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Leaders: Do You Know What Your Perception Gap Is?

Lead Change Blog

For many years I have been discussing how the skills of leaders needs to change to meet the needs and demands of the 21 st century workforce, and the recent pandemic has just highlighted this even more. According to a study by Gartner last year titled, “Reshaping Leadership for the Future,” 50% of leaders surveyed didn’t believe they’re well equipped to lead their organization into the future.

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What Employees are Yearning For in Remote One-on-Ones

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How to Encourage Your Team to Make Decisions

Kevin Eikenberry

In a world of constant change where the status quo is a myth, making decisions are part of the lifeblood of any successful organization. Leaders who try to make all those decisions will be pressed, stressed, and likely behind. Whether thinking about the short-term need for decisions to be made or the long-term implications for […]. The post How to Encourage Your Team to Make Decisions appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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A Rut is A Grave with the Ends Kicked Out

Leadership Freak

If you enjoy unnecessary frustration, keep doing what you did. Self-imposed irrelevance is the consequence of prolonged repetition.

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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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Don’t Miss the Moment: The Pandemic Opportunity – Guest Blogger David Wright

leaderCommunicator

With the sudden, dramatic and necessary changes brought on by the pandemic, business leaders and communicators are doing what everyone does in a crisis – narrow our focus to what’s important. Every day, we hear a new example of how businesses changed to meet the unprecedented global challenge. From the beginning, leaders dropped anything that wasn’t critical and reprioritized for the needs of people and the business.

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 How to Utilize Individual Strengths to Power the Team

Skip Prichard

This is an excerpt from How to Listen and How to Be Heard by Alissa Carpenter. Alissa is the owner of Everything’s Not Ok and That’s OK, a training and consulting organization. Adapted, and reprinted with permission from Career Press, an imprint of Red Wheel/Weiser. Leveraging Individual Strengths for the Team. THE BEST EMPLOYEES bring something to the table that no one else can.

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The Importance of Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Emotional intelligence is no longer a ‘nice to have’ in the workplace, but a ‘must have’ to be effective in the modern workplace. Today’s post is by Asha Tarry. Emotional intelligence skills are those important soft skills that are now reaching the desk of more and more leaders. It used to be targeted as a set of skills that belonged to customer-driven and service industries.

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4 Things To Do When You Disappoint Someone At Work

Mark Sanborn

Do you know what it feels like to disappoint someone? Have you ever disappointed someone at work? We probably all know what it feels like to disappoint someone. It’s not a good feeling. “I’m disappointed in you” are painful words for anyone to hear, whether you’re a child, employee, or spouse. And when those words come from someone you work for (or work with), it may cause you to fear the repercussions, or even doubt if you are a good fit for the role.

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The Growing Urban Wealth Divide

The Horizons Tracker

Most cities around the world have areas of great wealth interspersed with areas of great poverty. That such divides are common in all cities suggests there is a degree of inevitability to it, but new research from Ohio State University suggests the divide is getting wider. The study highlights that some of the factors typically believed to affect neighborhood values, such as transport links and proximity to the center of town, aren’t as influential as previously thought.

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Solutions For When Cabin Fever Sets In At Your Home Office

Strategy Driven

Working from home is a great way to run your own business, enjoy a better work/life balance, save business costs and more. With more and more people adapting to home working as a result of COVID-19, it could soon be the new normal for a lot of people. But despite the many benefits of working from home, it can be difficult to focus at times. It can also become difficult to separate your work and home life, creating an imbalance that can be hard to break.

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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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How Migration Can Tackle The Demographic Crisis In Europe

The Horizons Tracker

Countries across much of the western world are struggling with an aging population, with largely stagnant retirement ages creating a distorted labor market ratio compared to dependents. New research from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) highlights how migration can help redress the balance. The study highlights how the over 65’s population is due to grow in size, due to a combination of lower fertility and increased life expectancy.

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Tips to Reduce Insurance Costs for Your Business

Strategy Driven

As a business owner, you know that it’s important to protect the business that you have put so much into by having appropriate insurance coverage. However, even though you might appreciate the importance of having various types of insurance to protect your business, you might still be burdened by just how much it costs. Controlling insurance costs is possible in some ways, though, including by following these tips.

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The Six Dimensions Of Being A Healthy Leader

Eric Jacobson

In Bob Rosen’s book, Grounded: How Leaders Stay Rooted In An Uncertain World , he explains that there are six dimensions of being a healthy leader: Physical health : how you live. How you manage your mind and body – managing your energy and living a peak performance lifestyle. Emotional health : how you feel. This is about being self-aware and having positive emotions and the ability to be resilient, catching yourself when you have a counterproductive thought.

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How to Choose the Right ERP Software for Your Business

Strategy Driven

ERP software made its debut in the ’90s, and in its 30 years in the business world, it has proven its worth. Now it’s no longer a question of if ERP software can help your business, it’s how to find the best ERP software in 2020. ERP software can be what your business needs to finally make changes that can help you improve and grow.

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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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Where We Are Now With Work

The Office Blend Blog

Photo by Eli Sommer on Pexels.com. There is nothing so stable as change. – Bob Dylan. I’ve not felt like writing in weeks. I have 45 open drafts. That’s a record (even for me). There is a malaise that meets me at my desk on many mornings. I would characterize this as a lack of energy. A bit of resistance to do the work I normally love.

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7 Ways to Motivate Leaders on Your Team

Ron Edmondson

Do you ever struggle to keep the keep the leaders on your team motivated? How do you motivate a leader? Certainly, you want the maximum potential out of the team. You want their best contributions to your team. Learning how to motivate leaders on your team is a critical step in leading well. It may not be as difficult as you may think. Most leader-types share some common traits.

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3 Lessons from Chinese Firms on Effective Digital Collaboration

Harvard Business Review

Companies from around the world can adapt these strategies to fit their needs.

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3 Ways to Redefine Your Organization for a New Era

HR Digest

With the world on lockdown, organizations everywhere have had to rethink how they operate. But in the midst of the crisis, some have discovered something unexpected: productivity has gone up, not down. A crisis like a global pandemic naturally triggers extreme anxiety and stress, but it also unleashes tremendous energy and motivation. If leaders keep threat levels low, they can harness that sense of urgency to achieve work results that would normally seem impossible.

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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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What’s Your Leadership Origin Story?

Harvard Business Review

An in-depth survey of 92 leaders identified four distinct narratives.

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Why Are Analytics Important for eCommerce?

Strategy Driven

It’s easier than ever to start an eCommerce store. Just sign up for a hosting account, and your store will be ready in a few minutes. Unfortunately, it isn’t as easy to get customers. You’re competing with at least 12 million other online stores on the internet. The good news is you can make use of website analytics to make better choices for your business.

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Covid-19 Created an Elective Surgery Backlog. How Can Hospitals Get Back on Track?

Harvard Business Review

Five steps healthcare providers can take right now.