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Internal Internships- A Winning Well Best Practice

Let's Grow Leaders

Have you ever been an intern? Have you ever hired an intern? . There are many reasons to hire an intern. Sure some see it as a short-cut to cheap labor or to appease HR. . But if you’ve ever been part of a great internship program–on either side of the desk– you know that it can be an amazing job preview– an extensive 2-way interview process… to try before you buy.

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Happy 69th Birthday to the United States Air Force!

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “I AM AN AMERICAN AIRMAN. I AM A WARRIOR. I HAVE ANSWERED MY NATION’S CALL.” The Airman’s Creed. Happy 69th Birthday to the U.S. Air Force! In 1947 President Truman signed the National Security Act which established this new defense organization, and along with it the creation of the US Air Force as an independent service, equal t

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3 Ways to Develop Winning Team Spirit

Michael Lee Stallard

Photo of Jeff Webb courtesy of Varsity Brands. As football season begins, millions of fans are excited about cheering on their favorite high school, college or NFL teams. The best teams, those that are competitive over time, benefit from having a winning team spirit. A winning team spirit is a mood that fills an individual or group with life. It brings about enthusiasm, energy and engagement, and helps the team perform at the top of its game.

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How Mind Maps Removed Stress From My Working Day

Lead Change Blog

We have so much stuff swimming around in our heads; half-baked ideas, things promised to others and that ever-growing list of to-dos that require attention and feel ever-present yet are ultimately unachievable. This is because getting that stuff out is becoming increasingly difficult in a world full of distractions. I don’t proclaim to be immune to this, but a technique I discovered a few months ago has enabled me to greatly reduce the number of tangled thoughts in my brain.

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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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Culture By Design: A Call to Action

N2Growth Blog

This is the first installment of an important 3-part series on Company Culture that I will be bringing to my Inc. readers. The series focuses on how to become more deliberate in creating a work environment that enables and empowers your organization to achieve and exceed all your expectations. I call the concept that I’m going to share with you: Culture By Design.

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Stand Out Among Your Peers

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Why fit in, when you were born to stand out?” Dr. Seuss. It can be difficult to be recognized for your strengths, contributions, and abilities when working as a leader. Often times, we are one of many leaders, and our peer group can be very competitive and of very high quality.

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Leading a “Mozart”

Lead Change Blog

He was arguably the greatest composer who has ever lived. He wrote over 600 scores during his short 35 year life span. He was performing advanced piano works before kings at the age of five. As a teenager, Wolfgang Mozart once heard a full opera performed in the Sistine Chapel; he then went home and copied it completely from memory, including the parts played by each instrument in the orchestra.

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3 Significant Implications of Deciding to Pay Your Employees Daily

Women on Business

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Monday Quote

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “A leader without passion is merely a manager “ Chris R Stricklin. . How did you enjoy today’s post? If you liked what you read, sign up for our frequent newsletter by clicking HERE — and you’ll also receive our handy Leader’s Reference List. . … Read the rest.

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Vision, mission and values

N2Growth Blog

Sometimes we can be too clever and in the process lose sight of what it is we are trying to achieve. Such is the case with vision, mission and values statements. Every organization needs to have them, but in trying to craft them, we sometimes overshoot the mark and end up writing something that sounds to good to be true. Toward that end, here are three ways to define them.

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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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Catching Flies with Chopsticks

Lead Change Blog

I ran across a leadership quote that I’d say was a little atypical as leadership quotes go. It got my attention because it was from one of my favorite movies of all time: The Karate Kid. No, not the remake. The can’t-be-copied-original from 1984. The one with Pat Morita as Mr. Miyagi and Ralph Maccio as Daniel Larusso. I absolutely loved this movie because it was about a kid like me, who got pushed around by the more athletic – and blond – big shot of a bully.

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8 Powerful Strategies to Improve Your Credit Score

Women on Business

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Accuracy on the Internet: The Price of Freedom is Personal Responsibility

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

The Internet is one of the final frontiers. Untamed and unregulated, it offers huge opportunity for individual freedom in exploration and communication. With a smartphone, you have access to anything you want to know at all times. However, the price of this great freedom is increased personal responsibility. In the past, our information was curated […].

