Wed.May 08, 2024

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The Genius of Listening to Stories

Leadership Freak

Stories invite engagement. I'm talking about hearing another's story, not telling yours. Your greatest tool of influence is your ears. People light up when they tell their story. We're adrift without facts. We're barren without stories. This post shows you how to invite people to tell their story.

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Bridging Cultural Differences

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton Openness to learning about other cultures has become a necessary component of leadership. One way to help people respect cultural differences is to build what UNESCO calls “intercultural competence.” To accomplish this, we need an open mind, and a willingness to learn from others who do not think or live as we do.

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Understanding The Importance of Communicating Appreciation In Today’s Workplaces

Tanveer Naseer

There’s no question that being an effective communicator is critical to succeeding at leadership. But as my guest in this episode of my “Leadership Biz Cafe” podcast points out, a leader’s ability to express the right kind of appreciation to their employees is key to driving employee growth and success.

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Is Taking Work Personally Sabotaging Your Success? Find Out Now

Lead from Within

It’s not uncommon for individuals to invest a significant part of themselves into their work. While dedication and commitment are admirable traits, there comes a point where taking work personally can have detrimental effects on one’s success. As an executive leadership coach, I’ve seen how this challenge can hinder professional growth and personal well-being.

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Reduce Bias in Hiring: Structured Interview Questions for Employers

Structured interview questions are a valuable tool for reducing bias in hiring. They help: Ensure all candidates are asked the same questions in the same way Level the playing field so all candidates have a fair chance of being successful Improve credibility, reliability, and validity Download the guide to get the most out of your interview questions!

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Company Culture Prevents Many Men From Taking Paternity Leave

The Horizons Tracker

In many countries, even if there are laws about dads getting time off when a baby is born, the way workplaces operate and traditional views on who takes care of kids can be old-fashioned. A recent study from the John Molson School of Business looked at how guys working in French accounting firms felt about taking paternity leave. The results showed that these men wanted to spend more time with their partners and new babies.

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Giving Authority and Responsibility to Your Team Members

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Giving your team the authority to make important decisions improves trust, satisfaction, and accountability. Members of high performing teams are going to be the most satisfied when they feel like they can have an impact on the outcome of their work. And to get to that point you need to understand the difference between accountability and responsibility and then how authority interplays with both of them.

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CMI Student of the Year: “I found the course incredible”

Chartered Management Institute

Article: CMI Student of the Year: “I found the course incredible” Written by Jamie Oliver Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email University project manager Ellie Pickering was a “classic” accidental manager – so she jumped at the idea to do a management apprenticeship, and later picked up a CMI Award to boot “As the team grew, I kind of floated to the top.

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The Performance Benefits of a Portfolio Review

Strategy Driven

The product and service portfolio is the aspect of business planning with the least certainty. Adept portfolio management is paramount for sustained growth and competitiveness, especially in today’s difficult and volatile economic environment. Fortunately for those organizations with an effective Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process, the Portfolio Review provides a mechanism to navigate the complexities of product lifecycles, market dynamics, and resource allocation to meet the organ

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“It starts with trust”: How to make your tech company more inclusive

Chartered Management Institute

Listicle: “It starts with trust”: How to make your tech company more inclusive Written by David Waller Wednesday 08 May 2024 Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email From pay disparities to unconscious biases, women still face a host of barriers when joining or progressing through emerging sectors. Here’s how you can help dismantle those hurdles… When Lauren Trevelyan CMgr FCMI moved into her first IT role, she found the prospect of the “tech geek” space incredi

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Mastering Leadership: Insights from The Vagrant

Skip Prichard

How can the parable of “The Vagrant” inform your leadership style? I love a good parable. It’s why I wrote The Book of Mistakes the way I did. Because, as John David Mann, one of my guests on this week’s “ Aim Higher ” said, “Stories are the way we communicate wisdom.” John David is the coauthor of the award-winning classic The Go-Giver. And I got a chance to sit down for a lively, fascinating talk with him and Dan Rockwell, creator of the very popular Leadership Freak Blog.

