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Ten Common Mistakes New Managers Make

Let's Grow Leaders

How to Avoid the Most Common Mistakes New Managers Make. So many new managers don’t receive the training or skills they need to be effective, lead their teams, and achieve meaningful results. As a result, well-intentioned, hard-working new managers often trip into these common mistakes new managers make; unnecessarily frustrating their teams, diminishing their credibility, and curtailing their influence.

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Diversification Putting Pressure on FinTech Executives

N2Growth Blog

By Vera Sharova & Teodora Cosic. Diversification is not a trend; it is essential for companies to become and remain competitive. With technology reshaping the global business landscape, many companies will be pushed to fundamentally reconsider their ways of doing international business, diversifying into new product categories and adopting a “borderless” expansion model.

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How Leaders Sabotage Their Executive Presence: 8 Behaviours To Avoid

Tanveer Naseer

At GEC Research Center, we surveyed 1,400 current and aspiring leaders to pinpoint the most pivotal ways in which people undercut their own executive presence. We found 8 extremely common forms of self-sabotage: Whether you’re exhibiting a couple or all of these behaviours, it’s affecting how others perceive you. Let’s. Click to continue reading.

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Finding Rest

Joseph Lalonde

Many of you can relate to what I’m going to share today. You know you need to find rest but you don’t. Neither do I. I can struggle to find time to rest. I think of my regular schedule. It’s a full day in the office, only to go on a run in the evenings. Or maybe it’s helping to lead the youth group on Wednesday nights. Then the weekend comes.

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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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What are You Noticing? Insights and Obserations as the Year Comes to an End

Let's Grow Leaders

What we’re noticing about leadership, teams, and company culture. As the year draws to a close, I’m curious. What are YOU NOTICING? About yourself? About your leadership? Your culture ? And, your team? I always find the end of the year an important time to stop and consider the themes. I love to reflect on what we’re seeing in our work with clients and within our own company at Let’s Grow Leaders.

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“In Search of Excellence” Revisited

Leading Blog

I IN 1982, Tom Peters and Bob Waterman released In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies. The book was a huge business bestseller and served as a guide for managers for many years to come. It became required reading in business school classes. Yet, 40 years later, few now speak of the book. Perhaps it’s time for In Search of Excellence to find a new audience.

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From The Pez Outlaw

Joseph Lalonde

A Reel Leadership Article My latest book, Reel Leadership, is now available on Amazon. If you love movies and leadership, you will love this book. I was turned onto The Pez Outlaw by Bobby Hill (he’s guest posted on the site before). The Pez Outlaw, directed by Amy Bandlien Storkel and Bryan Storkel, is a documentary about a Michigan man who began selling Pez dispensers.

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Advancing Ethics in Your Organization (Part 2)

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton The first post in this series addressed ACCOUNTABILITY. In this second post we’ll take a look at IMPACT. Here are 3 ways to Advance Ethics that also improve the impact of your organization and your leadership.

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Trust & Inspire Leadership

Leading Blog

A COMMAND & CONTROL leadership style comes naturally to us. And we resort to it far more than we think. What has always worked better and is required for successful leadership in this day and age is something Steven M. R. Covey calls Trust & Inspire leadership. Trust & Inspire leadership is about “trusting people to do the right thing and inspiring them to make meaningful contributions.

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Purpose-Driven Board Leadership; What to Consider in Your Next Board Recruitment

N2Growth Blog

Today’s boardrooms look less and less like the boardrooms of the past few decades. Boards are increasingly visible to their organizations, stakeholders, and the public. There are high standards for how boards uphold their fiduciary responsibility today and contribute to a future-proof organization for tomorrow. Board accountability is in the spotlight, and diversity in the boardroom is more than just a buzzword.

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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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4 Things To Consider When Building Relationships With Your Team

Joseph Lalonde

Building relationships with the people you lead can be tricky. You never know if you’re getting too cozy with the team or if you’re being too distant. Neither of which is a good thing. Finding that balance between being a leader and being a friend will challenge you. It’ll make you consider whether or not you want to lead! Photo by Joel Mott on Unsplash.

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I Went To A Funeral Yesterday.

Rich Gee Group

I published this article back in 2012, but it still has meaning today, especially during this holiday season - Rich When was the last time you had a powerful experience? Yesterday, my sister-in-law's mom passed away - I knew her as Ditty, and she was 97, and she lived a full life. She was a wonderful lady, and I was lucky to know her. Many things happened to me during the church service, especially at the grave site and at the restaurant get-together afterward.

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Leading Thoughts for December 8, 2022

Leading Blog

I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Jim Wallis on moving forward after a crisis: “Not all of our old habits, behaviors, and institutions are bad, just as not all new ones are good. We need to uncover some forgotten lessons that have served us well in the past and make sure the baby of our better choices doesn’t get thrown out with the bathwater of our mistakes.”.

