February, 2022

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Leadership Support: How Do I Get More Executive Attention?

Let's Grow Leaders

To get better executive leadership support, ask for what you need. You have lots of great reasons to want better leadership support for your team. An executive visit can really help provide strategic context and reinforce important priorities. A regular cadence of executive exposure opens doors for your high-potential employees. And of course, if your executive is closer to the day-to-day challenges you face, they’re better positioned to share, solicit and respond to ideas and remove roadb

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The Secret For Running Great Meetings.

Rich Gee Group

Meetings suck. I know — we've all attended those 2-3 hour status meetings that drone on forever, stray WAY off course, and never get anything accomplished. And the personalities — the boss who thinks they're so important, the empty suit who has ‘great’ ideas and yet never acts on them, and the quiet triumvirate in the corner who never says anything.

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2022 Global C-Suite Talent Trends in the Mining Sector

N2Growth Blog

By Sandra Burmeister and Kelli Vukelic. Early figures and forecasts show that the mining sector is in for one of the most robust years off the back of the soaring demand for commodities and the industry’s impressive rebound in the second half of 2021. Even so, the sector is still grappling with a plateful of hot-button issues, including social restructuring, environmental protection, and the global push for de-carbonization placing particular pressure on the coal and platinum industries.

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40 Leadership Lessons Learned In 40 Years

Joseph Lalonde

Today, I’m deviating from the theme of love and leadership. Instead, I want to share 40 leadership lessons learned in 40 years of life. It’s strange to think I’ll no longer qualify for a 40 under 40 list. I’m more likely to qualify for an AARP mailing. That’s okay. We grow, we gain, and we […].

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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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How To Stay Emotionally Connected With Your Team In A Virtual World

Tanveer Naseer

Over the past two years, we’ve all had to learn how to get better at communicating within a virtual setting. While most of us have become comfortable using platforms like Zoom and Microsoft Teams in our daily work lives, a common challenge that persists is being able to connect at. Click to continue reading.

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Determining Personal Benchmarks

Kevin Eikenberry

Benchmarking can create new perspectives and a competitive edge in business. That why so many organizations look for benchmarks to compare performance, understand gaps, and measure success. Those objectives sound valuable for an individual as well, don’t they? That’s why I want to suggest to you the idea and value of personal benchmarks, and help […].

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Leading In Times of Wear and Tear

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton We've been through a lot. We're tired, worn out, overwhelmed, and stretched too thin. We're worried about our health and well-being and the health and well-being of those we love. We can't lead as if we were in normal times because we're definitely not and everyone knows it.

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4 Strategies To Overcome the Executive Hiring Challenges of Today

N2Growth Blog

The process of sourcing, interviewing, hiring, and onboarding an executive continues to evolve at a rapid pace. Many corporations are overhauling their approach to hiring executives and are more open-minded to change than ever before. I recently had coffee with a newly retired HR executive for a Fortune 500 healthcare company and learned The Great Resignation had worked its way up to the executive shelf.

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From The Paper Tigers

Joseph Lalonde

A Reel Leadership Article. The Paper Tigers is a new release on Netflix. The theaters are seeing a bit of a dry spell and I figure it’s time to check some Netflix films off of the watchlist. The trailer for The Paper Tigers intrigued me. The look and feel made it seem like it would be similar to the […].

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What Leaders Need To Do To Address Diversity And Inclusion In Today’s Workplaces

Tanveer Naseer

For the past few years, there’s been a growing focus and demand that organizations address diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Although there’s been numerous studies that have demonstrated how a diverse workforce leads to improved financial performance, productivity, innovation, and overall growth, the numbers of visible minority groups and. Click to continue reading.

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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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Leading Winning Teams: 5 Leadership Lessons from Mushers

RapidStart Leadership

Leading winning teams is something any good leader aspires to; here are five secrets to achieving that goal from a surprising source. The post Leading Winning Teams: 5 Leadership Lessons from Mushers appeared first on RapidStart Leadership.

