Thu.May 16, 2024

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4 Myths about Coaching You Must Reject

Leadership Freak

This post confronts common myths about the leader as coach. Coaching provides people centered approaches to development and results. "Coaching is the universal language of change and learning." Included in this post are coaching tips leaders can use today. Learn to bring out the best in people, not the worst.

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In Just 5 Steps: Conquer Overwhelm and Stop Feeling Stretched Thin as a Leader

Lolly Daskal

As an executive leadership coach, I’ve worked with countless leaders around the world who often find themselves in a perpetual state of overwhelm. The demands of leadership can leave you feeling stretched thin, with too much to do and not enough time to do it. The good news is that overwhelm is not a permanent state; it’s a challenge that can be conquered.

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Leading Thoughts for May 16, 2024

Michael McKinney

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. Nido Qubein on becoming a transformational leader: “People value authenticity ahead of charisma. Charisma gets you in the door, but it takes substance to deliver results. We all must remember it’s not about us.

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Creating Your Own Path to Leadership | Tony Martignetti

Peter Winick

Expanding Vision, Narrowing Focus A conversation with Tony Martignetti about finding his passion and expanding his impact through thought leadership. In this episode of “Leveraging Thought Leadership,” host Peter Winick sits down with Tony Martignetti, Founder and Chief Inspiration Officer at Inspired Purpose Partners, author of Climbing the Right Mountain: Navigating the Journey to An Inspired Life and host of the Virtual Campfire podcast.

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The Hidden Skills That Separate Good Leaders from Great Ones

Speaker: Chandra McCormack, CPA, MBA, NACD.DC

Technical degrees might open doors—but it’s the soft skills that keep them open. In the face of disruption, evolving workplace dynamics, and rising expectations of leadership, soft skills like communication, emotional intelligence, and presence have become core business essentials—not nice-to-haves. Inspired by stories from her father coupled with her own career journey, seasoned executive Chandra McCormack breaks down how to lead with impact, connect with purpose, and cultivate a workplace cult

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A Coaching Agenda That Really Works: 6 Essential Questions to Ask Every Client, Every Time

Michael Hyatt

How do you fill a 50-minute coaching session? When I first started coaching, I was terrified because I didn’t know what I was going to talk about. How did I make those minutes really, truly valuable for a client—valuable enough that they would keep coming back and refer their friends? Over the years, I’ve come […] The post A Coaching Agenda That Really Works: 6 Essential Questions to Ask Every Client, Every Time appeared first on Full Focus.

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Quarterly Business Reviews: A CXO guide to Best Practices

Chief Outsiders

Most companies run regular QBRs (Quarterly Business Reviews). Getting into QBR practice its benefits, like getting your broader team buy-in on your sales and marketing team issues, creating a sense of urgency on important cross-team action items, building a learning culture within your team, sharing new product initiatives in advance, collect and measure customer feedback (or NPS) regularly.

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Help Scout Using Help Scout: Tags and Custom Fields

Help Scout Leadership

Let's take a look at how Help Scout's customer support team uses the tag and custom field Inbox features.

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Have you ever been involved in a company acquisition (either being bought or buying another company)?

Thought Leaders LLC

Our reader poll today asks: Have you ever been involved in a company acquisition (either being bought or buying another company)? Yes, and it went great 12.25% Yes, and it went okay 43.54% Yes, and it went terrible 20.75% Nope, never happened to me 23.46% Mergers can work, but they take work. Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World.

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is it rude to read in the car on work trips?

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: For my job, I often travel five to eight hours in a car to get to a destination. I have been a field scientist and now work for a five-state program so I have hundreds of hours of experience of driving with coworkers. An unspoken rule seems to be you talk to each other or drive in silence (weirdly … maybe this is just a government thing?).

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Are you of interest or of value to your potential clients?

Peter Winick

Transcript Hi there! It’s Peter Winick. I’m the founder and CEO at Thought Leadership Leverage, and here’s the idea that I’d like to share with you today. That’s this: Do you know the difference between being of interest to a potential client and being of value to the potential client? That difference could be transformational for you and your business.

