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Sales Team Performance: How to Up the Game

Let's Grow Leaders

What are the one or two behaviors, if you did them consistently, would dramatically improve your sales team performance? “Build deeper, trusting relationships.” Table stakes. “Add real strategic value.” Amen. “Invest deeply in truly understanding my business.” Please! “Become an extended go-to member […].

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5 Proven Strategies for Conducting Effective Employee Appraisals

Women on Business

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15 WAYS TO GRAPPLE WITH DISCOURAGEMENT AND EVENTUALLY WIN

Leadership Freak

The only reason encouragement matters is discouragement is real. On June 2, 2011, I woke up discouraged and couldn’t think of anything to write. Then it hit me. Write about overcoming discouragement.

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Managing Priorities: A Key to Leadership Success

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Martin Lanik : As a leader, do you scramble to get your work done at the very last minute or tend to cram the night before a big meeting? Are your team members often confused about what to do and unable to complete their assignments on time? These problems can usually be solved if you learn to improve one very important leadership skill: managing priorities.

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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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How to Break Rules and Win Friends – Guest Blogger Diego Segura

leaderCommunicator

I’m honored to share a guest post with you by Diego Segura, a young leader who is already well on his way to finding his voice and making an impact. He recently reached out to me and shared a story about what he’s learned from his dad as a long-time sales manager on the importance of using communication to create positive change. He shared that a recent post I published inspired him, too, which is part of why he reached out asking if he could be a guest blogger (or if I’d be open to reviewing hi

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What to Do When Personal and Professional Commitments Compete for Your Time

Harvard Business Review

Luis Diaz Devesa/Getty Images. You’re double booked. It’s not just one meeting scheduled over another. It’s something for your family at odds with a work commitment. These situations can trigger guilt and stress. Guilt because you feel like you’re letting others down — no matter what you decide, you will lose. And stress because you can’t literally be in two places at once.

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More and More Jobs Today Require a License. That’s Good for Some Workers, but Not Always for Consumers

Harvard Business Review

Bhavesh1988/Getty Images. Over the last few decades, the job market in the U.S. has changed in many ways. But one trend that hasn’t received nearly enough attention is the steady rise of occupational licensing: more and more jobs are requiring workers to be licensed to enter the profession. In the 1950s, approximately 5% of U.S. workers had an occupational license, meaning they completed additional schooling or training (and paid the necessary fees) and passed an exam to be licensed to pra

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To Reduce Sexual Misconduct, Help People Understand How Their Advances Might Be Received

Harvard Business Review

pbombaert/Getty Images. The revelations of the #MeToo movement seem to have caught many men by surprise. Comedian Aziz Ansari was “ surprised and concerned ,” believing his encounter with a woman to be “by all indications completely consensual.” Well-known actor Richard Dreyfus was “ bewildered to discover ” an incident wasn’t consensual, leading him to “reassess every relationship I have ever thought was playful and mutual.” Although there a

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How to Accelerate the Adoption of Digital Health Technology

Harvard Business Review

Jamie Jones/Getty Images. In 1997, health information technology and digitial health pioneer Warner Slack wrote his bold and prophetic book, Cybermedicine: How Computing Empowers Doctors and Patients for Better Care. Slack argued that “the electronic digital computer, with its capacity to hold large amounts of data and to execute multiple complex instructions and accuracy would…find an important clinical role in both diagnosis and treatment.” While the digitization of health in