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The Surprising Way to Focus Your Team on Fundamentals

Let's Grow Leaders

Why focus on the fundamentals? When I was defending my master’s thesis over 25 years ago, one particularly snotty professor (who had never actually worked in an organization outside of academia) leaned back in his chair and smirked, “It strikes me that […]. The post The Surprising Way to Focus Your Team on Fundamentals appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Empathetic and Mindful Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Aryeh Brickner: The other day I was in an elevator. A man who looked to be in his thirties got on, while talking on the phone. Entering behind him was a couple with a baby boy about a year old in their arms. The guy on the phone says, “I have to hang up now, I just got into an elevator”. The father turns to him and says in a nasty tone, “Did you really have to endanger all of us just to finish your call?

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Buying Office Furniture? Do Not Make These Mistakes

Women on Business

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10 Vital Traits to Look for In People You Hire

Lead from Within

Generating value in any organization requires bringing together an amazing group of people around a worthy cause and compelling vision. Too many people look only to innovative technology or strong processes or new products. Those things have their role, but there is one thing successful companies have in common—it’s the people who are able to transform culture and reshape an organization.

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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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7 Ways to Choose Your Failures Carefully

Leadership Freak

The hotel staff didn’t complain but they were visibly upset. What happened next is a lesson in choosing your failures. A lousy customer: A guest at a nearby table insulted the staff.

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Sustaining Change Beyond Implementation

Change Starts Here

At the Ten Ways Change Gets Stuck webinar earlier this week, I polled the audience to see which of the ten ways they felt were most likely hindering their current change initiative. The top result: A whopping 63% of webinar attendees said Focus on Implementation was holding them back. Focus on Implementation means you’re checking […].

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The Best Ways to Prepare for Retirement

Strategy Driven

Retirement can be daunting, especially when considering a pension at the start of your working life. However, with the right preparation, you can make retirement a simple and relaxing process, devoid of money worries and other concerns that you will want to leave behind in the working world. Your Workplace’s Pension Scheme. Firstly, you should ensure that you auto-enroll in your companies’ pension scheme, where possible.

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The Difference Between Positive Feedback And Praise

Eric Jacobson

There is an important difference between giving your employees positive feedback and giving them praise. Positive feedback focuses on the specifics of job performance. Praise, often one-or two-sentence statements, such as “Keep up the good work,” without positive feedback leaves employees with empty feelings. Worse yet, without positive feedback, employees feel no sense that they are appreciated as individual talents with specific desires to learn and grow on the job and in their careers, report

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Women of Influence Spring 2019 Magazine: A Seat at The Roundtable

Roundtable Talk

As an RBC Canadian Women Entrepreneur award winner, Glain was recently featured in the Women of Influence Spring 2019 magazine. The article “A Seat at The Roundtable” shares Glain’s journey from six-figure corporate powerhouse to award-winning entrepreneur. We’re so proud of her accomplishments and can’t wait to see what she leads us to next!

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SWOT analysis – What careers coaches won’t tell you

Rapid BI

The SWOT analysis can be a great career planning and development tool, but not in the way that many career coaches and educational tutors suggest. Since 2006 when I first started writing about the use of SWOT analysis, I have seen very little change in the way that SWOT is explained. As a result, many […]. The post SWOT analysis – What careers coaches won’t tell you appeared first on RapidBI.

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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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Leadership Advice: Develop Where You Are

Ron Edmondson

I’ve seen so many potentially great leaders waste opportunities because they were waiting for the perfect scenario before they began to develop as a leader. A few scenarios: They don’t enjoy where they are currently in life or work so they think there is nothing to be gained where they are now. They aren’t in their dream job so they don’t look for the learning potentials in their present situation.

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What Makes Some People More Productive Than Others

Harvard Business Review

Survey results show that a few key habits make a big difference.

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The Former CEO of DHL Express on Leading the Company Through an Existential Crisis

Harvard Business Review

And the unusual ways he communicated urgency.

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Are You Ready to Change Your Target Customer?

Harvard Business Review

It’s a risky decision.

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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.