December, 2014

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The 9 Biggest Mistakes When Presenting to Executives

Let's Grow Leaders

'Executives are naturally a tough audience. They’ve got limited time, competing priorities, information overload, demanding bosses, and pressure to make great decisions quickly. Your job is to give them all the information they need in a way they can easily digest. Most of us have stories of times when the message we tried to send was not the message received, and the tidy PowerPoint presentation spiraled downward in a frenzied fiasco. 9 Mistakes To Avoid When Presenting to Executives. 1.

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Penelope’s best posts of 2014

Penelope Trunk

'Here they are: The five posts from 2014 that had the most readers. What does it really mean to work full time? Leaving your options sets you back. Men with families feel more trapped than ever. Here’s how to fix that. 3 Cheers for women who say they don’t want to work. At least they’re honest. 5 Traits of high earners that will make you not want to be one.

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Five Rules for Strategic Partnerships in a Digital World

Strategy+Business

'Leading companies are discovering that their digital capabilities depend not just on what they can do themselves, but on what they can gain from partnering with others. Here are the five key rules for successful partnerships in today''s digital world.

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7 Ways to Deal with Employees Who Drive You Crazy

Let's Grow Leaders

'If you’re just tuning in, I’ve been teaching an MBA course on Managing Difficult Employees and gave these “students” (read that, really smart working millennials with big jobs in our nation’s capital) “homework” to developing an approach to manage their difficult employee and to journal about it. If you missed Monday’s post , best to start there.

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How to Turn “Check-the-Box” Compliance Trainings Into Real Learning

Speaker: Brian Richardson, Brian Richardson, Founder and CEO of Richardson Consulting Group

Let’s face it—most ethics and compliance trainings aren’t winning awards for engagement. But that doesn’t mean they can’t be effective, relevant, and maybe even enjoyable! Join expert Brian Richardson for a dynamic session on how to breathe new life into your ethics and compliance training programs. You’ll discover creative strategies to turn traditionally dry topics into meaningful learning experiences that resonate and drive real change.

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How Leadership Development is Hurting Your Career

Let's Grow Leaders

'“What’s the best way for John to improve?” I asked, one of those coachy-interviewing questions people like me say to bosses and peers of folks we’re working to support. “Honestly, I wish he would just stop trying so hard to improve, and just lead. We’ve all given him plenty of advice. He’s taken a gazillion courses.

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5 Times It’s Better to Say No

Let's Grow Leaders

'It’s almost always easier to say yes than no–in the short run. Yes, it’s okay for you to treat me that way. Yes, I’ll stay late tonight and miss dinner again– after all my wife won’t say no. Yes, it’s okay skip my workout. Yes, your work is fine (even though it could be better.). A close second to expectation violations , the inability to say no is one of the top sources of intrapersonal and interpersonal conflict in organizations.

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Leaders Share about Dreams and Callings-A Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

'Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. Our November Festival is all about Dreams and Callings. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! Finding Our Dreams and Callings. “There are those who look at things the way they are and ask, ‘Why?’ I dream of things that never were and ask, ‘Why not?

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How to Deal With REALLY Difficult People at Work

Let's Grow Leaders

'Whenever I tell someone I’m teaching an evening MBA class entirely devoted to “managing difficult people” the response is the same. “Oh, boy do I need to take that class.” Or, “Why didn’t they have that when I was in school?” There was a long waiting list for the course. Apparently the working world is full of serious loony tunes.

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How to Handle Your Boss’ Negative Feedback (even in you disagree)

Let's Grow Leaders

'Amy was dreading her performance review. She’d just be in the job a year, and her interactions with her imperfect boss were becoming more tense and intense with each passing month. The truth was, she questioned his approach to running the department, and he wasn’t listening to her ideas. She didn’t love his suggestions, and often reacted defensively to his feedback, making matters worse.

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15 Questions to Ask Your Team Before 2015

Let's Grow Leaders

'At Verizon, January always brought a flurry of kickoff activities where the sentiment was 90% forward focus. Auditoriums around the country would resound with a consistent message, “Last year is over… no time to spend there, we’ve got game-changing work to do.” I’m all for a 2015 fast start. In fact, I’m looking forward to the strategy work I’ll be doing with teams across a variety of industries this January.

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Mid-Year Review: How to Ignite Employee Potential Through Meaningful Feedback

Mid-year performance reviews aren’t just boxes for HR to check. Paycor’s toolkit empowers leaders to: Identify high-potential team members. Boost engagement with meaningful feedback. Support struggling employees. Nurture top talent to drive results. Learn how to ignite employee potential through meaningful feedback. When you nurture top talent, everybody wins.

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Confident Humility: FREE Downloadable Holiday Gifts

Let's Grow Leaders

'Great leaders have a unique combination of confidence and humility coupled with the power to create real vision and connection. These forces work together to inspire a magnetic magic that leads to breakthrough results. I’m on a mission to inspire and develop these characteristics in leaders around the world. This philosophy is at the core of my message in my speaking, writing and consulting.

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Do You Take Your Traditions For Granted?

Let's Grow Leaders

'A guest post by Frank Sonnenberg. When you hear the word holiday , what comes to mind? If you’re like most people, shopping, parties, sales, and catalogs rank near the top of your list. The truth is, many holidays are becoming so commercialized that our proud traditions are in danger of becoming trivialized. Many of us can’t even remember the true meaning of the holidays.

