December, 2021

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How to Have a Better Relationship with Your Manager (with Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

If you’re looking to have a better relationship with your manager, start here. “Hi Karin, I’ve been applying a lot of the tools and techniques I’ve learned in your leadership development program, and I’m getting some nice momentum. And, now I’m wondering do you think any of these techniques could work in building a better relationship with my boss?

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The Best Leadership Books of 2021

Leading Blog

The political environment in the United States as elsewhere is driven by fear-based narratives. And that feeds our approach in society at large. It leads to short-term thinking. That’s not the way to lead. Leadership is about hope. Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi wrote, “the fundamental role of a leader is to look for ways to shape the decades ahead, not just react to the present, and to help others accept the discomfort of disruptions to the status quo.”.

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Interview with New York City’s WCBS Radio: Connection Provides Protection from Burnout and Suicide

Michael Lee Stallard

The holidays are a particularly difficult time for those who are already struggling with loneliness, depression, and feelings of hopelessness. This can lead to burnout or even suicidal thoughts. Fortunately, there is hope. As I shared in a recent conversation with Pat Farnack of New York City’s WCBS Radio , seeking counsel from a good therapist can help you to see a way forward.

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22 Quotes to Inspire Leaders in the New Year (Part 1)

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton Are your leaders prepared for the year ahead? Each day will bring new challenges, and to succeed within ethical boundaries, we’ll all need a clear picture of “good leadership.” This series is an annual tradition and this year’s posts include 22 quotes (each linked to a post with leadership guidance) to inspire you to grow your leadership skills to be ready for whatever 2022 may bring.

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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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My Favourite Podcast Guest Moments And Insights From 2021

Tanveer Naseer

As I mentioned in some of my episodes for my podcast “Leadership Biz Cafe”, 2021 marks the 10th year that I’ve been hosting this podcast. Although this is without question a major milestone to reach for any podcast, I never got around to making plans to celebrate this achievement on. Click to continue reading.

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Essential Steps for Leaders Who Feel Overwhelmed

Joseph Lalonde

Leaders in business may often find themselves feeling overwhelmed. When you have a lot to do and only a limited amount of time to use, it can seem like you’re never really going to be able to get everything done. Some periods may also be busier than others, making you feel even more rushed off […].

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Leading Thoughts for December 16, 2021

Leading Blog

I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi on leadership: “The fundamental role of a leader is to look for ways to shape the decades ahead, not just react to the present, and to help others accept the discomfort of disruptions to the status quo.”.

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When Grit Isn’t Enough: Protection from Burnout and Suicide

Michael Lee Stallard

Mike Ivy is not someone you would expect to contemplate taking his own life. His experience and accomplishments communicate grit and resilience. A trauma, critical care and acute care surgeon by training, Dr. Ivy grew up in the U.S. Navy. His father was a submarine sailor; Mike joined the Navy to pay for medical school and served nine years active duty.

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Conquer These Leadership Temptations In The New Year

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton We’re starting a new year, with fresh possibilities, and it is a good time to think about our leadership values. What do we believe? How do we treat others? What matters to us? Can people determine our values by watching how we treat people?

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How To Be A Good Leader In 2022

Tanveer Naseer

With the new evolving landscape, it is more important than ever to be a good leader to retain employees and keep them happy. With the new year coming sooner than later, now is a great time to consider additional steps that you can take to improve your leadership skills. That. Click to continue reading.

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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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Reflecting Back on the Year Ahead – 11 Ways to Make Your Reflection Session Pay Off

RapidStart Leadership

The arrival of a new year signals a time of reflecting on the old, but there's no owner's manual on how; here are 11 ways to make the most of it. The post Reflecting Back on the Year Ahead – 11 Ways to Make Your Reflection Session Pay Off appeared first on RapidStart Leadership.

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Addressing Problems with Your Peers

Let's Grow Leaders

What do you do when you see a problem and you want to bring it to your colleagues’ attention, but you’re worried it might create problems? This topic came in as a question from a member of the Let’s Grow Leaders community and it’s a fantastic opportunity to address some leadership challenges that everyone can empathize with. In this episode, you get three steps to use to address problems with your peers.

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Speak Your Truth So That Others Can Hear It

Leading Blog

W E often live in the dilemma of sharing what’s on our mind directly and truthfully or mollifying and suppressing what we really think. This, however, is a false dichotomy. We don’t just have to share our truth in a toxic way or suppress it. The other choice is to learn to speak our truth effectively, in a way that doesn’t contribute to fear and dysfunction on a team.

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Conversation with Pat Farnack on Why “Brutal” Honesty Isn’t Ideal in the Workplace

Michael Lee Stallard

Pat Farnack, longtime radio host on WCBS Newsradio 880 in New York City, recently interviewed me about the trend toward “brutal honesty” in the workplace and its unintended consequences. . While honesty is a good thing, brutal honesty often becomes an excuse for those with power to verbally abuse others. It creates a culture of control and fear rather than a culture of connection.

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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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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Spider-Man: No Way Home

Joseph Lalonde

A Reel Leadership Article. The third movie in the Sony/Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Spider-Man third movie. Tom Holland has starred as Peter Parker/Spider-Man in Homecoming, Far From Home, and, now, No Way Home. This third outing may be the best Spider-Man movie to date. No Way Home has everything a Spider-Man fan could want. Improved villains, a fantastic story, and […].

