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Sorting The Wheat From The Chaff When It Comes To Leadership Advice

Joseph Lalonde

When you become a leader, everyone will have an opinion about what you’re trying to do. We’re all closest leaders, after all, waiting to have our say. All your friends who never had the guts to go it alone will soon come out of the crack. Even people that you don’t know will likely try […] The post Sorting The Wheat From The Chaff When It Comes To Leadership Advice appeared first on Joseph Lalonde.

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Is Your Organization Digitally Mature?

Leading Blog

W E’RE not in Kansas anymore. Unlike Dorothy in the movie version of the Wizard of Oz , there’s no going back. Many companies experience digital disruption in the same way as the tornado in the Wizard of Oz —swept up by forces beyond their control. But the story is not about the tornado, but how they made their way through the strange new world they found themselves in.

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Are You Listening?

Lead Change Blog

To truly “seek to understand” someone, you have to slip into that person’s frame of reference. This includes understanding the person’s values, experience, knowledge, and emotion. You have to understand the elements of the other person, how the person ticks. You must try to climb into the person’s head and experience the world as he or she does. The best way to get into someone else’s frame of reference is to listen.

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How to Be Okay When It’s Time to Fire a Poor Performer

Let's Grow Leaders

It takes compassion and strength to fire a poor performer Have you ever been reluctant to fire a poor performer? You might identify with Mary. She approached David as he finished delivering a leadership development program and introduced herself. “I was the […]. The post How to Be Okay When It’s Time to Fire a Poor Performer appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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Cheerleadership is not Leadership. Cheerleadership creates fake believers

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by Ryan Berman : Imagine for a second that your boss is miles away from the day-to-day. A sufferer of Corner Office Syndrome he or she continues to make command decisions without consulting the team. The decisions are astounding to you and you start to question these far-off choices. Now, your attention isn’t on doing the right thing for the business, but on how to stop the wrong thing your boss has put in play.

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Becoming a 100X Leader

Leading Blog

A 100X LEADER is a 100% healthy leader who multiplies that mindset to those they lead. A leader that climbs their own Mount Everest every day and acts as a Sherpa to others at the same time. A 100X leader has become a leader worth following and builds leaders worth following. Jeremie Kubicek and Steve Cockram wrote The 100X Leader to help you become a 100X Leader in all spheres of influence in your life—leading yourself, a company, a team, or a family—and to become a Sherpa for others.

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Leadership Unchained Interview with Sara Canaday

Let's Grow Leaders

The world has changed – has your leadership changed with it? Join me for an interview with Sara Canaday where we discuss conventional leadership wisdom that hurts you – and what to do instead. We dive into her latest book, Leadership Unchained, where […]. The post Leadership Unchained Interview with Sara Canaday appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Strategic Networking is Key for Women Professionals

Women on Business

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How to Use Discomfort to Drive High-Performance

Leading Blog

I T SHOULD go without saying that coaching as opposed to just managing people, is the key to developing high-performance organizations and teams. Leaders must be coaches. Any growth but especially growth leading to high-performance requires a degree of discomfort. It is the job of the coach to maintain a healthy discomfort for those on their team. In The Coaching Effect , Bill Eckstrom and Sarah Wirth have created the Growth Rings model to show why exponential and sustained growth only occurs in

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Conflict Without Casualties

Lead Change Blog

When people misuse conflict energy, it becomes drama: they struggle against themselves or each other to feel justified about their negative behavior. The cost is staggering. Drama costs the US workforce over $350 billion per year in lost productivity, absenteeism, passive-aggressive behavior, and wasted energy. Drama-based organizations and relationships operate at a fraction of their capacity.

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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 to Answer the Question You Can’t Answer

Let's Grow Leaders

Has this ever happened to you? You prepare carefully for a meeting with your team or your boss. You think you’ve covered all your bases. And then here it comes, the question you can’t answer. What you say next matters– a lot. […]. The post How to Answer the Question You Can’t Answer appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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One Thing All Small Business Owners Must Do To Protect Their Data

Women on Business

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Can You Win The Hearts Of Your Team?

Joseph Lalonde

Win The Heart Book Giveaway. What do you think about when you hear “Win the heart?” Does your mind wander to the love of your life and how you wooed her off her feet? Or does it make you think of your little princess and how she constantly makes you fall in love with her over and over again? What […] The post Can You Win The Hearts Of Your Team?

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Introducing Newbies Isn’t Always Easy

Lead Change Blog

Louie, my adopted pup since 2013, has experienced a lot of loss over the last year. We wrote about two of those losses, Ellie and Mick , in previous blogs. Our neighborhood grieved over the loss of these beloved companions. Though it took some time, Mick’s and Ellie’s families welcomed new puppies into their homes. We’ve also noticed many other families in the neighborhood with new puppies as we take our daily walks.

