Sat.Dec 09, 2017 - Fri.Dec 15, 2017

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End-of-Year Meetings: How to Make Yours Remarkable

Let's Grow Leaders

In one way or another, your team has had an incredible year. Fill in the blank: It was incredibly __(successful, challenging, stressful). Maybe it was all you hoped and planned for. Maybe you got thrown a whopper of a curve ball. Or […].

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5 Ways to Lead Change in a Change-Averse Environment

Lead Change Blog

Despite the constancy of change in today’s global marketplace, the environment for change in many organizations is unfriendly at best. Few organizations have the appetite for change found at Facebook, Google, Amazon, and other innovative firms. I work extensively with CPAs, CFOs, and other technical professionals; a group not known for its propensity to change.

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Three Tips for Leading Your Team Into a New Year

Michael Lee Stallard

As the current year draws to a close, now is the time to establish your plan to begin the new year on a strong note. Here are three tips for leading your team into a new year of goals. STEP 1: REFOCUS. Review progress toward current year goals and define the top five priorities you want your team to accomplish in the coming year. Why five priorities?

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How Organizations Can Help New Leaders To Succeed

Tanveer Naseer

Without question, one of the common tasks organizations everywhere have to deal with is leadership development. Whether it’s due to an aging workforce or the growing numbers of Millennials now moving their way through the workplace, there’s no question that developing the next group of leaders will play a key role in an organization’s growth and success in the coming years.

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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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6 Ways to Get the Information You Need to Make the Best Decisions

Let's Grow Leaders

Mark stared at the floor, his jaw clenched in frustration. I was sitting with a leader who had just crashed and burned. He’d made a decision that had cost him his reputation and maybe his job. He looked up at me and […].

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Focus on Clarity

Lead Change Blog

There’s a saying that says that we don’t remember the days, we only remember the moments. I’m sure you were probably out having lots of fun this holiday season with friends and family making the most of every moment. And I bet you were also probably capturing some of those magical moments with a camera – probably the one on your smartphone. As you know, most cameras that people use today, like on a smartphone, come with something called “autofocus.

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Hey Leader… PHAT is Good For You!

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Dean Lindsay : I read a funny cartoon in Fast Company magazine a good while back. It was of two fish swimming next to each other. One of the fish had a hook dangling from its mouth. That fish said, “Oh, it was a scary couple of minutes, but now I am making a fortune as a motivational speaker.” A few times over the years I have been referred to as a motivational speaker and at first I really didn’t care for it.

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Which Online Marketing Methods Should I Use?

Women on Business

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Integrity and Trustworthiness: A Lost Art?

Lead Change Blog

“You are only as good as your word.” This used to be a popular, if trite and overstated concept. Unfortunately, in many circles today, the mantra may sound to many as some quaint old notion. We all know that, in reality, it’s far more than that. Without high integrity – without an implicit trust that people can fully believe you actually mean what you say – all of our interactions with other people are cheapened dramatically.

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How Leaders Defeat Insecurity and Build Bold Teams

Leadership Freak

You produce weakness in others when you exercise power unless you use power to fill others with confidence. You cannot empower people by exercising power over 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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There's a Password for Every Door

Leading Blog

H OW DO YOU make things happen? How does it feel to not be afraid? Steve Sims, the founder of Bluefish , has built a company that gets things done. Bluefish makes seemingly out-of-reach, change-your-life, experiences happen. Experiences like training with the Navy Seals, singing with your favorite band, watching Formula 1 in Monaco with royalty, having a private dinner at the feet of Michelangelo’s David while being sung to by Andrea Bocelli, and being James Bond for the weekend.

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How to Ensure Your Savings Beat Inflation

Women on Business

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Be a Contrarian with Grace

Lead Change Blog

Every workgroup needs a contrarian. People with different points of view, experiences, or attitudes move conversation and decision-making to a higher level. They aid in getting unconventional ideas and options noticed, comfort zones expanded, and results improved. That’s the upside. Some contrarians can also bring things to a complete halt. The Urban Dictionary defines a contrarian as “someone who automatically tends to take the opposite point of view from the person to whom they’re speaki

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Leading your team through a crisis

Persuasive Powerhouse

Every once in a while, I work with a leader who heads up an organization that has been traumatized by an event or situation. This can be difficult work for the leader because they need to acknowledge and work with the suffering the employees are experiencing while continuing to move forward with the organizational mission. Helping a team work through something that devastated them is hard work that every leader may not be naturally cut out for.