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Civility at Work: How Do I Deal with a Mean Co-Worker? (video)

Let's Grow Leaders

Civility at Work is a Team Sport. What do you do if you’re dealing with a co-worker who is completely uncivil? I mean down-right mean, their momma should have taught them better kind of uncivil? How can you address civility at work at a team level? #Askingforafriend. I was talking with an HR leader the other day about some of the challenges they were facing after a very turbulent year, the stressful year.

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Three Cultures You Must Consider – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

Organizational culture has been an important topic for a number of years, but right now, as I’m recording this video at the beginning of 2022, culture has never been a bigger focus. Organizations around the globe are trying to figure out what the future of their workplace will look like. And rightfully so, they’re concerned […]. The post Three Cultures You Must Consider – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Five Dysfunctions of a Team Conflict Resolution Model | Rainmaker Group

Sales Wolf Blog

How comfortable are you and your team members engaging in conflict? Chances are, the comfort level is mixed. And chances are, you and your team are not on the same page about how to engage in conflict. Whatever the comfort level, there is a better way to engage in conflict using systematic productive, ideological conflict. This takes commitment and work.

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5 Ways to Improve DE&I in the Workplace

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are critical for an organization’s success. And companies that take bold action to help ensure an inclusive workplace will win every time. Discover how your company can create a culture that celebrates DE&I while achieving higher revenue and growth.

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Uncharted

Joseph Lalonde

A Reel Leadership Article. Uncharted brings the classic Playstation video game Uncharted to real life. Which is perfect for Reel Leadership! In Uncharted, Nathan Drake (Tom Holland, who played Spider-Man) is a conman. He’s working as a bartender who rips patrons off. Doesn’t sound like all that great of a guy, huh? He isn’t, but he is… Nathan meets […].

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Finding The Best Employees For Your Business

Tanveer Naseer

Before you decide to start your own business, you’ve already spent countless hours figuring out all of the details to make it great. You know what kind of company you want to run and the culture you want to foster. The question is, how do you find the best employees? Click to continue reading.

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The Senior Leader’s Checklist for Shaping Company Culture

Next Level Blog

In over thirty years of either working for senior executives, being a senior executive, or coaching senior executives, I’ve come to a few conclusions. One of them is that, too often, there’s an overemphasis on strategy and an underemphasis on culture. When that’s the case, the outcomes usually aren’t the greatest. There’s a reason the late, great Peter Drucker said, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

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Expand Your Influence and Impact: REACH with Becky Robinson

Let's Grow Leaders

Whether you want more influence and to make a bigger difference within your organization or the world beyond, Weaving Influence CEO and author Becky Robinson gives you the roadmap. Too many think it’s a question of numbers—the more people you can get in front of, the better. But true reach is about expanding your audience while making a meaningful and enduring difference that has a lasting impact.

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No Ego: How Leaders Can Cut the Cost of Drama, End Entitlement and Drive Big Results

Speaker: Cy Wakeman, M.S., CSP, President, Reality-Based Leadership

Most HR leadership philosophies are grounded in two completely faulty assumptions — “change is hard” and “engagement drives results.” Those beliefs have inspired expensive attempts to keep change from being disruptive to employees. What these engagement programs actually do is create and reinforce feelings of victim-hood and leave employees unprepared to adapt to real changes that are necessary for the health and profitability of their enterprises.

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7 Powerful Proactive Responses to Hot Emotion

Leadership Freak

Proactive people make things happen. Reactive people wait for things to happen. Reactions come with their own punishment. Reactions are spontaneous. Someone pushes you; you push back. You say something that causes harm.

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Things Your Parents Said That Were Wiser Than We Knew

Kevin Eikenberry

Recently, I have been hearing my mom and dad in my ear. There are things my parents told me a kid that have become a part of my belief system. But when I thought about them as a leader, I gained a whole other level of insight. Because of this mental exercise, I decided to […]. The post Things Your Parents Said That Were Wiser Than We Knew appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Blacklight

Joseph Lalonde

A Reel Leadership Article. The last few weeks had seen a drought of movies. There hadn’t been anything new in theaters in quite some time. This week, that all changed. There were three movies that interested me that were released. The choices were Marry Me with Owen Wilson, Death On The Nile, and the Liam Neeson film Blacklight. I’m a […].

