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How to Hold a Better Performance Improvement Conversation

Let's Grow Leaders

Has this ever happened to you? You sit down for an earnest performance improvement conversation. Your employee listens intently. She thanks you for the feedback, and promises to try harder. Things improve for a minute. But a week later, they’re back to […]. The post How to Hold a Better Performance Improvement Conversation appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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What Do You Do When Life Ambushes You?

Leading Blog

W E are conditioned to believe that to be happy, for life to be good, everything should be going our way. Life is supposed to be comfortable when done right. Most self-help books are based on this line of reasoning. But when you think about it, a constant state of comfort is numbing to the human spirit. It takes us nowhere. What really makes us feel alive are those times when we are challenged, pushed, distressed.

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Senior Leaders: Set Clear Expectations For Values

Leading in Context

Senior leaders set the tone for the organization's ethics, but the senior leadership responsibility for values leadership includes much more than that. Today, I'll look at the senior leader responsibility for sharing clear expectations, and explore more important roles that go well beyond setting the bar for expected behavior.

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What You Should Assume About Others

Joseph Lalonde

There’s an age-old saying about assuming things. I won’t quote the saying because it is slightly inappropriate but often accurate. However, I think we can begin assuming things about others. I began to think about assuming in a different light after a recent church board member orientation meeting. Pastor Doug Tuttle, from Grand Rapids First, […].

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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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Strategic Planning Tool: How to Engage Your Team in Better Conversation

Let's Grow Leaders

If you’re like many leaders we talk with, you’ve been on such a fast pivot this year, you may not have had all the strategic planning time you’d hoped for. Or, your business has changed so much, it’s the perfect time to […]. The post Strategic Planning Tool: How to Engage Your Team in Better Conversation appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Uncharted: How to Navigate the Future

Leading Blog

P REDICTION has never been easy – or that accurate. Over and over again, forecasts and models fail us. And when they do, they won’t go away because the agenda behind them lives on. As a model or a forecast is designed to do, we become “recruited into an army of believers.” “The more we believe, the less we question,” says Margaret Heffernan. In Uncharted: How to Navigate the Future , she writes that “Overwhelmed with complexity, we seek simplification and too quickly reach for binary perspective

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What do you want to be known for?

Lead Change Blog

Tom Hall and his partners grew Ensslin and Hall Advertising into one of the top regional advertising agencies in less than a decade. The core of their success was the question that Tom asked every new client: “What do you want to be known for?” That’s great advice for marketing and advertising, but it’s great life and career advice, too. . What do you want to be known for?

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Overcoming Adversity – Interview with Jason Redman

Let's Grow Leaders

Whether affected by the pandemic or some other unforeseen and monumental setback, to lead, you have to find a way to move beyond anger, guilt, emptiness or pain. It’s not only possible to overcome adversity, but it’s imperative. In this episode, retired […]. The post Overcoming Adversity – Interview with Jason Redman appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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How You Start and End Your Day – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

One of my all-time favorite Musicals is Fiddler on the Roof, and one of the famous songs from it is Sunrise, Sunset. Here are part of the lyrics: Sunrise, sunset Sunrise, sunset Swiftly fly the years One season following another Laden with happiness and tears The song talks about how our lives are flying by […]. The post How You Start and End Your Day – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Leading Thoughts for December 17, 2020

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. Margaret Heffernan on what it takes to make your predictions more thoughtful and accurate: “Ordinary people who were open-minded, educated, prepared to change their minds, humble, and attentive could gain real insight and awareness into what might happen in the next year or so.

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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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Has Your Company Been Anchored To The Wrong Information?

Lead Change Blog

Have you seen people that stubbornly adhered to their first impressions regarding the pandemic and its business impact? The truth is that lots of people refuse to adapt their position on the virus, not believing that we should adhere to updated guidelines, regardless of evidence that doing so will certainly protect us from COVID-19. Anchoring in Fintech: A Case Study.

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Great Leaders Nurture

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Barbara Bruno : Would your current team or new hires describe you as a leader who supports, teaches, and encourages them? This type of nurturing often determines whether the members of your team become engaged and retained employees or end up as a costly turnover statistic. Technology has changed the way we communicate however a combined high-tech and high-touch communication style is most effective.

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Why You Must Consider Flexible Working Arrangements – Even if You Hate the Idea

Kevin Eikenberry

Regardless of your view or your organization’s stance on remote work a year ago, 2020 forced you to move people to work away from the office. Many leaders yearn for the chance to bring everyone back to the office and get things back to normal. Even when the regulations and a vaccine allow that, it […]. The post Why You Must Consider Flexible Working Arrangements – Even if You Hate the Idea appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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6 Essential Skills for Future Leaders

Career Advancement

“Time and time again, our species has escaped existential threats by reinventing ourselves, finding new skills not coded in our genes to survive new challenges not previously encountered.” – David Grinspoon. If you’re concerned about whether you have the right skillset to navigate the business world throughout the coming years, you’re actually ahead of the pack.

