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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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The 10 Elements of Positive Performance Management

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Guest post from John Mattone: The fundamental belief underlying Positive Performance Management (PPM) is this: Leaders and their employees must strive to make performance reviews complete, honest, and timely. Employee Ownership: Because your employee’s name is on the review and. Input from Others: Obtaining input from others (i.e.,

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Ready, Set, Enable

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Create a culture of dialogue: Instead of relying on annual review time to discuss performance, managers must create a culture of open communication with their teams and continuously engage in conversations about goals and priorities to help employees focus on the highest value tasks throughout the year.

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Seasoned Leaders Have Balance

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MIT Sloan Management Review (Summer 2003). Harvard Business Review Press, 2011. Great leaders have the wisdom to know what actions are needed and necessary to achieve success. Bibliography Kaplan, R.E. and Kaiser, R.B. Developing Versatile Leaders.” Better Under Pressure. About the Author Paul B.

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Leadership: It’s the Softer Side That Counts

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Leaders review some performance indicators on a daily basis and others weekly. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller "No Fear of Failure" (Jossey-Bass, 2011), and the bestselling "The Twelve Absolutes of Leadership" (McGraw-Hill, 2012). So too it is with leadership.

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Help Your Global Talent Succeed and Lead - Cultivate Communication Skills

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According to the Harvard Business Review , English is now the global language of business, and more and more multinational companies are mandating English as the common corporate language. The challenge for your non-native managers is not simply to speak English with correct grammar, but to speak convincingly and confidently.

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

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They gathered data from performance reviews, past projects they worked on, and looked at the roles and responsibilities they had within the organization. A process for review of the nomination forms by a variety of managers, leaders, and directors within XYZ Widget, from across all functional areas. •An