Fri.Feb 28, 2020

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Bridging Differences for Better Mentoring – Interview with Lisa Fain

Let's Grow Leaders

Be ready to take notes as you listen to this powerful interview with Lisa Fain, co-author of Bridging Differences for Better Mentoring. You’ll get practical ways to be a fantastic mentor, a great mentee, and more inclusive leader including: The three whys leaders […]. The post Bridging Differences for Better Mentoring – Interview with Lisa Fain appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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How to Evaluate Whether You Made an Effective Career Decision

Lead Change Blog

Tom made a major career decision 3 months ago: he decided to leave his position as chief information officer at a large manufacturing firm to become an entrepreneur and start a company to provide software that helps manufacturers improve the quality of their manufacturing process. He made his choice after talking to his friend Dave, who left his chief technology officer position in a high-profile manufacturing company to become an entrepreneur six months ago.

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Making It In Ministry Isn’t Easy But The Best Is Yet To Come

Joseph Lalonde

An Interview With Authors Gina McClain and Jessica Bealer. I recently had the pleasure of interviewing two amazing authors. They are Gina McClain (GM) and Jessica Bealer (JB). They are the co-authors of Don’t Quit: The Best Things In Ministry Come Over Time (Orange Books). Gina McClain is a speaker, writer, and Children’s Ministry Director. She dreamed of being a motivational speaker when she […] The post Making It In Ministry Isn’t Easy But The Best Is Yet To Come appeared fir

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From Inside-out to Outside-in: the Leadership Mindset in the Age of Climate Emergency

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Katrin Muff : Antonio Guterres, the Secretary General of the United Nations does not mince his words at the #COP25: leaders should not fear the green economy, they should see the great business opportunity it represents. And indeed, the climate debate has hit a nerve: the Oxford Dictionary has elected #ClimateEmergency as the word of the year 2019.

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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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3 Hard-and-Fast Rules for Dealing with Negative People

Leadership Freak

Negative people stir the slop and smell the same stink over and over. It’s exhausting. 3 hard-and-fast rules for dealing with negative people: #1.

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Weekly Round-Up: 10 Decision-Making Strategies, Successful Crisis Plan Example, 20 Questions to Ask Employees in 2020, Maximize Your M&A, 11 Steps to Define & Achieve Your Goals

leaderCommunicator

Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts. This Week's Round-Up of Leadership and Communication Blogs: 10 Strategies Successful People Use to Make Decisions By Dr. Travis Bradberry ( @talentsmarteq via @wef ), World Economic Forum Get 10 helpful lessons from successful people for effective decision-making including how to avoid decision 'fatigue'. “ Your days are filled with a constant stream of decisions.

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How Should Pastors and the Church Respond to the Coronavirus Fears?

Ron Edmondson

It is incredible how fast the Coronavirus outbreak has impacted all of us. The outbreak is continually trending on Twitter. It dominates the news. The stock market has been rattled by concerns of global impact. (Fear is one of the biggest movers of the market.). I saw a report that Japan is shutting down schools for a month. In the U.S., the Center for Disease Control issued a statement this week in preparation for what “could” occur.

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Top Marketing Tips For Law Firms

Strategy Driven

There have been significant changes in the world of the law of late, as we see more firms ramping up their marketing and business growth activities. The days when cases and clients casually sauntered in through the door thanks to reputation has long gone. The market is much bigger, more competitive and more dynamic than ever before. Clients expect things to happen on-demand now thanks to the growth of high-speed internet and 24/7 connectivity, and the high street is rapidly being replaced with d

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How to Plan the Best Office Retirement Party?

HR Digest

Retirement is a significant phase of a person’s life when the career gets over and transits from a regular office to a period of complete rest and idle time. It is a new start in life, and as such, an office must throw a beautiful and memorable office retirement party for the employee. However, planning and arranging an office retirement party needs a lot of effort.

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What your employees can do to reduce cybersecurity risk

Strategy Driven

No longer just the responsibility of the IT department, cybersecurity is something that all employees have a vital role in. From making smarter decisions in the workplace to understanding how to spot common attacks, employees can do much to combat cybercrime in all of its forms. Here we take a look at the things that your employees can do to help keep your business secure.

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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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Stop Asking Your Customers These Typical Questions

Eric Jacobson

Consider this advice from author Paul R. Timm. He recommends a different twist on asking your customers questions : stop asking your customers the "typical" questions and instead ask them open-ended questions. Here's specifically what Timm recommends: Don't Ask : How was everything? Can I get you something else? Did you find everything you need? Will that be all?

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Putting Work Back In It’s Place

CEO Insider

In the fall of 2017 I traveled to Kiev to meet and interview two of the last remaining survivors of the Ukrainian Holodomor. Holodomor means “forced starvation,” and defines a period in the early 1930s during which the Soviet Communist Party intentionally killed millions of Ukrainian peasants by sequestering them and removing all possible food […].

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Define Your Moments

Mark Sanborn

A defining moment is explained as an event which determines subsequent, related occurrences. These moments affect us so strongly that they define us. Many of the so-called defining moments of our lives really aren’t. College graduation, marriage, and retirement are often called defining moments. In reality, they are commemorative moments. Graduation commemorates how you spent the past four years.

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To Overcome Bottlenecks, Consider Why You Want to Grow

CEO Insider

Most executives think of bottlenecks as obstacles. But I think of them as inflection points. Throughout my career, I’ve encountered bottlenecks in many forms. When I was a chemical engineering student, they appeared in my fluid mechanics equations. Later, when I worked in the oil and gas industry, bottlenecks appeared as geological obstacles to extraction. […].

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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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How to Own The Room: Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking

Roundtable Talk

By: Viv Groskop Reviewed by: Leah Parkhill Reilly The Premise: Don’t let the title scare you off, if you don’t happen to be a woman. This is a great and practical book on developing solid mindset approaches to breakthrough your own inner dialogue and command a room. In the upfront framing for the book the […].

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What’s Your Company’s Emergency Remote-Work Plan?

Harvard Business Review

Five steps to prepare for a potential disruption.

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How to Bring Your Leadership Training Strategy to Life

The Center For Leadership Studies

The post How to Bring Your Leadership Training Strategy to Life appeared first on Situational Leadership® Management and Leadership Training.

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Building a Data-Driven Culture from the Ground Up

Harvard Business Review

Five lessons from an engineering and construction company.

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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 Tesla Sets Itself Apart

Harvard Business Review

It’s ushering in the age of the software car.

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How Coronavirus Could Impact the Global Supply Chain by Mid-March

Harvard Business Review

Supplies from China will dry up, slowing manufacturing and port activity worldwide.