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3 Critical Factors To Help Your Team Stay The Course

Tanveer Naseer

When it comes to leading teams, the common focus in the leadership literature tends to be on team building; on answering the question of how do we rally people and get them on board and aligned with our company’s vision or long-term goals. Of course, this makes a lot of sense when we realize that our chances to succeed in pushing forth a new initiative or change mandate is dependent on how much our employees are genuinely invested in bringing their best efforts to transforming this idea in

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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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Business Hacks to Get Your Career Soaring

Lead Change Blog

Have you ever felt lost under the sea of career advice thrown at you? It is easy to get confused with words of wisdom coming your way from a million different directions but it is also equally important to remember that some of the business fundamentals have remained unchanged over the years. Here is a compilation of the tips and tricks of the trade that are guaranteed to take you to the top.

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5 Valuable Tips to Promote Your Online Business

Women on Business

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The Real Focus of Successful Leaders

Leadership Freak

Control, for the most part, is illusion. What happens when you try to control something outside your control? Anxiety. Stress. Fear. Frustration. Pressuring. Manipulation. Resentment.

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5 Phrases Successful Leaders Use

Nathan Magnuson

There’s incredible power in language. Words don’t merely convey ideas, they can change the course of history. The words you use as a leader matter too. Here are some simple but powerful phrases that set great leaders apart from the rest. “We” (not “me”). Leaders should think and communicate with inclusive language, as Coach K is fond of saying.

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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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What is Hormesis and How Does it Help My Hustle?

Lead Change Blog

Do you find it painful to take risks? Do you lean toward playing it safe in order to avoid failure, loss, or the unknown? Hustle , a book by Neil Patel, Patrick Vlaskovits, and Jonas Koffler that has just been released contends that we can best position ourselves to overcome fear of risk by a process called hormesis. Hormesis is repeated exposures to small doses of stressors and risk which don’t weaken but, surprisingly, strengthen our biological systems.

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Being a Better Businesswoman

Women on Business

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How to Lead Meetings People Love to Attend and Get Work Done at the Same Time

Leadership Freak

Unproductive meetings drive productive people nuts. If organizational culture is the way we treat each other while we work, Meetings are culture building activities. 10 reasons the meeting sucked: Bloviators.

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What leadership asks of you

Persuasive Powerhouse

If you’re a seasoned leader who has had ongoing success, you might find it easy to rest on your laurels. If you’re an aspiring or “apprentice” leader, you might make the mistake of believing that leadership is a piece of cake. No matter where you are in your leadership career it can be, at times, harder than you imagine. The truth is that most leaders were trained or educated in a specific job or career.

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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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Is Our Ethics Who We Are Or What We Do?

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton This week's question is about what defines our ethics - "Is our ethics based on who we are or what we do?" Some people would argue that we have a persona, a manner, either ethical or not. Others would say that it is our decisions and actions that define how ethical we are, and therefore our ethicality changes from moment to moment.

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What Every Career Woman Can Learn From Miss America

Women on Business

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How to Be Yourself While Becoming Yourself

Leadership Freak

New behaviors feel like showing up for dinner dressed like Micky Mouse. Frustration and disappointment are more comfortable than the discomfort of feeling inauthentic when you try on new leadership behaviors. People say, “Be yourself.

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The 4 Dimensions Of Extraordinary Leadership With Jenni Catron

Joseph Lalonde

T oday’s guest on the Answers From Leadership podcast is Jenni Catron.Jenni is a writer, speaker, and leadership expert committed to helping others lead from their extraordinary best. Jenni’s passion is to lead well and to inspire, equip and encourage others to do the same. She speaks at conferences and churches nationwide, seeking to help others develop their leadership gifts and lead confidently in the different spheres of influence God has granted them.

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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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Is Our Ethics Who We Are Or What We Do?

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton This week's question is about what defines our ethics - "Is our ethics based on who we are or what we do?" Some people would argue that we have a persona, a manner, either ethical or not. Others would say that it is our decisions and actions that define how ethical we are, and therefore our ethicality changes from moment to moment.

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How making decisions leads to freedom

Lead on Purpose

Making decisions is never easy. Deciding on one thing over another ranks high among the most difficult things we have to do. The tendency is to postpone decisions as long as we can and put of the pain.

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4 Steps on the Path to the Highest Good

Leadership Freak

Change may begin with declaration, but change efforts sputter until leaders change their own behaviors. 4 steps on the path to the highest good: #1. Paint a picture of the medium-term highest good.

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8 Ways To Improve Your Conference Experience

Joseph Lalonde

O ne of the best ways that I’ve found to experience exponential growth is through attending conferences and workshops. There, you are able to hear from thought leaders in your areas of interest. Listening and seeing the speakers are only one part of the experience. And probably the least productive way to grow. Image by Jim Lupack. My personal experience has been that there’s only so much I can take in from long sessions of speakers.

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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.