Fri.May 12, 2017

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Leadership and Learning

Lead Change Blog

When I interview a candidate, I always ask what book they are reading or what current trends they know of in the marketplace. I also ask them to explain what they learned. The reason I ask those questions is to gain insight on their desire to better themselves. It is important that people joining our organization believe in learning, because our ability to increase our scale is through personal development.

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The Importance of Relationship-Building in Today’s Leadership (Tanveer Naseer)

Let's Grow Leaders

Winning Well Connection. We’ve gotten to know Tanveer through his fantastic leadership writing and thought leadership over the years. He’s been a regular contributor to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival the last few years and a kindred spirit on blending the bottom line with the human spirit. Relationships For Complex Times.

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Don’t Small Talk, Have Courageous Conversations.

Rich Gee Group

Why do people hate networking events? Usually it’s full of people who are all talking small. “How’s business?” ” There’s a lot of people here.” “How’s the food?” “That’s a great tie.” Shoot me now. We all hate these events – executives, vendors, and business owners alike.

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How to Develop the 3 Most Neglected Leadership Qualities

Leadership Freak

The three most neglected leadership qualities are kind candor, courageous transparency, and forward-facing curiosity. You might be good at one, but very few excel at all three.

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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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Become A Role Model Leader

Joseph Lalonde

Okay, you’ve been leading for some time now. You got the lay of the land and you are feeling comfortable as a leader. What’s next in leadership? The next step is to become a role model leader. Image by Evan Rummel. Because of your positional authority, you’re leading multiple people. Each person you’re leading is looking to you for something.

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Weekly Round-Up: Culture of Inclusion, Difficult Team Members, Introvert Insights, Millennial Leaders Communication Struggles, & Driving Engagement

leaderCommunicator

Welcome to my weekly round-up of recent top leadership and communication blog posts. As many of you know, each week I read and tweet several great articles and on Fridays, I pull some of my favorites together here on my blog. This week you’ll read articles on 12 steps to create a culture of inclusion, how to deal with difficult team members to build respect in a team, 4 keys for bringing out the best from introverts, why millennial leaders struggle with communication and how to help them, and de

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7 Tips for Embracing the 80/20 Rule With Employee Talent

ExactHire - Leadership

I’m sure you’ve heard of the 80/20 Rule before, but have you ever thought seriously about its impact on your talent management initiatives? Whether you like it or not, the Pareto Principle (another name for the rule) is likely at work within your workforce. Therefore, as few as 20 percent of your employees are driving about 80 percent of your productivity and success.

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Marketing Strategies To Consider To Drive Your Business To Success

Strategy Driven

Starting up a business, especially if it is something you feel passionate about, is one of the best things any budding entrepreneur can do. Having that drive and ambition to make something a success is potentially what fuels and motivates you to get up in the morning. Whether you are just starting out, have a fully fledged business, or even class your company a huge success, I think we can all agree that the marketing strategies you put in place are vital to your business growth.

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How To Be A Strong Career Mentor And Coach

Eric Jacobson

Author Paul Falcone offers the following great advice for how to become a stronger career mentor and coach by helping your subordinates grow and develop in their own careers. Encourage others to engage in random acts of kindness. Find creative ways of surprising your customers. Focus on making bad relationships good and good relationships better. Look for new ways of reinventing the workflow in light of your company's changing needs.

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Trade show tips for exhibitors #cipdLDshow 2 Badges – one person – How to get a very different experience at Trade Shows and Exhibitions

Rapid BI

Trade shows and exhibitions are a mainstay in the armoury of sales and marketing teams. They cost a lot of money to rent the booths. To design the stand. To have resources and people for the duration of the event. But are they making the most of the opportunity? Presentation Skills at Trade Shows many exhibition […]. The post Trade show tips for exhibitors #cipdLDshow 2 Badges – one person – How to get a very different experience at Trade Shows and Exhibitions appeared first on

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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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Can Snapchat Survive If Facebook Copies All Its Best Features?

Harvard Business Review

To be successful, a company needs to provide something customers want. It must be able to do so for less than they’re willing to pay. And there must be some reason why competitors can’t just copy it when it succeeds. In management terms, it needs a value proposition , a business model , and a strategy. Snap is doing well on the first two.

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A skinny video review of the #cipdLDshow 2017 with Martin Couzins & Mike Morrison

Rapid BI

The 2017 CIPD Learning and Development at Olympia started much like many others. Only this time there were significant queues waiting to get in at the start time. Everyone was greeted by probably the happiest being in the building: Yes full blown bag searches and a “meet and greet” by a sniffer dog” Not sure […]. The post A skinny video review of the #cipdLDshow 2017 with Martin Couzins & Mike Morrison appeared first on RapidBI.

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How to Become a Coach or Consultant After You Retire

Harvard Business Review

The vast majority of senior professionals don’t want to “retire.” They have interesting, fulfilling work that they’d like to continue — just not at the frenetic pace of top corporate jobs. That’s why so many, lured by the promise of flexible hours, higher rates, and location independence, are intrigued by the idea of becoming a consultant or coach when they retire from their “official” career.

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Your Brain Can Only Take So Much Focus

Harvard Business Review

The ability to focus is an important driver of excellence. Focused techniques such as to-do lists , timetables, and calendar reminders all help people to stay on task. Few would argue with that, and even if they did, there is evidence to support the idea that resisting distraction and staying present have benefits: practicing mindfulness for 10 minutes a day , for example, can enhance leadership effectiveness by helping you become more able to regulate your emotions and make sense of past experi

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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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CEOs Who Began Their Careers During Booms Tend to Be Less Ethical

Harvard Business Review

When Alan Greenspan addressed the Harvard University class of 1999 , he shared a message of wealth and prosperity that was reflected in many aspects of American life. “You are being bequeathed the tools for achieving a material existence that neither my generation nor any that preceded it could have even remotely imagined as we began our life’s work,” he told the new graduates.

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Recessions Push People to Buy Cheap Things, Which Just Makes Everything Worse

Harvard Business Review

The U.S. labor market is like an aging athlete; it is taking longer and longer to recover from recessions. It took two and a half years to regain the jobs lost during the 1990-92 recession. The next recession, which came in 2001, was short and mild (GDP barely fell), but it took four years for the job market to heal, prompting the Federal Reserve to administer the economy a long course of low interest rates.

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What the Rise of Russian Hackers Means for Your Business

Harvard Business Review

For years major businesses have contended with hackers attempting to break into their networks and steal their data. In the recent past, that threat mostly emanated from China. Now, a new threat has emerged that companies must address: a savvy, resource-rich, risk-taking gang of hackers with ties to Russia. If the Chinese were the drunk burglars of cyberspace (to quote former FBI director James Comey) , these Russians are stone-cold sober thugs.