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The Positive Runs Out

The Recovering Engineer

During the training class, I made the point that only positive reinforcements encourage people to give high-level, maximum effort. If you stop giving encouragement, praise, and other positive input to people; eventually the positive runs out.&# Me: “Yes, that’s exactly my point.&# Photo credit: [link] / CC BY 2.0

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Creating value in 2011

Lead on Purpose

Now that we’re off and running in 2011, let’s explore a few ways to increase our value: Improve skills and knowledge: Instead of hunkering down and running below the radar, take specific actions to improve your skills. Make an effort to learn new skills and practice them as much as you can in your current job. Read books.

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LeadershipNow 140: April 2011 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from April 2011: How to be Perfectly Average by @learning_ceo. "By By far the most difficult skill for me to learn as CEO was the ability to manage my own psychology." JohnBaldoni: Those in positions of authority need to show character, not undermine it.

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The January Leadership Development Carnival: Best of 2011 Edition

Great Leadership By Dan

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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Good Power: Changing a Life. Changing Work. Changing the World.

Leading Blog

In Good Power: Leading Positive Change in Our Lives, Work, and World , former Chairman and CEO of IBM Ginni Rometty redefines power as a way to “drive meaningful change in positive ways for ourselves, our organizations, and for the many, not just the few.” This could keep people from trusting themselves. How do we do that?

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Developing Positive Leadership Habits

Persuasive Powerhouse

Exchanging the negative habits for the positive ones Unlike these task habits, you may have behavioral habits that require your awareness and action in order to help you to become the best leader that you can be. The next step is to actively work to replace those negative behavioral habits with some positive ones.

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Effective Communication Skills: Use And More than But

The Recovering Engineer

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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