Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 31, 2010

So with that out of the way, I am pleased to tell you that The 8 Essential Skills for Supervisors and Managers is a book that belongs in the hands of all leaders – whether they have direct reports or not. What are the 8 skills? Who are the audiences that will most benefit from The 8 Essential Skills? and skill 8 was born.

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Experience to Lead

MARCH 17, 2022

When organizations are considering where to invest their budgets, learning and development initiatives have undergone much scrutiny. They typically think, “If an investment’s ROI is net positive, it is probably worthwhile. Managers don’t measure absolute points so much as they manage change” (Fitz – Enz, 2009, p.

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The Recovering Engineer

MAY 18, 2010

Even if what I say is positive, you probably have a bit of a defensive posture in receiving what I am about to say. The second reply creates a more positive lead-in to the second part of the statement. Imagine that you and I are in a conversation and that you have just shared your opinion with me.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 24, 2010

In today’s post I’ll quickly examine the merits of developing your listening skills. Think about it…when was the last time you viewed a negative soundbite of a CEO who was engaged in active listening? The next step in the process is learning where to apply your new found listening skills.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Here’s the thing – the foundational elements of leadership require no skill or talent whatsoever. Clearly the difference possessed by all great leaders is that they refine, develop and build from their foundation – they don’t ignore it or take it for granted.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 8, 2019

That position humbled me and taught me lessons about leadership that I still use today, some 20 years later. It’s been about 20 years since I returned to MIT from Akamai, and businesses now routinely spend billions of dollars per year teaching employees “soft” leadership skills like the ones I just listed.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Developing effective conflict resolution skill sets are an essential component of a building a sustainable business model. Opposing positions, competitive tensions, power struggles, ego, pride, jealousy, performance discrepancies, compensation issues, just someone having a bad day, etc.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 15, 2010

It helps everyone who plays it, but if you want to make yourself rich, it’s essential because it develops the character traits that all entrepreneurs need — self confidence, resilience and the ability to network. It can give you the skills to make yourself rich. Unported License. Unported License.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

I only care that they are totally committed to making a positive contribution to the organization. Anyone who has ever been in a leadership position has had to deal with the inevitable tough relationship that causes more than its fair share of brain damage.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 30, 2020

The study finds that people who are close to retiring are just as interested in learning new skills as their younger peers, even if there is no strict need for them to do so. In 2009, which was the final year of the program, there were around 320,000 workers enrolled, or roughly 8% of the population in this age group.

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The Recovering Engineer

MARCH 27, 2010

Learn More… Comments 5 Responses to “Effective Communication Skills: You Don’t Know Until You Ask&# Lori W says: March 30, 2010 at 9:46 pm Everytime you ASSUME someone’s intention, you are just making up a story about the “WHY&#. Reply Trackbacks Check out what others are saying about this post.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

They often don’t possess the skill sets to add value to the initiatives they want to control. I believe great leaders will mentor and coach subordinates for the purpose of identifying and developing other great leaders.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

The simple truth is that many people can feign adequate leadership ability in the short run, but the 8 traits outlined below will seperate the posers from the players 11 times out of 1o… First of all, it is important to realize that just because someone is in a leadership position doesn’t necessarily mean they should be.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 15, 2010

By Bonnie Marcus This past week I had the opportunity to not only attend the MA Conference for Women, but also to participate in a leadership panel about women and corporate board positions. The opportunity to learn and apply new skills that you can add to your portfolio and resume. The opportunity to give back to your community.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Positive and Realistic: You can go far on a positive attitude. Positivity is energizing and encouraging, keeping your followers going in good times and bad. Realism combined with positivity grounds you in truth and allows you to reject the impractical. Having a positive attitude affirms individuals that surround you.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 19, 2011

Have you given them all the training, skills, and capabilities they will need to succeed in that role? If no one on your team is capable of being trained for your role, you need to know others in the organization (or even outside the company) who would be good fits for your position. If not, you need to get cracking.

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Building Personal Strength

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Tuesday, February 22, 2011 New People Skill - Help People Think for Themselves It happens on a regular basis. The worst is that the person is robbed of the chance to exercise thinking and problem solving skills. The answer is a people skill that maybe you havent heard much about - stimulate the other person to think for himself.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

If you believe you possess a fully developed competency in a section give yourself 10 points. If you find that you lack skill sets and competencies in certain areas seek out mentors and coaches to shore-up your weaknesses, and more importantly, use your professional advisors to assist you in leveraging your strengths.

