Thu.Mar 31, 2016

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Why Your Company Needs a Chief Joy Officer

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. NOTE: This article was written by Holly Michel, wife of General John E. Michel, the co-founder and CEO of GeneralLeadership.com. “ I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service.

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Whipping up a Masterpiece

Lead Change Blog

Before you even start reading, let me guess what you’ll say! Will it be “what is she thinking?”. Believe it or not, I’m thinking, “What a great theme for the month of March!” The Lead Change Group theme for March is “tell about a time when you broke the rules or did things differently.”. Well, how about now? Karin Hurt, CEO of Let’s Grow Leaders , asks “Have you ever noticed how much easier it is to remember someone’s point when they wrap a story around it?

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Psychological Swagger: Four Signs you Lead with it

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Dr. Rob Fazio: Leading is not a science, it’s an art, influenced by science. An art that when you get it right, gets things done and magnifies the best in people during tough times. In leadership, arrogance is telling people you’re awesome, and confidence is giving other people the opportunity to feel and act awesome. This brings us to psychological swagger, a learnable skill that’s part of the secret sauce of successful leadership.

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Craftsman Spirit

QAspire

Do you consider yourself as an artist and your work as art? Art isn’t just about doing fancy stuff or indulging into painting, dancing etc. Your work becomes art when it changes others for better. When your ideas and insights change the conversations. When you overcome resistance to start, execute and most importantly, finish what you start. When you have the humility to accept what needs to improve and change.

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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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LeadershipNow 140: March 2016 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from March 2016 that you might have missed: Max DePree: North America’s First CEO Design Thinker by Michael Graber @southerngrowth. Do you serve your team or are you a self-serving team member? by @JesseLynStoner. John Harbaugh's Unorthodox Approach — Football as Family by Kevin Van Valkenburg via @ESPN. The Biggest Leap You’ll Ever Make : From Team Member to First-Time Manager by @JesseLynStoner.

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4 Creative Ways to Use Mobile Payments In Your Retail Business

Women on Business

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Leaders Need to Coach Their People

Coaching Tip

The odds are you’ve already come across coaching in some form. Even Dilbert mocks coaching—and there’s no surer sign of mainstream success than that. Driving results through teams—the benefits of Coaching. Coaching is a powerful tool and one that should be used to help guide, direct and nourish our people to become better performers. According to John Agno , a certified business and executive coach, “In today’s environment of changing technology and evolving organizations, coaching can have a st

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The illusion of learning…

First Friday Book Synopsis

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. (King James Version) Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. (New International Version). James 1:22, from the New Testament ——————- Let me start with good news. Last week, we held our public… Read More The illusion of learning….

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Reaching Your Ultimate Potential

Strategy Driven

“You have potential.” Those words have never seemed to move people toward success. They send the message, “You are not yet where you need to be.” The spirit of the message, that you believe in that person is an important one. However, what’s key is not just that you believe in someone, it’s teaching them how to get to where they need to go. Strong belief drives strong behavior.

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Use Words That Show Your Emotional Investment

Eric Jacobson

"When you convey your vision, you must show your passion for it and commitment to it," explains Bart Egnal in his new book, Leading Through Language. And, use words that show how you and your listeners should feel about what you are saying whether that be about your vision or the vision of your organization. For example, here are two examples from Egnal that demonstrate how to take a generic vision and then deliver it with language that shows the speaker's emotions : Emotionless : "To become Flo

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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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Affordable Business Consulting – Use Your Own Staff

Strategy Driven

StrategyDriven’s radically different approach to management consulting allows you to use your own staff, not requiring you to use ours, so your people benefit from the project experience and then keep this knowledge within your organization. Ask yourself, when was the last time you paid your first or second year associates $180,000 to $240,000 per year commensurate with your consultants’ $90 to $120 per hour consulting rate for staff personnel?