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Future of HR: Navigating Transformation in the Digital Age

Speaker: Jeremy York

Join us for a thought-provoking exploration of the rapidly evolving HR landscape as we examine how technological innovation, regulatory changes, talent strategies, and evolving diversity approaches are reshaping the profession. This webinar will provide HR professionals with practical insights on leveraging AI and emerging technologies while maintaining compliance in an increasingly complex regulatory environment.

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let’s discuss coworker grudges and arguments

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. Inspired by last week’s story about the two employees who hated each other to the point that one declared she could not be in the same room with the other “without blacking out with overwhelming fury” (although they later ended up dating), let’s discuss weirdest coworker arguments and grudges.

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Personal Development Plan (PDP): How to Develop One (with Examples)

BetterUp

Jump to section What’s personal development? 6 types of personal development What’s a personal development plan?

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my employee talks about people’s weight

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I’m a female manager of a team. I’m significantly overweight. One of my direct reports has repeatedly made derogatory comments about overweight people to me during the course of conversations, such as “ _is a big girl, I mean, she’s really big!

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12 Best Brain Games for Adults to Improve Memory & Focus

BetterUp

Jump to section What’s brain training?

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4 HR Priorities for 2025 to Supercharge Your Employee Experience

Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

Forget predictions, let’s focus on priorities for the year and explore how to supercharge your employee experience. Join Miriam Connaughton and Carolyn Clark as they discuss key HR trends for 2025—and how to turn them into actionable strategies for your organization. In this dynamic webinar, our esteemed speakers will share expert insights and practical tips to help your employee experience adapt and thrive.

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Mastering Change: 8 Steps for Aligning Top Leadership for Change

LSA Global

Mastering Change: 8 Steps for Aligning Top Leadership for Change Orchestrating successful organizational change requires more than just a compelling strategic plan or a shift in business practices. It demands aligning top leadership for change to guide those affected by change through the inevitable ups and downs of organizational transformation. The data on successful organizational change management is pretty bleak – by most accounts 70% of all organizational change efforts fail to deliver exp

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How to Deal with a Narcissist: 10 Tips to Navigate Narcissism

BetterUp

Learning how to deal with a narcissist can insulate you from someone’s toxic behaviors. These are the common traits of narcissists and how to cope.

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Your Social Media Presence Can Help You Land (or Lose) a Job Opportunity

Harvard Business Review

Your digital footprint and online activities can have a big effect on how attractive and visible you are to potential employers. How do you notify your network about your job search without sounding too desperate or needy? And if you’re currently employed, how do you walk the tightrope between subtly reaching out to your social media contacts and not setting off alarm bells with your employer?

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boss keeps asking for rides home, I’m not allowed to have any personal items on my desk, and more

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s four answers to four questions. Here we go… 1. My boss keeps asking for rides home I work in my company’s marketing department. There are only five of us, including our boss (an executive president at the company). He knows that out of all of us, I live the closest to him.

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Miss One Change, Face Major Risk: The New Compliance Crisis In HR And How To Fix It

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

From rapidly changing state-level labor laws and evolving workplace protections to new compliance expectations around pay equity and hybrid policies, HR teams are navigating a constant wave of regulatory updates. It’s not just about reacting anymore; it’s about anticipating risk, aligning stakeholders, and taking a smarter, proactive stance. In this session, we’ll cut through the noise and help you focus on what matters.

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How to Ask for the Feedback You Really Need

Harvard Business Review

When we ask for feedback on our work, we often get poor-quality feedback that’s not useful or that makes us feel attacked or defensive. Part of the reason is in how we’re asking for feedback. Most requests are too generic, too open, and too late. The result is that you’re more likely to get a heap of opinion rather than a helping of insight. Instead of saying, “I’d love it if you could provide some feedback,” try setting the other person up to add more value by being more prescriptive about what

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What Really Motivates You at Work?

Harvard Business Review

When we work hard, we generally expect our efforts to be recognized by our employer. And most employers will do just that — showering someone with praise at a company meeting, taking a team to a nice dinner, or quietly delivering a cash bonus. But sometimes an employer’s broader recognition strategy does not align with what its individual workers want and need.

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Tech at Work: How the End of Cookies Will Transform Digital Marketing

Harvard Business Review

What will the end of third-party cookies mean for digital advertising, online publishing, and the open Internet?