RSS Feeds. The New Leader's Playbook - Tips for onboarding/on-boarding | PrimeGenesis. Moving into new roles are crucible events of leadership and some of the toughest challenges people face. Nearly half of new leaders fail in their first 18 months*. Avoid that problem by getting a head start, managing your message, and building your team. Further, know that while people will follow a charismatic leader for a time, they will devote themselves to the cause of a BRAVE leader over time. Those are the underlying premises of this article which itself serves as an executive summary of The New Leader's Playbook. The rest of this article lays out the ten steps of The New Leader's Playbook, the BRAVE leadership framework (Behaviors, Relationships, Attitudes, Values, Environment), and provides a full list of Forbes New Leader's Playbook articles Prelude: GET A HEAD START 1) Position yourself for success.
First, get the job 2) Choose the Right Approach for the Business Context and Culture you Face. Lead with Attitude: Corporate Culture: The Only Truly Sustainable Competitive Advantage. Top Executive Recruiters Agree There Are Only Three True Job Interview Questions. Make a Good Impression in 30 Seconds - Ron Ashkenas. By Ron Ashkenas | 12:52 PM February 6, 2012 This post was co-authored with Holly Newman. Here in the U.S., the Super Bowl this weekend showed us the power of 30-second advertisements, and how influential they can be in promoting a company’s awareness. But how often do we craft our own 30-second spots with audiences that we want to influence? Most of us are not in the business of making TV commercials, but in conversations there is almost always a 30-second moment that can make the meeting memorable. Malcolm Gladwell touches on this phenomenon in his book, Blink.
He talks about “thin-slicing,” or “the ability of our unconscious to find patterns in situations and behavior based on very narrow slices of experience.” He explains how too much information can cloud an individual’s ability to accurately analyze a situation, and how “in good decision making, frugality matters.” So how do you turn your moment into an award-winning spot? Capture your audience’s attention. Convey a clear message. Three steps to keeping email marketing simple but effective.
The online space has opened up creative avenues marketers could only have dreamt about. While you’re thinking up the latest bells and whistles to make your emails stand out, consider a few simple steps that should form the building blocks of any successful campaign. Quick wins can be gained from analysing the time you send your communications; finessing the sender address and subject line; and, most importantly, testing your messages. 1. "Test! Ensuring you hit your audience with relevant, personalised and timely messaging is crucial.
The only way to pass that test is to practice. In order to hone the effectiveness of email, delve into all the precious data you collect on the people you’re trying to reach, to provoke them into action. Take insights from people’s preferences and purchase history (if available), and experiment with length and tone of subject lines, and different types of content. Consider HTML, the length of copy, size and colour of images, embedded links and video. 2. 3. How to Work with Someone You Hate - Amy Gallo - Best Practices. Working with someone you hate can be distracting and draining. Pompous jerk, annoying nudge, or incessant complainer, an insufferable colleague can negatively affect your attitude and performance. Instead of focusing on the work you have to do together, you may end up wasting time and energy trying to keep your emotions in check and attempting to manage the person’s behavior.
Fortunately, with the right tactics, you can still have a productive working relationship with someone you can’t stand. What the Experts Say If you work with someone you don’t like, you’re not alone. The detested co-worker is a familiar archetype. Manage your reaction Your response to your dreaded co-worker may range from slight discomfort to outright hostility. Keep your distaste to yourself While working through your displeasure, avoid the temptation to gripe with other coworkers. Consider whether it’s you, not them Once you have your reactions in check, think about what it is you don’t like about the person. CEO: The 5 Things I Look for In a Great Job Interview. In my career I have reviewed thousands of resumes and conducted hundreds of employment interviews for both The Trademark Company and other businesses for which I have worked. In doing so, I got to see the good, the bad, and the downright ugly in terms of resumes, interviewing skills, and the like.
