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Top 10 Tips for Becoming the Leader Your Team Needs and Deserves

Lead from Within

Becoming a great leader that your team needs and deserves, requires a combination of various skills and characteristics. Here are 10 key times when a leader can demonstrate their abilities and make a positive impact on their team and organization.

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Help I Have a REALLY LAZY Coworker! How Do I Stay Motivated?

Let's Grow Leaders

How to Deal with a Lazy Coworker and Still Be Seen as a Team Player When I was a little girl, my mom loved to tell us the story of the Little Red Hen.

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A Simple Strategy to Defeat Destructive Platitudes

Leadership Freak

Destructive platitudes work at the beginning of the day and sting at the end. “Do Do what makes you happy,” is my favorite. Feel free to include two other winners. “Do Do what feels good,”… Continue reading → Leading Leadership Development

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Leading Thoughts for February 16, 2023

Leading Blog

I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Nine-time Grammy-winning producer Rick Rubin on awareness: “Awareness is not a state you force. There is little effort involved, though persistence is key. It’s something you actively allow to happen. It is a presence with, and acceptance of, what is happening in the eternal now.

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HR Playbook: How Paycor Helps You Manage Compliance Risk

There are few certainties in life. Death. Taxes. Changing compliance laws. Keeping up is a full-time job many companies can’t staff. That’s why finding the right HR provider is critical. Learn how Paycor helps you stay ahead. Download the guide today!

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What are the Five Dysfunctions of a Team and Why Do They Matter?

Sales Wolf Blog

The two following forces have the greatest influence on the trajectory of your team and organization: Who you hire. How effectively your team works together.

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Change Your Questions with Dr. Marilee Adams

Let's Grow Leaders

When we’re looking for answers, why is changing your questions so important? We often forget to take the time to ask the right questions and intentionally using questions helps us make wiser choices, find solutions, and transform our personal and professional lives.

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How Our Current Office Shock Can Lead to a Climate-Positive “Officeverse”

Leading Blog

M ANY OFFICES that were shuttered during the COVID-19 pandemic had inherent problems even before the crisis. Traditional offices were often unfair, uncomfortable, uncreative, and unproductive. COVID-19 forced millions of people to work and live in ways they’d never attempted before, leading to a state of “office shock.” Fixed became fluid. Unexamined assumptions about offices and office work opened into probing questions that demanded careful thought.

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Teach Every Child These 5 Things

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton Our successful shared future depends on how we raise children now, as they will become our future leaders. There is no way to know which children will be the ones to solve the problems our current leaders are unwilling and/or unable to solve in the future. How we teach and inspire them now will impact their ability to interact with others and lead others in ethical ways.

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The Best Way Leaders Can Ignite Greatness in Each Employee

Lead from Within

To effectively ignite greatness in employees, leaders must consider individual personalities and motivations. As well as the goals and challenges of the organization.

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3 Ways to Be a Bossy Boss

Leadership Freak

I told my wife she loves it when I tell her what to do. She laughed and said, “YOU love it when I tell you what to do.” I replied, “Yes, I do.”… … Continue reading → Leading

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Investing in HR Software: How to Get Internal Buy-in

Buying HR software is a major decision. That’s why finding the right provider based on your needs and ensuring key decision makers are on board is vital. Download Paycor’s guide for tips to address common concerns across your buying committee.

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Me vs. We: 3 Strategies for Negotiating in Relationships

Leading Blog

N EGOTIATIONS can take on a life of their own. That’s because you plan how you’ll negotiate in isolation, yet you negotiate within a relationship—whether that relationship is professional or personal. Consciously deciding how you’ll approach the negotiation is a crucial part of your preparation. This might sound silly or unnecessary, but clearly stating your intentions to yourself will influence how successful the negotiation will be.

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3 Takeaways for Internal Communications from the 2023 Edelman Trust Barometer

leaderCommunicator

The 2023 Edelman Trust Barometer is hot off the presses and chock-full of valuable information.

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The 5 Leadership Love Languages: How to Improve Your Team

Lead from Within

As a leader, it’s important to understand that not everyone on your team communicates and receives messages in the same way. Just like individuals have their own unique way of communicating, so do team members.

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The Road to Magnificent Living

Leadership Freak

Imagined life persecutes current life when big dreams devalue small practices. Dream it – achieve it, is a malicious lie until you act.

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The HR Leader’s Guide to Recruiting & Hiring

62% of Paycor survey respondents say we’re in a permanent talent shortage. By 2030, we’ll see more jobs than workers (BCG). Download Paycor’s guide to learn how to write killer job descriptions, make better hiring decisions and evaluate candidates.