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Top 10 LGL Posts of 2014

Let's Grow Leaders

'Thanks so much for all of your support of the LGL community this year. Your faithful comments and collaboration caused our community to be rated on the Top 10 Leadership Development sites (based on engagement). I’m humbled and grateful for your support. To wrap up 2014, I share the most popular posts of 2014 in case you missed them. I’m looking forward to an amazing new year for our community.

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The Truth about Breakthrough Strategies

Strategy+Business

'When your strategy is shackled to the annual planning process, you lose a uniquely powerful management tool.

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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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What is This Thing Called Resilience?

Strategy+Business

'It is a hot buzzword, but often clouded in mystery. Here''s what executives need to know.

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Go Big or Go Home: Factors for a Successful Rebranding

Strategy+Business

'Despite lawyers'' conventional wisdom, becoming a household name can actually be a brilliant marketing strategy.

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How to Avoid Bad Investments in Good Ideas

Strategy+Business

'Michael Schrage proposes a fast, cheap, experiment-driven approach to boosting the bottom line in The Innovator''s Hypothesis.

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Gossip in the Workplace Could Signal Larger Problems

Strategy+Business

'Potentially harmful rumors can start because employees feel inadequately informed, and they can spread when companies fail to keep their promises to their workers.

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Building Compliant Workplace Violence Prevention Across States: CA SB-553 | NY S. 8358B

Speaker: Speakers:

Workplace violence prevention laws are rapidly evolving, with California’s SB-553 and New York’s Retail Worker Safety Act (S-8358B) leading the way. Join WILL’s experts for a nationwide webinar covering compliance requirements, with a special focus on these key state mandates. We’ll guide you through developing and implementing effective prevention policies, building a compliant plan, and delivering the required annual interactive training.

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The False Dichotomy of Wages vs. Profits

Strategy+Business

'A new book explains why good jobs on the front lines can lead to competitive success.

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Improving Employee Well-Being by Default

Strategy+Business

'Brian Wansink explains how to help employees make healthy choices in Slim by Design.

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Integrity Is Free

Strategy+Business

'For businesses that keep their promises, there are often invaluable hidden benefits.

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How Primal Instincts Influence Office Design

Strategy+Business

'Witold Rybczynski, author of How Architecture Works, introduces a lesson in how the design of our buildings can bolster employee productivity, from The Best Place to Work, by Ron Friedman.

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

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Best of the s+b Blog: A Feast of Management Ideas for the New Year

Strategy+Business

'As 2014 comes to an end, here are some of the best blog posts that we published this year.

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A Different Kind of C(E)O

Strategy+Business

'To stay ahead of political and social upheaval, multinational firms should consider elevating external affairs to the same level as other top management spheres.

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What You Read: The 10 Most Popular s+b Articles of 2014

Strategy+Business

'Among all the articles we''ve published over the last year, here are the ones that garnered the most attention.

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How to Become a Self-Made Billionaire

Strategy+Business

'Five habits of mind distinguish those who create great fortunes--for themselves, or potentially for your company. Lynda and Stewart Resnick, T. Boone Pickens, Steve Case, Michael Bloomberg, Kirk Kerkorian, and other self-made billionaires are producers--creators of new enterprise--rather than mere business performers.

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The Everyday Donor: Unlocking Prospecting Segments Through Behavior Analysis

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Do you really know your donors? Not just what they give, but who they are? 👥 In this interactive session, we’ll break down how nonprofits can use behavioral indicators (affinity, recency, frequency, and monetary value) to build prospecting segments that go beyond wealth screening and actually align with donor identity. You’ll walk away with practical strategies to move beyond basic demographics and cultivate supporters based on how they already engage with you!

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Why a CEO's Trip to the Bahamas Could Be Good for Business

Strategy+Business

'Vacations taken by CEOs provide an unlikely, but highly reliable, way to approximate a firm''s corporate activity and anticipate its stock returns.

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Automation's Adverse Effects

Strategy+Business

'In The Glass Cage, Nicholas Carr reminds us that almost every business decision involves tradeoffs.

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How to Give a Motivational “Locker Room” Speech

Let's Grow Leaders

'The band had travelled 13 hours on 14 buses for this once in a lifetime experience. Now slime was falling from the sky. The 500 piece band had planned to hold their final rehearsal on the fields of Newark airport. Now they were stuffed into the Marriott ballroom. It was raining, sleeting and blowing on their parade. David Starnes, the band’s director, stood on the makeshift podium– a pile of chairs– on the far edge of the ballroom,”I know this is not ideal, but sometimes

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Role Models of Confident Humility: Profile #1 Jesus Christ

Let's Grow Leaders

'When I think of role models of confident humility, it’s hard to imagine a better example than Jesus. Born in a manger, washing feet, hanging out with the poor; yet let’s face it, he had some pretty big asks. From time to time in 2015, I’ll be showcasing examples of leaders across a variety of contexts lead from a place of humble confidence.

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Can Your Organization Spot a Conflict Before It’s a Crisis?

Speaker: Amie Phillips Pablo, VP, Corporate Compliance & Privacy Officer at Novo Nordisk

In today’s complex healthcare environment, navigating third-party relationships has become even more challenging—whether it’s vendor relationships, employee activities, or patient-facing interactions. Left unmanaged, these conflicts can compromise trust, regulatory compliance, and even organizational reputation. So, how can healthcare teams stay ahead?