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How to Motivate Yourself When You’re Exhausted

Let's Grow Leaders

You’ve been working long hours, fighting the political and logistical battles to do what’s right for the business– and just as you think everything’s on track, the landscape changes… a merger, a reorganization, reduced funding… and you feel like you’re starting all over again. Most of the time when people come to me feeling burned out and exhausted–or even feel like they’re “losing their soul” it’s not that they no longer ca

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If We’re Not Human at Work, What are We?

Lead Change Blog

I’ve been receiving a series of emails lately from a highly regarded organization with the subject line “How to Be More Human at Work.”. Funny. Aren’t we being human all the time? Now, for most of us it’s not that we’re being inhuman at work, but I understand the point. Creating more human work cultures is trending. The great news is that we’re beginning to realize that those who happen to be employees are human.

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Do Laws Set the Standard For Ethics?

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton "Do Laws Set the Standard For Ethics?" may be a simple question, but the answer is complicated. They do and they don't set the standard. .

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How the Gig Economy Is Reshaping the Digital Marketing Industry

Women on Business

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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 Do The Hard Things In Life.

Rich Gee Group

We all encounter ‘bad’ stuff that we have to do in our lives. Make the hard phone call, visit the recalcitrant client, tell your vendor bad news. We all have that terrible interaction we all hate to do. You might have to ask for a late payment, a raise/promotion, or tell a client that a project will be late. You might have to reach out to a prospective employer who might want to hire you.

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The Bridge to Growth

Lead Change Blog

Today we are pleased to share a post from Jude Rake. Jude is the founder and CEO of JDR Partners and author of The Bridge to Growth: How Servant Leaders Achieve Better Results and Why It Matters Now More Than Ever. The premise of The Bridge to Growth is a twist on an age-old debate in the business world. What’s more important, strategy or execution?

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How to Create a Rising Tide of Talent Within Your Organization

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Scott Wintrip: Great leaders lift up the people around them. They help employees harness their natural abilities, guide the development of their skills, and support them along an internal career path. Nurturing your organization’s team members has many payoffs. Staff member stay dedicated to the company and its mission; employee retention remains high; and in time, the organization gains its next generation of leaders.

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Brand Vs. Wild With Jonathan David Lewis

Joseph Lalonde

Answers From Leadership Podcast Episode 42 Who would have guessed surviving in business is a lot like surviving lost in the wilderness. I wouldn’t but Jonathan David Lewis researched and discovered this is the case. Jonathan has a new book, Brand Vs. Wild, that recently released and I couldn’t wait to have him on the Answers From Leadership podcast to discuss the similarities between being lost in business and lost in the wilderness, how to recover, and much more.

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Your Defense Mechanisms Could Sabotage Your Career

Women on Business

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The Mathematical Corporation

Leading Blog

Y OU WILL SOON be able to give over almost half of your cognitive work to the machine. This is not to say that you will lose control, but rather, it points to the fact that the human role will become even more critical. A mathematical corporation is one that takes advantage of machine intelligence by collaborating with it to achieve leading-edge results.

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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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The 7 Biggest Blunders of The Experienced Leader

Leadership Freak

#1. Forgetting who serves who. Leaders serve others so others can serve others. It’s easy to begin thinking the people around you are there to serve you.

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Six ways of being an approachable leader

Persuasive Powerhouse

Never underestimate how important being approachable is to the work that needs to be done in your organization. When you are approachable, people can connect and relate to you. They understand what is needed for success and are willing to roll up their sleeves to get the work done. When others feel that you are open to hearing what they have to say, they will keep you apprised of the things you need to know.

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Continuous Business Optimization is a 21st Century Next Practice

N2Growth Blog

Business optimization efforts have been around for years and are aimed at redefining the way work is performed within a business area. They explore issues surrounding what work is performed, how it is accomplished, when it’s done and by whom. It’s not unusual for a firm to totally reconstruct its departmental workflow and reorganize its workers during a business optimization.

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4 Customer Behavior Challenges and How Web Push Notifications Address Them

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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5 Tragic Blunders of Inexperienced Leaders

Leadership Freak

Blunder #1: Getting lost in their own work. Drive sabotages inexperienced leaders when they go into heads-down mode. Leaders often have work responsibilities beyond leadership.

