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How Do I Deal With a Jerk at Work? (With Videos)

Let's Grow Leaders

Strategies For Dealing With the Most Difficult Co-Workers. Today on Asking For a Friend, I interview Peter Economy the Inc. Leadership Guy on how to deal with a jerk at work. Peter and I are kindred spirits and have been passionately connected on this topic of dealing with jerks at work for some time. Here’s a very early Inc. interview on being a jerk at work, after my very first book on Overcoming an Imperfect Boss came out in 2014.

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Anxiety And Work: The Impact Of Anxiety On Different Generations of Employees

Tanveer Naseer

No matter how good you are at your job or how long you’ve been at it, being an effective leader is never easy. As a leader, you play many roles — from coach and mentor to (sometimes) drill sergeant and disciplinarian. The key is understanding exactly what your employees need. Click to continue reading.

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Leadership Isn’t Cushy (Human Development Required)

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton There's a powerful connection between responsible leadership and human growth and development. It's not easily visible to leaders, so today I'm digging into how these important variables intersect and how they should inform our approach to leadership development.

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Outward Bound Lessons to Live a Life of Leadership

Lead Change Blog

For nearly six decades Outward Bound USA’s education programs have shaped the lives of tens of thousands of participants. Strangers are put in an unfamiliar and unpredictable setting, where to succeed they must develop a sense of teamwork, resilience, self-confidence, and a focus on the greater good. But, Mark Brown asks, isn’t the modern world just as unpredictable and challenging as any mountain or desert?

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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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5 Reasons You Should Stop Having One-on-Ones Immediately

Leadership Freak

Learn how to do one-on-ones well or find a career where you can work alone. Strong relationships fuel great results. 5 reasons to stop having one-on-ones: #1.

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10 Most-Read Blogs on Leadership & Communication in Q1 2021

leaderCommunicator

We’re a few months into 2021, a year that couldn’t come soon enough for many, and we wanted to take a look at what content has resonated most with you – our readers – so far this year. There’s a great variety of posts to help you lead and communicate. Top content from Q1 ranges from how to show your employees you care and ways to smile more, to how to differentiate communication from information and effectively plan your next communication in 5 minutes.

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Do You Want A Thought Leader’s Perspective on Vision?

CEO Insider

Since the publication of my most recent book, Indispensable: Build and Lead A Company Can’t Live Without, last month, I have had the marvelous opportunity to discuss several of the key questions covered in the book with several fellow thought leaders. This 5-part article series captures the essence of those discussions. Each piece is organized […].

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Are You Better Off Hiring Boomerang Employees Than Promoting From Within?

The Horizons Tracker

The benefits of boomerang employees have been well documented. Their familiarity with how the organization works means they generally get up to speed far quicker, are more in tune with the culture of the business and are less likely to leave after a short spell. New research from Carnegie Mellon highlights the advantages of boomerang employees, even over internal hires.

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The Power of Family Business Stories

CEO Insider

Family-owned businesses, more than 32 million strong, are the backbone of the U.S. economy. According to a February 2021 research report, family businesses employ over 83 million people in the U.S., and account for 54 percent of total private sector GDP. The survival and growth of these family firms is critical for our country’s economic recovery […].

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A Case for Employee Engagement in Improving Work Culture

HR Digest

Employee happiness is crucial in any organization as happy employees are said to be more engaged in their work. When it comes to measuring happiness at work, one of the most overlooked aspects is employee engagement. Managers are responsible for increasing employee motivation levels, which benefits the company’s bottom line and its workers. Here are a few data-driven ways to help you improve employee engagement.

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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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Adding Change Management to an Existing Project

Change Starts Here

In my latest Fundamentals of Influencing Change at Work course, one of the participants asked a question: How do I integrate change management into the structure of a project that’s already happening?

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How Institutional Reforms Can Help Startups

The Horizons Tracker

Each year INSEAD produces the Global Innovation Index, in which countries are ranked based upon the support they provide to innovators. Some of the criteria used in the production of the index revolve around things such as the ease of creating a business or raising capital. It’s perhaps fitting, therefore, that despite these things not being the sexiest aspect of innovation, that a new paper from Wharton highlights their importance in startup creation and growth.

