December, 2016

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Five Ways to Win Well with Your Assistant

Let's Grow Leaders

He’s in the background responding to emails, setting appointments, or fixing your website. She’s overseeing projects, and clicking off those daily/weekly/monthly tasks that you may forget about while you focus on what YOU do best. He’s the glue that keeps things together, she’s the one who graciously gatekeeps, protecting your time and workload when she can.

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The Teslatisation of the Boardroom

N2Growth Blog

I am taking a break at Grand Cafe Loos in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. My mind is spinning around as I try to defragment and reorganize the many experiences, images and memories that have made 2016 such a fascinating year. Its easy to pick out the large, juicy chunks, which have captivated most of us around the globe: political upheaval, geo-political instability, corporate scandals to name but a few.

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A Year-End Note Of Inspiration To Keep Pushing Ahead

Tanveer Naseer

With the end of one year and the beginning of a new one now upon us, the typical response for many of us is to reflect on what’s transpired over these past 12 months, while at the same time looking ahead in anticipation of what’s to come in the new year. In the case of 2016, there seems to be a common consensus that this was a particularly bad year which many are glad to see come to an end.

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3 Reasons Team Building is Vital for Employee Engagement

Lead Change Blog

Practice doesn’t make perfect, but it does make us better. Building a championship team takes practice. From the greatest NBA season ever played by the ‘95-’96 Chicago Bulls (72-10 with a Championship) to the international dominance of the Spanish soccer team from 2007-2012, there’s one common thread…. Practice. As a leader, the best compliment is growth and improvement in your team.

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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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The January Effect: How to Make Next Year The Best One Ever

Terry Starbucker

There is a great benefit to the 365-day calendar – the fact that it restarts at January 1, without fail. It’s an annual window of opportunity for recycling, renewal, rebirth, rejuvenation, rejiggering, retooling, rebooting, and whatever other “re-something” you can think of. I call it the “ January Effect “, and as leaders we need to take full advantage of it.

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What is the Current State of Business Ethics?

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton I met with faculty members and students at Plymouth State University on October 3rd on the topic of "Decoding the Complexity of Doing the Right Thing." They had lots of questions, including the one answered in this video, "What it the Current State of Business Ethics?" This is a question that is 'top of mind' for many people as this year draws to a close.

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7 Attributes of a Great Management Hire

Women on Business

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11 Leadership Lessons And Quotes From Sing The Movie

Joseph Lalonde

A Reel Leadership Article Illumination Entertainment’s Sing is the story of Buster Moon, a Koala, who has one last chance to save the theater he so longs to see saved. After many failures, it’s do or die time. What’s his solution for saving the theater? The greatest sing-off competition ever seen! Sing is an animated children’s movie that you may be drug to if you have little ones.

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The Lead Change Group: 2016 In Review

Lead Change Blog

361 days ago, I pressed “publish” to bring the first Lead Change post of 2016, the January 2016 Leadership Development Carnival , to life. In the intervening days, we have produced 269 blog posts, including 12 Leadership Development Carnivals. We have received 750 comments. Maybe you were one of the readers who commented on a post and/or shared it via social media.

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How to Feel in Control and Six other Powers of Leadership Rituals

Leadership Freak

Repetition feels like drudgery. Don’t let disdain of repetition be the reason you miss the power of leadership rituals. 7 powers of leadership rituals: #1. Rituals make you feel powerful.

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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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Top 10 Posts of 2016 by @JesseLynStoner

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

This was another banner year for my blog. Highlights included receiving the Conant Leadership Champion Award, being near the top of almost every list of top leadership bloggers, and celebrating my 5th anniversary. (I’m not a newbie anymore!) Once again, I am in awe of the number of insightful and thought-provoking comments on my posts. […].

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5 Questions to Help You Resolve Your Conflict

Let's Grow Leaders

We’d both been looking forward to it–our first Thanksgiving together. We’d each been the primary holiday cooks in our previous marriage, which can feel lonely and overwhelming at times. But not this year. Now we had each other. We’d planned the perfect menu the week before while eating sushi over candlelight. We’d had fun shopping.

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3 Ways Women Entrepreneurs Can Close the Gender Gap in 2017

Women on Business

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The Secrets To Leadership From a Glass Half-Full (In My Own Words)

Terry Starbucker

I recently chatted with Jamie Newman on his “Your Best Manager” podcast – in it, I talk about (among a few other things): My best mentor (and why). My biggest people management challenge. Why leaders should be more human. The 5 lessons everyone should know before they start leading. And my 3 favorite business books. Check it out! Then visit Jamie’s podcast page for more links and info related to our chat.