For other CEOs looking to hire, here's what I think makes a great candidate stand out from the good ones. 1. Attention to detail How many times have you heard this one, right? Pay attention to detail. Let me say it again: PAY ATTENTION TO DETAIL! There’s a great story at the end of the movie Coming to America with Eddie Murphy. A man goes into a restaurant. At this point you may be asking yourself, “So what does this have to do with identifying a great candidate?” Not less than two months ago I received a wonderful e-mail from an applicant seeking to work for The Trademark Company. The applicant had failed to attach a resume. Some CEOs may have overlooked this and just asked for the resume. 2. What's Your Influencing Style? - Chris Musselwhite and Tammie Plouffe. By Chris Musselwhite and Tammie Plouffe | 2:45 PM January 13, 2012 Effective leadership today relies more than ever on influencing others — impacting their ideas, opinions, and actions.
While influence has always been a valuable managerial skill, today’s highly collaborative organizations make it essential. Consider how often you have to influence people who don’t even report to you in order to accomplish your objectives. Success depends on your ability to effectively influence both your direct reports and the people over whom you have no direct authority. Have you ever thought about how you influence others? It is these preferred tactics that define our influencing style. You may have an idea what your style is just from hearing these labels, but the most accurate way to identify your style is with an influence style indicator — a self-scoring assessment that classifies your style based on answers to questions about preferred influencing tactics.
What’s your influencing style? Google Guide Quick Reference: Google Advanced Operators (Cheat Sheet) The following table lists the search operators that work with each Google search service. Click on an operator to jump to its description — or, to read about all of the operators, simply scroll down and read all of this page. The following is an alphabetical list of the search operators. This list includes operators that are not officially supported by Google and not listed in Google’s online help. Each entry typically includes the syntax, the capabilities, and an example. Allinanchor: If you start your query with allinanchor:, Google restricts results to pages containing all query terms you specify in the anchor text on links to the page.
Anchor text is the text on a page that is linked to another web page or a different place on the current page. Allintext: If you start your query with allintext:, Google restricts results to those containing all the query terms you specify in the text of the page. Allintitle: allinurl: In URLs, words are often run together. Author: cache: define: ext: group:
About Evan Bailyn. Today. Fragile and Unbalanced in 2012 - Nouriel Roubini. Exit from comment view mode. Click to hide this space NEW YORK – The outlook for the global economy in 2012 is clear, but it isn’t pretty: recession in Europe, anemic growth at best in the United States, and a sharp slowdown in China and in most emerging-market economies. Asian economies are exposed to China. Latin America is exposed to lower commodity prices (as both China and the advanced economies slow). Central and Eastern Europe are exposed to the eurozone. And turmoil in the Middle East is causing serious economic risks – both there and elsewhere – as geopolitical risk remains high and thus high oil prices will constrain global growth. At this point, a eurozone recession is certain. The US – growing at a snail’s pace since 2010 – faces considerable downside risks from the eurozone crisis.
Elsewhere among the major advanced economies, the United Kingdom is double dipping, as front-loaded fiscal consolidation and eurozone exposure undermine growth. They are not alone. 5 Job Search Strategies You Need To Start Using Right Away. Job seekers are often their own worst enemy when it comes to finding and landing a new job. They may be extremely qualified and bubbling with potential, but if they can’t present themselves in the best possible light, they lose out to the next candidate.
They can easily blow it all with a bad interview, a lousy resume, or outdated marketing tactics. As a great job candidate, it’s your job to make sure everyone knows how valuable you are. Don’t expect to get any top job offers without a firm strategy and a stellar personal marketing campaign. Here are five job search strategies that you can implement right now to improve your marketability: Write about your achievements: First things first – take a look at your resume.
With a well thought out and aggressive marketing strategy, the job search process can be a lot easier, and perhaps shorter. David Clough is a writer living in New York City. Google+ Is Way Bigger Than We Thought: It's Totally Going To Change How The Web Works. How Will You Measure Your Life? Editor’s Note: When the members of the class of 2010 entered business school, the economy was strong and their post-graduation ambitions could be limitless.
