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A Post-Pandemic Productivity Gift You Can Bring Back to the Office

Let's Grow Leaders

Going back to the office? Don’t lose one of the most valuable aspects of remote work. Whether your team is heading back to the office, will continue working remotely, or somewhere between, silence and space are critical leadership gifts to give your team. Mixed Feelings about Going Back. Over the past month, as more U.S. citizens have access to vaccines, we’ve been talking with people whose teams have worked remotely about their thoughts on returning to in-person work.

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Transition Coaching After Executive Search Placement Increases Success in India

N2Growth Blog

By Kunal Jha & Kelli Vukelic. Executive coaching was nearly unheard of in India 15 or so years ago. Today is much different. Now there are thousands of certified executive coaches and multiple ICF chapters engaged in helping executives and their organizations succeed. Indian companies are engaging this skilled cadre of coaches to help nurture and develop leaders ripe for transitioning to senior roles, they are improving performance with leaders advancing from lower internal positions and se

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Wellbeing at Work

Leading Blog

W HAT DOES it take to thrive? It seems to be an elusive goal. Gallup research has found that about seven in 10 people are struggling or suffering in their lives. In Wellbeing at Work , Jim Clifton and Jim Harter report that beginning in the late 1950s, Gallup sought to discover and quantify the difference between the best possible life and the worst possible life.

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How Do You Influence and Inspire People?

Lead Change Blog

All leaders have the same goal. Improve the status quo and help people achieve their potential. Leaders influence and inspire people to make positive changes. Start by getting to know your team members—their dreams and goals, as well as their problems and frustrations. Then use these tactics. Set the Example. Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner ( The Leadership Challenge ) maintain the first function of leadership is to “Model the Way.”.

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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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Calm the Chaos and Help Your Team Regain their Focus

Let's Grow Leaders

It’s a challenge common to many leaders and managers: Last-minute customer requests, emergencies, interruptions, and distractions make it hard to stay focused on your M.I.T.s (the Most Important Thing ). If you’re not careful, reactivity can become a permanent way of life. In this episode, you’ll receive practical steps you can take to calm the chaos and help your team regain their focus.

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What Are You Focusing On?

Joseph Lalonde

I saw a cute meme recently. The headline of the meme was: This is why dogs are happier The photo showed a man and his dog sitting next to each other. The man had multiple thought bubbles. There were thoughts of A car A plane A house Money Then there was the dog. The dog […].

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Leveraging Employee Engagement To Attract & Retain Top Talent

Lead Change Blog

As the pandemic begins to wane, leaders are making decisions about the future of their workplaces, and whether returning to the office full-time, part-time, or not at all makes sense for their business. Against this backdrop, we are witnessing an increasing “war for talent” as labour shortages are putting more power in the hands of the employees. Some leaders are selecting the stick over the carrot approach when it comes to returning to work.

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The A.R.T. of Advanced Accountability (Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

The Let’s Grow Leaders A.R.T. Method of Advanced Accountability. Hi Karin, I’ve read Winning Well: A Manager’s Guide to Getting Results Without Losing Your Soul. And, I love the I.N.S.P.I.R.E. method for difficult conversations. The coaching method works great much of the time. But, what do I do if one accountability conversation is not enough?

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5 Easy-To-Spot Hallmarks of (Un)Ethical Leadership

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton Quibbling about terminology –the words used to describe unethical behaviors as they are uniquely defined by different groups – just misdirects our attention away from some foundational, easy-to-spot signs of unethical leadership.

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Simplifying Accountability – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

Accountability is one of those words that everyone has thoughts and feelings about. I’ve been known to call it the longest 4 letter word in the dictionary. And when I am asked to define or describe it in my workshops and coaching sessions, I can do so with one word. Find out my simple definition […]. The post Simplifying Accountability – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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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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Overcome the trigger points in our lives with Marshall Goldsmith

Lead Change Blog

Do you ever find that you are not the patient, compassionate problem solver you believe yourself to be? Have you ever felt your temper accelerate from zero to sixty when another driver cuts you off in traffic? Our reactions don’t occur in a vacuum. They are usually the result of unappreciated triggers in our environment. So often the environment seems to be outside our control.

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Jim Kouzes On How Leaders Without Titles Can Make A Difference

Tanveer Naseer

Next month marks the 10th year that I’ve been doing my podcast “Leadership Biz Cafe”, something that I started as an excuse to talk with some fascinating people about leadership and which has since become one of the most popular leadership podcasts out there. Although I didn’t make any plans. Click to continue reading.

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The Law Of Diminishing Return On Success

Joseph Lalonde

Do you remember your first taste of success? It may have been when you were 5 years old and you sweet-talked your mom into just one more bite of the peanut butter pie. Your first taste of success may have come later. You may remember what it felt like to land your first sale. It […].

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Creating a Culture of Accountability

Kevin Eikenberry

When an individual chooses to be accountable, they will be more committed and ultimately get better results. When a team has a culture and expectation of mutual accountability, it supercharges success, confidence, and results. The culture creates a sense of meaning and purpose for all involved. Leaders creating a culture of accountability get the best […].

