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Managers of People, Teach Them to Fish

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Posted in Leadership Development Workplace Issues Managers of people, it may seem expedient and even helpful to give answers, but to truly be a leader, it’s best to follow that sage advice about teaching them to fish. One of my clients recently told me about the wake-up call he had when his 10-year-old son accompanied him to work one day. After [.].

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Change: 5 tips to improve communication and accelerate execution

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Posted in Change Management Communication is key to execute a change project. Believing that your team will implement change without fully understanding the objectives or the reasons for the change will lead to failure. Here are 5 tips for communicating effectively and giving your change project the best chance of success. Build a story about what you believe, and [.].

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Leading the Way Forward Together

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Posted in Leadership Development Over the weekend I published an article titled Finding Our Way Back to Hope as my way to process the events of the tragic shootings in CT last week. I was thinking about the many ways we can each lead the way for ourselves and our communities back to hope and offer a few of [.].

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A Business Carol

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Posted in Leadership Development I wish you could be Scrooge… I really do. You may not understand what I mean when I say that, but most likely you understand WHO it is I’m talking about. Ebenezer Scrooge, the grumpy old businessman in Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” paints a masterful picture for us of a cantankerous old coot [.].

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3 Portraits of Employee Involvement

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Posted in Change Management Leadership Coaching Leadership Development Team Dynamics Value Creation Workplace Issues In your organization, how much employee input does management get before deciding a course of action? Not much? You might want to rethink that.

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Why Now? Origins of Lead Change Part 3

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Posted in Leadership Development This is the third part of a series on the origins of the Lead Change Group based on one of the key books that inspired me to take action: Tribes by Seth Godin. For links to all the posts, check out this page. When I went into business on my own as a consultant in [.].

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Imperfect leadership

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Posted in Leadership Development [link] Often in leadership circles, we place those who achieve success on pedestals and we talk about what they did right. We study their actions. We admire the decisions they made and the opportunities they’ve had. We learn from them and they challenge us. Do you ever notice that some of these people never fail? They [.].