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How To Help Your Team Think Like an Entrepreneur

Let's Grow Leaders

How to Develop Entrepreneurial Thinking on Your Team. Back in her Verizon days, one of Karin’s favorite questions to ask a team member whom she was encouraging to think like an entrepreneur was: “If this was your company, would you _ (make this decision, hold this meeting, spend money in this matter, invest in this project)?” As you can imagine, the answer was often. “Errr, well, no, but …” The conversation after that “but” is at the heart of teac

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The Benefits of a Chief Transformation Officer for Growth

N2Growth Blog

As executive search consultants, we focus on understanding and optimizing businesses’ intended transformations and how they are shaping strategic responses to industry-level changes. While our clients focus on strategic planning, we place a great deal of our focus on the board advisory and strategic alignment with the execution of their needs. Especially implementation challenges of transformation affecting the organizational design.

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How Workplace Productivity Depends On Employees Training And Development

Tanveer Naseer

Business organizations that want to maximize their investment returns must focus on building a higher return on investment through effective training and development programs for their employees. As the adage goes, an organization’s most valuable asset is its employees. You should maximize the true value of this asset to transition. Click to continue reading.

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Leading Thoughts for October 28, 2021

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. John Hagel on how emotions spread and thus how this dynamic can be used for or against us: “Emotions have an interesting network effect: Once a critical mass of people feel a certain emotion, it tends to spread exponentially, both in terms of the number of people who feel it and in terms of intensity with which it is felt.

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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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Humanity Works Better with Debbie and Kate

Let's Grow Leaders

Humanity. It works—and it works better. In this heartfelt and moving conversation, Debbie Cohen and Kate Roeske-Zummer help you chart a path that brings humanity (yours and your teams) to work through awareness, choice, and courage. They’ll help you build a healthier, more productive work environment that draws the best—rather than squeezes the most—out of people.

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Building Our Future on Global Values

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton We have become a divided society that seems to have lost its collective center in values. But we have worked globally for many years to define that center. I wrote an article for the Non-Violent Change Journal about creating a better world through values.

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Boosting Team Performance: 3 Ways to Make Your Team’s Engine More Powerful

RapidStart Leadership

Want to boost team performance? Here are three things leaders can learn from engineers who have figured out how to make jet engines go faster. The post Boosting Team Performance: 3 Ways to Make Your Team’s Engine More Powerful appeared first on RapidStart Leadership.

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Leading Through Disruption with David Giersdorf

Let's Grow Leaders

Is there any industry that’s been disrupted more at a global level over the past twenty years than the cruise lines? In this episode, David Giersdorf, a former senior executive in the global cruise, travel, and marketing services industry, gives the roadmap for leading through disruption. It’s optimistic, encouraging, and full of opportunities to help you navigate your company, career, team, and life through the fog of disruption.

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How To Improve Your Ability To See The Big Picture

Joseph Lalonde

Leading requires us to be able to see the big picture. This can be hard if we’re mired in the minutia of the daily grind. We can easily zoom in and lose the big picture. What can we do to zoom out and see the big picture again? There are 3 things I want to encourage you […].

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Are You a Helicopter Boss? – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

You’ve heard of helicopter parents, right? These well-intentioned parents tend to hover over their children (like a helicopter) and typically take too much responsibility for their children’s experiences and lives. They of course do this out of love, to protect their children. Have you ever had a helicopter boss? Again, likely out of good intentions, […].

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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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How to Avoid Delivering the Dreaded Feedback Sandwich

Next Level Blog

We’ve all been there. Your manager wants to give you some performance feedback and wraps it up in so much blah, blah, blah that you aren’t really sure what the message is or what you’re supposed to do with it. The technical term for what you got is the feedback sandwich. There’s so much fluffy, doughy verbiage on the front end and back end of the conversation that whatever nutritional value there might be in the middle is pretty much lost.

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Your Roles, Your Time, Your Choices

CoachStation

We all have multiple roles, responsibilities and relationships, both in and out of the workplace. Understanding how your various roles interact and affect each other can make a genuine difference in your life. “It’s all about the levers”, I said. My client looked at me like I had gone barmy. “Maybe you are feeling an imbalance and that you are having to compromise your core values and some of the things that matter most to you”, I suggested.

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5 Books To Read In November 2021

Joseph Lalonde

The leaves are falling. The air is getting crisper. The weather outside is cooling down. Is there a better time to curl up with a good book? Maybe with a nice coffee or a specially made chai latte (my favorite). I think not. This month, I’m bringing you 5 more books leaders should read. I […].

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You Want People to Take Ownership – But How

Leadership Freak

“Anything that affects my team is mine.” Brandon Ross* “If the traffic light in front of my building isn’t working, I’m having someone look into it.

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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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Get More Read – and Help Others Do it Too!

Kevin Eikenberry

Few will disagree that reading is a powerful way to learn. In fact, even nonreaders will agree with this truth. Never before has there been more to read, in more ways, from more sources. Nor more excuses and explanations for not reading. If you want to get more read so you can learn and act […]. The post Get More Read – and Help Others Do it Too!

