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The No. 1 Reason Employees Quit Is Not What You Think

What do you think is the top reason employees decide to quit? Did you guess more money? Not even close. A better title? Saner working hours? Nope and nope. Trying to get away from a bad boss? You might think so, but no. Here's the No.

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9 Tips That will Help You Lead Millennials Better

Millennial's are now the largest group in the workforce, and according to Gallup Research, just 29 percent are engaged. This means that 71% are either disengaged or actively disengaged which is going to have a negative impact on their performance and the results that they generate.

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3 Ways to Keep Rock Star Employees From Quitting

By the time companies find their way to me to deliver a keynote to their employees about workplace engagement and empowerment, many of their top young professionals have already checked out beyond repair.

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Leadership Matters

The Presidential inauguration is a powerful reminder that leadership really does matter. At the beginning of the day, it's all about possibilities. At the end of the day, it's all about results. In today's ultra-competitive marketplace, good results aren't good enough.

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Want to Be a Great Leader? Adopt These 5 Easy Habits

Conventional wisdom says leaders drive companies. And without strong leadership, companies have a hard time moving forward during explosive growth. As we look at the current leadership landscape, however, it's rather bleak. One study making its rounds on the internet revealed these statistics:

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Stop Doing These 17 Things (You're Freaking Your Employees Out)

Once you hit the leadership ranks, all eyes are on you. That's because for your employees, they use you as a barometer of how things are going. They look to you for clues on the stability of their employment. For that reason, you have a greater impact on employee morale than you may realize.

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3 Critical Reasons Employees Become Unmotivated In The Workplace

There is a huge difference between a goal and a vision. A goal is simply a measure: you either achieve it or you don't. But a vision is a culture, an ongoing daily practice from everyone involved. Unfortunately, most companies misuse the word "vision" for merely a goal.

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Activities

Home | Resources | Activities Resources Activities Activity Series: Teaching young leaders the Five Practices: Challenge the Process 1/15/2012 12:00 AM , Sample activities for teaching Challenge the Process.

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Quote of the Day

Build a voice and an opinion first, and then if it resonates with the audience, then you’ll get an audience.

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9 Books That Trump Should (But Probably Won't) Read While in Office

Last week, I provided a list of books that inspired former President Obama while he was in office as well as Obama's favorite novels of all time. Today's column is a list of books that President Trump could benefit from reading while he's in the White House.

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4 Communication Habits of Mentally Strong Leaders

Looking into your 2017 crystal ball, have you made plans to improve how your leaders communicate? No? Well, it should be a part of your leadership development strategy, assuming you have one in place.

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5 Creative Ways to Get Recognition for Your Work

You worked hard on a project. You were organized, efficient, and everything went according to plan. In other words, you kicked butt and orchestrated a major success with no drama. But somehow, no one seemed to notice.

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Use the One Question Interview to Assess the #1 Trait of Success

I just came across an article by Michael Simmons, The No. 1 Predictor Of Career Success According To Network Science. My immediate interest was that it might put in doubt all of the work I had done for the past 40 years on how to interview candidates and predict their on-the-job performance.

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Quote of the Day

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

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If You Do This 1 Thing, Your Life Is Guaranteed to Be Changed in 2017

If you haven't incorporated meditation into your routine yet, you're not alone. Maybe you've always heard about it but aren't sure where to start. Maybe you've tried it out but felt like you weren't getting a lot out of it.

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3 Ways to To Keep Your Strategy Moving

If you thought creating a new strategy for your business was tough, that's probably the bad news-because you've only just begun.

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18 Leadership Lessons Men Can Learn from ‘Hidden Figures’

The movie Hidden Figures shares their struggles as Dorothy Vaughn (Octavia Spencer), Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe), and Katherine (Goble) Johnson (Taraji P. Henson) crossed gender, racial, and societal lines in a time where African-American women were considered second class citizens.

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Is Your Boss a Jerk? Here's How to Cope in 5 Easy Steps

Bad boss alert. You arrive just in time to grab coffee before a meeting, and the boss stops you in the hallway. There's another work issue to discuss, another complaint. The boss is not just hard to work with. It's become such a problem that you dread coming into the office.

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8 leadership lessons from history

Napoleon, Empress Wu, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Oliver Cromwell, Akbar, Stalin. History provides many examples of strong leaders who left their marks, for better or for worse. But what the past will not do is provide the magic formula for how to become an effective leader.

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1 Powerful Solution to Retain and Engage Millennials

"It produced...an inversion of expertise because we had so many changes at the lower levels in technology and tactics and whatnot that suddenly the things we grew up doing weren't what the force was doing anymore.

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The 5 Communication Habits All Leaders Need to Motivate a Team

Let me echo that massive study: We are in an era with an alarming leadership shortage. As more boomers retire and Millennials continue to increase in numbers as the largest working generation, today's companies just aren't prepared ahead for developing tomorrow's leaders.

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5 Signs Someone Has True Emotional Intelligence

There is a big difference between someone who is confident and someone who is self-aware, someone who is socially intelligent and someone who is emotionally intelligent. Being skilled in your field or talented with your craft is not emotional intelligence--and this is what so often gets forgotten.

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My Boss Is A Millennial Wannabe

My column, Workplace Referee, is designed to help employees and managers gain better insight into each other's points of view (POV). Have a situation you'd like me to address? Please submit it by email HERE. Don't worry, I'll keep your identity private.

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How to Build Your Team of Personal Advisers

Many of us are convinced that we have to fly solo and figure everything out on our own, the hard way - that having a support team and advisers is only for the powerful or wildly successful. This is foolish and naive. You don't have to do it alone. In fact, you shouldn't.

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IBM's Patent Leadership Tells You A Lot About Its Strategy

IBM announced yesterday that broke the record for patents granted to a single company, with 8,088 patents being granted to its inventors, most of which are in key emerging areas such as machine learning, cloud computing and cyber security.

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Leadership Lessons

The market has moved – and fast – and firms that are slow to respond risk being forced to merge in order to monetize.

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Quote of the Day

There is no greater honor than supporting someone’s growth and evolution as a human being.

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How St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Creates A Desirable Place To Work

St. Jude Children's Hospital isn't your typical hospital. For one thing, there's colorful artwork on the walls and a less sterile environment than you might expect. Patients also receive all their care for free, which is basically unheard of in the healthcare world.

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Retail

April 8, 2016, 4:23 PM EDTFlying Fish Brewing Sells a Stake—But Doesn’t Sell Out Deal comes as other craft brewers are selling their entire business.

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Leadership Lessons From 200 CEO’s

About this time every year for the last four years I have sent out a two question survey to over 200 CEO’s. These are senior leaders not only in my own network but across all of our consultants networks also.

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Wildland Fire Leadership Development

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4 Lessons from the World's Toughest Entrepreneurs

When's the last time you had a bad day at work because explosions were rocking a nearby neighborhood? Because electricity was on for only four hours? Or because your country's border suddenly closed for two months straight?

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6 Masterful Moves Will Whisk You to the Top

America needs immigrants. Without them, Boston would lack two fast-growing companies founded by two CEOs who started off as programmers.

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