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10 Incapacitating Leadership Mistakes You Make When You’re Scared

Let's Grow Leaders

“This guy opened his door and hit your car!” Sebastian, our 12-year-old, announced as Karin and I returned to the car, our arms full of office supplies. He pointed out a small scratch on the door. We laughed about it and how […].

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For CEOs, Safe Decisions Aren’t Always Safe

N2Growth Blog

News Flash: safe decisions rarely are. The best chief executives possess the courage to not only seek out the right decision, but they also understand the importance of giving others permission to do the same. We need CEOs who want others to do better and be better. What we don’t need is more CEOs who hide in safe harbors. If you sit in the big chair, you don’t get paid to make safe decisions; you get paid to make the right decision.

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Do You Have The Courage To Change How You Lead?

Tanveer Naseer

If there’s one constant to doing business in today’s global environment, it’s that things inevitably change. Of course, when it comes to change in today’s organizations, more often than not it’s sorted into one of two boxes – change that drives our efforts towards innovation, or change that we have to manage in response to fluid conditions in our market space.

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3 Ways Executives Can Champion Lifelong Learning

Lead Change Blog

With fall officially here, children are now fully settled in at school, businesses are back up to full speed after summer vacations, and many of us are taking stock of our 2017 resolutions – and how to accomplish them before the holidays approach. If learning something new was on your list, you’re not alone – and it’s not too late. Advances in technology have allowed countless individuals to pursue interests that extend beyond the standard classroom, on their own time, and often for

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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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7 Ways to Lead Well During Times of Uncertainty and Change

Let's Grow Leaders

Sometimes when you go to build your strategic plan, it can seem like there are more questions than answers. We’ve seen changing regulatory environments, disruptive technology, and natural disasters lead to a paralyzing cycle of “what ifs” that lead to inaction. One […].

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How Positive Images (and negative ones) Shape Your Reality

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

When you expect to see something, you are more likely to see it. The reticular activating system in our brains causes us to notice the things we expect to see, and not notice things we are not looking for. And seeing is believing. Literally. Research shows that when we see something, we are likely to believe it. […]. The post How Positive Images (and negative ones) Shape Your Reality appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.

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Focus on the Journey, Not the Destination

Lead Change Blog

I am a monthly contributor to MoneyInc.com and this month I wrote about my early leadership journey. The article, titled, “Beam Me Up Scotty,” talks about me being too focused on my own career — causing me to miss an opportunity to learn from my boss, who was a very quiet, humble servant leader. I was in my late 20s at the time and thought I was a good leader.

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5 Top Leadership Articles for the Week of October 30, 2017

Let's Grow Leaders

Each week I read leadership articles from various online resources and share them across social media. Here are the five leadership articles readers found most valuable last week. Click on the title of the article to read the full text. I have […].

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Leave No Doubt Leaders

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest Post from Paul Cummings : Leave No Doubt Leaders focus on people, not power, as they build and develop their teams. In this period of rapid and disruptive change to the makeup of the employment base, leaders must focus on empathy and trust as a means of building genuine “equity”. Leaders who empower others consider empathy an essential competency to develop high-performance teams.

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Visionary Leadership: When Social Proof Fails

RapidStart Leadership

What is visionary leadership? In 1921, an explorer and naturalist named William Beebe was trekking through the jungle in Guyana. He came across a large colony of ants marching along a path that they had made. Curious, he followed the little ant highway to see where they were going. After a quarter mile of climbing over logs, skirting around trees and breaking through the underbush, he found that he was right back where he started.

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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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5 Easy Ways to Network Like a Pro

Lead Change Blog

A lot of us hate networking. And based on original research by my firm, Flynn Heath Holt , women especially seem to dislike it. But as much as you may hate it, it’s important, even critical, to advancing your career. Networking doesn’t have to be uncomfortable and time-consuming. There are actually ways to do it in which you don’t have to act like someone else or go out of your way.

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You Can Be The Best You Can Be.

Rich Gee Group

I came up with a simple and powerful tool the other day. I was standing in my office in front of a large Post-It notepad sheet with a red sharpie in my hand (red delivers intention!) — and the ideas just flowed. What did I come up with to help you be the best? To be the best you can be, there are four stages to success — Find Me, Want Me, Sell Them, Close Them.

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Feedback Conversations Start in Your Head

Leadership Freak

Feedback conversations begin with the conversation you have with yourself. You’ve been playing scenarios out in your head since you decided to give corrective feedback.

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5 Tips for Starting a Business Overseas

Women on Business

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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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Just Who Should Be Responsible for Job Retraining Anyway?

Lead Change Blog

These days there seems to be incessant discourse about job displacement and the many industries that will be affected by greater automation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robots, but no one is exactly sure what kinds of new jobs will be created. Job loss has real economic and societal consequences , as we’re already seeing today. None of us can afford to look the other way, even if you have a job today.

