Lead Change Blog
OCTOBER 1, 2018
Great Leaders Tell A Great Strategy Story. Most businesses have incredibly compelling stories to tell, full of drama and interesting plot lines. But the blind spot that leaders at most businesses have is a lack of engaging strategy to tell that story. Most organizations have a semigeneric vision statement, accompanied by what seems like too many slides to outline their strategy for what winning looks like for the organization.
Leading Blog
OCTOBER 1, 2018
Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in October 2018. Don't miss out on other great new and future releases. ICONIC : How Organizations and Leaders Attain, Sustain, and Regain the Highest Level of Distinction by Scott McKain. Moral Leadership for a Divided Age : Fourteen People Who Dared to Change Our World by David P. Gushee and Colin Holtz.
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Nathan Magnuson
OCTOBER 1, 2018
My new book Ignite Your Leadership Expertise is available for pre-order on Amazon.com. Both the soft cover and ebook versions will be available on October 16. Winston Churchill declared, “Success is going from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” He wasn’t the only leader who recognized the reality of failure on the journey to success.
Kevin Eikenberry
OCTOBER 1, 2018
Team member commitment is a much-discussed topic among leaders. Whether they are lamenting the lack of it or basking in the high levels of it, astute leaders are thinking about the commitment of their team members, because they know it is the leading indicator of things like turnover, productivity, quality, and more. While much-discussed, often […].
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Joseph Lalonde
OCTOBER 1, 2018
A Reel Leadership Article. Based on John Bellairs’ 1973 novel (You can buy the book here), The House With A Clock In Its Walls stars Jack Black as the eccentric Uncle Jonathan Barnavelt, Owen Vaccaro as Jonathan’s nephew Lewis Barnavelt, and Cate Blanchett as Jonathan’s love interest Florence Zimmerman. Directed by horror-movie expert Eli Roth, The House With A Clock In Its Walls […] The post Quotes And Leadership Lessons From The House With A Clock In Its Walls appeared first
Jason Womack
OCTOBER 1, 2018
Last week 75 busy professionals from around the world signed up for The 5-Day Challenge. Congratulations to everyone in London, Sydney, Brussels, Dubai and all over America.you all signed up which tells me this is a global need. Every day last week, I heard AMAZING stories from people completing their 30/30 [30 minutes working on something not due for 30 days]: "I scheduled my Continual Education Units for 2019 (since I discovered I was already done for 2018!)".
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Lead from Within
OCTOBER 1, 2018
If you want to build a team that will last, you have to build a team in which each person works from their strengths. Sadly, most people are not working in their areas of strength and therefore are not reaching their potential. The Gallup organization conducted research on 1.7 million people in the workplace. According to their findings, only 20 percent of employees feel that their strengths are in play every day in the work setting.
leaderCommunicator
OCTOBER 1, 2018
While important initiatives always have a game plan behind them, daily communications between leaders and employees are often unplanned or buried beneath other pressing business priorities. However, planning communications is often the key to employees having the information and context they need to help an organization or team achieve its vision and goals.
Great Results Team Building
OCTOBER 1, 2018
You may have wondered, or even asked friends or co-workers “Hey, are teambuilding events effective?”. But you would probably NOT ask those same people “Hey, is food good for you?” . That is because clearly food is essential if you want to stay healthy and productive… It may be surprising, but the questions are surprisingly similar – in that teambuilding is essential if you want your organization to be healthy and productive!
Leadership Freak
OCTOBER 1, 2018
It’s a mistake to believe leadership is getting people to do what you want them to do. Engagement is getting people to do things THEY want to do.
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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
Coaching Tip
OCTOBER 1, 2018
One of the most difficult leadership positions in business today is also the most common: the " leader in the middle. " . If you lead people and answer to someone else--a boss, shareholder, customers--you are among the millions of "leaders in the middle.". "Leaders in the middle too often serve down to their people and defend up to their bosses, instead of serving up to their bosses and coaching down to their employees," says author Nathan Jamail, who has spent decades managing and coaching top
HR Digest
OCTOBER 1, 2018
Employee growth is a crucial factor in the success of every organization. Hence, employers must work hard towards promoting the growth of their employees, in as much as the employees are also required to work on their development and growth. As an employer, you can experience a situation where a new employee is able to develop and thrive without your intervention or assistance.
Ron Edmondson
OCTOBER 1, 2018
Thankfulness is a virtue we often ignore. Sometimes we get so caught up in our own little world we forget to thank people who have helped us the most. Then there are people who simply need thanking to help them feel better about their own situation. Everyone likes to be appreciated. I thought I would use my platform to encourage a little thankfulness.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 1, 2018
PATRIK STOLLARZ/Getty Images. Many managers want to be more inclusive. They recognize the value of inclusion and diversity and believe it’s the right thing to aspire to. But they don’t know how to get there. For the most part, managers are not given the right tools to overcome the challenges posed by implicit biases. The workshops companies invest in typically teach them to constantly check their thoughts for bias.
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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.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 1, 2018
RyanJLane/Getty Images. Blockchain has important implications for marketing and advertising. But according to The CMO Survey , only 8% of firms rate the use of blockchain in marketing as moderately or very important. Blockchain technology is not well understood and subject to a lot of hype. This combination creates a natural barrier to entry and has likely caused marketers to take a “wait and see” approach.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 1, 2018
From the Women at Work podcast: Listen and subscribe to our podcast via Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS. Download the discussion guide for this episode. Join our online community. Download this podcast. There’s a lot that goes into making a good decision at work: figuring out priorities, coming up with options, analyzing those — and several steps later, planning for what to do if you’re wrong.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 1, 2018
Laura Leyshon/Getty Images. Female physicians continue to face myriad challenges in medicine ranging from implicit bias to gaps in payment and promotion to sexual harassment. So it is not surprising (though it’s still appalling) that although equal numbers of men and women now graduate from medical school, only a small fraction of female physicians become medical leaders.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 1, 2018
Peter Dazeley/Getty Images. In the spirit of becoming more adaptive , organizations have rushed to implement Agile software development. But many have done so in a way that actually makes them less agile. These companies have become agile in name only, as the process they’ve put in place often ends up hurting engineering motivation and productivity.
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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.
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