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How Can Influencers Help Modern Businesses?

Strategy Driven

Running a business in the modern world will always come with some challenges. Competing with other companies, getting the word out to enough customers, and even just keeping up with the latest trends and developments can feel impossible when you’re running a business by yourself. Influencer marketing can help with at least two of these areas, offering loads of benefits to your business when you decide to take this route.

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The Rise Of Industrialized Misinformation

The Horizons Tracker

In the midst of the Covid pandemic, the World Health Organization famously declared that we were also in the midst of an “infodemic”, with misinformation spreading about the origins, the cause, the severity, and the control measures required to slow the spread of the virus. Indeed, this has continued with misinformation flooding the web about the various vaccines being rolled out.

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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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5 Ways Outsourcing Your IT Will Save Your Company Money

Strategy Driven

Let’s face it: there are tons of web pages that describe the benefits of outsourcing specific functions of your business to external third-party companies. But, when it comes to IT or Information Technology, does it actually save your company money? The thing is, you could quite comfortably streamline your IT processes and run a lot of them in-house.

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The Primary Reason People Resist Change

Ron Edmondson

After years of leading change, I’ve discovered every change will face resistance. All change. And there is a primary reason people resist change. I believe it is the number one reason. No one who has ever led change would disagree with my discovery. Regardless of the change someone will not agree with it – at least initially. It’s almost human nature at work.

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How to Avoid Spinning into the 360 Degree Feedback Death Spiral

The Practical Leader

The use of 360 degree assessments has exploded in the past few decades. They’re now widely available in a bewildering variety of tools used for leadership development, executive coaching, performance management, personal growth, etc. Do a Google search on variations of 360 degree feedback, assessment, or tools and go shopping among millions of options.

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Formal Authority: Do You Even Need It?

Niagara Institute

Anyone who has thought “if only I had more authority, I could get things done around here,” has either been (or will be) let down to find out that this is not the case. As one Forbes author said, “Great leadership has very little to do with how much formal authority one has. Yet, most people complain about not having enough authority to make a difference.”.

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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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How To Ease Burn Out Using Quantum Colors

CEO Insider

When I first started running my company, The Film Festival Doctor, during the first two years of trading, I began to work extremely long hours which consisted of 16-hour days, seven days a week and surviving on five hours sleep each night. Inevitably, I was burnt out but I still ploughed through as I presumed […]. License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article How To Ease Burn Out Using Quantum Colors are those of the author Dr.

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The Future World Of Work - 12 Tips From Communication Expert David Grossman

Eric Jacobson

Question: While we surely will find ourselves challenged by COVID-19 in the foreseeable future, what is the most important thing a leader can do as they lead their business/organization? “The most important thing a leader can do during periods of significant change and times of uncertainty, like we’re experiencing now during the pandemic, is to listen to his or her people.

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CEOs Speak Out on Politics and the Future of Digital Currencies

Harvard Business Review

Rawi, Rebecca, and Mihir discuss how and why CEOs are speaking out on politics and what China’s digital renminbi means for economics and politics.

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Top 7 Tips to Ensure Employee Satisfaction in Your Real Estate Brokerage

Strategy Driven

If you want to attract the best of the best real estate agents to your brokerage, it’s crucial to ensure employee satisfaction. Indeed, even the best recruitment strategies will fail if you people keep leaving your brokerage every few months. With a high turnover rate, a prospective candidate might think that you aren’t taking good care of your people.

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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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Mapping AI’s Societal Impact

Harvard Business Review

AI is more than just code and algorithms. It’s an industry built on a global network of resource extraction, human labor, and data collection.

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Parents, Take Your Sick Days

Harvard Business Review

If you don’t, you’re leaving money (and your health) on the table.

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Is Your Team Solving Problems, or Just Identifying Them?

Harvard Business Review

Eight ways to encourage your team to think more critically.

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The Surprising Power of Peer Coaching

Harvard Business Review

Here’s why it works — and how to do it right.

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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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Six Best Practices for Elevating Procurement at Your Organization - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM WORKDAY

Harvard Business Review

Sponsor content from Workday.

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