Top Leadership Digital Leadership Management Content for November, 2011

Buy-In – The Imperative Strategy

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

In providing research and developing training programs for various large corporations about managing change, we find that the biggest stumbling block for employees from top-down is lack of buy-in. Top executives have the vision, but often fail to get buy-in from managers who have to carry out the change initiative. This lack of buy-in trickles down and pretty soon everyone is at odds with the change because not having been in the initial ideation sessions, they don’t see any value.

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Complimentary Resource – Microsoft Office 2010: Tips and Tricks – Limited Time Offer

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Microsoft Office 2010 : Tips and Tricks – Limited Time Offer by WindowsVJ Access Your Complimentary Copy Today. This $7 Value eBook Expires 11/16/2011. Microsoft Office is one of the most popular and user friendly office suites in the market. With Office 2010, Microsoft had made it bigger by integrating features for Office Web Apps and Mobile Office and significant changes to User Interface and included a lot of new features in Office Suite.

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Rapport: The Key To Sales

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Every sales person knows how important good communication is in building business relationships. But have you ever thought about what it takes to build instant rapport with anyone? One time I was on a business trip, and due to a series of events I had to get a hotel room with no reservation. I called several brand name hotels only to be told they were booked.

Hotels

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Alternative Development – Introduction

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Leaders face the difficult challenge of selecting those few operational activities their organization will pursue from the multitude that are proposed every planning cycle. In order to make these decisions, they need detailed assessments of the costs, benefits, and risks associated with each proposed initiative; including both ongoing operational and newly proposed activities.

Development

Development Proposal Content Document

Pure Accountability

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

One of the reasons I have always loved high school wrestling as a sport is that a competitor lives and dies on his or her own merits… yes… females are becoming more prevalent in High School wrestling. One of the aspects of the sport that has always attracted me is that when you lose there is no one else to blame. No Nonsense Retention : Painless Strategies To Retain Your Best People by Jeff Kortes Why are some organizations able to retain their best people while others struggle with above averag

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For a Powerful Presentation, Begin with a Bang, Finish with a Flourish

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Planning a presentation? Once you’ve analyzed your audience and determined what you want to say, give lots of attention to the presentation’s two most critical parts: the opening and the close. They’re the parts the audience will remember best – and each of them serves a vital purpose. At the heart of every employee is talent. Your associates are the voice and the face of your business.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Book of Acronyms

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Organizations are accustomed to looking at concepts and practices one way at a time. Clinging to obsolete definitions and viewpoints have a way of perpetuating companies into downward spirals. By viewing from others’ viewpoints on life, we find real nuggets of gold with which to redefine organizations. The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving by Hank Moore Any company or organization is like a tree.

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Practices for Professionals – Sign Everything

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Some find it very uncomfortable to “blow their own horn.” They shy away from the public spotlight and, instead, derive their own sense of accomplishment through simply being acknowledged for a job well done. Others, work for individuals whose personal insecurity drives them to take credit for that which is well done and overtly assign blame when things go wrong.

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Corporate Cultures – The Culture Change Penalty

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Changing an organization’s culture is extremely difficult. Doing so requires the alteration of the commonly held values of the entire workforce, beliefs that have been embedded in the organization’s policies and procedures and reinforced over an extended period of time; beliefs that many will hold as the company’s definition of right and wrong. Subsequently, changing a company’s culture will almost assuredly be met with significant resistance.

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Corporate Cultures – Individual Initiated, Rules and Standards Controlled Environment

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

The Individual Initiated, Knowledge and Skills Controlled Environment represents a culture that is moving toward greater consistency in action if not action initiation. These organizations are still largely guided by local controls and individual contributors and lack the more rigorous oversight and activity reinforcement realized in supervisory and leader led companies.

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Recommended Resource – Born to Win

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Born To Win : The Ultimate Seminar by Zig Ziggler About the Reference Born To Win : The Ultimate Seminar by Zig Ziggler is an inspiring program focused on helping individuals recognize their value and potential. The program then provides insights as to how to unlock that potential by: Achieving balance in seven key areas Developing and maintaining a winning attitude Building stronger professional and personal relationships Becoming a better leader, employee, and parent through more effective com

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Complimentary Resource – The Truth About Mobile Business Intelligence: Five Common Myths Debunked

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

The Truth About Mobile Business Intelligence : Five Common Myths Debunked by Information Builders, Inc. This white paper will examine the five common myths associated with mobile business intelligence and uncover the facts about cost, implementation, and capabilities. In spite of the abounding myths, mobile business intelligence doesn’t have to be expensive, hard to implement, or difficult to use.

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Complimentary Resource – Before You Hire: Complete Guide To Checking Your Employees

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

Before You Hire : Complete Guide To Checking Your Employees by Resource Nation, Inc. This guide will help you better understand the importance of background checks or employment screenings. Employees are your most valuable and usually your most expensive business asset. According to one estimate, the cost of hiring the wrong employee can be up to twice that person’s annual salary!

