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Speak-up Culture: How to Encourage More (and Better) Ideas

Let's Grow Leaders

How to Draw out Better Ideas from Every Member of Your Team. You’re a human-centered leader working to create a courageous, speak-up culture filled with psychological safety. A culture where employees feel invited and encouraged to speak up and share their ideas and express their concerns. Even if you’re a rock star human-centered leader, doing all the right things to encourage micro-innovation and problem solving, it’s also likely that you have a few team members who still hav

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Balanced Effectiveness at Work

Lead Change Blog

Do you hold on to an internal belief that “somehow, someday” you’ll get caught up? Do you constantly have an internal dialog about not doing enough? Flip Brown, founder of Business Culture Consultants and author of Balanced Effectiveness at Work: How to Enjoy the Fruits of Your Labor without Driving Yourself Nuts , addresses the chronic dissatisfaction that comes from being in a crazy-paced, priority-confusing, soul-sapping workplace.

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First Look: Leadership Books for June 2021

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in June 2021. Don't miss out on other great new and future releases not listed here. Be Where Your Feet Are : Seven Principles to Keep You Present, Grounded, and Thriving by Scott O'Neil. When we're moving at 115 MPH, we rarely see the wall coming. But it comes for all of us and when it does, we grasp for lessons, for meaning, for purpose.

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One Of The Best Ways To Produce New Leaders

Joseph Lalonde

It is your job to help raise up the next generation of new leaders. It’s not the easiest thing to do but it falls on your shoulders. The fear of helping produce new leaders can be terrifying. The process may seem daunting. But you can do it. There’s an easy 3-step formula that can help […].

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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 Do I Build Trust With My Team (Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

Practical Research-Based Ways to Build Trust With Your Team. When it comes to building trust with your team, what matters most? In this week’s Asking For a Friend, I talk with David Horshager, founder of The Trust Edge Institute about how to build trust, keep trust, and how to recover when trust is broken. 8 Pillars of Trust: How to Build Trust with Your Team.

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Are You Still Able To Make A Difference Through Your Leadership?

Tanveer Naseer

As a leader, one of the things expected of you is to be able to make that critical decision of whether to continue to pursue an initiative, or whether to cut your losses and move on to something else. While this skill is key to your ability to succeed at. Click to continue reading.

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Are you dog tired?

Lead Change Blog

Leaders make hundreds of decisions daily that impact lives. Depending on the nature of their work, it can be very intense for them, testing strength physically, emotionally, and mentally. Many times leaders put in long days, and adding all of this together can be exhausting. As a leader, you try to keep the spirits up and to motivate others. Leaders listen to concerns and do their best at finding solutions.

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How to Ensure High ROI Training

Let's Grow Leaders

?. Nothing burns time, energy, and leadership credibility like wasted training. Three specific mistakes undermine training. These mistakes compromise your ROI and participant experience. You’ll also get eight practical ways to overcome these mistakes and ensure high ROI training to help your people and your business. Include leaders as teachers and transform your training.

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Do Your Traditions Feed You? – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

When I think of the word tradition, I instantly think of the song “Tradition” in one of my favorite plays The Fiddler on the Roof. And while when we talk about traditions, we are often talking about them in the context of holidays or celebrations and the things we do to commemorate them, in the […]. The post Do Your Traditions Feed You?

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Grace Notes: Leading in an Upside-Down World

Leading Blog

I N Grace: A Leaders Guide to a Better Us , John Baldoni laid out a philosophy for better leading and living. Now in Grace Notes: Leading in an Upside-Down World , he reflects on the practical application of that philosophy. Over the course of the last year, he collected his thoughts on the response to the pandemic and its implications. Baldoni is a generous encourager.

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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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Leading through Loss

Lead Change Blog

Certainly, 2020 and into 2021 have been marked by tremendous loss. First, for many of us, we lost parents, siblings, children, and dear friends. We might have watched our businesses plummet, our communities locked down, our gatherings minimized, and possibly even our faith diminished. What we once took for granted might now be a rarity. How does one lead when faced with a Rubik’s cube of such complexity?

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How Failure Makes You A Better Leader

Joseph Lalonde

It’s been ingrained in us from an earlier age that failure is bad. You shouldn’t aim to fail. If you do, you’re a failure. I love what Zig Ziglar said about failure. Zig was famous for saying: Remember that failure is an event, not a person. It’s a lesson far too many of us learn […].

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Ten Ways to Beat Burnout

Next Level Blog

Burnout can be like the weather. Everyone talks about it but no one does anything about it. I’ve been thinking and talking about burnout for a long-time. It’s one of the reasons I wrote my book, Overworked and Overwhelmed , back in 2014. Seven years and a global pandemic later, burnout is an even hotter topic (pun only slightly intended). When I was writing that book, I interviewed several dozen highly successful people from the CEO of Hilton to the former Commandant of the U.S.

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Tim Grover on Winning

Leading Blog

W INNING has its own language and its own code. And motivational talk isn’t part of it. Sports trainer and mindset expert to Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade, and others, Tim Grover (with Shari Wenk) provides a look at what it takes to perform at the highest levels in any field in Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness. Grover says winning is uncivilized, hard, nasty, unpolished, dirty, rough, unforgiving, unapologetic, uninhibited, and everything.

