter to them in my recent book Stand Out !

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Become a Brand Renegade

Leading Blog

O VER THE PAST FEW DECADES, we’ve seen several examples of “brand renegades.” These are the industry disruptors who have changed how business is conducted in distinctly powerful ways. Think how Uber transformed the transportation industry, how Airbnb took over the lodging industry — not to mention how Tesla is upending both the automobile and energy industries.

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You are Leading by Example (Even When People Can’t See You)

Kevin Eikenberry

You have more influence than you realize. That is true for all of us – but for leaders it is doubly true. Many leaders have underestimated the power of their example as they worked remotely from many or all of their team. The truth is, you are leading by example, all the time. Perhaps you […]. The post You are Leading by Example (Even When People Can’t See You) appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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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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Be Unafraid to Show Your Human Side: 7 Leaders Tell Their Story

leaderCommunicator

Leaders have been through an incredible year, marked by profound change and uncertainty with the pandemic and mounting social unrest. That period of crisis, though, has as silver lining – as many leaders have risen to the occasion and learned a lot in the process. To uncover some of those learnings, I conducted a series of interviews with more than 30 leaders over the past several months.

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If Most Leaders are Average, What Does that Say About You and Your Team

Leadership Freak

An inordinate need to win reflects a need for superiority. For example, I stopped playing basketball with my sons when they regularly beat me. We shot around, but no more 1:1 games.

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Two stories are competing for the future of your business: The Heaviest Story Wins

CEO Insider

The executive team of Etres Technologies spent the last year discussing a strategy to offer a new product into its current market. This new “story of the future” had the potential to significantly benefit both customers and the business. After much planning, the CEO and executive team gave the green light to the initiative, and […]. The post Two stories are competing for the future of your business: The Heaviest Story Wins appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Employees Experience Distractions Every 31 Minutes: What Leaders Can Consider Before Making Decisions on Returning To the Workplace

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

A recent survey conducted by Mopria Alliance shows employees experience 77 distractions per week. Phil shares how employees are affected by work environments. Today’s post is by Phil Mazzilli, Marketing Working Group Chair for Mopria Alliance. After COVID-19 pushed employees out of their offices and into their homes, we’ve gained a new wealth of knowledge on the benefits and pitfalls of working from home versus in an office.

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Achieving Cybersecurity Maturity

The Horizons Tracker

It’s increasingly accepted that the coronavirus pandemic has coincided with an incredible increase in cyberattacks on organizations. Indeed, research from the Cyentia Institute found that approximately 60% of Fortune 1000 companies had suffered at least one breach in recent times, with around 25% of them suffering an attack each year. This would be bad enough, but Accenture’s State of Cyber Resilience report earlier this year found a worryingly poor state of preparedness for such attacks.

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How to write an apology note for late arrival at a meeting

HR Digest

When good manners and etiquette are discussed, being on time for any appointment or meeting is duly emphasized. The same is true in a professional setting. . Every workplace, largely, has set working hours where we are supposed to report by a certain time. Being late is frowned upon and is liable to have consequences. In a survey, a majority of employers (60%) said they expected employees to be on time every day , and 43% had fired someone for being late, up from 41% the previous year.

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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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The Seven Roles Of Being A Collaborative Leader

Eric Jacobson

Edward M. Marshall 's book, Transforming The Way We Work -- The Power Of The Collaborative Workplace , remains relevant today, more than a decade after Marshall wrote it. Particularly useful is the book's section that teaches readers how to be a collaborative leader. Marshall says that there are seven different, important roles and responsibilities of collaborative leaders when leading teams , and those leaders should select the appropriate style to meet the team's needs.

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7 Strategies to Break Down Silos in Big Meetings

Harvard Business Review

Getting people talking is the first step to fostering collaboration between departments.

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How Care Homes Can Learn The Lessons From Covid

The Horizons Tracker

The Covid pandemic has provided a multitude of harrowing stories of infections running wild in care homes around the world. It has shed fresh light on the difficulties in keeping residents safe from any viruses, much less those as deadly as Covid-19. A recent paper from the University of Waterloo’s School of Public Health and Health Systems explores the lessons society can learn from Covid to better prepare us for future outbreaks.

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Everyone in Your Organization Needs to Understand AI Ethics

Harvard Business Review

Treating it as a niche concern exposes your company to huge risks. Here’s how to get people to buy in.

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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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5 Characteristics of Digital Giants that Enable Domination

Skip Prichard

Rule the World. How is extreme consolidation changing global business? What are the most innovative companies doing to position themselves? How do you become a market leader in the midst of rapid change? Ray Wang is the Founder of Constellation Research , Inc. and has studied emerging business and technology trends. His columns are read by millions, and he is a frequent keynote speaker at some of the major tech conferences.

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When Do We Actually Need to Meet in Person?

Harvard Business Review

Before bringing people back to the office, consider what you hope to get out of your face-to-face meetings.