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Featured Instigator: Eileen McDargh

Lead Change Blog

On the topic of the most important qualities in leaders, Eileen believes that leaders must be honest and have the abilities to deeply listen and clearly communicate, along with the willingness to admit error. Previous 2016 Featured Instigators: 11/2016: Ann Van Eron. 10/2016: Will Lukang. 8/2016: Susan Mazza.

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Featured Leading Voice: Chip Bell

Lead Change Blog

He thinks these are the most important qualities in leaders: humility. ” As for advice he would give, he believes schools should teach ethics. Previous Featured Instigators: 3/2016: Eunice Parisi-Carew. 2/2016: Chris Edmonds. 1/2016: Marcella Bremer. Getting a book endorsement from Seth Godin.

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Responsive Leadership: Needed Now More Than Ever

Leading Blog

In a recent LeadershipNow blog, Mark Sanborn wrote about six warning signs of why leaders fail: a shift in focus; poor communication; risk aversion; ethics slip; poor self-management; and lost love. Regardless of leadership style, many executives would agree that empathy is a basic and very important quality of a successful leader.

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5 Examples of Important SOFT Skills that Ignite Workplace Performance

Great Results Team Building

Having a strong work ethic is impressive… but even more impressive is someone who looks around and SEES something that needs to be done and then takes ACTION without having to be asked. The quality of your life is determined by the quality of questions you ask! initiative –. listening –. They learn to ASK. collaboration –.

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Mackert and Garfield Named to Board of Examiners for 2015 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award

Six Disciplines

—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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Engaging your Team: The Science of Inspiring Others to Give their All

Great Leadership By Dan

The project we undertook was successful in that we were able to take a deep, broad look at research to identify the qualities of a leader that engage, align, inspire, and move people to act. There are 15 qualities of leadership that are directly connected to engaging and inspiring others. It’s a pressing issue. Let’s face it.

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Dr. Deming’s work lauded by world famous philosopher, Alasdair MacIntyre

Deming Institute

Aristotle also held that a flourishing life desires some ‘good’ and seeks to achieve excellence: “Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and human pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that which things aim.” ( Nicomachean Ethics 1094a1-3).

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