Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

We need t look no further than Volkswagen’s “dieselgate” scandal in 2015. Assess : Skill-set requirements. Forecast demand for skills and understand skill “supply” dynamics, and then identify how any gaps will be closed. Act : Generation of energy. Advance : Leadership placement. Architect : Bankable plan.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

We are pleased to congratulate Instigator Linda Freeman on receiving the Statewide Energy Innovator Award from ReThink Energy Florida. Kim Ross, President of ReThink Energy Florida, will present the award at that time. Linda and her team created model bicycle generators with a clean energy curriculum. Educating Others.

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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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CoachStation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

To not consider these alternatives and opportunities to build self-awareness is limiting personally and inherently negative for your leadership development. Developing your leadership skills takes time and effort. This is a timely process to perform now, as 2015 draws to an end. Perfection is unachievable.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 16, 2017

Zak, PhD : One-third of business leaders surveyed in 2015 said that retaining colleagues is their number one concern. Leaders who fail to invest in skill development for team members implicitly enforce a rigid hierarchy that inhibits innovation. Guest post by Paul J. Everyone knows that people are mobile.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

You’re welcome to submit your “best of” post of 2015. Wally Bock of Three Star Leadership reminds us that gratitude is good for you, but an attitude of gratitude is not enough. Henna Inam of Transformational Leadership says that gratitude is a leadership practice. Please submit your links here.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 3, 2022

You don’t have the energy for listening to them try to convince you, so you say yes. I used to think the pattern was due to lack of skills development. No matter what kind of training is offered, skills development alone won’t override a culture where senior leaders override their managers’ decision-making.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 30, 2016

Unfortunately not many leaders have strong “get it done” skills. 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.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 12, 2016

This month we are featuring Marcella Bremer , publisher of Leadership and Change Magazine. From then on, she followed the flow of her energy and of opportunities that aligned with her interests. Marcella wrote a book about her work with the OCAI and then started Leadership and Change Magazine.

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Coaching Tip

AUGUST 14, 2015

Why is it that, in the age of expensive management consultants and ubiquitous leadership training courses , a whopping 70% of employees continue to self-report as disengaged and unhappy? Since control contradicts connection, the employees protectively pull back their emotional energy (motivation). Tosi on August 3, 2015. .

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 23, 2015

Guest post by Victor Prince : Teams at work are like portfolios of people with different skills and performance patterns. Making your High Cost Producers accountable for cleaning up their own messes and making their own decisions is the best way you can force them to develop the skills they need to be independent.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 21, 2014

There’s a reason I devote so much time and energy to identifying interpersonal challenges in successful people. You’re smart, you’re up-to-date, you know the technical aspects of your job, but often you may lack some important people skills and it’s hindering your success. I’ve reviewed hundreds of custom-designed leadership profiles.

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Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 23, 2015

Too many people view self-work as an unnecessary “soft skill”, a waste of time. While these actions might require you to make short-term sacrifices of time or energy, they’ll bring you pleasure and good karma. Far from being soft skills, these inner resources should be part of every leader’s toolkit. © 2015 Nancy D.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 19, 2015

There are several techniques that you can master to transform your communication skills and conduct your meetings like the effective business leader you are. Here are five tips to help you transform your meetings from a waste of time to an effective meeting of the minds: Speech skills matter ! FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 31, 2015

You have limited time and energy and doing anything important will require tradeoffs. At times when the only way forward is to make a big leap in skills or knowledge or judgment, improvement has to be your top priority or you won’t get anywhere. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Some will be tough.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Larry Spears was the CEO of the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership for nearly two decades. He now runs the Spears Center for Servant-Leadership (Indianapolis), and serves as Servant-Leadership Scholar at Gonzaga University (Spokane). Discovering Servant-Leadership 2:13. Defining Servant-Leadership Defining 0:28 5:47.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Larry Spears was the CEO of the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership for nearly two decades. He now runs the Spears Center for Servant-Leadership (Indianapolis), and serves as Servant-Leadership Scholar at Gonzaga University (Spokane). Discovering Servant-Leadership 2:13. Defining Servant-Leadership Defining 0:28 5:47.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Exhibiting in business-to-business shows requires different skills and approaches. Trade show selling requires high energy levels. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Exhibits can be designed to appeal to all the senses: sight, sound, touch, smell and taste. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Most companies make big investments in leadership development, rolling out intensive internal programs for high potentials, sending key leaders off to expensive executive education programs, or hiring personal coaches for those moving into key positions at the top of the company. Business is moving too fast. What works instead?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

