Thu.May 14, 2020

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When The World Was Silent

Lead Change Blog

It was early morning, and we had just posted a funny picture of Louie and me on our Facebook page. While writing this blog, one “like” after another popped up on the page, and I continually diverted my attention to review the latest comment. The post was trending well, and the “likes” popped up by the second. Louie, however, was unimpressed. As he sat on his favorite loveseat and sighed, he looked at me with those big brown eyes as if to say, “Mom, remember when the world was silent?”.

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Leading Thoughts for May 14, 2020

Leading Blog

I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Kevin Kelly , the founder of WIRED magazine, recently turned 68 and offered 68 lessons on life. Here are six: “Learn how to learn from those you disagree with or even offend you. See if you can find the truth in what they believe.

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Brands, Leadership and the Climate Crisis

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Sean Pillot de Chenecey : Innovation, on which any organisation is so reliant, is about to become more dynamic and challenging than ever. Whilst hyper-relevance, ultra-personalisation, collaboration, ethics and sustainability are the crucial foundations of success; those tasked with creating that innovation are now faced with the challenge of the environmental crisis.

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The Plate-Drop Challenge: How to Respond to Failure

Leadership Freak

The only way to learn how many plates you can spin is to break some plates. The question of capacity guarantees failure. T.S.

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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 To Lead Your Team When The Future Is Uncertain

Lead from Within

Right now we’re all thinking about leading through a pandemic, and there’s no precedent we can turn to for that particular situation. But history shows that all crises, whatever form they take, affect leadership and teams in much the same way. Much of it comes down to this: people want to feel that their future is certain, and when they don’t have that confidence, they need reassurance that they’re going to be OK.

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Cultivate Evergreen Talent in Your Workforce

Skip Prichard

Cultivate a Sustainable Workforce. Not many people think that finding and keeping the very best talent is easy. I’m always on the hunt for ideas to improve engagement at all levels. Organizations must constantly assess and up the people game or risk seeing the very best employees leave. In Evergreen Talent , Roberta Matuson, CEO of Matuson Consulting, shares strategies for attracting and keeping talent in a sustainable, long-term way. .

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5 Tips To Help Manage Your Finances

Strategy Driven

Managing your finances can take time and is a process that needs to be carefully planned as spending habits can be hard to break. But with a simple step by step plan and small changes, you can begin to manage your money and become smart with your finances. To help you out, we have compiled a list of five tips to help you manage your finances. Make A Savings Account.

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Why Better Planning Can Save Millions Of Dollars In Operating Rooms

The Horizons Tracker

The tremendous importance of the work that is undertaken in hospital operating rooms would perhaps lend one to think the work is optimized to within an inch of its life. Alas, new research from Michigan State University highlights just how inefficient it often is. For instance, the paper highlights how unplanned supplies can add up to 10 minutes to each surgical procedure, and better planning could save around $1,800 each time, which equates to a whopping $28 million per year.

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The Demotivated Employee: What Causes Employees to Lose Their Motivation?

Strategy Driven

Think of the last time you started something new… you were so excited that you couldn’t sleep the night before… you woke up without the alarm… etc. That is what motivation looks like. It may have lasted a long time, or perhaps it dropped off like a waterfall once you got to work. Has this ever happened to you? It’s likely that you can relate because most of us, at some point in our careers, have had this happen to us.

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How to Make Your Team Feel Connected and Included While Working Remotely

CEO Insider

From 30-day challenges to hiring a llama for Zoom meetings, teams across the world are looking for creative ways to stay connected as much of the world shifts to distributed and hybrid teams. How can companies re-create the magic of sharing a physical space when working exclusively online? How can we allow strong interpersonal bonds […]. License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article How to Make Your Team Feel Connected and Included While Working Remotely are those of the au

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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 to Successfully Market a Niche Business

Strategy Driven

Marketing any business is a tricky process. There are many different elements to consider, from the target audience to the allocated budget. Then there are all the different advertising channels available, where you have to try and figure out which ones work best for a business. It’s difficult, right? Well, throw a specialised niche into the mix, and the challenge becomes even more severe.

