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How to Be a Human-Centered Leader when You’re Stressed, Anxious, or Freaked-Out

Let's Grow Leaders

Many people find it easier to be a human-centered leader when everything’s going well. But when you’re stressed and anxious, it’s easy to snap at your team, lose your temper, and undermine the culture you’ve worked so hard to build. If you have too many of these freak-out moments, your people will conclude that kindness is only for the easy times. Stress and anxiety are unavoidable, but you can lead through these times to build a stronger and more productive team. 5 Steps to be a Human-Centered

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Getting The Right Talent: Eight Benefits Of Building An Effective Project Team

Tanveer Naseer

Business success depends not only on strategy, planning, and capital investment. A carefully selected team of employees and well-functioning business processes play a leading role. Every leader’s dream is to create a mechanism that works like a Swiss watch and requires minimal intervention. A close-knit team is a reliable basis. Click to continue reading.

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Don’t Let Your Ego Undermine Your Leadership

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton Ego has a way of undoing even our best intentions as leaders. We have to be aware of our ego and manage it to avoid getting off track. In a world that requires rapid adaptation to changing events and circumstances, ego tries to maintain the status quo and works against our ability to pivot in response to change. Think of the adaptable leader as piloting a boat, able to turn at a moment's notice as the situation warrants it.

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Leading Views: Find Your Voice

Leading Blog

B ASED on the premise that leadership is influence and so we all are leading whether intentionally or not, Sam Collier writes in a short 68-page monograph, Find Your Voice , “You may not even know you’re being led. Or you may not even know you’re leading someone else.” Consequently, you need to be aware of this dynamic because it shapes your future and that of others.

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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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Love it. Own it. Your Dream Job with Carson Tate

Let's Grow Leaders

In this episode, Carson Tate, one of America’s top productivity consultants talks about why you don’t have to rely on your company or your boss for your professional fulfillment. Instead, you can take ownership of your career, your life, and your happiness?right now. Carson’s premise is that “it takes two” to cultivate engagement?that both you and your employer need to have an equal voice in the process.

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Use a 360-Degree Approach to Get Feedback on Leading Change

Lead Change Blog

Leading change has always been a high-risk, high-reward proposition. That’s become even more true throughout the significant, unplanned change of the COVID pandemic. This rapid, constant change also makes it difficult for leaders to gauge their effectiveness, especially when many of their team members are working remotely. The best leaders address this challenge by obtaining feedback from the people they lead.

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Leading Thoughts for September 2, 2021

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. Consultant Jeff Davidson on the need for breathing space: “When your brain is always engaged, when your neurons are always firing, when you find yourself in a continual mode of reacting and responding, instead of steering and directing, the best and brightest solutions that you are capable of producing rarely see the light of day.

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Yes, Hybrid Teams Can Collaborate

Kevin Eikenberry

In facilitating learning experiences (virtually) over the last 18 months with leaders who want to be more effective in leading remote or hybrid teams, one of the most common concerns I hear is, “We can’t collaborate without a whiteboard.” This is a limiting view (I’ll explain in a second), but if you want hybrid collaboration […]. The post Yes, Hybrid Teams Can Collaborate appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Win Every Day: Proven Practices For Extraordinary Results

Lead Change Blog

All high-performance organizations have one thing in common: execution. The men and women who work there sustain performance at seemingly otherworldly levels of precision, accuracy, and consistency. But what happens when your employees aren’t reaching their highest potential? How can you engage them in new ways to create more extraordinary results?

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Leading From The Middle

Joseph Lalonde

Leading can be a disorientating experience, especially if you’re new to leadership. You start out believing you’re the boss and you get to make all of the decisions. You’re quickly smacked back down to reality when you realize this is generally not the case. Rarely will you be the head honcho. The lead dog. The […].

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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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LeadershipNow 140: August 2021 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from August 2021 that you don't want to miss: The ABCs of Soliciting and Accepting Feedback by @Julie_WG. 6 Ways to Know if Your Leadership Might be the Lid to Growth by @DanReiland Inflicting Help by @edbatista What are the various ways we can, with the best of intentions, inflict help? Finding Strength In Humility from @JohnBaldoni Jeanne Robertson, humorist, dies at 77.

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Hyperbolic Discounting and 7 Ways to Prevent Self-Sabotage

RapidStart Leadership

Hyperbolic discounting isn't some crazy sales technique, but it CAN keep us from achieving our goals; here's how to recognize when it's happening, and seven ways to prevent our tendency to self-sabotage. The post Hyperbolic Discounting and 7 Ways to Prevent Self-Sabotage appeared first on RapidStart Leadership.

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The Badge of Self Care – Why Self Care is Important

Lead Change Blog

I, like many other leaders I know, would leave work to run home to… work more. I would get home, handle a few items around the house and then open my laptop or get on my desktop to get back to playing catch up at work. Most of my day was spent in meetings, so my nights were spent handling the to-do lists created from the meetings. In addition, I would be quick to reply to late night emails and even quicker to send them.

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From The Protégé

Joseph Lalonde

A Reel Leadership Article. The Protégé stars Samuel L. Jackson as the assassin Moody. His protégé is Anna (Maggie Q). When Moody is apparently assassinated, Anna goes on a hunt for his killer and revenge. The movie is full of action, entertainment, and, important to Reel Leadership, leadership lessons. You will be brought back in time. Then be brought […].