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Give Your Team Hope

Joseph Lalonde

There are going to be tough times in your organization. Sales might be down or you’ll lose key players. Something will go wrong. That is a guarantee. But even in these dark times, you need to do something. You need to give your team hope. The Power Of Hope. My favorite movie series has to be Star Wars. There’s an epic story that goes on.

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Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word

Nathan Magnuson

Over a decade ago I received a DVD of a past Chick-fil-A franchisee seminar. As I watched, the late founder Truett Cathy took the stage to deliver his opening remarks. They weren’t what I expected. He opened by saying, “If any of you has something against someone in this room, I want you to make it right.” Then he promptly left the stage and approached someone in the audience for a conversation.

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How to Take Your Dental Office Design to the Next Level

Women on Business

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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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A Simple Pattern for a Powerful Conversation

Leadership Freak

It’s too easy to point out weaknesses. Successful leaders know the top three strengths of everyone on the team. Peter Drucker wrote, “A person can perform only from strength.

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Resilience: A Leadership Skill

Jason Womack

Are you resilient? When tough times come, and they do, do you have the mindset, skill set and tools to come through stronger than last time? And, do you have a community of leaders you can turn to to gain.

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Book Notes – Wooden on Leadership: Think Small

RapidStart Leadership

Why should leaders sweat the small stuff? Someone said that you shouldn’t “sweat the small stuff” but based on what I just read, they have it all wrong. Sometimes it’s the small things that can make all the difference. If you want to be effective as a leader, there’s good reason why you should pay close attention to the “small stuff.” Here’s why.

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How to Respond to “We’ve Tried That Before”

Kevin Eikenberry

As human beings, change is all around us; and as human beings, we resist change. Sometimes that resistance is momentary, sometimes it lasts for a lifetime. To be more effective leaders, we must understand the dynamics of change, why people (including ourselves) resist, and how to overcome that resistance. One of the most common statements […].

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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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Screw You and Other Moments of Growth

Leadership Freak

Growth hurts. #1. Have a screw you attitude. Get up after being kicked to the curb. A screw you attitude is useful when others don’t believe in you. Prove them wrong. Plow forward.

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Leadership Lessons And Quotes From Spider-Man: Homecoming

Joseph Lalonde

A Reel Leadership Article We first saw Tom Holland as Spider-Man in the film Captain America: Civil War. His role was brief but fun. Now we are treated to Tom Holland’s first full outing as Spider-Man in Spider-Man: Homecoming. And it is an amazing blast. Spider-Man: Homecoming continues Spider-Man’s story following the events of Captain America: Civil War.

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The Golden Rule, With a Twist

RapidStart Leadership

No written word nor spoken plea, Can teach your team what they should be, Nor all the books on all the shelves, It’s what the leader is himself. – from Wooden on Leadership. The most powerful form of leading is personal example. It’s a simple idea. Be the way you want others to be. Do the kinds of things you want others to do. If they trust you , your team will begin to act as you act.

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My example, my hero

Lead on Purpose

My heart is heavy as I write this article; my father passed away a few days ago.

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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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More Tragic Blunders of Inexperienced Leaders

Leadership Freak

Inexperience offers the opportunity to improve or the peril of developing patterns that hamstring your future. Here are two more tragic blunders of inexperienced leaders. #1.

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Do You Lead a Remote Team? We Want to Hear From You!

Kevin Eikenberry

I’m writing a new book with my co-founder of The Remote Leadership Institute, Wayne Turmel. The book, which publishes next April is titled, The Long-Distance Leader: Rules for Remarkable Remote Leadership, and we want your help. To make this book as helpful and practical as we can, we would love your input on our survey. […]. The post Do You Lead a Remote Team?

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4 Best Techniques to Recruit New Talent

Chart Your Course

Few factors are more important to an organization’s success than the quality of its staff. Most companies don’t have the resources to waste on poor performers; hiring represents an enormous investment and choosing the wrong candidate can have dire consequences for profitability and your brand’s reputation. Unfortunately, current trends show that the pool of talent is shrinking.

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Future of Work: Ways to Prepare

QAspire

At #SocialNow conference recently, Luis Suarez shared a slide by Thierry de Baillon on ways to prepare for the dark side of technology. I loved the ideas and decided to sketch the approach. Once again these ideas reinforced my belief that leading organizations and self in the future is all about the stuff like connections, empathy, flow, learning and thinking differently.

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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.