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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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Employers Should Help Workers Connect With Their Workplace

The Horizons Tracker

Before the pandemic, companies spent a lot of money redoing their offices: cubicles were ditched in favor of open, flexible layouts, often featuring perks like ping pong tables and stocked kitchens. Now, post-pandemic, companies are switching things up once more, creating hot-desking and hoteling spaces for employees working in a hybrid model. However, recent research from Berkeley Haas indicates that if leaders want to boost employee engagement, they should focus less on changing the office lay

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Five tips on modern management from the FT’s careers editor

Chartered Management Institute

Article: Five tips on modern management from the FT’s careers editor Written by Beth Gault Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email Isabel Berwick spoke to CMI for its Leading Issue series of interviews – here’s what she had to say about managers in the modern workplace There isn’t a single “template” for a good manager, says Isabel Berwick, work and careers editor at The Financial Times.

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Only Learning Leaders Can Transform the Extreme Rate of Transformation Failures

The Practical Leader

As Yogi Berra would say, “It was Deja vu all over again.” Five years earlier, we’d conducted introductory service/quality improvement workshops for senior management and head office staff of a large company. Culture and feedback surveys gathered input before and during these follow-up workshops. The company clearly had problems with low engagement, faltering customer service, rising costs from inefficient processes and quality problems, and low innovation.

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What’s in a name? The power of giving your project the right title

Chartered Management Institute

Article: What’s in a name? The power of giving your project the right title Written by Ian Wylie Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email As a consultant, whether you want to grab people’s attention or rally the team for long-term change, it’s worth putting the time into naming projects effectively. Here’s why it matters – and what to watch out for… The title given to an IT or other change project can often seem like a trivial afterthought.

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The HR Leader’s Survival Guide

HR leaders drowning in paperwork struggle to meet C-suite's strategic expectations. Burnout and high turnover plague the field, with 95% feeling overwhelmed. This guide explores how the right tools can free HR from admin tasks and empower them to become the strategic leaders they’re meant to be.

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Asking for Feedback at Work Is How You Can Choose to Grow

HR Digest

Asking for feedback at work can feel like a double-edged sword. On one hand, you might find some useful recommendations to increase the quality of your work, but on the other hand, you might open yourself up to criticism that is more harsh than you were expecting. While the fear is understandable, requesting feedback from a manager can bring you insightful notes that make the experience worth investing in.

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Ageless beauty: How to manage multi-generational teams

Chartered Management Institute

Article: Ageless beauty: How to manage multi-generational teams Written by Jamie Oliver Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email If older workers bring the wisdom of experience, their younger peers can inject energy and fresh ideas. Here’s how to ensure those cohorts connect… Back in the 1990s, Baroness Greengross and a futurologist visited the B&Q board to show them how the UK’s demographics would look in 2020.

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How to Present to an Audience That Knows More Than You

Harvard Business Review

What happens when you have to give a presentation to an audience that might have some professionals who have more expertise on the topic than you do? While it can be intimidating, it can also be an opportunity to leverage their deep and diverse expertise in service of the group’s learning. And it’s an opportunity to exercise some intellectual humility, which includes having respect for other viewpoints, not being intellectually overconfident, separating your ego from your intellect, and being wi

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Highlights – 8 May

Chartered Management Institute

Article: Highlights – 8 May Wednesday 08 May 2024 Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email Respect, recognition and rabbits: How to get the most out of your teams 8 May View all 2023 CMI Highlights “Think about your workplace… how people respond when they feel respected.” So said Sir Keir Starmer in a recent speech at the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers' (Usdaw) Annual Conference.

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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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Using Data to Design Your Hybrid Work Policies

Harvard Business Review

We’ve seen how fully remote work can lead to a loss of connection and development opportunities, particularly those that require observational learning, or learning by watching someone else do it. However, people still want to work from home at least some of the time because of the greater work-life balance and personal productivity that they experience.

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Research: Negotiating Is Unlikely to Jeopardize Your Job Offer

Harvard Business Review

Job seekers worry about negotiating an offer for many reasons, including the worst-case scenario that the offer will be rescinded. Across a series of seven studies, researchers found that these fears are consistently exaggerated: Candidates think they are much more likely to jeopardize a deal than managers report they are. This fear can lead candidates to avoid negotiating altogether.

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What’s Behind the Success of Some Tech Start-Ups?

Harvard Business Review

Their corporate culture often focuses on unconventional solutions to hard business problems.

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When Your Star Employee Leaves

Harvard Business Review

How to help your team cope with the shock, sadness, and stress.

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Streamline Your HR Processes with a Free HR Process Checklist Template

A process checklist is a valuable tool for any HR professional to help ensure that all tasks are completed on time and accurately and improve communication and collaboration among team members.