Wed.Nov 16, 2022

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Focus on Teaching Students How to Think (Not What To Think)

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton Have you noticed that the current fray about what to teach about difficult subjects has been focused on teaching "one way or the other?" "Are you for it or against it? and "Which side are you on?" This approach completely misses the point that the purpose of education is not to teach students what to think. It's to teach students how to think, and how to navigate differences respectfully.

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A Simple, But Powerful Approach To Inspire The Best In Others | Leadership Espresso Shot 43

Tanveer Naseer

Over the course of delivering numerous leadership keynotes and workshops this past year, it’s been interesting to see what themes leaders are looking for answers or guidance on. On a personal note, it’s also been gratifying to return once again to delivering these sessions in person and not just virtually. After all, there’s nothing more rewarding than being in a room full of leaders and watching as those light bulbs go off as they now realize what they need to do differently to address a curren

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Everything You Need to Know About Opening Your Online Store

Joseph Lalonde

via Pexels. This is a contributed post to JMLalonde.com. For more information on contributing a post, please see our contributing policies. Starting your own online store can be a great way to make money and be your own boss. But it’s not as easy as just setting up a website and waiting for the customers to come flooding in. There are a lot of things you need to know before you get started, and this blog post will teach you everything you need to know!

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5 Surprising Truths About Feeling Inferior

Leadership Freak

God and nitwits never feel inferior. Normal folk grapple with feeling inferior. Feeling like you’re not there yet is reality, not inferiority. Feeling like you’ve arrived is delusion.

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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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Wealth Stability Between Generations

The Horizons Tracker

A recent survey found that around 60% of Americans think that they can successfully build so-called “generational wealth”, which they will then be able to pass down to future generations in their family. The survey, of around 2,000 adults, found that 63% were confident that they’d be able to accumulate sufficient assets in investments, property, and so on, to be able to pass at least some down to the next generation.

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Andrea Sok Joins the Women On Business Contributor Team

Women on Business

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Reaching Your Retirement Years: What Should Be On Your Mind

Strategy Driven

According to a study by the National Institute on Retirement Security, nearly two-thirds of American workers between the ages of 55 and 64 have less than $30,000 saved for retirement. And that’s just one statistic that shows how many people are unprepared for retirement. Another issue is that many people don’t want to retire at retirement age.

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Could Bots Make Negotiations Fairer?

The Horizons Tracker

One supposed reason for the gender pay gap is that women are worse negotiators than men, and therefore when it comes time to push for a higher salary, they tend to lag behind their male peers. It’s a stereotype that is put to the test in research from the University of Southern California, which finds that, generally speaking, men and women are just as bad as each other at negotiating.

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7 Tips To Keep Your Business Legally Compliant And Secured

Strategy Driven

Owning your own business is one of the most rewarding experiences. You will enjoy unmatched independence and a flexible lifestyle. This is not to mention the financial rewards and personal satisfaction. However, running a company comes with tons of responsibilities. You must market your business, provide timely customer service, innovate, hire and manage staff, and ensure your business is legally compliant.

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Trusted Leaders Build High-Trust Cultures

The Practical Leader

Nine-year-old third base player, Juan Miguel, fielded a ground ball and tried to tag a runner going from second to third base. The umpire, Laura Benson, called the runner out, but young Juan immediately ran to her side and said, “Ma’am, I didn’t tag the runner.” Umpire Benson reversed herself, sent the runner to third base, and Juan’s coach gave him the game ball for his honesty.

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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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Team problem-solving Clarify the issue method

Mike Cardus

Process of Team Problem Solving. Select the team Name the issue Clarify the issue Brainstorm solutions Red team solutions Select an idea Testing Doing Evaluation. Team Problem-Solving contains several steps, which, if followed in sequence, will yield predictable results. Some actions may be more important than others, given specific problems. For example, some problems are apparent, so that that clarification may be simple.

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A CEO’s Guide to Leading Through Disruption

CEO Insider

There is no doubt that today’s CEOs are under duress. Uncertainty in the economy and ongoing turbulence in the current operating environment has created unprecedented challenges and disruptions. Today’s CEOs must forge ahead, moving past what is getting in their way to achieve their investors’ expectations and strategic goals. As a former chief human resources […].

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Provocative Perspective—The Leadership Failure of Mass Layoffs

Art Petty

I’ve long believed layoffs are a lagging indicator of poor leadership engaged in misguided management practices. The CEO apologies for these misfires ring hollow. You cannot apologize your way out of a leadership failure at scale. The post Provocative Perspective—The Leadership Failure of Mass Layoffs appeared first on Management Excellence by Art Petty.

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What Factors Drive Employee Loyalty?

