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We all tend to do our best at work when we experience encouragement from our superiors. Direct managers or supervisors are usually the most influential in this regard.
However, many small businesses don’t have the benefit of larger department structures. So, the owner of the business and the manager are one in the same. It's a challenge to wear many hats, but employee motivation and recognition will help your business grow and succeed. 
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The best public speakers are storytellers. Just look at the popularity of TED Talks. However, while your workplace presentations might not become a TED Talk yet, here is how yours can have the same impact by moving from speaking to the mind to capturing the heart.
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The higher up the corporate ladder you ascend, the more likely you will be required to make public presentations.
Having solid presentation skills are an extremely valuable asset, and well worth the time invested in honing those skills.
Here are 6 tips that are sure to improve your presentation skills.
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Do you have (or are you) a boss or a leader?
There are some major differences between bosses and leaders.
Reflect on your leadership style and discover where you fit between the two.
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Terrific Infographic , take a look!
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Introverts drive extroverts crazy. Or should I say, extroverts drive introverts crazy?
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When you think about it, closing a sales deal and scoring a job offer really aren’t that different from one another.
In both cases, you have to identify the right contacts, thoughtfully reach out to them and convince them that you, above all others, are the right person to help them solve their problems. The only difference is, while salespeople pitch prospects on a product or service, job seekers are pitching prospective companies on themselves as a candidate.
Read on to learn 8 sales techniques that can and should be applied to your job search.
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Theoretically, compared to engineers, accountants, etc., sales people should do the best in interviews, because of the skill sets they posses.
When you think about it, an interview is no different than any other sale, other than the fact that you are selling yourself.
However, after recruiting sales people for 25 years now, I can tell you that many professional sales people throw their sales knowledge out the window when interviewing.
This is a terrific article that highlights the sales techniques that every professional sales person should already be proficient at, with a gentle reminder to employ those techniques during your next interview.
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Employee engagement is a major concern for HR leaders. Year after year, concerned managers and researchers discuss Gallup’s shocking statistic that seven out of 10 U.S. employees report feeling unengaged. Figuring out how to increase employee engagement has been a burning question for companies and consultants across the board.
Ann Zaslow-Rethaber's insight:
Excellent article that highlights the very real risk of having your high achievers crash and burn.
No one can run 100 miles an hour, indefinitely.
Read on to learn ways to help your employees maintain a high level of activity, without burning out.
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Those eager to give advice may not know what the heck they’re talking about.
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While there is an overall company culture, smaller groups of employees could have their own unique subculture. To best manage these groups, read on.
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No company has a monoculture! Read on to learn ways to effectively manage your company's various cultures to create one constant, positive theme.
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More than ever before, organizations are deploying leadership assessment and development in the context of strategic talent management. Why? Because they are great ways to align human capital with business strategy.
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It’s dangerous to evaluate others and affirm yourself.
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Earlier this year, retail giant Target settled a $3.7 million discrimination lawsuit, as reported by USA Today. The suit alleged that Target’s criminal background-check process was biased against minority candidates. The litigation, spearheaded by the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, has since led Target to set up a process for the plaintiffs to either obtain jobs or receive a cash award.
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The headlines were jarring....Target settles a $3.7 MILLION DOLLAR DISCRIMINATION LAWSUIT!!
If a massive company like Target can make such an expensive mistake in their hiringprocess, what can smaller businesses do to ensure that we do not make the same mistakes?
Read on to learn 3 critical things that you can immediately implement in your hiring process do to ensure that you do not make the same mistakes.
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When you’re laser-focused on growing your company, you can’t hire just anyone.
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A recent study of more than 800 front line sales reps and sales leaders highlights a disturbing trend in sales management. While organizations are making ever greater investment in technologies and operational processes to improve performance, sales reps are citing Training and Development as being one of their greatest challenges to improving performance.
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The numbers are staggering.
From January to June of 2018, 53% of workers in the U.S. were “not engaged” at work. 13% were actively disengaged. The latter group were working against their organization. (Gallop)
Read on to learn two easy to implement ways that you can encourage your team to be actively engaged at work.
