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How Do I Find a Great Mentor?

Let's Grow Leaders

I can’t tell you how many times someone has asked me to be their mentor, and when I asked what they were looking to accomplish–I was met with a blank stare. I guess they were just looking for me to start espousing wisdom to help get their career to the next level. But mentoring doesn’t work that way. To find a great mentor, start by being a rock star mentee.

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The Sky is Falling: How Leaders Become Heroes

Lead Change Blog

We have a problem. Sound familiar? Members of every organization across the land have uttered these four words, because things inevitably go wrong. Unplanned events occur, uncontrollable variables pop into view, or someone says or does something they shouldn’t have. If these walls could talk, right? The problems will never go away, so it is how we respond to them that matters most.

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The 6 Biggest Reasons Why Unhappy Employees Quit Their New Jobs

Career Advancement

“Employees who believe that management is concerned about them as a whole person – not just an employee – are more productive, more satisfied, more fulfilled. Satisfied employees mean satisfied. customers, which leads to profitability.” ~Anne M. Mulcahy, former CEO of Xerox~. Client Theresa asks: Over the past year, two great employees on my team quit their new job.

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Leadership Biz Cafe Podcast #21 – Tim Sanders On Why Bizlove Is Critical For Today’s Leadership

Tanveer Naseer

When it comes to our leadership, how generous are we with the knowledge we have and the people we know in terms of helping others to succeed? And why is this so critical to our ability to succeed as leaders? That’s the focus of my conversation with best-selling author and former executive Tim Sanders. Tim is a New York Times bestselling author, speaker, and former Yahoo Chief Solutions Officer.

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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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The “Be Attitudes” of Building Trust in the Workplace

N2Growth Blog

Not to be confused with the biblical reference to the beatitudes shared in the Sermon on the Mount, these “be attitudes” are suggestions that you may consider adopting to help you and your colleagues to establish better trust within your workplace. I hope that you find them worthy to put into practice: 1. Be Real, for it Inspires Confidence: Authenticity goes a long way in establishing trust in the workplace.

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The Leader as Witness

Lead Change Blog

My mother is north of 100 years old and still active. She resides in an assisted living facility in a tiny town in South Georgia. With Mother’s Day approaching, my wife and I treated my mother to lunch at an old-fashioned barbeque restaurant in a nearby town that sported one traffic light, two gas stations, and five churches. . Now, before I go any further, you should know this geographical area is ground zero for the Bible belt in its purest form.

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Want Your Team More Engaged? Remove the Weapons of Mass Distraction

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Guest Post by Victor Prince I used to be a “busy executive” with two phones strapped to my belt in the office – one for work and one for personal use. In most meetings, I put the phones on the table in front of me so I could see if I had any incoming messages. […]. The post Want Your Team More Engaged? Remove the Weapons of Mass Distraction appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.

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5 Sites for Globally Responsible Business Leadership

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton It has become clear that a global economy requires more than local or regional thinking. Our information and commerce are globally connected. Our greatest human challenges are global and must be solved globally. We are connected by a shared future, with one region’s success deeply connected to another’s success. Global changes tend […].

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How GRIT Makes the Difference Between Failure and Success

Lead Change Blog

In 2007, I had the opportunity to change jobs. Changing jobs is in itself challenging, because you have to prove yourself in a new environment. The challenge was compounded by being in school pursuing a M.A. in Strategic. Communication and Leadership at Seton Hall. The compounded challenges got even better; I was assigned a new project and a failed project.

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How to Build Trust with Your Clients

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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How I Leveraged A Big Leadership Fail Into My First Leadership Win

Terry Starbucker

I’m pleased to present another chapter from my “More Human” book manuscript. It’s a personal memoir that traces the discovery and development of my More Human Leadership philosophy, a practice guided by 8 core principles. One of them is “Finding and Teaching More Human Leaders” , and this chapter is the story behind that bullet point – it’s how I made the transition from a “boss who managed” to a “leader who teaches and shows the way”

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Just Do The Opposite.

Rich Gee Group

“Pay more attention to what losers do wrong than to what winners do right.”. Really? Aren’t you supposed to focus on the stars and mimic each step they’ve taken to get where they are? How many self-help and business books are out there prognosticating the way to our success? Millions. The truth: Most successful people don’t actually know why they’re successful.

