Coaching Tip
AUGUST 30, 2011
By Mike Thomas, author of " The Anywhere Leader ". These are the days of uncertainty. I love what John F. Kennedy once said, “The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.” Uncertainty is the watchword for today’s business leaders – and most aren’t prepared to lead through it. . It’s easy to lead through the predictable and the known.
Coaching Tip
AUGUST 8, 2011
by Guest Author Diana McLain Smith. If there’s an elephant in the room, you might as well get it up on the table.so you can work on it. Of course, there are all sorts of elephants: some heavier than others, some more unruly than others, and some more delicate than others. But one breed of elephant tends to be heavy, unruly, and delicate all at once: relationships among leaders.
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Coaching Tip
AUGUST 18, 2011
With smaller staffs, higher stress levels and uncertainties around the economy, are employers changing what they look for in prospective employees? Who gets hired or promoted today? The short answer is: The person who is not afraid to take on new challenges, can pull support, lead others, and complete tasks on time. Someone who actively looks for opportunities to make improvements, who is a good fit with the organizational culture and backs corporate values and principles.
Coaching Tip
AUGUST 19, 2011
Conventional wisdom holds that there are happy people and unhappy people; that's just the way they are, and there isn't much that will change them short of life-altering events. In fact, research has shown that pleasant or unpleasant temperment does remain relatively stable over time, and certain aspects of motivation are stable, too. But the big news from research is that most people's inner work lives shift a great deal over time as a function of the events they experience--not as a function
Coaching Tip
AUGUST 21, 2011
The NCAA's core purpose is to: govern competition in a fair, safe, equitable and sportsmanlike manner, and to integrate intercollegiate athletics into higher education so that the educational experience of the student-athlete is paramount. Yet, the commercial success of college football and basketball is more than the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) can effectively govern.
Coaching Tip
AUGUST 20, 2011
Leadership remains one of the most important topics across a range of fields because studies continuously demonstrate that the success and well-being of any institution or society depend on the functionality, effectiveness, and promotion of leaders and leadership. Today, leadership is not synonymous with authority. The role of other individuals within an organization now contribute to institutional operations and change.
Coaching Tip
AUGUST 16, 2011
It may not pay to be nice in the workplace. A new study finds that agreeable workers earn significantly lower incomes than less agreeable ones. The gap is especially wide for men. The researchers examined "agreeableness" using self-reported survey data and found that men who measured below average on agreeableness earned about 18% more—or $9,772 more annually in their sample—than nicer guys.
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