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How to Maintain a Steady Stream of Innovation and Solutions

Let's Grow Leaders

Don’t let your people feel ignored We were working with a large financial institution that had done an excellent job of cultivating curiosity. They regularly asked people at every level of the organization for their ideas, suggestions for innovation and solutions. They […]. The post How to Maintain a Steady Stream of Innovation and Solutions appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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The Beauty Of Conflict… For Teams

Lead Change Blog

Nobody likes conflict—or crisis—or change—especially in the workplace—or as we’re facing today in our lives. That doesn’t mean it should, or can, be avoided. Often viewed as counterproductive, dysfunctional, and a waste of time, interoffice conflict can be a headache for many leaders, and it just gets worse with everything moving online. But what if you could reframe your thinking and utilize the conflict, crisis, and change to start seeing possibility, collaboration, and innovation?

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First Look: Leadership Books for July 2020

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in July 2020. Don't miss out on other great new and future releases. Leading with Feeling : Nine Strategies of Emotionally Intelligent Leadership by Cary Cherniss and Cornelia W. Roche. This book describes how 25 outstanding leaders used emotional intelligence to deal with critical challenges and opportunities.

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Do You Really Love People?

Joseph Lalonde

The COVID-19 pandemic, or plandemic as some friends are calling it, and the recent racial issues have really broken my heart. I’ve watched long-time friends become bitter enemies. I’ve seen family members disown other family members. It’s sad. There’s so much hurt and bitterness over the issues at hand. Yet it is not just COVID-19 […] The post Do You Really Love People?

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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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Seeing People Through – Interview with Nate Regier

Let's Grow Leaders

How can understanding yourself help you be more influential with your team? In this episode, Dr. Nate Regier will help you understand, connect with, and lead your team members more effectively by understanding yourself. They may seem different, but look a […]. The post Seeing People Through – Interview with Nate Regier appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Remote Leadership Doesn’t Mean Remote Control

Kevin Eikenberry

In 1964 the first remote control for a TV was created. Sometime after that, the TV watching experience changed forever. The remote made it easier to watch and control the television. Quite possibly earlier this year you created a remote team. You may not have wanted one, but here you are. And while the remote […]. The post Remote Leadership Doesn’t Mean Remote Control appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Pushing Through The Tough Times And Difficult Obstacles

Tanveer Naseer

Pushing through the difficult times, and the tough periods is something we all have to do. Whether it be personal, business, mental, or emotional, there are lots of variables, unknowns, and circumstances we all must handle and deal with. One of the hardest things to do is to push through. Click to continue reading.

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Burnout and the Importance of Connection

Michael Lee Stallard

Appearance on The Mentors Radio Show Recently, Katie Stallard and I had the opportunity to speak with Tom Loarie, host of the Mentors Radio Show , about career burnout and the role that connection plays in preventing it. It’s an important topic given the high stress levels that many professionals are experiencing today. If you or someone you know is struggling with burnout, we hope the interview provides some helpful tips in getting back on a path to engagement and happiness.

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How Your Personal Debt is Holding You Back

Women on Business

Brought to you by Creditfix: We all have debts, from credit cards to loans and even student debt. However, when your debts begin to take over your life, it’s not just your finances that start to feel the strain. Bad debts can impact every area of your life, creating serious problems and holding you back […].

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Leading Thoughts for July 2, 2020

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. Two signs hanging on the wall of the Burnley Football Club training facility in Burnley, Lancashire, England: “Only the person who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.” “In a real team, the instinct for individual self-promotion is realized through the pursuit of the team goal.”.

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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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A Checklist For Challenging Times

Joseph Lalonde

If you’re feeling the world is changing more dramatically and abruptly than ever, you’re not alone. Major and unexpected shifts are becoming increasingly frequent. The global COVID-19 lockdown. The Black Lives Matter movement. And the next one… And these events have left us with incredibly poor visibility into the future. Frankly, no-one has a clue […] The post A Checklist For Challenging Times appeared first on Joseph Lalonde.

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Protecting Remote Workers’ Productivity and Performance

Michael Lee Stallard

Practically overnight the vast majority of office workers became remote workers when social distancing measures put in place in March to slow the spread of the Covid-19 virus dramatically changed the way we go about our days. If that was you, over the last several months, you have had a taste of the long-touted benefits of remote work—no commute (a savings of nearly an hour a day for the average American plus the cost of commuting) and flexibility.

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How to Enhance the Efficiency of Your Warehouse

Women on Business

Brought to you by CartonCloud: With digitization, the world has become a close-knit global market. Today, you can connect with anyone worldwide with the help of the digital network. Businesses, too, have expanded and formed new collaborations internationally with the help of advanced technology. Thus today, the logistics industry is no longer limited to an […].

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How Routines Can Improve Your Life – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

Our subconscious minds are extremely powerful and when we build routines and habits, it allows us to capitalize on this part of our brain. In the video below, I will show you six incredible benefits we get when we flex our subconscious with routines and habits. Tweet it out: Recognize the value and power of […]. The post How Routines Can Improve Your Life – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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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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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From My Spy

Joseph Lalonde

A Reel Leadership Article. My Spy is a cute comedy starring Dave Bautista as the hardened CIA agent JJ. He’s been demoted to watching over the family of a murdered bad guy. The family is that of 9-year old Sophie (Chloe Coleman) and her mother Kate (Parisa Fitz-Henley). JJ runs into trouble when Sophie notices JJ and “not” his […] The post Quotes And Leadership Lessons From My Spy appeared first on Joseph Lalonde.

