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Employee Growth: How to Better Support Team Member Development

Let's Grow Leaders

Exploring the S Curve of Employee Growth. In this week’s Asking for a Friend, I speak with Whitney Johnson, author of Smart Growth, about how to support your team along the S curve of employee growth. When I read Whitney’s new book, I was struck by how her model reflected my own journey of taking the leap from Verizon Wireless executive to entrepreneur.

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How Startups Can Revamp Their Executive Leadership Talent for Growth

N2Growth Blog

Organizations, particularly startups, require changes in executive leadership talent in the business lifecycle to capitalize on growth potential. Sometimes CEOs are late to make the necessary executive team changes, which comes at a cost. Today, I’d like to share some examples and critical considerations for companies that fit in this category. NerdWallet is an example of when the rapidly growing company missed profitability targets and subsequently changed its leadership team.

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Unethical Leadership: Selective Inclusion

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton I previously wrote about the problem of selective respect and today I'll address it's evil twin. It has been happening right in front of us and has been amplified by social media - leaders speaking from a perspective of selective inclusion. This week, I'm sharing a collection of posts that explain the importance of full inclusion and how to recognize examples that stray from it.

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Things Your Parents Said That Were Wiser Than We Knew

Kevin Eikenberry

Recently, I have been hearing my mom and dad in my ear. There are things my parents told me a kid that have become a part of my belief system. But when I thought about them as a leader, I gained a whole other level of insight. Because of this mental exercise, I decided to […]. The post Things Your Parents Said That Were Wiser Than We Knew appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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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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Civility at Work: How Do I Deal with a Mean Co-Worker? (video)

Let's Grow Leaders

Civility at Work is a Team Sport. What do you do if you’re dealing with a co-worker who is completely uncivil? I mean down-right mean, their momma should have taught them better kind of uncivil? How can you address civility at work at a team level? #Askingforafriend. I was talking with an HR leader the other day about some of the challenges they were facing after a very turbulent year, the stressful year.

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Run of the (Tread) Mill – Finding Magic in the Mundane

RapidStart Leadership

Some of the most important tasks in life may not be spectacular or exciting; to help us keep at them anyway, here are six ways to help us find magic in the mundane. The post Run of the (Tread) Mill – Finding Magic in the Mundane appeared first on RapidStart Leadership.

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3 Surprising Quotes from Sir Edmund Hillary that Contradict Established Thinking

Leadership Freak

A quote that captures your imagination can change your life, or at least your day. #1. Vision: “I never had a vision to climb Mt. Everest, as with everything else it just grew.

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The Most Challenging Person for a Human-Centered Leader

Let's Grow Leaders

To be a human-centered leader requires compassion, empathy, and kindness for someone it’s easy to overlook. If you’re serious about becoming a more human-centered leader, it’s vital to master one specific relationship: the one with yourself. This is a leadership relationship I often overlook. It’s so easy to have compassion and grace for other people while pushing myself for more and holding myself to an unreasonable standard of perfection or achievement.

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How To Overcome Your Fear And Become A Great Leader

Lead from Within

As a leadership and executive coach, I get to work with leaders around the world. Cultural differences emerge in many discussions, but when the topic of fear comes up people all over the world tend to react the same way: they become overwhelmed by the sense of uncertainty and the unknown. Part of my job involves coaching leaders in overcoming those feelings.

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The Many Languages of Career Development – Guest Blogger Julie Winkle Giulioni

leaderCommunicator

We’ve all heard of the 5 Love Languages… right? But how many career development languages do you know? If you’re like many, the answer is just one: Promotions! But in most organizations, the time-honored tradition of defining career development in terms of promotions, moves, and/or title changes is dying or altogether dead. Hierarchies are flattening.

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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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3 Ways to Make Encouragement Count

Leadership Freak

“How can you tell if a person needs encouragement? If that person is breathing.” S. Truett Cathy You may not intend to, but managers discourage good people. Encouragement feels like power.

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The Manager’s Playbook with Joel Trammell and Alicia Thrasher

Let's Grow Leaders

Have you worked in an organization that suffers from a crisis of management and leadership? Then you know how important it is to have a Manager’s Playbook. Under-trained and under-equipped, many great people have turned out to be not-great managers and their employees and companies’ bottom lines are suffering the consequences. In this episode, David talks with Joel Trammell and Alicia Thrasher, co-authors of The Manager’s Playbook, about the massive difference that simple manag

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10 solution-focused questions for impact when you have no or little direct authority or power within the team or department

Mike Cardus

With inspiration from a brilliant solution-focused friend Kirsten Dierolf’s post – 10 good exploration questions that are not “Why” questions. The solution-focus challenge. Construct 10 good questions that invite a person to explore how to impact their work and the great work of others when they have no or little direct authority or power within their team or organization.