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How To Boost Employee Engagement Within Your Organization

Tanveer Naseer

Boosting employee engagement within your organization is easier said than done, but any step in the right direction is sure to have a positive impact. The question you need to address is how to best improve employee engagement. Once you have a strategy, you can then carry it out with.

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5 Unexpected Books Every Consultant Should Read

David A Fields

You see a lot of book lists floating around the interwebs. Many contain great recommendations of useful books for consulting firm leaders. However, the books on the list are largely not unexpected or trajectory shifting. (I

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Quiet Your Leadership Mind: Learn How to Avoid Impulsive Decisions

Lead from Within

Quieting your mind can be a difficult task, but it’s an essential skill for successful leadership. When our minds are cluttered with thoughts, it can be hard to make clear, rational decisions. Impulsive decisions are often driven by our emotions, which can lead to poor outcomes and regrets.

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Resist Conformity – Don’t be a Hypnotized Chicken

Leadership Freak

I woke this morning with a blurred recollection of my uncle teaching me how to hypnotize a chicken. I can’t tell if it was a dream or reality, but I know it’s about… Continue reading → Leading

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How to Lead Blue-Collar Teams

Discover the COR Leadership Framework for Blue-Collar and Hourly Workers. Download Paycor's guide today!

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Want to Get Ahead? 5 Actions To Get You There.

Rich Gee Group

Know Where You Want To Go. Start by setting a clear, specific, and achievable direction for your career. Choose a path — a promotion, landing a specific role, or developing a particular skill.

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Widen Your Idea Lens to Generate Worthwhile Ideas

CEO Insider

Groupthink is stealth. Beware. Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) combat groupthink, which is a mode of thinking that occurs when individuals of a highly cohesive, insular group or an in-group strive for consensus and might avoid or override alternate viewpoints, ideas, actions, or dissent.

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For Better or Worse: Meetings Are a Hologram of Organizational Culture

The Practical Leader

Five decades of research shows the huge impact of organizational culture on outcomes like Return on Investment, stock prices, service/quality levels, productivity, sales, profitability, cost-effectiveness, and similar results.

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How To Never Stop Learning

Eric Jacobson

“I’ve spent almost the last 15 years researching why we are so bad at learning and what we can do about it,” states Bradley R. Staats. And that’s primarily what prompted him to write his book, Never Stop Learning: Stay Relevant, Reinvent Yourself, and Thrive.

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3 Leadership Behaviors that Drive Loyalty & Engagement

Nothing motivates employees more than a great boss. Learn how to be one. Download your guide today!

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Performance Review Strategies To Boost Employee Retention

Strategy Driven

Performance reviews are essential for organizations because they help measure workforce productivity, identify gaps, and address them to get things on track. But they can be stressful for employees, specifically when they move in a negative direction. The problem is more widespread than you imagine.

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The Value of Showing Up and Following Through

CEO Insider

Great leaders know that the first step in building relationships and resolving conflict is sitting down to listen to the point of view of someone with whom you may not want to agree.

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17 Often Unknown Roles of a Pastor

Ron Edmondson

There are some often unknown roles of being a pastor. Pastor, have you ever heard? What is it you have to do when you’re not preaching? Must be nice to only work one day a week. I’d like to come see you this afternoon. Since it’s not Sunday I’m assuming you’re free.

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How To Unleash Your Full Potential

Eric Jacobson

To accomplish something great, author Matt Higgins says you need to toss your Plan B overboard and burn the boats. You have to give yourself no escape route, no chance to ever turn back.

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The ABM Benchmark Survey

ABM gets better with age — but unfortunately, marketers don't have the luxury of pouring it into an oak barrel for a couple decades to let it mature. It’s clear there’s a maturity gap in ABM strategies, so how can marketers start closing it?

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How To Make Patients In Your Private Clinic Feel More Comfortable

Strategy Driven

There are many excellent reasons why you might choose to start your own private clinic if you’re a healthcare professional. Not only can you help people, but you can do so in a way that works for you (and for them).

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Managers and Leaders – the 4 Things Followers Need

CEO Insider

Today we will talk about the basis of having a loyal team that is happy to work for you and is devoted. Money is a crucial factor but is not the only reason someone will stick with your team for a long.

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What kind of challenge do you find the most interesting or exciting?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Our reader poll today asks: What kind of challenge do you find the most interesting or exciting?

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7 Pivots I Had to Make to be a More Effective Leader

Ron Edmondson

One of the hardest parts of leading for me has been the things I’ve had to learn or do which may have been contrary to the way I would have naturally done them – or wanted to do them. I have had to make some hard pivots in order to be a more effective leader.

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How to Write OKRs: 45 Effective Examples

Many companies are embracing objectives and key results (OKRs) as the best practice for committing to goals and following through. Objectives are outcomes that reflect current company priorities. Each employee should write OKRs that roll up to larger company goals.