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11 Reasons Fear Screws Up Your Leadership and What To Do About It

Lead Change Blog

It’s a question that has perplexed me for many years: With the wealth of leadership wisdom available, why do we continue to struggle to lead well? Why do employee engagement rates continue to hover around 30% despite the obvious advantages for leaders who choose to lead well? The more time I spend with managers and leaders, the more I see three reasons aspiring leaders struggle: They don’t know how.

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Now ask the tough questions

Persuasive Powerhouse

There is an awareness and desire by good leaders to do more asking than telling. That strategy of asking more questions should be part of every leader’s communication toolkit as a way to get information, be more collaborative, and to obtain important feedback. Maybe you are working more questions into your leadership communication too.Now it’s time to go a step further and ask different types of questions – the kind that go a step deeper, and may be tougher to ask and to answer.

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Increase Your Productivity Levels with a Treadmill Desk

Women on Business

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Inspiring Those We Lead To Build A Better Tomorrow

Tanveer Naseer

Around this time of the year, it’s become a common sight to see commencement speeches from high school and university graduation ceremonies being shared on leadership sites as inspiration on how we can better serve those we lead. The popularity of these kinds of speeches in leadership circles is not too surprising when we consider how the very nature of the commencement speech is to draw attention to the lessons learned and how they can be applied going forward to create a future filled wi

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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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10 Reasons Leaders Feel Alone

Leadership Freak

“It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.” Albert Einstein You can be loved, respected, successful, and appreciated, but still feel like you’re swinging the sword alone.

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Optimism: The Secret Of Great Leadership

Lead from Within

If you’re looking for powerful fuel for your leadership, look at optimism. Winston Churchill used to say “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” Maybe that’s why optimistic leaders are usually more successful than pessimists. When you’re a pessimist, everything is about failure, anxiety, and problems.

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Two Questions to Ask on a Regular Basis During Change

Change Starts Here

Several years ago, in preparation for a transformation workshop with a client’s top management team, I was designing the feedback to collect at the end of the session. At the time, the workshop was thought to be a one-time event for this client, so collecting feedback about what they thought about the workshop seemed self-serving. Instead, I wanted to select questions that would help them move forward as a team, but which would have the added benefit of telling me if they got what they nee

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0725 | How Markets Shape Us with Tim Sullivan

LDRLB

Tim Sullivan is the co-author of The Inner Lives of Markets. He is editorial director of Harvard Business Review Press and has worked at Basic Books, Portfolio, and Princeton University Press, where he helped build one of the most successful academic economics lists in the world. In this interview, we discuss how we shape markets and how they shape us. [ Listen in iTunes ] [ Listen on Stitcher ].

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You have (probably) stopped improving, and that’s a problem – Insight from Anders Ericcson, Peak

First Friday Book Synopsis

But there is one very important thing to understand here: once you have reached this satisfactory skill level and automated your performance—your driving, your tennis playing, your baking of pies—you have stopped improving. Anders Ericcson, Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise “I have this theory. Maybe just because it’s me. If I don’t… Read More You have (probably) stopped improving, and that’s a problem – Insight from Anders Ericcson, Peak.

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Corporate Cultures – Survey Analysis Approach

Strategy Driven

Interpretation of cultural surveys requires application of strong statistical analysis methods and knowledge-based results aggregation. Drawing overall conclusions can be counterintuitive; requiring a fundamental understanding of how surveys extract data about the collective nature of an organization’s culture and how to interpret that data in light of the collective nature of the organization’s culture.

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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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Brian Tracy On Motivation And The Friendship Factor

Eric Jacobson

All you need is one hour to read Brian Tracy's pocket-sized guide for managers, Motivation. "You cannot motivate other people," explains Tracy, "but you can remove the obstacles that stop them from motivating themselves. All motivation is self-motivation. As a manager, you can create an environment where this potential for self-motivation is released naturally and spontaneously.

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10 Ways to Help Your Spouse Transition to a New Position

Ron Edmondson

In a previous post, I wrote about the emotions of a pastor or leader’s spouse during a time of ministry transition. You will need to read the post HERE for this post to make complete sense. The post resonated with several who are dealing with this issue. My post was to bring awareness to those emotions, but as I expected, it generated questions.

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Support Theatre

Curious Cat

Support theatre provides the appearance of supporting customers when in fact it is just treating customers poorly based on a management system that disrespects customers. It is a similar idea to security theatre that has become so popular for government in the USA for the last 10 years. Dilbert does a good job of illustrating “support theatre” in this webcast: I have had the exact experience Dilbert does of tech support refusing to think about the actual symptoms of the problem and i

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Do Management Models and Theories Work?

