Mon.Jul 31, 2017

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Go Ahead … Make My Day!

Lead Change Blog

Do you remember the film Sudden Impact ? If not, I bet you remember the quote made famous by the gravelly voice of Clint Eastwood, “Go ahead, make my day.” Two years after the film debuted, Time Magazine quoted President Ronald Reagan, who couldn’t resist the sudden impact of his opinion on higher taxes when he said, “I have my veto pen drawn and ready for any tax increase that Congress might even think of sending up.

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Five ways to change negative perceptions at work

Career Advancement

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”. ~ C.G. Jung ~. Cassidy had overheard some snide comments. She knew people were making snap judgements, based on gossip , about her that just weren’t true. How could she change negative work perceptions and get her co-workers to think more positively about her?

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10 tips for new leaders

Lead on Purpose

Leading a new team comes with challenges. You have a group of people who have grown accustomed to doing things a certain way. They may or may not have liked their departing manager.

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Why the Boston Startup Scene is Perfect for Women Entrepreneurs

Women on Business

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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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LeadershipNow 140: July 2017 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from July 2017 that you might have missed: Two Truths About Humans that Leaders Must Always Remember by @KevinEikenberry. Honorable Leadership by @BarnettTalks. Driscoll's CEO on servant leadership via @SmartBrief. 10 Principles of Organizational Culture via @stratandbiz @jon_katzenbach. What Happens When Leaders Divide to Conquer by @LizKislik.

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5 Project Management Skills to Help You Succeed

Women on Business

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In 100 Words: Immersion and Doing Work that Matters

QAspire

We cannot be anxious about something “out there” – a goal, a target, an external reward, a validation from others and generally things that feed our ego – and be immersed in what we do at the same time. To be able to do great work/art that changes others for better, we need to let “joy” rule us instead of “ego”. Then there is no self in the game: self is just a conducive medium for the inspiration to show up in form of work.

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Emotional Intelligence- a three part series

Jason Womack

Hello from Manhattan Beach! Update and invite: Via GetMomemtum, we are coordinating Three sessions to discuss #Emotional #Intelligence (free). Anyone can register, click here. If you know one person who might be interested, please share!

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4 Ways to Build Teams That Pull You into the Future

Leadership Freak

Leaders lean in when I talk about teams with pull. We’ve all been on teams that needed to be pushed. How do you create pull?

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5 Ways to Better Manage Your Field Workforce in the Cloud

Chart Your Course

Managing a workforce via the cloud has quickly become the norm, as businesses now have more tools than ever before from which to choose. According to RightScale, 93 percent of businesses use the cloud in some form or another. However, determining which technology tools to use — and how to make it all work for your team — is another animal altogether.

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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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Your Leadership Pledge

Kevin Eikenberry

“I pledge allegiance, to the flag.” If you are an American reading this, you likely finished “the pledge” in your head – perhaps before you even read this line. Why is that? Partly due to repetition. If you are of a certain age, you recited this daily at school, and because of […]. The post Your Leadership Pledge appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Do You Know the Value of Your Social Capital at Work?

ReImagine Work

I was lunching on a salad in a bustling restaurant with a former boss. We talked about the infiltration of electronic devices in the workplace – and particularly how we use them for communication. Sometimes we misuse them. We each have our own preferred method of communication at work, no matter what our generation. The bottom line is, aside from your method of choice, how you say things is as important as what you say, particularly when it comes to building social capital.

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Ways to Improve Your Website’s Navigation

Strategy Driven

Photo courtesy of Pixabay. There’s no point taking the time to create a website for your business if you don’t also take the time to ensure that the site is easy for your visitors to find their way around. Good web design answers the important questions about your business and what it’s about, and that means that your website’s navigation needs to be spot on if you’re going to convince visitors to become customers.

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How To Create Engagement In A Purposeful Organization

Eric Jacobson

"The challenge for the organizational architect is to systematically create the blueprint for an organization that consciously connects everything to purpose ," explains author Clive Wilson , in his book, Designing the Purposeful Organization. "The product of doing this are measurable results and, importantly, a felt sense of success. Wilson's book is packed with case studies and activities that help you put to practice in your organization the learnings from the book.

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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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7 Classic New Leader Mistakes

Ron Edmondson

I’ve worked with a lot of new leaders over the years. Even more so – I’ve been one. Numerous times throughout my more than 35 years leadership career I’ve been the new guy. (And, learned lots of lessons the hard way.). Navigating those early days in a new leadership role is critically important. Much of our future success as leaders is determined by how well we start.

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Crowdsourcing, best practice, and the reality of work

Surviving Leadership

There’s a lot of chatter out there these days about the benefits of crowdsourcing and use of best practice. On the one hand, this is a good thing. Technology has helped us shrink the world, allowing us to connect to each other more easily. Because of this, we can learn from each other through case studies, experiences, and measured benchmarks.

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Haircuts and Continuous Improvement

Deming Institute

On a summer weekend in 1997, I visited my office for a short time before heading home after a few errands near work. At the time, I was a member of the company’s Continuous Improvement Team, a later version of a Total Quality Management Office. Upon dropping in, I met a young co-worker, Paulo, who quickly made the observation that my hair was shorter.

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Data Can Do for Change Management What It Did for Marketing

Harvard Business Review

Neasden Control Centre for HBR. Business in the 21st century is being redefined by a data-driven revolution. Take the MIT Media Lab’s experiment to see whether it could estimate retail sales performance on “Black Friday,” the day following the US Thanksgiving holiday. Instead of waiting for data from the stores themselves, they used location data from mobile phones to infer how many people were in the parking lots of major retailers.

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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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3 Ways to Control Your Phone Addiction on Vacation

Harvard Business Review

Here’s the good news: Americans, as a whole, are finally starting to earn more and take more paid time off. According to a study by Project: Time Off, American workers took an average of 16.8 vacation days in 2016, up 0.6 days from 2015. That’s the biggest jump since vacation usage started declining in 2000, the study found. And the amount of vacation time earned in 2016 jumped nearly one full day—to 22.6—from the year before.

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Every Generation Wants Meaningful Work — but Thinks Other Age Groups Are in It for the Money

Harvard Business Review

Several years ago, I started getting regular consulting requests from companies seeking help managing Millennials. When I asked what they were struggling with, I heard comments similar to these: “Millennials don’t seem to care about the work or the company. They will let us train them and then quit the following week for a job for more money.” “Millennials don’t understand the meaning of work — they want rewards without having to do the work to earn them. R

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When Coaching Finds That an Executive Isn’t in the Right Role

Harvard Business Review

In the traditional view of executive coaching, an executive, with her boss’s participation , takes personality assessments, receives 360-degree feedback , and creates and implements a development plan designed to address performance gaps, optimize her contribution, and prepare her for new responsibilities. This approach is based on the fundamental belief that enhancing performance in a role as currently structured, is the best way ahead.

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6 Digital Strategies, and Why Some Work Better than Others

Harvard Business Review

Digital technology has been roiling markets and disrupting companies for more than two decades, but despite that lengthy history, incumbents are still struggling to enact and deliver on digital transformations. The first challenge is disruption; digitization is enabling new, disruptive models that aggressively compete with legacy models, putting material pressure on incumbents’ revenue and profit growth.

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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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Whiteboard Session: How to Get Up to Speed in Your New Leadership Role

Harvard Business Review

Avoid these common traps when you join a new organization.

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