Leading in Context
APRIL 20, 2022
By Linda Fisher Thornton When we meet someone new, should we trust them right away? Should we assume that they are trustworthy and give them the benefit of the doubt, or should we hold back until we are sure that they are worthy of our trust?
Tanveer Naseer
APRIL 22, 2022
Leadership is often defined by attributes like vision, charisma, presence of mind, and determination. Health is rarely mentioned. However, this is yet another powerful quality that makes great leaders. Robust health is essential for any leader who wants to excel. Leaders should be able to think clearly and make quick. Click to continue reading.
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Joseph Lalonde
APRIL 19, 2022
Do You Want to Write a Book? Four Questions, Four Actions, and Four Commitments If you are a leader who has been considering writing a nonfiction book to share your expertise with others, you may want to consider the following questions, actions, and commitments as you sort through the right timing, content, publishing approach, and […].
Leadership Freak
APRIL 22, 2022
High achievers push themselves. One of the joys of life is small things that make a big difference. Small, simple, and attainable is better than dramatic, complicated, and out of reach.
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Next Level Blog
APRIL 20, 2022
If your ambitions are big enough, you’re eventually going to reach the limit of the effort you can deploy to attain them. Much like the dilemma of determining when something needs to be perfect and when good enough is good enough , acknowledging that there is only so much effort to go around can be really difficult for high-achieving leaders and their teams.
Sales Wolf Blog
APRIL 20, 2022
Businesses fail. Often. Failure is obvious. What is less obvious is the degree businesses are not optimized to the level they could and should be. Businesses that are not optimized are at increased risk from competitors as well as economic forces. To make matters more complicated, there is a seemingly infinite number of self help, marketing, and business optimization books and gurus.
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Leadership Freak
APRIL 18, 2022
Poor performance is exhausting and frustrating. A manager who brings out the best in others multiplies talent and maximizes resources. Poor performance degrades, de-energizes, and devalues. 5 surprising reasons for poor performance: #1.
Joseph Lalonde
APRIL 21, 2022
The people who know me will probably tell you that they believe I’m a reasonably confident person. Truth be told, I struggle with confidence. I’ve found this to be true with others as well, including leaders. Confidence can be a struggle for leaders for a multitude of reasons. Sometimes leaders get things wrong. Or they […].
Rich Gee Group
APRIL 18, 2022
Tool #3 - Cause & Effect (Fishbone) Diagram This week, let’s focus on a great root causal analysis tool - the Cause & Effect Diagram. Summary: It’s a great tool for brainstorming and encouraging team participation. It allows you as the leader, to help your team understand the root causal elements of a problem and (have them) identify areas of improvement.
Great Leadership By Dan
APRIL 22, 2022
Do you always lead with a style that’s most comfortable for you, or can you adapt your natural style to meet the need of a given situation? Here are two ways to classify leadership styles, and 10 different styles: The Situational Leadership model uses a 4 box grid based on the amount of direction and. Read More. The post 10 Leadership Styles appeared first on Great Leadership by Dan.
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AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.
Leadership Freak
APRIL 21, 2022
Employee loyalty is a relic of the past. Employee retention is a fantasy in organizations when people are treated like tools.
Joseph Lalonde
APRIL 21, 2022
Entrepreneurs and businesses are constantly seeking new methods to advertise their products, services, and client connections. Brands recognized that SMS marketing was an active marketing channel for sending promotional information, special deals, freebies, and advertising new items soon after the first mobile advertisement in 2000. This article will demonstrate why businesses of all sizes should […].
The Horizons Tracker
APRIL 18, 2022
Paid sick leave may seem like something that is purely a drain on company finances, but research from Bayes Business School reveals that not only does it boost employee productivity but also the overall profitability of the organization. The researchers analyzed nearly 38,000 publicly-traded companies across the United States between 2004 and 2019 (ie before the pandemic).
Modern Servant Leader
APRIL 18, 2022
The fifth principle in the Acronym Model of SERVANT-Leadership is Authentic. This 6-minute lesson demonstrates this principle, through the example of Kay Graham and Ben Bradlee (played by Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks) debating personal relationships vs. professional responsibilities. Graham is the CEO of The Washington Post and Bradlee is Executive Editor for the paper.
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Leadership Freak
APRIL 20, 2022
We had a time of joyous complaining before Easter lunch this year. Politicians spend all their time trying to make each other look bad. Putin won’t stop until someone stops him.
Mark Sanborn
APRIL 19, 2022
You can read three books on riding a bicycle, but until you put your feet on the pedals you won’t start learning to ride. You can gain knowledge about speaking from reading books and watching seminars, but you ultimately learn to present better by presenting more often. Here are four exercises that help you improve your speaking: 1. Analyze Others.
