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How To Disrupt the Disruption and Help Your Team Move Forward

Let's Grow Leaders

You wouldn’t have wished for this ridiculous, unprecedented disruption. But if you’re like many leaders I talk with, this stressful period has also been surprisingly energizing. Until it wasn’t. You’re proud of your team. They’ve been working round the clock on a […]. The post How To Disrupt the Disruption and Help Your Team Move Forward appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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How Leaders Can Successfully Build Trust In Their Leadership

Tanveer Naseer

When it comes to leadership success, a key foundational stone is your ability to gain and foster trust within the organization. So why are we continuing to see low trust levels for those in leadership positions? What’s missing in our understanding about fostering trust? That’s one of the questions I. Click to continue reading.

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Creating Connection Cultures in Police Forces

Michael Lee Stallard

Podcast Appearance on Badge Cast 1 Recently I had the opportunity to speak with Lt. Brian Ellis, host of the Badge Cast 1 podcast. Badge Cast 1 is a production of the National Command and Staff College , an organization dedicated to providing leadership training to public safety professionals. In this conversation, we talked about why connection matters in today’s public safety organizations and shared practical, science-backed advice for today’s public safety leaders.

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Building Relationships In Our New Virtual World

Lead Change Blog

Most women understand the value of networking and the way it can increase their visibility and potential opportunities. However, as companies are shifting towards remote work, how can women better utilize technology as a means for building relationships within their organizations to set themselves ahead for advancement? Bonnie Marcus, author of The Politics of Promotion: How High-Achieving Women Get Ahead and Stay Ahead , speaks on the power of building strategic workplace relationships in a vi

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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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7 Ways to Encourage Creative Thinking in Your Team

Let's Grow Leaders

It Takes Clarity and Curiosity to Encourage Creative Thinking Businesses around the world face a changing normal, where it’s hard to say what things will look like in one year, much less six months from now. For some this means finding entirely […]. The post 7 Ways to Encourage Creative Thinking in Your Team appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Groundhog Day

Joseph Lalonde

A Reel Leadership Article. Many of us out there may feel like we’ve been repeating the same day over and over again since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Layoffs, lounging around the house, and rinse and repeat… The days can begin to blend together. My friends and I joke about it but it can be a drain. If you’ve ever […] The post Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Groundhog Day appeared first on Joseph Lalonde.

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208: Saving Face: How to Preserve Dignity and Build Trust | with Maya Hu-Chan

Engaging Leader

To be a leader who truly engages the hearts, minds, and behaviors of people, you have to authentically connect with them on a human level. You’ve heard the phrase, “People don’t care how much you know, until they know how much you care.” In today’s age of connection, in order for people to trust you, […]. To be a leader who truly engages the hearts, minds, and behaviors of people, you have to authentically connect with them on a human level.

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Ask for What You Need and Other Leadership Essentials ? Interview with Jane Miller

Let's Grow Leaders

Jane Miller has an incredible track-record of business leadership success including roles as CEO for a variety of food businesses making nutritious (and tasty) products. She’s served as Presdient for the UK & Ireland Divison of HJ Heinz and is currently […]. The post Ask for What You Need and Other Leadership Essentials – Interview with Jane Miller appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Thinking Small To Lead Through A Crisis

Joseph Lalonde

Bang! A crisis hits and your mind begins to race with the possibilities. You try to run through every possible outcome in your mind. Most of them ending in disaster. Then there’s the master plan. The one that has all its ducks in a row and you come out with your hands raised high like […] The post Thinking Small To Lead Through A Crisis appeared first on Joseph Lalonde.

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Ethical Leadership: Beyond Insight to Action

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton Have you had an insight while attending a conference? While listening to a speaker, you hear a new idea that strikes you as important, and you jot it down to follow up. But do you ever follow up?

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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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Understanding the Link Between Leadership and Innovation

Lead Change Blog

At present, it’s hard to tackle any issue pertaining to leadership or management without addressing Covid-19, which is impacting on marketplaces and workplaces across the globe. Despite the status of the Covid-19 outbreak as the single biggest health and socio-economic crisis since the Second World War, it’s also hard to dispute the transformative power of coronavirus across the board.

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Some ?What If?? Questions You Should Be Asking Right Now

Next Level Blog

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post that made the case that we’re all at the beginning of Phase 2 in our response to the global pandemic. To recap, Phase 1 lasted for about 8 weeks, depending on where in the world you live and, for large organizations at least, was about quickly reinventing how work was going to get done with many people working from home.

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Why Many Leaders Failed To Prepare For The COVID-19 Crisis

Joseph Lalonde

We never know when a crisis will hit. Something that will rock us to the core. Something that may even shutter the doors of our organization. COVID-19 showed us how ill-prepared many businesses were when it comes to a time of crisis. During the COVID-19 crisis, we’ve seen business leaders scramble to create a plan. […] The post Why Many Leaders Failed To Prepare For The COVID-19 Crisis appeared first on Joseph Lalonde.

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The Way You See Yourself is the Way You See the World

Leadership Freak

Perspective is a way of seeing. We see the present and future as we are. Your way of seeing doesn’t change the world; it shapes your approach to the world. Perspective births attitude.

