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Hyperfocus: How to Take Control of Your Mind

Leading Blog

T HERE ARE LIMITS to our attention. There is only so much we can focus on at any given time. So it becomes critical what we allow in our attentional space if we want to get anywhere in life. (And heads up. Your attention space shrinks as you age—but your mind wanders less.). When we try to cram too much into our attentional space, we experience attention overload.

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Why Are We Always Busy?

Women on Business

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Truth Matters

Joseph Lalonde

There’s a sad trend happening in the world today. Truth is becoming relative rather than absolute. What is true for one person is not true for another… Or so people are saying. But because someone says truth is relative, does it make it so? No, and you know this. Why Truth Is Truth Look at the grass outside of your office […] The post Truth Matters appeared first on Joseph Lalonde.

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Best Leadership Articles of 2018 (based on your votes)

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome to our annual best-of, round-up of your favorite posts on Let’s Grow Leaders. Here is a look at the best leadership articles of 2018 (as determined by your reading and sharing). (Click on the headline to view the article) Thank you for […]. The post Best Leadership Articles of 2018 (based on your votes) appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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Five Problems with Virtual Communication & What to Do About It

Leading Blog

E VEN THOUGH WE have entered a new world of virtual communications, we still communicate in real-world ways that don’t always work in the virtual world. We’ve all sent an email or a text where we meant one thing and the recipient took it in a completely different way. They never saw the smile on our face, the touch of our hand, or the look of concern.

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Trust Inspires Growth and Success

Lead Change Blog

Trust inspires excellence. When we trust our team, we elevate their status and inspire them to exceed their own expectations. By trusting others, we can breathe life into them. Expectations and Trust. In 2000, President George W. Bush coined the phrase, “the soft bigotry of low expectations.” He was speaking to the NAACP about discrimination that results when we expect people to do less than their potential.

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Energy Vampires are Sucking the Life from You

Women on Business

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5 Ways To Make 2019 Your Best Year Ever

Joseph Lalonde

Can you believe 2019 is just a few, short days away? Neither can I! This past year has flown by and I’m still trying to figure out where it went. While 2018 was great for Pam and me, we never want to sit on our laurels. We always want to see bigger and better things […] The post 5 Ways To Make 2019 Your Best Year Ever appeared first on Joseph Lalonde.

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Home for the Holidays

Lead Change Blog

Learning Together in New Conversations. Holiday dinners have been the subject of stories, as writers depict both the joys of being together with loved ones and the angst from the old scripts that find their way to dinner table conversations well before dessert is served. This year, when meeting with family and friends, notice if your preferred learning style might offer a framework for you to appreciate the roles you choose to play, then guide you to become more intentionally flexible in your ap

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How to Make a Memory – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

I’ve gone to a lot of “life events” and experiences and there’s one thing that I see people doing over and over again that not only makes me sad, but also gets in the way of making memories. In the video below, I’ll give you several tips to help you lock in and make memories […]. The post How to Make a Memory – Remarkable TV 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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5 Ways To Be a Better Leader

Women on Business

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Bumblebee

Joseph Lalonde

A Reel Leadership Article. Today’s Reel Leadership article takes you back to 1980s… Well, not really but the movie featured in this article will. Bumblebee, the latest movie in the Transformers movie series, transports you back to the ’80s with an interesting story and fantastic visuals. After 5 Michael Bay explosion fests, director Travis Knight, the director from Kubo And […] The post Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Bumblebee appeared first on Joseph Lalonde.

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How to Take Control of Your Life in 2019

Leadership Freak

If you don’t choose how to show up – before you show up – someone else eventually controls your life. It’s misery when you give control of your life to disappointing-others.

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6 Important Tips on How to Prevent Your Employees from Burnout

Lead from Within

Unfortunately, employee burnout is a commonplace event. Too many good people leave jobs they should love, saying, “I just can’t take it any more.”. The other day I was coaching a client of mine who’s a senior vice president. He’s one of the best—he works hard and long hours, he’s dedicated, loyal and hard working, and he excels at what he does. He said, “I can’t do this any more—I’m totally burned out.

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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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The Revealing Reason You Struggle To Communicate

Women on Business

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How to create product vision

Lead on Purpose

One of the key elements of a successful product management organization is creating the vision for your products—the ‘why’ that drives their purchase and the factors that make them successful in their markets.

