Mike Cardus

MARCH 13, 2012

Listed are 4 reasons why the use of external assessments can be damaging to your team and leadership. Sitting is a meeting of the Organizational Development Network of Western NY the topic was the utilization of assessments for Organizational Development. The assessment shifts the accountability to an external source.

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The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

They sought to pinpoint the leadership competencies differentiating the top 10 percent of leaders from the bottom 10 percent of leaders. From dozens of leadership competencies, they found 16 that reliably predicted those outcomes. This edition featured 20 key insights on leadership development.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

The largest, best-educated generation in history has become an under-utilized resource, vastly unprepared to move into positions of responsibility and leadership. The lack of skill development and leadership development among Generation Y affects every generation.

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The Empowered Buisness

JULY 14, 2015

Your underlying (and often unconscious) attitudes and motivations determine what you pay attention to and focus on in your leadership role. Before delving into 7 key leadership motivation patterns, let’s first look at 3 often-missed truths about performance. 7 motivational patterns of high performance leadership.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Increases in oxytocin cause people to seek social contact with others (Taylor, 2002), so that a virtuous cycle of positive social interactions is created. Sources: Kim Cameron: Positive Leadership: Strategies for Extraordinary Performance. The Leader''s Role in Vision Development. Related articles.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Hjørland & Sejer Christensen, 2002). 1: Explain & explore the skill sets and why each person was chosen to be on this team. Definition of Relevance : Something (A) is relevant to a task (T) if it increases the likelihood of accomplishing the goal (G), which is implied by T. 1 = What is relevant to people on the team.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 9, 2015

Along the way, I learned a great deal about team development and leadership. I saw that successful leaders compensate for their personal shortcomings by recruiting team members with complementary skills and temperaments. I observed how they motivated and inspired their teams to achieve something ambitious and meaningful.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 1, 2019

An early champion of the Men Advocating Real Change (MARC) gender inclusion program, Chevron recognizes the true power it can have to build self-awareness, foster individual inclusion skills, and sustain a culture of inclusion across the organization. Efforts to bring more diversity to the oil and gas industry are working.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

The science of neuroplasticity shows that you can learn the practice of mindfulness training that results in physical changes to the structure of your brain -- in some cases as quickly as eight weeks -- that can be linked to better leadership skills. Self-awareness impacts nearly every aspect of leadership.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 31, 2011

ABOUT Contact Us Create-Learning.com Get Connected Facebook LinkedIn RSS Feed Log in Join and Receive 9 Team-Building & Leadership Activities:That work and allow people to learn from the experience. 2002 Team-Work Requires People To DO Their Own Work. . 2002 Team-Work Requires People To DO Their Own Work. All rights reserved.

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The Practical Leader

JANUARY 16, 2012

Every few years since 2002 this study has been conducted to look at the talent management practices of the best companies around the world across hundreds of data points. ” Clearly these top companies see leadership development as a critical competitive edge. .” RBL Group calls it their “leadership brand.”

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LDRLB

JUNE 14, 2011

I think we could agree though, when Strategic Planning (SP) is done right (development process, implementation, and execution) then there is great potential. Confusing frenetic motion with constructive action, they are noted for their “unproductive busyness” (Bruch & Ghoshai, 2002, Beware the Busy Manager , Harvard Business Review).

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Building Personal Strength

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

The first book I ever read about people skills was Dr. Thomas Gordon's 1970 book P.E.T. Everything he said over 30 years ago remains valid and useful today, even though dozens of books have been written about people skills since. In this way, you can continue to develop as a person through satisfying your needs, and so can I.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 7, 2013

During our discussion, Wendy Powell, author of Management Experience Acquired : Necessary Skills for Successfully Managing Any Employee , shares with us her insights and illustrative examples regarding: six of twelve steps to standing out among professional peers. StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 28 – Responsibility-Driven Leadership.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 18, 2013

During our discussion, Wendy Powell, author of Management Experience Acquired : Necessary Skills for Successfully Managing Any Employee , shares with us her insights and illustrative examples regarding: last six of twelve steps to standing out among professional peers. why professionals should document their experiences.

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LDRLB

JUNE 14, 2011

I think we could agree though, when Strategic Planning (SP) is done right (development process, implementation, and execution) then there is great potential. Confusing frenetic motion with constructive action, they are noted for their “unproductive busyness” (Bruch & Ghoshai, 2002, Beware the Busy Manager , Harvard Business Review).

