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All-Hands Meeting: How to Ensure Yours is Amazing and Worth the Investment

Let's Grow Leaders

Why All-Hands Meetings are so Important (Particularly Now) Now that “You’re muted'” is the catchphrase of the decade, having a great all-hands meeting or remarkable company offsite is a great way to foster human-centered collaboration. Getting your team together for a strategic team event, especially in person, isn’t just about getting everyone on the same page.

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Ethical Thinking and Decision Making for Leaders (Part 3)

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton Ethical Thinking and Decision Making require staying grounded in ethical values, but there is much more to do than knowing our values and living them every day through our choices. In Part 1 of this series, I explored the Depth of our thinking, and in Part 2, I broke down issues related to understanding Context. In Part 3, let’s take a look at Complexity.

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Yes is Better Than No

Leadership Freak

The law of holes. "When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging." No is a hole. Yes is a doorway. 5 ways to live into yes.

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Leading Thoughts for August 17, 2023

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. Martin Moore on why leadership is hard: “Leadership is hard because, more than anything else, it’s about people. Most of us struggle to manage ourselves: our subconscious drivers, our relationships, our emotions, our mental health, our habits.

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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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How to Improve Collaboration to Make Your Good Team Even Stronger

Let's Grow Leaders

Transform Your Teamwork into True Collaboration “Hi, Karin, my team gets along just fine, but I wouldn’t call it TRUE COLLABORATION. What advice do you have to get them to collaborate more? #AskingForaFriend How Can I Improve Collaboration on My Team? True collaboration leads to innovation, improved problem-solving, and efficiency. To harness the power of true collaboration.

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Speak Out and Stand Out: How to Complain and Climb the Corporate Ladder.

Rich Gee Group

We've all been there — a daunting project, an overbearing boss, or a coworker who doesn't seem to understand boundaries. In the professional realm, challenges are inevitable, but it's not the problem that defines us; it's how we approach it. And in the context of the workplace, it's all about how to complain the right way. If done thoughtfully and strategically, raising an issue can resolve the problem at hand and elevate your standing in the organization.

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Do You See Me?

Leading Blog

P EOPLE want to feel seen. We all do. We want to know, “Do I matter?” We want to know that the leader is invested in us. As leaders, it becomes a matter of how we treat others. Do we include them in meaningful action? Do we listen? Do we care about their future? Leaders who have a developmental focus make others feel seen. Interactions are not seen as transactional.

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Leading Yourself with Clarity and Accountability with Marc Lesser

Let's Grow Leaders

Clarity and accountability are key to healthy relationships and effective workplaces. This can look like prioritizing long-term benefits by facing conflicts rather than avoiding them, working with and through difficult emotions with clarity, care, and connection, understanding the stories we live by and evaluating whether they’re serving us, or learning to listen and lead in ways that align with our mission and values.

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5 Shocking Mistakes That Kill Your Leadership Potential

Lead from Within

As a leader, it is essential to continually strive for improvement and avoid making mistakes that could jeopardize your leadership potential. However, sometimes these mistakes are not always obvious and can sneak up on you. Here are seven shocking mistakes that can kill your leadership potential: Lacking values: It is essential for a leader to have a clear set of values and to consistently live by them.

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Organizational Structure: A Living Dog is Better than a Dead Lion

Leadership Freak

Dead structure means people waste energy stumbling over trivialities. Dynamic organizational structure enables people to flourish. 10 questions for building dynamic organizational structure.

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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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Get Out of Your Own Way

Leading Blog

R ETIRED University of Michigan, Director of Athletic Counseling Greg Harden asks us to learn how to get out of our own way. Stop for a moment and think about your own life. What’s holding you back? How often are you… … your own worst enemy? … overthinking? … worrying about how other people see you? … beating yourself up? … worrying about things you can’t change?

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Leadership Communication: How Do I Get Everyone On the Same Page?

Let's Grow Leaders

Practical Ways to Ensure Your Leadership Communication Has a Better and Broader Impact This question came in from a senior leader working to ensure their communication has a broad organization-wide impact: “Hi Karin, We have a lot of moving parts around here. I’m quite sure my senior team is with me. They get it. They understand what we’re doing and why we’re doing it.

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Why Leadership Fails and How to Ensure It Succeeds

Lead from Within

Leadership is a crucial aspect of any organization, as it sets the tone for how work is done and impacts the overall success of the team. However, leadership can also be a challenging role, and it’s not uncommon for leaders to struggle or even fail in their efforts. Here are some common leadership fails you need to stop to ensure that you succeed as a leader.

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Don’t Depend on Others

Leadership Freak

“Don’t depend on others,” is a destructive scam. Life is limited to individual achievement when you don’t depend on others. How to depend on others.

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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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Giving Gratitude? Say. Their. Name.

Modern Servant Leader

When it comes to gratitude. One of my personal pet peeves is when somebody in management says, “Well, I didn’t want to list the names of people because I was afraid I’d forget somebody.” Sorry, but I call b t. That is one of your responsibilities as a manager. As a leader. One of your jobs is to know who did the work, how they did it, who was responsible for it, and what they achieved.

