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How to Get Better Results in 2020: A Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival! This month, our contributors share their thoughts about how to achieve better results in 2020. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors. Are you […]. The post How to Get Better Results in 2020: A Frontline Festival appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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How to Harness the Power of Empathy for Effective Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Maria Ross: Let me ask you a question: What does a successful leader look like? Effective leaders are masters of business strategy. They are visionaries who know how to clearly communicate their vision to others. To climb the corporate ladder, you’ve got to make fast, difficult decisions at critical times. Successful leaders have persistence, tenacity, confidence, enthusiasm.

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Old Habits Die Hard

Lead Change Blog

Ahhh, it is the New Year, a great time to start fresh. Even Louie, my rescue pup, needs a fresh start. I have noticed over the last couple of weeks that he has reverted back to some of his earlier unacceptable behaviors. It all started with my noticing his unusually boundless amount of energy. We did our normal long walks and he had play dates with his friends.

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Why The Best Leaders Crave Feedback

Lead from Within

A recent study finds that the best predictor of a high performance evaluation is self-awareness—the ability to seeing yourself as others see you. And the best predictor of a low evaluation is overrating your own leadership skills. If you want to position yourself for success, you need to understand your strengths and weaknesses—to know where you excel and where you’re average or even a bit below.

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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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How the CEO of Whole Foods Bought Gossamer Gear

Leadership Freak

I don’t care for the idea of luck. I prefer Ralph Waldo Emerson’s approach, “Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

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Updates, news, and. What are you choosing? Really?

Anese Cavanaugh

Oh gosh. friends. The fodder for today is so rich. I've had so many things happen this last quarter that have informed much of my thinking, inspired me, and given me so many answers to questions I've been grokking literally for over a year. I'm going to be addressing some of these things here on this blog over the next year -- I hope you'll join me.

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Office Ergonomics Are Key To Business Success

Strategy Driven

A good business is one that takes the health and safety of all its employees seriously and part of this is to consider good, sound ergonomic practice in the office space. If employees are engaged in repetitive tasks that put their bodies under strain, over time, this will show in their performance and in their general wellbeing. This has a negative effect on their work and their ability to achieve in the longer term.

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How To Apologize

Eric Jacobson

The following great advice about how to apologize is from the book, The Courage Solution , by Mindy Mackenzie. She recommends you include these three elements when you apologize: Actually say "I'm sorry" out loud, while making eye contact, if possible. Acknowledging your error by adding the phrase "I was wrong.but more importantly, you were right." Asking humbly, "How can I fix this?

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How can you make brainstorming fun?

Strategy Driven

What is brainstorming? Brainstorming is used as a method to generate ideas to solve a problem. It is a creativity technique done in groups to find a solution for a specific problem. It puts together the list of ideas given by the member in a free-thinking environment. Brainstorming is popular mostly in design teams because they have to think out of the box and in every direction.

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How Society Benefits If We Make It Easier For Refugees To Enter The Workforce

The Horizons Tracker

The plight of refugees is harrowing enough, with most fleeing from some of the most horrendous circumstances possible. Despite the harrowing circumstances they are leaving, they come with a range of skills and talents that they simply want to put to use in building a new life for themselves. Unfortunately, barriers exist that prevent them from doing so, with many waiting years for an asylum decision.

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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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The best fidget toys to relieve stress and anxiety at your office

Strategy Driven

We live in a fast-paced world with cut-throat competition. Companies try their best to be number 1 in the league. This does not come without a cost. Every individual in the office must give their 100% to stay ahead in the game. From leadership to the employees, everyone is in constant pressure and stress. Since offices can’t put an end to the work problem, they have introduced stress toys to help the employees combat stress.

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What’s The Psychology Behind Donating Our Data To Research?

The Horizons Tracker

The potential for health data to power tremendous gains in medical research and treatment is a topic I’ve touched upon numerous times in the past, but these things tend to move quite slowly, so there is still room for deliberation on the topic, the latest of which comes via new research from the University of Bristol, which explores the psychology of people donating their data to research.

