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Stephen MR Covey On How Leaders Can Foster Trust And Inspire Greatness In Those They Lead

Tanveer Naseer

There’s two things I love about hosting my podcast, “Leadership Biz Cafe”. First, I get to fulfill my purpose of helping leaders improve their leadership and become the kind of leader their employees need to succeed. And second, I get to talk with some amazing people about how we can. Click to continue reading.

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Is Good Leadership Realistic and Optimistic?

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton Some leaders take the view that it's important to plan for the worst case scenario. Others prefer to keep it positive and focus on the best possible outcomes. Which is better leadership?

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Think Goal First – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

Think goal first. That seems like pretty solid advice. And it seems like something that is easy to do. And yet…we don’t always do that. In today’s episode, I’m sharing a short story from my own personal work that highlights the importance of remembering to think goal first and keep adjusting routines to stay in […]. The post Think Goal First – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Who Is Accountable?

Joseph Lalonde

A significant problem in many businesses is trying to determine who is ultimately responsible for a project’s success. The problem isn’t in that there’s no accountability but in the realization that too many people are responsible for the results. In their book What The Heck Is EOS?, Gino Wickman and Tom Bouwer explore the topic of accountability […].

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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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10 Weaknesses that Derail Leaders

Leadership Freak

Maximizing strengths enhances performance and elevates fulfillment. “A man should never be appointed to a managerial position if his vision focuses on people’s weaknesses rather than on their strengths.

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Management Tools For Leaders: The Pareto Principle

Rich Gee Group

Tool #1 - The Pareto Principle Each week, I will be presenting tools that most leaders use to solve problems, run successful initiatives, and most of all, deliver like a leader. This week, let’s start out with one of my favorites, The Pareto Principle. Summary: The Pareto Principle states that for many outcomes, roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes (the "vital few").

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Morbius

Joseph Lalonde

A Reel Leadership Article. After many delays, the world is finally able to see the new Sony Spider-Man-based film Morbius. Morbius stars Jared Leto as Doctor Michael Morbius. Morbius has a rare blood disease that causes extreme pain and physical issues. One of those is difficulty in mobility. Morbius is a brilliant scientist who seeks out a cure for […].

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3 Ways to Give Feedback that Works

Leadership Freak

Teachers use feedback when they correct our schoolwork. People persist in doing wrong things apart from feedback that works. Improvement requires feedback. How to give feedback that works: #1. Check intentions.

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4 Ways To Invest In Your Employees To Increase Productivity

Lead from Within

Companies like Google, Microsoft, and HubSpot have long been known for investing in their employees. As a company they realize the importance of that investment in creating an engaging culture, which in turn makes for happier and more fulfilled employees. In the current competitive employment market, investing in your employees is not just a good thing to do—it’s the right thing to do.

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Remote Working Tech Made Life Worse For Working Mothers

The Horizons Tracker

There has sadly been copious evidence of the toll remote working has had on women during the pandemic, with many taking on far more than their fair share of domestic duties alongside the challenges involved in shifting to a remote style of working. Research from the University of Nevada finds that the various tools provided by employers to aid remote working have scarcely helped, and indeed, in many instances have actually made the stress and mental toll even worse.

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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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2021: The Year In Leadership

Joseph Lalonde

I love reading great books. That’s why I bring you a list of 5 leadership books you should read every month. Every once in a while, there is a book that stands out and deserves its own blog post to announce it. Today, I want to invite you to read a book by my great […].

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4 Simple Reasons Your Calendar is Out of Control

Leadership Freak

Time management isn’t about time. It’s about you. Your calendar is out of control because you lack the character traits to control it. 4 reasons your calendar is out of control: #1.

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How to Develop a Storytelling Culture and Why

CEO Insider

Storytelling, arguably, is one of the top skills leaders need to employ. It’s far beyond creative thinking and writing. It is a strategy and a tool to recruit and retain top talent, build empathetic leaders, build internal thought leaders and ambassadors and engage all constituencies. When storytelling is woven throughout the entire organization, it becomes […].

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How Chatbots Can Support University Education

The Horizons Tracker

While the first year of the Covid pandemic was typified by remote learning as universities across the world attempted to stymie the spread of the virus by shifting teaching online, there was a significant shift back towards in-person classes for the 2021/2022 academic year. Ordinarily, fully online courses would be developed specifically for the medium, with support offered by experts in online learning, but of course, the rapid nature of the pandemic meant this wasn’t feasible and many on

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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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What Do You Need To Think About When It Comes To Your Career?

