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Leadership Growth – Are You Coachable?

Let's Grow Leaders

Leadership growth requires feedback and continual learning. It’s no exaggeration to say that if you’re done learning, you’re done leading. The world changes. People grow. And your influence will grow too if you invest in your leadership growth. But that growth is a choice – and one that not every leader will make. I recently spoke with a senior executive who surprised me with her vehemence.

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LeadershipNow 140: October 2021 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from October 2021 that you don't want to miss: From @michaelaroberto : Interesting findings from Microsoft study on the impact of remote work on collaboration. How A Strong Mind Can Give You The Resilience Advantage by @LaRaeQuy. The Great Capitulation: Here’s Why You’re Losing Too Many Good People by @artpetty. Deliver Presentations That Make Audiences Care by @KareAnderson.

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Leading the Way Forward (Part 1)

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton Each year I curate a list of sites that write about trends that will change how we do business in the coming year. This year’s list includes some ongoing trends from last year and some fresh ideas and new directions. Take a look at the 60+ trends at the links below and start getting ready for what’s ahead!

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Lines for Leaders: Boris Yeltsin’s Throne

RapidStart Leadership

Boris Yeltsin presided over the dissolution of the Soviet Union; here's what he said about the dangers of fighting to gain power, and the difficulty of keeping it. The post Lines for Leaders: Boris Yeltsin’s Throne appeared first on RapidStart Leadership.

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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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The Long Game with Dorie Clark

Let's Grow Leaders

Do you feel rushed, overwhelmed, and perennially behind? How can you break out of this endless cycle and create the kind of interesting, meaningful life that focuses on what matters most – in the long run? In this engaging episode, Dorie Clark gives you unique principles and frameworks to help you reorient yourself, see the big picture, and tap into the power of small changes.

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What Works For You

Joseph Lalonde

As any athlete will tell you, they try to find the best nutritional plan to get the best results they can. They will also tell you they bump up their mental game before a game, match, or race. A few weeks ago, I ran my most recent half marathon at the Metro Health Grand Rapids […].

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Are You a Victim or a Victor? – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

Are you a victim or a victor? Perhaps we need to start out by defining these terms first. A victim (for the purposes of this video) is when someone feels hopeless or incapable of changing the outcome of their situation. A victor (again for the purposes of this video) is when you feel as though […]. The post Are You a Victim or a Victor? – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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How to Honor the Law of Vitality

Leadership Freak

You’re worn out because the escalator is going down and you’re going up. You stumble because you won’t turn around. Some things don’t work no matter how hard you try.

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What Have We Learned So Far?

Next Level Blog

Here’s something that might make your head spin. Next week will mark 20 months since the day we all learned that Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson were quarantined with COVID in Australia and the NBA shut down its season on a dime when a player was diagnosed with COVID during pre-game warmups and the arena was cleared of fans. In the United States, March 11, 2020 was the day the pandemic got real.

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Sustained Success Requires Your Team to Be Coachable

Great Results Team Building

Why should you BE COACHABLE ? I spent two decades in locker rooms coaching basketball before transitioning to share those lessons with leaders in other industries as a conference speaker and author. And it was ALWAYS clear who the most talented athletes were at the beginning of our season. In a similar way, you probably know who your TOP TALENT is right now.

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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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Would You Like More Gratitude in Your Life?

Kevin Eikenberry

More gratitude? Yes, please. I’m trying to imagine the person who wouldn’t want more of it… and I’m having trouble. On the other hand, it is one thing to want more gratitude, and another to know how to find it or create it and then savor it. Stated a different way, while we all want […]. The post Would You Like More Gratitude in Your Life? appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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4 Ways Managers Screwup One-On-Ones

Leadership Freak

A simple thing that’s made complex disappoints and drains. 4 ways to screwup one-on-ones: #1. Leave them to the last minute. People feel valued when you prioritize time with them.

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What Are Your Failures?

Joseph Lalonde

When you think of your failures, do you cringe with regret? Do you squeal with glee? Do you hide your head in shame? Failures often give us an inferiority complex. They make us think we’re less than, a loser, or finished. Failures bring us down. But should they? Should failure make you feel horrible? I […].

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In 100 Words: Commitment Finds a Way

QAspire

When faced with difficult situations at work or in life, our first instinct is to complain, blame and find faults in something external, other people and external situations. Finding faults in external sources is fine till it enables us to acknowledge the problem clearly. But we all have seen people who complain and blame incessantly instead of actually solving the problem at hand.

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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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Organizational Climate, Team Weather

Kevin Eikenberry

Meteorologically, the difference between climate and weather is a measure of time. Climate is how the atmosphere acts over a relatively long period of time. Weather is the atmospheric conditions over a much shorter time period. There is an organizational correlation to the climate and weather relationship. As a leader we need to recognize […].