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How To Be A Lifelong Learning Leader

Eric Jacobson

“Great leaders are great students, and the world is their classroom,” says Damon Lembi , author of the new book The Learn-It-all Leader. “Learn-It-All leaders are constantly creating and re-creating themselves, their companies, and their leadership. They are information extractors. They pull what they learn about everything—be it product innovation or how to inspire a team—from their lived experience,” adds Lembi.

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7 Warning Signs Your Anger is Affecting Your Leadership

Lead from Within

Anger is a normal emotion, but when it starts to affect your leadership style and behavior, it can be harmful to both your team and your own success. Here are seven warning signs that your anger may be impacting your leadership and what you can do about it. Chronic anxiety: Being anxious all the time can be a sign that your anger is taking a toll on your mental and emotional well-being.

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What to Do When You Disagree with Leadership

Leadership Freak

At some point you will disagree with leadership. Disagreement shapes life. How to disagree with leadership.

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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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10 Ways to Increase Your Small Business Website Conversions

Women on Business

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How To Work With Difficult Coworkers

Eric Jacobson

Nearly everyone I know has shared a story about a difficult person they’ve encountered in their workplace. Experiencing difficult individuals in the workplace is common. So common that author Amy Gallo identifies eight archetypes , each representing a common type of “difficult” person likely found in most workplaces. “We might lie awake at night worrying, withdraw from work, or react in ways we later regret—rolling our eyes in a meeting, snapping at colleagues, or staying silent when we should s

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10 tips for leaders on how to get the most out of working with a recruiter

CEO Insider

In the eyes of many, the recruitment industry is held in fairly low regard, akin to being “white shoe salespeople” or “body shoppers”. In many instances, I would say that this reputation is deserved. Unlike almost any other professional service, the recruitment industry requires no qualifications, no accreditation, there is no barrier to entry – […] The post 10 tips for leaders on how to get the most out of working with a recruiter appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Well-Being Contributes To Student Performance At School

The Horizons Tracker

Well-being can sometimes be dismissed as a nice to have but not something that’s truly important to performance. Research from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) undermines that stance and shows that well-being is crucial to the success of children at school. “We’re finding a connection between pupils’ well-being at school and the subject matter, and with how well the pupils think they’re able to do the school work in all the subjects we exami

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

Speaker: Speakers:

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?

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Adrienne Greenwood Joins the Women On Business Contributor Team

Women on Business

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How To Be A Collaborative Leader

Eric Jacobson

Edward M. Marshall 's book, Transforming The Way We Work -- The Power Of The Collaborative Workplace , remains relevant today, nearly two decades after Marshall wrote it. Particularly useful is the book's section that teaches readers how to be a collaborative leader. Marshall says that there are seven different, important roles and responsibilities of collaborative leaders when leading teams , and those leaders should select the appropriate style to meet the team's needs.

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Lessons from The Leap to Leader by Adam Bryant (Leadership Caffeine Jam Session #22 Rewind)

Art Petty

Author, journalist, and executive coach Adam Bryant joined the recent Leadership Caffeine Jam Session to talk about the insights in his new book The Leap to Leader: How Ambitious Managers Make the Jump to Leadership. Check out the insights and wisdom and link to the replay of this information-filled session. The post Lessons from The Leap to Leader by Adam Bryant (Leadership Caffeine Jam Session #22 Rewind) appeared first on Management Excellence by Art Petty.

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Digital Technology Can Exclude Older Adults

The Horizons Tracker

As technology advances, senior citizens face an escalating danger of being digitally excluded. In countries such as Sweden, where digitalization is widespread, they also encounter greater difficulty in exploiting the opportunities presented by technology. That’s the finding of a recent study from Örebro University. “Older adults in Sweden with no knowledge of digital technology are excluded from participating in society to a greater extent than older adults in Greece.

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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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Assembling a Project Team: 6 Things to Consider

Women on Business

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Key Elements for a Successful Employee Training Program

HR Digest

Remember the good old days when employees were left to figure things out on their own? When training was nothing more than a mere suggestion, and the only development opportunities were the occasional team-building retreats? Well, those days are long gone. In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, organizations understand the importance of investing in their employees through comprehensive and effective training programs.

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The Art of Talent Acquisition for Companies in the Tech Industry

Strategy Driven

In today’s digital age, the success of a business is often proportional to the quality of its workforce. The tech industry is no exception to this. To stay ahead of the competition, companies must hire highly skilled talent. However, finding and acquiring top talent is easier said than done. The process of talent acquisition can be overwhelming, especially for entrepreneurs and professionals new to the industry.

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Company Health Is Key To Successful Remote Working

The Horizons Tracker

As more businesses are transitioning to remote work, some prominent CEOs remain opposed to the movement. Research from the University of Missouri School of Medicine, suggests that the success of implementing remote work depends on the organization’s flexibility in adapting to individual employees and the available technology. The authors argue that offering remote work as an option to employees can be a potent recruitment tool that can be implemented easily by organizations with the necess

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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.