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First Look: Leadership Books for September 2020

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in September 2020. Don't miss out on other great new and future releases not listed here. Hyper-Learning : How to Adapt to the Speed of Change by Edward D. Hess. The Digital Age will raise the question of how we humans will stay relevant in the workplace. To stay relevant, we have to be able to excel cognitively, behaviorally, and emotionally in ways that technology can't.

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September 2020 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Welcome to the September 2020 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Communication. Julie Winkle Giulioni shared Stop Blaming Zoom! The Problem with Your Meetings Might Be You.

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How to Decide Which Meetings to Skip

Next Level Blog

The number one business-related complaint I’ve been hearing from my coaching clients during the pandemic is that they are overwhelmed with a deluge of demand for participation in online meetings. Apart from the Zoom fatigue they induce, all of these meetings are leaving leaders with very little time to get anything else done related to work and, oh, by the way, family or self.

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Leadership and Your Grill – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

If you’ve watched many of our previous episodes, you know that I often ask our viewers to challenge me to find leadership lessons in bizarre and random places. And today, I am finding the lessons that we as leaders can take from our grill. And no, you don’t have to be a grilling expert to […]. The post Leadership and Your Grill – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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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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How To Manage An Underperformer Remotely

Lead from Within

Love it or hate it, working remotely is likely to remain a reality for some time to come. A fairly common challenge, now that people have had time to settle into new workflows, is that more employees may be struggling to keep up. How you handle that situation is important—to your employee, to you, and ultimately to your entire team. Here are some tips that have proven to be successful for preventing and dealing with underperformance: Set up clear expectations.

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What Are You Forgetting? Press Play on Video

Engaging Leader

Each year, our culture takes another leap in the digital revolution. This has sent video to the forefront of communication channels. Some examples. COVID-19 has forced Zoom meetings to become the backbone of our daily schedules. TikTok and Instagram Reels have exploded on the mobile entertainment scene. And even Facebook now encourages advertisers to […].

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Two Types of Behavior to Influence for Change to Happen

Change Starts Here

During change, there are two types of behavior we need to influence in order to get the result we’re striving for. I’ll call them Future State Behaviors and Change Behaviors, to describe their relationship to the change initiative.

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The Health Risks For Women By Commuting To Work

The Horizons Tracker

The average British person spends around an hour commuting each day, yet it’s something that most of us hate. Indeed, surveys suggest that most of us would gladly accept a pay cut if it meant a shorter commute, with some companies even paying staff to live closer to the office. Whilst most of the time, the commute is framed in the sense of its impact upon our productivity and psychological wellbeing, a new study by George Mason University highlights the health risks posed by our commute.

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8 Tips on Being an Extraordinary Business Leader

CEO Insider

When you run your own business, you’re the boss. Your job title and your name on the checks gives you that power. But to be a leader, you need to do more than own a business. Your leadership is apparent (or not) in how you do everything. What takes an ordinary business leader and makes […]. License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article 8 Tips on Being an Extraordinary Business Leader are those of the author Jeff Dudan alone and not the CEOWORLD magazine.

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Future Reflection: Freedom, Equality, Work?

Leadership and Change

Here’s the fourth part of a reflection on historian Yuval Noah Harari’s work for individuals, professionals, leaders, consultants, teams, and organizations. This series is based on Harari’s books “21 lessons for the 21st century” and “Homo Deus, a brief history of the future”. What’s happening in the global system around organizations? What influences might there […].

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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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How Technical Debt Opens the Door to Cyber Attacks—and Steps to Protect Your Small Business

Strategy Driven

The virus pandemic of 2020 is severely disrupting the economy and the large and small businesses that drive it. Poor practices such as ignoring safe distancing, insufficient sanitation, and not mandating mask-wearing open the door to infection of customers and staff and threaten the viability of a business. Similarly, poor practices that allow a business to incur technical debt open the door to cybersecurity exploits that can bankrupt a business financially or through loss of trust and reputatio

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Your Consulting Firm’s Critical, Oft-Ignored Strategic Guidewire

David A Fields

Consulting is an enormously fun business. Fun in a “get your hands dirty and muck around in the mud while eating designer truffles” kind of way. You get to roll up your sleeves and solve the problems that clients can’t because they’re too busy going to meetings, playing politics and engaging in other clienty stuff. … Continued. The post Your Consulting Firm’s Critical, Oft-Ignored Strategic Guidewire appeared first on David A.