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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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The Leader Who Helps People Become Their Best Self

Lead Change Blog

Everyone needs a positive influence in their lives. If you think about the various types of leaders you’ve encountered—parents, teachers, coaches, bosses—you can probably pinpoint one leader, perhaps more than one, who provided the support, the skills, or the inspiration that helped you become your best self. According to Michael and Glenn Parker, authors of The Positive Influence Leader , there are four types of positive influence leaders, and we can all leverage the strengths of each to become

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Leadership Trust: The Secret to Achieving Impossible Things

RapidStart Leadership

Achieving great things requires a leadership trust between leader and led; in one simple story, here's what that means. The post Leadership Trust: The Secret to Achieving Impossible Things appeared first on RapidStart Leadership.

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My Lessons from The Remarkable Leadership Podcast This Year

Kevin Eikenberry

Each week, I interview a leadership expert or expert leader on The Remarkable Leadership Podcast. I learn so much in each of these conversations and I am confident that listeners and viewers gain lessons from each episode as well. But at the end of the year, I wanted to do something different, and I wanted […]. The post My Lessons from The Remarkable Leadership Podcast This Year appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Small Actions Build Big Confidence

Joseph Lalonde

Four years ago I installed a ceiling fan in my bedroom. I’d never tried anything like that before. I was scared and anxious. When I was done installing the fan, I was beaming with pride. I’d installed a new fan and it worked! It’s always good when something like this works. And then it happened. One night while […].

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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’s Your Hindsight?

Lead Change Blog

Spoken-word poet and filmmaker Tomos Roberts struck a chord this year. With over 60 million views, he unmistakably drew the heart of humanity into the plot of his reflective children’s bedtime story, The Great Realisation [sic]. Tom’s pre-reminiscent tale paints a portrait of a spuriously progressing world with blinders on that needed a global virus to heal from its own undoing.

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What Makes a Great Leader?

Next Level Blog

Last week I had a thoughtful client ask me a question I don’t get asked very often – What makes a great leader? Since, as an executive coach, I’m usually the one asking the questions, she caught me off guard with hers. What followed next was a quick real-time distillation of long-held thoughts and observations on the nature of true leadership.

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How to Communicate With Your Employees During Times Of Crisis

Lead from Within

These are hard times. The pandemic, its associated economic and social problems and if your employees are like most people, they’re feeling exhausted and stressed even when nothing specific is going wrong. At times like these, the way you communicate with your people is more important than ever. Here are some reminders: Communicate with care. When people are working through difficult times—and especially when they’re working remotely and you can’t be in the same room to pick up on subtle cues of

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Klaus

Joseph Lalonde

A Reel Leadership Article. Klaus is the 2019 English-language Spanish 2D-animated Christmas movie. It is unique in that the film is 2D but looks 3D. It was a sight to behold. Klaus is a quirky film. It has its bright moments but it also lost me at the same time. The animation was stunning. The whiny Jesper (Jason Schwartzman) […].

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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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The Real Reason Rudolph Flew from Outcast to Hero is Not About Red Noses

Leadership Freak

No one sings about your nose. But when Santa said, “Won’t you guide my sleigh tonight?” Rudolph became the most famous reindeer in history.

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The ONLY Best Way to Practice Consulting

David A Fields

You and your consulting firm are pretty spiffy. But does your firm employ the one, best consulting approach? Let’s find out. You savor the evidence that your consulting firm produces excellent work. Glowing testimonials and multiple, word-of-mouth referrals provide ample evidence that your consulting firm consistently pleases your clients. Yet, other consulting firms proceed quite … Continued.

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How To Increase Psychological Safety In A Virtual Team

Lead from Within

Most of us are working from home these days. We may have started off thinking of it as a temporary measure, but now it’s clear that many of us won’t be returning to the office in the foreseeable future—if ever. Now that we have a base of experience, it’s time to think about how we can create virtual teams that are truly effective and will serve us well in the long haul.

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In True Leaders – Heart Talk Prompts Head Walk

Lead Change Blog

“Leadership comes from a place that troubles your heart.”. I read these words years ago in an article and have never forgotten them. The article was about Dr. Govindappa Venkataswamy, affectionately called Dr. V. In 1976, he founded the Aravind Eye Hospital for the purpose of performing cataract surgery because cataracts are India’s leading form of blindness.

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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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How the Grinch Reveals the Heart of Leadership

Leadership Freak

The Grinch hated the Whos because his heart was 2 sizes too small, not because the Whos were hate-worthy.

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Symptoms of a Victim Mentality

Frank Sonnenberg Online

How often do you say, “Other people have it easier,” “Why does this only happen to me?” or “I can’t do anything right.” Your outlook can work for you or against you…it’s your choice. Negative habits produce negative results. Here are seven symptoms of a victim mentality: Feeling powerless and helpless. Some people feel they don’t have control over their situation.

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Encouraging Diverse Applicants To Apply

The Horizons Tracker

The value of diverse workforces are widely accepted, so it’s no surprise that organizations are striving to achieve greater diversity at all levels. Their success has been somewhat mooted, however, new research from Columbia Business School highlights how difficult it can be to even get diverse applicants to apply in the first place. The research provides a clear link between the gender of leaders in a business and the values of the organization, and the gender split of applicants to vaca

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The Answer to This One Question Reveals Your Success as a Leader

Leading with Trust

Judging the performance of a leader can be tricky. One person’s notion of a successful leader can be the polar opposite of another’s. It’s hard to agree upon a common definition of leadership, much less the definition of success. Do you define a leader’s success as hitting the revenue goal? Is it the satisfaction scores from your customers? How about employee engagement statistics?

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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.