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How Do I Help My Team Thrive During Uncertainty at Work

Let's Grow Leaders

You Can’t Stop The Uncertainty at Work, But You Can Learn to Live in Flux. To face a world in constant flux, and prepare for a future of uncertainty at work, you need more than resiliency. April shares practical ways to live your life so that you’re prepared to better cope with (and thrive) no matter what comes at you. In this week’s Asking For a Friend, I talk with April Rinne, author of Flux: 8 Superpowers for Thriving in Constant Change. 8 Superpowers to help you prepare for

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LeadershipNow 140: July 2021 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from July 2021 that you don't want to miss: How To Lead When Your Team is Smarter Than You by @PhilCooke. Baseball’s Work-Life Lessons from @JohnBaldoni Success Demands Unity of Purpose by @artpetty. How Values Change Everything by @leadingincontxt Linda Fisher Thornton. Letter to a friend who may start a new investment platform by @GrahamDuncanNYC.

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Bridging Differences for Better Mentoring

Lead Change Blog

As the workplace has become more diverse, mentoring has become more challenging. Mentors and mentees may come from very different backgrounds and have a limited understanding of each other’s cultures and outlooks. But mentoring remains the most powerful tool for creating meaningful relationships, furthering professional development, and increasing engagement and retention.

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Tech-Savvy Youth and the Future of C-Suite Leadership

N2Growth Blog

Did you know that American youth spend an average of six hours or more a day on screens ? As a result of increased social media use and continuous screen time, young adults have become more reliant on the internet for information, learning, working, communication, and entertainment. Today I will share my thoughts on our youth and their relationship with technology and its potential impact on the future C-Suite.

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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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How to Scale Your Leadership for Bigger Influence and Results

Let's Grow Leaders

5 Ways to Scale Your Leadership and Motivate Your Large Team. You have a solid track record of building high-performance teams. But, now your team is bigger and you need to scale your leadership. Perhaps you’ve been promoted and your team has tripled in size. Or, maybe you’re leading a fast-growing start-up, and it’s no longer feasible to have the direct influence you once had with every employee and customer.

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Overriding Our Instincts in Order to Become Caring Leaders

Leading Blog

W E OFTEN THINK of ourselves as good leaders — or at least somewhat good. Afterall, we got this far in our careers by following our instincts, practicing what we learned, and applying appropriate business strategies. But are we leading? Truly leading people? Before we answer that question, let’s think about what’s really happening. Over the course of a career, we gain a myriad of tools and tips on how to lead.

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Leadership, Blurred Lines and Sliding Scales

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton Leadership has entered a new realm, leaving the space of knowns and certainties (which was an illusion anyway) and entering the space of deep uncertainty, blurred lines and sliding scales. What it takes to succeed as a leader in this new realm is completely different from the leadership of ages past.

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Mastery Under Pressure with Tina Greenbaum

Let's Grow Leaders

As a leader do you ever feel overwhelmed and stressed? Keep running into the same limiting mindset or patterns, but don’t know how to fix them? In this episode, you’ll discover a system used by world-class athletes, performers, and CEOs to build their confidence, achieve transformational results, and overcome their limiting mindsets. Performance mastery specialist Tina Greenbaum will give you practical tools to achieve mastery under pressure.

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First Look: Leadership Books for August 2021

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in August 2021. Don't miss out on other great new and future releases not listed here. A Minute to Think : Reclaim Creativity, Conquer Busyness, and Do Your Best Work by Juliet Funt. Do you wish you could stop the mayhem of work and life and just take a minute? Do you sense you could contribute more if there were a little more room in the day?

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August 2021 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Welcome to the August 2021 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Communication. Marcia Reynolds of Covisioning Transformational Leadership provided 3 Steps to Achieving Inner Stillness.

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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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What Is Reel Leadership?

Joseph Lalonde

The idea of Reel Leadership began stirring in my mind years ago. But we need to go back in time before this idea began to ruminate in my mind. I want to take you back to the beginning of my personal development journey. I was a young, excited man that was just starting out in […].

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Live-Online Leadership Training: Where Can I Send My Managers?

Let's Grow Leaders

High-ROI Live Online Leadership Training For Human-Centered Leaders. Q: Karin, I see all the feedback about your customized leadership development programs for human-centered leaders, and they look great! The problem is, that I only have a handful of managers who need live-online leadership training. Do you have an open enrollment program they could attend?

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Work Life Balance is … Personal – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

There’s always a lot of discussion around work life balance and maybe more so than ever now that many of us have brought our work home, literally, and are working from home. And while it would be nice to have an easy formula to follow, the truth is that work life balance is personal for […]. The post Work Life Balance is … Personal – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Positively Energizing Leaders Are Heliotropic

Lead Change Blog

The heliotropic effect describes the inherent tendency in all living things toward positive energy and away from negative energy. In nature, the sun is the source of positive, life-giving energy, so the heliotropic effect explains why plants and other organisms lean toward the light over time. It is inherent in the cells of living systems. This phenomenon has important implications for leaders because human beings likewise have an inherent tendency toward positive, life-giving energy.

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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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Leading Thoughts for August 5, 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 Maxwell on how adversity introduces us to ourselves: “Adversity always gets our attention. We can’t ignore it. It causes us to stop and look at our situation. And at ourselves if we have the courage. Adversity creates an opportunity for self-discovery.

