May, 2016

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Can I Trust You As A Leader?

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” Ernest Hemingway. Do your followers trust you? What about your peers, or your family? Of course, you answer. Are you sure?

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Don’t Let This Relationship Undermine Your Success

Let's Grow Leaders

“The opposite of love is not hate– it’s indifference.” – Steven Pressfield. Megan approached me as soon as I left the stage. “Karin, I’m so with you on this not losing your soul thing… I resonated with everything you said… but for me it was the reverse. I wasn’t losing my soul at work, I was finding it.

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When Employee Engagement Efforts Fall Short, Try These 4 Steps

Michael Lee Stallard

Is your organization struggling to improve employee engagement? If so, you’re not alone. Some organizations have become so frustrated that their efforts are failing to produce results that they’ve given up entirely on engagement. When it comes to employee engagement, programs won’t do it. Something more is required. That something is culture change.

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How Great Leaders Value People

Lead Change Blog

Organizations of all sizes and industries are reimagining work cultures in this relationship economy. It’s all about the people. Consequently, servant leadership quickly is becoming the preferred practice for some of the biggest and best companies in the world. Here are three profound ways great leaders go about valuing their people. 1. Great leaders trust and believe in the people they lead.

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The HR Leader’s Workforce Management Guide

In today’s fast-paced business world, effective workforce management (WFM) isn’t just an option—it’s a necessity.

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The 4 Dimensions of Trust

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Trust is like a bank account. You start a new relationship with a certain amount of trust, and then over time you add to that account to build a solid foundation. And like a bank account, it can be emptied overnight, if you’re not careful about your investment. Why does it matter? Trust is the […]. The post The 4 Dimensions of Trust appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.

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7 Ways Leaders Can Empower Their Employees To Succeed

Tanveer Naseer

Of the many, many things that today’s leaders are expected to do, one of the most sought-after abilities in a leader is someone who can motivate and support those around them to bring their best selves to the work they do. Indeed, thanks to the transition from managing task workers to leading knowledge workers, being able to tap into the collective insights, experiences, and talents of those you lead has become a critical factor to determining an organization’s capacity to adapt and

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Frontline Festival: Leaders share tips about professional development

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. This month’s festival gives tips about professional development for leaders. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! Next month’s Frontline Festival is all about favorite apps and technology. What tools do you use to stay productive?

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Proof Positive: The 10 Pieces Of Employee Feedback That Lead To Leadership Greatness

Terry Starbucker

All leaders need to get good and consistent verbal feedback from their teammates, but there are 10 pieces of feedback in particular that ratify our more human effectiveness and eventually lead to leadership greatness. They are rich with meaning as to the kind of leader you are, and are destined to become. Every time I heard one of these sentences, I knew I was on the right track, and it spurred me on to keep reaching for greatness. 1.

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Stop Trying to Grow Influence. Grow this Instead.

Lead Change Blog

You will never be a leader. You won’t get that promotion. The bonus and salary increase you expect will be given to someone else. Your product won’t change the world. Your idea won’t go viral. Your organization will fade into history. The legacy you leave will be forgotten. And a generation from now no one will even know your name. Be honest. You’ve had these thoughts before.

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6 Actions Help ABC News Perform at the Top of Its Game

Michael Lee Stallard

ABC News does it right when it comes to workplace culture. Recently, I sat down with Zach Toback, Vice President, News and Non-Fiction Production & Studio Operation at ABC News in New York City and Ann Louden, Director of the TCU Center for Connection Culture. Ann and I wanted to learn how ABC News stays at the top of its game as a leader in an extremely competitive, demanding industry.

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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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7 Offline Marketing Tactics for Boosting Brand Awareness

Women on Business

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Sustaining High Performance In Your Teams

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.” Harold S. Green. You’re a leader of a team and you’ve invested a lot of time working through the kinks that come with making the members play nice together in the sandbox.

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Winning Well on CBS Baltimore with Gigi Barnett

Let's Grow Leaders

Today I’m delighted to share my Winning Well interview with Gigi Barnett on CBS Baltimore. Thanks for all you are doing to help spread the Winning Well word. Excited to see so many teams using it for their Spring Book groups. Would love to hear your insights and application. If you’re enjoying Winning Well, we would really appreciate your leaving an Amazon review.

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Leveling the Playing Field

Great Leadership By Dan

But how, if we do not even know if we are considered a leading player? Guest post by Rosalie Chamberlain It is really common to think we can assess someone and think we know how they will be. There is a certain amount of wishful thinking when a new employee comes on in an organization. After all, the resume is great, the experience may be great, and we really liked them.

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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 to Move Beyond “You’re Either With or Against Us”

Lead Change Blog

“Remove people from your life whose beliefs, ideas, and values aren’t aligned with yours. Make no compromises here.” Wow. That passage from a book a local businessman had written and asked me to read stopped me cold. As that position was opposite from mine, I wanted to explore his view in more detail. From his perspective, however, there was nothing to discuss.

