Fri.Apr 15, 2016

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4 Ways to Provide Meaningful Encouragement

Let's Grow Leaders

My guess is that right about now, you could use some encouragement. Not meaningless cheer-leading, but some well considered, well-timed, well-meaning “you’ve got this and here’s how I know…” In fact, I’d be willing to bet that the next five people you encounter could use some meaningful encouragement too. No matter how confident people appear on the outside, chances are they could use some encouragement to bolster their insides.

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Dynamic Dozen: Give Clear Direction, Then Follow Through

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. The ballplayer who loses his head, who can’t keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all. Lou Gehrig. It’s baseball season again, and so we begin the annual Rite of the Green Grass and White Lines.

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A New Type of Hero!

Lead Change Blog

Not everyone can be the type of hero that serves our country and defends our freedom. It takes a special type of person. Thank you to all the active service members and veterans! Not everyone can be the type of hero that saves lives daily. Thank you to all the firefighters, EMTs, doctors and law enforcement agencies! Everyone and I mean everyone in the world has an opportunity to impact others every day with every interaction!

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Top 5 Bad Sales Habits that Affect Performance

Women on Business

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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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Why We Really Resist Change

Joseph Lalonde

C hange is an ever-constant truth in our lives. Nothing stays the same (Well, except ONE thing). The seasons change, our roles change, people change. We can’t stop change. But there’s a lot of people out there who don’t like change. You may be one of them. I am, at times. I don’t like saying a forever goodbye. I don’t like losing a friend.

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134: Under New Management: Upending Business As Usual | with David Burkus

Engaging Leader

Great leaders don’t innovate products, they innovate the factory. Through most of the 20th century, great leaders focused on reinventing the factory. From Frederick Taylor to Henry Ford, the industrial age was made by people who could envision the best way to design the organization around the product. Today, much of the world has moved […] Great leaders don’t innovate products, they innovate the factory.

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Think different. Get different.

Jason Womack

I watched a video recently, and caught this quote: "He's discovered that different approaches to coaching and mentoring have different outcomes." Ok, this is perhaps one of the worst quotes I've ever heard in my 44 years of listening to.

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Jon Younger and Norm Smallwood on “Agile Talent”: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Jon Younger is founding partner of the Agile Talent Collaborative (and partner emeritus at the RBL Group where he established the firm’s HR transformation practice. He is well known and respected for his consulting in HR transformation, talent management, and change leadership. He is the author of 5 books including the new Agile Talent: How… Read More Jon Younger and Norm Smallwood on “Agile Talent”: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris.

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Weekly Round-Up: 6 Qualities of Great Leaders, How to Trigger Innovative Leadership & Why In-authenticity Is Not the Way to Reach Millennials

leaderCommunicator

Welcome to my weekly round-up of top leadership and communication blog posts. As many of you know, each week I read and tweet several great articles and on Fridays, I pull some of my favorites together here on my blog.

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A Fish Out of Water

Strategy Driven

When does a fish notice water? When it is out of the water! The fish gasps for breath. The fish beats its tail on the deck and moves in a helpless manner. It is out of the water and clearly feeling the difference. Hence the saying “like a fish out of water”. I recently had many of those “fish out of water” experiences while I was on my business trip to Ecuador.

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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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Five Most Important Leader Traits

Eric Jacobson

Awhile back, I was asked, " What five most important traits must a leader have to be effective ?" I could reply fairly quickly, but I did take a moment to remember that when I asked a similar question in a LinkedIn group discussion, group members offered up nearly 100 different adjectives to describe an effective leader. But, for me, I contend the five most important traits are : Good communicator.

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When is a DeepDive not a Deep Dive

Rapid BI

So When is a deepdive not a deep dive? It is interesting how the use for a name in a given field changes over time. Or to be more realistic how a sexy name for an interesting subject gets hijacked by others without really understanding or respecting difference? In innovation, marketing and management the term […]. The post When is a DeepDive not a Deep Dive appeared first on RapidBi.

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Optimists Are Better at Finding New Jobs

Harvard Business Review

Given that I’m a happiness researcher, you might think I’d strive to help people eliminate unhappiness in their careers. But unhappiness actually serves a crucial function, signaling the need for change, prompting us to switch companies or fields, or even just motivating us to secretly update our resume at home (just in case). Unhappiness is what motivated me to jump from computer engineer to national CBS news anchor to now, happily, a positive psychology researcher.

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A Simple Way to Combat Chronic Stress

Harvard Business Review

For most leaders today, frequent stress is inevitable. But with awareness and a little skill, its negative impacts are not. Intense negative experiences of stress are all too common. Consider Stefano, coauthor of this article. In 1998, Stefano began a career abroad while simultaneously completing an MBA. He worked and studied 14 hours a day, seven days a week, fueled by a constant flow of stress hormones.

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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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The Rise of WhatsApp in Brazil Is About More than Just Messaging

Harvard Business Review

For most people in Brazil, texting was never truly accessible. The cost of SMS in the country was as much as 55 times more than in North America and far too expensive for most residents. So when the messaging service WhatsApp entered the market, in 2009 , allowing users to send messages to anyone for free and regardless of their mobile carrier, people gravitated toward the platform.

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Understanding Agile Management

Harvard Business Review

Darrell Rigby of Bain and Jeff Sutherland of Scrum explain the rise of lean, iterative management tactics, and how to implement them yourself. Download this podcast.

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Why Nudging Your Customers Can Backfire

Harvard Business Review

In the approximately eight years since the book Nudge , by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, came out, nudges have become a widely used consumer influence strategy. Nudge marketing refers to deliberately manipulating how choices are presented to consumers. Its goal is to influence what consumers choose, either to steer them toward options that the marketer believes are good for them or simply to stimulate purchases and increase sales.