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6 Advantages of a Remote Team

Lead Change Blog

While there have been several shifts in the employment landscape throughout the last decade, none were perhaps as attention-grabbing as the increasing fleet of remote workers. Just a few years ago, the idea of being able to work right in the comforts of your humble abode would have seemed out of reach. Nowadays, however, it’s fairly common to find job postings that list “remote work” as a perk to encourage more applications.

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The Most Important Thing You Manage isn’t Projects or People

Leadership Freak

Someone or something is controlling your attention. Often it’s not you. Maybe it’s an email alert or a buzzing cell phone. Distracted leaders live inconsequential lives.

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Structure Your Thinking To Deliver Results.

Rich Gee Group

Too often, people tend to solve problems by taking two divergent directions: They think of an idea — and zip off in that direction with no real assessment or planning. Measure once, cut twice. They over-analyze their problem to death without taking action. Analysis-Paralysis. The hardest part of any initiative or project is usually getting everyone on-board - mentally and physically.

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How To Create Healthy Habits As A Leader

Joseph Lalonde

Becoming A Healthy Leader Becoming a healthy leader takes work. You have to create healthy habits that will stick with you for extended periods of time. These habits will help keep you on track for success. They’ll remind you of what you need to do, even when you don’t want to do the healthy thing. Photo by Japheth Mast on Unsplash. But how do you create healthy habits that will help you become a healthy leader?

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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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Structure Your Thinking To Deliver Results.

Rich Gee Group

Too often, people tend to solve problems by taking two divergent directions: They think of an idea — and zip off in that direction with no real assessment or planning. Measure once, cut twice. They over-analyze their problem to death without taking action. Analysis-Paralysis. The hardest part of any initiative or project is usually getting everyone on-board – mentally and physically.

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The Top 10 Super Powers of Listening

Leadership Freak

There are a million excuses for poor listening. Reject all of them if you expect to lead. The top 10 super powers of listening: Expanding horizons. Showing respect. Connecting and caring.

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How To Be A Humble Leader

Eric Jacobson

From John Blakey 's book, The Trusted Executive , here are these four tips from Jim Collins for how to be a humble leader : Demonstrate a compelling modesty, shunning public adulation and never be boastful. Act with quiet, calm determination and motivate others through inspired standards, not inspiring charisma. Channel ambition into the company, not the self, and set up successors for even more greatness in the next generation.

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Why You Need an Untouchable Day Every Week

Harvard Business Review

Hayon Thapaliya/DUCEPT Pascal/ hemis.fr/Getty Images. I hate meetings. They sit subconsciously in my brain, taking up space. I prepare for them in my notebooks. I travel to them, and then back again, in the middle of my work days. And what do most meetings usually result in? You guessed it — more meetings. When I worked as Director of Leadership Development at Walmart, my days were full of meetings.

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How To Identify Emerging Talent

Eric Jacobson

From the book, Mastering the Challenges of Leading Change , comes this useful checklist from author H. James Dallas for how to identify and develop emerging talent in your company/organization. Dallas recommends that each question should be graded on a scale of 1 to 3, with 3 being the best. Use the questions and the scoring for you and your employee to work together toward the highest ratings across the board.

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5 Ways to Counteract Your Smartphone Addiction

Harvard Business Review

John Holcroft/Getty Images. We are living in an era of technology obsession and smartphone addiction. I hear it all the time: “I can’t go anywhere without my phone” or “I feel anxious when I’m not able to check email” or “If I’m not on my social feeds, I feel like I’m missing out.” Not surprisingly, research shows that too much technology use diminishes our mental and physical health, our relationships and more.

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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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Socially Responsible Business Can Only Succeed If It Becomes a Movement

Harvard Business Review

Tim Ellis/Getty Images. What does it take to cause something big about a community to change — something that no one individually has much power over, even something as big as a prevailing mindset? We know what it takes: a social movement. And social movements aren’t only the domain of community organizers and college students. Business people can set them in motion, too, as we are seeing right now.

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6 Ways to Counteract Your Smartphone Addiction

Harvard Business Review

John Holcroft/Getty Images. We are living in an era of technology obsession and smartphone addiction. I hear it all the time: “I can’t go anywhere without my phone” or “I feel anxious when I’m not able to check email” or “If I’m not on my social feeds, I feel like I’m missing out.” Not surprisingly, research shows that too much technology use diminishes our mental and physical health, our relationships and more.

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How to Prepare for a Crisis You Couldn’t Possibly Predict

Harvard Business Review

Phil Ashley/Getty Images. On the morning of May 18, 2012, at precisely 11:05, Nasdaq planned to execute the first trade in in Facebook’s hotly anticipated initial public offering. The opening trade was an auction of sorts—buyers and sellers entered orders, and Nasdaq calculated a price that would cause as many shares as possible to change hands.

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Finding New Ideas When You Don’t Have a Broad Network

Harvard Business Review

juan díaz-faes for hbr. People who study creativity and innovation talk a lot about the value of “recombination” — bringing existing ideas, practices, processes, or technologies together in new ways or applying them in fresh contexts or markets. It’s a model that has led to many popular consumer products, such as leak-proof water bottles that borrow nozzles from shampoo dispensers, and home cholesterol testers that incorporate the inject/eject mechanism from CD playe

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The Complete People Management Toolkit

From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.