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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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Made From Scratch

Leading Blog

T HE KIND OF SUCCESS Texas Roadhouse has enjoyed didn’t happen by doing things the conventional way. But then founder Kent Taylor is not a conventional guy. He dropped out of business school and threw away the rule book. Through trial and error and a whole lot of perseverance, he opened the first Texas Roadhouse in 1993. He describes Texas Roadhouse as “a people company that just happened to sell steaks.”.

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Build Your Leadership Skills and Confidence One Expert At a Time

Kevin Eikenberry

One of the fastest and most predictable ways to build your leadership skills (or most any other skill for that matter), is to learn from experts. And while there are plenty of ways to do that, it can be a slow, laborious, and solitary exercise. Wouldn’t it be great if we could learn from those […]. The post Build Your Leadership Skills and Confidence One Expert At a Time appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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5 Ways to Learn from Mistakes

Leadership Freak

The dumbest mistake is making the same mistake. Why don’t you put your hand in fire? Because you learned. We’re toast unless we learn from mistakes. Learning from mistakes makes existence possible.

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A TEAM MEETING TEMPLATE THAT DOESN’T SUCK

Great Results Team Building

If you are a smart leader, you understand the importance of communication. The quality of your communication determines how successful your team will be. That is why we meet – whether remotely or in-person, whether daily or weekly, every team needs to share and discuss ideas that will move people forward together. The problem is that many team meeting agenda templates suck.

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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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First Look: Leadership Books for September 2021

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in September 2021. Don't miss out on other great new and future releases not listed here. The Art of Statistics : How to Learn from Data by David Spiegelhalter. In The Art of Statistics , world-renowned statistician David Spiegelhalter shows readers how to derive knowledge from raw data by focusing on the concepts and connections behind the math.

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Five Keys to Greater Confidence – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

Think about a time when you were really confident – when you did something and before you did it, you were confident about how well it was going to go. What happens when you’re confident? Things generally go pretty well, right? Confidence is critical to our success, especially as leaders. In the video here, I’ll […]. The post Five Keys to Greater Confidence – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Weekend Update: 8/23/2021 to 8/27/2021

Leadership Freak

I’ve talked with 100s of leaders over the years and here’s the good news. They’re all different. Any belief that you have to be like someone else is misplaced.

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As a manager when do I tell and when do I coach?

Mike Cardus

A smart manager sent me the following question: Question from manager. I’m struggling with it on a few fronts: As a business owner, sometimes I feel like I have to demonstrate decisiveness (“this is how it’s gonna be and there’s no debate”); As a coach with the goal of “winning”, I feel like I have to present the right depth of strategy/vision without overprescribing the path to get there, which provides an opening for other staff to take ownership and b

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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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7 Ways to Find More Time for Yourself In & Out of the Workplace

leaderCommunicator

I’m not sure which comedian said: “Of all the things I’ve lost, I miss my mind the most!” While I wholeheartedly agree, I’m beginning to think that it’s time that I miss the most. Time is moving even faster than ever before, and it seems that I’m not alone – we all want some time back. That was the topic of a recent discussion with some smart and savvy senior leaders who were bemoaning their loss of time, and committed to regaining their time-filled younger days.

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Five Ways to Learn From Thought Leaders

Kevin Eikenberry

If you are interested in growing as a leader, professional and/or human, you know that learning from thought leaders and experts is an important strategy. But it is one thing to know and say that, and another to actually do it. Here are five specific strategies that can help you grow faster and learn more […]. The post Five Ways to Learn From Thought Leaders appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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The Best Decision-Making Quote You Never Heard

Leadership Freak

3 decision-making quotes: Theodore Roosevelt: “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you… Continue reading →

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Managing your money as a startup: 5 things to consider

Strategy Driven

In business, getting going can often be the hardest part. On average, over 20% of startups go bust during their first year. That’s why keeping on top of your money is so important. Businesses that look after their finances are much more likely to survive. Here are five important things to consider when managing your money as a startup. 1 – Take a paycheck.

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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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Weekly Round-Up: Amazon's Big Mission Change, Employee Communicators in High-Demand, Leadership Coach or Counsel?, Internal Comms Model, Be Passionate About Diversity

leaderCommunicator

Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts. This Week's Round-Up of Leadership and Communication Blogs: Jeff Bezos Signals a Huge Shift in Amazon’s Mission By Jon Picoult ( @JonPicoult ), Watermark Consulting Jeff Bezos made an important addition the company mission and it focuses on their employees.

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8 Uncaring Workplace Reasons to Create Caring Workplace | #LeadMorale

Kate Nasser

Uncaring workplace reasons to create a caring workplace. by Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™, Author, Leading Morale | Leadership. The post 8 Uncaring Workplace Reasons to Create Caring Workplace | #LeadMorale appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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Situational Awareness: How to Stop Hitting People with Bats

Leadership Freak

I woke up remembering that I hit a girl with a baseball bat. I was taking practice swings during recess, and I struck her on the left side of her head.

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3 Top Tips for Every Entrepreneur

Strategy Driven

The world of business is ever-changing, and there have been more changes in the last 18 months than we have seen or experienced in the last 20 years. Entrepreneurial action has changed, and the purpose of business may have softened to include a range of social stakeholders, but the basics should not change. This article presents three of these entrepreneurial basics that should form the foundation of your enterprise and basic operating instructions.

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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.