Mon.Dec 09, 2019

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Stop Emailing When You Should Have a Meeting

Let's Grow Leaders

Have a meeting for more bandwidth and speed Recently we were delivering a leadership development program when Annia, a senior leader in the firm, raised her hand and addressed the room: “I’ve noticed that many of us quickly send an email rather […]. The post Stop Emailing When You Should Have a Meeting appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Asking Smart Questions Changes Everything

Leading Blog

W E LIVE IN A TIME when accountability is often sidelined. When it is, there can be disastrous consequences in government, in politics, in the media, and in business. The antidote, I’ve found during my two decades as an accountability speaker and business consultant, is a thoughtful and persistent effort to infuse accountability into every objective, every task, and in every colleague-to-colleague and company-to-customer interaction.

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Four Kinds of Feedback in an Excellent Organization

Lead Change Blog

Why does an organization exist? In essence, to produce something, whether that is a product or a service. And in order to exist in the future, this production needs to be sustainable. It means providing high quality products and services at a reasonable cost (to the organization, the employee, the environment, and society). Two of the most important aspects in the organizational equation are the cost and the productivity of your personnel.

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From It’s A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood

Joseph Lalonde

A Reel Leadership Article. As I typed out the title for the latest Reel Leadership article, I couldn’t help but want to sing the song It’s a Beautiful Day in This Neighborhood. The title of A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood brings back all sorts of memories. Yet, A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood won’t tell you the story […] The post Quotes And Leadership Lessons From It’s A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood appeared first on Joseph Lalonde.

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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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What Kind of Team Do You Have?

Kevin Eikenberry

Twenty years ago, this question in most cases wouldn’t have made any sense. People who were on a team together worked in the same location, saw each other every day – that was what a work team looked like. Today, most people recognize the reality of remote work and remote teams and realize that this […]. The post What Kind of Team Do You Have?

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Why Smart Leaders Do Stupid Things

Leadership Freak

No one gets up thinking, “I want to do something incredibly stupid today.” Choices seem smart until they end up harmful.

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Expand Your Recruitment Pool

Strategy Driven

Want to hire the perfect employee? The more candidates you have to choose from, the better your chances are of finding that ideal candidate. There are lots of ways to expand your pool of candidates. Here are just several ways to encourage more applicants so that you’re more likely to hire the right person for the job. Advertise employee perks, not just demands.

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Deming on Management: Appreciation for a System

Deming Institute

Guest post by John Hunter , author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). This is the fourth post in our “Deming on Management” series. This series provides resources for those interested in learning more about particular topics related to W. Edwards Deming’s ideas on management. Previous series posts provided resources on the PDSA cycle, psychology and the red bead experiment.

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Today's Leadership Thought: Celebrate Learning

Eric Jacobson

Today's leadership thought comes from the new book, Trap Tales , by David M. R. Covey and Stephan M. Mardyks. " Rejoice and celebrate in the effort, the journey, and the process as much as in the end result. Mistakes are instructive. Learn from them instead of hiding them. ".

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Changing Your View On Managing From the Middle

Management Excellence

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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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Today’s Successful Leader Values Data, but Is Not Driven by It

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Though data is an important part of every organization, not accounting for people when you make decisions and relying strictly on data is not the way. Today’s post is by Sara Canaday, author of Leadership Unchained (CLICK HERE to get your copy). Every day we generate 2.5 quintillion bytes of data. This information has led to some tremendous breakthroughs with the potential to improve thousands of lives.

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Changing Your View On Managing From the Middle

Art Petty

There's a lot of negative spin about the role of managing from the middle, mostly perpetuated by individuals who feel over-worked, under-paid, and under-appreciated. That's too bad because, with the proper frame-shift, you might recognize managing from the middle is filled with opportunities to create, guide, develop, and frankly have a little fun. The post Changing Your View On Managing From the Middle appeared first on Management Excellence by Art Petty.

