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Resolved: Build Workplace Inspiration in 2016

Lead Change Blog

As we close out 2015 we begin thinking about how we’d like 2016 to be better. Those are valuable goals. It deserves leaders’ undivided attention in 2016 – and beyond. Too few organizations spend the kind of time, energy, and focus that Forbes’ 2015 America’s Best Employers do on culture. The holidays are upon us.

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March 2016 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Welcome to the March 2016 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Bill recaps, “An effective manager is an organized manager — because being organized reduces distractions and removes the unnecessary from your life. Check the characteristics to gauge your workplace’s energy level. Let’s Get Started. .”

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Frontline Festival: January 2016 DRAFT

Let's Grow Leaders

Laura Barnard of PMO Strategies takes a realistic look at change management and change resistance with ideas for doing change WITH people instead of TO them. John Hunter of Curious Cat Management Improvement says that when the vision is merely a pretty collection of words that doesn’t drive decisions and behavior it is pointless.

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8 Meticulous Hiring Tactics to Land the Best People

Leading Blog

Just as great coaches don’t win many games without great players, great managers aren’t successful without the right people on their team. Finding, hiring, and developing great performers is the most important part of every manager’s job. Y OUR organization’s success comes down to who you hire.

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Organizational Health and Performance: Beyond Performance 2.0

Leading Blog

P ERHAPS it goes without saying, but a healthy organization will achieve more than an organization that is too sick to support your goals. Health is how effectively an organization works together in pursuit of a common goal. Samsung’s 2016 Galaxy Note 7 smartphone recall was attributed to its “deeply entrenched culture of urgency.”

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The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age

Leading Blog

In The Optimist’s Telescope , author Bina Venkataraman suggests that we can a “ radical strain of optimism ” and cultivate a sense of collective agency that would motivate “more people to make choices today for the sake of the future, whether it’s how they vote, eat, use energy, or influence others.” An “ optimist’s telescope ” so to speak.

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Use Emotional Intelligence To Address Speech Anxiety

Lead Change Blog

It gets adrenaline going and can give you energy and enthusiasm. It’s not helpful for you to have fear to achieve your goal of giving a great speech, but your emotional self doesn’t know that. It’s not helpful for you to have fear to achieve your goal of giving a great speech, but your emotional self doesn’t know that.