Since the pace and intensity of contemporary work culture are not likely to change, it’s more important than ever to build resilience skills to effectively navigate your worklife. Being challenged — sometimes severely — is part of what activates resilience as a skill set. Insight Center. Building Resilience.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In today’s rapidly changing business environment, companies that rely solely on full-time employees are finding they have neither the skills nor the agility to sustain success. And a pool of independent and highly skilled workers who can fill those needs is growing. million from 2005 to 2015, a 67 percent jump.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Managing engagement requires new leadership skills. New leadership skills are required. In my experience, leadership development activities for first line supervisors are often more transactional than transformational. Senior leadership is also critically important in building workforce engagement in myriad ways.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 28, 2015

A Body of Work takes time, energy, resources and lots of heart to produce. The process of sharpening and amassing life and professional skills is ongoing. As an integrated process of life skills, career has its place. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

The shifting energy equation, for example, sets the stage for growth. Shale gas will allow the US to be energy independent, create an export industry, and reduce energy costs. Here are some steps you should take to build for 2014-2015: 1. Upgrade skills. Your leadership is crucial. What are you waiting for?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2018

The culture is also evolving and improving, as evidenced by an annual survey that tracks the main levers for the transformation, including innovation and sustainability, leadership, team, and engagement. Since 2011 the share price has more than doubled. In addition, participants came from all hierarchical levels of the organization. .”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Good leadership certainly helps, but more often than not, the organization will revert to business as usual. If there are superconsumers in your midst, and if they’re encouraged to speak their minds, they will inject your culture with extra doses of energy, empathy, and creativity. Unlocking Energy.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2016

Was this a deliberate attempt to imprison employees and stifle their energy? Contrary to popular belief, cultivating a high-trust culture is not a “soft” skill — it’s a hard necessity. How to Develop the Trust-Building Skill. It is seldom tended to, with purpose, as a skill. But it should be.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

New DDI research explores leadership differences between men and women and makes the case for gender diversity in the workplace. DDI’s High-Resolution Leadership study reviewed true assessment data from 10,000 global leaders and found no difference in the battle of the sexes for leadership skills.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

Our accustomed modes of thinking are straitjackets constraining the human energy and creativity these tools could unleash. Education expert and psychologist Howard Gardner has shown that analytical intelligence is just one of seven intelligence skills. In other words, it depends on visionary management.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

We introduced the Digital Evolution Index in HBR in 2015 to trace the emergence of a “digital planet,” how physical interactions — in communications, social and political exchange, commerce, media and entertainment — are being displaced by digitally mediated ones. Today’s Digital Landscape.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

The title of our book celebrates the internal energy and sense of insurgency that propels rapidly growing companies, but the book also warns of four predictable internal growth barriers that all too often trip up these companies during their pursuit of scale. But over time the market changes and the company needs to change its model.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

In fact, the 2015 Medscape Physician Lifestyle Report listed the increased computerization of the practice and the burden of administrative tasks among the top four drivers of physician burnout. In this post, we’ll describe how we did this at Privia Health, in collaboration with athenahealth. Help doctors focus on doctoring.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2018

For example, many American CEOs spent considerable energy in the weeks building up to Trump’s Paris announcement lobbying the President not to withdraw. More than 365 companies and investors voiced their support for the US Clean Power Plan in 2015. Make sure you have the right skills and capabilities.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

What stops skilled, motivated people from making health care better, more integrated, and ultimately more sustainable? A compelling vision of a better future needs to be communicated in a way that creates energy and motivation. Making these changes required skill, will, and time underpinned by rigorous process.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

Boards of companies operating in the consumer discretionary industry have a disproportionately high representation of Democrats, while boards operating in the industrials and energy and utilities industries skew more Republican. Democrat and Republican directors diverge on the skills they think are most important for board service today.

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