Sat.Feb 29, 2020

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Conversation Starters that Enable Conflict Resolution

Leadership Freak

Hot emotion raises aggression and lowers IQ. Don’t wait for the heat of conflict to determine how to handle conflict.

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It’s Nice To Be Important, But It’s More Important To Be Nice!

Brigette Hyacinth

For far too long, being nice has been mistaken for being weak. In reality, niceness is an necessary quality of leadership for the world we’re living in. It has become so rare that when someone does a kind act or goes out of their way to be nice to someone, it goes viral on social media. Being nice doesn’t mean you can’t make hard decisions or stand up to difficult people, it just means you are respectful, kind, and show empathy to your employees.

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Forget Your Business Plan. Create a Strategy Map.

Innovation Excellence

Strategic plans become outdated the moment they’re created. Instead, create a one-page strategy map. Having run the internal strategy consulting group at HP, and then consulting to both startups and big companies like Disney, Visa, Colgate, Medtronic and others, I’ve created hundreds of strategic plans. Business strategy used to be a clear and methodical process.

Planning 111
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Never Punish Loyal Employees for being Honest

Brigette Hyacinth

? ?. My new boss told me to never be afraid to give feedback. The next Monday morning in a meeting, I happily shared my viewpoint on a new policy. Thereafter, I noticed my boss’s disposition towards me changed. He stopped talking to me. I was shunned. I even felt the effects of this in my monthly performance appraisal, where he noted, I was not supportive of the organization, and I needed to be a better team player.

Open-book 113
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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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Toxic Workplace Gossip: Leadership Steps to Stop It | #LeadMorale

Kate Nasser

Toxic workplace gossip brings down morale & productivity. Leadership steps to eliminate this toxin. by Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™, Author of Leading Morale. The post Toxic Workplace Gossip: Leadership Steps to Stop It | #LeadMorale appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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Managing Your Business with Location Mapping

Strategy Driven

What are businesses to do with the explosion of data occurring in the marketplace? The ideal solution is to put it to work. Chances are, you already knew that. However, we’re willing to bet that you aren’t using your data to its full extent. For example, are you using the locations of your current customers to find hidden insights about your business?

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It’s Nice To Be Important, But It’s More Important To Be Nice!

Brigette Hyacinth

For far too long, being nice has been mistaken for being weak. In reality, niceness is an necessary quality of leadership for the world we’re living in. It has become so rare that when someone does a kind act or goes out of their way to be nice to someone, it goes viral on social media. Being nice doesn’t mean you can’t make hard decisions or stand up to difficult people, it just means you are respectful, kind, and show empathy to your employees.

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LeadershipNow 140: February 2020 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from February 2020 that you don't want to miss: People Leadership: 10 Things to Do Now to Lead Better Tomorrow by @KateNasser. Purpose-Driven Leadership Is Good For Business. and everything else by @JesseLynStoner. George Washington: The Man, The Myth, The TV Star from @JohnBaldoni. Time to Engage Your Employee Activists by @ThoughtPartner David Grossman.

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Never Punish Loyal Employees for being Honest

Brigette Hyacinth

My new boss told me to never be afraid to give feedback. The next Monday morning in a meeting, I happily shared my viewpoint on a new policy. Thereafter, I noticed my boss’s disposition towards me changed. He stopped talking to me. I was shunned. I even felt the effects of this in my monthly performance appraisal, where he noted, I was not supportive of the organization, and I needed to be a better team player.

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How to ask a coworker out on a date

HR Digest

Getting into office romance can be tricky, and asking a coworker out on a date is trickier. You will continuously have to make sure to be as discreet as possible, not be too forward on the coworker yet express your feelings. Office romances and office dating are typical, it happens across all offices at one point or another. However, the person should keep in mind not to make things in office awkward.

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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