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A Challenge for Leaders

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Posted in Leadership Coaching Leadership Development “Despite the economic recession, more employees are looking for opportunities outside of their organization than in 2008, suggesting that 2011 will be a challenging year for retention (and a hot market for firms to attract top talent).”

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Dan Rockwell: The Character-Based Leader Co-Author Interview

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He’s been leading all of his life and has broad experiences in the education, governmental, corporate, and not-for-profit arenas.Currently, he gives corporate, community, and church presentations, delivers leadership and management training, and coaches emerging leaders.Although he’s best known for leadership, Social Media is his secret passion.

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4 Steps to Make Decisions on the Fly

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Daniel Kahneman defined these two ways of thinking in his 2011 book Thinking Fast and Slow. Here you take action largely outside of conscious awareness using your intuitive, embodied mind to manage direct, concrete experience in the immediate, specific context.

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4 Ways to Promote Productivity

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If the management of the organization is one that employs an autocratic style of leadership, they will not involve the employees in the goal making process. Communication should also be carried out frequently to maintain constant touch between the employees and the management of the organization. Shed Unnecessary Clutter.

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Pushing Past Your Comfort Zone

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In December 2011, I was selected as CTO ? My experiences at building relations, reading up on the company’s business model, spending time with the management team in understanding their apprehensions on integration, and gaining technical knowledge on their systems and processes helped set me on the correct track.

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Why Your Team Building Exercise Won’t Build a Team

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Those 10 words from Seth Godin at the Chick-fil-A Leadercast 2011 seem simple enough. “We teach what we know; we attract what we are.&# Maybe… but I think that like much of what Seth says, there’s more to it than first appears. If you look at that statement through a traditional leadership lens, you might [.]

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Lead by Providing Bearing, Room, and Backup

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Theunissen and Stubbé (2011) provide an excellent strategy: leading by providing bearing, room, and backup. The basic premise is: intrinsically motivated team members perform better because they come to work because they want to, not because they have to. Bearing is about sketching the direction the team should move in.