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5 Top Leadership Articles for the Week of September 4, 2017

Let's Grow Leaders

Each week I read a number of leadership articles from various online resources and share them across social media. Here are the five leadership articles readers found most valuable last week. I have added my comment about each article and would like […].

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No Formal Leadership Training? No Problem!

Lead Change Blog

To say I ‘fell’ into leadership is probably a little unfair, but when I found myself running a small sales team several years ago, I fully admit to suffering from imposter syndrome. Somehow, I’d achieved a position of authority (and a board seat) without any formal training. Not only that, but I’d spent several years at the same company working within the lower ranks.

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4 Critical Leadership Traits That Drive Success And Growth

Tanveer Naseer

This past summer, my daughter Malaika worked at her first summer job, which also happened to be her first time in a true leadership role. As one of two co-ordinators of her high school’s orientation camp, she was not only responsible for managing the various activities to help new students become more familiar with the school, but she was also in charge of overseeing the 24 camp mentors who were there to support the new students.

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Happy Labor Day

General Leadership

Taking a break to celebrate a respite from our labors today. We will return to our regularly scheduled programming tomorrow! Thanks for tuning in to GeneralLeadership.com where we bring Advice from America’s Most Trusted Leaders to YOU!… Read the rest.

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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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5 Stages of Manager Soul Loss #WinningWell

Let's Grow Leaders

As we’ve travelled around the world sharing our Winning Well message– that yes, it is possible to get results that last without losing your soul– along with the tools to help, so many managers have shared, “well, I don’t think I’ve quite […].

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September 2017 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Welcome to the September 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! This month, we are mixing things up! Below you will see we broke up the submissions based on their similar themes. The themes for this month in the order they appear include: Productivity. Development. Company Culture. Inspiration/Creativity. New Leadership. Engagement. Let’s get started!

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How to Take a Stand Without Polarizing Others

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Are you fatigued and dishearten by the current amount of polarization in the world today? Are you frustrated with leadership that divides instead of unites? Instead of wishing someone would do something about it and feeling helpless, focus on the place you have the most control – your own immediate sphere of influence. Take an honest […].

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Talking About What Matters (Part 3)

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton I have heard from readers that this topic is timely and they hope this series will not end with just 2 posts - so here is Part 3! Talking About What Matters In the post Talking About What Matters (Part 1) I explored how talking about ethical values engages people, helps them find meaning and improves the organization’s metrics.

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Elastic Man

Lead Change Blog

A few months back, my wife and I were exposed to the type of trauma that no one wants to endure. As with new hurts, pain continues fresh each day. Though not as heinous as day one or week two, mornings bring a struggle which often carry through to interrupted nights; even to the question of what tonight might bring with hard thoughts and difficulty resting.

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Coaching is more than asking questions

Persuasive Powerhouse

I’ve seen a lot written and said about how important it is for people managers to coach the people around them. Often, the enthusiasm about coaching is anchored in leaders asking more questions rather than telling others what to do. Asking, not telling, is an admirable way to lead others, and is an important skill for coaching. Yet as someone who teaches leaders to coach others, just asking questions isn’t enough to really coach people.

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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 to be Tough When You Prefer Being Kind

Leadership Freak

Stress increases when leaders can’t bring kind and tough together. Kind without tough makes you a pushover. Tough without kind makes you a jerk. Accountability is candy to some leaders.

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How to Run a Great Team Offsite Meeting

Women on Business

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Elastic Man

Lead Change Blog

A few months back, my wife and I were exposed to the type of trauma that no one wants to endure. As with new hurts, pain continues fresh each day. Though not as heinous as day one or week two, mornings bring a struggle which often carry through to interrupted nights; even to the question of what tonight might bring with hard thoughts and difficulty resting.

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The Potential Principle: How Good Could You Be?

Leading Blog

Y OU KNOW HOW GOOD you are, but do you know how good you could be? This is a case where it’s easy to think that good is good enough and get comfortable. Most of us live below our potential. As a result, we miss out on opportunities and therefore live below our true potential and hinder our ability to contribute to others. The Potential Principle by Mark Sanborn is about how we can become better – even better than our best selves.

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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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Never Let a Bad Boss Control Your Life and Limit Your Career

Leadership Freak

Power causes entitlement. Bad bosses ignore the negative influence of power. Nose-picking: “My boss picks his nose.” Yes! One reader shared the story of watching her boss pick his nose.

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3 Entrepreneurial Habits for the Non-Entrepreneur

Women on Business

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(Your) Pursuit of (My) Happiness

Lead Change Blog

In the early 1980s, before food processors from many manufacturers became as common on countertops as they are today, the Cuisinart brand dominated. For a time, even, the brand reached that promised land (occupied by Kleenex and Band-Aid and Q-Tips) where a brand name is, in the mind of the consumer, synonymous with the product itself. When someone referred to “a Cuisinart,’ you knew what he meant.

