Let's Grow Leaders
OCTOBER 12, 2020
A creative team starts with room to think The rocky mountain air was crisp with fall chill–a perfect time for a fire in the wood-burning stove. We placed the logs on top of the kindling, held the flame beneath the wood, and…nothing […]. The post One Way to Cultivate a More Resilient and Creative Team appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Leading Blog
OCTOBER 12, 2020
I N 1984 a typical business competency would last 30 years. Today, it’s more akin to five. We’re changing jobs more than ever and pursuing multiple careers and projects simultaneously. Take a moment to consider how many jobs you’ve had and how many careers you’re yet to embark upon? The ability to adapt and thrive at work, also known as your adaptability quotient, demands continuous learning and cultivation.
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Career Advancement
OCTOBER 12, 2020
“We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.” ~ Arianna Huffington. A hectic work schedule, increased responsibility, new technology, and the need to read and respond to a daily deluge of email and voicemail place huge demands on your work life. With all this pressure, you might feel as if your work is a prison that you can never escape.
Lead Change Blog
OCTOBER 12, 2020
There is no doubt that we live in an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world. Leaders work in increasingly flatter and leaner organisations. They are more diverse, culturally, and generationally. Their work is more likely to be virtual, than working alongside, and navigating the virtual world brings different demands. Leaders also increasingly work in resource-starved environments where demands seem much more significant.
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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.
Leadership Freak
OCTOBER 12, 2020
A leader without purpose is lost in a world of opportunity. The 7 powers of purpose: Grit. A leader with purpose has reason to fight through adversity.
leaderCommunicator
OCTOBER 12, 2020
As we continue to adjust and reinvent how we lead and communicate during the pandemic, we want to continue to take a look at what content has been most popular among our readers. So, in case you missed any posts, here’s the top content others found most helpful in Q3. 10 Most-Read leadercommunicator Blogs in Q3 2020.
Leadership and Management brings together the best content for leadership and management professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Skip Prichard
OCTOBER 12, 2020
Create Magic. Anthea C. Stratigos has been a friend of mine for many years. She is the CEO of Outsell, Inc. and the author of Magic in the Mundane: Making Life’s Ordinary Extraordinary. Whenever I have been in a meeting with Anthea, I am struck by her ability to listen, to synthesize, and to bring out the best in any group. After reading her book, which is full of her wisdom, I reached out to her so that I could share some of her counsel with you.
Mills Scofield
OCTOBER 12, 2020
As we think ahead to the surreality of these times, many of us are trying to figure out how to support, encourage, understand our employees, in particular, how to find, nurture and develop our blue lobsters. So, I adapted this ‘ oldie ’ to remind us how, before I even knew about blue lobsters. My first boss at Bell Labs had a habit of yelling. While he was an equal-opportunity yeller, when he shouted at me in my first department meeting, I got up, told him when he wanted to talk, not yell, I’d b
Strategy Driven
OCTOBER 12, 2020
People are your business’s most valuable assets. However, they also represent assets that may be difficult to manage. Because owners frequently overlook employee management when launching a business, it is important to acquire this skill and cultivate it. Doing so will help you realize a faster earnings stream and will give you the incentives needed to grow and expand.
Mills Scofield
OCTOBER 12, 2020
#NoFilter. As we think ahead to the surreality of these times, many of us are trying to figure out how to support, encourage, understand our employees, in particular, how to find, nurture and develop our blue lobsters. So, I adapted this ‘ oldie ’ to remind us how, before I even knew about blue lobsters. My first boss at Bell Labs had a habit of yelling.
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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
The Horizons Tracker
OCTOBER 12, 2020
For some time now there have been campaigns to ensure the toys children play with better reflect the modern world, especially in terms of the roles depicted. Girls are encouraged to play with construction toys, boys with dolls, and so on. New research from the University of Sussex highlights how difficult these stereotypes are to shift in children, however, especially boys.
