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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. Tim Vanderpyl, The LeaderLab (submitted by David Burkus): Save a Tree, Stop Strategic Planning. Reason: "This was our most read piece of original content published in 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! No technology or rote process can give you the “correct” plan – BUT a solid process for planning can guide you to the best plan for your team and you. A plan is a judgment about the best way to go about achieving an intended goal.".

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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. It takes an inordinate amount of time for him to draft his plan because, as he says, “he’s just very busy”.

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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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Developing a Leadership Training Program for High Potentials: A Case Study

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Successful organizations know what skills are required for a leader to be effective for the organization to meet its long term strategic goals and grow and prosper. Long term vision/goal setting and the ability to communicate that to the organization. Strategic planning. Influencing skills. Team leadership. Communication.

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Leaders vs. Managers

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Note: today, 10/28/2011, is the 4 year anniversary of Great Leadership. It's been an awesome ride and I plan to keep doing it until I run out of ideas or ambition, whichever comes first. Managers work toward goals, ideals, and outcomes--that others largely have set or prescribed. Take a read, and let us know what you think.