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5 Top Leadership Articles for the Week of October 30, 2017

Let's Grow Leaders

Each week I read leadership articles from various online resources and share them across social media. Here are the five leadership articles readers found most valuable last week. Click on the title of the article to read the full text. I have […].

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Where Is Your Equality?

Lead Change Blog

As leaders, we’re sometimes dealt some pretty rough hands. Imagine, for instance, that you’re brought in to manage a team only to find that it has struggled for years with gender inequality issues. It can work both ways, too; perhaps your team is suspiciously flooded with male talent, or maybe the department you’ve been handed has more women in key positions than their male counterparts.

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The Feeling of an Organization is Leadership’s Responsibility

Leadership Freak

The feeling of an organization is leadership’s responsibility. Left to chance, the lights go out. Organizational morale evaluates leadership. I’ve seen people smile, wave, and shout hey, when leaders walk through a plant.

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5 Thoughts On Sneezing Jesus By Brian Hardin

Joseph Lalonde

Sneezing Jesus: How God Redeems Our Humanity I have to say I was intrigued when I received the book , Sneezing Jesus. The title is intriguing. What could Sneezing Jesus be about? The book asks the question: Are you ready to be human? This seems counterintuitive. After all, aren’t we all human? Sneezing Jesus delves into this question and more.

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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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Weekly Round-Up: Black Friday Creep, 6 Steps for PR Fails, Enjoyable Team-Building, 12 Successful Leadership Principles, & 3 Ways to Fix Company Culture

leaderCommunicator

Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts. Why Costco Said “No” To Black Friday Creep By Jon Picoult ( @ JonPicoult ), Watermark Consulting “Remember the good old days when U.S. consumers actually took the time to celebrate Thanksgiving – and retailers let them do it?…”.

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The Secret to Becoming A Great Speaker and Author

Lead from Within

Summary. What is the secret to impacting audiences through writing and speaking? Is it confidence? Charisma? Eloquence? The answer may surprise you. Today’s guest reveals counter-intuitive wisdom, gained from decades of leadership, on how to impact your audience whether you are writing or speaking. Lolly Daskal is one of the most sought-after executive leadership coaches in the world.

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The Do's And Don'ts Of Effective Listening

Eric Jacobson

Here are some great tips from Michelle Tillis Lederman's book, The 11 Laws of Likability. They are all about: what to do and what not to do to be a leader who's an effective listener : Do : Maintain eye contact Limit your talking Focus on the speaker Ask questions Manage your emotions Listen with your eyes and ears Listen for ideas and opportunities Remain open to the conversation Confirm understanding, paraphrase Give nonverbal messages that you are listening (nod, smile) Ignore distractions Do

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Moving Beyond a Plateau— 9 Lessons in Career Reinvention

Management Excellence

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What to think when things do not add up…

Deming Institute

Post by Bill Bellows. “The efforts of the various divisions in a company, each given a job, are not additive. Their efforts are interdependent.”. W. Edwards Deming, The New Economics. In the summer of 2005, I attended a conference which featured Jack Welch, the former CEO of General Electric, as the opening keynote speaker. Welch offered an assessment on the overall savings from continuous improvement projects across GE: “ If I added up all the financial savings of the projects at GE it wo

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Leadership Forged In Crisis

Leading Blog

L EADERSHIP development is a very personal endeavor. The better you become, the better your leadership becomes. It is a misconception of leadership that if you engage in the best practices of a great leader, you will become that leader. Applying the idea that if I do this or if I have this quality I will become a great leader like my chosen mentor, can derail your leadership development.

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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 Design Thinking Is Improving Patient-Caregiver Conversations

Harvard Business Review

Teacept/iStock. Technical developments tend to grab the headlines in health care. Predictive analytics , telemedicine , electronic health records — technology is rightly seen as a transformative force in health delivery. But it’s not the only one. At Rotterdam Eye Hospital, hospital administrators have found that through their ongoing design-thinking program , lower-tech measures can also improve health care.

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OD Developer Profile Audit Tool

Rapid BI

How do internal developers build and develop their skills? There is no single standard. The OD Developer Profile Audit tool was developed by Mike Morrison as part of a PG Diploma in Management and Organisational Development. Part of the development programme was to maintain a Personal Development Plan throughout the duration of the programme. Rather than […].

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When Faced with Conflict, Try an Introspective Approach

Harvard Business Review

Kenneth Andersson for HBR. I wish he would just get fired. How is it that rational, good, understanding, kind, collaborative people like you and me can get so triggered by certain colleagues’ work performance that our minds race with how we want them to get out of our lives and work — in any way possible? We come up with long diatribes of the million and one reasons why they need to get their act together — or, better yet, disappear.

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Shopping Cart Abandonment Rates Hit 75% – Infographic

Women on Business

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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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How We Nudged Employees to Embrace Flexible Work

Harvard Business Review

Chris Rogers/Getty Images. Globally, many leading organizations have introduced workplace policies to enable flexible work, recognizing its benefits for staff retention, morale, commitment, diversity, recruitment, and being an employer of choice. But despite employee demand and some high-profile examples, it has proved harder to get broader adoption of those policies.

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Good Strategy Execution Requires Balancing 4 Tensions

Harvard Business Review

Daniel Grizelj/Getty Images. Putting strategy into practice is notoriously difficult. In our experience, the primary obstacle to strategy execution is a failure to balance the inherent tensions that characterize any major execution effort. Successful strategy execution calls for skillful orchestration of sometimes opposing forces and competing needs.