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February 2020 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Welcome to the February 2020 Leadership Development Carnival! Eileen McDargh contributed To Survive and Thrive in 2020 – Find Inflection Points. Mary Ila Ward of Horizon Point Consulting contributed 3 Tips for Leading Well in 2020. What are your key focus areas for leading well in 2020? Communication.

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Challenging Thought-Terminating Clichés: Strategies for Organizational Change

Mike Cardus

Encouraging a bottom-up approach, where employees collaboratively challenge such clichés and present data, anecdotes, or insights demonstrating new approaches’ value, can catalyze meaningful change (Martin, 2020). Journal of Business Ethics , 56 (3), 233–243. Effective Management Training. Training Journal , 45 (2), 15–29.

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Highlights – 28 February

Chartered Management Institute

That’s the view of Jenny Radcliffe , ethical hacker, who has made it her business to penetrate companies’ cyber defences to teach them how vulnerable they are. Training is key: many cyber criminals are canny enough to see individuals as an organisation’s weak link, and they’ll target them accordingly.

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How Staff Surveillance Erodes Trust

The Horizons Tracker

Or in development and training it can provide valuable feedback. Indeed, the authors highlight that demand for monitoring software grew by 108% in April 2020 alone. However, it can also have negative impacts too. “The social support provided by managers for monitored workers is crucial to avoid some of these negative outcomes.”

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Staff Surveillance Erodes Trust In Organizations

The Horizons Tracker

The study, which was conducted with the European Commission’s Joint Research Council, suggests that employers should be extremely wary of sacrificing ethics in the search for greater efficiency, with employee engagement and productivity declining if the issue is not managed well. Keeping an eye.

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Accelerating Leadership Development in the Workplace

Lead on Purpose

This concern is certainly not unfounded – by the year 2020 over a quarter of the workforce will be aged 55 and over (compared to just 13% in 2000), and many of these will hold senior positions in their organization. Personal and business ethics. Contributed by Global Knowledge. These are: Cognitive complexity and capacity.

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Flashback: Best New Leadership Book Of 2014

Eric Jacobson

Question : Can work ethic be taught? Van Gorder: I believe a work ethic is cultural – both from an individual and corporate perspective. In that regard, he taught me a “work ethic.” But if there is not a sense of “accountability” from top to bottom, a work ethic will be sporadic if it exists at all. Fly-bys don’t count.

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