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Stretching past your fear

Persuasive Powerhouse

Very few leaders will claim that they are fearful of anything. Other words might be used because the word fear in itself is frightful. They might say that they “avoid” something, “mistrust” someone, or have “anxiety” – perhaps more acceptable terms to use. In the end, if pressed, many good leaders fear of one or more of the following. Which of these resonate with you?

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How Are You Balancing Things?

Women on Business

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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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Empathy Protects You From Being a Jerkhole

Leadership Freak

Boldness, toughness, and grit are great leadership qualities, but empathy makes them effective. Apart from empathy leaders are jerkholes. Empathy is: Empathy is stepping into someone’s experience.

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Peter Drucker on The Effective Executive

QAspire

Ultimately, leadership is all about ability to act on the ideas. In that sense, anyone who thinks of the self as a leader has to be good at executing things. Probably a reason why top leaders in organizations are referred to as executives – the one who executes, not just someone with a fancy title and corner office. Leadership is a very broad term and leaders in organizations come in all shapes and sizes – from introverted to extraverted, charismatic to simple, people oriented versus task orient

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4 Decisions Every Leader Has To Make

Joseph Lalonde

When you begin to lead, you may not realize leadership is full of decisions. Not all of them are fun. There are decisions every leader has to make. Some will be great. Some will be frustrating. And others will be sad. Knowing that you’re going to have to make hard choices going into leadership does make the painful struggle better. Though the preparation doesn’t fully equip you for the choices you’ll have to make.

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5 Reasons Why Your E-commerce Website Needs a Mobile App

Women on Business

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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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Your destiny.

Jason Womack

Write. And not just what is, or what must be done - although those too are important to note. Write to think. To have a new thought and then a new, newer thought. Use the ink, and the pages, to.

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10 Things that Make Dumb Leaders Smart Today

Leadership Freak

One of the best things to discover is your own lack of brilliance. Brain function goes down when you’re: Stressed out. If stress makes you dumb, some leaders must be dim-wits.

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WHE32: Boosting Stress Resilience for Employees | with Andrew Shatté

Engaging Leader

“Stress is the new fat. It makes us sick, depletes us emotionally, and diminishes our quality of life.” ~ Jan Bruce, co-author of meQuilibrium Just like managing weight, managing stress is about becoming aware of personal choices and making better ones, and rewiring thought patterns so that an individual’s habits sustain well-being rather than sabotage […] “Stress is the new fat.

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4 Reasons Your Business Needs a Virtual Data Room

Women on Business

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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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How to Rapidly Resolve Crises in Your Business

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Nat Greene: You can probably remember a dozen times just like this: you’re at the head of a conference table with a haggard, tired team sitting about you. They’re anxious, but eager to take action. You’ve assembled them because a new crisis has arisen in the business: it might be a risk to your best customer, a production shutdown, or a new product release gone terribly awry.

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4 Ways to Win Over Negative Team Members

Leadership Freak

#1. Don’t minimize the concerns of negative people. When you say, “It’s not that bad,” to someone who thinks it’s bad, they think that you don’t get it. You’re out of touch.

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The One Quality That Will Make You Into A Great Leader

Lead from Within

Many people have different ideas about what makes great business, great leadership, great influence. Some base it on results, profit or success, but after working with top performers and leaders around the world I’ve found that there is one aspect, one trait that makes all the difference in the world. It’s leading with a conscience. When you lead with a conscience, you put your values first; doing what’s right goes at the top of the list.

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Get Selfish – One Entrepreneur’s Tips to Nailing Your Self-Care Routine

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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Leadership Lessons And Quotes From War For The Planet Of The Apes

Joseph Lalonde

A Reel Leadership Article In July 2014, I shared leadership lessons from Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Today, I’m happy to bring you leadership lessons from War for the Planet of the Apes. War for the Planet of the Apes is the last film in the new Planet of the Apes trilogy. And she leaves us with an epic leadership message. Warning: Spoilers for War of the Planet of the Apes below.

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Howling at The Moon: One Way to Handle Criticism

RapidStart Leadership

It can be tough to handle criticism. As leaders we need to be open and ready to listen to the good, the bad, and the ugly. How we respond to that criticism after listening can take many forms. The story is told of a man out walking with Abraham Lincoln one day. The friend spoke to him about anti-Lincoln sentiment that was growing in Washington and around the country.

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How to Overcome Bitterness After Being Passed Over

Leadership Freak

Disappointments brings you to a perilous series of choices. I don’t mean to speak lightly, but if you’re bitter, you chose it. Feeling hurt isn’t a choice.

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5 Success Tips for Introvert Women

Women on Business

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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.