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How To Speak Up in Meetings (A Video For if You’re Feeling Unsure)

Let's Grow Leaders

Techniques to Speak Up in Meetings and Ensure Your Voice is Heard. “Hey Karin, I just had my 360 Feedback review, and I heard I should speak up more in meetings. But it’s hard. How do I get better at this?” #AskingForaFriend. 4 Ways to Speak Up More in Meetings. This question came in from a really good friend of mine, whom I’ve known for over 30 years.

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How Leaders Can Unleash Curiosity To Drive Innovation, Learning, And Resilience

Tanveer Naseer

When it comes to conversations around curiosity in today’s workplace, the focus tends to be on how it helps to drive innovation. But as my guest Dr. Shannon Minifie points out in this episode of my leadership podcast, when leaders unleash the full power of curiosity in their organization, they. Click to continue reading.

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Ethical Culture: The Business Case For Prevention

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton After I published "Prevention or Cure: Your Choice" about reducing ethical risk and creating a positive culture a reader asked for more information about the business case for prevention. Here are some compelling reasons why the prevention approach is a better business decision than waiting for ethical problems and applying a "cure" after the organization is already in trouble.

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Seven Reasons Brainstorming Fails

Lead Change Blog

As we begin to hopefully move out of remote work and covid clutter, pivoting seems to be the mantra on many leaders’ lips. Certainly, it will not be “business as usual.” How many ways can we respond to customers and clients? What new offerings might we create? But before a group is convened to “brainstorm”, consider these reasons why many “ brainstorms” fail: The people doing the brainstorming are there by mandate – not by desire.

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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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Fiercely Loyal with Dov Baron

Let's Grow Leaders

The world has changed, and so has everything we know about becoming and remaining an effective leader particularly when it comes to keeping your top talent! The effective leaders of tomorrow will do one thing: keep their top talent. In this episode, Dov Baron lays out the strategies for not only keeping your top talent but how to have them become Fiercely Loyal.

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Timeless Leadership Lessons I Learned from My First Job as a Swim Instructor

Leading Blog

T HERE’S something about our first jobs that stick with us. They teach us things we didn’t expect to learn and shape the person we become later in our professional lives. This phenomenon happens even when that first job has absolutely nothing to do with the career you ultimately end up pursuing, which is exactly what happened to me. I was 14 when I first started as a lifeguard and swim instructor at my hometown pool in Canton, Connecticut.

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Bonding with Customers: The Leadership Side

Lead Change Blog

David P. Campbell, a co-author of the infamous Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory, once proposed camps for the children of world leaders located in the countries of their adversaries. The concept was, for example, senior Russian leaders would never launch an attack on the United States if their children were attending a U.S.-based camp. The subtheme was also that children would return home after camp reporting a vastly different assessment of “adversaries.” Their “adversaries&#

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How to Calculate ROI of Remote vs. In-Person Work? (How to Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

Calculate ROI For a More Strategic Transition to Remote Teams. Your finance team did a bit of quick math to calculate ROI for making the transition to remote teams permanent based on real-estate savings and reduced communite times. But, you know it’s more complicated than that. So how do you take a more comprehensive approach to measuring the ROI?

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221: Simple Visual Story (SVS) Model for Effective Communication | with Matthew Pierce

Engaging Leader

This is a special episode of Engaging Leader, featuring part 2 of an excerpt of Jesse’s live interview on TechSmith’s Visual Lounge with Matt Pierce. While part 1 focused on the 5M framework as a comprehensive planning tool for communication, Simple Visual Story (SVS) is a great model for executing the components of the […]. This is a special episode of Engaging Leader, featuring part 2 of an excerpt of Jesse’s live interview on TechSmith’s Visual Lounge with Matt Pierce.

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The Starting Point for Greater Influence

Kevin Eikenberry

Would you like to have people hear you, value your input, and more often follow your lead and ideas? If so, you are striving for greater influence. When you have greater influence, you have greater confidence, you are less stressed, and will likely be more productive. Those are all good things. But when people think […]. The post The Starting Point for Greater Influence appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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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 Stay Marketable and Keep Your Job

Lead Change Blog

With the current crisis we are in, so much seems to be rapidly changing, with new information daily causing anxiety. One of the biggest concerns individuals are facing is a new constant fear surrounding their job security. When so much seems to be out of your control, what can you do to stay marketable and maintain your job? . Now, more than ever, there is a strong need to remain relevant and innovative within your career.

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How Do I Gain Respect When My Team Doesn’t Like Me?

Let's Grow Leaders

Use This Approach to Gain Respect and the Influence You Need. Of course, leadership is not about being liked. But it sucks to go to work every day when you know your team would rather be working for someone else. Plus, if your team doesn’t respect you, you’re not going to have the influence you need to make an impact. So, how do you gain respect, when your team’s just not there?

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How to Think Like a Leader when Your Brain Drags You Down

Leadership Freak

Ruminant animals chew their food, swallow it, regurgitate it, and chew it some more*. Humans are mental cud chewers. Research shows that you aren’t thinking about what you’re doing about half the time**.

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Would You Like to Be More Influential?

Kevin Eikenberry

Everyone would like to be more influential – get their ideas across and make a bigger impact. While I believe everyone wants those things, many also worry about being seen as pushy or presumptuous, brassy or bold, or even self-serving. Is it possible to influence powerfully and maintain relationships, yet not be seen in a […]. The post Would You Like to Be More Influential?