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How to Make Decisions Like a Leader in 2019

Leadership Freak

Poor decisions are often about human frailty, not logic, situations, and information. You’ll continue making poor decisions until you acknowledge the human-frailty-factor. More information doesn’t solve decision-fatigue, for example.

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You Have Time (What Do You Do Now?)

Jason Womack

"I know what to do, I just need the time.". What if that's not true? Personally, I don't think that's your problem. If you knew what to do, you'd be doing it by now. At home, at work, in your community, for your clients, your boss, your colleagues, your spouse, your kids. If you knew, you would do. Try this on for size: "I have the time, I just need to know what to do.".

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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 Women are Smashing the Glass Ceiling in the Insurance Industry

Women on Business

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“Self-Made” is BS

Lead on Purpose

Guest post by Rick Miller The widely-held belief that success is available to everyone, simply with focus and hard work is one among many positive messages regularly reinforced in our Western culture.

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Leadership Gift #11 – Give of Yourself

Kevin Eikenberry

Recently, I offered a shopping list of gifts leaders could give this Christmas season. In that post, I promised to detail each of these gifts as a part of a 12 Days of Christmas series. For Day 10, the shopping list suggests you should give. Wow Kevin, could you be any less specific that to […]. The post Leadership Gift #11 – Give of Yourself appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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John Fredrick Wood Eulogy

CEO Blog

On Christmas day, I lost a great friend and mentor - John Wood. It has taken me a few days to write this - I just did not know what to say. Although I knew it was going to happen soon, it just hit me hard. John Wood was only 78 years old. A few years ago he had a lung transplant and since then had struggled with health issues. I first met John when I was early in business.

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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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Santa Gets a 7 out of 10 – But He Connects Like a Pro

Leadership Freak

Santa gets a 7 out of 10 on the Leadership Freak Leader’s Scale. (LFLS) Give Santa a pat on the back for having a large crew of elves who make toys.

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HR Trends in 2019: Key Human Resource Innovations

HR Digest

The recent explosion of HR technology has driven a major boom in innovative HR solutions. Employee lifecycle management, which defines the major HR function, is somewhat becoming less complicated; HR trends in 2019 suggest the industry is poised to rip even more benefits from the digital progression. This has inspired a projection that the global human resource management sector could reach $30 billion in the next six years – by 2025, according to G2 Crowd.

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Leadership Gift #12 – Live Your Values

Kevin Eikenberry

Twelve days ago, I offered a shopping list of gifts leaders could give this Christmas season. In that post, I promised to detail each of these gifts as a part of a 12 Days of Christmas series. For the final day that shopping list suggests that you choose to live your values. On the first […]. The post Leadership Gift #12 – Live Your Values appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Three Steps to Avoid Holiday Hangover at Your Consulting Firm

David A Fields

Maybe you’re taking a break from your consulting practice entirely this week. Or, perhaps just enjoying a lazy schedule with fewer client demands, lighter hours and higher stacks of festive chocolates. Either way, settling back into work can feel like waking up from a mid-afternoon nap— groggy, uninspired, and unproductive.A holiday hangover quickly deflates your … Continued.

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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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A One Week New Year’s Resolution

Leadership Freak

“The problem with the future is it keeps turning into the present.

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7 Leadership Lessons from “It’s a Wonderful Life”

Ron Edmondson

I don’t know in the last twenty years or so if I’ve missed a year watching the movie “It’s a Wonderful Life” Certainly it is one of my favorites and a part of my Christmas tradition. One reason I think so many are drawn to this movie is that it is more than a feel good story. We love movies with happy endings, but this one teaches us things about life.

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Adjusting to the New Consumer Norm through Multichannel Strategies

Strategy Driven

The last decade has been a consistent wave of change for the retail industry, with countless stories of traditionally profitable brick-and-mortar stores closing their doors to in-person customers. Around the US, more consumers are opting to do their shopping online, highlighted by a recent survey from comScore and UPS. Of more than 5,000 consumers surveyed, 51% shared that their purchases are predominately completed through an e-commerce site as opposed to a physical location.

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Effective Delegation: Common Mistakes Managers Make and How to Avoid Them

HR Digest

In every office, there is always a person who gets all the stuff done excellently; they are called the “go-to person.” For these persons, promotion to leadership position comes to them because of their performance. However, this is a great cause of concern due to their ranking in effective delegation. You may as well be a go-to person, but the challenge is: it doesn’t allow you to build teams.

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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.