Ann Zaslow-Rethaber's insight:
Employee engagement is something that not a lot of managers give a lot of thought to.
Either they are fully staffed, or not.
The real question should be how many members of your team are actively engaged?
Truth be told, it far more dangerous to think you are fully staffed, only to have employees that are not only not engaged, but actively disengaged.
So how do you ensure that your team are actively engaged in pursuing your company's stated goals?
Here are two secrets to employee engagement that you can employ today.
Let's get started!
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There are five keys to cultivating optimal teams, and they all come back to safety, belonging and mattering.
Here's how to know where your team is lacking and what to focus on to fix it. Via Marc Wachtfogel, Ph.D.
Justin Lamoureux's curator insight,
March 11, 2019 3:47 PM
I like these facets but feel like they interlink together rather than stack one on top of the other. Nice idea though.
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AutonomyWorks is a marketing company like no other, giving adults with autism and other disabilities a chance at reaching their full professional potential.
CEO and founder Dave Friedman touches on his personal stake in creating the company and the challenges that came along with the company’s unique vision. Find out more about how he plans to keep AutonomyWorks striving for success in this video.
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Diversity recruiting and diversity hiring are the buzz words lately, but most people perceive that to be hiring people from different racial and cultural backgrounds.
However there is another segment of the population that has often times been overlooked when it comes to building teams, that can in fact offer tremendous advantages.
We have been hearing more and more success stories about the massive benefits of including neurodiversity when building teams.
Read on to hear about this amazing story from a man that is leading the way to shine the light on adults with autism and other disabilities and showing just how valuable they can be to an organization.
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As workplace structures evolve, finding candidates who are the right “cultural fit” is now a top priority of recruiters.
In fact, research shows that diverse teams actually perform better than like-minded ones.
It’s vital to be able to recognize a strong fit for your company, even when a candidate’s personality and ideas might be far different from your own.
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This is a common scenario…
He’d like another career path milestone by landing a Board seat.
Read on to learn some valuable hints on obtaining a seat on a Board.
Ann Zaslow-Rethaber's insight:
Yet another terrific article from EXECUNET, a leading website focusing on executive leadership that want to explore new career opportunities.
Joining a paid board is a brilliant exit strategy for upper management individuals, and this article offers sound advice on how to achieve that goal.
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Despite the tragic incident on Southwest Airlines’ Flight 1380 on April 17, 2018, the culture of the Best Loved Airline ensured that the accident did not tarnish its reputation.
The 1380 flight crew, in an interview on CBS News, attributed their success in safely landing the plane to their shared values. Although the crew didn’t mention a specific core value, Southwest’s Servants Heart was evident throughout all the actions taken after the accident, from Captain Tammie Jo Shults walking the aisle and speaking to every passenger once the plane was safely landed to the heartfelt message from CEO Gary Kelly.
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A culture of belonging brings out the best in people and organizations.
Meaningful moments of vulnerability either build or break company culture
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Until you understand what culture is and how it is driving your business the wrong way, learning how to change it to significantly improve results will be challenging. Why? Because the old, “Stupid or not, that’s the way we do things around here” will just keep re-emerging.
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Today there is no longer such a thing as a job for a life – only a life of jobs – and whereas your own organisation will provide you with training, e-learning and other learning opportunities, it can’t possibly provide you with everything you will need throughout your career.
It is ultimately your responsibility to take charge of your own lifelong learning – that is your own continuous self-improvement (for the now) and self-development (for the future). To do this you need a new learning mindset as well as a new toolset and skillset.
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Realistic goals are useful, but a Moon-Shot-Goal is transformative.
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I’ve been to my share of good and bad sales kick-offs. While the intention was usually pure, too often the design of these events were flawed. Now as a consultant, I continued to hear the horror stories of failed SKOs. Budgets were through the roof, but the sessions didn’t achieve their goals. Year after year, we see many of the same mistakes.
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How many books do you read each month? How about in a year? Maybe you feel like there’s no time for a “luxury” like reading. Or maybe it’s just never been your thing. I’m here to tell you, there is and it should be. “If I have seen further it is by standing on th
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