Mon.Oct 26, 2020

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How to Help Your Team Prepare for the Turbulent Aftermath of the Election

Let's Grow Leaders

Are your managers prepared to deal with the turbulent aftermath of the election? Regardless of the election’s outcome, it’s smart to be ready for a firestorm of distracted, energized, frustrated, hopeful, distraught, elated, concerned, confused, uncertain, joyful, worried hearts and minds… All […]. The post How to Help Your Team Prepare for the Turbulent Aftermath of the Election appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Honest Thief

Joseph Lalonde

A Reel Leadership Article. It’s been a long time since I’ve stepped foot in a movie theater (except seeing The New Mutants at the Getty 4 drive-in). Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, theaters have been shut down in Michigan for close to 7 months. That’s a long time when you see one or two movies a week. This week, I decided […].

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The Death of the Conference Call

Kevin Eikenberry

If you are like me, you have been on hundreds of conference calls in the past. They were a brilliant solution to remote communication requiring only a phone, a number to the bridge line, and a passcode. Conference calls served a need, but now, like the fax machine and the pager, their future looks dim. […]. The post The Death of the Conference Call appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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The Expectation Trap – On Rats and High Performance

Leadership Freak

Expectations impact the quality of your team mates and your enjoyment of your leadership experience. Two questions: What do you expect of others? What do you expect of yourself?

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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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12 Tips to Communicate Better and Improve Business Results

leaderCommunicator

Whether you need to leverage new technology, engage employees to deliver better for customers, or just keep meeting your business goals, good communication is critical to any success strategy. Strong leadercommunicators know that when it’s effective, communication does much more than make people feel good. It is directly linked to business results.

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Essential Leadership Skills All Business Owners Should Develop

Strategy Driven

A business is the most commonly chosen option for income, as its number continues to grow. More of both small and large scale companies keep on springing up in every field of work. That’s has pointed out a predisposition to this trend, which is the rapidly growing competition. With several contenders in action, business owners need to take charge and participate actively in their work.

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Mold In The Workplace: How To Handle It!

Strategy Driven

When you own a commercial property, you want to ensure that it’s as safe as possible for you, your staff and for any clients who come into the building. The best way to ensure safety is to invest in the right insurance policies. You will know that you have to have public liability insurance and other insurance ranges to take care of people, but have you considered your commercial property?

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New Research Highlights The Financial Vulnerability Of So Many In America

The Horizons Tracker

The coronavirus pandemic has sent huge swathes of the population into a state of financial precarity, but the vulnerability to such shocks is underlined by a recent study from Oregon State University, which found that an incredible 77% of low- to moderate-income households fall below the asset poverty threshold, which is defined as being unable to sustain even poverty-level status for three months if their income was cut off.

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How to Develop Performance Measures?

Strategy Driven

Have you ever thought of improving the quality and productivity of your organization, achieving set goals, and recognizing hard-working employees? Well, one sure way is by developing the right performance measure. Organizations often measure employee performance to achieve set goals. Most times, determining how to develop the right Key Performance Measure (KPI) may lead to hassles and failure that might bring unwanted results.

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5 Job Search Tips during COVID-19

HR Digest

Looking for a new job is a strenuous task in itself, and in the present COVID-19 pandemic times, this task has become more stressful. Organizations have stopped hiring in people and are resorting more to lay off their employees. This has made the present job market highly depressing with fewer jobs. Recently passed out college students and job seekers, especially, are finding the situation challenging.

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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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Gender Diverse Managerial Teams Help During A Crisis

The Horizons Tracker

It’s reasonably well established now that gender diverse organizations tend to perform better than more homogeneous ones. Given the slovenly pace of change, however, it’s always nice to have fresh evidence to support this fact, and new research from Cambridge University’s Judge Business School duly provides it. It shows that gender-balanced teams not only help organizations to perform better, but this boost is especially pronounced during adverse circumstances. “There ha

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Temper ~ Paradox in the COVID Era

Mills Scofield

TY Chuck Annable for the photo. I love paradoxes and oxymorons; they get us to extend our comfort zone. So, I started thinking about the word “temper.” * [ Aside ~ my mom felt English was the inanest language on earth - the same sounding word was spelled and meant too many different things (write, right, rite, etc.). In all fairness, English was her 7th language ].

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Authenticity Lies in Your Ability to Cut The Crap

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Authentic means getting rid of the B.S. and buzzwords and layers of ‘protective’ crap. Sharing who you truly are is the best way to establish a connection and build trust with your team. Today’s post is by Mike Figliuolo, Managing Director of thoughtLEADERS and author of One Piece of Paper(CLICK HERE to get your copy). The only way I know to roll back the tide of all the meaningless jargon in our world is to say what you really mean.