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How to Choose A Dynamic Self-Development Goal

Leadership Freak

The first development is self-development. #1. Explore widely. What leadership skills and behaviors seem most relevant to pressing challenges and current opportunities? Make a long list. #2. Use an aspirational lens.

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Spy Kids

Joseph Lalonde

A Reel Leadership Article. It’s hard to believe the movie Spy Kids is 20 years old. It’s a fun children’s movie with plenty of potential. We see that potential in all of the sequels and semi-spin-off movies. Not only did director Robert Rodriguez produce four Spy Kids films, he also spun off the Machete (Danny Trejo) character into two […].

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Successful Strategies Organizations are Using for Frontline Workers

leaderCommunicator

Are we doing enough for workers who – in many cases – don’t have the option of doing their job from home? I’m talking about frontline workers such as truck drivers, those who take care of the sick at hospitals, serve coffee in quick service restaurants, work in manufacturing plants, labs, distribution centers, and many others. As organizations find the right balance between company goals and employee preferences, and improving the employee experience to reduce the "Great Resignation," it seems t

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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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How to Action Your Five Dysfunctions of a Team Assessment | Rainmaker

Sales Wolf Blog

What gets measured gets improved, and when you measure the Five Dysfunctions of your Team through the Five Dysfunctions of a Team Assessment, you have the ability to improve your Team’s performance.

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Forgiveness: The Invisible Derailer that Frustrates Leaders

Leadership Freak

Attitudes are invisible but they always show themselves somehow. Your attitude toward disappointment can make or break your leadership. The way you deal with disappointment is a lid or a platform.

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Adaptability is Genius & Generosity | #Leadership #Teamwork #LeadMorale

Kate Nasser

Adaptability is productive in leadership, teamwork, customer service, & people skills. Here's why from Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™. The post Adaptability is Genius & Generosity | #Leadership #Teamwork #LeadMorale appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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The Importance Of Clear Communication, Even In Uncertain Times

The Horizons Tracker

Clear communication is vital in a great many circumstances, but it can be tempting to try and bluff your way through things when you don’t have all the answers. Recent research from UNSW Business School highlights how even then, clear communication is hugely important if employees are to trust their leader. The authors highlight how the pandemic has often meant that leaders have both incomplete and rapidly changing information upon which to make their decisions.

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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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How to Build a High Performing Team | The Rainmaker Group

Sales Wolf Blog

Talent is an organization's most valuable asset. Yet in most organizations, the untapped performance potential of teams is profound.

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Hybrid Work is Really About Trust

CEO Insider

More than anything else, successful hybrid working is about trust. CEOs trusting managers, managers trusting employees and employees trusting themselves and their teammates to do the right thing, regardless of where they are based, to achieve the outcomes they hope to achieve. Yet, when it comes to the decisions that CEOs need to make around […].

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The Key to Retaining Employees Amid the "Great Resignation”

leaderCommunicator

The trend of employees leaving their jobs in droves is real and escalating, as we learned this month from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, which announced that 4.3 million Americans – 2.9% of the workforce – quit their jobs in August. It was a record-breaking statistic, mirroring previous months of high numbers. What adds to the concern is the fact that many of those employees who haven’t already left are thinking about it.

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How To Respond When Employees Make A Mistake

The Horizons Tracker

As failure has become a more acceptable part of innovation, one would assume that organizations have also become better at dealing with employees who make mistakes, but, of course, there are mistakes made in the pursuit of something challenging and innovative, and there are mistakes out of incompetence or malfeasance. A new paper from the University of Southern California outlines how managers can respond to employees who both make honest-to-goodness mistakes and those who err through misconduct

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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 Would You Do If Your Future Depended on Your Conversations?

Leadership Freak

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Why an Inclusive Work Environment Should be Important to Every Business Leader

CEO Insider

The importance of an inclusive work environment is on the minds of many leaders today. Exclusionary behaviors are dangerous for a business, with the impacts extending from dysfunctional workplaces and difficulties with recruitment all the way to serious legal issues. Exclusionary behaviors can have a significant negative impact on business performance.

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How To Help Your Social Media Business Run More Efficiently

Strategy Driven

Social Media businesses are very fast-paced, things are always changing so quickly that you really need to be on the ball. With a lot of time spent monitoring the market, your accounts and what your clients get up to sometimes you struggle to do some of the time-consuming things. As time-consuming as they are, they are normally still pretty important.

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Tackling The Burnout Epidemic

The Horizons Tracker

Amidst the Covid pandemic, the stresses and strains across both our personal and professional lives have created a burnout epidemic that is as widespread as Covid itself. For instance, a survey of academics found that 70% reported feeling stressed during 2020, with similar numbers in healthcare, education, and various other sectors. In The Burnout Epidemic , workplace expert Jennifer Moss argues that the pressures of Covid together with the growing societal and political unrest have created bur

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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.