Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Powerful Phrases to Move From Feeling Invisible to Invincible If you feel invisible at work you’re in good company. Recent research by Work Human found that nearly 30% of workers have felt invisible at work and 27% have felt ignored. Their research also identified certain “invisible skills” going unnoticed in the workplace. Ironically, the ignored skills are some of the most necessary for productive conflict i n the workplace: empathy and compassion (27.4%), a sense of curiosity, (19.8%), and li

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

R YAN HAWK has interviewed hundreds of leaders on his podcast The Learning Leader Show. He has collected their wisdom in The Pursuit of Excellence: The Uncommon Behaviors of the World’s Most Productive Achievers. It is filled with practical thoughts and behaviors that will make you think and potentially set you on a path to sustained growth. Here are just five ideas he shares from those on his podcast: Success is based on a comparison with others.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In the ever-evolving arena of executive recruitment , the quaint notion of measuring a search firm’s prowess by the girth of their Rolodex—or the extent of their social registry, if you will—is as archaic as the term “Rolodex” itself. It conjures images of dusty offices filled with towering stacks of index cards, each bearing a name and number, a relic of a bygone era.

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Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Wrong ideas feel right. How can you tell if you're on the right track?

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Leading in Context

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

By Linda Fisher Thornton Since moral growth is a lifelong pursuit, moral education needs to start early, and it needs to continue throughout our professional careers. This requires quite a bit more effort than just doing an "annual ethics training." Since ethical leadership itself is multidimensional and nuanced, any ethical leadership development for leaders must be multifaceted and nuanced.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

I N Power to the Middle: Why Managers Hold the Keys to the Future of Work , authors Bill Schaninger, Bryan Hancock, and Emily Field contend that middle managers are crucial to the new world of work. What middle managers do is actually much more complex than what either executives or frontline workers do: They manage both up and down, and serve as translators in both directions.

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Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Positive thinking doesn’t cure cancer or prevent wars. Unrealistic optimism might cause wars and increase the likelihood you’ll get cancer. You do stupid things when you underestimate the possibility of failure. 3 ways to be a realistic optimist.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In today’s hyper-connected world, we’re constantly bombarded with demands and the relentless drive to stay competitive. Yet, it’s crucial to understand that not all urgency holds equal value. Within our organizations, a significant portion of what we perceive as urgency is, in reality, false urgency—a whirlwind of activity that often leads to little progress.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

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. Talia Fox on listening: “Many of us remain confident in our ability to listen, insisting that we’ve been doing so all our lives. We believe we should focus our leadership efforts on other, less common skills, gravitating to things that seem newer and more innovative.

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Rich Gee Group

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

In an age where artificial intelligence (AI) is not just a buzzword but a tangible reality shaping every facet of our lives, there's a looming question that echoes through the corridors of corporations and startups alike: Can AI replace human leaders? The short answer is no. The nuanced explanation, however, reveals why the best leaders — those characterized by their compassion, wisdom, and innate ability to inspire — are irreplaceable, even as AI-enabled leadership evolves.

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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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Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Untended wounds become rot. People - like pears - decay from the inside. You don't notice it at first. How to protect your team and yourself from justifying toxicity caused by. 1. Unspoken expectations. 2. Negative assumptions. 3. Untended wounds.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Emotions are a powerful driving force in our personal and professional lives. While we often focus on well-known emotions like joy, confidence, and determination, there are several other emotions that, when nurtured, can significantly contribute to the success of your team. As a leader, it’s essential to recognize and cultivate these undervalued emotions within your team members.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Edward M. Marshall 's book, Transforming The Way We Work -- The Power Of The Collaborative Workplace , remains relevant today, more than a decade 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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CEO Insider

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

You want your working culture to say something about your organization. But what is it saying right now? Companies with a thriving and supportive workplace boast better performance. In 2022, almost half of the more culture-forward organizations experienced a significant increase in revenue, much higher than the 9% of their more conventional peers. What’s more, […] The post A Workplace to Envy: 6 Questions to Ensure Your Culture Is Values-Driven appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Confusion about the path to success obscures the obvious. There are four factors of success. Not three. Not five. Four and only four. The path is the same for everyone.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) has become a defining factor for organizational success. Developing an AI-ready organization is not merely a choice but a necessity to stay competitive and relevant. In this blog post, we will explore the critical importance of fostering an environment that embraces AI, highlighting how it can drive innovation, efficiency, and sustainable growth.