The Horizons Tracker
APRIL 18, 2022
Part of the success of projects such as the Good Judgment Project is that the best participants would often hedge their predictions in terms of probabilities. They wouldn’t say something would definitely happen but rather it would have a reasonable chance of doing so. While that approach is the right one in terms of effective predictions, it isn’t always effective in terms of convincing others to back you.
Frank Sonnenberg Online
APRIL 19, 2022
Everyone is born with the potential for greatness. What happens next is up to you. You get to choose which path you take, how high to set the bar for yourself, and how hard you’re willing to work to clear it. You get to decide how to spend your time, who to spend it with , and what you’re willing to forgo when time runs short. Every choice that you make and every action that you take has consequences, but who better to decide what’s best for you –– than you.
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.
Leadership Freak
APRIL 19, 2022
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HR Digest
APRIL 16, 2022
There are many tricky questions that you may be asked in a job interview. One of these questions is “What is your expected salary?” You can answer in many ways, but only some of the answers are the most suitable in this situation. . It’s only normal to want to be fairly compensated for your work. And yet, talking compensation openly with someone you intend to have a long working relationship with, much alone with a hiring manager who has far more inside information than you, may be unnervi
The Horizons Tracker
APRIL 20, 2022
Investments in technology are often made in the hope that they will help to produce productivity improvements within the organization. Research from Georgia State University suggests that this is often the case, but if organizations want to secure a competitive advantage in terms of hiring and retaining the best employees, they may wish to focus more on employee health and wellbeing than on new tech. “Automation and AI that complement labor can increase productivity, raise earnings and in
CEO Insider
APRIL 18, 2022
As technology evolves, so does cybercrime. In fact, most people do not realize that today’s cybercriminals leverage the same technologies, business models, and service offerings that ordinary, non-criminal enterprises use. Similar to the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model where consumers access software and services in exchange for a monthly or recurring fee, the market for cybercrime-as-a-service (CaaS) […].
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leaderCommunicator
APRIL 18, 2022
The unprecedented shift companies are experiencing due to a staggering transformation of the American workforce is one of the biggest concerns facing employers today and is hitting healthcare especially hard as the industry ranks as the second-largest sector impacted by Great Resignation. While we can’t control a global pandemic stretching the healthcare workforce even thinner than it already was, we can make a difference when it comes to change fatigue. 4 Key Factors Affecting Healthcare Employ
Skip Prichard
APRIL 17, 2022
Manage Your Stress. Research: 8-out-of-10 people say that they experience stress regularly at work. On this episode of “Aim Higher,” my panel of leadership experts discusses stress. Which, as we know, is itself a stressful subject. It’s an unpleasant fact of life, and in many cases, we’d just as soon ignore unpleasant things. But as with so many other challenges, ignoring stress only makes it worse.
The Horizons Tracker
APRIL 19, 2022
As the debate around diversity in our teams and organizations has developed in recent years, the general heuristic has been that diverse teams are usually great for coming up with novel ideas, but they’re not so good for efficient coordination. Research from Stanford suggests that this heuristic is unduly simplistic and that teams can modulate how they apply variety or consistency of thought to any given task.
CEO Insider
APRIL 22, 2022
The pandemic reignited the debate surrounding the need for society to visualize a new world of work. Empathy for people’s exhaustion is driving C-suite discussions on alternatives to the five-day, 40+-hour week. In response, the California state legislature which represents the world’s fifth-largest economy introduced legislation that would mandate a 4-day work week for large […].
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thoughtLEADERS, LLC
APRIL 20, 2022
Effective communication is crucial when you’re leading a cross-functional team. Here are a few communication vehicles you can use. A cross-functional team leader has a lot of communication vehicles at their disposal. These need to be used effectively. Here are some of the most common ones and a few suggestions on how you can use them. Steering committee meetings There are steering committee meetings.
Women on Business
APRIL 20, 2022
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The Horizons Tracker
APRIL 20, 2022
The human brain is continuously updating itself in response to the vast array of stimuli it absorbs. Whereas we may think that we say the latest image in realtime, however, research from UC Berkeley actually suggests that we usually see an earlier version as the refresh rate of our brain is around 15 seconds. “If our brains were always updating in real-time, the world would be a jittery place with constant fluctuations in shadow, light and movement, and we’d feel like we were hallucinating all
Innovation Excellence
APRIL 20, 2022
GUEST POST from Janet Sernack I was first introduced to gamification upon meeting Mario Herger, in 2012, when he was a Senior Innovation Strategist at SAP Labs LLC, in Israel, as a participant in his two-day gamification workshop for Checkpoint Security Software.
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