Tue.Dec 03, 2019

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Now Is The Time To Plan For 2020.

Rich Gee Group

December is the perfect time to start laying out your plans for the new year. First, I'd like you to revisit 2019 to better understand where you are and where you need to go. Answer these questions (I will break out each section for business owners and corporate executives to make your planning a better fit for your profession): 1. WHAT WENT RIGHT IN 2019?

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How To Get Promoted If You’re Not Your Boss’s Favorite

Tanveer Naseer

Your boss has a favorite and it’s not you. It’s disconcerting to work hard and get great results but never get recognition from your boss. After all, your boss is the gatekeeper to a promotion. You want the acknowledgment that you’re on track and doing a good job. But no. Click to continue reading.

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How to Get Noticed by Leadership (Without Sucking Up)

Lead from Within

If you’re like most workers, you’d like for your contributions and abilities to be more visible to leadership. But how do you get noticed without coming off as arrogant or attention-seeking? It’s easy for even great employees within an organization to be overlooked or undervalued. Fortunately, there are positive ways to put yourself in a position to be noticed by leadership without sucking up.

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December 2019 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Welcome to the December Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, motivation, productivity, and more. Communication. Jeff McCollum of Designed Learning contributed Ruminations on Influence. Jeff writes: “Relationship building and expertise are both needed to gain influence in leadership roles.

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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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5 Secrets that Expand Your Ability to Lead

Leadership Freak

Successful leaders think more about relationships and less about technical skills. Expanding your leadership is about people. 5 secrets that expand your ability to lead: #1. Value casual interactions.

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Some Encouragement for You – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

As a leader, there is a lot on our shoulders and much is asked of us. In my blog posts, emails, articles and even here in this video series, I remind you regularly of the responsibilities that we have as leaders. But today, I’m not talking about any of that. I am talking about encouragement […]. The post Some Encouragement for You – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Are You Flushing Leadership Development Dollars Down the Drain?

The Practical Leader

During a break in a recent leadership development workshop, I talked with the HR Director (let’s call him Rich) about all the work they were putting into revamping the organization’s promotion and performance management system. Rich said they were basing their promotion process on their performance appraisal and rating system. Their big problem is getting managers to complete performance appraisals.

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A Piece of Trash with Four Simple Words Changed My Life and Maybe Yours Too

Innovation Excellence

While there may be no one secret to living a meaningful life, this simple piece of advise definitely holds the key to unlocking some of life’s secrets. I must tell you at the outset that I am an avowed disbeliever when it comes to people professing that they have found the secret to living a.

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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 ethics are the only way businesses can survive AI and keep our morality

CEO Insider

Organisational change is rapidly accelerating, where a 2018 McKinsey report indicated that 80% of executives were concerned about the emerging risk in their business models. This new age is now characterised with greater speed, combined with greater uncertainty and risk. This new environment includes the almost daily presidential tweets, trade wars, and tariffs, not to […].

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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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Four Seasons of Leadership

Ron Edmondson

After years of leading, I have learned there are four seasons of leadership. There could be more, but I’ve been able to clearly identify these four. Misunderstanding this can lead to frustration. You may think you are doing something wrong. Yet you’re only in a different season. Four seasons: Some plant – Many leaders sow seeds. They are used to start something new.

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Is Entrepreneurship As Popular As We Think?

The Horizons Tracker

Entrepreneurship has seldom been sexier, with the press overwhelmed with stories of technological disruption and the tremendous changes emerging across society as a result of the bold and courageous innovators that are bucking the norm. Indeed, research suggests we’re in the midst of an ‘entrepreneurial economy’, which has prompted governments and corporations to lend their heft to the entrepreneurial wave, with incubators and accelerators popping up left, right and center.

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A Deming Gift for You this Giving Tuesday

Deming Institute

It’s Giving Tuesday! And we’d like to celebrate with you, since generosity is at the heart of the Deming Philosophy. As a Deming person, you are generous with your time and expertise; many of you have contributed to this blog, offered valuable comments and insight, and shared posts with others in order to spread the Deming approach far and wide.

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How Robots Can Detect Human Emotions

The Horizons Tracker

As robots increasingly work alongside humans, the ability for the machines to understand the desires and intentions of their human companions will be vital. A new study from Warwick Business School highlights how robots might soon be able to recognize human emotions. The researchers discovered that humans are relatively easily able to detect emotions such as sadness and boredom from the way we move, even if our facial expression or voice are hidden from us.

