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Elastic Man

Lead Change Blog

A few months back, my wife and I were exposed to the type of trauma that no one wants to endure. As with new hurts, pain continues fresh each day. Though not as heinous as day one or week two, mornings bring a struggle which often carry through to interrupted nights; even to the question of what tonight might bring with hard thoughts and difficulty resting.

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Talking About What Matters (Part 3)

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton I have heard from readers that this topic is timely and they hope this series will not end with just 2 posts - so here is Part 3! Talking About What Matters In the post Talking About What Matters (Part 1) I explored how talking about ethical values engages people, helps them find meaning and improves the organization’s metrics.

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Elastic Man

Lead Change Blog

A few months back, my wife and I were exposed to the type of trauma that no one wants to endure. As with new hurts, pain continues fresh each day. Though not as heinous as day one or week two, mornings bring a struggle which often carry through to interrupted nights; even to the question of what tonight might bring with hard thoughts and difficulty resting.

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How to be Tough When You Prefer Being Kind

Leadership Freak

Stress increases when leaders can’t bring kind and tough together. Kind without tough makes you a pushover. Tough without kind makes you a jerk. Accountability is candy to some leaders.

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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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The Potential Principle: How Good Could You Be?

Leading Blog

Y OU KNOW HOW GOOD you are, but do you know how good you could be? This is a case where it’s easy to think that good is good enough and get comfortable. Most of us live below our potential. As a result, we miss out on opportunities and therefore live below our true potential and hinder our ability to contribute to others. The Potential Principle by Mark Sanborn is about how we can become better – even better than our best selves.

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3 Killer Questions To Ask If You’re Serious About Learning

Joseph Lalonde

The art of asking questions seems to be dead. Finding someone who asks great questions, ever more scarce than finding someone who asks questions. There’s something sad about that. I’ve found something fascinating. Those who are serious about learning are always asking questions. And they’re asking specific types of questions. Be A Question Asker.

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Is it Bad to have a Personal Agenda at Work?

ReImagine Work

I remember chairing a project meeting several years ago. My teammates got on a riff about not wanting to work with a particular person because that person had their own personal agenda. Perish the thought. I let them go on for a while. Then I said, “I don’t know if you realize it, but I have my own personal agenda too. In fact, it runs everything I do.” The room became silent.

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Create an Emotional Connection – Courageous Communicator Quest Challenge 9

leaderCommunicator

How did your employees respond to you during last week’s Challenge ? Inquisitive looks? Big smiles? It’s important to continue to keep those words and phrases as a part of your regularly used vocabulary, whether they’re new to you or not. The path of great leadership is a continuous one, not a one-time event. In this Challenge, you’ll see how emotionally connecting your employees to business goals is an integral part to communicating effectively.

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When No One Speaks the Truth at Work, You Face a Choice

Management Excellence

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Credibility Versus Communication

Ron Edmondson

A Huge Understanding in Leadership. In John Maxwell’s book “ Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently” Maxwell claims, “ Connectors live what they communicate” The people who learn to connect with others best live the life they talk about when they communicate. Then Maxwell writes something I think is powerful.

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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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5 Ways to Focus at Work, from an Executive Who’s Struggled with ADHD

Harvard Business Review

By nature, I’m messy and disorganized — and my mind can be too. I have trouble sustaining attention on just about anything. In grade school, this meant I didn’t do well in classes. In college, it meant that I largely blew them off and spent most of my time partying. (When you’re at a party, no one expects you to focus.) After college, I was diagnosed with ADHD, as 11% of kids are these days.

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Employee Engagement Articles

Chart Your Course

General Employee Engagement Articles. How to be Happy at Work Business Insider, July 2014. Three Ways to Actually Engage Your Employees HBR Blog Network, June 2014. Thirteen Signs of a Disengaged Employee (Infographic) Entrepreneur, June 2014. Why Your CEO and CFO Should Care About Employee Engagement TLNT, 2013. For Majority of Workers, Vacation Days Go Unused Boston Globe, December 2013.

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How Leading Companies Build the Workforces They Need to Stay Ahead

Harvard Business Review

The strategic underpinnings of most companies’ workforce plans should change dramatically as a result of technological innovation. Digital transformation, the industrial internet, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, and a plethora of other innovations are fundamentally changing the nature of work. Machine learning, for example, may not eliminate many jobs in their entirety.

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Boards Can’t Wait for CEOs to Prioritize Digital Change

Harvard Business Review

Is your board willing to be a driving force in the digitization of the company, or are you content to sit back and watch as born-digital companies transform one industry after another? Boards must recognize the unstoppable forces at play and drive their CEOs to reinvent the business while they still have the resources to do so – and before they come under pressure from activists to whom the necessity of digitization is obvious.

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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 Explainer: How Management Teams Can Have a Good Fight

Harvard Business Review

These six tactics create productive conflict with a focus on issues, not personalities.