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36 Questions Which Lead Leaders

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.” Voltaire. Leadership is not about having the right answers, it is the ability to ask the correct questions. It is a compilation of lived and learned experiences, the experiential education which bounds your way of thinking and does not define a rulebook.

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5 Ways to Overcome Impostor Syndrome

Let's Grow Leaders

Throughout our new book, Winning Well (available now!), David and I talk consistently about the importance of confidence AND humility, results AND relationships. So many of the managers we work with tell us that the hardest part to master is confidence. Even those highly successful managers who appear to be Winning Well and making a difference will often take us aside and admit that they sometimes feel like a fake.

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Where Did the Nice Leaders Go?

Lead Change Blog

Political season is upon us. As I watch debate after debate, I find myself asking one simple question: What happened to civility in leadership? Many years ago, a colleague and I were asked to create a training program to help employees – i.e. future leaders – act “more professional.” As we attempted to meet this daunting request, we made an interesting discovery.

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7 Ways To Keep Your Balance On The Leadership Tightrope

Terry Starbucker

Leadership is a balancing act. Imagine the tightrope walker at the circus, precariously navigating from one side of the big top to the other. If the walker puts too much weight on one side or the other, they’ll take a big fall. And so it is for those who lead, and what’s more, it requires a deft sense of self-awareness and guile- and just a bit of schizophrenia.

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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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3 Ways to Build Responsibility Skills In Your Subordinates

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility. In the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.” — Michael Korda.

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7 Leadership Pitfalls That Sabotage Company Growth

The Empowered Buisness

What’s sabotaging your growth? Driving profitable growth is at the top of every leader’s priority list. Yet, according to Bain and Company, only 10% succeed in achieving sustainable profitable growth. While growth is the life-blood of every business, at some point, your company will experience the double edge sword of growth. Either your company will grow faster than your internal capacity to handle it.

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Detachment and Ethics Don’t Mix

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton Ethics and detachment don't mix well. In fact, combining high ethical expectations with an aloof stance can lead to trouble.

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Transition

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.” Isaac Asimov. Benjamin Franklin said, “The only things certain in life are death and taxes”. I offer a third constant, and that is change.

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Leading with Character: Creativity

Michael Lee Stallard

Definition of Creativity. Creativity is thinking of novel and productive ways to conceptualize and do things. Why Creativity Matters. Creativity is essential for innovation. Exercising creativity to continuously improve by finding new and better ways of serving clients is something we must always strive to do. An organization that settles for the status quo will never be a great organization.

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7 Tools to Build Your Willpower

Lead Change Blog

Struggling to get work done instead of slacking off? Tempted by that second doughnut? Struggling to resist checking your phone? Shopping impulsively on Amazon? What you need is more willpower! Recent research shows that strengthening willpower is the real secret to the kind of self-control that can help you resist temptations and achieve your goals.

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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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Are You Wasting Your First Impression?

Rich Gee Group

First impressions occur in the first seven seconds of meeting someone. Here’s something even scarier — a series of experiments by Princeton psychologists Willis & Todorov uncover it takes is a tenth of a second to construct an impression of a stranger from their face. Longer exposures don’t significantly alter those impressions (although they might boost your confidence in your judgments).

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How to Use Joint Ventures to Your Advantage

Women on Business

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The Flawed “Customer First” Focus (and Other Management Practices to Question)

Michael Lee Stallard

“It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.” – Will Rogers. In his latest book, Under New Management , David Burkus challenges a number of conventional business practices. These practices include, but are not limited to: the “customer first” mentality, non-compete agreements, email, standard vacation policy, office design, annual performance appraisals, and even the need for managers.

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7 Tips for Improving the Quality of Your Feedback

Lead Change Blog

People often ask me for tips on how to give “negative feedback”—which is something that apparently no one enjoys either giving or receiving. Constructive feedback, on the other hand, which helps people grow and improve, is on everyone’s most wanted list. So what’s the difference between negative feedback and constructive feedback? The challenge you face when you give someone this helpful feedback is to speak in a way that allows people to hear and understand your message without causing them to

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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 eyes in back of your head

Persuasive Powerhouse

Intuition: the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference. ~Merriam-Webster. When my four siblings and I were children, Mom always seemed to know what we were up to, even when she wasn’t in the room. When we asked her how she knew, she’d reply, “I always know what you’re doing because I have eyes in the back of my head”.

