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Transforming Perceptions: 10 Steps to Managing the Way You Are Perceived at Work

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Here's a guest post from executive coach Joel Garfinkle, from his new book, Getting Ahead: Success at work starts with positive perceptions. If your boss and co-workers have a negative image of you, it's a pretty good bet you won't be getting a promotion anytime soon. That's why it is so important to take charge of the way you are perceived in your organization.

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How to Involve Participants in a Leadership Training Program

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"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand”. -- Confucius. Even the most brilliant, credible, and talented instructors with the most dazzling PowerPoint slides won’t guarantee participants in a leadership training program are actually going to learn anything. In order for all that good content to actually sink in, people need to have a chance to do something with it.

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The October Leadership Development Carnival

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The October Leadership Development Carnival is up! This month's edition is being hosted by Rochester, NY blogger (my old home town) Lynn Dessert , at her Elephants at Work blog. You can read it here. Next month's Carnival returns to Great Leadership. See the Carnival sidebar widget for details.