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The January Leadership Development Carnival: Best of 2011 Edition

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This month's edition is a special "Best of 2011" collection of leadership development blog posts from many of our regular Carnival contributors. Reason: "This was our most read piece of original content published in 2011". It was also one of The People Equation’s top five most-read posts from 2011.".

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The November 2011 Leadership Development Carnival

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Welcome to the November 6, 2011 edition of leadership development carnival! A plan is a judgment about the best way to go about achieving an intended goal.". There's no theme this month, no cute nicknames, no commentary, just a straightforward list of 45 of the best posts submitted for your reading pleasure.

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The August 2011 Leadership Development Roundtable Challenge: A Coaching Dilemma

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You and Rob set about to design a development plan for Rob including some goals to increase his listening skills, decrease his impatience, engage the team in problem solving, and be more outwardly appreciative of their efforts. His impatience with the team is obvious to them, and they rarely hear a good word from Rob about the work they do.

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Visualize Your Purpose

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With a market share of close to eight percent, Haier became the biggest producer of major household appliances in the world in 2011. Research suggests that adding a visual element to your goal-setting efforts brings you stronger results. At the time of writing this article, Mr. Zhang still leads the company.

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The 10 Elements of Positive Performance Management

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You and your employees need to focus on indicators of whether goals will be exceeded or not met. If employees are on pace to exceed their goals, discuss with them how to maintain their current performance level. It is important for you to spend time on performance exceeding specified goal standards.

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Ready, Set, Enable

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For decades, managers have been told to “do more with less,” which they interpret as raising the bar on employee goals and expectations while spending less money. In many cases, organizations fail to understand or recognize the detrimental effect their “do more with less” approach has on employees’ productivity and rising frustration levels.

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Leadership and Work Teams

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Traditional versus inverted hierarchy With such a disposition, the management of coaching, performance, goals, communications, up- skilling, planning and evaluation becomes the natural task of the leader. in 2011 to deliver TDP (a cloud-based team development tool and methodology) to the international markets.

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