Mon.Aug 22, 2016

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“I’m Not Listening!: The Best Way to Get Your Team to Hear Your Feedback

Let's Grow Leaders

“John” and I had spent the better part of the hour talking about what her direct report, “Janis,” needed to be a more effective manager. Bless her heart, Janis had a hard time accepting feedback. If she didn’t improve, her job was on the line, but we didn’t want to put it that way. At least not yet. We isolated the behaviors and built a solid developmental path forward.

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5 Critical Things Entrepreneurs Must Understand about Delegation to be Successful

Women on Business

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5 Ways to Remove Stress from Management

Lead Change Blog

Several years ago, I was given the opportunity to lead a sales team. I’d been at the company for five years but had never tried my hand at management, so I thought, ‘why not?’. And, really, what was the worst that could happen? What followed knocked me sideways. Managing teams is incredibly difficult, stressful and challenging. Leading a team is something else entirely but comes hand-in-hand with management if you want to be a great boss.

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How can I help you do your job better?

N2Growth Blog

A question employees love to hear: How can I help you do your job better? That is one of the most potent questions in management for a senior executive to put to an employee. Offering such assistance is recognition by the executive that his job is to help others do their jobs better. When you hire people who are motivated to stretch themselves to reach goals for themselves and their teams, providing support for them stokes the fire of their engines.

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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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Leadership that stands the test of time

Lead on Purpose

You know for sure whether leadership ideas and practices work by how long they last. The new ideas we come up with today will take time to prove themselves—that’s the tricky part.

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6 Leaders Worthy of Your Attention

N2Growth Blog

Many business pundits regularly offer their lists of leaders to watch. I’m not a huge fan of this approach because these lists tend to highlight the same obvious names. For certain, people like Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Weiner and Peter Thiel are all incredible entrepreneurs and have earned their place on anyone’s list of great innovators.

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The Power of Disadvantage

Leadership Freak

Olympic athletes Nikki Hamblin of New Zealand and Abbey D’Agostino of the USA tumbled over each other in the women’s 5,000 meter race. It was tragic. But what happened next was magnificent.

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WHE30: Millennials and Healthcare: How They Experience the System | with Hector De La Torre

Engaging Leader

They’re supposedly young and healthy, but a new study shows that more than half of Millennials report having a chronic health condition. In addition, Millennials struggle how to navigate the health care system, starting with choosing an appropriate health plan in the first place. These and other surprising findings are from a new study on […] They’re supposedly young and healthy, but a new study shows that more than half of Millennials report having a chronic health condition.

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What Shouldn’t Change When Leading a Remote Team

Kevin Eikenberry

Here at the Kevin Eikenberry Group we spend a lot of time helping leaders of all kinds in all sorts of work situations. One of the most prevalent of those situations is someone leading a remote, or partially remote, team – a team where at least some of the members work at a location remote […]. The post What Shouldn’t Change When Leading a Remote Team appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Featured at Forbes: Incorporate your values into your career choices

ReImagine Work

Forbes, August 10, 2016: “Values-based decision making means understanding what is most important to you and then incorporating this into your life on a daily basis. Knowing exactly what you believe also helps you make the decisions that naturally lead to a more fulfilling career. But how can you adjust your priorities in order to shift to this approach?

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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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Consultant Workshop: The Sales Rollercoaster – a needed workshop led by Tom Niesen of Acuity Systems

First Friday Book Synopsis

This is a post for all the people who “work alone” – you know, independent contractors, independent consultants, people like…me. We always have two struggles. One, to get our work done. Two, to get more work. And, unlike working in larger companies, we don’t have a sales and marketing team. What do we do? Well,… Read More Consultant Workshop: The Sales Rollercoaster – a needed workshop led by Tom Niesen of Acuity Systems.

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7 Ways I Hope to be a Kingdom-Minded Pastor

Ron Edmondson

Shortly after I arrived at our established church I began saying frequently, “I want to be a Kingdom-minded pastor” The phrase seemed to catch some by surprise. They had heard the term, but they really didn’t know what I meant when I said it. Thankfully, rather than remaining curious, someone eventually asked me, “What do you mean by that?

