Mon.Jun 20, 2016

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What is your Commencement Address?

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. Leadership is not about the next election, it’s about the next generation. Simon Sinek. The class of 2016 at my high school nominated me to give the commencement address. This was a great honor. As I thought about what to say, it was not as easy as I thought.

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Leadership Lessons And Quotes From Finding Dory

Joseph Lalonde

O ver 13 years ago, a little orange fish swam into our lives. His charm was instantaneous. That fish was Nemo of Finding Nemo. And we’ve been wanting a sequel to Finding Nemo for just as long. This weekend saw this wish come true. Finding Dory, a quasi-sequel of Finding Nemo, released to praise from critics. My opinion? Finding Dory deserves those accolades.

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A Compass for Transition

Lead Change Blog

As we look at the timeline of our lives, how many transitions can we see? Inside the womb to outside the womb counts as one of our first major transitions. Being chauffeured, to holding a driver’s license. Graduation, moving, marriage, births, deaths, promotions, the list goes on and on. Transitions are endless and life-long. One of our oldest and most essential navigational tools is the compass.

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My Dad’s Best Advice

N2Growth Blog

Father’s Day has become a bit of a solemn day for me. I lost my father a few years ago and, while my kids do their best to celebrate the day with me, I can’t help but to feel the loss of my father in my life. Just the same, Father’s Day does provide me with the chance to reflect back on some of the sage advice that I got from him over the years and consider how it has informed my approach to work and to life.

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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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Mindful Mondays: The Secrets of a 30-Year Partnership Revealed

Next Level Blog

So, it was back in March of 1985 when I was dared to ask Diane Dougherty out on a date. She worked in an office across the hall from mine in a Washington, DC trade association. It was my first real job out of college and she was an intern in town for a semester. I was coming back from lunch with an older, married guy co-worker named Dick Loomis and Diane passed us in the hall.

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Why leadership is an endurance race

Lead on Purpose

Success is a marathon, not a sprint. The only way to truly prepare for a marathon is to train, to practice, to run. You need to get out on the road. You need to put in the miles.

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4 Surprising Times to Leap for Joy

Leadership Freak

Issues, problems, and challenges suck the joy out of leaders. Miserable leaders drain organizational energy. (People assume you’re miserable if you don’t express joy.) Joy is energy. Joy is an expression of wisdom and strength, not weakness. Find joy by expressing approval. Successful leaders express joy without being frivolous. Leap for joy when people: #1.

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PALEOVENTURES Takes Teams Back to Nature

Marshall Goldsmith

Nothing is more vital to business success than strong, effective teams made up of healthy and cooperative individuals. One way to help both individuals and teams become stronger and more effective is to try outdoor teambuilding – but not the old fashioned ropes courses and trust falls! PALEOVENTURES, a San Francisco based company, provides meaningful outdoor survival skills learning combined with organizationally relevant communication skills training.

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Summer Leadership – Tips for Making Summer Successful for Your Team

Kevin Eikenberry

Ah summer! Summer is the season of “school’s out!”, cook outs, and vacations. Summer is also the season of warmth, longer days and the period of greatest growth in the natural world around us. And as leaders we must navigate all of those truths to create a successful summer for our teams, both at work […]. The post Summer Leadership – Tips for Making Summer Successful for Your Team appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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The Importance of Giving Leaders What They Need to Communicate Business Strategy

leaderCommunicator

It’s one thing to hold leaders accountable for communications about the business strategy, but it’s another to fail to support them with the right training and tools to help facilitate it.

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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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When to "Jump In" & When to "Jump Out"

Coaching Tip

How Elliott Waves Tell You When to "Jump In" & When to "Jump Out" Our senior instructor tells you how he analyzes real price charts to spot trade opportunities. By Elliott Wave International. Jeffrey Kennedy, the editor of our Trader's Classroom service, talks about some of the easy techniques to help you spot high-confidence trade opportunities.

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The Seventh Sense; But What if We’re Wrong? – two books that raise the question of: Just what is different?

First Friday Book Synopsis

Steve Jobs famously called people to “Think different.” That mantra popped into my head as I read the sample pages of two intriguing books over the weekend. (I love the Kindle app sample pages feature). The second book for my weekend was But What if We’re Wrong? Thining about the Present as if it were… Read More The Seventh Sense; But What if We’re Wrong?

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How to Build and Nourish Trust (Even After You've Lost It)

Anese Cavanaugh

If you have it, you rarely think about it. If you don't have it, you likely grapple with it--even if you don't realize it. It mends wounds, inspires creativity, creates true engagement, allows for real relating, results in better and bigger ideas, provides a safety net for taking risks, creates safety and intimacy, and simply feels good. It's essential to "right relationship" and it's one of your strongest units of leadership and human currency.

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What shapes what you care about?

Deep Imprints

Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw - news icons who led teams of people and told us about the important things that were happening on the planet. (For a quick walk through history, you might enjoy TV Guide's 60 biggest news moments. And for an interesting side trip, find other world events that happened in […].

