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Leadership and Work Teams

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Guest post from Simon Mac Rory: If you work in an organization today as a leader you will lead a team. 90% of what we do in an organization happens through collaborative effort, making the team the most important production unit. In 2016 they termed this the ‘Rise of Teams’ and 2017 ‘The Organization of the Future – Arriving Now’.

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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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Getting Leaders to Change

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The key lies in getting leaders to create more positively charged references where they have no choice but to interpret both the causes and consequences of those references in permanent, pervasive and personal terms. However, a great place to start is with a positive, self-affirming value system. Loyalty Where is the loyalty?

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8 CEO Actions to Ensure Chief Customer Officer Success

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However, senior executives should know before they decide on a CCO, that this position requires a personal commitment from them. Take Personal Ownership The CEO should position the work of the CCO as a priority of their agenda. Commitment Questions: Is the leadership team in alignment about the role and how they interact as a team?

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How to be a Leader in a Crappy Culture

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You’ve seen the lists: 2011 Top Companies for Leaders. When I would track the performance of participants after the program, there’s always a handful that somehow manage to implement the new behaviors or skills and achieve positive results, despite having to overcome all of the exact same barriers as the rest of their peers.

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Leadership: It’s the Softer Side That Counts

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It is not easy to remember the importance of rewarding your team continuously with praise and acknowledgement of milestones achieved, especially while you’re steering an organization to an endpoint over the horizon. As a leader, you must have confidence in your own ability, but most important in your team. So too it is with leadership.

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Covering all the Bases

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Guest post by Paul Eccher: On October 31, 2011, baseball legend Tony La Russa announced his retirement as manager of the St. However the “soft” skills—relationship building, empathy and the ability to influence and inspire—are vital to building a highly engaged and successful environment, whether on a team or within the workplace.

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