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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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LeadershipNow 140: December 2016 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from December 2016 that you might have missed: Don’t you love the beginning of a new year? by @mark_sanborn. VIDEO: Simon Sinek on Millennials in the Workplace. The Line between Confidence and Hubris by Tim Laseter via @stratandbiz. Five Overlooked Principles Shaping the Destiny of Your Business by @jjsviokla via @stratandbiz.

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How to Feel in Control and Six other Powers of Leadership Rituals

Leadership Freak

Repetitions feels like drudgery. Don’t let disdain of repetition be the reason you miss the power of leadership rituals. 7 powers of leadership rituals: #1. Rituals make you feel powerful.

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The Power Of Vulnerability

Joseph Lalonde

No one likes to be seen as weak. Or even vulnerable. We try to hide any sign that we might not be where we need to be. Yet we’re consistently discovering the best way to lead is through our vulnerability. What Is Vulnerability? A lot of us don’t want to show any vulnerabilities. We want people to see us as strong. So, we hide. We retreat to a safe place where no one can hurt us.

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Frontline Festival: Leaders Share How They and Their Team are Preparing for the New Year

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. This month’s festival is all about preparing for 2017. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! Next month’s Frontline Festival is all about goal setting. Please submit your very best links to your goal setting posts. The question for the month is: “What your best practice for helping teams set meaningful goals?

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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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Is Your LLC Really Protecting You?

Women on Business

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The Day After Christmas

Lead Change Blog

Happy Holidays to one and all, however you choose to celebrate during this festive time of year! One of my personal holiday traditions involves watching the many films based on A Christmas Carol , the Charles Dickens classic short story, as often as possible and with an open mind. According to Wikipedia, the original book published in 1843 has always been available in print form and the story itself has been filmed and re-imagined over the years.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2016

Leading Blog

O NCE AGAIN we see that despite our rhetoric, what we are is reflected in our leaders and leadership. Actions have consequences and continuity of character matters. We need to be “urgently” reflective because too often by the time we find out it’s broken, it’s been broken for a very long time. As technology becomes more disruptive and we see more importance placed on big data and artificial intelligence, what will matter most are those things that make us human – the soft skills.

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How to Get Your Head Out of Your You-Know-What

Leadership Freak

Self-absorbed leaders unintentionally trivialize the people around them. Don’t expect extraordinary performance from people you devalue and disrespect. If you’re really that important, make others feel valued.

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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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My Gift To YOU.

Rich Gee Group

During this holiday season, I want you to spend some time and relax. Don’t think about work, politics, the economy. anything. What do I want you to do? Those things that make life special — spend time with friends and family, read a good book, watch a fun video, catch that movie you’ve been wanting to see. To help you relax, I’ve linked to some of my favorite books, videos, and music I’ve experienced this year.

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10 Reasons to Forgive a Colleague This Holiday Season

N2Growth Blog

The holidays are a great time for reflection. They allow us to think back and review the past year and appreciate all of things that we can be thankful for. They also allow us to consider some of things that didn’t go so well this year and determine opportunities for improving them. One thing that we all can do to improve things for next year is forgive someone that we work with.

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Holiday Break – We’ll Be Back on January 9th!

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “ As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy. It’s that festive time of the year when we pause to spend time with our families and focus on what is important: our relationships.

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3 Ways to Create Meaningful Goals to Increase Engagement and Trust

Lead Change Blog

Mom told us breakfast was the most important meal of the day. Andrew Carnegie told us that “if you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.” There is some debate these days over whether breakfast is so important, but there is no debate about goals. I am not saying that you don’t know that goals are important.

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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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How to Matter: The 5 Key Ways Companies Win

Leading Blog

I N TODAY'S ECONOMY of volatility and velocity, the lifespan of a Fortune 500 company has plummeted from an average 50 years to a mere fifteen. When constant disruption is the new normal, how do companies succeed? They find a way to matter. When we looked at thirty-plus case studies of successful companies, we found that they all share an audacious approach to disruption.

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The Day You Stop Following is the Day You Stop Leading

Leadership Freak

Everyone follows, especially leaders. You aren’t going very far if you aren’t following someone. The day you stop following is the day you stop leading.

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4 Ways to Upgrade Your LinkedIn Profile Before the New Year

Women on Business

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Be careful when you use passion to persuade

N2Growth Blog

Passion can be a real turnoff when it comes to persuasion. The best persuaders seek to connect before they seek to present. Passionate persuaders are just the opposite. They are soapbox orators, not communicators. The challenge is toning down someone who is overly passionate is formidable. Such individuals are so enamored of their own ideas and their own abilities they are difficult to reach.

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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.