Thu.Aug 01, 2019

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How Managers Can Reclaim Their Lost Soul

Let's Grow Leaders

In a recent leadership development program, we talked about “manager soul loss” – the isolation, bitterness, and despair that seeps into many leaders’ hearts. We share the stages of soul loss and symptoms to look out for to help leaders identify and prevent them […]. The post How Managers Can Reclaim Their Lost Soul appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Having the Courage to Trust Your Team

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by Bill Treasurer : Leadership is typically associated with action—with trying, doing, and achieving. However, there’s another side to leadership that focuses on the followers: trust. As leaders, we need to actively trust our followers, teams, and employees. While this sounds simple, it’s often a hard task for those of us who are goal-oriented.

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What to Do When You Doubt Yourself as a Leader

Lead from Within

Everyone struggles at times with self-doubt, but that struggle can be especially difficult for people in leadership. Leaders are expected to always be self-assured, assertive and poised. But what happens when you begin to doubt your own abilities? What can you do when you’re worried you don’t have what it takes? As long as you address it instead of ignoring it, self-doubt is something you can understand and manage.

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Ignore Your Feelings – Enjoy Your Feelings

Leadership Freak

You aren’t your feelings. You feel like avoiding a tough conversation, but YOU have it. You don’t feel like getting up in the morning, but YOU get up anyway.

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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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Making Diversity Central to Success: Q&A With Chevron’s Chief Diversity Officer

HR Digest

Diversity is an overused word, but at Chevron it’s a perfect description of its corporate culture. How did it happen? The company’s 2018 Corporate Responsibility Report highlights how diversity and inclusion (D&I) feature so centrally in the company’s success story. The spectacular progress reflects a holistic view of diversity which closes the gap between aspiration and reality.

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Career Reinvention Journal—Why Some Succeed Where Others Fail

Management Excellence

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Have Reports Of Trucking Jobs’ Death Been Greatly Exaggerated?

The Horizons Tracker

Volvo recently announced the release of its first autonomous, fully electric truck, and whilst the release was only into a test environment, it nonetheless prompted many to repeat the death knell for the driving profession around the world. The Volvo test will be undertaken in partnership with shipping firm DFDS, and will see the autonomous truck transport goods from a logistics center to Gothenburg port.

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When It Comes to Leading Your Business, Should You Lean on Data or Instinct?

CEO Insider

For every business that is buoyed by the power of big data, countless others are drowning in it. According to Forrester, about 60% to 73% of enterprise data goes unused. It’s no wonder that Debra Bass, president of global marketing services for Johnson & Johnson, argues that many marketers should be diagnosed with “InfoObesity.” Instead […].

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Avoiding The Technology Trap In The Future Of Work

The Horizons Tracker

Oxford University researchers Carl Benedikt Frey shot to public attention in 2013 when he and colleague Michael Osborne released research in which they predicted that 47% of jobs could be automated within the next decade or so. The research was arguably the first study that attempted to predict how technologies such as artificial intelligence and robotics would impact the labour market.

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Addressing the AI Skills Gap – Interview with Meredith Graham

HR Digest

From talent acquisition to learning and development, AI has opened new pathways of collaboration between humans and machines and is offering a helping hand to almost all aspects of human resource management. Think about the tedious task of screening through thousands of resumes and finding the perfect candidate for a job. Along with the extended time and effort, the cost of sourcing, screening, and recruiting put a big dent in a company’s recourses.

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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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Eight-Point Plan For A Powerful Team

Eric Jacobson

Take some quality time to read the book by C. Elliott Haverlack , Unbunde It , because it explores the issues you face as a leader with a twist that is different from many other leadership books. Throughout, the book offers suggestions on how to overcome the burden that complexity creates in our lives and businesses. Most intriguing for me is Haverlack's straight-forward, unbundled insights on teams.

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First Look: Leadership Books for August 2019

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in August 2019. Don't miss out on other great new and future releases. Transforming Legacy Organizations : Turn your Established Business into an Innovation Champion to Win the Future by Kris Østergaard. Transforming Legacy Organizations provides real-world advice and research-based information on how to grow innovation by employing new technologies, improving processes, and establishing a culture of creativity and forward momentu

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Career Reinvention Journal—Why Some Succeed Where Others Fail

Art Petty

A good number of people I encounter, talk about doing something different in their careers. For those individuals who cultivate the courage to pursue career reinvention, there are stark differences in the thinking and behaviors between those who succeed and those who don't. Here are my observations based on several years working with dozens of aspiring career reinventors.

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The Elasticity of the Heart – An Important Life Principle

Ron Edmondson

Be aware of the elasticity of your heart. I’ve learned through hard lessons that a stretched heart never returns exactly the same. The Bible says, “ Above all else, guard your heart.” I think part of the reason is that once the heart stretches, it’s changed. Forever. Let’s say you had a dream. You pursued it with passion.

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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 Get a Better Credit Score

Women on Business

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How To Set Up A Successful Business From Home

Strategy Driven

Running a successful business from home and enjoying the freedom to be your own boss is a dream for many people. Setting up a business is a challenge that takes plenty of hard work, time, and dedication, but for many people, it’s worth it. With this in mind, here are some key tips on how to set up a successful business from home. Create a detailed business plan.

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When filling open roles, what is your company’s hiring approach?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Our reader poll today asks: When filling open roles, what is your company’s hiring approach? We always try hard to hire and fill from within first: 66% We give a cursory look within but often hire externally: 28% We never look at internal talent and always go external: 6% You’ve got the talent, but are […]. This is only the beginning of the thought.

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Research: Executives’ English Skills Affect the Outcomes of Earnings Calls

Harvard Business Review

For better or worse, English is now the language of global business.

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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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The INs and OUTs of Business Literacy

HR Digest

Financial ignorance carries massive costs. Without an understanding of basic financial concepts, executives are not well-equipped to make decisions related to financial management. Study after study, as well as experts across the economical spectrum, agree that U.S. managers are uninformed about the basics of financial literacy to face the challenges of the future.

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6 Reasons We Make Bad Decisions, and What to Do About Them

Harvard Business Review

You make thousands of decisions every day.

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Don’t Take a Knee to Employee Free Speech in the Workplace

HR Digest

Gone are the days when avoiding political discourse was as easy as switching the channel on a television, avoiding political rallies or not inviting one particular relative to Thanksgiving dinner. As our society becomes more polarized regarding political, cultural and social issues, we are constantly exposed to the unsolicited opinions and assertions of others, including our family, friends and coworkers.

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Generational Differences At Work Are Small. Thinking They’re Big Affects Our Behavior

Harvard Business Review

Here’s what managers need to know.

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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.

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Reshoring Results In Higher Levels Of Automation

The Horizons Tracker

One of the central policy pledges made by Donald Trump was to reshore jobs that had previously moved overseas. Skepticism about his claims existed however, not least due to concerns that whilst work may return to the United States, the work would be done by machines rather than people. A recent study from Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen set out to explore whether reshored jobs were taken by humans or machines via a new measure of reshoring at the macroeconomic level.