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Leadership Inspirations – Experience

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2011

“Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.” Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963) English writer, best know as the author of Brave New World You just finished reading Leadership Inspirations - Experience ! Consider leaving a comment! If you enjoyed this article, let us keep you up-to-date on other newly published insights by signing up for our complimentary StrategyDriven Newsletter Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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Five Ways to Land in the Executive Chair

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Executives play in a bigger league; they play for higher stakes; and the game is for keeps. Doing the day-to-day, hands-on work doesn’t fit the job description of the executive; driving the strategy, developing the bench, and making high-caliber decisions have become the new coinage of the realm. When you understand who executives are, what they do, and how they do it, you stand a better chance of joining their ranks.

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Recommended Resource – Make Every Second Count

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Make Every Second Count : Time Management Tips and Techniques for More Success With Less Stress by Robert W. Bly About the Reference Make Every Second Count : Time Management Tips and Techniques for More Success With Less Stress by Robert Bly presents a collection of time management and productivity tips to help knowledge workers and other professionals achieve greater levels of efficiency.

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Take Your Career to the Next Level by Being Fearless

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

One of the biggest mistakes we can make as professionals is letting fear seep into our mindsets. Most do not realize how strong a role this dominating emotion can play in their everyday actions, but once it enters, the results can be catastrophic to the person’s short- and long-term goals. Whether it be fear of failure, fear of the unknown or fear of taking risks, it is important to banish the bad habit of fear and worrying in order to achieve your true purpose.

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The Business of Innovation – The Responsibility Revolution

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Innovation is the introduction of new things or methods and is the life blood of business today. Innovative companies realize remarkable marketplace rewards. The challenge before leaders is how to inspire their workforce to use the full measure of their creative power to advance the organization in new and better ways. The Business of Innovation is a five part series created by CNBC in association with IBM.

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Share Your Financial Results and Improve Performance

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Should you share your firm’s financial results with this staff? This is one of the questions that business owners face every day, and all too often the answer is no. But no is probably the wrong answer. An organization can very often improve performance and get its employees bought into it’s mission and purpose simply by sharing financial results with the employees.

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Guardrails: Keep Your Projects Out of the Weeds

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Think about if there were no guardrails on the freeway. It would be all too easy to run off the road and find yourself hurt and way off the fast track to your end destination. Business is a fast and zigzagging road – a road that needs guardrails to keep businesses and projects on track. On your road to success (whether it be to increase profits, become an industry leader, capture more market share, etc.), you need to establish your own guardrails so you do not drive your company or project

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Complimentary Resource – Talent Management Helps Small Companies Make Big Moves

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

Talent Management Helps Small Companies Make Big Moves by SuccessFactors Learn how small companies can achieve growth and productivity goals and ultimately transform themselves. To move up the business maturity curve, small companies need big ambitions. These companies also need to move up the HR maturity curve and become more process-oriented. Download SuccessFactors’ new white paper, “ Small & Sophisticated: Unique Possibilities of Integrated Talent Management in Small Businesses ,”

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Recommended Resource – The Executive Guide to High-Impact Talent Management

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

The Executive Guide to High-Impact Talent Management : Powerful Tools for Leveraging a Changing Workforce by David DeLong and Steve Trautman About the Reference The Executive Guide to High-Impact Talent Management : Powerful Tools for Leveraging a Changing Workforce by David DeLong and Steve Trautman provides a complete talent management program blueprint covering: Diagnosis of talent related organizational risks Evaluation and measurement of talent management initiatives Acceleration of leaders

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Corporate Cultures – Supervisor Initiated, Knowledge and Skills Controlled Environment

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

The Supervisor Initiated, Knowledge and Skills Controlled Environment represents a somewhat centrally controlled environment. This culture set benefits from greater local control than the leader initiated organization while still maintaining a degree of oversight that enhances centralized direction setting as compared with individual initiated cultures.

Environment

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Leadership Digital

November, 2011

Strategy Driven

Buy-In – The Imperative Strategy

Complimentary Resource – Microsoft Office 2010: Tips and Tricks – Limited Time Offer

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Rapport: The Key To Sales

Alternative Development – Introduction

Pure Accountability

For a Powerful Presentation, Begin with a Bang, Finish with a Flourish

The Big Picture of Business – The Book of Acronyms

Practices for Professionals – Sign Everything

Corporate Cultures – The Culture Change Penalty

Corporate Cultures – Individual Initiated, Rules and Standards Controlled Environment

Recommended Resource – Born to Win

Complimentary Resource – The Truth About Mobile Business Intelligence: Five Common Myths Debunked

Complimentary Resource – Before You Hire: Complete Guide To Checking Your Employees

Leadership Inspirations – Experience

Five Ways to Land in the Executive Chair

Recommended Resource – Make Every Second Count

Take Your Career to the Next Level by Being Fearless

The Business of Innovation – The Responsibility Revolution

Share Your Financial Results and Improve Performance

Guardrails: Keep Your Projects Out of the Weeds

Complimentary Resource – Talent Management Helps Small Companies Make Big Moves

Recommended Resource – The Executive Guide to High-Impact Talent Management

Corporate Cultures – Supervisor Initiated, Knowledge and Skills Controlled Environment

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