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Heavy 2020 spending in Northern Europe

CEO Insider

Europe’s largest economy, and the fourth largest in the world, Germany, has been in a zero-growth situation for most of the year. This, despite that the country’s unemployment rate is at a historical low and The European Central Bank is supporting the economy with an extreme quantitative monetary policy. Further, a growing number of average […].

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Do Expats Make The Best Corporate Ambassadors?

The Horizons Tracker

As things like the Net Promoter Score have taken off, organizations have become more aware of the potential for past and present employees to act as advocates and ambassadors for them, whether with potential customers, employees or partners. It was a topic explored in MetLife’s 17th Annual U.S. Employee Benefit Trends Study (EBTS), and they found that globally-mobile employees, or those who were working outside their country of origin, were roughly twice as likely to recommend their employ

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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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4 Things to Think About When Starting Your Own Cannabis Business

Strategy Driven

The market for licensed cannabis products is growing at an encouraging rate if that is the line of business that you are thinking of launching into and as is the case with any new venture, you will need to have all the angles covered in order to set off on the right footing. A good starting point would be to create a checklist of things that you need to organize so that your cannabis business is good to go.

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Are Men More Competitive At Work?

The Horizons Tracker

That men are more competitive than women is one of those rules of thumb that scarcely needs examining, but that hasn’t stopped researchers from Karlsruhe and Bonn, who in a new study set out to examine competitiveness at work. The study found that in competitive situations at work, men typically invest more time and effort into reducing the effectiveness of their rivals than women do.

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When You Work in a Male-Dominated Industry

Harvard Business Review

For women in male-dominated fields like engineering, there are lots of stressors, both subtle and overt. As a result, many end up leaving the field altogether. But the ones who stay develop strategies to survive and to even challenge the status quo. Guests: Jessica Townsend, Ana, Elena, and Teresa Cardador. Our theme music is Matt Hill’s “City In Motion,” provided by Audio Network.

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How To Successfully Change Your Game.

Rich Gee Group

In the movie Fight Club (a male perennial favorite like ‘The Godfather’), the lead character works for an auto company and spouts out a formula they use for deciding whether to recall a model of their car or just let it go on killing people: “Take the number of vehicles in the field, (A), and multiply it by the probable rate of failure, (B), then multiply the result by the average out-of-court settlement, (C).

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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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Building Mental Resilience While Building a Business

Harvard Business Review

Anxiety shows up in all kinds of business situations — especially when you’re starting your own company. In this episode, host Morra Aarons-Mele speaks with Cheryl Contee, CEO of Do Big Things, and Jeannette Kaplun, founder of Hispana Global, about how to work through anxiety and build resilience.

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Leaders: Make Love the Top Priority

Skip Prichard

Make Love the Top Priority . Matt Tenney is a social entrepreneur and the author of Serve to Be Great and The Mindfulness Edge: How to Rewire Your Brain for Leadership and Personal Excellence Without Adding to Your Schedule. He is also an international keynote speaker, a trainer, and a consultant. He works to develop highly effective leaders who achieve lasting success by focusing on serving and inspiring greatness in the people around them.

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Getting to the Bottom of Destructive Behaviors

Harvard Business Review

You have to understand your story before you can rewrite it.

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Announcing a Life and Career Transition for Ron and Cheryl Edmondson

Ron Edmondson

A Life Transition for The Edmondsons. I recently resigned my position as CEO of Leadership Network. Although my tenure is much shorter than I had anticipated when I arrived almost 18 months ago, I feel it has been a productive time for me and the organization. Leadership Network has a long, great history of helping the Church accelerate growth and innovation.

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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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What Aircraft Crews Know About Managing High-Pressure Situations

Harvard Business Review

Research on making decisions in times of crisis.

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Why Political Partisans Are More Taken In By Fake News

The Horizons Tracker

The last few years has seen considerable debate around both the seemingly partisan nature of news coverage, and the dissemination of misinformation that is so distorting the public discourse. A new study from Ohio State University explores whether there is a connection between the two, and whether people who consume partisan news coverage are more likely to be taken in by misinformation.

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How Your Organization’s Experts Can Share Their Knowledge

Harvard Business Review

Amplify your team’s smarts.

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