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From the Great Resignation to Striketober, Employees are Demanding Change

leaderCommunicator

We’ve all heard and read about the "Great Resignation" and employees leaving their jobs in record numbers recently. In a related development, October is now known as Striketober, with labor strikes happening at cereal makers (Kellogg’s), agricultural equipment manufacturers (John Deere) and healthcare providers (Kaiser Permanente). A strike of 60,000 behind-the-scenes film and TV workers was averted with moments to spare earlier this month.

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Dune 2021

Joseph Lalonde

A Reel Leadership Article. The new Dune movie was one of the casualties of the 2020 movie season thanks to COVID-19. Originally scheduled to hit theaters in December of 2020, Dune didn’t see release until this weekend, October 2021. Thanks to COVID-19, the ways movies are released have been changed as well. Many movies are seeing split releases.

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Why Stephen King Felt Ashamed

Leadership Freak

Miss Hisler summoned Stephen King to the principal’s office because he had written and sold a horror story to his classmates. He earned over nine dollars in one day.

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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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The Secret Ingredient that Improves Sales

Skip Prichard

Those Who Care the Most, Sell the Most. How do top performers differentiate themselves? There is no secret to sales, no silver bullet. But there is a secret ingredient that makes sales much easier to make, and that is caring. My friend Mareo McCracken is the Chief Revenue Officer at Movemedical and believes, “Those who care the most, sell the most.”.

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The Top 10 Steps for Leaders To Improve the Employee Experience

leaderCommunicator

The COVID-19 global pandemic created shockwaves well beyond the state of public health. In fact, Gallup attributes the outbreak as a major factor in why, after a steady rise over the last decade, employee engagement decreased globally by two percentage points, from 22% in 2019 to 20% in 2020. Now, leaders must work to find ways to address this decrease and the business impact it has on workplace culture, employee retention and performance.

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The Wealth Inequality of Nations

The Horizons Tracker

Tools like the Gini coefficient give us an easy way to compare the inequality levels between different countries. New research from the University of Michigan suggests that these tools might not always be effective, however, as they base their measures on income inequality rather than wealth inequality. The researchers argue that when wealth inequality is assessed, we get a very different picture of inequality levels between nations.

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The Secret to Magnificent Success

Leadership Freak

Bob Burg and John David Mann wrote the following in, “The Go-Giver Influencer.

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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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What No One Tells You About Starting Your Own Fintech Startup

CEO Insider

These days, there is a global surge in technological awareness as many people are becoming more conversant with technology and its use in solving critical issues. Especially in the commercial industry, where customers’ needs are being satisfied from any corner of the world with the touch of a button. Now, people perform financial transactions locally […].

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Thanks So Much!

Frank Sonnenberg Online

I’d like to give a shout-out to all the folks who read, comment, and share my blog posts each day. Thanks so much! FrankSonnenbergOnline has attracted just over 4.5 million readers and was recently named one of the “Top Self-Improvement and Personal Development Blogs” in the world. In addition, I have been contacted by parents, educators, religious leaders, coaches, management professionals, etc.

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Slack Is Needed If The Digital Transformation Of Healthcare Is To Succeed

The Horizons Tracker

At the start of the Covid pandemic, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella famously remarked that we had seen 2 years’ worth of digital transformation in 2 months, as the crisis presented just the kind of “burning platform” that is so often said to be vital to triggering meaningful change. Nowhere has this been more so than in healthcare, where digital technologies were used in a wide range of ways, from treating Covid and non-Covid patients alike under social distancing measures, to utiliz

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7 Ways to Master the Most Important Leadership Skill

Leadership Freak

Intimidation is about reward and punishment. Leading is about connecting. The ability to connect with people is the magic ingredient that multiplies every leadership practice. Your brain is wired to connect.

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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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Your Roles, Your Time, Your Choices

CoachStation

We all have multiple roles, responsibilities and relationships, both in and out of the workplace. Understanding how your various roles interact and affect each other can make a genuine difference in your life. “It’s all about the levers”, I said. My client looked at me like I had gone barmy. “Maybe you are feeling an imbalance and that you are having to compromise your core values and some of the things that matter most to you”, I suggested.

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How to Repair Your Reputation

Frank Sonnenberg Online

There’s an old saying that bad news travels fast. With the advent of social media, the operative word “fast” doesn’t do justice to the speed at which bad news travels today. As Doug Larson, the columnist, said, “Bad news travels fast. Good news takes the scenic route.” That said, your reputation can get flushed down the toilet in seconds. Sometimes reputations get tarnished by rumors, falsehoods, or misunderstandings; other times, it’s the result of folks who take shortcuts, exhibit poor judgmen

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The Pandemic Has Changed Our Perception Of Masked Faces

The Horizons Tracker

While mask-wearing was relatively common in Asian cultures before the Covid pandemic, the last 18 months have introduced the practice to many western societies on a scale never previously seen. Research from Hokkaido University examines whether the pandemic has changed our perception of face coverings. The research, which was conducted in Japan, looked at how wearing face masks affected how we viewed the attractiveness of others.

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4 Essentials in Leadership Development

Leadership Freak

NEW BOOK GIVEAWAY!! 20 copies available!!

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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.