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Executive Visits: 4 Strategic Approaches for Influence and Impact

Let's Grow Leaders

You know executive visits are important. And let’s face it, they come more naturally to some of us than others. Executive visits can backfire, or they can be brilliant. They can be casual or deliberate. Sometimes just wandering around is exactly what […]. The post Executive Visits: 4 Strategic Approaches for Influence and Impact appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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How to Encourage Your Employees to Take Leadership Roles 

Lead from Within

Every organization needs strong leadership at the top—but that’s not enough. You need leaders throughout your company, in every area and at every level. When you have people with leadership potential in roles where they can make important decisions, achieve goals, reach targets and feed the bottom line, you’ll have a thriving and strong organization.

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You Can Offer Equal Pay in the Workplace

Women on Business

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Portrait of a Squeaky Wheel

Leadership Freak

Squeaky wheels suck the life out of leaders, teams, and organizations while they claim the high ground for themselves. Squeaky wheels have aspiration for others and exemption for themselves.

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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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How to Start a Business Right after College

Women on Business

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Three Ways To Make a Difference Today

Leadership Freak

#1. Fuel, manage, and monitor energy, first your own, then others. You can’t get there with an empty tank.

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Best eCommerce Marketing Tips

Strategy Driven

Are you currently dissatisfied with your ecommerce business venture thus far? Maybe you haven’t achieved the levels of success that you know you can reach. Or maybe your little ecommerce shop is bursting with customers and you’re ready to take things to the next level. Whatever your reasoning may be, just know that there are powerful marketing tips that make it more than possible to grow your e-commerce site by leaps and bounds.

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Your Flex Work Culture Doesn’t Help Employees If It Hurts Their Careers

Harvard Business Review

Ian Nolan/Getty Images. When you think about who needs flexibility at work to manage personal and family responsibilities, who comes to mind? If you are like most people, you envision a working mom. The prevailing assumption is that working mothers are the ones who want and need flexibility at work. To be sure, many working mothers still shoulder the daunting double shift of full-time work and primary child care responsibilities , and many likely want jobs that give them more flexibility to jugg

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What Neuroscience Reveals About Creating Better Leaders In Today’s Organizations

Tanveer Naseer

The following is a guest piece from my friend, author and Forbes columnist, David Amerland. Neuroscience has captured our attention right now because, like every new field of knowledge, it promises to give us hidden insights and reveal secrets that will help make something difficult much easier, and there is nothing more difficult than creating a leader who people want to follow.

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What Managers Can Do to Keep Women in Engineering

Harvard Business Review

vgajic/Getty Images. Engineering faces a serious gender-based retention problem. Despite all the efforts encouraging women to study engineering, over 40% of highly skilled women who enter the field end up leaving. Much has been written about why women in the field leave , but we wanted to better understand what encourages some women to stay. In 2014 we interviewed 34 women engineers in two FTSE 100 firms in the UK.

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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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High Touch/Personalization

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Phyllis Weiss Haserot: Leaders and human resources executives can learn a great deal from baseball’s top executives at the Chicago Cubs. They have success in signing stellar recruits, and have made their strategy of recruiting “the whole person” into the envy of other major league teams. In an age when so much business is transacted electronically at a distance, the Cubs push hard for in-person meetings in order to identify what is important to each recruiting target and establis

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Is Your Company Ready for the Rise of Smart Cities?

Harvard Business Review

ROGER HARRIS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images. The movement to make cities smarter is transforming municipal governments worldwide. But that’s only one side of the story. For companies, smart cities represent major business opportunities — and not only for tech firms selling systems to government agencies. Technology is reconfiguring traditional roles and divisions of labor.

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Thought Leadership and Digital Marketing

Lead Change Blog

Yes, I can see it now. One look at the header, a quizzical furrowing of the brow, and then dawning realisation. It’s another new must-use fad to succeed in the digital marketing world of 2018. Almost, although thought leadership has been at the forefront of successful content marketing for several years. The chances are you’ve already read articles which were planned using the process of thought leadership marketing.

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How to Become More Self-Aware

Harvard Business Review

Tasha Eurich, an organizational psychologist and executive coach, talks about why we all should be working on self-awareness. Few people are truly self-aware, she says, and those who are don’t get there through introspection. She explains how to develop self-awareness through the feedback of loving critics and how to mentor someone who isn’t self-aware.

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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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My Commencement Speech - The Secret to Happiness

CEO Blog

Today I am receiving an Honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Guelph. I public speak all the time but this speech was difficult to prepare. No Powerpoints and no Q and A (doing Q and A is one of my strong points). I never write out my speeches (but I do always prepare for them) but this one I thought I would write: Today I am going to share the secret of happiness but first you will have to listen to a commencement speech about success.

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How Mergers Change the Way Your Company Competes

Harvard Business Review

Jorg Greuel/Getty Images. M&A and partnership deals are at an all-time high. But what about competition? The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) wants to know too. It is reviewing or arguing this question in court for a slew of proposed mergers — AT&T-Time Warner, T-Mobile-Sprint, CVS-Aetna, and Express Scripts-Cigna, to name a few. A court decision on the AT&T-Time Warner deal is due out soon, and it will likely affect the prospects for many other cases.

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The Future of Human-Machine Partnerships in Business and Everyday Life - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DELL TECHNOLOGIES

Harvard Business Review

Will technology cost jobs in the long run, or increase them? Who is set up best for success in the fourth industrial revolution? In this edition of Trailblazers, a podcast series brought to you by Dell Technologies, we investigate the future of robotics. Join Walter Isaacson, former CNN Chairman and CEO, as he and Gary Shapiro, President and CEO of the Consumer Technology Association, discuss how digital disruption will improve our lives.

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Enhancing Customer Insights with Public Location Data

Harvard Business Review

William Andrew/Getty Images. The pervasive adoption of mobile devices has driven an explosion of contextual user information, including geolocation data, which has become a valuable resource for marketers. However, a lack of technical skill sets among marketers has made it difficult for them to use this data (when they have access to it) effectively.

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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.