HR Digest

Employee loyalty is like sand. The more firmly you grasp something, the more probable it is to escape from your grasp. Retaining employees has never been an easy nut to crack. There are a hundred and one things you could improve about your retention strategy, but there’s always that one thing that makes the employees feel ignored and makes them leave.

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The Complete People Management Toolkit

From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.

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5 Staffing Conferences To Elevate Your Business In 2022 and 2023

Strategy Driven

To keep the best talent, you need to know the level of engagement in your organization. Unhappy employees have options and employee retention is difficult in today’s market. To keep employees connected from executive to intern, it will take a strong commitment to understand the pressures they face in everyday life and support them as they struggle to find work that provides more than just a paycheck.

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4 Easy Ways to Become a Leader with Executive Presence

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Become a leader with executive presence by being vocal, stating ideas with conviction, being decisive, and radiating calm. Today’s post is by Joel Garfinkle, thought LEADERS instructor, executive coach, and author of Executive Presence: Step Into Your Power, Convey Confidence, and Lead with Conviction. (CLICK HERE to get your copy). If you want to advance to high levels in your career—and make the greatest possible impact—you need to become a leader with executive presence.

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Mission, Vision, and Values: Connecting Your Superpower to A Greater Purpose

CO2

What is our purpose? Who do we serve? What drives us? As society shifts its view of businesses from engines of profit to engines for good, more and more organizations are soul-searching for a purpose. Over the past decade, the move toward stakeholder capitalism has changed how businesses see themselves and define concepts like value, growth, and success and also how they ultimately define their company’s mission, vision, and values.

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10 Tips to Grieve in a Healthy Way

Ron Edmondson

As a pastor, I’m am consistently called upon to help people learn how to grieve in a healthy way. I’ll be candid, it is not one of my favorite roles, because it always stemmed from the reasons why they need to grieve. It means someone is hurt. Grieving indicates brokenness. There is pain, disappointment, even anger associated with grief. That never feels good.

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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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Mission, Vision, and Values: Connecting Your Superpower to A Greater Purpose

CO2

What is our purpose? Who do we serve? What drives us? As society shifts its view of businesses from engines of profit to engines for good, more and more organizations are soul-searching for a purpose. Over the past decade, the move toward stakeholder capitalism has changed how businesses see themselves and define concepts like value, growth, and success and also how they ultimately define their company’s mission, vision, and values.

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What Remote Means Now

Decker Communication

Few words have changed meaning as quickly as remote. A word that until recently meant “having very little connection and lacking relationship” is now used to convey a new kind of connectedness, one made possible by virtual networks as opposed to physical locations. There’s emotional depth in this new remote. We conduct distinctly personal affairs remotely.

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Provocative Perspective—The Leadership Failure of Mass Layoffs

Management Excellence

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Looking at Layoffs Through the Deming Lens

Deming Institute

In this guest post Bill Bellows looks at recent layoff announcements from a Deming point of view. Who is responsible for company failures? What is Ford doing differently? What happens when companies target "poor performers" and how easy it is to "do the wrong thing right.

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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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5 Lessons from Automakers on Navigating Supply Chain Disruptions

Harvard Business Review

Strategies to protect your business and deliver a “good enough” product.

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What Does a Marketing Agency Do?

Strategy Driven

An agency can provide resources, analytics, and software if you want to grow your business. They also have the expertise to interpret and translate the data into actionable steps. Agencies like Seattle Marketing Agency are dedicated to the growth of companies and can create customized marketing strategies to achieve this goal. In addition, they can make and implement social media, mobile advertising, and content for your brand.

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What a Mature CSR Team Looks Like

Harvard Business Review

Successful implementation happens when responsibility is decentralized and functional units are empowered.

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How to Communicate Your Company Purpose to Inspire Action

CO2

When Lisa Flanary, executive coach and strategic planning partner at CO2 Partners, began her work with a CO2 to client to redefine their mission, vision, and values, company leadership couldn’t locate any documentation about the company purpose. No one, from entry-level employees to company leaders, could recall the company’s guiding philosophy—a glaring example of the lack of purpose for the company’s work.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.

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How to Respond When an Employee Shares a Mental Health Challenge

Harvard Business Review

Be prepared for the next conversation.

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How to Communicate Your Company Purpose to Inspire Action

CO2

When Lisa Flanary, executive coach and strategic planning partner at CO2 Partners, began her work with a CO2 to client to redefine their mission, vision, and values, company leadership couldn’t locate any documentation about the company purpose. No one, from entry-level employees to company leaders, could recall the company’s guiding philosophy—a glaring example of the lack of purpose for the company’s work. .

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