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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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Recharge 2019: The Breakthrough with Dan Perdue

Roundtable Talk

By Jennifer Hanna, Learning Manager Stand up. Jump up. Show up. That’s what Dan asked each of us to do, and he wasn’t kidding around! As a high-performance coach, Dan laid down the challenge……. get out of your comfort zone, be a force and reach your goals. As we all yelled out our commitments to […].

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Why Cybersecurity Isn’t Only a Tech Problem

Harvard Business Review

Thomas Parenty and Jack Domet, cofounders of the cybersecurity firm Archefact Group, say that most organizations are approaching cybersecurity all wrong. Whether they’re running small companies or working in multinational corporations, leaders have to think beyond their IT department and technology systems to instead focus on protecting their businesses’ most important assets from attack.

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Recharge 2019: Courage at the C-Suite

Roundtable Talk

By Jennifer Hanna, Learning Manager Panellist: Sam Sebastian, Sarah Robson, Gill Dennis, Beth Tyndall During the next stop along our Recharge journey of becoming courageous, we had the pleasure of listening to a panel of insightful C-suite leaders. The panellists were asked to share their thoughts and experiences about growing a culture of courage in […].

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Why CalSTRS Chooses to Engage with the Gun Industry

Harvard Business Review

Should large institutional investors divest or engage if they have an issue with a company? Harvard Business School professor Vikram Gandhi discusses why and how CalSTRS, the $200 billion pension plan for California public school teachers, chooses to engage with gun makers and retailers in California in his case, “CalSTRS Takes on Gun Violence.

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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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Recharge 2019: A Visual Journey

Roundtable Talk

Once again, Recharge was filled with great takeaways and plentiful knowledge bombs. Luckily, we had Erica Bota from ThinkLink Graphics with us to document the learning through stunning visuals. Take a look, and share your favourites! Courage at the C-Suite Blogpost here Thinking Broadly & Harnessing Courage Blogpost here The Breakthrough with Dan Perdue Blogpost […].

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Why Every Sales and Marketing Team Needs a “Boundary Spanner”

Harvard Business Review

They understand both the commercial imperatives and the IT mindset.

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Recharge 2019: Thinking Broadly and Harnessing Courage

Roundtable Talk

By Leah Parkhill-Reilly, Program Director We spent the morning honing in on courage because that’s a critical element in building the energy to push boundaries and be limitless. Courage is what enables you to push to the other side of fear, to move past the discomfort and reframe the current state. It’s what allows one […].

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What Machine Learning Will Mean for Asset Managers

Harvard Business Review

As algorithms get smarter, who will be the winners and losers on Wall Street?

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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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#leadershiptruth – Let go of control

Roundtable Talk

I have control issues. I realize that they’re rooted in a childhood where I had very little control and instead was highly controlled. Being high control means that I’ve become extremely good at pushing people away. Keeping help at a distance. As I work on letting go of control, I have to lean into the […].

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Protect Yourself from Bad Information

Frank Sonnenberg Online

There was a time when people believed the Earth was flat. They had good reason to feel that way, given that scholars and the masses were in complete agreement. While that may seem foolish now, some things you believe today may prove to be equally false tomorrow. The cause is bad information. While you may not believe the Earth is flat, I can assure you that some of your thinking today is indeed flawed.

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To Build a Strong Culture, Create Rules That Are Unique to Your Company

Harvard Business Review

Distinctive cultures produce distinctive products.

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To Drive Digital Transformation, Focus on People

Strategy Driven

Businesses from top global firms to main street staples are looking into a future driven by new technology capabilities. Since this transformation is different from any of the dramatic changes leaders have faced over the past century, it requires a different response. Today’s changes are not unusual in scope or pace. Consider, for instance, the changes in the last several decades: the invention and rapid propagation routine affordable air flight, the explosion of trade and globalization, and the

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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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What Social Media Says About The Fragmentation Of Society

The Horizons Tracker

Of the various adjectives that one can think of to describe social media, perhaps balanced is not one of them. Indeed, it’s easy to assume that so polarized are views aired on social media that it’s a small fraction of society who use it. But of course, usage data suggests that’s far from the case, and as such, a new paper argues it provides a good window into the way society is fragmenting.

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