Wed.Nov 24, 2021

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Setting Stretch Goals? Build in Ethics

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton Employers using stretch goals to motivate employees to higher levels of performance need to take note of the ethical risk. If the push for higher performance doesn't come with an emphasis on ethical behavior, it may be encouraging cheating.

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How To Identify A Bad Leader – So You Can Avoid Becoming One

Tanveer Naseer

Correctly leading a team is one of the most important aspects of achieving all the necessary objectives of your workplace. Furthermore, a good leader keeps their team motivated and creates a good work environment. Nonetheless, the idea of “good” leadership is something that remains very subjective. Each of us has. Click to continue reading.

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Gratitude at Work: How to Cultivate a Grateful Culture (with video)

Let's Grow Leaders

Want More Gratitude at Work, Help Your Team Be More Deliberate with These Practical Tips. I had an opportunity to interview Kerry Wekelo , author of Gratitude Infusion, during the vortex of the pandemic, for practical tips on cultivating gratitude at work. My guess is that you might have missed this one. So, I’m sharing this short Asking for a Friend conversation, along with a recent interview to hear her new insights about gratitude at work.

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5 Secrets To Personal Branding

Joseph Lalonde

In my book How People Become Famous, I analyze the recipes for success of twelve personalities – the “Geniuses of Self-Marketing” – from Albert Einstein, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Karl Lagerfeld, Andy Warhol, and Oprah Winfrey to Kim Kardashian. As different as these personalities are, they all instinctively understood the secrets of self-marketing. Don’t forget to cluck […].

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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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Thieves of Thankfulness – 3 Traits That Inhibit Gratitude

Leadership Freak

I searched, “What’s good about ingratitude,” and the article at the top of the page was titled, “14 Health Benefits of Practicing Gratitude According to Science.

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Five Covid-19 leadership behaviours to maintain in 2022

CEO Insider

Covid-19 has undoubtedly cast an enormous shadow globally, but it has also reshaped leadership. Rewind two years and some leaders were already embracing behaviors like servant leadership, and new approaches, like hybrid working. As a global people development company, at Insights we put our people firmly at the center of everything we do and work […].

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Leadership Words Matter: The Transformative Power of Positive Speech

CO2

The Impact of Words: Insights from Dr. Masaru Emoto’s Experiment Emily Dickinson insightfully noted that words are more than mere utterances, a sentiment echoed in Dr. Masaru Emoto’s work, “The Hidden Messages in Water.” Dr. Emoto, a renowned Japanese researcher, explored the physical impact of words on water and rice, revealing insights critical to understanding leadership communication.

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Improving and Streamlining Various Areas of Your Business

Strategy Driven

Life can often be complicated when you wish it wasn’t. This is true for everyone, but if you find yourself behind the wheel of a business, complications are just going to be part of your daily routine. However, that doesn’t mean that everything has to be quite so, and there will be times when you can actually avoid this. Tuning into which areas these are can allow you to start working on streamlining them into a more effective and manageable strategy, improving it for everyone involved.

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Defining High-Performance Culture

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

The metrics you use to define ‘high performance’ will drive your team members’ behaviors. Make sure your definition leads to the behaviors you want. To build a high-performance culture, you have to define what high performance is. What does high performance mean? How are you going to measure it? How much of your definition hinges on hard business metrics like sales, profitability, and growth, versus on qualitative metrics like morale, engagement, and customer satisfaction?

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Christmas Themed Food Ideas for Office Potluck Parties!

HR Digest

Every office Christmas party needs to have Christmas themed foods that are ideally accompanied by a festive atmosphere. In this article, you will read about the best Christmas themed food ideas that will certainly make your office party complete. . Let’s find out what makes good food during the holiday season. Christmas Veggie Kabobs. You can always go with the kabobs that contain meat, but these veggie kabobs will certainly catch your attention.

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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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7 Ways To Have The Best Thanksgiving Ever

Ron Edmondson

Want a guaranteed better Thanksgiving? Perhaps even the best Thanksgiving ever? I actually believe Thanksgiving may be one of the most “Christian” holidays we can celebrate. As followers of Christ, we are to give thanks always – and in every situation. We have reason to be thankful continually. This world, as it is today, is not our permanent home.

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Best Christmas Gifts for Coworkers You Actually Like

HR Digest

Christmas day is coming soon, and we all need to prepare some gifts for our colleagues and friends. When it comes to the best Christmas gifts for coworkers , we have some great ideas that will serve you well. . When you search for holiday gifts for coworkers , you need to pay attention to all of the details. The gift should be unique and good enough to astonish the colleague. .

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Technology and Redistribution of Power (with Yanis Varoufakis)

Harvard Business Review

The outspoken former Greek Finance Minister joins Azeem Azhar to discuss tech, economics, and the future of democracy.

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Explanatory Style: Don’t P and Should Yourself

The Practical Leader

Last week’s post outlined key points from Martin Seligman’s book, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life. This groundbreaking book laid the foundation for the rapidly growing field of Positive Psychology that Seligman went on to establish during his presidency of the American Psychological Association. In his follow up book, Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment, Seligman wrote, “Pessimists have

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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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Giving Thanks at Work: An HBR Guide

Harvard Business Review

Why you should express gratitude — and how to do it right.

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How Higher Ed Can Prepare Students for Today’s Digital Jobs

Harvard Business Review

Two promising new models blend skills training and work experience.

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How Do I Get Sponsorship Support?

Harvard Business Review

Learning to tell your story can help you get sponsors and, ultimately, that promotion.

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3 Common Fallacies About Creativity

Harvard Business Review

And how leaders can avoid them.

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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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Huma Abedin on Private Pain and Public Struggle

Harvard Business Review

How to manage a public life, private pain, and the anxiety of a high-profile career.

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