Tue.Apr 16, 2019

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More Space! More Space!

Lead Change Blog

You’ve probably heard the story of the person who visits a guru, seeking wisdom. As the visitor chatters on, the guru pours tea in a cup. The visitor keeps talking and the guru keeps pouring until the tea is running over the sides of the cup. “Stop!” cries the visitor. “There’s no more room in the cup!”. The guru tells the visitor that the cup is like the visitor’s mind.

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Is Conventional Wisdom Diminishing Your Ability To Successfully Lead Others?

Tanveer Naseer

When it comes to leadership, many of us have developed habits or strategies that have served us well in not only achieving our organization’s goals, but driving future growth and success. But is it possible that at times the conventional wisdom we’ve come to rely on about our leadership might. Click to continue reading.

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4 Little Known Entrepreneurial Lessons from the Ski Slopes

Women on Business

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What Do You Expect? – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

Have you ever been disappointed? Frustrated? Maybe even annoyed? And then maybe you said (rather cynically), “Well, what did you expect?” It’s probably unlikely that there are many of us who can say we haven’t asked this question once or twice in our lives… So in today’s video, I’m sharing a much more valuable and […].

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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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Types of Sales Wolves: The Hunter Sales Wolf and the Farmer Sales Wolf

Sales Wolf Blog

The level of quality within your sales talent is one of the only factors that can dramatically alter the success of your organization. Use a hiring scorecard and strategic recruiting to find, attract, and retain Sales Wolves. Surround them with Sales Wolf Managers. Then everything is easy from there, right? Not so fast.

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5 Qualities You Need For Effective Leadership

Joseph Lalonde

We know that being a good leader can be the difference between whether your business sinks or swims. Owning a business is a monumental task, so cultivating the right leadership strategy is essential if you wish to create a workforce that is with you every step of the way. Below, we’ve gone into some of […] The post 5 Qualities You Need For Effective Leadership appeared first on Joseph Lalonde.

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An Incredible Meeting Agenda Any Leader Can Use

Leadership Freak

Lousy meetings are the rule – vibrant meetings the exception. In an ideal world, meeting-agendas arrive the day before the meeting. But you don’t live in an ideal world.

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How to Spot Your Goldilocks Consulting Opportunities

David A Fields

Before Goldilocks was eaten by the three bears (or was it the three pigs?), she fussily spotted the ideal porridge, chair and bed for herself. What’s the ideal consulting opportunity for your consulting firm? There are myriad guidelines you could apply to pinpoint your ideal consulting opportunity. For example, strategic fit, duration of project, or … Continued.

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If an Onboarding Plan is NOT Your Greatest Challenge with New Teammates, What Is?

Great Results Team Building

As a team leader or member, one of the greatest challenges you have is welcoming a new teammate and “showing them the ropes.”. But onboarding is NOT the most important part of bringing in someone new. As a teacher and coach, I used to tell my students and athletes that it was less important how you start than what you do each day to ensure a strong finish.

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Everything Is Easier When You Communicate

leaderCommunicator

If you’re anything like me, you’ve got so much on your mind at times that it’s often easier to fixate on what didn’t get done than what did. For everything you cross off your to-do list, six more crop up. That one email with a quick question turned into a flurry of 20 emails, that simple project that you thought would knock out in a day has taken more than a few days, and, well, the list goes on.

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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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Top 20 Innovation Articles of March 2019

Innovation Excellence

Drum roll please… At the beginning of each month we will profile the twenty posts from the previous month that generated the most traffic to Innovation Excellence. We also publish a weekly Top 8 as part of our FREE email newsletter. Did your favorite make the cut? But enough delay, here are March’s twenty most.

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Interview: When Change Requires a Layoff

Change Starts Here

The Influence Change at Work™ Show is back! After hosting 89 podcast episodes, I had to take a break for a while. During the hiatus, I found I missed learning from the conversations I had with guests and sharing them with you. So, I’ve started up the show again. I hope you enjoy episode 90! […].

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How To Sabotage Your Leadership

LDRLB

In my first real job after college, I went to work for a large, international firm. Because of its size, and my job, my first task was to report to a nondescript office building off a highway in New Jersey for three weeks of primary training. I learned about the company’s history, its product, and the chosen process that sales and marketing decided I should be guiding clients through.

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Tips on Starting a Business Before Gaining US Citizenship

Strategy Driven

Most people can do business in the United States, whether they are located or based abroad or not. However, there are advantages that come with owning a U.S. based business. It can be easier to gain buyer confidence when you own a domestic U.S. based company as well as when all business takes place within the continental United States. At the same time, anyone who is not a U.S. citizen will have a harder time establishing a business here.

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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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Relying on Data: Why It’s Terrifying and Necessary

Thin Difference

Several years ago I took a meeting with a prospective client who was looking for help with her company’s digital strategy. We discussed her goals and where she saw her company in five years. After several minutes of discussion, she explained that she wanted her brand to be seen as “the definitive voice” in her field. She’d heard others in her field described as “thought leaders” and wanted that for her company.