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3 Practices to Protect Your People from Toxic Stress and Burnout

Michael Lee Stallard

Burnout is on the rise in healthcare. Increased stress and complexity, and the demands to achieve higher productivity are taking a toll. Each year nearly 400 physicians commit suicide , more than double the rate of the general population. Healthcare workers are also susceptible to anxiety, depression and addiction. What can be done? One of the most effective ways to address rising pressure on healthcare workers is to foster a life-giving culture of supportive relationships that benefits all, inc

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3 Ways to Help Women Entrepreneurs to Success

Women on Business

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Love and Leadership: A Tribute to a Selfless Warrior Leader

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life!” Leo Buscaglia. (I recently had the tremendous privilege of officiating the retirement of Chief Master Sergeant Mike Klintworth, a friend and warrior leader I served with in Afghanistan.

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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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When Transparency Goes Too Far

Let's Grow Leaders

My phone rang, “Karin I’ve just been told there’s going to be a restructure and significant downsizing. My team may or not be impacted. I have NO additional information, just that it will be months before all the dust settles.” Now, if you’ve been following my writing for any period of time you know I’m the poster child for transparency.

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Are You Giving The Right Message With Your Leadership?

Tanveer Naseer

A few weeks ago, my friend Whitney Johnson wrote a piece around perceptual biases that was inspired by something her daughter experienced in school one day. As Whitney describes in her piece, her daughter gave a presentation in one of her classes, a presentation she had spent much time and effort researching and practising. After she was done, her teacher commented “that was pretty good.

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The Character of Passionate Leadership

Lead Change Blog

Ivan the Terrible was worse than Leroy Brown. Not only was the Russian ruler meaner than a junk yard dog, he was the “baddest man in the whole dang world!” “The” was not his middle name; his middle name should have been “fighting.” He was a warrior’s warrior. He got up every morning ready, willing and eager for battle. He fought, not because that is what he did; he fought because that is who he was.

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6 Ways to Deal with Blamethrowing

Leadership Freak

Blamethrowers want others to change. The opposite of blame is responsibility. You learn when you take responsibility. Life remains the same when you blame.

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Innovation: Five Signs You Might Be Faking It

Every company wants to be a leader in innovation, but how can you tell if your company is really innovating or just going through the motions? See the 5 signs you might be faking innovation and what to do if you are.

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Don’t Be One Of These Bad Managers (InfoGraphic)

Joseph Lalonde

W e’ve all experienced a bad manager or two. Some of us have even experienced toxic leaders. Today, I want to share with you an awesome inforgraphic that shows 8 types of toxic managers and what you can do to deal with these toxic people. Infographic Courtesy of GetVoip. Don’t be a toxic leader. Rise above this type of poor leadership. You have it in you.

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Are you a Pirate or a Leader…or Both?

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power…a merry life and a short one, shall be my motto.” Bartholomew “Black Bart” Roberts.

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Is Your Mom a Winning Well Leader?

Let's Grow Leaders

Moms are full of wisdom, aren’t they? Many leaders credit their moms for their influence, such as: Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love. ~ Stevie Wonder. All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. ~ Abraham Lincoln.

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Why You Need an Advocate at Work

Career Advancement

“I learned a long time ago that the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.” ~ Maya Angelou. Melanie is in a total funk. She’s been supervisor in her high tech company for almost three years now. When she first came on board, she was considered somewhat of a superstar, a high potential, high achieving future leader.

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Tough Comp Conversations: A Guide For Doing Them Right

Speaker: Rusty Lindquist, VP Strategic HR Insights at Bamboo HR

Compensation can be tricky, few things carry as much emotional weight as comp. And with the increased transparency in the market, combined with our collective propensity to rate ourselves against others, the frequency of these very difficult conversations is increasing. In this webinar, we will deconstruct some of the psychology around comp. We’ll take an analytic look at comp’s role in the employee experience, and then we’ll get really tactical with guidance on very specific compensation conver

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Star Spangled Leadership

Lead Change Blog

Teddy Roosevelt once said, “This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.” We make the difference. Whether it’s our workplaces, churches, schools or communities, you and I are the determining factors about the goodness of this place we call home. The same can be said for us as a nation.

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5 Reasons to Outsource Your Payroll

Women on Business

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The Top 10 Rules for Talking Like a Leader

Leadership Freak

It’s deadly to fall in love with your own voice, but the higher you go, the more you need to talk effectively. Brevity with clarity is gold in a frenetic world.

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Dynamic Dozen: You Have to Decide

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “No! Do or do not. There is no try.” Yoda. I had to decide and there really weren’t any good choices. Balancing security with the “need for speed” completing construction in preparation for the invasion of Iraq.

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Why (and How) to Switch to a New HR & Payroll Platform

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HR and payroll impact every aspect of your business. Choosing the right provider is one of the most important decisions you’ll make. Before you decide, hear first-hand customer accounts in Paycor’s webinar to learn: The three most important things to look for when switching. How to begin your search. What are some of the red flags?