Apr 07

7 Reasons the Best Employees Quit, Even When They Like Their Job

 To win at being the best company, you must first win over your best employees.

By Lolly Daskal
President and CEO, Lead From Within
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Losing a great employee is a terrible thing. There’s the expense of finding, onboarding, and training a replacement. There’s the uncertainty of how a new employee will work out. There’s the hardship on the rest of your staff until the position can be filled.

Sometimes there’s a solid reason–the person was a bad fit for the team, or moved away for personal reasons, or was offered an opportunity too great to pass up. In those cases, even if it’s a difficult transition, it feels fundamentally right.

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Apr 07

12 Ways to Elevate Your Personal Brand in 2018

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Jonathan Long
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Founder, Market Domination Media®
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.

If you aren’t fully committed to building your personal brand yet, it’s time to go all-in. I’m a huge advocate when it comes to personal branding — it’s how I built my first marketing agency. I leveraged my personal brand and bootstrapped its growth, allowing me to avoid taking out a business loan or giving up equity to an investor. To this day, I retain 100 percent ownership of every business I operate.

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Apr 07

Glassdoor’s 100 Best Places to Work All Have These 8 Things In Common

To be a desirable place to work for, making employees feel valuable and providing a competitive salary is only part of the equation.

By Jackelyn Ho
Founder, Arrival Gym
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Every year for the past ten years, Glassdoor announces the top places to work all across North America and parts of Europe. The most unique part of this award? You can only win the award if your employees say so.

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Apr 07

If Your Employees Aren’t Learning, You’re Not Leading

Mark Murphy , CONTRIBUTORI solve the “people pain points” that keep leaders awake at night. Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own.

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There’s a strong positive relationship between how much people learn on the job and how much they love their job. Employees who score high on survey questions like “I will have to learn new skills to achieve my assigned goals for this year” have higher scores on questions such as:

  • “I consider myself a high performer”
  • “The work I do makes a difference in people’s lives”
  • “I recommend this company to others as a great place for people to work”
  • “I recommend my boss to others as a great person to work for.”

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Apr 07

4 Simple Tips To Make You A Better Leader Right Now

Leadership isn’t hard, people make it more difficult than it needs to be.

By Gordon Tredgold
Founder and CEO, Leadership Principles
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One of the biggest myths about leadership, that I hate, is leadership is difficult. Now I don’t disagree that some people make leadership hard, or find it hard to lead, but that’s not the same as leadership being hard.

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Apr 07

How Do You Know Someone Has the Leadership Skills of the Future? Look for These 5 Signs

At the end of the year, success comes down to what you’ve done for your team members.

By Marcel Schwantes
Principal and founder, Leadership From the Core
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As you think ahead to improving your leadership skills in 2018 and beyond, the best traits I have found which will profoundly impact individuals and teams may not be futuristic at all. But — and you can take this to the bank — these 5 leadership practices will stand the test of time, next year or fifty years from now.

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Apr 07

13 Things You Should Give Up If You Want To Be Successful

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”Somebody once told me the definition of hell:  “On your last day on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become.” — Anonymous

Sometimes, to become successful and get closer to the person we can become, we don’t need to add more things — we need to give up on some of them.

There are certain things that are universal, which will make you successful if you give up on them, even though each one of us could have a different definition of success.

You can give up on some of them today, while it might take a bit longer to give up on others.

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Apr 07

What Millennials really want at work

by Anna Bahney   @annabahneyDecember 29, 2017: 10:12 AM ET

A new study reveals what you probably already know: If you’re a Millennial with a job, work isn’t living up to your expectations.

It turns out that young people, while enthusiastic workers and successful employees, have a lot of anxiety and uncertainty about their work, according to a new study from strategy firm Department26.

“When asked about their first job out of college, most of them said it was pretty much a disaster, a huge let down and an impetus to do something different,” said Betsy Wecker, insights director at the strategy firm and author of the study, which included a survey of 1,000 Millennials and in depth interviews with 26 young people.

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Apr 07

Never, Ever Trust A Manager Who Says These Five Things

Liz Ryan , CONTRIBUTOR Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own.

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At any job, your boss is the most important person in your working life.  You have to trust and respect your boss, or you’re skating on very thin ice!

Fear is a powerful motivator, at work at everywhere else.

If your boss is the fearful type, they will throw you under the bus in one second if they feel it’s necessary. They will throw you to the wolves to avoid having to admit they made a mistake, for instance.

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Apr 07

How Toxic Is Your Company Exactly? Pretty Toxic if You Experience These 6 Things Daily

If you’re coming home complaining to your spouse about your miserable work, it may be for these unfortunate reasons.

By Marcel Schwantes
Principal and founder, Leadership From the Core
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Ever feel like you’re walking on egg shells at work? Your opinions don’t matter, you’re afraid of making mistakes, and the culture is one of fear and intimidation.

Most likely, if you’re coming home complaining to your spouse about work almost daily, and you’re beginning to feel physical symptoms of stress (perhaps unbeknownst to you because you think, “no big deal”), it may be time to admit that your work is a terrible, toxic, place to be. 

Not sure? Here are six sure ways of knowing if your workplace is undeniably toxic.
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