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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 Know What Scares Your Team Right Now

Let's Grow Leaders

Do you know what scares your team the most right now? Your job is to reduce ambiguity and build courage and hope. So you’re doing the best you can to ensure everyone feels safe. But it’s not easy. Because if you’re like […]. The post How to Know What Scares Your Team Right Now appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Finding Money for Your Marketing Plan

Women on Business

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What To Do When You’re Tired

Joseph Lalonde

It’s just past noon as I write this. My eyelids feel heavy and all I want to do is close them. I’m tired… Leadership can drain on the leader. There’s so much responsibility and accountability, you can feel exhausted just waking up. The weight is always there. But you and I, we weren’t created to live […] The post What To Do When You’re Tired appeared first on Joseph Lalonde.

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6 Practices to Change Your Charity Sustainably

Lead Change Blog

I fully understand and have the first-hand experience of the many challenges faced by those who lead a a small charity or volunteer organisation. That is why some of my work, including a significant current assignment, leads me to today’s thinking. We all live in a VUCA world. While most often our change writing focuses on the business community, the pressures of V olatility, U ncertainty, C omplexity and A mbiguity apply equally to colleagues in other sectors.

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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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Establishing Trust: Why the Details Matter

RapidStart Leadership

How do we establish trust? We know that establishing trust is a key to leading well, but how do we go about it? An unexpected encounter in the back of a dark garage shines a light on how we can build the trust we need to lead. Not as it … Establishing Trust: Why the Details Matter Read More ». The post Establishing Trust: Why the Details Matter appeared first on RapidStart Leadership.

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What It Means To “Approach It Like a Coach”

Kevin Eikenberry

There are nearly as many ways to lead as there are leaders. What we believe and our mindset relating to the role of leading others says much about how we choose to lead. When you bring a coaching mindset to leadership, it will change your approach to many situations. Today, I want to share how your leadership […]. The post What It Means To “Approach It Like a Coach” appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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3 Financial Concerns Every Breadwinning Woman Should Have

Women on Business

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Interview on the Leveraging Thought Leadership Podcast

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher ThorntonToday I'm sharing my recent interview with Peter Winick on the Leveraging Thought Leadership Podcast. We had an interesting conversation about my journey including how I got my start, challenges I faced and "growing into" this important work.

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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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The Importance Of Playing Tennis With Better Tennis Players.

Rich Gee Group

"It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction." - Warren Buffett Have you ever played tennis? Play with someone worse than you, you won’t push yourself at all and play at a much lower level than you usually do. You’ll coast. Play with an equal player, I promise your game will be boring as hell.

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My Dad The Servant Leader

Next Level Blog

How do you measure the success of a leader? How do you even define what it means to be a leader? After spending a good part of my life in leadership roles and the past 20 years coaching, educating and writing for leaders, the death of my father, Dr. Jack Eblin , 10 days ago has me considering those questions anew. My dad was a dentist for 46 years. He and my mom met at a church youth group in Huntington, West Virginia when they were 14 years old, dated for seven years and were married for sixty-

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How listening more will change you

Persuasive Powerhouse

Photo credit 123RF. A leader in a large organization was having a difficult time influencing his employees to move forward on a significant project that needed to be completed in a short period of time. The people who were most resistant were long-time technicians at the company who resisted the change that this project would make to their daily routines.

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188: Emotional Transparency — The Secret to Accountability | with Jonathan Raymond

Engaging Leader

Accountability. Many organizations name it one of their top corporate values. And yet no matter how much they talk about accountability, leaders often feel frustrated by what seems like a low level of personal ownership among their employees. Things don’t get done on time, problems don’t get solved, and issues get ignored rather than proactively […] Accountability.

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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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8 Factors of Happiness

QAspire

There is a lot written about happiness and its elusive nature. However, what we can do is create conditions within and outside of us where happiness is more likely to happen. Happiness is not a thing that happens to us but rather an thing that we create for ourselves through our mindset, how we relate with our problems and how we generally see the world.

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How to Choose the Right Promotional Merchandise to Market Your Business

Women on Business

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How to Find the Courage to Lead

Leadership Freak

There’s plenty of boldness in leadership. But, sadly, there’s too little courage. The greatest courage isn’t the courage to tell people what to do. It’s the courage to tell yourself what to do.

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When salespeople fail to live up to the culture code

Sales Wolf Blog

How would you define your company culture? Your sales culture? Often, a company’s culture consists of a carefully-contrived paragraph of corporate speak that does not actually say much. Think of most company’s vision or mission statements. Companies frequently believe they can similarly “set” their culture and, well, that’s that. The resulting, carefully-curated “culture” most certainly does not accurately represent the day-to-day relationships and tone of the organization.

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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.