Mon.Nov 09, 2020

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Creating Hitchhikers Not Hijackers in Your Virtual Meetings

Kevin Eikenberry

Long before a pandemic, when many of our meetings were in person, meetings were often riddled with inefficiency and frustration. The shift to virtual meetings hasn’t made it better. While there are many causes of the challenges, it is possible to have productive virtual meetings that are highly collaborative and stay on track. Making that […].

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Can Gratitude Be a Bad Thing? Yes!

Leadership Freak

You have to be a little nuts to intentionally choose ingratitude. But bad gratitude is a reality. Let’s begin with good gratitude. Good gratitude: “Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness.

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Three Pieces of Shipping Equipment Your Business Should Consider Investing In

Strategy Driven

For many businesses, shipping equipment is an afterthought. They are more concerned with their actual product, that they do not spend a lot of time thinking about the products they use to wrap up, ship up, or transport their items in. As a business owner, there are a variety of different types of shipping equipment and products that can make your life easier and help to ensure your products arrive at the destination in pristine condition.

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The Tough Job Market For College Graduates After COVID-19

The Horizons Tracker

The COVID-19 pandemic has created an economic crisis as substantial as the health crisis that has spread around the world. Millions of jobs have been lost as employers have gone under as a result of the various measures introduced to limit the spread of the virus. It’s still not clear what the long-term implications of this might be, but with researchers suggesting that we will be living with the virus for years to come, it seems likely that they will be significant.

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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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Aim Higher: How Leaders Can Leverage Generational Strengths

Skip Prichard

Generational context with Jason Dorsey. Every generation has its strengths–and the role of leaders working with diverse generations is to leverage those strengths, make space for them to build bridges and engage with each other. That’s the main message from my friend Jason Dorsey, generation expert, author, and research guru. He’s the foremost researcher on GenZ and has plenty to share with leaders about this cohort who, at ages 16-24, are just now starting to enter the labor p

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How Learning Dance Makes You a Better Leader

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

How dance makes you a better leader with interviews with CEOs and leaders of industry. Today’s post is by Megan Taylor Morrison, author of Dance Adventures(CLICK HERE to get your copy). Boardrooms and bachata? Lindy hop and LinkedIn? Merengue and meetings? Business and dance seem like uncomfortable bedfellows, but dancing can inform leadership, making your interactions with clients, employees or business partners more effective and fulfilling.

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Human Kind: how to handle Power?

Leadership and Change

Let’s look at Rutger Bregman’s inspiring book Human Kind – A Hopeful History once more. This book offers more proof for the positive as a basis for a more positive, productive culture at work. In my earlier post, we saw how your team, if they hold negative beliefs, will not be as creative and productive […]. The post Human Kind: how to handle Power?

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Tips for Managing Small Business Finances

Strategy Driven

Managing small business finances can be a challenge, especially when you have lots of other things to deal with. However, the way you manage your finances will have a big impact on your overall business success and profits. Luckily, you can easily learn the basic skills needed to effectively run business accounts. Here are some tips to help you manage your small business finances.

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How Entrepreneurship Can Thrive In Small Communities

The Horizons Tracker

Entrepreneurship is something we traditionally associate with large cities. Indeed, a few years ago, entrepreneur James Liang argued in his latest book The Demographics of Innovation, that as cities grow, they enjoy numerous advantages. He argues that demographics have a huge part to play in innovation, and outlines three core ways they impact a country’s creative output: The scale factor – Economies of scale are well known in business, but Liang argues that scale is also vital for innovatio

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Tiny Reminders

Mark Sanborn

Before Covid I often found myself in Las Vegas to speak. Sometimes I got to wander off the beaten path of the strip and on this particular trip I was on Fremont Street in old Las Vegas. I saw a sign for a craft brewery inside one of the older casinos and decided to check it out. The bar was nearly empty except from one very big human being with a shaved head and a long bear.

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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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We Accept Robots In Healthcare, Just Not For Our Family

The Horizons Tracker

The robotic takeover of healthcare has not been quite as pronounced as perhaps the more enthusiastic commentators predicted a few years ago, but there is a trickle of use cases around the world. Gaining acceptance from the public is key to widespread adoption, and new research from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology’s (NTNU) highlights the progress still required to secure that buy-in.

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Have You Strategised How Productive Your Business Is? Time To Focus

Strategy Driven

When you start a business, no one can really prepare you for the steps that you may need to take. It can consume you in those early days, and you may put all of your efforts into it. But as your business progresses you find that you spin too many plates and are not able to focus on the priorities. This is when you need to strategize to ensure that your business is more productive.

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It’s time to start writing for me again

Surviving Leadership

It’s been eleven months since I last posted on this site. Kind of stretches the claim in my bio that I author a blog, ya know? It’s not that I haven’t been writing. I contribute to HR Examiner , ERE.net , and other one-offs as requested. I also write for newsletters and posts for the place where I work. I enjoy writing for all these different places, I really do!

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Proposition 22 pass gives Uber and Lyft new gig economy model to perpetuate

HR Digest

Proposition 22, funded by gig companies like Uber Lyft and DoorDash, was passed by California voters recently. It allows these companies to continue to classify its gig workers as contract workers. Proposition 22 was floated in response to the AB-5 gig workers’ bill that protects independent workers’ rights. Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart and Postmates poured more than $205 million into Proposition 22, to get AB-5 overturned through a ballot.

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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.

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4 Times Leaders Must Strategically Introduce Change

Ron Edmondson

I try to always be strategic in leadership. All leadership involves change. You can’t avoid it and lead. Sometimes you can change simply because you have a new idea. I have learned, however, there are some times when leaders must strategically introduce change. There are times the “gut call” comes in handy for a leader. Leaders often must make quick and decisive decisions. 2020 taught us that if nothing else.

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How to Give Better, Consistent Appreciation

Let's Grow Leaders

I try to give my team consistent appreciation. I always go out of my way to say thank you. But you know what? In two years, I’ve never received a single thank you from my boss. NOT ONE. I get that this […]. The post How to Give Better, Consistent Appreciation appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and the Stress of Creativity

Harvard Business Review

After hiding his Pure OCD for years, advertising executive Aaron Harvey is trying to make workplaces more open to severe mental health issues.

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Strategies For Becoming The Person Others Follow

Eric Jacobson

Yes, it will take you some time to read Joshua Spodek 's book, Leadership Step by Step. Yes, it will be a little like doing "homework." Yes, this is a book you'll read and likely need to revisit a few times for the concepts to fully sink in. Yes, this is a book you must read if you want to become the person others will follow. The time and effort you put into, Leadership Step by Step , will be well worth it!

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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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Understanding the Enduring Consequences of Covid-19

Harvard Business Review

Yale professor Nicholas Christakis maps society’s long-term recovery from the pandemic.

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Ethical Frameworks for AI Aren’t Enough

Harvard Business Review

You need to be able translate your principles into metrics your team can use.

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Self-Compassion Will Make You a Better Leader

Harvard Business Review

It’s easy to be paralyzed by doubt and fear during tough times.

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Now Is a Good Time to Take Care of Ourselves

Harvard Business Review

Managing burnout, plus realistic advice on how to prioritize the things and people you care about.

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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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Looking for New Global Markets? Bigger Isn’t Always Better.

Harvard Business Review

Three metrics to guide your company’s international expansion.