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“Our Problems Are Different” – Not Really

Deming Institute

It is very common for people to see their situation as special and so different that they can only learn about management from some situation identical to the one they face. But this is a misunderstanding of what learning about better management practices is about. It isn’t an effort to find practices to copy. It is an effort to learn about managing organizations made up of people so that you can apply those ideas to your specific situation.

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The Science Behind How Leaders Connect with Their Teams

Harvard Business Review

Research shows that in leaderless groups, leaders emerge by quickly synchronizing their brain waves with followers through high quality conversations. Simply put, synchrony is a neural process where the frequency and scale of brain waves of people become in sync. Verbal communication plays a large role in synchronization, especially between leaders and followers.

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7 Things I Learned about Leadership from a Poor Management Experience

Ron Edmondson

Years ago I was working in retail. I was in college, but serving in a junior management for a large department store. I was responsible for ordering the basic items in my department, making sure we were always in stock with regular sellers. One of those items was a collar extender. (I don’t know if those are even used anymore, and I never used one personally, but basically it was a metal button extender which hooked the button and extended a new button further – allowing a man to wea

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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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How to Design a Corporate Wellness Plan That Actually Works

Harvard Business Review

Lately, there’s been some debate about whether workplace health promotion programs, more commonly known as wellness programs, work. To us, it’s similar to asking whether reviews, training programs, employee assistance services, or other company initiatives are effective for both worker performance and the bottom line. The honest answer is that some are successful while others fail.

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Stop Wasting Your Time on Work Calls

Harvard Business Review

Given the profusion of emails every professional grapples with—on average, more than 100 per day —it’s become common wisdom that, at some point, you should stop emailing and just pick up the phone. Author James Altucher jokingly praised the telephone as “an amazing tool/app that makes my work 100x more productive,” noting, “I’m not being sarcastic.

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Despite Dire Predictions, Salespeople Aren’t Going Away

Harvard Business Review

One hundred years ago, an article in the New York Times asked a provocative question: “Are salesmen needless?” In the article, a marketing expert explains why societal shifts would render the door-to-door salesman obsolete. “Advertising is producing better results than the old method of personal solicitation,” the article reported. “Things were different once upon a time before the railroads turned farms into cities… The traveling [sales]man is a middleman and

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When Unequal Pay Is Actually Fair

Harvard Business Review

When it comes to pay, fair doesn’t necessarily mean equal. And recent research from PayScale shows that companies that use performance-focused compensation practices may see better returns than those who cling to equal pay at every turn. According to a survey of 7,600 employers about their attitudes and practices concerning compensation, the number of companies that offer bonuses or other forms of pay for performance has increased by 6% over the last two years.

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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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Life’s Work: Dr. Ruth Westheimer

Harvard Business Review

Iconic relationship expert Dr. Ruth discusses what she’s learned over a long career. Download this podcast.

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Great Innovators Create the Future, Manage the Present, and Selectively Forget the Past

Harvard Business Review

For a long time, I have been troubled to see how often organizations fail to invest wisely in their futures while instead placing dominant emphasis on the present. To be sure, the present is vitally important. Your current business is the performance engine. It both funds day-to-day operations and generates profits for the future. Where problems arise is when the present crowds out other strategic priorities—for example, when the only skills brought into a business are those that serve tod

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6 Reasons Platforms Fail

Harvard Business Review

The success of platform businesses like Alibaba, Airbnb, and Uber is so remarkable that discussion about them often misses just how hard they are to build. For every successful platform, there are many more that struggle or simply don’t make it. Apple and Google, two of the world’s most valuable companies, have had their share of platform failures as we’ll show.

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What Lilly Pulitzer Learned About Marketing to Millennials

Harvard Business Review

dave wheeler FOR HBR. Retailers have no doubt about the importance of millennial shoppers. Boomers may be the biggest spenders today, but millennials promise to be the largest consumer generation in history, currently encompassing roughly 80 million people and $600 billion in annual spending in the United States alone. Like many brands, Lilly Pulitzer wanted to better understand millennial shoppers.

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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.