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How to Stop Thinking Negatively About Your Business

Strategy Driven

As a business owner, it’s only natural that you want your company to be successful. However, overthinking and setting unattainable goals can have a negative impact on your mental health. Here are a few ways to help you stop thinking negatively about your business. Set Realistic Goals. Whether you’re a fully established business or you are just starting out, it’s important to set goals that are attainable.

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How To Identify And Develop Emerging Talent

Eric Jacobson

From the book, Mastering the Challenges of Leading Change , comes this useful checklist from author H. James Dallas for how to identify and develop emerging talent in your company/organization. Dallas recommends that each question should be graded on a scale of 1 to 3, with 3 being the best. Use the questions and the scoring for you and your employee to work together toward the highest ratings across the board.

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Four Crucial Elements for Any Successful Website

Strategy Driven

For nearly thirty years, businesses and individuals alike have utilized the internet to project their thoughts, desires, and projects to the rest of the world. Over this time, the nature of the internet has evolved dramatically: there’s probably no better illustration of this evolution than the functionality and aesthetics of most websites. Used for everything from gossip and personal blogs to major online marketplaces, the look and feel of a website has morphed considerably over the years

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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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Sometimes It’s Not a Systems Problem – Identifying the Real Issue

Ron Edmondson

In one of my first vocational leadership roles, I managed a large retail division of a major department store. The division had several departments within it and each department had a separate department manager. Most of the departments were efficient, profitable, and easy to manage. One department, however, continued to fall behind the others. It was frustrating, because I couldn’t seem to get them to improve.

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Rural Carrier Associate (RCA) – United States Postal Service – Dannemora, NY

HR Digest

HR Jobs. Contact Information - HR Lyndsay Jackson 518-452-2401 or HR Kim Fortuin 518-452-2407. RCA (RURAL CARRIER ASSOCIATE)- *CASES, DELIVERS AND COLLECTS MAIL ALONG A. $17.78 an hour From Indeed - Tue, 16 Apr 2019 13:38:19 GMT - View all Dannemora, NY jobs. Rural Carrier Associate (RCA) - United States Postal Service - Dannemora, NY. The post Rural Carrier Associate (RCA) – United States Postal Service – Dannemora, NY appeared first on The HR Digest.

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#leadershiptruth – Trust your gut.

Roundtable Talk

Lately, it seems that intuition is getting shortchanged in a world that values data and critical thinking. We have become so focused on trying to bulletproof our decisions by backing them up with facts and figures that we often overlook the fact that our gut (as well as our heart) can be highly instructive in […].

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Avoiding the Expertise Trap

Harvard Business Review

Sydney Finkelstein, professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, says that being the most knowledgeable and experienced person on your team isn’t always a good thing. Expertise can steer you wrong in two important ways. It can stop you from being curious about new developments in your field. And it can make you overconfident about your ability to solve problems in different areas.

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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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7 Habits of Weak Leaders (and How Not to Be One) 

Lead from Within

Just as positive habits create strong leaders, bad habits can and will create weak leaders. Here are seven habits to be especially mindful of. If you’re practicing even one of them, start working immediately to replace it with a positive habit before your leadership weakens and suffers major damage. Holding to a double standard. Weak leaders are in the habit of saying one thing and doing another.

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Would You Live in a Smart City Where Government Controls Privacy?

Harvard Business Review

Toronto is experimenting with smart city concepts envisioned by Google spin-off Sidewalk Labs. Harvard Business School professors Leslie John and Mitch Weiss discuss the tradeoffs of using technology to improve modern city life at potential costs to digital privacy from their case, “Sidewalk Labs: Privacy in a City Built from the Internet Up.” Is it worth it?

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You Are the Captain of Your Ship

Frank Sonnenberg Online

You Are the Captain of Your Ship. The future you get depends on the choices you make. Period. No one’s going to force you to go to the gym, invest in your personal growth, or save for retirement. Additionally, you can choose to be an honest person, surround yourself with positive role models, and live a healthy lifestyle. Or you can choose an alternate path.

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To Change the Way You Think, Change the Way You See

Harvard Business Review

What Sherlock Holmes has in common with the creator of Softsoap.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.

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The Mistake Companies Make When They Use Data to Plan Diversity Efforts

Harvard Business Review

Lack of data is no excuse for ignoring intersectionality.

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How Younger Salespeople Can Win Over Older Customers

Harvard Business Review

Prepare, cite experts, and express your conviction.

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Research Confirms: When Receiving Bad News, We Shoot the Messenger

Harvard Business Review

Advice for those who have to deliver it.

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Don’t Acquire a Company Until You Evaluate Its Data Security

Harvard Business Review

Beware the “data lemon.

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DOL Final Overtime Rules: Quickstart Guide for Employers

On August 30, 2023, the DOL unveiled a proposed overtime rule that would raise the weekly salary threshold under the Federal Labor Standards Act. Paycor is closely monitoring the proposal and will provide updates as new information becomes available.