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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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Elements of Ethical Leadership Development

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton Ethical leadership development is the ongoing process of guiding leaders to become ethical people and ethical leaders. It is not the same thing as compliance training or legal requirements, although those are also important. This is the human development that happens over time that brings leaders to the point of being able to handle what the world throws at them using ethical thinking and action.

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From A Quiet Place Part II

Joseph Lalonde

A Reel Leadership Article. A Quiet Place Part II starts us at the beginning again. We’re shown what happened as the aliens invaded Earth and countless numbers of people were killed. We even get to see John Krasinksi reprise his role as Lee Abbott. We’re quickly thrust back into a world where aliens are slaughtering anything that makes noise. […].

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Knowledge Is Power

Tanveer Naseer

Good leadership and knowledge are directly related; the more you know about your business or your people, the better you will be able to lead them. It is also vital that you should be aware and in the know when it comes to your own personality and behaviors as a. Click to continue reading.

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LeadershipNow 140: May 2021 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from May 2021 that you don't want to miss: FYI: Your Chaotic Story Is an Asset — So Share It! The Secret Advantage That You Didn't Know You Had by @markdmckinney. The Gravitational Pull of Weaknesses by @Julie_WG. Wrongheaded thinking about remote work and how teams can optimize for hybrid by @ferrazzi. Mentoring: From The Ballpark To The Boardroom And Beyond from @JohnBaldoni.

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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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Being a Remarkable Remote Teammate (and More)

Kevin Eikenberry

In the last year, for a variety of reasons, there has been an explosion of virtual learning events. Only one (that I know of) can boast that this year they will host their 11th annual online coaching conference. It is going to be fantastic, free, and I’m excited to be a part of it. The […]. The post Being a Remarkable Remote Teammate (and More) appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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How Leaders Become Real – Lessons from Pinocchio

Leadership Freak

Pinocchio was a block of wood until Geppetto shaped him into a marionette that eventually become a real boy. Pinocchio was alive but he wasn’t real. Becoming real: #1. Guides.

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How Great Leaders Get Team Members and Employees to Contribute Ideas for Improvement and Innovation

Great Results Team Building

It’s really not difficult. That is literally true of ANY leadership lesson you will learn. What I struggled with as a young coach was finding and implementing the ideas that our team could benefit from. Because as a young leader I didn’t know what I had to eventually learn from others – or from my own mistakes. But you CAN inspire your team to share ideas and contribute to your organization’s innovation.

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Managing Remote Teams

Chart Your Course

Remote working has opened up a global talent pool for businesses around the world. Technology has made it possible to have virtual workplaces, eliminating the need for renting a physical office. The benefits are robust in terms of finances, time, and productivity. However, the lack of face-to-face interactions and having to manage people spread across […].

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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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Creating Your Blindspot Warning System

Kevin Eikenberry

As a driver, you know you have blindspots. There are things you simply can’t see as you drive. But knowing these exist, while important, isn’t the same as being warned when a problem is imminent. The advent of systems on cars to remind us, warn us, and keep us from ignoring our blindspots are amazing […]. The post Creating Your Blindspot Warning System appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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The Dark Secrets of Patience

Leadership Freak

Speaking softly while red-faced with anger isn’t patience. Self-control proves you aren’t a two-year old. You can’t be patient and upset at the same time.

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The Impact Of Online Communities

The Horizons Tracker

Virtual communities are increasingly ubiquitous, but how valuable are they for the creation of meaningful connections that may never have the chance to form in real life? That’s the question posed by a new report from The GovLab. The report is based upon interviews with 50 Facebook community leaders from 17 countries, as well as conversations with industry experts and a global survey featuring 15,000 people from 15 countries who are currently members of either virtual or in-person communi

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Everything Start-Ups Need to Know about Cybersecurity

Strategy Driven

Managing a start-up involves skill, dedication and an ability to multi-task. When you are getting your young business up and running, you will likely have to prioritize. When your funding is limited, it can be all too easy to neglect invisible threats like cyber-attacks, however, doing so can signal disaster for the future of your company. Your Small Business Is Not Immune.

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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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Why (your lack of) leadership bench strength should keep you up at night.

CEO Insider

Two thousand twenty was a year most CEOs would love to forget. Most of us long for everything from consumer behavior to employee relations to get back to “normal.” For better or worse, turning back the clock just is not an option. For all the volatility and unpredictability we faced during the pandemic and through […]. The post Why (your lack of) leadership bench strength should keep you up at night. appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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The One thing I Would Say to Every Coaching Client I Have Ever Had

Leadership Freak

A friend asked me a question that infected my brain like a splinter. It was a ridiculous question that I thought myself smart enough to answer. So I did.

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Gig Workers In Times Of Covid

The Horizons Tracker

The coronavirus pandemic has had a profound impact on the economy, with millions losing their jobs and millions more placed in highly precarious situations. As with so much, however, a new study from the University of Illinois Chicago highlights that the precarious nature of the labor market is largely a continuation of a pre-existing trend rather than something brought about specifically by the pandemic.

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The Power Dynamic Between Two Parties: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Franchise Agreements

Strategy Driven

Individuals looking to purchase a branch of an existing business might find they must sign a franchise agreement. This binding contract outlines the terms and conditions for the franchise as dictated by the franchisor. Each franchise must adhere to all terms and conditions or risk losing its license. The power dynamic between the two parties differs from that seen with most contracting relationships, and the franchisee must understand this.

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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.