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4 Ways Employees Can Help Prevent Cyber Attacks

leaderCommunicator

How to Activate Employees to Take Information Security into Their Own Hands. If there was ever a time to reinforce the importance of cyber safety, it’s now. Experts believe countries and businesses who stand in the way of Putin’s military attacks could be at risk for cyber attacks, particularly those responsible for infrastructure and financial systems.

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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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Seagull Management: 4 Ways to Stop Dumping on People

Leadership Freak

Seagull managers fly in, make lots of noise, dump on everyone, and fly away.* You might say a seagull manager is full of crap. The seduction of problems makes you a seagull.

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Team Harmony: Leaders, Are You Needlessly Sacrificing Great Results? #LeadMorale

Kate Nasser

Leaders your organization can have team harmony, high morale & great results IF you address these 4 issues. Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™, Author Leading Morale. The post Team Harmony: Leaders, Are You Needlessly Sacrificing Great Results? #LeadMorale appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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How Leaders Can Move Teams From Isolated To All In

Eric Jacobson

Today brings a new book that provides workplace leaders an urgently needed methodology for helping companies to reduce worker loneliness, and it delivers a blueprint for building strong, high-performing workplace teams. The book is, Connectable: How Leaders Can Move Teams From Isolated To All In , by Ryan Jenkins and Steven Van Cohen. “72% of workers suffer from loneliness.

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New Free eBook: 7 Critical Traits for Building Trust Inside Companies

leaderCommunicator

Employee engagement falling. People leaving their jobs in record numbers. Burned out employees seeking a new sense of purpose in their work. All these major trends can often be traced back to a lack of one key ingredient in work culture – trust in leadership.??. In our newly revised eBook, 7 Critical Traits for Building Trust Inside Companies , we offer new data, examine the trust problem and offer leaders a go-to playbook for how to reverse these trends and build a powerful new level of trust w

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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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Two Questions that Reveal Aspirations

Leadership Freak

I first heard the expression, “A typical job interview is a conversation between two liars,” on a call to Buenos Aires in 2014. It’s not just job interviews.

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Critical Lessons That They Fail to Teach You in School

Frank Sonnenberg Online

Most people learn life’s most valuable lessons too late in life. Here are 31 lessons that they fail to teach you in school. Never lower your standards. Never! People can’t make you do things without your permission. One of the true tests of integrity is your refusal to compromise your honor at any price. Material possessions wear out. Memories are forever.

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How To Remove Biases From Algorithms

The Horizons Tracker

As Daniel Kahneman illustrates in Noise , AI-based systems can be effective in reducing the variability in decision making, but they nonetheless suffer from the biases introduced by the quality of the data used to train the algorithms. For instance, one recent investigation showed that lenders were 80% more likely to reject Black applicants than similar white applicants.

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Keys to Turning Employees into the Future Leaders of Your Venture

Women on Business

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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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6 Ways Heroes Advance Your Life

Leadership Freak

Life if larger with heroes. The wrong idea about heroes propagates helplessness. The right idea about heroes gives you strength.

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The Leadership Secrets of Ted Lasso

CEO Insider

Ted Lasso, the sports comedy-drama series, can make anyone a better leader, if you can stop laughing long enough to pay attention. At first, I was just enjoying the comedy and the setting in London, but after a few episodes I started to experience something deeper. Apart from earning more Emmys than any other debut […]. The post The Leadership Secrets of Ted Lasso appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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The Facts of Life — Grown-up Version

Frank Sonnenberg Online

Most people learn life’s most valuable lessons too late in life. Here are 31 facts that will radically improve your life if you embrace them: Your mindset matters more than you think. Watch what you believe because your beliefs have a way of becoming your reality. If you stop focusing on all the reasons why you can’t do something, you just may be surprised by what you can.

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Going Self-Employed: 6 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me

Women on Business

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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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Breaking Big Problems Into Small Problems

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Big business problems are overwhelming. Using a logic map to break a big problem into its smaller components can give you the clarity and understanding you need to solve it. At one point, I worked with a financial services firm and we had a program where we were making offers to consumers. When that program first launched, we were making about $5 million a year.

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New Leader Assimilation: JOIN Global #PeopleSkillsChat SUN. March 6th

Kate Nasser

New leader assimilation is global #PeopleSkillsChat topic w/ host Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™, Author Leading Morale. Trust matters! So join us Sun. March 6th 10am ET on Twitter to share your unique insights on how quickly new leaders can assimilate and move the organization forward. The post New Leader Assimilation: JOIN Global #PeopleSkillsChat SUN.

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5 strategies for leaders to celebrate Employee Appreciation Day

CEO Insider

With the emergence of the Great Resignation, the turnover rate at companies nationwide has spiked. This creates a workplace climate where many employees are willing to leave their jobs if they don’t feel valued—and Employee Appreciation Day (March 4), presents an opportunity for employers to ensure their teams feel heard and appreciated at a time […].

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Does Every Business Need an Accountant?

Women on Business

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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.