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 27, 2010

But before I do, I want to point out the three reasons this is a very insightful question: Decisiveness is a valuable skill – one that as leaders we should want others to master. It properly implies the leader’s role in nurturing this skill. As with any other skill, as a leader you can provide coaching.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

Just having a definition for what constitutes acceptable behavior is a positive step in containing the crazies. Understanding the WIIFM Factor : Understanding the other person’s WIIFM (What’s In It For Me) position is critical. Where there is disagreement there is an inherent potential for growth and development.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

APRIL 22, 2013

Then, prepare yourself through visualization, role-playing and positive self-talk. You’ll make an impression and give yourself a better opportunity to use your strong listening skills. 5) Write : Introverts use this skill to influence others through deep, authentic, well-developed arguments that motivate others to action.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 15, 2010

I teach coaching skills to groups of managers regularly; every individual executive client I have gets taught coaching skills in some way or another; and of course, I practice coaching myself (I call it “practice” on purpose). Let’s call using coaching skills “short term pain for long term gain”.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2010

In today’s post I’ll deal with a skill set that all successful CEOs excel at…managing board relations. If you find yourself in the enviable position of being able to select your board, choose wisely.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

In the business world, as a chief executive officer or entrepreneur, corporate messaging is the key to both your personal and professional positioning strategy. I have witnessed on numerous occasions CEOs with average, or even sub-par performance histories fare well because they possessed great messaging skills.

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Kevin Eikenberry

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

You may have ideas about what the future looks like – a future with them using or developing new skills, or behaving in new ways. The positive reasons to change hopefully are even more powerful than the negative consequences of not changing. Help them see all the consequences for the changes. Help them build a plan.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

During most of the 20th century Kodak held a dominant position in photographic film, and in 1976, had an 89% market share of photographic film sales in the United States. Although the recession ended in 2009, here we are five years later and unemployment for Generation Y (1982-1995) remains near its cyclical peak across the world.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

What product or service positions you best? This is the beginning of developing a network that will bring you business. Want to expand your professional circle but lack strong networking skills? Effective business networking skills are essential to meeting other individuals. Engage in a dialogue, not a monologue.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 10, 2011

But, it might be something positive or even something George requested, right? I think there is one other important difference for leaders – that should be considered by coaches and people interested in helping others develop their skills. Feedback and advice. Feedback and advice. Not so much.

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Building Personal Strength

JANUARY 9, 2011

Sunday, January 9, 2011 Tip Clip #6 - How to Develop Mental Toughness Life certainly does dish up plenty of adversity. In this brief video, I share the one thing that I feel is the key to developing this important aspect of personal strength. The good news is, you can make that call. How can you get more mental toughness? Coates, Ph.D.,

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Making sound decisions is a skill set that needs to be developed like any other. As a person that works with CEOs and entrepreneurs on a daily basis I can tell you with great certainty that all leaders are not created equal when it comes to the competency of their decisioning skills.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 9, 2011

How can you maintain the integrity of the team and affect the outcome for the positive? Stay positive. Use the Polly-Ana approach and flip negatives into positives wherever possible. The most important asset you will ever have is the ability to positively influence people. Now what to do?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

The simple truth is that all great leaders are highly skilled in matters of delegation. The number of activities a CEO takes on can certainly vary based upon skill sets, stage of corporate maturation, and the talent level of the rest of the executive team.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 17, 2010

Researchers that are part of the American Psychological Association’s positive psychology research effort identified these values as helping people flourish and a body of large body research is developing in support of that view. why is everyone smiling? why is everyone smiling?

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Michael Lee Stallard

OCTOBER 9, 2010

Cheer for your favorite players from the Big Ten: Our regular referee for the carnival positions himself in the backfield today, but will return for the next game in November. Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership announces a penalty in Individual Development Plans are Worthless….if if No Action is Taken. That’s it for this month.

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Building Personal Strength

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Wednesday, November 10, 2010 At the Core of Your Abilities - Personal Strengths and People Skills I once had an upscale retirement home for a client. In other words, he had poor people skills. What they fail to give enough weight to is the core of a persons ability - their people skills and personal strengths. Bad things happen.

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Kevin Eikenberry

AUGUST 23, 2010

Stereotypical, slick-talking, used car sales people Well-spoken financial manager The guy everyone loves who sells his wares on the golf course Whether you have positive thoughts and feelings about salespeople or decidedly un-positive, the purpose of this article is not to suggest or defend any of these images or thoughts.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Determine if you need additional skills or if you need to enlist allies within the organization to support your promotion. Once you set your sights on a specific position, put a strategic action plan in place to communicate your value proposition to the key influencers and decision makers.

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