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The Four Parts of “Doing Work”

First Friday Book Synopsis

Short; to the point… What is work? Work is: Thinking about your work Planning your work Doing your work Critiquing your work A little more about “Doing your Work”: Doing your work alone Doing your work together And: (Doing your work for insiders – e.g., team members) (Doing your work for outsiders – e/g., “customers”)… Read More The Four Parts of “Doing Work”.

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Deming Regression

Deming Institute

Most of Dr. Deming’s management work requires no understanding of advanced statistical methods. He was also a statistician and this post takes a look at one of his contributions to the field of statistics: the Deming Regression. In his book, Statistical Adjustment of Data (1943), W. Edwards Deming discussed, among other things, various methods to find a line of best fit to a collection of data.

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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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The Connection Between Pride and Persistence

Harvard Business Review

Most managers know that praising employees when they perform well is important, but many still withhold praise. They seem wedded to the outdated belief that pride can sap motivation among workers and even make them a bit lazy. This take on pride isn’t correct, not even in the least. In fact, pride is one of a select group of emotions that engenders perseverance and success at work.

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Leadership Lessons And Quotes From Kubo And The Two Strings

Joseph Lalonde

Y es readers, you’re not seeing things. Today brings two new Reel Leadership posts to the website. The first was Leadership Lessons And Quotes From Ben-Hur. Now, you get leadership lessons from Kubo and the Two Strings. This weekend was packed with movie goodness and I couldn’t resist sharing this bonus post with you. I hope you enjoy! Kubo And The Two Strings is the stop-motion animation story from the studio of LAIKA.

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To Reduce Complexity in Your Company, Start with Pen and Paper

Harvard Business Review

Companies that grow face a predictable problem: over time, the business becomes way too complex for its own good. I see this a lot in companies that have moved heavily into what I call the “exploitation” phase of a competitive advantage , or the phase that comes after the initial launch and successful ramp-up. Chris Zook and James Allen have also recently tackled this issue their recent HBR article “ Reigniting Growth.” With the warm glow of steady and more-or-less predic

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7 Ways to Make Meetings More Effective Over the Summer

Strategy Driven

When our meetings aren’t run properly, it’s a waste of time and money, especially during summer slump months. Here’s how to make meetings more effective over the summer. Summer days at the office can drag on, and so can meetings. But meetings are expensive. Say you have 10 employees who each make $70,000 a year ($35 an hour, in other words). That’s $350 for a one-hour meeting.

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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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Companies Fare Worse When the Press Exposes Their Problems Before They Do

Harvard Business Review

When organizations first become aware of a major problem with a product or service, one with important consequences for consumers or the environment, they face a dilemma. Should they self-disclose the issue? Or should they let sleeping dogs lie? Ethically, the choice is simple. If management is aware of a problem, its moral duty is to communicate openly and honestly to all stakeholders involved.

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Leadership Lessons And Quotes From Ben-Hur 2016

Joseph Lalonde

B ased on the book Ben-Hur: A Tale Of Christ , Ben-Hur returns to the big screen cinemas. Over time, the tale of Ben-Hur has been recounted in multiple movies, TV shows, and cartoons. This weekend saw the release of the latest Ben-Hur telling. . The 2016 Ben-Hur is brought to us by Roma Downey and Mark Burnett. They’ve previously produced The Bible and A.D.

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Bogus Audited Statements Are Holding Africa Back

Harvard Business Review

The Great Recession revealed one of the weakest links in Africa’s quest to build strong capital markets — bogus audited statements. After the fall of Lehman Brothers, the cascading dominoes spread around the world crippling markets and decimating companies. Despite the Wall Street-engineered financial avalanche, investors lost money in African equities largely because some audited statements were revealed to be patently deceptive.

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A Refresher on Marketing Myopia

Harvard Business Review

Paul Garbett for HBR. Every year, a large majority of product launches fail. There’s debate about exactly what percentage— some say it is 75% , others claim it’s closer to 95%. Regardless of which number is right, there is no doubt that a lot of time and energy go into marketing products that will no longer exist in a year. Why is this?

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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.