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Ready To Work In Your Own Office?

Strategy Driven

If you feel you’re ready for an office of your own, to take your home business or new business idea into, put a brake on the process for a moment. You need to stop and think a little more about what you’re getting into, and whether or not it makes sense for you and your career goals at this point in time. So, why not take the questions listed below and apply them to your situation?

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What does your budget look like going into the new year?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Our reader poll today asks: What does your budget look like going into the new year? We have a lot more to spend than this past year. 15.4% We have about the same amount to spend as this past year. 54.7% We have much less to spend than this past year. 29.9% Belts are a little tighter. A large portion of you reported having less to spend in the coming year.

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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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Things to Consider Before Finalizing Your Business Printing Solutions

Strategy Driven

Quality Business printing is ideal in fostering your brand’s image and represent its identity subtly. It is integral for a persuasive marketing campaign, advertising your product or services, creating awareness about your event or merely an exhibition of your company’s annual growth. But to be able to compliment all the best features in a well-planned budget is every business owner’s wish.

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5 Tips for Writing Long Informational Emails or Newsletters

Ron Edmondson

Can I be candid with you? I don’t read all of every email I receive. I’m not even talking about forwards of cute stories that get mass emailed. I almost never read those. I’m talking about informational emails. The emails which have information in them I probably need. I don’t often absorb all of it. (If you’re one of those too, you may want to just scan and read the bold print of this post.).

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All You Need to Know About Unsecured Business Loans

Strategy Driven

When you first try to establish your business the first thing you look for is money. Money is an essential component of any business. How are you going to finance the idea which you have in your mind is the main question. When you read the biography of any big businessmen they all tell how they gather up finances. Some sold their land some borrowed money from relatives some put their house on stake to get some finances luckily nowadays unsecured business loans facility is available for people wh

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Internal Networks

Harvard Business Review

Do you wish you were more plugged-in at your organization? Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Robin Abrahams, a research associate at Harvard Business School. They talk through what to do when you want to network at a company retreat, your manager is bothered by your schmoozing with their peers, or you want to know about plum projects before they get assigned to someone else.

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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 can businesses save hiring costs

Strategy Driven

Do you want to reduce hiring costs in your company when hiring new employees? In an economic context pushing for the optimization of all resources, recruitment costs now represent an important issue for any HR manager. The search for the right candidate monopolizing numerous resources and proving to be time-consuming, any solution allowing to accelerate the processes deserves to be studied.

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6 Habits That Hurt Your Career — and How to Overcome Them

Harvard Business Review

They may have served you well at some point, but they don’t anymore.

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Smart Ways to Reduce Marketing Costs While Increasing Results

Strategy Driven

Marketing is an integral aspect for every business. It can also be expensive and leave a giant hole in even the biggest budgets. At least, that is the case for those not willing to be smart and creative with their marketing efforts. This is because even frugal spenders can have an effective advertising campaign without needing to splash the cash. If you want proof of this, read on for shrewd methods to reduce your marketing costs while also boosting sales results at the same time.

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How to Safeguard Against Cyberattacks on Utilities

Harvard Business Review

In 2019, California showed us how costly a sustained power outage can be.

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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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New Report Highlights The Rise In Global Prosperity

The Horizons Tracker

There is a profound sense that the liberal world order of the last 70 years or so is eroding, with the rise of China, Russia continuing to push its weight, and nationalism on the rise in nations as diverse as the United States and Hungary. It’s not all negative however, as the annual Prosperity Index from the Legatum Institute suggests that the last decade has seen economies actually become more open, with every region of the world showing improvements, especially in areas such as market a

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Managing the Trickiest Parts of a Family Business

Harvard Business Review

Succession, compensation, and underperformers.

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The Little Things That Make Employees Feel Appreciated

Harvard Business Review

Managers, it’s not as hard as you think.