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Sales Wolf Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

In an era where business landscapes are more volatile and complex than ever, a simple ancient Greek parable (Archilochus) offers profound insights for today's entrepreneurs and business leaders: " The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." This metaphor, which captures the essence of strategic focus versus broad knowledge, has been explored through Isaiah Berlin’s essay "The Hedgehog and the Fox ," and further applied to the business world by Jim Collins in his seminal wor

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

The need for reskilling and upskilling in the working environment has been at the forefront of many HR conversations and employee reskilling especially is likely to require considerable investments in the upcoming years. While keeping up with changing times has always been a necessary consideration regardless of the industry, the rapid upsurge of technology recently has really highlighted the need for reskilling programs in order to understand how to do a job you might have been doing for years

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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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Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

No post today. It’s a personal day. See you all tomorrow.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

As a leader, one of your most significant responsibilities is to support and guide your team towards success. However, there may come a time when some team members underperform, and addressing this situation is crucial for the overall productivity and morale of your team. In this blog post, we’ll explore the best ways to help your team when they are underperforming, fostering growth, and turning challenges into opportunities for improvement.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In a recent article, I explored how our political values tend to influence how we perceive people with obesity. Similar political traits influence our views of people living in poverty or experiencing other forms of hardship. It’s perhaps no surprise, therefore, that a recent study from the University of British Columbia finds that the public often has unfair stereotypes about the financial skills of homeless people.

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Kate Nasser

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Accusations create trouble for work relationships. Transform accusations into valuable discussions by using this people skills approach. Latest from Kate Nasser The People Skills Coach™ | Lead Morale | Leadership | Teamwork | Customer Service. The post Transform Accusations into Valuable Discussions | #Leadership #PeopleSkills appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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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?

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Follow this advice, from the authors ( Ron Ricci and Carl Wiese ) of the, Collaboration Imperative , book for how to create a great vision statement for your team (or company) : A vivid, idealized and memorable description of a desired outcome. Inspiring, energizing and helpful in creating a mental picture of your target. Based on an “outside-in” perspective—focused on evolving customer needs rather than an insular, status quo mentality.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Consistency allows you to be a leader who is predictable and reliable. Today’s guest post is b y Joe Judge, coauthor of Leadership is Overcoming the Natural: 52 Maxims to Move Beyond Instinct. I once had to give an employee constructive feedback about being too impatient, irritable, and unmotivated at work. He shrugged, apparently unwilling to acknowledge the problem.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In a bid to encourage innovation, most organizations want to create a culture and environment whereby employees are encouraged to share ideas with one another. Doing that can be hard, however, when things like promotion and pay are so often determined based upon one’s individual contributions. Research from the University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business explores how managers can encourage employees to be more open with their ideas.

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

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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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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

“When it comes to culture, one of the most glaring issues is that far too many leaders do not recognize it as one of their greatest competitive advantages,” says Matt Mayberry , author of the new book, Culture Is The Way. Mayberry, former linebacker for the Chicago Bears and now keynote speaker and global expert in leadership development, culture change, and organizational performance, took the lessons he learned on the field and in the locker room straight to the boardroom.

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Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Article: Change management trends for 2024 Written by Ian Wylie Wednesday 14 February 2024 Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email Ranjit Sidhu ChMC tells Ian Wylie why adaptability, flexibility and purpose should be watchwords for management consultants this year If organisations and companies were expecting 2024 to deliver more certainty and fewer surprises, they are likely to be disappointed.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Authorities across the world have a vested interest in reducing recidivism, both due to the personal challenges people face when leaving prison and also the societal challenges presented when people struggle to adapt to civilian life again. Research from Georgia State University suggests that policymakers should focus on housing to ensure that people have the best chance upon leaving prison.

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

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