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What No One Tells You About Leadership

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome to the Hope Business If I could give a one-page orientation manual to every person who takes a management or leadership position, at the top of the page it would say: You may have taken this job for the money (it’s […]. The post What No One Tells You About Leadership appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Bust These Change Leadership Myths!

Lead Change Blog

Recent experience facilitating a leadership programme for frontline and middle managers in a local authority in Southwest England raised again for me the spectre of leadership myths. Encountering those leaders brought home just how many myths exist, particularly among those who have no previous experience of leadership development. So I thought, in this month’s post, I would highlight my top ten myths that need busting wide open!

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There is always something new under the sun

Persuasive Powerhouse

Photo credit: 123RF. Are you feeling a little stale or bored? Do you sense that years of leadership are wearing on you? Are you squelching new ideas or figuratively rolling your eyes when the younger generation of leaders in your company make suggestions to change something? Do you feel like you’ve heard and seen it all? Is there nothing new under the sun?

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Great Leaders Are Storytellers: How To Craft Great Stories

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Guest post by Chip Bell Great leaders are storytellers. Stories are more than just tall tales or campfire yarns. They include discussions of the enterprise in the future tense. They are visions of what can be, not just what is. They are dreams, not just plans. In a complex, unpredictable and volatile competitive work world, […]. The post Great Leaders Are Storytellers: How To Craft Great Stories appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.

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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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Want to Be Your Own Boss? Here’s What You Need to Know

Lead from Within

If you have an entrepreneurial spirit and have always wanted to be your own boss, t here are few things you need to know. The key to long-term success is to set yourself up for success right from the start—and cultivating these six traits can help you get there. You need to be determined. According to the US Small Business Administration, more than half of small businesses fail within the first five years.

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How to Bear Your Neck Like a Leader

Leadership Freak

People build walls of self-protection because they are afraid. “… if you are humble, if you make people realize that you are no threat to them, then they will embrace you.

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Creating Useful Vision and Mission Statements

leaderCommunicator

Why can having a clear vision be so fuzzy? A common question we hear from leaders is what’s the real difference between a vision and mission statement?

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Seeing the Current Reality – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

Our lives are busy – both at work and at home – and it’s easy to live in reality but not always easy to actually “see” what your reality is. And as leaders, this is a really important distinction. In today’s video, I’m asking three questions to help leaders “see” their reality so that they […].

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5 Ways to Manage Your Multigenerational Workforce

Chart Your Course

This article was originally published by Vital Learning. Closeup portrait of a successful business team laughing together. Managing a multigenerational workforce can be quite the task for business leaders. Before I dive into my list, however, I think it’s important to lay out who exactly I’m talking about when I mention each generation. For our purposes, the table below lays out who is in each generation: Generation.

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Why a Prospect’s Stall Tactics Could Be Good for Your Consulting Firm

David A Fields

When a prospective client responds “Now’s not the right time” to your proposal, you could feel dejected. Don’t. Delayed consulting projects can be a blessing. Benefits of Delayed Projects You have time to plan your resources. This is particularly important if you’re already stretching your capacity to deliver quality that delights your clients.

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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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An Employee Ascending Is A Leader In Waiting

Strategy Driven

The working world is not two-tiered. It’s not workers and seniors, it’s a multi-layered and complex professional world. It’s akin to a soup, you need the overall flavor to come through, and the base to provide body but, there are lots of other different components that bring out the best in the dish. Here’s where people get flustered.

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Why a Prospect's Stall Tactics Could Be Good for Your Consulting Firm

David A Fields

When a prospective client responds “Now’s not the right time” to your proposal, you could feel dejected. Don’t. Delayed consulting projects can be a blessing. Benefits of Delayed Projects Of course, not every delay delivers on those benefits. Sometimes, “Not right now” is tantamount to “Never.” Determine your response to a proposed delay by posing … Continued.

