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How To Transform Your Company

Lead Change Blog

Your financial and emotional health are linked to how functional, or dysfunctional, your company is. If you’re feeling stuck, frustrated, or haven’t seen growth in your company, you may need to realign YOUR company whether you own, lead or work in it. Alex Vorobieff, author of Transform Your Company , shares how to discover the hidden force pulling companies into dysfunction and creating frustration.

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5 Books Leaders Should Read In October 2020

Joseph Lalonde

It’s the end of September. That means it is time for another list of book recommendations. Every month, I am sharing books I think you should read. Whether that’s the coming month or 5 months from now, these books will help you become a better leader. These book recommendations will be a mix of personal […].

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LeadershipNow 140: September 2020 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from September 2020 that you don't want to miss: Don’t Be A Wimp! Practical Tips On How To Overcome Obstacles by @LaRaeQuy. Boss’s Tip of the Week: Your job is to help the team and the team members succeed from @wallybock. Why the Best Leaders Ask For Help In A Crisis by @LollyDaskal Lego CEO Niels Christiansen On Play During Covid-19 Pandemic via @TIME #Lego makes a hundred billion bricks a year.

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Beliefs Are Complicated

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton Part 1 in the Truth and Misinformation: How to Spot False Narratives series explored truth and narrative, and Part 2 examined how data and motives relate to the truth. Part 3 addressed the importance of media literacy. In Part 4, we take a deeper look at truth and belief.

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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 to Take Your Team to the Next Level in 30 Days

Leadership Freak

Successful teams do the work AND they work on the WAY they do the work. Go further faster by working on the WAY you work.

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When Leaders Cannot Meet Their Team: 6 Tips for Stepping Into a New Role Without a Handshake – Guest Blogger Julie Freeman

leaderCommunicator

In February 2020, I accepted an assignment as the Interim CEO of a leading scientific professional society. The Board President and President-elect were looking to me to keep the 130-member staff engaged and calm until the new CEO came on board, ensuring that valued society programs continued to operate effectively. I knew there would be some challenges in leading the team.

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#67 – 3 Steps To Boost Critical Thinking Skills During COVID-19 Pandemic

Tanveer Naseer

With the COVID-19 pandemic expected to continue well into 2021, pandemic fatigue has become a real issue as prolonged stress has been shown to impact our critical thinking skills. In this special episode of my leadership podcast, I share 3 simple steps that will help you boost your critical thinking. Click to continue reading.

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13 Apps & Ideas To Improve Your Company Culture

Strategy Driven

What is company culture? Company culture essentially means the personality of a company; it includes all of the values, behaviors, and interactions of both management and staff. The company culture is reflected by how staff engage with their organization and how they relate to the business goals. The company culture is evident in many aspects of the business operations, including the office arrangements, the hiring decisions and the staff perks.

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Why More Boards Are Naming Executive Chairs During CEO Transitions: Four ground rules for using the role effectively

CEO Insider

Planning for the succession of a successful, long-serving CEO or, trickier yet, a founder CEO is a difficult topic for any board. It is even more personally challenging for many CEOs. One succession approach that is on the rise in the U.S. over the last decade is to name a new CEO and transition the […]. License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article Why More Boards Are Naming Executive Chairs During CEO Transitions: Four ground rules for using the role effectively are those

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Steps to Effective Business Leadership

Strategy Driven

It’s important for business owners to have strong leadership skills first and foremost to ensure that the business succeeds, thrives and is able to remain in business. Leadership skills help provide a vision for business projects/products/services and are necessary to help motivate employees to be their best. Leaders often set the tone for morale, motivation and commitment, all of which affect the stakeholders/customers and again in large part determine whether the business will succeed.

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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 To Achieve High Performance Using An Eight-Step Approach

Eric Jacobson

“Higher performance comes from doing many things well—but some of those things are not in your power to change,” says author Marc Effron. Therefore, he recommends in his book, 8 Steps to High Performance , that you focus on what you can change and ignore the rest. Effron reveals in his book the eight key factors you do control and provides practical advice for improving yourself on each one.

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Can Daydreaming Be Beneficial At Work?

The Horizons Tracker

Daydreaming is normally seen in a wholly negative light, whether we do so in the classroom or at work. New research from Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis suggests this negative slant may not be entirely deserved, and that there may actually be some benefits after all. The key appears to be whether it’s driven by professional challenges or not.

