Tue.Apr 28, 2020

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What Are The Stories Leaders Need To Be Able To Tell To Drive Success?

Tanveer Naseer

Many of us recognize the importance of storytelling in leadership to improve the way we communicate. But the truth is there’s more than one story that a leader should be able to tell at a moment’s notice in order to inspire, inform and provide direction to those they lead. So. Click to continue reading.

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Three Things to Stop Doing This Week

Next Level Blog

For many of us in the United States, week seven or so of the work from home (WFH) period is underway. And even as attention turns to how to get people back to the office, it’s pretty clear that we’re at the beginning of a pretty long haul of a lot more working from home than we ever thought we would. From my vantage point as a long-time work from homer and a coach to a lot of leaders and teams who are new to the scene, what I’m seeing is a slow realization that we’re in a marathon, not a sprint.

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Your Stakeholders Will Be Thankful You Asked These Questions

Lead Change Blog

Developing a great relationship with your organization’s stakeholders is one of the most important aspects of leadership. Stakeholders can be anyone from your business partners to your suppliers, and the way you need to engage with them will change over time. Getting to know your stakeholders and engaging with them effectively benefits your organization and can result in stronger financials and a boost in productivity.

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What Your Leadership Will Not Be Able to Give You

Lead from Within

There are some things you cannot expect from your leadership. Everyone—in leadership or not—needs to be able to nourish their inner self. You can count on those around you for many kinds of help, but there are some things you have to rely on yourself to provide. Don’t expect people to hold you accountable as well as you can for yourself. A successful leader will always be responsible.

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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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OK Isn’t Good Enough – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

About two weeks into the shutdown, I was having a conversation with my neighbor (at a safe, 6-foot distance, of course). His organization had recently sent all of their employees home and when I asked him how it was going, I got a response that no leader ever wants to hear… It’s going…OK. As leaders, […]. The post OK Isn’t Good Enough – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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How to Be a Smart Novice and Stop Hurting Yourself

Leadership Freak

Novelty makes novices of us all. Every time you try something new, you’re a novice all over again. Dangers of inexperience: You thought you understood parenting until you had children.

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How to Be a Smart Novice and Stop Hurting Yourself and Others

Leadership Freak

Novelty makes novices of us all. Every time you try something new, you’re a novice all over again. Dangers of inexperience: You thought you understood parenting until you had children.

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10 Common, Avoidable Mistakes Consultants Make on Video Calls

David A Fields

Are there video call-specific rules of etiquette? Of course. Remember the old days, when people left their houses? Consultants would frequently travel thousands of miles, sardined next to strangers (crazy, right?). Even then, your consulting firm’s best, everyday outreach tool was your telephone. However, in the modern, no-travel era, video calls have become totally acceptable … Continued.

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Eye Contact Is Important During Video Calls

The Horizons Tracker

As workers of the world have been sent to their home offices, usage of video conferencing platforms, such as Zoom, have ballooned. It’s prompted a fresh wave of consideration as to just how to effectively use such platforms to communicate. The latest study comes via Tampere University, in Finland, which explores how eye contact affects our communication in video chats.

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How Paul O’Neill Fought For Safety At Alcoa

LDRLB

By most accounts, Paul O’Neill’s first speech as the new CEO of Alcoa was a complete failure. The speech was given in a hotel ballroom not far from Wall Street, and it was meant for the investors and analysts who did business just a few blocks away. The last few years the aluminum manufacturing giant had performed poorly. Investors were nervous, and many had arrived at the hotel expecting the usual grand turnaround vision of how this new leader was going reduce overhead, improve profits and, mos

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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 Technology Is Changing Teaching In Higher Education

The Horizons Tracker

It’s often argued that a time traveler from 100 years ago might be surprised by many things, but stepping into the classroom would be comfortingly familiar. A new study from the University of Missouri doesn’t wholly dispel that notion, but does nonetheless highlight some of the ways in which higher education is being affected by modern technology.

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5 Ways to Increase Post Engagement on Your Facebook Business Page

Strategy Driven

Are you using Facebook as a platform for your business? Do you notice your post engagement losing some steam? Post engagement is one of the key metrics that say how effective your Facebook business page is. It measures your followers’ loyalty to your brand. With 80% of businesses using Facebook in their marketing strategies, you need to increase your Facebook page post engagement.

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Culture: Tribal roles at work

Leadership and Change

Who are you? You might be an individualistic, highly-educated, autonomous professional – just like many other leaders, professionals, coaches, and consultants reading this blog. You might think that you’re alone, unique, and independent. But we’re always connected to the larger whole. You’re part of a few tribes, clans, or groups – be they family, groups […].

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Welcome to the New Abnormal

Mark Sanborn

Everyone wants to know when things will get back to normal. Most think that it won’t be like it was before, and they are looking for “the new normal.” It won’t be a successful search. Not only won’t there be an”new normal” but the very concept is a really bad idea. Rewind: I started hearing and reading about “The New Normal” years ago.