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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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Why You Need Routines Now More than Ever

Kevin Eikenberry

As long as you have been in the workplace, you have had work routines. As your job situations changed, those routines adjusted with you. Rarely have so many seen their working situation change so drastically, so quickly. Now, nearly all of the cues and rhythms that marked your workday are changed. No commute. No coffee […]. The post Why You Need Routines Now More than Ever appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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How This Crisis Will Change the Future Of Leadership

Lead from Within

Every crisis, large or small, influences the way we lead because it causes us to stop, recalibrate, and innovate. A global crisis of the scale of the COVID-19 pandemic brings wide-ranging changes—changes that not only affect a single organization or industry or nation but that cause us to rebuild the way we think about leadership. Here are some of the things the pandemic is teaching us about the future of leadership: We will need leaders who know how to show presence without being physically pre

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Change Your Paradigm

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Luis Pedroza : Don’t be complacent. Always challenge your assumptions, especially when entering a new market or consumer segment. History is filled with examples of successful brands that became too complacent and then obsolete. Underwood, Kodak, Walkman, Blackberry, Vertu, and Blockbuster are just some of the brands that now cease to be relevant.

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The Cost and Opportunity of Standing-With

Leadership Freak

You put yourself on the line when you stand-with. Some of my proudest memories are of people I’ve stood-with when it would have been easier to walk-away. I’m not special.

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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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Helping Your Feedback Be Accepted

Kevin Eikenberry

This is the third in a series of videos on feedback. You can watch the previous videos from the links below. In this video, we talk about how to get others to accept the feedback you are giving – leading them to action. Tweet it out: Before people can apply the feedback you give them, […]. The post Helping Your Feedback Be Accepted appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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How to Be A Great Leader In A World Of Control Freaks

Lead from Within

Chances are, somewhere in your professional or personal life you’ve encountered an all-out control freak. They’re the ones who think they know best about everything, who refuse to delegate anything, who incessantly judge other people’s choices, and who want to micromanage every detail of everything they’re part of. Forced to go with someone else’s plan, they may quickly become moody or sulky.

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Interview: How to Engage Remote Employees in Change

Change Starts Here

Even before the pandemic, engaging remote employees in change initiatives was a hot topic. In this episode of the Influence Change at Work™ Show, Dr. Douglas Williams shares his research and experience about working with people who are not collocated with each other.

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Dear Dan: I Feel Excluded and Disrespected

Leadership Freak

Dear Dan, Years ago, my boss was receptive to my opinions regarding changes in the office. We maintained a warm, professional relationship.

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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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9 Quantum Leap Questions for Your Consulting Firm

David A Fields

You could answer a debate my team and I have engaged in: the best way to create a quantum leap in a small consulting firm’s performance. Plenty of folks are chattering about how your consulting firm can survive or stabilize in the face of an economic downturn. I’d like to invite you to consider a … Continued. The post 9 Quantum Leap Questions for Your Consulting Firm appeared first on David A.

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How Effective are Your Virtual Meetings?

Kevin Eikenberry

I probably know your answer. After all, meeting effectiveness in general has never been great overall. Now, while we can’t meet in person, we have added complexity to something that wasn’t always good anyway. That is a recipe for poor results, wasted time, and increased anxiety. Even if your answer is “not bad,” think about […]. The post How Effective are Your Virtual Meetings?

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Complexity patterns recognition and back to work examples

Mike Cardus

As your work changes, and how you do your work moves into complexity patterns, how your team and you make sense of the challenges is essential. . In a recent talk to the University at Buffalo School of Entrepreneurial Leadership , I shared how several executive teams and companies have been looking for patterns, identifying trends from those patterns, and changing how they get their work done. .

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Dissatisfaction isn’t the Problem – How to Handle Dissatisfaction

Leadership Freak

If you aren’t currently disappointed with someone or something, you will be soon. Aspiration is dissatisfaction. Dissatisfaction is inevitable. Collecting unhappiness is a choice. Make dissatisfaction useful before it suffocates effectiveness.

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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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An Effective Leader Leads by Influence, not Authority

Lead on Purpose

A successful leader leads by influence, not by wielding authority.

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The Evolution of Computers

Strategy Driven

Computers have come a long way from the first models unveiled in 1940. Through the decades, thanks to improved engineering as well as advancements in separate computer parts, modern computers accomplish tasks that were mere science fiction five decades ago. Here is a brief look at how computers evolved. The Beginning. Modern machines have lightning-fast components thanks to innovations such as silicon wafer dicing.

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Leading Virtually: Leadership Communication Essentials

Kate Nasser

Leadership communication essentials for leading virtually (don't call it remotely!) Insights fr Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™ Author, Leading Morale. The post Leading Virtually: Leadership Communication Essentials appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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Making the Most of Dissatisfaction

Leadership Freak

When nagging dissatisfaction drives your leadership, teams struggle, relationships flounder, and results always disappoint. Persistent dissatisfaction eventually becomes intolerable. Escape seems the only resolution.

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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.