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The Online Bubbles Journalists Converse Within

The Horizons Tracker

Journalists are increasingly using Twitter to talk to their readers, and sometimes even to source stories for articles. New research from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign explores the ways in which journalists are using the platform, and finds that there were nine distinct clusters of journalists (according to their habits online). The biggest of these clusters was a so called “elite/legacy” cluster, which comprised around 30% of the journalists studied, and included the

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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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Creating the Perfect Home Office

Strategy Driven

With the coronavirus pandemic that has ravaged the world for several months, many people now see the importance of having a home office. However, if you want to create a perfect home office for yourself, you need to consider several factors such as the interior design lightning, and so on. Each person has a specific environment that works for them. Designing your home office space to suit your preference will go a long way to determine how productive you will be when you work from the space.

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Three Things Coaches As Leaders Do To Drive Success

Eric Jacobson

Former University of Kansas head basketball coach Roy Williams once told U.S. News and World Report magazine that there are three things that coaches as leaders must do to drive success : "Have everyone on the team focus on the same goal." And, the leader must effectively communicate that goal to the team. "Emphasize those goals every day." "Understand that although everyone has a common goal, individuals also have goals, needs and dreams that must be cared for.

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How to Run a Successful Janitorial Business

Strategy Driven

Efficiently and successfully running a janitorial business takes time, strategy, and consistency. Due to the ways that janitorial businesses can differ from other companies, there are very specific steps that are most advisable for success. As a business that focuses on meeting the maintenance, repair, and cleaning needs of others, it’s important for everyone to be on the same page.

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7 Questions To Help Process Fear

Ron Edmondson

I’ve watched fear keep many people from achieving all God would have them achieve. Rather than assume the risk required to pursue their dreams; fear will keep people from moving forward. Pastors refuse to address needed change in their church – not because it is challenging – but because they are afraid. Fear is the enemy of progress.

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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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Blog Like A Pro

Strategy Driven

In case you haven’t noticed, a business can make good use of a blog. Whether it’s on the business site itself or a different address linked to it, content marketing can do plenty for you. It can increase your visibility, give legitimacy to your brand, and build the kind of connection you want with your consumer. But blogging is a venture that takes skill all on its own.

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Global Crowdsourcing Can Help the U.S. Beat the Pandemic

Harvard Business Review

Less-wealthy countries offer simple, low-tech solutions that are highly effective at containing infectious diseases.

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Leaders Who Lust

Leading Blog

I N 2004, Barbara Kellerman wrote that “the idea that some leaders and some followers are bad, and that they might have something in common with good leaders and followers, has not fully penetrated the conversation or the curriculum” on leadership. And it should because it is true—the good and the bad in an inherent part of us all. Kellerman also rightly asserts in Bad Leadership that “Human nature is human nature, and that makes it inevitable that certain patterns of bad leadership repeat thems

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Write Down Your Team’s Unwritten Rules

Harvard Business Review

Creating an “It’s okay to…” list will help your employees feel less anxious.

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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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Lessons for Leaders from Decisions that Changed History

Skip Prichard

It’s Time to Lead. Where is leadership when we need it? What can today’s corporate, non-profit, military, and public-service leaders learn from daring decisions that changed history? In sixteen historical studies, Jan-Benedict Steenkamp reveals lessons for today’s leaders from decisions that changed history. After reading Time to Lead: Lessons for Today’s Leaders from Bold Decisions that Changed History , I reached out to Jan-Benedict Steenkamp to share more about his research.

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Going Back to the Office

Harvard Business Review

What it’s like inside recently reopened offices and whether going in is worth the trouble.

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Research Shows That Immigration Has Minimal Impact On Wages For US Citizens

The Horizons Tracker

Earlier this year I wrote about research from Rice University that found that illegal immigration benefits nations and regions more than it harms them. The study suggests that the economic gains from illegal immigration far outweigh the costs of the public services utilized. Indeed, for Texas alone, the state collects $1.21 in revenue for every $1 spent on providing public services to undocumented immigrants.

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To Build Less-Biased AI, Hire a More-Diverse Team

Harvard Business Review

Technology will always be limited by the perspectives of the people building it.

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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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Success, Stress, and Money: Lessons from a Financial Therapist

Harvard Business Review

When we stress out about money, what’s really going on?

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What Health Care Can Teach Other Industries About Preventing Burnout

Harvard Business Review

A three-part framework.