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A Practical Application – Performance Reviews

Joseph Lalonde

For many people, performance reviews seem like rather soulless exercises driven by organizational imperatives. Unless a leader or manager consciously sets out to make the performance review process about more than numbers, it’s not likely to help employees grow or gain greater insight into themselves and their work.

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How Create a More Inclusive Workplace for LGBTQ Employees

Let's Grow Leaders

I also wanted to share with you my story about the power of authenticity and vulnerability, because I truly believe it is the key to everything I have achieved in my career in the last few years. When my ex and I divorced in 2012, I vowed not to make that mistake again. Authenticity and Career Success.

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Your MBA Game Plan: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Your MBA Game Plan: Proven Strategies for Getting Into the Top Business Schools, Third Edition Omari Bouknight and Scott Shrum Career Press (2012) To paraphrase Henry Ford, “Whether you think you can earn an MBA from a top business school or you can’t, you’re probably right.” This review is of the Third Edition of a [.].

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The Right to Work Place Inspiration

Great Leadership By Dan

How will the team regularly review the company’s value statement and make sure to implement it? The Economics of Wellbeing by Tom Rath & Jim Harter and Positive Intelligence by Shawn Achor (from the January/February 2012 Harvard Business Review) S. You can create policies, procedures, and practices that form your WPIs.

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4 Keys For Bringing Out The Best From Introverts

Tanveer Naseer

Professional roles of introverts vs. extroverts Introverts and extroverts tend to migrate to career fields that play to their dispositions, says Moore. Review your recruitment strategy The typical hiring process favors extroverts, who are comfortable thinking on their feet and talking about themselves. That’s no doubt coming.

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Your MBA Game Plan: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Your MBA Game Plan: Proven Strategies for Getting Into the Top Business Schools, Third Edition Omari Bouknight and Scott Shrum Career Press (2012) To paraphrase Henry Ford, “Whether you think you can earn an MBA from a top business school or you can’t, you’re probably right.” This review is of the Third Edition of [.].

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The Science Behind Getting Ahead At Work

Eric Jacobson

A 2012 research study [iv] published in the Leadership and Organization Development Journal found that helping behaviors, like offering to support a colleague with their development or workload directly or indirectly, increase individual and team performance. Michelle P. 8 (2014): 691–709, [link]