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Insuring Your Bottom Line: Why Contractors Insurance is Necessary to Your Business

Strategy Driven

Contracting occupations, like electrician, insulation worker, mason, plumber, roofer, carpenter, and painter, all have unique features, including risks. Clients and employees can get hurt and a contractor could be held liable and be left with costly medical bills. Where general liability insurance prove invaluable in addressing some of the common risks contractors may confront, contractor insurance can offer contracting business owners protections where expensive setbacks that deal with operatio

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7 Things Healthy Teams Refuse to Allow

Ron Edmondson

I think healthy teams are intentionally created, so wherever I serve I’m consistently trying to make our environment better. Over the years, I’ve learned some things will not develop healthy teams. Many times it’s as much about what we don’t have on our team as what we do have. The team I now serve with works well together – most of the time.

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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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Why become a CoachingOurselves certified facilitator?

Coaching Ourselves

CoachingOurselves hosts certification events both online and in person to prepare and inform HR professionals and coaches on how to use our peer-coaching methodology in their programs and interventions. These events include information on how they should introduce CoachingOurselves’ peer-coaching to their clients, how to use our methodology to deliver programs or workshops, and how to successfully facilitate our 90-minute peer-coaching sessions.

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A 5-Step Training Plan to Think like a Navy SEAL

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Mark Divine : The world is more complex and faster than ever. As a retired Navy SEAL and founder of several multimillion-dollar companies, business seems increasingly like a “VUCA” battlefield in Afghanistan or Syria—it’s Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous. Special Operators have thrived in these environments because of how they think.

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In Collaborative Work Cultures, Women Carry More of the Weight

Harvard Business Review

Alice Mollon/Getty Images. In any organization, people apply unspoken rules and understood norms to get collective work done — in other words, they collaborate. Over the past 15 years, my team and I have observed and facilitated thousands of meetings and helped hundreds of teams come together to do work, and we have found that collaboration looks different depending on a variety of factors.

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How Family Business Owners Should Bring the Next Generation into the Company

Harvard Business Review

RichVintage/Getty Images. “Go find your passion,’’ Henry directed his children when they reached their late teens and early twenties. “Find your interests outside our family business and pursue them.’’ As inspiring as those words may have been, Henry, the patriarch of a successful automotive parts business, wasn’t simply freeing his children to follow their dreams.

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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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A 5-Part Process for Using Technology to Improve Your Talent Management

Harvard Business Review

Walker and Walker/Getty Images. At the law firm Allen & Overy, the idea of replacing traditional, annual performance appraisals with a technology-enabled continuous feedback system did not come from human resources. It came from a leader within the practice. Wanting something that encouraged more-frequent conversations between associates and partners, the senior lawyer read about what companies like Adobe were doing, and then asked his firm to help him create a new approach.

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Turning Purpose Into Performance

Harvard Business Review

Gerry Anderson, the CEO of DTE Energy, and Robert Quinn and Anjan Thakor, professors at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and the Olin Business School at Washington University, respectively, discuss how an aspirational mission can motivate employees and improve performance. Anderson talks about his own experience. Quinn and Thakor explain their research showing how leaders can foster a sense of purpose that sharpens competitiveness.

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The Most Creative Teams Have a Specific Type of Cultural Diversity

Harvard Business Review

Peter Dazeley/Getty Images. Culturally diverse teams, research shows , can help deliver better outcomes in today’s organizations. This is largely a good thing: Diverse teams have the potential to be more creative because of the breadth of information, ideas, and perspectives that members can bring to the table. But these teams often suffer from conflicting norms and differing assumptions between members, which can keep them from reaching their full creative potential.

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If the U.S. Gets into a Trade War with the EU, It Will Lose an Ally in Pressuring China

Harvard Business Review

Monty Rakusen/Getty Images. The European Union’s recent announcement that it is preparing to retaliate if the Trump administration imposes tariffs on EU-made autos leaves no doubt that EU-U.S. cooperation on global trade will be compromised for some time if the tariffs go into effect. Besides whatever damage the conflict could do to U.S. jobs, industry, and consumers, this conflict will jeopardize essential allied collaboration to confront Chinese state capitalism, the underlying cause of

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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.