CEO Insider
OCTOBER 12, 2020
2021 is right around the corner. While many of us are eager to put this tumultuous year in the rearview mirror, we need to face the reality that the way we work will remain resource-constrained for the foreseeable future. Many organizations are still figuring out how to work remotely while also responding to shrinking sales, […]. License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article It’s Time to Stretch: Use the Scarcity Created by COVID-19 to Your Advantage are those of the author
Strategy Driven
OCTOBER 12, 2020
Starting a new business is a logistical challenge. There is a lot of behind-the-scenes work that will eat up your time, and before you know it, you are all ready to launch – and have absolutely zero interest from the public. You cannot keep your new business a secret while you are building it up. Your pre-launch time provides you the perfect opportunity to drum up interest in your local and digital community.
thoughtLEADERS, LLC
OCTOBER 12, 2020
4 Make-Or-Break Customer Service Skills and How to Find Them Today’s post is by Ken Crowell The pandemic and economic and political turmoil has Americans stressed out, making customer service skills more important than ever for businesses to be able to thrive and grow. Even before the latest economic disruption, poor customer service was blamed for costing American businesses billions each year.
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From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.
The Horizons Tracker
OCTOBER 12, 2020
A common refrain among economists in recent years is that the fruits of the economy’s success have gone to owners of capital rather than workers, with this growing inequality a major theme of Thomas Pikkety’s wildly popular work. New research from MIT sets out to understand precisely why the labor share of GDP has fallen from 67% in 1980 to just 59% today.
Eric Jacobson
OCTOBER 12, 2020
According to entrepreneur and author Margaret Hefferman , as reported a few years ago in Inc. magazine, the secrets of the most productive people are that they do these three things : They take breaks. Breaks refresh the mind and allow you to see new situations. They are great collaborators. They have lives outside work. In fact, the most successful have rich private lives that include interests that hone different skills and that let them think in different ways.
Ron Edmondson
OCTOBER 12, 2020
I’ve never been a proponent of the saying “ if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” Sometimes you need a change and nothing is “broken” It just isn’t as good as it could be, it’s keeping other things from being better, or it’s soon going to be broke unless you change. But there are indicators of times not to change.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 12, 2020
Remote work offers an opportunity to reset existing relationships — and build new ones.
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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.
N2Growth Blog
OCTOBER 12, 2020
Apparently, Zocdoc is doing something right. Their early investors are a ‘Who’s Who’ list of innovators and billionaires, including Marc Benioff, Founder’s Fund , Khosla Ventures, Bezos Expeditions , and Goldman Sachs. Zocdoc is an innovative medical care startup that solves a nasty problem we all face—scheduling an appointment with a new doctor. Their mission is to make patients’ lives easier by helping them easily receive high-quality medical attention.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 12, 2020
Working from home because of the pandemic is changing norms within households.
Strategy Driven
OCTOBER 12, 2020
The seismic effects of the global Covid-19 pandemic have impacted every single aspect of our lives, with the workplace and commerce in general changing unrecognisably in the space of just a few months. As workplaces transform and adapt in an effort to overcome the unique challenges they’re facing, so too do business leaders have to change and grow in order to remain effective.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 12, 2020
They’re still valuable — even in a recession.
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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.
HR Digest
OCTOBER 12, 2020
A public presentation isn’t a simple task, to stand up and talk in front of an audience of people! Many people fear public speaking and situations when they have to face and open up their thoughts and suggestions to a crowd. We bring a few tips and tricks that would help to conquer the art of public speaking. Practice and preparation are the keys to public speaking.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 12, 2020
Journalist Priska Neely discusses how anxiety makes her a better manager and how she injects empathy into hard conversations at work.
The Horizons Tracker
OCTOBER 12, 2020
As the coronavirus pandemic has spawned a range of new conspiracy theories, studies have attempted to understand what prompts people to succumb to them. For instance, it was shown that Republicans were more likely to believe Covid-19 conspiracy theories than Democrats. New research from the University of Delaware suggests that men are also more likely to succumb. “During a global pandemic, it’s kind of the perfect storm of uncertainty,” the researchers say. “And so whe
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 12, 2020
Ask these questions at your next interview.
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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.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 12, 2020
You can do well and do good.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 12, 2020
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