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First Look: Leadership Books for November 2017

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in November. Shift Ahead : How the Best Companies Stay Relevant in a Fast-Changing World by Allen Adamson and Joel Steckel. Blueprint to Business : An Entrepreneur's Guide to Taking Action, Committing to the Grind, And Doing the Things That Most People Won't by Michael Alden. Meaningful Work : A Quest to Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and Feed Your Soul by Shawn Askinosie with Lawren Askinosie.

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50% of Your Emotional Vocabulary is Negative

Leadership Freak

It’s easy to slip into the dark while grappling with performance issues and people problems. Nagging problems corrode optimism. Capacity for negative: Leaders have opportunity and capacity to become negative. Some have inclination.

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Connect With The Right People

Joseph Lalonde

The right people will propel you forward Paul Sohn and I once again hosted the annual Influencer Meetup At Catalyst (formerly the Catalyst Blogger Meetup). This event brought in over 50 attendees who are influencers in various spheres (blogging, podcasting, YouTube, writing, etc). Not only did we bring in influencers, we brought in people who could help move those influencers forward.

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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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Where Is Your Equality?

Lead Change Blog

As leaders, we’re sometimes dealt some pretty rough hands. Imagine, for instance, that you’re brought in to manage a team only to find that it has struggled for years with gender inequality issues. It can work both ways, too; perhaps your team is suspiciously flooded with male talent, or maybe the department you’ve been handed has more women in key positions than their male counterparts.

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LeadershipNow 140: October 2017 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from October 2017 that you might have missed: If You Can’t Answer This Question in 5 Seconds, You’re in Trouble by @SteveTobak. Four innovation lessons from the Aston Martin Atom by @AlastairCole. Leadership Tunnel: The Need to Be Right Leads Nowhere by @KateNasser. 10 Theodore Roosevelt Leadership Lessons by @jamesstrock.

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The Feeling of an Organization is Leadership’s Responsibility

Leadership Freak

The feeling of an organization is leadership’s responsibility. Left to chance, the lights go out. Organizational morale evaluates leadership. I’ve seen people smile, wave, and shout hey, when leaders walk through a plant.

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12 Successful Leadership Principles That Never Grow Old

Lead from Within

In an age when everything is newer, better faster, it’s good sometimes to pause and remember some of the old wisdom that humanity has acquired through the ages. If we hold to these evergreen principles, they can carry us through the toughest and most challenging times in work and in life—just as they did for our parents and grandparents. The words may seem timeworn at first glance, but that’s evidence of their enduring value, and if you move past their familiarity to connect with the meaning, yo

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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 heal a broken work relationship

Persuasive Powerhouse

It happens a lot: you have someone in your circle of work relationships that is driving you crazy. This relationship may involve your boss, direct report, peer, client, customer or someone else that you feel is preventing you from being fully effective. You need this person in some way to help you to accomplish your goals and this failed relationship may be keeping you from doing that effectively.

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Delegating Effectively: It’s Not Tennis

RapidStart Leadership

If I’m delegating effectively, why do I always seem to have the ball? We all know that as leaders we need to delegate effectively. As one boss even told me, “You have to delegate or die!” But sometimes it can seem like that ball keeps bouncing back into your hands. You start to wonder, what’s the point of delegating if I still end up doing all the work?

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A Pre-Feedback Worksheet: From Finding Fault to Useful Feedback

Leadership Freak

Fault-finding is an island of security for incompetent leaders. Feedback launches into the deep. Fault-finding makes: Weak leaders feel powerful Dumb leaders feel smart. Unworthy leaders feel deserving. Small leaders feel big.

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The Long-Distance Leader: Rules for Remarkable Remote Leadership

Kevin Eikenberry

by Kevin Eikenberry and Wayne Turmel If you lead a team, chances are, one or more of them isn’t in the same location as you all the time. They work from home two days a week, or every day. Some may work in a different zip code or time zone. If this is you, congratulations; […]. The post The Long-Distance Leader: Rules for Remarkable Remote Leadership appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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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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5 Thoughts On Sneezing Jesus By Brian Hardin

Joseph Lalonde

Sneezing Jesus: How God Redeems Our Humanity I have to say I was intrigued when I received the book , Sneezing Jesus. The title is intriguing. What could Sneezing Jesus be about? The book asks the question: Are you ready to be human? This seems counterintuitive. After all, aren’t we all human? Sneezing Jesus delves into this question and more.

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Creating a compelling culture

Lead on Purpose

Whether you recognize it or not, the organization you work in has a culture. Big or small, every company has beliefs and values that drive its core philosophy.

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A Failure at Kindness

Leadership Freak

Kindness, like most things, is easy until you get serious about it. I spent last week focused on kindness. It was a fiasco. It’s not that I’m unkind.

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162: Competitive Advantage — 4 Ways to Leverage Relationships at Work | with Todd Davis, FranklinCovey Chief People Officer

Engaging Leader

How many times have you heard a leader say, “Our people are our greatest asset”? You’ve probably even uttered it a few times yourself. It’s a nice sentiment, but really doesn’t tell the full story. Simply having an organization full of stellar individuals is ultimately less important than how they function together. In his new […] How many times have you heard a leader say, “Our people are our greatest asset”?

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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.