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Why You Should Sponsor Others

Leading Blog

Sylvia Ann Hewlett reports in her book, The Sponsor Effect , “Senior-level managers are 53 percent more likely to have received a promotion in the last two years, if they have a protégé.” Commit your political capital and your clout, while providing air cover so that your protégés can take risks. Step 7: Invest in Three Ways.

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December Leadership Development Carnival

Michael Lee Stallard

For example, in “ Seven Ways to Sell Your Ideas to Management ,” Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog shares how to present your ideas in order to get them implemented – a skill you need to master if you want to be an influential leader in your company. Management Issues. Need advice on a management issue?

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Harnessing your team's competitive advantage

Coaching Tip

Here's the truth: When leaders and teams avoid, manage or defuse conflict, they wind up mired in politics, gossip, and back-channel maneuvering. In a 2014 Gallup survey of employee engagement, only 31.5% Yet, "The Beauty of Conflict" delivers tools on how to embrace conflict to help teams get more out of each other.

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Leaders, Want To Master Innovation? Then Get Funny!

Tanveer Naseer

Lilli Marten Christ is an energetic development manager who works for German automotive firm Daimler AG in China, and opens each of her weekly team meetings with a joke or a riddle. The sessions are frequently punctuated by laughter, but nobody pulls any punches to be polite. May the farce be with you. Sources: Beard, A.

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How Should Change Leadership and Common Good Intersect?

Thin Difference

Equally important, team members adopt OCBs when working with a politically skilled ethical leader (Gill, Lapalme, & Séguin, 2014). The political skills relate to pragmatism, and the ethical elements highlight the importance of retaining a focus on the common good. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 25 (1), 67-80.

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Ten Ways to Beat Burnout

Next Level Blog

It’s one of the reasons I wrote my book, Overworked and Overwhelmed , back in 2014. Coast Guard, to learn about how they managed themselves. Seven years and a global pandemic later, burnout is an even hotter topic (pun only slightly intended). They all had two things in common – a common belief and a common commitment.

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EEOC Probe into Mandatory Retirement Age Results in $6.8 Million Settlement

HR Digest

The Scripps Clinic age discrimination case revolved around a 2014 policy that mandated that physicians had to retire from their role in the group at the age of 75 in order to ensure patient safety. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has been dialing up its efforts to protect the U.S.