Woobox - Sweepstakes, Coupons, and more for Facebook Pages & Twitter 10 Barriers to Great Leadership In the past few months, I’ve worked with several leaders who were navigating significant new challenges in their roles. The differences between those who managed these situations successfully and those who didn't often showed itself in their responses to these very common blocks to leadership growth. 1. Every leader needs to be aware of things that might prevent, delay, or stop growth. 2. Mistakes are necessary for growth. 3. We all need help in order to learn. 4. Are you assuming a new leadership role? 5. This blocker has many names: micromanaging, control freak, inability to delegate, etc. 6. If you are leading a functional group, you must have enough expertise in that function to be credible--especially in a new role or with a new team. 7. In a broader leadership role, expertise in every function is not possible or needed. 8. 9. Many leaders are uncomfortable with the power they hold over others. 10. Leaders need to forget a great many things.
Grow your business with video advertising and YouTube – Video Ads – Google Ads Is there anything video can't do? It surprises us, teaches us, even makes us giggle at work. Every day the world watches more. With Google AdWords for video, you can: Reach the right viewer at the right price Pay only when they choose to watch your ad Manage campaigns with ease Get Started Turn Off Facebook Game Requests I was out with some girlfriends the other night and someone started complaining about Facebook. She said she was tired of getting requests for games she didn’t want to play. I asked her if she knew she could block those type of requests. Her answer was no. From any Facebook page: 1. 2. 3. 4. Block app invitesBlock event invitesBlock apps. 5.
Appbistro | The Best Facebook Page Apps for Businesses Five ways to identify future leaders We’re all leaders in some form. Whether by design or default, we use our influence to get others to follow us. That’s pretty well how leadership works – it’s all about influence. Using the art of influence is a skill that can take a lifetime to master. But wouldn’t it be great to be able to spot potential great leaders early on? How good leaders become great Before we get to my list, I want to share with you some insight from one of the world’s foremost experts on leadership, John C. His concept of the various leadership levels is brilliant in its simplicity. For our purposes, I want to highlight Maxwell’s entry level of leadership. Many people in Level 1 never make it to Level 2. So here’s today’s exercise: If you were tasked to identify potential leaders within your organization or community, leaders that you hope will reach Level 5, what traits would you look for? I should mention that Level 5 leadership is referred to as the “Pinnacle.”
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How to Curate Your Facebook News Feed Baby photos. News articles. Selfies. Advertisements. It's likely your Facebook News Feed contains some combination of these, if not all of them (and likely other categories, too). In March, Facebook announced a News feed redesign. Mashable sat down with Greg Marra, Facebook's product manager for News Feed, to discuss how users can best curate the content that they see in News Feed. "The basic interactions of News Feed are some of the most important signals that we get," he explains. Here's what we learned. If You Want to Stop Seeing Posts From a Facebook Friend... If you're cold-blooded, eliminating News Feed posts from an annoying friend or ex-flame is simple: Unfriend them. In this instance, you can also choose to "unfollow" a friend, essentially muting him without alerting him of such. If a post from someone you wish to unfollow comes through your News Feed, you can click the arrow in the upper right-hand corner of the post to unveil a dropdown menu. Take Facebook's Survey
8 Brands That Have Found Success on Facebook & What We Can Learn Dave Kerpen is the CEO of Likeable, a social media agency that has worked with more than 200 leading brands including 1-800Flowers.com, Verizon and Neutrogena. He is author of Likeable Social Media. Any brand worth their social media salt has a presence on Facebook. But just because a brand is online, doesn't necessarily mean that it is doing a good job. While it's possible to suggest some tips and best practices, there's no greater teacher than learning from example. Below, find eight brands that have found success on Facebook, including some takeaways on what they did right and how you can emulate their success. 1. The Pampered Chef launched their Facebook page at a national conference in front of thousands of enthusiastic consultants. Lesson: Ask your staff, customers, vendors, and partners — who already know you and like you — to “Like” your Facebook page first. 2. Restaurant.com combines exclusive Facebook offers with lots of engaging questions. Lesson: Ask a lot of questions. 3. 4.
Successful Leadership Skills For too long, we’ve thought of “hard skills” and “soft skills” as mutually exclusive. Hard skills are supposed to provide the value, and soft skills supposed to be subordinate, inferior, and all about feelings. Some frameworks of leadership reinforce this myth by encouraging positioning leaders as above the group and magically removed from doubt and anxiety. In reality, there is nothing “soft” about the skills needed to relate to people well enough to lead them. Here’s what I mean. Defining Hard and Soft Skills “Hard skills” are often thought of as the occupational skills necessary to complete the tangible elements of a job. “Soft skills” can be seen as the behavioral ways in which people go about their occupational tasks. Hard skills can get the job done. Leadership’s Hard and Soft Skills Unfortunately, many leaders fail to embrace leadership responsibilities and instead busy themselves with non-leadership tasks - the work their teams should be doing. Leadership’s Harder Skills 1. 2. 3.