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Iron Leadership: The Thinking Patterns of Leaders Who Endure: This is the "Age of the Corporate Athlete." In this 3-part series, I turned to endurance athletes— the kind of athletes I think have the attributes needed for today’s endless change. I spoke with many top endurance athletes to find out what we could learn from them about leading in a time when change is ongoing and the challenges keep coming. read more
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Drive Big Change with these 6 Corporate Learning Tactics: Corporate learning functions are critical to driving organizational change. We are in the middle of analyzing our 2012 Global Best Practices Research on Leading Change and “culture change” is a priority globally. 62 percent of over 550 global respondents said that they are involved in culture change projects. Cultures only change when employees change behavior. So who better than Corporate Learning to advise on how to drive this change? I interviewed several leading learning executives to find out how they do it. Here are their six must do’s... read more
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The 6 Secrets Leaders Use To Get Buy-In: The research is clear – the main reason change fails is lack of buy-in. So what can you do to overcome the odds and get real buy-in for important organizational changes? I asked seasoned internal change leaders for their input and this is what they told me. read more
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The Shockingly Simple Way To Make Changes Stick: By the time you read this, over 25 percent of New Year’s resolutions have been broken or given up on. Another 25 percent will fail before June. There is only one reason for this. read more
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The 8 Greatest Lessons 2011 Taught Us About Change Leadership: Thinking back on my experiences over 2011, I am going into 2012 with these eight lessons about change that I learned from these eight leaders. What are your lessons? read more
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The 3 Tricks To Finding The Hidden Message Inside Any Complaint: At the beginning of any change, when people are struggling with accepting change, complaining is normal and healthy. Everyone will have challenges with making the change work. As a leader, you want to know what those challenges are so you can help your employees succeed. Here are three tricks to find the gifts inside the complaints. read more
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"Should I Say This?" 12 Real-Life Change Statements: Sometimes the best lessons are learned from the mistakes of others. We have heard leaders use the quotes below over the years (first hand or through colleagues) when communicating change. Some of them are clear “no-no’s.” Others could work in the right situation. For each, I have included the statement, who said it, and a short comment. Read, laugh, and learn. read more
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Beating the 4 Enemies of Endurance: I just completed my first half-ironman race: a 1.2 mile swim, then a 56 mile bike ride followed by a 13.1 mile run. In looking back at how I’ve endured the training and the race, I see that there were 4 enemies I had to overcome to succeed. These enemies are no different than the ones our customers face when working to endure the pain of organizational change. read more
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The 5 Unhappy People You Must Convince to Change: We all know why these five people say no to change. They are happily heading down their current road, and then their leadership steers them toward a huge cliff of change. The challenge is to find the right words and methods to help them find a way to navigate the change ahead. read more
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Events of Interest
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The Saudisation Congress
Sheraton Damman Hotel & Towers, Saudi Arabia
May 26- 29, 2012 -
Using College Recruiting to Identify and Hire Top Professionals for Your Organization
August 9, 2011
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HR Shared Services Summit 2011
September 15, 2011
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Remuneration and Rewards Africa 2012
Holiday Inn, Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa
May 28- 31, 2012
Articles
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Contributor: From the HRIQ Editorial DeskHiring, Succession Planning and Other Challenges with Economic Recovery: In recent months, the US has gone through somewhat of an economic recovery, with jobless n... read more
Tags: economic recovery and succession planning
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Contributor: Elizabeth BlackWhat Do Purple Squirrels Eat?: Strange question for an HR article? Not really, if you are in the technology industr... read more
Tags: betty black | hiring in IT
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Contributor: Prakash SanthanamCurb Your Ethnocentrism: From Seattle to Singapore and from Copenhagen to Christchurch, communication over the glob... read more
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Contributor: From the HRIQ Editorial DeskMeasuring The Impact of iOS or Android platform Learning Models: The rise of smartphones and mobile platforms in the last few years, particularly the opera... read more
Tags: mLearning
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Contributor: Richard BergerWhat’s Next for Defined Benefit Plan Sponsors?: Spring is in the air - and so is pension relief, once again. A provision has been attached... read more
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