Joseph Lalonde

Have you been thinking about your career lately? Perhaps it’s a career that you have already somewhat established, or perhaps it’s a career that you are still trying to build the foundations for. Either way, it can be tricky to decide if it’s actually what you want to do, or if it’s just something that […].

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The Positive Value of Negative Emotions

Leadership Freak

Pretending everything is great is stupid. Everything is never great. Positivity that excludes negativity is illusion. You flounder when you deny reality.

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What Is Workplace Bullying? 3 Things Today’s Leaders Can Do To Prevent and Address It

CEO Insider

Workplace bullying has been more talked about recently than in prior years, and leadership teams have been doing a better, more effective job of preventing and eliminating it in the workplace. Workplace bullying can take place virtually anywhere, but if a zero-tolerance approach is embedded into a company’s culture starting at the top, it tends […].

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Refugees Least Likely To Hold Extreme Views

The Horizons Tracker

The ugly scenes on the borders of Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia as Belarussian dictator Alexander Lukashenko strives to weaponize migration have prompted some within Europe to retort that they are under invasion. Such a notion brings echoes with the sense in Douglas Murray’s The Strange Death of Europe that Europe is in some way under threat, not in a physical but rather a cultural sense.

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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 Elements Of Meaningful Work

Eric Jacobson

There are so many good things to learn in the book, Helping People Win At Work , by Ken Blanchard and Garry Ridge. Among those is the section about how to define meaningful work. Their definition consists of these seven attributes. Work is meaningful when it : It is conducted in a manner that is "good and proper" in all respects. It positively affects our company and our communities, giving our work an impact that extends beyond ourselves.

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3 Reasons You’re on a Team that Sucks

Leadership Freak

Skill is not the best predictor of a team’s success. Teams that suck waste time, drain energy, and squander resources. You’ve been there.

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Key Benefits of Virtual Offices

Women on Business

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Women Take Risks At Work If They Can Share The Rewards

The Horizons Tracker

The stereotype about women at work is that they are more risk-averse than men, and that this holds them back from promotions and other beneficial aspects of workplace life. Research from the University of Arizona puts a different stance on things and suggests that women are happy to take risks and generally engage in competitive behavior, but generally more so if they can share the potential winnings.

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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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Making work work in the COVID impacted workplace

CEO Insider

As the challenges and opportunities of the post-COVID landscape continue to unfold, so does the need to perform. Sustaining engagement and holding on to talent have always been important. But it is emerging as the strategic imperative for the progress and performance organizations need to survive and thrive in our new economic context, in which […].

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The Return To Senselessness With Richard Dreyfuss

Steve Farber

Will society ever be able to reach its full potential? Passionate actor turned passionate civics activist Richard Dreyfuss joins us today to share excerpts from his upcoming book, The Return to Senselessness. His book. Read more. The post The Return To Senselessness With Richard Dreyfuss first appeared on Steve Farber.

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Essential Resources to Help Your Business Succeed: How IT Support Can Be the Difference Your Business Needs?

Women on Business

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How Organizations Can Run Better Experiments

The Horizons Tracker

In the digital world experiments have become commonplace ever since titans such as Google, Amazon, and Facebook underlined the importance of an almost continuous stream of A/B tests being run to underpin any decisions around things such as interface and user experience. Such tests allow organizations to move away from hunch-based decision-making and tap into real-world user data to drive their decisions.

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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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Reputational Risk: How AI Helps Mitigate Damage to Your Brand

CEO Insider

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.” – Warren Buffett Remaining competitive in your industry is challenging with a tarnished reputation. In today’s news cycle, reporting on an organization’s downward reputational spiral can be difficult to watch — especially when that impairment is the result of application downtime […].

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The Unbeatable Strategy Of Loving Customers

Eric Jacobson

“Companies that put customers first—ahead of all other stakeholders—are the ones that win,” explain Fred Reichheld , Darci Darnell and Maureen Burns , authors of the new book, Winning On Purpose: The Unbeatable Strategy Of Loving Customers. Furthermore, they share that when companies enrich the lives of customers as their company’s primary purpose, they ensure sustainable growth, happily fulfilled employees, and robust investor returns.

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5 Easy Steps to Kick Start Your Video Marketing

Women on Business

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New Study Shows How Hand Gestures Can Control Our Computer

The Horizons Tracker

While touchscreen devices have extended the range of interfaces available to us, much of the way we interact with our digital devices has remained the same for a number of years. Research from the University of Waterloo aims to change that with a system that is capable of recognizing hand gestures to control our computers. “It started with a simple idea about new ways to use a webcam,” the researchers explain.

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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.