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Leading From Within: Shifting Ego, Ceding Control, and Rising Empathy

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Sophie Wade: Leadership is in the midst of a major makeover. The identity of an organization is shifting away from the CEO; elements of control are being willingly transferred to the employee, with empathetic and individualized attention being paid in order to increase engagement. Greater internal transparency is leading to more peer-based relationships and a flattening of the corporate hierarchy.

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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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Jeffrey Immelt's 7 Lessons on How to Lead Through Massive Changes

Leading Blog

J EFFREY IMMELT took over General Electric from Jack Welch at a time of increasing instability. He says, "The task of the CEO has never been as difficult as it is today. In that vein, my story is one of progress versus perfection. The outcomes of my decisions will play out over decades, but we never feared taking big steps to create long-term value.

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Don’t Quit! Do This Instead

Joseph Lalonde

Before you quit, try this. There’s many days I feel like quitting. I don’t want to sit down at the computer and write a blog post. Or maybe I’m halfway through a run when my feet and legs begin to hurt. The pain I’m feeling is almost too much to go on. These are the times I feel like quitting. But I don’t. Lok the Vizsla telling me to keep going.

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Preview Thursday: the New Leadership Literacies by Bob Johansen

Lead Change Blog

The following post is a preview excerpt from the Introduction of the New Leadership Literacies by Bob Johansen. In simpler times, perhaps action orientation was enough to make a great leader. Perhaps the future was more clear back then, the insights more obvious. But the next decade will be extremely complex, messy, and threatening. Leaders will need to combine the practices of foresight, insight, and action.

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Micromastery: A Hidden Path to Learning and Happiness

QAspire

Learning anything new is not a daunting challenge, but a journey where each step counts. Fundamentally, we learn so that we can be happy and joyful. Micromastery is a great way to eliminate anxiety in learning. Two years back, I was fascinated by people creating sketchnotes and I wanted to learn how to create them. I was unaware of what goes into creating a great sketchnote but I decided to give it a try anyway.

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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.

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How to Stretch People Without Breaking Them

Leadership Freak

I asked Mary to talk in front of a group. She texted back, “You are kidding, right?” Later she said, “I nearly puked on my desk, when I got your text.

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3 Killer Questions To Ask If You’re Serious About Learning

Joseph Lalonde

The art of asking questions seems to be dead. Finding someone who asks great questions, ever more scarce than finding someone who asks questions. There’s something sad about that. I’ve found something fascinating. Those who are serious about learning are always asking questions. And they’re asking specific types of questions. Be A Question Asker.

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Bridging the Gap to Your Goals: Building a Span That Lasts

RapidStart Leadership

If there is a gap between where we are and where we want to go, often the way across is to construct a bridge. But if you ignore the environment the bridge is built in, you risk spectacular collapse, as the engineers of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge learned in 1940. Whether you are building a real bridge, or bridging the gap to your goal you need a span that can withstand the pressures of life; here’s how.

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9 Must Haves for Business Success

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Cornelia Gamlem and Barbara Mitchell: Ask any manager and they’ll agree that people issues are some of the most important ones they face in their day-to-day routine. What can an organization do to assure they’ve got great practices? The following are nine essentials that must be in place to ensure success. 1. Corporate culture. Whether an organization realizes it or not, it has a culture.

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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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When Feedback Makes You Mad

Leadership Freak

You just received feedback that made you mad. You feel attacked, misjudged, and underappreciated. The person who gave you feedback is obviously an idiot. You begin typing your resignation email.

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Leadership Lessons And Quotes From Blade Runner: The Final Cut

Joseph Lalonde

A Reel Leadership Flashback Article Are you ready to flashback to the year 1982? That’s the year Blade Runner was originally released. Blade Runner is the movie adaptation of the Phillip K. Dick novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? Blade Runner the movie tells the story of Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) as he’s forced to return to his old job as a Blade Runner.

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Hiring Tips That Will Increase Productivity in Your Business

Chart Your Course

by Lucy Wyndham and Greg Smith. Are you hiring the best people to work in your business? Unfortunately, this process in many organizations leaves a lot to be desired and can result in high staff turnover in your business . Making some simple changes like those mentioned below, to this area of your company, will make all the difference and ensure that your business is a much more efficient, productive place to work in.

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The Power of the Pattern Interrupt

Kevin Eikenberry

Habits – they affect us as an individual and as a leader. Chances are you have at least one habit you would like to change, and perhaps habits of your team members you would like to help them change too. I’m sure that is true, but it’s hard to do! There are hundreds of […]. The post The Power of the Pattern Interrupt appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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How to Write OKRs: 45 Effective Examples

Discover how to align everyday employee priorities with company goals. 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. Show employees how they contribute to the larger mission.