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Boosting Sales Is About Simplicity

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Sales are the lifeblood of any company. No sales, no company. The good news is there’s an incredibly simple technique that you can do right now to help boost your numbers. Today’s post is by Mike Figliuolo, Managing Director of thoughtLEADERS. Strap yourself in. You’re about to have your mind blown. Ever since grade school when I sold anything that wasn’t nailed down, I’ve been drawn to sales.

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7 Common Connectors for People

Ron Edmondson

One thing which has always come naturally to me and I love doing is connecting people with similar interests. This skill has served me well as a pastor. I believe one of the best ways within the Body of Christ for “iron to sharpen iron” is to help find common connectors for people. From a strategic, discipleship standpoint, I know people are more likely to be connected to the church if they are connected to other people at deeper levels than simply attending the same church.

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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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Little Book of Mindfulness: 10 Minutes a Day to Less Stress, More Peace

Roundtable Talk

Little Book of Mindfulness: 10 minutes a day to less stress, more peace By: Patrizia Collard Reviewed by: Glain Roberts-McCabe The Premise: Dr. Patrizia Collard is a mindfulness teacher, psychotherapist, stress management consultant and lecturer at the University of East London. She’s covered a lot of bases around stress, cognitive behavioural therapy (cbt) and mental … Little Book of Mindfulness: 10 Minutes a Day to Less Stress, More Peace Read More » The post Little Book of Mindfuln

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What’s Next for Silicon Valley?

Harvard Business Review

A particular set of conditions gave rise to the tech titans. But that era is coming to an end.

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Employee benefits for Caregivers in workplaces

HR Digest

People are living longer with more access to medical care and innovations and progress in medicine. This has resulted in many relatives and friends being thrust into the role of caregivers impacting their personal and professional lives. What can employers do to see that this workforce is given maximum benefits to enact the dual role efficiently and comfortably?

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3 Tips for a Smooth Transition into Retirement

Harvard Business Review

Leaving your job behind can be painful. But it doesn’t have to be.

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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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An Agile Culture Ripples Out From the Leadership Team

The Practical Leader

Many leadership teams seem to think that talking about agility will magically transform their organizations. If only change were that simple. Talking isn’t doing. A department, division, or organization’s culture ripples out from its leadership team. Organizational behavior reflects leadership team behavior. A team that wants to change “them” needs to start with a deep look in the mirror to change “us.” A rigid leadership team stuck in traditional methods of i

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Breaking Up Facebook Won’t Fix Social Media

Harvard Business Review

We need better policies around data privacy, hate speech, election integrity, and misinformation.

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The Need for Commercial Cleaning

Strategy Driven

Almost any commercial building absolutely needs some type of professional cleaning service. Commercial buildings can become messy very easily, even if the building in question is just an office building or something similar. Commercial building floors can get a lot of foot traffic, making them dusty by the end of the day. During certain seasons and areas, it’s very obvious if a building is not cleaned regularly enough.

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How Nonprofit Foundations Can Sustainably Fund Disease Research

Harvard Business Review

Three strategies that work.

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2024 Payroll Calendar Templates

These calendars provide pay period dates and paydays for biweekly, semi-monthly, and monthly payroll in 2024. Use them as a reminder or share with employees so they can celebrate payday.

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Men And Women Don’t Benefit Equally From Automation

The Horizons Tracker

The gender pay gap has stubbornly endured over the years, despite well intentioned efforts to improve matters. What impact might automation have on things? That was the question posed by new research from the London School of Economics that explored what impact investment into robotics had on the gender pay gap. The study suggests that for every 10 percent rise in the number of robots operating in the workplace, there’s a 1.8% rise in the pay gap between male and female employees.

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Belief In Conspiracy Theories Hampers Attempts To Halt COVID

The Horizons Tracker

Conspiracy theories have sadly been a feature of the COVID-19 pandemic, and recent times have seen various protests launched that have been fuelled by a range of unfounded conspiracies, particularly around vaccines. It’s perhaps no surprise, therefore, that a recent survey from the Annenberg Public Policy Center has revealed that belief in conspiracy theories is hampering our attempts to halt the spread of the virus.

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