Lead Change Blog

JULY 7, 2015

Welcome to the July 2015 Leadership Development Carnival! This month brings a treat of 22 leadership posts to savor and share. Topics range from moral character to leadership lessons from World War II to stepping out of comfort zones. Jeff Harmon of Brilliance Within Coaching shares Empty Your Leadership Cup.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 31, 2014

Year 2015 is knocking the door. As I write this, I am thinking about leadership. But the same challenges are also opportunities to practice better leadership provided we understand what it takes to succeed as a leader in 2015 (and beyond). Work is a tool to develop people who, in turn, do great work.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

You could change it again to, “How can we develop the right talent?” Now we are looking at leadership opportunities that might not have been previously considered. Before investing in developing solutions and strategies to your problems, first make sure you are moving in the right direction. 360-degree feedback was too specific.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 30, 2015

Here are a selection of tweets from June 2015 that you might have missed: Reconsidering the Charismatic CEO by Eric McNulty. Leadership is Not Something We Accomplish by @StrategicMonk. Leadership Success: Think Balance Beam Not Mountain Top by @KateNasser. The 15 Diseases of Leadership, According to Pope Francis by @profhamel.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 30, 2023

What is even better than a really good book about leadership? And that's exactly what author and London Business School professor Herminia Ibarra has done with her 2015 global bestseller, Act Like A Leader, Think Like A Leader. And to do this, you need to develop and practice outsight (versus insight). Why or why not?

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. A couple years ago, members of five groups on the professional social media web site LinkedIn voluntarily recommended their favorite books about leadership. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What''s Your Favorite?"

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

O NCE AGAIN we see that despite our rhetoric, what we are is reflected in our leaders and leadership. Superbosses : How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent by Sydney Finkelstein Although Superbosses may differ in leadership styles, they share a playbook that leads to extraordinary success founded on making other people successful.

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Six Disciplines

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

—The Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has named Casey Mackert, Director of Baldrige Services and Dr. Jan Garfield, Baldrige Client Coach at Six Disciplines Consulting Services in Findlay, Ohio, to the Board of Examiners for the 2015 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The inaugural version of our Top CHRO List was published on Forbes in 2015. Take stock of the progressive development plans and programs they’ve made available to the workforce. General and specific observations of the culture they’ve had a hand in shaping. Look for (and find) great workforce dynamics, engagement and satisfaction.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The book offered reasons why we fail to keep our communication short and some tools to enable brevity. All the well-intentioned tools that connect us with family and friends, build communities and help us get the work done are the same tools that rob us of our attention. Why is it important to be BRIEF?

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Career Advancement

JULY 30, 2018

He wanted to groom his high-performing employees for success , growing their leadership skills. According to a 2015 Gallup study, half of all employees who resign leave because they don’t like their bosses. Provide leadership training or executive coaching to help them get ready to handle the increased responsibility.

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CoachStation

MAY 3, 2015

Highly engaged employees are nearly six times more likely than disengaged employees to use challenging goals to improve performance, and more than seven times more likely to agree that their senior leadership team encourages innovation and creative ideas. (1)

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HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

What do you see as the greatest leadership strength? Next, there are two other skills I think are critical, but certainly review additional industry HR competency models to consider what you uniquely need to develop. Under her guidance, Boeing transformed its talent development and mobility system.

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Change Starts Here

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Caroline Kealey, Owner and Principal at Ingenium Communications, joined the show in April to share the Results Map , her tool for developing communications. Lean Into Authentic Leadership. Leave the mask at home and let your real leadership show up! Communicating Change With the Results Map. Guest: Caroline Kealey.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 4, 2019

The primary job of each leader is to help people be more effective in their job and to grow and develop. Give people the tools, information, training, and coaching they need to succeed. Your people make you a leader. People are the foundation of any company’s success. Only coach the coachable.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 23, 2018

But in the world of leadership, humor has typically been typecast as a manifestation of individual personalities and thereby a spontaneous and non-replicable activity. It typically involves jokes or stories shared as a tool to reduce interpersonal tension, increase sociability and promote openness.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 26, 2016

That’s why leadership and talent consulting experts at Korn Ferry Hay Group are teaming up with partners Science Applications International Corp. SAIC) and Harris Corporation to offer the Leveraging Military Leadership Program (LMLP). You just finished reading Development Program Offered for Veterans Working on Their “Career 2.0” !

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Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 28, 2014

A pioneer in the use of customized, 360 degree feedback (confidential feedback from direct reports, peers and managers) as a leadership development tool, I’ve spent the last 30 years using feedback to help people change for the better. He was also selected as the World’s Most Influential Leadership Thinker in 2011.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 30, 2016

In a December 2015 Harvard Business Review article , three authors described the pitiful results of a survey of almost 700 executives. If you’re going to accomplish anything big or important—and that’s what leadership is all about—you’ll need systems. Develop more systems—for anything that happens semi-regularly.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Combating Thought-Terminating Clichés: Metaphorical Warfare Strategies for Organizational Change Thought-terminating clichés, while effective tools for maintaining the status quo and consolidating power, can stifle innovation, suppress genuine dialogue, and mute marginalized voices within organizations (Smith, 2018). RationalWiki.