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Leadership Legacy and Vision – Recent Interviews

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

In these two recent interviews I discuss how the pandemic has thrown us into collective reactivity and how refocusing on a positive vision will allow us to move forward intelligently and powerfully. The post Leadership Legacy and Vision – Recent Interviews appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.

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How to Push Your Mental Reset Button

Next Level Blog

As I wrote last week , we’re all dealing with a lot. And, when there’s a lot to process – work, family, health, the world and life in general – the mind can understandably flit and flutter from thought to thought. It’s called mental chatter and it can make it really challenging to get anything in particular done. Mental chatter is endemic for people whose days are filled with back to back Zooms that are even more challenging to our focus than an equivalent schedule of in-the-room-together meetin

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What if You Suck at Empathy – 7 Ways to Create an Empathy Advantage

Leadership Freak

Only 18% of people who’ve completed the CliftonStrengths assessment have Empathy in their top five. Which means most of us don’t respond with Empathy immediately, spontaneously and consistently.

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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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The Most Important Ingredient to Successful Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Brad Chase : No business subject garners more attention than leadership. There are endless leadership books, classes, websites and more. Everyone is searching for the essential qualities of a successful leader. But what if you had to pick just one quality? Think about it for a moment. What would you choose as most important to the success of a business leader?

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Why Every Leader Needs to Spend Time Alone

Lead from Within

Studies have long shown that chronic loneliness and isolation are damaging to people’s mental and physical health. But a balanced amount of time spent alone has clear benefits—and depending on your temperament, it may be a necessity. It can even help strengthen your leadership. Here’s how: Improved social relationships. At first glance, it doesn’t make sense to improve your social relationships by being alone.

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Foster Your Ethical Brand Reputation

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton Connect Magazine invited me to weigh in on why ethical brand reputation is so important and how brands can build and foster stronger images.­ In this article I share practical advice on protecting ethical brands and five top leadership trends I see unfolding in 2020. It's worth a read for those who want to use the time during the pandemic to figure out how they can build a stronger company and a stronger brand that is ready for an uncertain future. .

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7 Signs You Let Others Control You During Emotional Turmoil

Leadership Freak

You must know yourself to manage yourself. Self-aware leaders choose how they show up. Low self-awareness means you can’t manage yourself with authenticity. Emotional turmoil seduces you into self-forgetfulness.

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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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A Virtual Book Club to Help You Lead Virtually!

Kevin Eikenberry

Maybe you’ve been in a book club, or maybe due to the pandemic your book club has been cancelled. But have you ever been to a book club with the author(s) of the book? Now you can read a book, discuss and learn about it from others, and then ask questions of the authors. Introducing […]. The post A Virtual Book Club to Help You Lead Virtually!

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If Your Consulting Firm’s Offering Isn’t Attracting Enough Clients, Try This…

David A Fields

If your consulting firm’s offerings aren’t generating gleaming stacks of revenue, it’s time to develop a Level 3 Offering. You’re not alone if the projects that sustained your consulting business in the past have recently become difficult to close. Prospective clients are confused about how to please their own customers, or are caught in the … Continued.

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Leading Through Influence: 6 Lessons Learned from Leadership Development Classes – Guest Blogger Janet Knupp

leaderCommunicator

How do development programs, such as the skills of influence, significantly impact participants and business long term, for the benefit of attendees and their organizations? Changed human behavior is hard to measure but people recognize when their own changes have positive results. Many participants, who went on to be senior leaders, have shared the lessons they learned, from courses I had the opportunity to facilitate earlier in their careers.

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People will Remember How You Treated Them During COVID-19

Leadership Freak

A friend of mine got laid off last Friday. Clients in education are developing three plans for the fall of 2020, but most of their work could be irrelevant.

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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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Innovation and Overcoming Organizational Stuckness

Mike Cardus

Innovation, change, the ability to notice patterns, and try unique or novel approaches will continue to be a differentiator in your organization , team, and self. The idea that the complexity of work is increasing is accurate if we accept that complexity is the interactions between multiple pieces within different environments. Many of those pieces are unknown or unknowable until a challenge or need for change happens.

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Growth In Online Courses During Lockdown

The Horizons Tracker

The coronavirus lockdown has not only forced most of us to spend huge spans of time at home, but the furlough measures have also meant many have quite a lot of time on their hands. It’s perhaps no surprise, given these perfect circumstances, that the Institute of Coding (IoC) recently announced a bumper number of students enrolling on their courses since the lockdown began in March.

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11 Best Practices for Successful Video Conferences

leaderCommunicator

While companies have come a long way in just a few weeks with video meetings, we all have much to learn about how to make video conferences more engaging and productive – and far less taxing for employees. To help you on that path, we’ve compiled a quick list of the 11 most important tips and tricks to keep top of mind, compiled from our recent experience with clients and our decades conducting meetings of all types for leaders and teams.

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How to Show Up When Emotion is Hot and Decisions Matter

Leadership Freak

Emotional heat tears things down. You resent a company policy, emotional heat complains about the entire company. You don’t like a team member, you undermine. A leader disappoints, you attack.

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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.