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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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This is How to Quit Your Job

Lead Change Blog

I learned some unforgettable lessons about how to be a successful working professional when I was first starting out. I’m talking high school; the first-job timeframe. I worked at a popular hamburger joint in San Antonio. My boss’s name was Mike. That’s about all I remember of him on a personal note; except I also remember his mustache. It was lush and covered much of the space between his nose and his mouth.

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7 Reasons You Need to Plan Less and Others Need to Plan More

Leadership Freak

Those who make the plan make the plan work. But when leaders make the plan, they encounter skepticism, reluctance or resistance.

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard

Joseph Lalonde

A Reel Leadership Article. Four years after the release of The Hitman’s Bodyguard, Ryan Reynold and Samuel L. Jackson return to their buddy comedy with a new addition – The hitman’s wife, Sonia Kincaid (Selma Hayek). This time, disgraced AAA bodyguard Michael Bryce has been hired by Sonia to rescue her husband, Darius. Michael does the extract.

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What Accountability Means

Kevin Eikenberry

I’ve often said that accountability is the longest four-letter word in business. Not because I think it is a dirty word – quite the opposite – but that is how many see it. The problem isn’t the word or the spelling, but the understanding of what accountability means and how valuable it is to all […]. The post What Accountability Means appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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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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Master your Metrics

Lead Change Blog

The bottom-line matters. The key question: What is the right bottom line for our business? We often hear leaders announce plans to cut expenses without impacting the customer experience. Great concept, which rarely produces expected results. In fact, according to recent Gartner research , fewer than half (43%) of leaders achieve the level of savings they set out to attain in the first year of cost reduction.

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7 Ways Manipulators Get What They Want

Leadership Freak

We passively accept the manipulative lies advertisers use to get our money. “Open a Coke, open happiness.” “Wheaties, breakfast of champions.” “All Natural … All Burger” Carl’s Jr.

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5 Tips for Bragging at Work—without Sounding Like You’re Bragging

Career Advancement

“If you are going to change the world, it will be from leveraging your strengths.” – Kyle Parton. Do you want to make your strengths more widely known, but worry about being seen as a braggart? You’re not alone—that’s a common fear among employees in most workplaces. Many people feel their coworkers and company leadership don’t know about their core strengths, yet they’re afraid to speak up about them, lest others perceive them as boasting.

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A conversation with executive coaching client Ron Dimon. Part 1 [Refresh]

Tony Mayo

Tony Mayo Executive Coach. This re-issued podcast is part one of a funny and useful conversation between top executive coach Tony Mayo and his longtime client Ron Dimon. Ron is an expert on the use of information by executives of large organizations. Listen as two experienced business people play with many ideas in this episode including; how […].

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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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Change requires choice and randomness

Mike Cardus

When you’re thinking about change and ways to improve , accept, begin to identify and illuminate parts of the beneficial changes that align with your hopes. But, again, you need choice and a bit of randomness. The workplace hopes, personal hopes – typically, I specialize in the workplace pieces and working with individuals inside organizations and teams to recognize three things about change and randomness.

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How Novices Contribute to a Team’s Success

Leadership Freak

Everyone on the team has experience leading, but one member doesn’t have technical knowledge. She was hired for character, attitude, and leadership skill.

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How to Make the Move to Enterprise-Wide Leader

Next Level Blog

It’s interesting how things run in patterns. For instance, lately I’ve had a number of conversations with clients and colleagues about talented team members who have gotten themselves stuck in the role of superstar individual contributors when they have the desire and capacity to be enterprise-wide leaders. These folks are actually team leaders with broad scopes of responsibility so they have the platform to operate as a leader across their enterprise but they haven’t let go of the superstar, go

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The Four Questions Leaders Must Answer During Any Change

leaderCommunicator

Chances are you’re working today on a change that affects your team. How you implement that change will impact whether you meet your overall goals. Here’s the mistake leaders can’t help but make: they wait to communicate. Until they have more information. Until they have “all the answers.” Until it’s often too late. The result is that someone else is doing the talking – whether they’re right or wrong – and it’s feeding the grapevine.

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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 Tips for Bragging at Work—without Sounding Like You’re Bragging

Career Advancement

“If you are going to change the world, it will be from leveraging your strengths.” – Kyle Parton Do you want to make your strengths more widely known, but worry about being seen as a braggart? You’re not alone—that’s a common fear among employees in most workplaces. Many people feel their coworkers and company leadership don’t know about their core strengths, yet they’re afraid to speak up about them, lest others perceive them as boasting.

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How to Defeat the Subtleties of Defensiveness

Leadership Freak

Defensiveness makes you a turtle or a tiger. Sometimes you hide your little turtle head. Other times you bare tiger teeth.

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002 A conversation with executive coaching client Ron Dimon. Part 2 • PODCAST [Refresh]

Tony Mayo

Tony Mayo Executive Coach. This refreshed podcast is part two of a funny and useful conversation between top executive coach Tony Mayo and his longtime client Ron Dimon. Ron is an expert on the use of information by executives of large organizations. Listen as two experienced business people play with useful ideas in this episode including; Importance […].

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Not Sure How To Advance In Business? These Options Could Help You!

Strategy Driven

When it comes to your business, you’re always going to want for it to go in the right direction. That often means setting goals and guiding your business down a set path. And that’s great when you know exactly what you want and need to do. But what happens when you’re not overly sure? Or you feel like you don’t know what to do to get your business to progress?

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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.