Tue.May 24, 2016

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Stop Trying to Grow Influence. Grow this Instead.

Lead Change Blog

You will never be a leader. You won’t get that promotion. The bonus and salary increase you expect will be given to someone else. Your product won’t change the world. Your idea won’t go viral. Your organization will fade into history. The legacy you leave will be forgotten. And a generation from now no one will even know your name. Be honest. You’ve had these thoughts before.

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7 Ways Leaders Can Empower Their Employees To Succeed

Tanveer Naseer

Of the many, many things that today’s leaders are expected to do, one of the most sought-after abilities in a leader is someone who can motivate and support those around them to bring their best selves to the work they do. Indeed, thanks to the transition from managing task workers to leading knowledge workers, being able to tap into the collective insights, experiences, and talents of those you lead has become a critical factor to determining an organization’s capacity to adapt and

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10 ways to foster relationships in 10 minutes or less

Persuasive Powerhouse

Many leaders don’t take the time to nurture relationships with their stakeholders. Making the effort to do that that will develop the relationships necessary for their – and their organization’s – success. I often hear from leaders that they have higher priorities on their plate than making connections with others. The truth is that things don’t get done if you don’t connect to the people who are contributing to those deadlines and bottom-lines.

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11 Ways to Rise from Front-line to Top Leadership

Leadership Freak

Ron Wallace began his career at UPS as a driver and ended it as President of UPS International. I asked Ron how a person rises from driver at UPS to President.

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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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Who is recruiting great talent and how? My 2 cents.

ReImagine Work

Jobnet brought five HR/Recruiting professionals together to discuss how to manage and use company reviews in today’s recruiting environment in a Twitter chat ( find recap here ). I am honored to have been invited. We fielded questions like: How important are accurate company reviews? Do you think reviews accurately reflect company culture? Do public reviews hurt or help you in recruiting and why?

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Remarkable TV: Empowerment – How to Get Started

Kevin Eikenberry

A lot of leaders will find themselves talking about empowerment, but few leaders actually find themselves accomplishing it. So today, I’m giving a few tips to help leaders empower others. Check out today’s video to learn more. Empowerment requires two decisions – one for you to empower and the other for someone to accept. via […].

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Three Ways to Avoid Making People Feel Irrelevant During Change

Change Starts Here

During the closing keynote of last week’s Association of Change Management Professionals conference in Dallas, shame and vulnerability researcher Brené Brown threw down a statement that made the audience take pause: “The #1 cause of shame at work is fear of irrelevance. The #1 cause of fear of irrelevance is change.” Dr. Brown defines shame as “the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing we are flawed and therefore unworthy of acceptance and belonging.

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Spiritual Resource for Defeating Anxiety

First Friday Book Synopsis

There are so many resources available about how to reduce stress and manage anxiety. Sometimes, we forget that there is a spiritual resource available to us as well. I invite you to read the newest blog posts written about this subject from a spiritual perspective by one of our part-time speakers at Creative Communication Network, Carmen Coreas. You can find her post about DEFEATING… Read More Spiritual Resource for Defeating Anxiety.

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Organizational Performance Measures Best Practice 35 – Style Sheets

Strategy Driven

A performance measure’s value evolves from its ability to instigate and/or influence action. To do this, the measure must accurately reflect materially important performance parameters and present that information in a timely, readily understandable manner. Hi there! This article is available to StrategyDriven Personal Business Advisor Remote Access and Dedicated Advisor clients and those who subscribe to one of the article's related categories.

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Books Under Categories for Your Perusal

First Friday Book Synopsis

We have organized selections from our 15MinuteBusinessBooks.com site into six categories. Click HERE to obtain the recording and handout for the books that you wish to have, at only $9.99 per title. We also sell a subscription to the entire site for just $199. We recommend these titles for you. They are all available to… Read More Books Under Categories for Your Perusal.

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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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Driving Transformation In A Fast-Paced Word

Eric Jacobson

The Art of Change Leadership demystifies the psychology behind our reactions to change and offers a powerful collection of tools to inspire individual and collective transformation quickly and more effectively, explains author of the new book, Cheryl Cran. The book teaches you how to: Leverage your current technical knowledge to increase the rate of innovation.

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10 Prayers for Great Parenting

Ron Edmondson

Dear Lord, . Help me not to overwhelm my children with unrealistic expectations. . Remind me discipline is for their good – and to always administer it in love – not in anger or purely emotion. Keep me from dumping my adult problems on them, while helping me be transparent enough for them to learn from my mistakes. . Help me to remember my children’s current age – and respond to them accordingly.

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Ten Ways Leaders Make The Hard Work Harder

Eric Jacobson

In the book, The Leadership Contract , author Vince Molianro shares that not only is leadership hard work, but also a lot of us inadvertently make the hard work harder. Therefore, Molianro recommends you: Don't get in over your head -- where you are in situations where you are unable to take your performance to a higher level. Where you are creating risk to yourself and your organization.

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26 Stellar Leadership Audiobooks You Mustn't Miss

Miles Anthony Smith

Top 26 Can't Miss Leadership Audiobooks ​These best 26 leadership audiobooks will help you kick leadership butt, becoming the leader that your family and friends always knew you can be. While I cannot guarantee you will enjoy each of these audiobooks, I want to provide many different sources for you to explore on your leadership journey. And yes, that is the inside of my car (below), and no, I was not driving when I took this picture.

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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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Change Your Career Without Having to Start All Over Again

Harvard Business Review

Many experienced professionals would like to make a career transition. But the thought of giving up their hard-earned seniority and starting again at the bottom is simply too demoralizing, so they stay — sometimes unhappily — in place. But as I discovered in researching my book Reinventing You , there are ways you can shift jobs or even careers without giving up your professional status.

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19 Annoying Habits You Must Break To Be a Better Leader

Lead from Within

If you don’t break your annoying habits you will never become the leader you want to be. . We all tend to judge others by their actions and ourselves by our intentions, but one of the things required of great leaders is a significant level of self-awareness. You have to be able to step back and assess your own behavior, just as you would a team member’s, and look objectively at how that behavior influences your team and its work.

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Why John Deere Measures Employee Morale Every Two Weeks

Harvard Business Review

Many companies go to great lengths every year or two to determine just how motivated their work force really is. Traditionally, they might get vendors such as Gallup to survey employee engagement. More recently, online sites such as Glassdoor and Vault let HR managers view anonymized praises and complaints about their company from employees and former employees – comments the whole world can see.

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Online Retailers Should Care More About the Post-Purchase Experience

Harvard Business Review

In 2005 A.G. Lafley, who at the time was CEO of the world’s largest advertiser, Procter & Gamble, introduced a marketing concept he called “the moment of truth” for building brand loyalty. Soon retail brands aligned their strategies around two critical moments: 1) when a customer decides whether to purchase a product, and 2) when a customer uses the product for the first time.

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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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What Trade Deals Are Good For

Harvard Business Review

FROM THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY. In recent months, trade agreements have moved from the arcane pages of academic journals to the front pages of newspapers, from university lecture halls to the presidential campaign trail. What are these agreements about? Why do governments sign them? Why do some candidates lambast them? Do they deserve the attention they have received?

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Your New Hit Product Might Be Underpriced

Harvard Business Review

The odds are stacked against new products or services. Between 65% and 75% miss their revenue or profit goals, depending on whose research you look at. We have diagnosed thousands of product failures over the last 30 years, and have found recurring patterns. Often new products are over-engineered with too many features, usually at too high a price. Some products are truly innovative but stay walled up too long in R&D and then are released to market when they are no longer unique.