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Use Your Influence To Inspire A New Generation Of Leaders

Tanveer Naseer

One of the hallmarks of a great leader is their ability to raise up and inspire a new generation of leaders. They don’t hoard their talent, instead they look for opportunities to invest in others and they find ways to mentor and produce new leaders. Using your influence to build. Click to continue reading.

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Wishing You Renewal

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton As you enter the holiday season and 2021 comes to a close, I wish you a season of personal renewal. We have all lost something, whether it be time, independence, social interaction, a sense of safety, or good health.

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Appreciative Inquiry with Jackie Stavros and Cheri Torres

Let's Grow Leaders

Conversations are the soul of leadership. We all know that conversations influence us, but we rarely stop to think about how much impact they have on our well-being and our ability to thrive. The art of Appreciative Inquiry gives you the ability to have conversations that truly matter, build better relationships, and achieve more together. In this episode, Jackie Stavros and Cheri Torres give you 2 practices and 5 principles to create great conversations.

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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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Nailing It: How Historys Awesome Twentysomethings Got It Together

Leading Blog

R OBERT DILENSCHNEIDER looks at the lives of twenty-five accomplished men and women and asks what they were doing at around age 25 that led them to become the people they became in Nailing It: How History’s Awesome Twentysomethings Got It Together. Specifically, he looks at the influences like education, parents, friends, and events in the world that helped them make the choices they made.

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Lines for Leaders: Control Freak

RapidStart Leadership

Coach Tom Landry was famous for his stoic expression on the sidelines no matter what was happening on the field; here's what he said about leadership under pressure. The post Lines for Leaders: Control Freak appeared first on RapidStart Leadership.

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Pig

Joseph Lalonde

A Reel Leadership Article. Pig is a Hulu exclusive movie (you can also purchase the Blu-ray on Amazon) starring Nicolas Cage as hermit named Rob. Rob lives in a dilapidated shack. He chose to leave the hustle and bustle of the city after his wife passed away. Rob now makes a living selling truffles to Amir (Alex Wolff). These truffles are […].

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Resilience In Leadership

Tanveer Naseer

There is probably not a single corporate or business leader on planet Earth who will admit that the business they lead has no mission statement, business values or a sense of purpose. Yet a Deloitte study released in May 2020 when most of the world was in lockdown, the pandemic. Click to continue reading.

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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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22 Quotes to Inspire Leaders in the New Year (Part 2)

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton This series includes 22 quotes (linked to posts with leadership guidance) to inspire you and help you improve your leader development as we head into the new year. Part 1 included the first 11.

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Diversity Hiring Best Practices: Video with Arthur Woods

Let's Grow Leaders

Don’t Miss This Important Opportunity for Diversity Hiring. I’m having to do so much hiring because of the great resignation. I don’t want to miss the opportunity to do it right. What are some diversity hiring best practices? #AskingforaFriend? . Diversity hiring goes beyond checking boxes and percentages. It means looking at processes, language, and consideration of people of all kinds of varied backgrounds.

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Leading Thoughts for December 23, 2021

Leading Blog

I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Michael Useem on what got you here won’t get you there or reinventing yourself as you move forward: “The factors that led others to select you to manage a team, an office, or even an enterprise, are going to change as markets and methods evolve, pushing you to the edge, and making it vital to continually consider the additional leadership capacities req

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Lines for Leaders: What do You Think?

RapidStart Leadership

To lead effectively we need to be able to think clearly; here's what one highly accomplished author said about how she learned to think with clarity. The post Lines for Leaders: What do You Think? appeared first on RapidStart Leadership.

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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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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Red Notice

Joseph Lalonde

A Reel Leadership Article. Today’s Reel Leadership (Did you know the Reel Leadership book is releasing soon? Release date is December 20th. Keep checking back on jmlalonde.com for more updates) article comes from the movie Red Notice. Red Notice stars Dwayne Johnson as John Hartley, Ryan Renolds as Nolan Booth, and Gal Gadot as The Bishop. It’s a fun comedy that […].

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An Important End Of Year Lesson On Relationships And Leading People In The Digital Age

Tanveer Naseer

There’s an annual tradition that plays out this time of the year for most leaders where they split their focus between making sure they close out whatever goals or plans they had for the last quarter, and looking ahead to the next year and what need to be the new. Click to continue reading.

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A Lesson from Atticus Finch – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

Atticus Finch, Atticus Finch, you might immediately know who I mean and you might be thinking, I should know that name, shouldn’t I? Well, Atticus Finch is the protagonist in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. If you haven’t read it, you’ve probably seen the movie. If you haven’t done either, you should go watch […]. The post A Lesson from Atticus Finch – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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How to Empower Your Team During Times of Uncertainty (Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

Start here to empower your team, even when you don’t have all the answers. “Karin, there’s so much uncertainty these days. I feel like I’m caught in a constant wait-and-see sea of indecision. What can I do to empower my team to keep moving?” #AskingForaFriend. Lessons from Gail: Tips to Help Empower Your Team. 1. Create real clarity about what matters most and why.

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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.