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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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3 Simple Ways Productivity Leads to Your Best Self

Strategy Driven

What do you think of when you hear the term “self-improvement”? If you’re like a lot of people, you might imagine working your way through giant stacks of self-help books, starting an intensive new exercise regimen, or devoting more time to charitable causes – all of which are certainly worthwhile ways to improve oneself. However, the path to self-improvement isn’t always about drastic lifestyle changes.

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Ten Reasons To Embrace Storytelling As A Business Tool

Eric Jacobson

From Paul Smith's book, Lead With A Story , here are the 10 reasons for embracing storytelling as a business tool : Storytelling is simple Storytelling is timeless Stories are demographic-proof Stories are contagious Stories are easier to remember Stories inspire Stories appeal to all types of learners Stories fit better where most of the learning happens in the workplace Stories put the listener in a mental learning mode Telling stories shows respect for the audience Smith goes on to say that:

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The 21.5 early warning signals that the prospect is ready to buy.

Strategy Driven

Question: When is the prospect ready to buy? Answer: He or she will tell you if you just pay attention (aka listen). The link between the presentation and the close of the sale are buying signals. Recognizing the signals to buy is one of the nuance areas in the science of selling. I don’t believe that selling is an art, I believe that selling is a science.

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The Emotions of a Pastor or Leader’s Spouse in Times of Transition

Ron Edmondson

When I’m talking to a pastor or other leader who has accepted a new position or is in a time of transition – after I hear the excitement in their voice of what they see God doing – I almost always ask the same question: “How is your spouse dealing with the change?” There is usually a pause, followed by an “umm” of some sort, then a statement such as, “ She/He seems to be doing okay.” Push a little more (which I usually do) and I’ll hear

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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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Steps to Take When You’re Starting to Feel Burned Out

Harvard Business Review

Andrew Nguyen/HBR STAFF. Burnout hurts. When you burn out at work, you feel diminished, like a part of yourself has gone into hiding. Challenges that were formerly manageable feel insurmountable. It’s the opposite end of the spectrum from engagement. The engaged employee is energized, involved, and high-performing; the burned-out employee is exhausted, cynical, and overwhelmed.

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Your Scarcest Resource

Harvard Business Review

Organizations waste too much time – see how Bain helps them manage it like money in this 10-minute video slide deck. To download a customizable version, visit the Visual Library.

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Do Managers and Leaders Really Do Different Things?

Harvard Business Review

Business people and business theorists love to draw distinctions between management and leadership. They tell us that “managers do things right; leaders do the right thing” and “management is administration, but leadership is innovation.” Management, we seem to think, is what we need to do, but leadership is what we want to do.

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A Portrait of the Overperforming Salesperson

Harvard Business Review

What are the personal attributes, attitudes, and actions that influence personal sales productivity? I recently conducted an extensive study of more than 1,000 salespeople and sales management leaders to determine the attributes of top sales professionals–those who achieved more than 125% of their assigned quota last year. This is a very select group as only 15% of the study participants met the criterion.

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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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Older Workers Need to Stop Believing Stereotypes About Themselves

Harvard Business Review

Age discrimination is the most widely experienced form of discrimination across Europe according to a 2011 Age UK report. In a work context, this can be particularly harmful. Although older workers are sometimes stereotyped in positive ways — as more loyal, reliable, or committed compared to their younger colleagues – negative stereotypes abound.

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What Innovative Companies Can Learn from Keurig’s Highs and Lows

Harvard Business Review

Leading an organization can sometimes feel like plate spinning: racing from pole to pole, trying to keep each plate aloft and whirling. To lead (and to spin), you have to achieve and maintain balance. Within an enterprise, this means balancing the demands of current operations while laying the groundwork for future opportunities, as well as reviewing past activities and policies that may be holding back your organization.

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Strategic Humor: Cartoons from the July-August 2016 Issue

Harvard Business Review

Enjoy these cartoons from the July–August issue of HBR, and test your management wit in the HBR Caption Contest. If we choose your caption as the winner, you will be featured in an upcoming magazine issue and win a free Harvard Business Review Press book. We recently held a live caption contest on Facebook as part of our HBR Live videos — check it out !

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The 8 Digital Productivity Tools Everyone Should Adopt

Harvard Business Review

I’m a super adopter. I love trying out hundreds of new applications, social networks and devices every year. But not everybody wants to live the thousand-app lifestyle. For most people, the goal is to adopt the smallest number of tools necessary to work efficiently. That’s why my friends and colleagues often ask me which technologies I regard as must-haves: the tools and tactics that will make a big impact on their productivity without spending a lot of time or money getting up and r

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.

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Your Company Needs a More-Radical Board of Directors

Harvard Business Review

What’s a typical independent director’s worst nightmare? My guess is that while a poor balance sheet might cause restless sleep, it’s the thought of an incorrectly reported balance sheet that brings on night terrors. It’s not surprising. Remember the public shaming – and heavy sentences — heaped on Enron and Worldcom for their accounting (and more importantly, ethical) failures?