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How a Board Search Firm Can Support Organizations

N2Growth Blog

Boardrooms today face new, evolving challenges that are increasingly complex to navigate, and they are under immense pressure and scrutiny to operate at maximum effectiveness. In the wake of volatile global economic conditions (which show no signs of stabilizing ), growing pressure from regulators, and complex demands from shareholders, Boards need to be thoughtfully composed, so they can thrive today, achieve their future goals, and understand the levers they can pull to be more impactful and m

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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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The Heart of Time Management

Leadership Freak

Everything feels urgent to a person without priorities. You master life when you master time management. When everything is a priority, you run around with your hair on fire.

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Lines for Leaders: The Scars to Prove It

RapidStart Leadership

Alexander the Great led by personal example, and had the scars to prove it. In a speech to his men who were threatening to mutiny, he won them over with this line worth remembering. The post Lines for Leaders: The Scars to Prove It appeared first on RapidStart Leadership.

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5 Steps for Great Product Listings

Joseph Lalonde

This is a contributed post to JMLalonde.com. For more information on contributing a post, please see our contributing policies. When you’re creating a product listing, it’s important to make sure that it stands out and grabs the attention of your potential customers. However, with so much competition on the internet, it can be tough to get people to click on your product and take a look at what you have to offer.

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Leading with Heart: Heart First Leadership is Key to Making an Impact in Business Today

leaderCommunicator

“How do I be a better leader now ?”. As I sit in discussions with leaders these days, I inevitably get some version of this question. We may be meeting about communication, discussing how to navigate change, or working to define a new strategy, and inevitably the conversation evolves to this critical point. Leaders want to know how to lead such that employees feel compelled to follow.

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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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5 Simple Ways to Improve Meetings

Leadership Freak

Meetings are dead ends when talking creates the illusion of action. 5 simple ways to improve meetings: #1. Determine purpose. Cancel the meeting when you don’t know why you’re meeting. Discussions waste time.

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6 Steps to Identify Business Process Improvements that Lead to Growth

Women on Business

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Why Were Failing The 4-Hour Workweek StopSucking

Persuasive Powerhouse

It's been 20 months since Tim Ferriss released his world-renowned best seller The 4-Hour Workweek. He gave us his secrets for liberating ourselves from the deferred life plan. We've had time to put it into practice. So why haven't we This is the question I explore in my new free ebook, Why We're Failing the 4-Hour Workweek (or, Reflections of a Pro Blogger).

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What Safety Do Precious Metal IRA Companies Offer?

Strategy Driven

Investing in Precious Metal IRAs offers investors a safe place to invest their money. This is a safer option than investing in the traditional stock market, and is easier to diversify your investment portfolio. You can also choose to invest in a variety of metals, with minimal fineness requirements. You can also choose to invest with a company that offers a “white glove” service to help you invest.

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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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Efficiency is the Enemy of Humanity

Leadership Freak

I started complaining about back-to-back meetings six years ago, but change is slow. I came across research that proves it’s not efficient. Intoxicated with self-importance: I feel important when I rush.

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How a Logistics Company Can Increase the Competitiveness of Your Product

Women on Business

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14 Life Lessons From Scarface StopSucking

Persuasive Powerhouse

Image from Scarface (1983) 1. The world doesn't really care where you came from. Don't think that you need to have a certain background to make it to the top. If you're lucky enough to be born in a free country, or you're able to make it to one, you have a shot. You can be a political refugee with an accent, a scar, no money, no skills, and no connections, but you're free to decide at any point to not let it hold you back. 2.

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The six-minute leadership practice that might surprise you

CEO Insider

Here’s a question: where do you speak about strategy issues when you don’t know exactly what it is you want to say? Certainly not in the board room or at a company presentation. Probably not even in front of your senior leadership team or even in a one-to-one meeting with a key report. You’re supposed […]. The post The six-minute leadership practice that might surprise you appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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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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How to be Happy by Complaining More

Leadership Freak

Complaining done well increases happiness. Don’t get the wrong impression. Curmudgeons are toxic. The difference is ego. Big shots are never happy. They complain because the world revolves around them.

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Tips for Improving Your Dental Practice’s Productivity

Women on Business

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Synchronicities Just Coincidence Or Signs From The Universe StopSucking

Persuasive Powerhouse

In The Matrix , Neo experiences some synchronicities , coincidences that are just so weird, so ironic, so impeccably timed, that despite his best efforts he can't pass them off as being purely random. A black cat walks by him, and then in a deja vu, another cat walks by, making movements that are absolutely identical to the first one.

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7 Signs of a Good Manager

HR Digest

A good manager is a great asset to both an organization and its employees. Not only are they able to manage their team well, but they also possess some strong leadership skills that can have a positive effect on those around them. However, it’s difficult sometimes for people to know the signs of a good manager and how to easily spot them. Employees are also concerned about working with an individual that can show empathy and help them grow career-wise.

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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.