Just a few weeks later, the economy went into a tailspin. They’ve spent the past two years recalibrating their worldview and their definition of success. The students seem highly aware of how the world has changed (as the sampling of views in this article shows). In the spring, Harvard Business School’s graduating class asked HBS professor Clay Christensen to address them—but not on how to apply his principles and thinking to their post-HBS careers. The students wanted to know how to apply them to their personal lives. He shared with them a set of guidelines that have helped him find meaning in his own life. Though Christensen’s thinking comes from his deep religious faith, we believe that these are strategies anyone can use. Before I published The Innovator’s Dilemma, I got a call from Andrew Grove, then the chairman of Intel.
Latest Job-matchmaking Site Will Focus on MBAs. We began 2011 talking about new “matchmaker” job sites starting up. As 2011 progressed, as Jeff Dickey-Chasins said, such sites, some more art than science, “proliferated.” A year later, we’re not done yet. At least one new site is hoping to join the bunch. Called “Better Weekdays,” it is being built behind the scenes, with one major player in the company, who’d rather we not use his name, telling us it’s about five months off from launch.
Better Weekdays is working on its site and on spreading the word among potential customers. But, unlike the “Mystery Applicant” site we mentioned, it’s not focusing on applicant tracking systems right now. The company doesn’t want to deal with the issues involved in integrating an application with those systems. Those small/medium companies, Better Weekdays figures, are less likely to have much of an HR department, and could use Better Weekdays to hire someone, probably with a pay-per-hire model, rather than a pay-per posting.
Who Should You Be Thanking? - Dorie Clark. By Dorie Clark | 9:10 AM January 5, 2012 For good executives, it’s second nature to show appreciation toward clients and staff. But often, we overlook less obvious people who have made a difference in our professional lives. The other day, I was talking with a client about his growth plans for 2012 — which, he knew, would depend heavily on word-of-mouth. He wanted to strategize about cultivating new referral sources — but in the process, I realized a major chunk of his existing business was the result of one woman. Mentors are another category you might risk forgetting to thank. Also, think about people who helped you in the past. Finally, don’t forget the people around the people in power.
What’s the best way to express your thanks? Who are you thanking this year? Knowledge. Free Market-Research Tools -- A Sampler. Small businesses can tap a variety of free resources for insights about customers, competitors and trends. Before Darlene Tenes, founder of CasaQ in San Jose, Calif., sinks a lot of money into new designs for Christmas ornaments, she sends sketches to retail and wholesale clients.
They report back through questionnaires she creates on the online research service SurveyMonkey, and their reactions influence which designs become decorations. "If you have four choices and there's a strong reaction [like] 'I love it. I would absolutely buy it,' then you know it's a seller," says Tenes, whose ornaments and other products reflect Hispanic culture. SurveyMonkey is only one of a wealth of free tools and resources that can help you gather valuable market-research information.
Survey Monkey Basic Survey Monkey Portland, Ore.www.surveymonkey.comCost: Free. BizStats Brandow Co. Related: Five Affordable Consumer Research Tools Related: A New Way to Crowdsource Customer Feedback Census.gov U.S. The Business Case for Hiring College Grads — 32 Reasons They Can Produce a High ROI. College hiring is about to ramp up again — and the very best college recruiting organizations would argue it ramped up several months back — so now is an opportune time to conduct an ROI analysis to determine when and where you should hire college grads instead of experienced hires. Understanding the unique competencies and skills that college students bring to a business is important not just in determining the number needed, but where to place them.
As a college professor and someone that advises firms on the design of college recruiting programs, I have come up with a long list of the advantages of hiring recent graduates. If you’re not seeing these attributes in your recent college hires, interns, or those you are courting, the problem is most likely a result of major weaknesses in your recruiting process and not with “this latest generation” of college students. The Business Benefits of Hiring Recent College Grads Shorter-term Benefits of Hiring College Students.
The World's Best Places To Live And Work. One of your New Year's resolutions is probably to better balance your professional life with your personal life. If not, it should be. So how do you accomplish this? Perhaps the easiest thing to do is move to a country where the locals are already very happy with their work-life balance. In October, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) published the results of a survey of Work-Life Balance in its member countries. It based its ratings primarily on these factors: The average length of the workday.The employment rate of women with children.The time responders devoted to leisure and personal care, which includes sleep. The rationale behind these factors: Children with one working parent are three times more likely to grow up in poverty than children with two working parents.
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