October, 2011

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Transforming Perceptions: 10 Steps to Managing the Way You Are Perceived at Work

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Here's a guest post from executive coach Joel Garfinkle, from his new book, Getting Ahead: Success at work starts with positive perceptions. If your boss and co-workers have a negative image of you, it's a pretty good bet you won't be getting a promotion anytime soon. That's why it is so important to take charge of the way you are perceived in your organization.

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Got a Bad Boss? Do the Opposite

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One of the best ways to learn leadership is from your bosses – both good and bad ones. It’s a pretty simple technique – emulate the good ones and do the opposite of the bad ones. Given that most of us will be lucky to have had the opportunity to work for even one great leader, the majority of our leadership lessons will have to come from the bad bosses.

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10 Ways to Select Participants for a Leadership Development Program

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A colleague and I recently talked about the challenge of selecting participants for leadership development programs. With limited resources and budget dollars, companies often have to be selective when it comes to who can attend and who ends up on the old “waiting list”. Then there’s always the inevitable political landmines that need to be navigated, i.e., “So why was Sparky selected and not Snooky?!”.

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How to Involve Participants in a Leadership Training Program

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"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand”. -- Confucius. Even the most brilliant, credible, and talented instructors with the most dazzling PowerPoint slides won’t guarantee participants in a leadership training program are actually going to learn anything. In order for all that good content to actually sink in, people need to have a chance to do something with it.

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“You’re Just Not Leadership Material”

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Guest post by Tom Salonek: Hundreds of leadership books suggest various theories and exercises designed to awaken one’s inner leader and other mystical secrets to unlocking one’s rightful leadership potential. Others suggest that some people are meant to lead and others are destined to be followers, as though leading an organization is on par with the priesthood.

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Leaders vs. Managers

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Here's the 2nd in a series of guest posts by Professor Jim Clawson , one of our Executive Development Program instructors for a custom program we offer on Leading Change. I introduced Jim to Great Leadership readers a few weeks ago with a post called "A Four-wheel-drive Diamond in the Rough Leadership Model". In this second installment, Jim offers his take on the difference between managers and leaders.

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The October Leadership Development Carnival

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The October Leadership Development Carnival is up! This month's edition is being hosted by Rochester, NY blogger (my old home town) Lynn Dessert , at her Elephants at Work blog. You can read it here. Next month's Carnival returns to Great Leadership. See the Carnival sidebar widget for details.