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

We’ll highlight the use of data in optimizing employee experience, the importance of people analytics in creating a better organizational structure, real-world insights from interviews with HR leaders on how to win with people analytics and people analytics tools for HR to maximize business impact. An overview of people analytics tools.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Linda and her team created the curriculum for #KidPower2015 to coincide with Earth Day 2015. As a mother of a daughter, I also especially appreciate young women like Destiny and Annabelle being given educational and leadership tools which will be assets as they grow into young adulthood. Empowering Others.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 3, 2022

When we’re at capacity, we use the one or two tools in our toolbox to manage conflict: shaming, intimidating, or some other tactic. I used to think the pattern was due to lack of skills development. Lack of experience, skills development, character, or personality? So, what’s at the root of avoidance?

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The primary job of each leader is to help people be more effective in their job and to grow and develop. Give people the tools, information, training, and coaching they need to succeed. Your people make you a leader. People are the foundation of any company’s success. Only coach the coachable.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

In 2015, she prepared to sell a batch of 15 new clothing items at 3:00 p.m. The job of leadership is not to manage this experiment, but to make it possible and boost its success rate.” A case in point: 25-year-old Zhang Linchao is the head of China’s online clothing brand, LIN Edition. Think enabling not managing.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 25, 2016

The call for greater diversity at senior leadership levels is not new, although it has itself become more inclusive, extending beyond gender, race and ethnicity, to encompass age, education, socioeconomic background and sexual orientation, as well as experience, skills and talent. Picking up the pace.

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Steve Farber

MAY 25, 2018

Indie Bollman, Co-facilitator of the upcoming Greater Than Yourself Leadership Experience and People Development Expert. Indie is the Director of Corporate Development at Trailer Bridge , a full-service logistics firm headquartered in Jacksonville, FL. Click here to download the Trailer Bridge case study].

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Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Mars gave Fiona a deep knowledge of everything from sales and marketing to general management, and she finally became global president of food, multisales and global customers at the company in 2015. For Fiona, who takes over from Lord Mark Price , the role is a golden opportunity to advocate for ongoing personal development. “I

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Leading Blog

JUNE 27, 2018

In 2015, shortly before Amazon bought Whole Foods, co-CEO John Mackey is faced with a plummeting stock price and is under fire. But if we have people with diverse tools, they’ll get stuck in different places. Leadership. It’s up to the leadership to make sure people have a safe place to think in unsafe ways.

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Curious Cat

JANUARY 3, 2017

Managers Are Not Non-Leaders: Managers Need to Practice Things We Classify as Leadership Traits (2013) *. The aim of leadership is not merely to find and record failures of men (2011) *. How to Get a New Management Strategy, Tool or Concept Adopted (2010). Deming and Software Development (2014) *. Peter Scholtes (2009).

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 24, 2017

If too much emphasis is placed on strategy compared with execution by the leadership, then it leads to lower levels of performance because they become occupied with crafting it rather than executing it. What leaders require is the understanding and the tools. Kaplan and David P. Norton and their Palladium associates.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 5, 2015

With the first half of 2015 past us, here's a look back at the three most read postings on my leadership blog so far this year. It's so powerful I wanted to bring it back again this year as 2015 gets underway. Third Most Popular Post Four years ago, Lynn Flinn of EWF International wrote the following in her business' newsletter.

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Change Starts Here

AUGUST 25, 2015

As a result, I’ve developed a set of tools and approaches which have been used to overcome what can seem like endless obstacles to the adoption of change. Join me September 28-30 in Atlanta for the Fundamentals of Change Management workshop, and I’ll share these tools, exercises, and insights with you! Course Agenda.

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CoachStation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

We may well be overcomplicating the language of leadership and business. Gabrielle Dolan: The Future of Leadership Conference, Bris, Sept 2015 After attending the Future of Leadership – Workplace Culture conference in Brisbane last week I have been reflecting on the content from some of the speakers.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Here are just three examples: In his original 1997 letter Bezos states, “We will share our strategic thought processes with you when we make bold choices (to the extent competitive pressures allow), so that you may evaluate for yourselves whether we are making rational long-term leadership investments.” Understand Your Flywheel (Principle 6).

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Change Starts Here

JUNE 9, 2015

September 28-30, 2015. No matter what type of project you’re implementing, Fundamentals of Change Management equips you with the steps, tools and skills to facilitate the adoption of change in your organization. Team development. Identify how to gain leadership support and engage stakeholders. Gain Leadership Support.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 27, 2016

The 20 most popular post on our blog this year (by page views reported by our analytic tool): Myth: If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Manage It (2015). A Bad System Will Beat a Good Person Every Time (2015). 2015 Deming Prize Awardees (2015) *. Create Constancy of Purpose (2015). Inspection is too late.

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