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7 Ways To Take The Lead With Your Business

Tanveer Naseer

Did you know that one of the top challenges for CEOs is developing new leadership? Having great leaders is getting more important with time. Businesses know this, but only less than 5% have development programs at all levels. Tied this to the fact that the number of quits is alarming; Click to continue reading.

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Innovation: Five Signs You Might Be Faking It

Every company wants to be a leader in innovation, but how can you tell if your company is really innovating or just going through the motions? See the 5 signs you might be faking innovation and what to do if you are.

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What Have You Done for Me Lately?

Next Level Blog

The question in the title of this post isn’t about you as the reader. You’re awesome. However, “What have you done for me lately?” could be the question your senior executive is asking about you. That’s never a good thing. In the absence of real information, people tend to fill in the blanks by making up a story about what must be going on. You want to avoid that because the story that gets made up is hardly ever a good one.

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How Do I Help My Team Make the Most of Failure? (Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

Be More Wrong: How to Grow From Failure. As a leader, how should you encourage your team to take risks and make the most of mistakes and failure? In this Asking For a Friend episode, Karin welcomes Colin Hunter, author of B e More Wrong , to discuss the journey of failure and growth. How to Grow From Failure (Highlights). Source of Strength. 1:19 Colin shares about his father’s passing and how celebrating his life was actually a source of strength for him, and refers to the experience of f

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Two Dangers of Reactive Management

Leadership Freak

Responding is necessary in a turbulent world. Reacting is not. A person who never responds becomes irrelevant. A person who constantly reacts creates the illusion of importance.

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Don’t Put All Your Eggs in One Basket – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

Now, you might already know that I grew up on a farm, and so I have plenty of farm phrases in my vernacular. Some of these phrases wouldn’t make any sense to you. But some of those farm phrases are things you’ve either heard before or maybe even heard here on this blog last week. […]. The post Don’t Put All Your Eggs in One Basket – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Tough Comp Conversations: A Guide For Doing Them Right

Speaker: Rusty Lindquist, VP Strategic HR Insights at Bamboo HR

Compensation can be tricky, few things carry as much emotional weight as comp. And with the increased transparency in the market, combined with our collective propensity to rate ourselves against others, the frequency of these very difficult conversations is increasing. In this webinar, we will deconstruct some of the psychology around comp. We’ll take an analytic look at comp’s role in the employee experience, and then we’ll get really tactical with guidance on very specific compensation conver

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3 Ways To Love Your Position

Joseph Lalonde

The longer you’re in a leadership position, the easier it can be to begin to feel disillusioned with everything. You get tired of the responsibility. You get tired of the loneliness leadership brings. And you feel discouraged because things aren’t going well. Yeah, leadership can be challenging. But you can still love your position of […].

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5 Key Tips For Efficiently Running A Global Business

Tanveer Naseer

Following the rate at which the internet is connecting us, regardless of geographical locations, it is normal for small businesses to have potential customers in far countries. This creates an opportunity for small and growing businesses to go international, allowing you to grow your company from within the walls of. Click to continue reading.

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Servant-Leadership 101: Principle of Empathy (Hidden Figures Video Example)

Modern Servant Leader

The second principle in the Acronym Model of SERVANT-Leadership is Empathy. This 7-minute lesson demonstrates this principle, as learned by Al Harrison (played by Kevin Costner), through the courage of Katherine Johnson (played by Taraji P. Henson). Johnson is part of a team of female African-American’s playing a vital role in the early days of the NASA space program.

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The Most Challenging Person for a Human-Centered Leader

Let's Grow Leaders

To be a human-centered leader requires compassion, empathy, and kindness for someone it’s easy to overlook. If you’re serious about becoming a more human-centered leader, it’s vital to master one specific relationship: the one with yourself. This is a leadership relationship I often overlook. It’s so easy to have compassion and grace for other people while pushing myself for more and holding myself to an unreasonable standard of perfection or achievement.

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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.