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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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Stop Living In The Past

Joseph Lalonde

It's okay to visit but not live there I’m a huge proponent of using your past to help propel you towards your future. You have a long list of victories you’ve accomplished in your past. From the first client you landed for your organization to the process improvement you suggested which saved the business millions of dollars to helping out on the shop floor so production could keep going.

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Turn Your Trading into a Career

Women on Business

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Eight Ways to Be a Better Employee in 2018

Kevin Eikenberry

If you work, you are an employee. Much of what I write about here is about leadership and how to be more effective in helping others choose to follow us in the pursuit of desirable outcomes. But every leader is a member of the team too. Even the CEO, even the owner. For the next […]. The post Eight Ways to Be a Better Employee in 2018 appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Do you have the Global Mindset Necessary to Lead your Team?

Leadership Freak

New Book Giveaway!! 20 free copies of Destination Facilitation: A Travel Guide to Training Around the World.

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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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How To Overcome Self-Doubt

Joseph Lalonde

Your mind is lying to you. One of the things I’ve battled with throughout my life has been self-doubt. I doubt that I’m good enough. I doubt people like me. And I doubt I make an impact on the world. No one has told me any of those things. Yet my mind replays those thoughts on an almost daily basis. Image by Evan Rummel. Self-doubt mocks me.

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What to Offer Your Employees to Improve Their Wellbeing

Women on Business

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Book Notes – Originals by Adam Grant

RapidStart Leadership

What does it take to question the status quo and produce something original? That’s the question that author Adam Grant poses in his 2016 book Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World. The answer he reaches might surprise you. Grant takes us on a journey through recent history, into the psychology lab, and behind the doors of inventors and investors to get at the core of how originality happens.

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How to Seize End-of-Year-Power

Leadership Freak

End of year conversations carry unique weight. Why not stoke some fires? A forward-facing conversation with you transforms attitudes. A good word from you energizes effort.

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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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Top 10 Posts from 2017

Nathan Magnuson

6 years. That’s how long this Everyday Leadership blog has been running. I hope you’ve seen your leadership awareness and effectiveness grow over this time – as have mine. Below I’ve compiled the top 10 posts of 2017. You can also view the Top 10 list from past years. If you’re not a subscriber yet, sign up to receive my free content in 2018 and I’ll send you my ebook Trusted Leadership Advisor as well!

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When Your Social Media and Business Lives Collide

Women on Business

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The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact

Kevin Eikenberry

by Chip Heath and Dan Heath Have you ever wondered why when you go on a vacation, certain moments seem to encapsulate how you feel and what you remember about the entire trip? Have you ever thought about exactly why some moments have been so memorable and important in your life’s journey? This book by […]. The post The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Solution Saturday: I’m a Junior Manager but Should be a Director

Leadership Freak

Dear Dan, I hope you can help me with my question. It is related to the impact of the job titles/ levels in companies while you are negotiating.

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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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The Case for Including White Men in the Corporate Diversity Discussion

leaderCommunicator

A recent Ernst & Young survey arrived at an interesting but not entirely surprising conclusion about white men in the workplace: they feel excluded from workplace inclusion efforts, which can hinder real progress on diversity and inclusion. The White Male Perspective on Workplace Diversity Efforts. Ernst & Young LLP’s recent survey, “ EY Studies Race, Gender and Exclusion at Work ,” was an attempt to study different demographic groups’ sense of “belonging” and see if respondents have fel

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Sales Secrets

Coaching Tip

How to read prospects and decode subconscious signals to get results and close the deal. Ordinary salespeople sell. Extraordinary sales professionals engage. . Part of what sets them apart is their ability to understand body language, both their prospects' and their own, and use it to their advantage. Jim McCormick teams up with renowned body-language author Maryann Karinch to divulge insider information in BODY LANGUAGE SALES SECRET S. .

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Leaders Go First – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

When we think of “leaders going first”, we often think of those emergency scenes that we normally only see on television – the platoon leader going first; the fire chief leading his team through danger. But the truth is all leaders can be “heroes” and can go first. In today’s video, I’m sharing every day […].

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An Email Invitation to a Forward-Facing End of Year Conversation

Leadership Freak

The greatest gifts a leader gives are a caring heart, a listening ear, and a forward-facing approach. It’s better to run to the light than splash in the mud.

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The First 90 Days: Onboarding Checklist

While onboarding, don’t let yourself get caught up in administrative details. Automate paperwork & training so new hires can focus on the business at hand from day one. Get Paycor’s checklist to see where your company can make HR process improvements.