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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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The Three Loves Of The Savannah Bananas With Jesse Cole

Steve Farber

No matter what industry you are in, if you don’t know how to make your business stand out, then you are easily out. Today’s guest took this to heart and transformed a baseball team. Read more.

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Leadership Caffeine Podcast—Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg on What’s Your Problem?

Management Excellence

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Has a New Employer Withdrawn Your Executive Job Offer? How “Promissory Estoppel” might give you a legal remedy

CEO Insider

As a successful C-level or other senior executive, you may be lured by executive recruiters or otherwise by other companies seeking your talent, contacts and experience. Suppose one of those opportunities truly excites you. You agree to terms, it feels like a good fit, you accept the executive job offer, and give notice. But before […]. License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article Has a New Employer Withdrawn Your Executive Job Offer?

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India Fights COVID-19 with Control Charts

Deming Institute

On March 24, the Prime Minister of India announced a nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus COVID-19. In a country a third the size of the United Sates with triple its population, the potential for catastrophic outcomes is extremely high. As the infection rates and death tolls mounted, Balaji Reddie , founder of The Deming Forum India and a member of our Advisory Council, noticed something odd.

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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 to Prevent Failure in Working From Home to Address the Covid-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

CEO Insider

So many companies are shifting their employees to working from home to address the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. Yet they’re not considering the potential disasters that can occur as a result of this transition. An example of this is what one of my coaching clients experienced a few months before the pandemic hit. Pete is a […]. License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article How to Prevent Failure in Working From Home to Address the Covid-19 Coronavirus Pandemic are those o

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7 Ways To Make Really Fast Leadership Decisions

Ron Edmondson

There are those moments in leadership when you have to make quick decisions. If COVID-19 has taught us anything it is that sometimes we just have to move forward with limited information. Like every decision a leader makes, the decision impact others. These are decisions which are hard to make with plenty of time to make them. Decisions which will be hard to reverse.

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Leadership Caffeine Podcast—Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg on What’s Your Problem?

Art Petty

Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg joins Art Petty on the Leadership Caffeine podcast to discuss his book, What's Your Problem? To Solve Your Toughest Problems, Change the Problems You Solve. The focus is on using reframing as a method to explore problems from alternative viewpoints and to identify creative solutions. The book is a great resource for everyone anywhere who is regularly called upon to solve problems in organizations.

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#leadershiptruth – You Always Have A Choice.

Roundtable Talk

When it comes to pressure, we’re all our own worst enemies and often lose sight of the fact that we have choices. Here’s an example from my life: we had just bought our first house that carried a big fat mortgage and I was miserable at work despite my big fat paycheck. I wanted to […].

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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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How Big Tech Can Help Fix U.S. Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Effective solutions will be grounded in collaboration, not disruption.

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How to Protect Your Organization From the Amazon of Your Industry

Strategy Driven

The trend towards consolidation in industry has become a threat to any business whose leadership has a desire to maintain its own identity and strategic path. If you think you, your company, or your industry is immune, I urge you to look at the telltale signs. If you are one of those business owners or leaders who have invested many years of your life building a brand, then you most likely have a vision for that brand for the future that exists beyond your involvement.

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To Take Care of Others, Start by Taking Care of Yourself

Harvard Business Review

Four tips.

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Are You Planning to Go on a Diet?

Frank Sonnenberg Online

Are You Planning to Go on a Diet? If your diet didn’t work last time, what makes you think it’ll work now? Before you step on the gas again, what did you learn from your last attempt? You did not fail. Your diet failed you! 6 Reasons Why Diets Fail. Here are six reasons why diets (and efforts to break other bad habits) fail: Wishes are just words. Hope without effort is destined to fail.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

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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Is the Healthiest Building in the World Worth the Rent?

Harvard Business Review

Healthy buildings and superior air quality are increasingly important as people spend 90% of their lives indoors.

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How Have Countries Controlled COVID-19 Without Locking Down?

The Horizons Tracker

The coronavirus pandemic has been fascinating for numerous reasons, from the way in which healthcare systems have responded, to the policy methods used to try and sustain people and organizations while economies have been locked down. Except, of course, not all countries have chosen to lockdown their economy, choosing instead to manage the crisis in other ways.

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How Banks Are Using Behavioral Science to Prevent Scandals

Harvard Business Review

They’ve set up teams of psychologists, anthropologists, forensics experts, and others.

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Investors await China’s growth hungrily

CEO Insider

The Chinese economy is trying to recover from the Covid-19 outbreak, though if the government initiates recovery help, then the Chinese single market will develop even faster. Due to the Covid-19 outbreak, the National People’s Congress that should have taken place in March was postponed, it almost illustrates the situation that the official GDP growth […].

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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.