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It Makes Commercial Sense To Have More Women In Board Roles

The Horizons Tracker

Improving the diversity of leadership teams has long been associated with better decision making. Despite this, change has been slow in arriving, so fresh evidence is always welcome, and the latest comes from new research from the Curtin University, which highlights that 10% growth in female representation in senior leadership is associated with a 6.6% increase in the market value of Australian companies. “When businesses are looking to a post COVID-19 world, our research shows that havin

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Effective Ways to Get Premium Clients Online

Strategy Driven

Finding reliable and high-paying clients in any industry is tough. Most of us have paid our dues in the freelance world; we’ve worked for free (or for close to it) and have handled difficult customers for less pay than we’d like. Sometimes we hear of professionals in the exact same field, doing the same job at the same level of skill or proficiency — yet they make twice what we do.

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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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How Technology At Work Affects Our Mental Health

The Horizons Tracker

Amidst the considerable disruption of the coronavirus pandemic, it might be easy to forget the 4th industrial revolution we all believed to be living through. It entails a huge panoply of technologies threatening to disrupt our way of being. New research from the University of Sydney explores the mental health impact of this considerable technological disruption in the workplace.

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Why Are Accredited CPD Training Courses Integral for Professional Development?

Strategy Driven

Career development is what drives many employees within their professions but achieving this isn’t always as easy or straightforward as we all hoped. A highly competitive job market, teams with an impending recession has caused many business owners to place promotions and pay rises on hold. This is why it’s imperative to stand out from the crowd and do whatever it takes to impress managers.

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7 Ways To Create More Time Margin in Your Week

Ron Edmondson

How do you create more time margin in your week – with an already packed schedule? Isn’t this a great question? How do you create more margin – to do the things you want to do and the things you need to do? Here are a 7 tips to help create more time margin: Start your day with God. Of course a pastor would say this, but it is amazing if I start the day talking to God how much it helps me all day.

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Advice for Building a Remote-Working Business

Strategy Driven

In light of COVID-19, many businesses are making the switch to remote working. Or if you are just starting up a new business, then this could be how you need to work from the get-go. Remote working is the way of the future, with ever-increasing advancements in technology, it seems that everything is going online. There are lots of advantages to remote working.

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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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#LeadershipTruth – It’s All About Perception

Roundtable Talk

I’ve spent the last 20 years coaching leaders on how to increase their impact at work. Most successful leaders don’t find their careers stalling because they’re not capable of doing their jobs. They start faltering because of HOW they’re doing said job. For successful people there’s a dynamic tension between the things that make us successful – confidence, ownership, optimism and persistence – and the things that cause us to trip up – arrogance, self-delusion, […].

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7 Professional Development Goals To Set Today

Strategy Driven

No matter what career you set your mind to, you’ll have to create a set of professional development goals, so that you stay on top of your game. It’s also important to invest time and energy into your professional development, since they focus on your functional expertise, accomplish tasks in your current job, and prepare you for the next step in your career.

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How to Launch a New Biosciences Product: Start Small or Dive in?

Harvard Business Review

Should C16 Biosciences roll out its lab-grown palm oil in the personal care market, or tap into booming demand for lab-grown food?

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Here’s the Good News

Frank Sonnenberg Online

Do you find bad news exhausting? The problem is, you can’t escape it. Politicians are grumbling, celebrities are bellyaching, the news media are ranting, and even social media friends are whining. (Ugh!) You’d think there’s no good news anymore. Complaining never solved a problem, and it never will. Don’t get me wrong. Of course, we have our share of problems, BUT there’s still plenty of good news if you just look around.

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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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To Build Grit, Go Back to Basics

Harvard Business Review

Former army helicopter pilot Shannon Huffman Polson talks about how she developed grit – and how you can, too.

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Most industries forced to turn furloughs into permanent cuts

HR Digest

The pandemic has led to many companies announcing layoffs and job cuts of their furloughed employees. The initial wave of job cuts were staved off with government stimulation packages and incentives, but with the pandemic prolonging, most government subsidies have lapsed, forcing some corporations to take the drastic step. Recent weeks have seen a spate of layoffs being announced by the retail, beverages and the airlines industries totaling nearly 200,000 in number.

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In Pitch Contests, Going First Is a Disadvantage

Harvard Business Review

In a series of four competitions, researchers found that the first two contestants were consistently rated lower.

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Does Your Board Really Understand Your Cyber Risks?

Harvard Business Review

Your risk assessment shouldn’t be geared toward technical experts alone.

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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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Is Your IT Department Aligned With Your Business Outcomes? - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM BROADCOM

Harvard Business Review

Sponsor content from Broadcom.

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An Exercise to Help Your Team Overcome the Trauma of the Pandemic

Harvard Business Review

Post-traumatic growth is possible.

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When Your Boss Doesn’t Respect Your Family Commitments

Harvard Business Review

Make it clear you’ve got a plan.