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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 September 2011 Leadership Development Carnival - Back to School Sale

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Welcome to the September, 2011 Leadership Development Carnival - Back to School Sale! They cannot define a strategy or a plan of action that takes them closer to that grand vision." All are deeply discounted (free) and offer incredible value to the discriminating leadership shopper. So stock up, and enjoy your reading! Simmons.

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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 Development "Moneyball"

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Most telling, 92% of leaders being coached say they plan to use a coach again.” DDI’s Global Leadership Forecast 2011 notes that barely more than 1 in 3 organizations report that leaders have high-quality, effective development plans, despite the fact that having effective plans is related to the quality of leadership development.

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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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Seasoned Leaders Have Balance

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Plan and Do Planning is important, but so is execution. Some leaders over plan and under execute. In some situations an hour spent planning makes the implementation go more smoothly. In some situations an hour spent planning makes the implementation go more smoothly. Harvard Business Review Press, 2011.

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