Let's Grow Leaders
JUNE 5, 2018
Employee Engagement – Play the Game, Don’t Game the Score When you see low employee engagement scores, what is your first reaction? I spoke with a company executive who was upset with his engagement scores. “The numbers are horrible,” he said. “Can […]. The post Employee Engagement – Avoid This Tremendous Leadership Mistake appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Lead Change Blog
JUNE 5, 2018
Welcome to the Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, employee performance and engagement, personal and professional development, productivity, team building, and more. Communication. Randy Conley of Leading with Trust provided How to Tell Someone You Don’t Trust Them Without Destroying The Relationship. “Discussing low or broken trust in a relationship is a scary proposition, but i
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Women on Business
JUNE 5, 2018
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Great Leadership By Dan
JUNE 5, 2018
Guest post by John Antal : F oresight is one of the most critical skills of a leader. Foresight is the capacity to accurately focus on the key factors of a rapidly changing and chaotic situation without losing sight of the big picture. The best leaders anticipate and develop an ability to see beyond the immediate and are able to visualize and plan several moves ahead of their opponent.
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Persuasive Powerhouse
JUNE 5, 2018
Photo credit: 123RF. The people with the most smarts win! There are rewards to be reaped for the most knowledgeable people in our society and our organizations. Imagine what might happen if we also rewarded those who are smart AND ask great questions. What if we valued the curious and courageous leaders who were willing to pose questions that make us stop in our tracks and think about things that we hadn’t before?
Leadership Freak
JUNE 5, 2018
Don’t ad lib when emotion is high. Prepare yourself to respond to an angry employee. Develop a plan. How to respond to an angry employee: #1. Emotion comes first.
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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog
JUNE 5, 2018
Guest Post by Kevin Eikenberry Organizations around the world are trying to come to grips with the way we work today. How does work get done effectively when people aren’t in the same place at the same time? Telework, even part-time telework, alters team effectiveness in unexpected ways. To prepare leaders for remote work teams, […]. The post How To Prepare Leaders for Remote Work Teams appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.
RapidStart Leadership
JUNE 5, 2018
What do you do when things go wrong? Leading can seem fun and easy when things are going our way, but it’s when things go wrong that true leaders emerge. In this example from an Antarctic expedition gone disastorously wrong, one leader achieved great feats of endurance and survival to … Leading When Things Go Wrong: Playing Soccer on the Ice Read More ».
Lead from Within
JUNE 5, 2018
After decades of observing teams as an executive leadership coach, I’ve come to realize two things. First, every team has issues to overcome before they can function effectively. Second, every team has the ability to navigate those issues and do great work together. There aren’t any shortcuts, but you can make it happen with determination and hard work.
Leadership Freak
JUNE 5, 2018
Dear Dan, I read your blog everyday and need some advice! I believe I am leading a narcissist.
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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
Kevin Eikenberry
JUNE 5, 2018
Today is a special day at The Kevin Eikenberry Group: my newest book, The Long-Distance Leader: Rules for Remarkable Remote Leadership, is being released! And to celebrate this occasion, in today’s video, I am sharing some of my best ideas from the book for leaders (or future leaders) of remote teams. Tweet it out: Effectively […]. The post What I’ve Learned About Leading Remotely – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.
Great Results Team Building
JUNE 5, 2018
What results do you want? Great Results Team Building was founded on the idea that you cannot get great results by focusing on results only … . Great results are a symptom of focusing on connections to people and to a shared purpose. And whatever trophy or result you desire – whether it is for an athletic team performance or a corporate project or a sales goal – the attainment of that goal will be the result of focusing on things other than results.
Cooperperson
JUNE 5, 2018
Suppose you have observed four young people on their first day at your company and you are asked to tell which one of them will make it to the top? Which one will make the most money? And which one will be recognized in their chosen field? Let’s call them Diana, Ivan, Shawn and Carmen. They are all intelligent, ambitious and come from the same modest economic background.
David A Fields
JUNE 5, 2018
Your clients send your consulting firm checks with plenty of digits. In return, you’re likely to conduct at least one meeting during which you present findings, results and/or recommendations.
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From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.
