Sat.May 14, 2022 - Fri.May 20, 2022

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Executive Hiring For a P.E. Portfolio Company – Ideals and Compromise

N2Growth Blog

Part One – Core, Hard Credential Constituents. The bar is set high. Dynamics at private equity firms are fast, aggressive, and all-conquering. As the investor leader, you are tasked with tackling senior leadership management issues at a newly acquired portfolio firm. In this four-part series, a realization of the challenging factors surrounding the search for ideal candidates will be recognized.

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Commencement Address Answers “When Will It Get Easier?”

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton When I was asked by The University of Richmond SPCS to give a Commencement address, I did what most anyone would do - I struggled. I struggled to choose a topic, and struggled to write the remarks on a short deadline.

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Seven Ways to Immediately Improve Retention

Kevin Eikenberry

Retaining top talent should always be a focus of leaders and organizations. However, during times of high employment, or an historic Great Resignation, the topic gets more attention. While there many facets to talent retention, too often individual leaders look to the organization and/or HR to find solutions that keep the best talent onboard. Yet, […].

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Three Things to Keep in Mind as You Return to the Office

Next Level Blog

Now it begins. After two plus years of working from home (or somewhere else), more and more folks are heading back to the office for at least a few days a week. And, guess what? They like it! That’s the story from the Wall Street Journal , anyway. In a feature article that details “the surprise joys of being back in the office,” the Journal reports that people are enjoying returning to the office and finding printers that work and people to talk to while they warm up their lunch in the break roo

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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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4 Ways To Grow Your Network

Joseph Lalonde

Besides your skills and abilities, your network is your best resource. Your network consists of friends, family members, colleagues, and former business partners. Sometimes, your network extends further than that. Your network can also include people you’ve met at social networking events or people you had a fantastic conversation with on the elevator.

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3 Ways to Do What Matters Today

Leadership Freak

Everyone wants to do what matters but we’re afraid to define it. After all, when you define what matters it’s unsurprising. Think love, relationships, satisfaction, health, and making a difference (mission).

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Employee Engagement and the Communicator’s Role

leaderCommunicator

Establishing credibility and achieving employee trust and, especially, engagement is the ultimate prize for employers. This is true now more than ever as those team members serve as brand ambassadors with direct access to clients, customers and patients who (in today’s consumer-driven environment) are the ultimate decision-makers, meaning that engagement is directly connected to the bottom line and desired business outcomes.

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Marry Me

Joseph Lalonde

Marry Me is a newer rom-com starring Jennifer Lopez as music superstar Kat Valdez. She’s on a roll. It looks like she will go even further with the extravagant wedding to fellow singer Bastian (Maluma). Everything changes in a heartbeat for the superstar. As she’s on stage to be married, she discovers Bastian has been […].

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The 3 Opportunities of Conflict

Leadership Freak

“Nothing moves forward in a story except through conflict.” Robert McKee The 3 opportunities of conflict: Interpersonal collisions. Opportunities with people. Inner wrestling. Opportunities to grow. Spiritual uncertainty.

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What Makes a Good Staff Rota for Your Business?

Women on Business

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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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What Tweets Can Tell Us About Our Views On Immigration

The Horizons Tracker

Over the past decade, there have been growing concerns about the polarization of society, especially along various hot-button topics, such as climate change and immigration. A recent study from Linnaeus University explores whether this is actually the case when it comes to immigration. The researchers analyzed over a million tweets from Swedish speakers to gauge whether attitudes have changed on immigration over the last few years.

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What Do You Want To Do?

Joseph Lalonde

Everyone wants more time. They want to spend more time with their kids. They want to travel more. They want to enjoy life more. It’s a fact of life that we all desire to do and be something more. Most people aren’t pursuing what they want. Why? I think I discovered a significant reason why […].

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24 Ways to Challenge People Without being a Jerk-Hole

Leadership Freak

Performance is about rigorous standards, high expectations, clear goals, and providing support. Challenge people and be tenderhearted. “The best leaders are toughminded on standards and tenderhearted with people.

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Benefits of Being Mindful At Work

HR Digest

Discover the benefits of being mindful at work so you can infuse this practice into your everyday life to boost efficiency at work! . Mindfulness is the practice of being present and attentive to the current moment. It can help you focus on the present moment, reduce stress, and improve your relationships with coworkers and clients. The goal of employee mindfulness is to increase positive emotions and decrease negative ones, which can help improve your work performance.

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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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How do novelty and innovation emerge within an organization?

Mike Cardus

“ All that everyone , no matter how powerful, can do is to continue participating with intention and continually negotiate and respond to others who are also intentionally doing the same. It is in this ongoing, intentional, local interaction of strategizing that the population-wide patterns of strategy emerge.” – Ralph Stacey & Chris Mowles ‘Strategic Management and Organisational Dynamics.

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How the Right Software Can Help Your Business Grow

Joseph Lalonde

The right software can make a significant impact on your business. It can help you manage your operations more effectively, keep track of your finances, and improve your customer service. In this blog post, we will discuss the different types of available software and how they can benefit your business. We will also provide tips […].