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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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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Beverly Hills Ninja

Joseph Lalonde

Beverly Hills Ninja was one of Chris Farley’s last movies. There were only two other movies released after this that the funny man starred in. Prior to writing this article, I’d never watched Beverly Hills Ninja. After watching the movie, I am sad I did not watch it. Beverly Hills Ninja was a great piece […].

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Conversation with Pat Farnack on Employee Retention in Today’s Environment

Michael Lee Stallard

I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed again by Pat Farnack, longtime radio host on WCBS Newsradio 880 in New York City. In the middle of the “Great Resignation,” companies are struggling to attract and retain employees. Studies show that negative emotions in the workplace have been rising. These negative emotions make people less enthusiastic about returning to work and incentivized to seek a more positive experience elsewhere.

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Weekend Update: 8/16/2021 to 8/20/2021

Leadership Freak

Three things I’m noticing. Organizations revert to past strategies and former leaders when the goal is stability. When personal agendas conflict with organizational mission relationships are weapons and progress slows to a crawl.

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How Can You Achieve Greater Influence? – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

I get asked this question a lot: How can I be more influential? And often times when I am asked this, it isn’t phrased exactly like that. It might sound more like… How can I motivate my team to do more? How can I better inspire my team? There are a lot of ways that […]. The post How Can You Achieve Greater Influence? – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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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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Are Your Asks Too Small?

Joseph Lalonde

A local business owner reached out to me during my Indiegogo campaign for the Reel Leadership book pre-sale (pre-sale ends August 30th at 3 AM EST). He wanted to know what he could do to help the campaign be successful. I rattled off a couple of things he could do that were on the top of […].

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The Key To Charisma.

Rich Gee Group

"You can have a conversation with anyone — provided you actually care about what they say." I'm genuinely curious about people. So when I go out, I am intentional about being genuinely curious about people I run into. I'll chat with the check-out people at my supermarket. I’ll interact with servers at a restaurant. I strike up conversations with people in waiting rooms.

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The ABCs of Giving and Seeking Feedback that Really Works

Leadership Freak

Apathy resents and rejects feedback, but everyone who cares to improve wants to know how they’re doing. Feedback is essential for growth and development.

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Managing Through Change? Employees Need to Know the Context

leaderCommunicator

We all know that change is part of business and isn’t going away any time soon. Yet that reality can be hard on employees, who are constantly bombarded with so much information of all kinds that they can’t digest it. That’s why it’s so important to place any big change in context to help employees adjust. By context, we mean the “why,” or the background and reasoning behind a change that needs to take place.

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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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5 Books Leaders Should Read In September 2021

Joseph Lalonde

There’s a never-ending great wealth of information to be found in books. Every month, I bring you a list of great titles that will help you either professionally, personally, or spiritually. This month I am bringing you 5 titles that you need to read ASAP. 5 Books Leaders Should Read In September 2021 I can’t […].

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5 whys then 5 whats and how

Mike Cardus

When you have a problem-solving method and like it, you tend to use it a bunch. And, when this method is part of how your company or team works – it gets used often and becomes part of your in-group work. Most problem-solving methods work well for most things. It helps to work with others and use current or shared knowledge to make progress. Progress is the greatest motivator for creativity and happiness in work. 5 whys then 5 whats and how.

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4 Ways to Be Present that Anyone Can Practice

Leadership Freak

People tend to choose ruminating on the past or worrying about the future over being present. Being present is being engaged in the moment.

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Stress Reduction Techniques

Career Advancement

“Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.”. ~Marilu Henner. Client Elias asks: I feel like my work performance is being compromised by stress. And carrying all that stress is exhausting—sooner or later, I feel like I’m just going to collapse.

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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 To Find Employees for Your Franchise in The Wake of Covid-19

Strategy Driven

Beginning in early 2020, Covid-19 began having a massive effect on everything. Above all else, the demand for Covid-19 staffing went through the roof. Everyone was shaken up and no one knew what to do. How to find employees for your franchise in the wake of Covid-19 was the call. With the advent of the coronavirus in the US, most everything changed for the worse and the demand for employees rose.

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How to Pass Your Values On to Your Children

Frank Sonnenberg Online

When children are young, they’re totally dependent on their parents. But as they grow older, their peers and their surroundings exert a greater influence on them. How does that make you feel? Are you comfortable with the impact that tough kids on the block, trash-talking athletes, or raunchy pop stars have on your kids? How about reality-TV celebrities, greedy business executives, or politicians masquerading as “ role models ”?

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3 Lessons from Tires that Aren’t Flat and other Inconveniences

Leadership Freak

The trip was a little less than five hours, so my wife and I drove to the workshop I was recently scheduled to give.

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You Must Address These 3 Things if You Want to Restore Broken Trust

Leading with Trust

Trust is often one of those things we don’t think about until we don’t have it. Much like oxygen, we take it for granted, but once it’s gone…YIKES! We suddenly realize how critically important it is and we’ll do just about anything to get it back. The good news about broken trust, if there is any, is that it can be rebuilt in most circumstances. Trust is incredibly resilient when it’s been properly nurtured in healthy relationships.

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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.