Miles Anthony Smith
JUNE 5, 2018
45 Career Advice Experts Share Their Blueprint for Career Success (Plus Leaderboard) Does your career seem to be a struggle at times? Why is the world appear to be so topsy-turvy? Have you felt this way? I know I have … many times. It’s why I wrote my book Why Career Advice Sucks™ … to share the stories of my own career success and failures and help you grow your career more quickly.
Eric Jacobson
JUNE 5, 2018
David S. Pottruck 's book, Stacking the Deck , teaches readers a nine-step course of action leaders can follow from the first realization that change is needed through all the steps of implementation, including assembling the right team of close advisors and getting the word out to the wider group. This book tells the in-the-trenches stories of individuals who led bold, sweeping change.
Rapid BI
JUNE 5, 2018
Microsoft and LinkedIn have the power to change the way we do business and collaborate – but have they blown it? Over the years I have used many collaborative tools. I was also part of an external team of people supporting IBM Social Business platform Connections. Now that product although used extensively internally has never […]. The post Do collaborations tools help or hinder?
Ron Edmondson
JUNE 5, 2018
There is so much stress involved in hiring the right person for a team. It would be difficult for our team to call me a micro-manager. Delegation is one of my personal values, but knowing how important it is to add the right people to our team, this has always been one of the few areas I have such a strong voice in how it’s done and who joins our team.
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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.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 5, 2018
HBR Staff/Clare Jackson/EyeEm/Getty Images. As soon as you step into a top position at a company that needs to significantly improve the way it operates, there’s pressure to get off to a quick start. Yet the best way to succeed, paradoxically, is to slow things down. Forces pushing in the other direction — toward hyperspeed — are powerful, of course.
Modern Servant Leader
JUNE 5, 2018
Is SERVANT-Leadership good in a crisis? One of the common misconceptions about servant-leadership is that it’s too slow to use in an emergency. This is also a reason some businesses choose not to apply it in their organizations. However, recent events give us great examples to prove the benefits of servant-leadership in business – especially in times of crisis.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 5, 2018
Nicholas Eveleigh/Getty Images. Employers today know that employees want flexibility, and many companies say they offer it. But there are lots of people out there who need flexibility but don’t have access to it. In our study on flexibility in the modern workforce, we set out to determine whether a gap exists between flexibility supply and demand.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 5, 2018
Microzoa/Getty Images. As uncertainty is increasing and competition is becoming more fierce, executives need to have a broader understanding of competition itself in order to sustain an edge. Executives should be thinking about four different types of competition to maintain relevance in a changing environment, which originate from our work on competitiveness , strategy , and strategic change.
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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.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 5, 2018
By Billy Bosworth, CEO, DataStax. Like many technology companies, DataStax competes with some of the world’s largest enterprises for top talent. We’ve come to realize that much of that talent is located outside of Silicon Valley, and even outside of the typical urban areas where a company might naturally look for new talent. Over the past seven years as CEO of DataStax, I’ve worked hard to understand the best ways to foster collaboration and leverage the talent of a distributed
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 5, 2018
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and author James Patterson discuss their new novel, The President is Missing , in which a fictional president fights a cybersecurity attack amid intense political dysfunction. The coauthors share their lessons for collaborating across disparate skillsets — “clarity on the objective” and “don’t be afraid to admit what you don’t know.” They also talk about their research into cybersecurity threats and how realistic their
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 5, 2018
BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/Getty Images. In his classic book, Exit, Voice, and Loyalty , the political scientist A.O Hirschman argued that dissatisfaction with a product, service, relationship, or other outcome can give rise to two broad options: one can walk away (exit) or try to change the outcome by engagement (voice). In the labor market , exit and voice takes the form of either quitting a job or using channels — unions, internal dispute resolution, rights granted by government — to seek
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 5, 2018
Bhandharangsri/Getty Images. Today we consume five times more information every day than we did in 1986, an incredible amount that’s equivalent to a 174 newspapers…a day. That probably includes a lot of Instagram posts, but it’s not only social media. The corporate e-learning space has grown by nine times over the last 16 years , such that almost 80% of U.S. companies offer online training for their employees, making more information accessible to them than ever before.
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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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