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5 Awesome Ways to Energize Your Day

Leadership Freak

One of the five factors of well-being is energy to get things done. You die a slow death when you don’t energize your day.

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Biggest People Skills Leadership Challenge of Leading Diverse People | #LeadMorale

Kate Nasser

Biggest people skills leadership challenge is listening & welcoming collaboration. Insights from Kate Nasser The People Skills Coach™, Author, Leading Morale. The post Biggest People Skills Leadership Challenge of Leading Diverse People | #LeadMorale appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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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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Researchers Demand A Living Wage To Combat The Cost Of Living Crisis

The Horizons Tracker

The cost of living crisis has hit 2022 particularly hard, with prices for many essential items rising considerably, resulting in very real fears of extreme financial hardship for many. A new report from the University of Cambridge, Business Fights Poverty, and Shift suggests that the best way out of this situation is via a living wage. “Living wages are long overdue.

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How Can Leadership Styles Differ in Different Industries?

Joseph Lalonde

The same leadership styles and skills aren’t always applicable to every industry or field. There are certain leadership styles that can be more suitable for specific industries or professions, whereas the same leaders might need to adapt if they were to take a position in a different industry. Leaders in some industries might also be […].

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Find a Mentor in Your Career

HR Digest

If you want to improve or change your career, then finding a good mentor could be a good solution. You may probably have career goals that you want to achieve, and you will need to find a mentor to achieve these goals. Below we explain how to find a mentor and how to improve your career for the better. . Why do you need a mentor? The mentoring relationship can be a good tool for professional growth, and that is why you need a good mentor.

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5 Ways to Promote Creativity at Work

Niagara Institute

Creativity is a coveted skill. So much so, that LinkedIn has proclaimed creativity is the most important skill in the world. In addition, the 2020 Future of Jobs Report by the World Economic Forum uncovered the number one skill needed is analytical thinking and innovation, otherwise known as creativity.

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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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We Want Good News Delivered By Humans (But Bad News By AI)

The Horizons Tracker

The modern consumer interface sees a combination of humans and technologies, such as chatbots, used to interact with consumers. Research from the University of Kentucky suggests that we should be mindful of which channel we use depending on whether we’re delivering good news to the consumer or bad news. The study suggests that when things have gone worse than the customer has expected, it works out better if they deal with a chatbot, but when things have gone better than expected, they re

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13 Ways Being the Example in Management will Encourage Better Leadership

Joseph Lalonde

As a manager, you are in a unique position to be a leader. Yet not all managers possess great leadership skills. And team members may be naturally gifted. However, you can teach yourself and your team and learn from them to be the example in management to encourage better leadership in those underneath you. Common […].

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One Minute Mentoring

Eric Jacobson

Fortunately, I've benefited from having great mentors throughout my career. And, I've have the honor and good fortune to be a mentor, both formally and informally, for various individuals the past few decades. Mentoring is powerful. Both being a mentor. And, being mentored. That's why I became an instant fan of the book, One Minute Mentoring: How to Find and Work With a Mentor -- and Why You'll Benefit from Being One.

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You Might Consider Improving Your Executive Presence

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Executive presence is an element of leadership that’s easy to recognize but difficult to develop, but might be the difference in your career progressing forward. Today’s post is by Rob Salafia, a principal at thoughtLEADERS and author of Leading from Your Best Self (CLICK HERE to get your copy). Executive presence is an element of leadership that’s easy to recognize but difficult to develop.

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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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Temp Workers Benefit From A Unionized Workforce

The Horizons Tracker

One of the defining features of gig-based workers is that they usually lack any means of pooling their interests and negotiating with platforms as a whole rather than millions of individuals. The importance of this is underlined by research from Cornell University, which shows that temp workers can see a 21% rise in their average income when they’re employed by companies with a unionized workforce. “What is surprising is that wage premium only holds for unions that go head-to-head,

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To Keep You Growing: How to Avoid Being Stuck in the Muck

The Practical Leader

The lotus flower is an ancient and widely used symbol for growth and beauty blossoming from the mud. It’s an example of drawing new life and beautiful growth from decay. My last post asked are you green and growing or ripe and rotting ? Sometimes it’s not easy to recognize the symptoms of slow decay. We can easily get old rather than grow old.

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How To Lead Your Boss

Eric Jacobson

The Courage Solution , a book by Mindy Mackenzie , is all about the simple truth that the only thing you can reliably change or control is yourself. So, that is why Mackenzie wrote her book -- to teach you how to take actions that ultimately will improve your impact on the job and increase your happiness and fulfillment in your career. Mackenzie's quick-read strategies focus on these four key areas : Part 1: You First offers techniques to take ownership and accountability for creating a career a

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Understanding Relationships in Negotiation

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Understanding the relationship between you and the other party is crucial to your success in a negotiation. Relationships in any negotiation are critical to understand. You have to step back, look at the players, and really appreciate how important the relationship is to you as well as how valuable the relationship is to your opponent. Is this a long-term or short-term relationship?

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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.