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During and After a Pandemic, Diversified Companies Represent a More Efficient Investment Alternative

CEO Insider

Why I Co-Founded a Diversified Platform Company With a career focused on what’s next, I’ve led multiple technology firms ranging from startups to public companies. My business involvements relate to digital revolutions and how emerging technologies will disrupt our lives. By early 2016, I came to the conclusion that Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality […].

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What are the biggest mindset challenges you face when leading your team remotely?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Our reader poll today asks: What are the biggest mindset challenges you face when leading your team remotely? I worry they’re not actually working. 19.5% I have little control over their deliverables. 8.4% I worry they feel like I’m not developing them. 22.2% I worry they feel I’m not necessary or adding value. 16.9% I don’t worry at all about anything. 12.7% I worry about something else. 20.3% It’s not you, it’s me.

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Practice Doesn’t Make Perfect … Perfect Practice Makes Perfect

The Center For Leadership Studies

Despite the best-selling efforts of Malcolm Gladwell in “Outliers,” many continue to attribute accomplishments of significance to people born with unique talents. It’s a sort of built-in defense mechanism we have long been able to muster up on demand to reduce (and even eliminate) the dissonance associated with our relative commonality. The messaging sounds something like, “People who do special things came into this world with special gifts.”.

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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 AI Can Help Robots Reduce Hand Tremors

The Horizons Tracker

Neurological movement disorders can severely hamper the quality of life for sufferers around the world. New research from New York University explores how artificial intelligence and robotics can help. Their model, which they’re making available for others to deploy and build upon, aims to provide support to the one million people around the world who have Parkinson’s disease, which is just one of the conditions that can result in hand tremors.

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How to Deal with Debt and Keep Your Business Afloat

Strategy Driven

There is no magical money tree that provides unlimited finances. If there was, business would be a whole lot easier. In reality, the lack of money is the downfall for many businesses. When cash flow is skewed and there’s not enough revenue being generated, this will lead to companies descending into debt. The debt hole is one that many will fall down and fail to escape from.

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How To Identify A Leader During An Interview

Eric Jacobson

The next time you are interviewing a candidate and you want to access their leadership skills, consider asking the candidate these questions : What personal qualities define you as a leader? Describe a situation when these qualities helped you lead others. Give an example of when you demonstrated good leadership. What is the toughest group from which you've had to get cooperation?

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Building A People-Driven Culture With Dan Javan

Steve Farber

Helping people and making profits are not mutually exclusive, and a people-driven culture can actually be instrumental in propping your business to new heights. This is well illustrated by the story of Dan Javan, the. Read more.

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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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Behavior Change is a Function of Proactive Positioning and Immediate Reinforcement

The Center For Leadership Studies

We are officially throwing caution to the wind and thinking outside of the box we usually confine ourselves in when drafting this column. Ready for “old school interactive”? Here you go: 1. Take out a piece of paper and a writing instrument of your choice. Put the following words across the top of the page from left to right – before, during, after. 2.

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5 Principles for Responding to Customer Reviews

Harvard Business Review

Findings from a study of more than 20 million online reviews.

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Bring Deep Focus to Working from Home

Harvard Business Review

How an experiment in productivity among friends became Caveday, a startup that helps people around the world reshape their work rituals.

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Challenging the Boss

Harvard Business Review

Dear HBR: answers your questions with the help of consultant Liz Kislik.

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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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How CEOs Can Lead Selflessly Through a Crisis

Harvard Business Review

Take a pay cut, communicate transparently, and give back with purpose.

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Your Family Business Needs a Deep Bench

Harvard Business Review

It’ll help your organization grow, adapt, and build resilience.

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The Disproportionate Impact of Covid-19 on Black Health Care Workers in the U.S.

Harvard Business Review

The health care system is failing black Americans at every level.

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Is Your Marketing Strategy Based on the Right Data?

Harvard Business Review

The pandemic is changing consumers’ habits.

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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 Downside of Flex Time

Harvard Business Review

It can blur the line between work and life.

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