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6 Reasons Decision-Making Feels Like Swallowing Porcupines

Leadership Freak

A coaching client recently said, “I don’t like making decisions.” This statement is like saying, ” I don’t like breathing.” A person who isn’t making decisions is dead.

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The Power of Trust

Kevin Eikenberry

People trust leaders (in general and their own) or not. People trust their co-workers, or not. And we all know that when the trust level is higher, good things happen for everyone. Given all that, when you learn of a book titled The Power of Trust, you wonder if there is anything new, or is […]. The post The Power of Trust appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Are You Managing the Dimensions of Your CEO Influence?

Lead Change Blog

In the July-August 2018 edition of the Harvard Business Review, Professors Michael E. Porter and Nitin Nohira published an article titled “How CEOs Manage Time” It was a fascinating insight into how CEOs do and should spend their time. . I drew one aspect from their thinking for a round of recent CEO coaching sessions, focusing on how CEOs exert influence. .

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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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Why Is Workforce Planning Important For The Growth Of Your Company

Tanveer Naseer

Any company cannot do without a workforce. The personnel of the organization is the base of production activities, which is a labour resource. There are no companies that operate like any other resource without labour. But also ineffective and poor quality work of the company’s personnel can lead to deterioration, Click to continue reading.

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How to Get and Be a Great Peer Coach

Next Level Blog

What if you had a powerful resource right down the hall or a Zoom click away that could help you be an even more effective leader day in and day out? And what if that resource not only helped strengthen your leadership but could even help improve the quality of your life? And what if that powerful resource was free and yours for the asking? My guess is you’d be asking, “Where do I sign up?”.

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What Does it Take to Stand Out?

Kevin Eikenberry

Of all the changes to the workplace that the pandemic brought, one hasn’t been talked about or written about very much. But it doesn’t mean it hasn’t been on remote (and now hybrid) team member’s minds. How can I stand out when the boss never sees me? How will this working arrangement impact my career? […]. The post What Does it Take to Stand Out?

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How Come So Many Smart Leaders Screw Up the Return to the Office?

Lead Change Blog

Facing the reality of strong employee resistance and even turnover, we have seen Google recently backtrack from its plan to force all employees to return back to the office. So did Amazon for the same reasons. Leaders are forcing employees back to the office despite extensive, in-depth surveys from early Spring 2021 that asked thousands of employees about their preferences on returning to the office after the pandemic.

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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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LEADERS SHOULD DO THESE FOUR THINGS TO PAVE THE WAY AND ENSURE SUCCESS BEFORE STARTING A TEAM JOURNEY

Great Results Team Building

My experience as a coach and teacher have convinced me that in MOST cases, you should not prepare the road for the person. Instead, you will be far more successful if you prepare the person for most any road…. But as a leader, your job is to control what you can, and to anticipate challenges so you and your team can overcome them together. Yes… leaders have MANY responsibilities….

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5 Quotes That Just Might Change Your Life

Leadership Freak

Call me shallow, but I love me a good quote. A powerful quote, when taken to heart, shapes life. The trouble is we scurry toward oblivion without reflection. #1.

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5 Actions For Better Team Members

Joseph Lalonde

Your team members are the lifeblood of your organization, whether or not you want to admit this. They are the people your customers see. They’re the ones dealing with the day-to-day issues. And they’re the ones who create the biggest impressions upon your customers. You don’t want team members who don’t care. They will repel […].

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Connection Culture Cited in PM Magazine

Michael Lee Stallard

Having a healthy workplace culture is important to the success of organizations in any sector, including the public sector. PM Magazine , a publication of the International City/County Management Association (ICMA), recently explored the role culture plays in local government success. In the article, author Patrick Ibarra writes that while conventional wisdom seeks to address government challenges with additional resources, culture is actually the secret sauce to achieving higher levels of effec

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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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What to Ask When Hiring a Professional Keynote Speaker

Great Results Team Building

Any successful team building event relies on one main thing: the keynote speaker. This is the most important part because the business keynote speaker that you hire for the event must be the right fit. Getting the wrong one can be a disaster and could completely ruin the tone and meaning of the event. When you are hiring, be sure that you talk to the candidates you are thinking of bringing in for your event and be sure that both of you have an idea of the intention that you wish to set.

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A Weekend Update: 7/26 TO 7/30

Leadership Freak

I was just looking at this years lineup for the Global Leadership Summit. The firepower of the presenters is off the charts.

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Micro-Habits of High Impact Managers

QAspire

Managers are linchpins who have a big impact in building an organizational culture where people thrive. High-impact managers are those who are adept at driving high-level agendas without losing focus on small things (that are actually big things) that go on to define good leadership. This focus on soft aspects of leading people, building trust and creating high-performance ecosystem was never more pronounced than now.

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Team Meeting Checklist

Mike Cardus

How to Have an Effective Project Team Meeting. Following good meeting management procedures can have a highly positive effect on your project: People will be more willing to attend meetings that run smoothly. The team will feel a sense of accomplishment that increases commitment and willingness to do project work. What to do: Take time to plan the meeting Follow guidelines for running an effective meeting Don’t forget to follow up after the meeting.

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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.