Wed.Dec 22, 2021

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How Reading Body Language Can Make You a Better Leader? (With Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

Reading Body Language Can Help You Go a Level Deeper. When Connecting With Your Team. As a human-centered leader, you want to pay attention to what’s really going on with your team. Understanding body language can help you know where you can, and should, probe a bit deeper to see how you can help. In today’s Asking For a Friend, I talk with body language expert, Traci Brown as we answer “What body language secrets hiding in plain sight will make me a better leader?

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Interview with New York City’s WCBS Radio: Connection Provides Protection from Burnout and Suicide

Michael Lee Stallard

The holidays are a particularly difficult time for those who are already struggling with loneliness, depression, and feelings of hopelessness. This can lead to burnout or even suicidal thoughts. Fortunately, there is hope. As I shared in a recent conversation with Pat Farnack of New York City’s WCBS Radio , seeking counsel from a good therapist can help you to see a way forward.

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Wishing You Renewal

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton As you enter the holiday season and 2021 comes to a close, I wish you a season of personal renewal. We have all lost something, whether it be time, independence, social interaction, a sense of safety, or good health.

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Dear Dan: I Feel Burn-Out Because Administration Promotes Unqualified People

Leadership Freak

Dear Dan, First, I really enjoy your leadership tweets. Second, I’m currently at a job, where the administration seems to be promoting ‘yes men’ and not qualified people to supervisors. Not leaders.

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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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5 Ways Paid Loyalty Programs Can Bring Customers Back

Strategy Driven

Returning customers are something that all businesses want. Although coaxing new customers is great, it takes more time and resources to bring in new customers than it does to keep returning ones. One way of ensuring you bring them back is to offer a loyalty program. Here are five ways paid loyalty programs can bring customers back. Why Are Loyalty Programs so Important?

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Getting Women Onto Compensation Committees Helps To Reduce Gender Bias

The Horizons Tracker

A common argument behind the gender pay gap is that too few women operate on compensation committees, which results in women persistently being underpaid even if they do break the glass ceiling and make it to the top of our organizations. It’s an argument that receives support from research from Cambridge Judge Business School, which highlights how the presence of women on compensation committees tends to eliminate the biases that so often work against female candidates.

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Thoughts That Make You Go Hmmm on…Mindfulness

The Practical Leader

Don’t believe everything you think. “… listen to your thoughts with mindful awareness. You will see the evanescent nature of thoughts, that they are fleeting ideas, all impermanent. And then you can begin to realize that just because you have a thought doesn’t mean you have to believe it — much less act on it — and certainly not get caught up in the whole stream of them.

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Best Excuses to Get Out of Work

HR Digest

From time to time, we all need some excuses to get out of work. It may be a sick day or a car trouble. No matter the reason, you need to send a text message or call your boss or HR manager to tell them that you will not be on the job on the exact day. . If you wonder how to write a sick day email, it is best to keep it short and simple, without too many explanations.

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When People Assume You’re Not In Charge Because You’re a Woman

Harvard Business Review

“Role incredulity” is a systemic issue — and organizations need to deal with it.

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Resilience In Leadership

Tanveer Naseer

There is probably not a single corporate or business leader on planet Earth who will admit that the business they lead has no mission statement, business values or a sense of purpose. Yet a Deloitte study released in May 2020 when most of the world was in lockdown, the pandemic. Click to continue reading.

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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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Research: How AR Filters Impact People’s Self-Image

Harvard Business Review

Five guidelines to deploy augmented reality more responsibly.

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How to Grow Your Business: Pro Tips for Managers

Strategy Driven

Are you trying to grow your business but feel like you keep running into a brick wall? Don’t worry; this is a common experience that all managers go through at some point in time. It’s the nature of the business world: nothing is supposed to be easy! Fortunately, you can put the following pro tips into action if you need a boost. These tips will help to protect your business, get it on the right track, and ultimately make growth a realistic possibility.

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The “Wages Are Skyrocketing” Narrative Is False

Harvard Business Review

Anecdotal evidence is at odds with the data.

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Founding Teams Need The Right Mix Of Skills And Personality To Succeed

The Horizons Tracker

The founding team is vitally important to the success of any startup, and indeed, some studies argue that the founding team is more important to the success of the startup than the product itself. That’s largely the ethos behind accelerators such as Entrepreneur First, who back exceptional people and help them turn their intellect into marketable products and successful businesses.

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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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From Tech Investor to Author (with a16z’s Andrew Chen)

Harvard Business Review

Azeem Azhar speaks to Andreessen Horowitz general partner Andrew Chen about their parallel career moves – from tech insiders to authors.

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Left Behind Communities Are Not All The Same

The Horizons Tracker

The plight of so-called “left behind” regions has been of intense interest in many countries around the world in recent years, not least due to the pivotal role these communities were said to have played in the Brexit referendum and the election of Donald Trump. For instance, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn examined the state of these towns in the United States in their excellent book Tightrope , which addresses the crisis in working-class America while.

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Should You Even Bother with New Year’s Resolutions This Year?

Harvard Business Review

Yes. And here’s why.

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How Do I Navigate a New Senior Role?

Harvard Business Review

A leader learns how to make a positive impact after being promoted to a more senior role.

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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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Procurement Teams Are Moving From Cost-Cutters to Growth Enablers - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM WNS

Harvard Business Review

Sponsor content from WNS.

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