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7 Types of Listeners – Part 2

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Posted in Leadership Development The anticipation has been building for the second half of our “Seven Types of Listeners” post. (Check out Part 1 here.) We discussed why listening is crucial to team development, as well as maintaining other relationships in your life. Did you identify with a listening personality? As a refresher, from Part 1, the first 3 [.].

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You Can’t Learn Anything with Your Mouth Open

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Posted in Change Management Leadership Coaching Leadership Development Self Leadership I was sitting in a coffee shop writing a post and there was interview going on at the next table. What struck me, as I tried to write, was the amount of time the interviewer spent talking to versus listening to the interviewee. He would ask a question and as soon as she started to [.].

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Top 3 Change Management Mistakes

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Posted in Change Management Change is a healthy part of any enterprise intent on thriving long-term. Failure to adapt eventually means irrelevance, regardless of the organization. Here are two definitions to start. Mistakes in technique – With any change management effort, plan on mistakes in technique. This is the ‘how’ of change, the specific methods and experiments to move [.].

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In a NOW World, Employee Engagement is Not an Option

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Posted in Leadership Development “This economic crisis doesn’t represent a cycle,” says Jeffrey Immelt, the CEO of General Electric, about The Great Recession. “It represents a reset. It’s an emotional, raw social, economic reset. People who understand that will prosper. Those who don’t will be left behind.” We are living in the Age of Mass Customization, a term coined [.].

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11 Unbelievable Group Project Horror Stories

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Posted in Leadership Development [link] Few of us ever really look forward to or genuinely enjoy group work. It seems like there are always communication issues, or a group member who just doesn’t want to do the work, or who even completely disappears. Team work is just a fact of life, but you can count yourself lucky if you’ve never [.].

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How thinking like a child can help any leader achieve more goals

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Posted in Leadership Development [link] Becky Robinson, director of social marketing for The Kevin Eikenberry Group and the owner and chief influence officer of 12 Minute Media, authored today’s SmartBlog for Leadership, How thinking like a child can help any leader achieve more goals. “As you look to a new year and new goals, sharpen your pencil, get a clean sheet [.].

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