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

During our discussion, Wendy Powell, author of Management Experience Acquired : Necessary Skills for Successfully Managing Any Employee , shares with us her insights and illustrative examples regarding: the differentiation promoting and hiring executives and managers are looking for in potential candidates.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2012

During our discussion, Wendy Powell, author of Management Experience Acquired : Necessary Skills for Successfully Managing Any Employee , shares with us her insights and illustrative examples regarding: the opportunities to ascend into management given today’s economic conditions.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Organizations invest billions annually on a success curriculum known as "leadership development," which ends up leaving so much on the table. In other words, what if cultivating a successful inner life was front and center on the leadership agenda? Developing people is a process — not an event.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Larry Spears was the CEO of the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership for nearly two decades. He now runs the Spears Center for Servant-Leadership (Indianapolis), and serves as Servant-Leadership Scholar at Gonzaga University (Spokane). Discovering Servant-Leadership 2:13. Defining Servant-Leadership Defining 0:28 5:47.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Larry Spears was the CEO of the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership for nearly two decades. He now runs the Spears Center for Servant-Leadership (Indianapolis), and serves as Servant-Leadership Scholar at Gonzaga University (Spokane). Discovering Servant-Leadership 2:13. Defining Servant-Leadership Defining 0:28 5:47.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

As global companies focus their strategies on developed and emerging markets, they require substantial cadres of leaders capable of operating effectively anywhere in the world. American companies and academic institutions possess unique competitive advantages in developing these global leaders.

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The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

They channel their fear and worry into action, preparing, developing contingency plans, building buffers, and maintaining large margins of safety." Equally, they grasp that if they fail to perceive when good luck helped, they might overestimate their own skill and leave themselves exposed when good luck runs dry.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

A recent paper from UCSB found that the return on being good at math has gone up over the last few decades, as has the return on having high social skills (some combination of leadership, communication, and other interpersonal skills). But, the paper argues, the return on the two skills together has risen even faster.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

In team development, research has shown that individual learning works best when accompanied by team learning. [1]. So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Eichenger and Michael Lombardo According to Day and Lord (1986), differences in the quality of executive leadership explain as much as 45 percent of an organization’s performance. Zenger and Folkman (2002) report that the top 10% of leaders produce five times as much net profit as the bottom 10 %, and twice as much as average leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

You either go out and buy it, or you develop the talent you already have. Such loans have advantages for the lender: they accelerate player development and/or reduce costs by removing the salary of the loaned player from the lending club’s books. Swansea City was a club looking for a midfield player with flair and skill.

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CFO Leadership Development Telecommunications Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

Over the last decade, HR at IBM took a number of steps to help drive operational improvement: Delivered the new skills IBM needed at the front lines. HR reinvented the way it trained and developed talent. We know, for example, that developing leaders is essential. In developed countries, such as France and the U.K.,

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2015

The days of the ‘Great Man’ theory of Leadership – where one sole leader rules over the masses from their ivory tower, are long gone. A study by Pearce and Sims (2002), published in Group Dynamics, found that shared leadership is a useful predictor of team effectiveness. This isn’t a one-off conversation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

Second, board service is an avenue for an executive to gain access to unique knowledge, skills, and connections, so firms actively use external board appointments as a way to groom and develop executives. It was an incredible leadership school for me. Finally, our findings have implications for firms seeking new board members.

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

In 2000 under the leadership of CEO John Chambers, Cisco was at the top of the game. By 2002, it was down to $9.42. But this CEO whose leadership transformed and revitalized the company was the same one who was at the helm when it tanked. The post A Leadership’s Judgment appeared first on Lolly Daskal.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

This post is part of an HBR Spotlight examining leadership lessons from the military. I told them that the skills I learned in the military would be directly transferable. If I had to identify three skills essential to military success they would be team-building , communication , and delegation of responsibility.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

billion from 2002 through 2004. In fact, we think Cisco is one of the all-time best at this corporate skill. Visionary leadership is also about helping the company overcome inertia so that it can shift effectively from one frame of mind to another when the time comes. Research & development Financial management'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

The company had, and still has, extraordinary assets: iconic products, a huge number of skilled employees, many of whom had built careers at Campbell, and a broader community made up of supportive consumers and customers — lots of them. That's quite a foundation on which to stage a comeback. And why not?

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Building Personal Strength

DECEMBER 11, 2010

The movie isnt well known because the writer and director, Christopher Nolan, achieved acclaim for his later works, Memento (2000), Insomnia (2002), Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008) and this year Inception (2010). Thats what ProStar Coach provides for developing personal strength - 24/7 virtual coaching in an online virtual gym.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Our own research on organizational strategy and leadership more broadly suggests a reason. The only area spared from cost reduction is the development group — focused on competitive fundraising.) Why the disparity?

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