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What Do I Do if They Cry?

Let's Grow Leaders

Let’s be real. No one likes to hear what they’re doing wrong, particularly if they know you’re right. Giving feedback is tough. Hearing tough feedback is even tougher. What do you do if they cry? We hear this “What do I do […]. The post What Do I Do if They Cry? appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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How Pragmatic Leaders Can Transform Stuck Organizations

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by Samuel B. Bacharach : A stuck organization is one that might meet conventional measures of success but it is not necessarily thriving. It cannot quite reach that next level of innovation. It just misses the big breakthrough or is too focused on old business models that it cannot make the leap forward. There are two primary reasons why organizations get stuck.

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Obsession Made Them Remarkable

Leadership Freak

We went to the Christmas Spectacular in New York City this year because a friend performs in the show. The show is spectacular because it’s done with precision time after time.

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Hot Desking, Dedicated Desks And Coworking Spaces – What You Need To Know

Strategy Driven

If joining a coworking space, one can get lost in a maze of spaces, each offering similar amenities but also being very different in culture and attitude. In New Zealand’s coworking landscape, you can find a mash-up of spaces, but choosing one depends on the fit of your business. Unlike typical office space, spaces have a personality of their own. However, many spaces have a basic menu that provides a place to work and use the amenities associated with most offices.

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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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Want to be taken seriously at work? Here are three things to do

HR Digest

Do you feel you have difficulty being taken seriously at work early in your tenure with a new company, career or communication with a new client or customer? Then there is a need to examine your own behavior on how you conform to some sensitive ethics in a corporate environment. It is possible that you’re exhibiting an attitude that prevents people from engaging you accordingly.

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How to Market Yourself as a Freelancer

Strategy Driven

If you have a talent in a particular industry and you have the determination required to work for yourself successfully, then there are plentiful opportunities in the freelance sector at the moment. Freelancing has several advantages over setting up a business, because it requires a far lower level of investment and you don’t have to employ anyone else.

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What to do when I’m lonely

Deep Imprints

When you feel lonely, the reason is usually that you don’t feel connected – and most of us don’t feel connected because we don’t see any opportunities to connect. Thus, loneliness is its own kind of black hole. A dear friend gave me Brené Brown’s new book, Dare to Lead recently. I’m reading it on my […].

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7 Words for Leaders Who Worry

Ron Edmondson

The title is confusing, isn’t it? It seems to assume some leaders worry and some don’t. The truth is, however, most leaders will have occasions of worry. Worry is an emotion – and, often far more powerful than principles of leadership are the emotions of leadership. I’ve talked to some who say at least one day a week they are consumed with anxiety and fear.

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What we see…

Deming Institute

Post by Bill Bellows, Deputy Director, The Deming Institute. In reflecting on the popularity of lean, I offer a proposal to those who provide both educational resources and qualifications to lean practitioners. While using the educational foundation established in The Machine That Changed the World , I suggest being ever mindful of the influence of our respective paradigms in filtering out data that doesn’t fit our own paradigms.

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How to Be Creative When You’re Feeling Stressed

Harvard Business Review

ferrantraite/Getty Images. More than just lightly toasted, your brain feels singed. You’re burned out, and the cumulative stress makes it hard to decide what to eat for dinner, let alone come up with innovative ideas. But people are still expecting you to produce creative solutions despite your current mental state. What do you do? If you find yourself in this situation, I can’t offer any guarantees that epiphanies will come to you.

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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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Are Emojis Too Frivolous for the Workplace? Here’s My Argument for Using Them (Sometimes)

Steve Farber

Emoji can be useful to make workplace communication friendlier and less abrupt. When used in moderation and in the right context, it can bring people closer together. If you spend any time on social media, you have seen your share of emoji—those little pictures of yellow smiling faces, cups of coffee, and soccer balls. (The older term, “emoticon,” refers to the ones that are done with typographical images, like this: :), while an “emoji” is the actual little picture: , of the kind you find on yo

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How a U.S. Health Care System Uses 15-Minute Huddles to Keep 23 Hospitals Aligned

Harvard Business Review

CAPTION TEXT HERE/Getty Images. A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. At Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare , ensuring the alignment of all these things to provide extraordinary care requires a constant regimented focus across our 23 hospitals, 170 clinics, and 850,000-member health insurance plan.

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Personal Rebranding

Harvard Business Review

Do you need a career makeover? In this episode of HBR’s advice podcast, Dear HBR: , cohosts Alison Beard and Dan McGinn answer your questions with the help of Dorie Clark , the author of Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future. They talk through how to change your coworkers’ perception of you, transition to a role outside your area of expertise, or be seen as a leader.

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