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What Leaders Need To Do To Help Their Employees Succeed

Tanveer Naseer

When I was nine years old, my older cousin got a brand new chopper bicycle for his birthday and it was probably the coolest bike I ever saw. With its hot lime green chassis, checker-board banana seat, and a sports car-inspired gear shift affixed to the bike body just in front of the seat, this bike looked more like a hot rod than a conventional bicycle.

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Business Plan: Key to Success in Investments and Business

Women on Business

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“The Formula”: The Unspoken Truth About The Packaging, Peddling, And Commoditization Of Leadership And Knowledge

Lead Change Blog

Some people are not going to like what I’ve written here, so first a few fair warnings and disclaimers: 1) These are my personal observations and opinions, nothing more; 2) I am going to make generalizations; there are always obvious exceptions when it comes to generalizations. 3) I’m not in the “business” of leadership so I’m not trying to sway “buyers” towards my line of thinking or “products.” The business of leadership, i.e. leadership development, has bee

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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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Symptoms of Organizations on the Cusp of Change

QAspire

The purpose of an organization is to enable people in doing meaningful work that delivers value to the customers and hence to the business. Organizations start purely with this promise but when they scale, they end up stifling people’s ability to deliver value. In his insightful post titled 8 Symptoms Of Organizations On The Cusp Of Change , Mark Raheja says, “In theory, organizations are meant to enable us — to make us faster, stronger and more effective than we’d be on our own.

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WHE28: Avoiding Workplace Burnout | with Bill Holston

Engaging Leader

One of the surprising things about workplace burnout is that no one is immune. Even the most engaged, productive, and passionate people can experience burnout — in fact, their dedication may cause them to be even more susceptible than others. In Engaging Leader episode 019, How to Help Your Team Have More Great Days at […] One of the surprising things about workplace burnout is that no one is immune.

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5 Best Ways to Irritate Your Employees and Paralyze Production

Women on Business

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Change and The Power of Habits

Kevin Eikenberry

In my work coaching leaders and members of my team, I am often reminded of the tremendous role that habits play in our lives and work. Of course that impact can be for positive or not – the purpose of this article is to help you use habits more effectively to create the results you […]. The post Change and The Power of Habits appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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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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10 Ways to Disengage in an Engaging Way

Leadership Freak

Leadership roles are frequently redefined in growing organizations. Leaders grow with growing organizations or both stagnate and die. Growing organizations require leaders to become novices again and again. Stepping back and letting go: Leaders of growing organizations are always learning and relearning to step back so others can step forward.

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Why hope is essential for leadership

Lead on Purpose

‘Hope’ is one of those words that means different things to different people. To some it has religious connotations. To others it’s a strong feeling that drives them to do greater things.

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7 Things Leaders Do To Frustrate Their Team

Joseph Lalonde

A fter years of being in a leadership position, we can forget what it was like to be on a team with someone over us. We forget the frustrations we felt when we thought the boss was being unfair. We no longer remember what it was like to be, as some call it, a peon. Those days are gone. And that can cause trouble. We don’t mean to do this. But it happens.

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3 Reasons Why Changing Jobs For Better Earnings Is Not Wise

Women on Business

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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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12 Ways to Enlarge the Way People Feel About Themselves

Leadership Freak

Immature leaders wonder, “How do you feel about me?” Mature leaders wonder, “How do you feel about yourself?” Leadership includes how others feel about themselves because of your influence. If you want to change an organization, change the way people think and feel about themselves.

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When Taking Too Much Initiative Hurts You

Nathan Magnuson

One of my all-time favorite leadership values is being proactive. It’s Stephen Covey’s first habit. Taking initiative (and accepting responsible) is the characteristic that makes all the others possible. But can it be taken too far? Unfortunately, I’ve learned it can be – mostly because of the challenges I’ve noticed or inadvertently created for myself over the years.

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How To Get Effective Leadership Feedback With Dr. Natasha Ganem – Podcast Episode 008

Joseph Lalonde

O n today’s show, I have Dr. Natasha Ganem. Dr. Ganem is a business consultant, group trainer, and keynote speaker specializing in leadership development. She is the founder and director of Lion Leadership and writer for the ROAR blog, where readers gain perspective on themselves, their organizations, and how to reach their potential at work. Show Notes: What else do you want listeners to know about you?

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Thursday Thought: An intelligent mind will get you far, but…

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Thursday Thought: An intelligent mind will get you far, but an open heart will get you farther. Jesse Lyn Stoner * * * * * * * * * […]. The post Thursday Thought: An intelligent mind will get you far, but… appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.

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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.