Rapid BI

“What Management & Business Methods, Models and/or Theories have provided executives/managers and their organizations (e.g. company, institution, team) benefits and improvements” Over the years I have used many of the management, leadership, business and change models and theories and unfortunately the answer to “do they work?” is YES and NO. One of the difficulties with […].

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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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Onboarding New Leaders: The Critical First 100 Days

My Own Coach

Organisations spend vast amounts of time and money recruiting talented leaders, yet most are still failing to make the best of their investment through an effective onboarding programme. Studies have show that around 50% of newly recruited executives either resign or are fired within three years and only 20% of existing teams will be working for […].

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Stop Start Continue Change – a Management and facilitation Model

Rapid BI

The Stop Start Continue Change is a management and facilitation model that can be applied to a wide range of situations where we need to improve processes, polices and behaviours etc. Stop – Start – Continue – Change The Stop – Start – Continue – Change four step change model is a simple yet often […]. The post Stop Start Continue Change – a Management and facilitation Model appeared first on RapidBi.

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Women Need Mindfulness Even More than Men Do

Harvard Business Review

How many women do you know who proudly claim to be better than men at multitasking? Even the media seems to want to “prove” that women are better multitaskers. For example, when a study by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania found that there are more neural connections between the left and right side of women’s brains than men’s, a news story pointed to this as evidence that women’s brains are made for multitasking, even though the researchers never mentio

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Microsoft could eat LinkedIn for breakfast – but will it spit it out again?

Rapid BI

Microsoft & Linkedin – Heaven or nightmare? Is this disruptive change from the big behemoths? Over the last few days, there has been increased talk about the decision for Microsoft to bid for LinkedIn. What could a blend of Microsoft & LinkedIn really achieve? Background to the media comments on Microsoft & LinkedIn Microsoft have […].

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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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Avoid Burnout by Asking This Question

Harvard Business Review

Vincent Tsui for HBR. In the late 1990s I began an undergrad business degree program at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. After nearly flunking Economics 101 and striking out with a majority of sports and teams, I finally found my home among a group of interfaculty misfits at the Golden Words comedy newspaper. Golden Words was the largest weekly humor newspaper in the country, an Onion -esque paper publishing 25 issues per year, with a new issue every Wednesday during the school yea

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Robots Are Learning Complex Tasks Just by Watching Humans Do Them

Harvard Business Review

Industrial robots used to be big, unwieldy, and dangerous, but new “human-safe” robots are now commonplace on automotive lines, working right next to people. Yet these robots are awkward coworkers; they coexist with us but do not meaningfully collaborate. Robots often need to be explicitly told how to be helpful or when to stay out of the way — things human teammates seem to learn intuitively.

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What We Can Learn from Merger Deals That Never Happened

Harvard Business Review

Regulatory authorities in the United States have been active in questioning mergers of several large companies. And several have been stopped dead in their tracks. What lies behind the push back by regulators on the recent merger wave? Politics, perhaps — but the Obama administration has not been any more active in stopping mergers than previous administrations.

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Strategic Plans Are Less Important than Strategic Planning

Harvard Business Review

Mention the word “plan” to most managers and the image that springs to their minds might well be a travel plan. Drawn up by travel agents, these lay out in clear and certain terms the sequence of your trip and what to expect when, specifying: where you’re going from, your destination, where you’ll stay en route and when, how you’ll travel, and so forth.

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2024 Payroll Calendar Templates

These calendars provide pay period dates and paydays for biweekly, semi-monthly, and monthly payroll in 2024. Use them as a reminder or share with employees so they can celebrate payday.

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Every Fast-Growing Company Has to Combat Overload

Harvard Business Review

It feels horrible: You’re scaling up aggressively and working harder than ever, but with each passing day you feel more overwhelmed. Your business is a success, but you feel like a failure. You used to be able to track everything with an Excel spreadsheet, personally designed by your CFO; now you’ve got an SAP installation in its place, supported by an entire IT department.

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The Key to Performance Reviews Is Preparation

Harvard Business Review

Writing and delivering performance reviews can be one of the most challenging tasks for any manager. It’s difficult to give a review that successfully navigates the emotional and interpersonal dynamics while also balancing the complex, competing goals that are present in most performance reviews. In my work as an executive coach, one of the most frequent requests I get from clients is to provide feedback on performance reviews they’ve drafted before they deliver them.