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Why You Want to Lead a Team with Transferable Skills and How to Build One

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When companies talk about talent development, retention, and succession planning, words like “cross-training,” “knowledge transfer,” and “redundancy” tend to crop-up. I’m a big fan of these techniques, as they work in organizations large and small. By developing a workforce this way, companies create employees with overlapping skill sets, skills that may be applied intra-departmentally or inter-departmentally.

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Management of Meanings: When the Gears Don’t Align

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This post is part of our 2017 Lead Change Group Guest Blogger Series. Today we are pleased to share a post from Susan Thorn. Much of the adopted research on the field of strategic management and leadership depicts the successful leader as planner, decision maker, and instigator of structure and sustainable processes. Newer models and emerging gaps, however, are surfacing in the field based on some early little known work that Warren Bennis briefly alluded to: the management of meanings in leader

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The Biggest Barrier to Your Team’s Development? You.

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Years ago I had a peer (I’ll call her Nancy) who complained constantly about her team. We were both managers of large sales teams, worked for the same overly demanding boss, and had to manage in a period of never-ending restructuring and downsizing. I’ll admit, it certainly was trying and stressful most days, and there were definitely times when I was frustrated with my team.

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Ain’t That a Kick in the Pants

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Isn’t it funny how obvious and oblivious are so close? — Author unknown. My work with leaders sometimes involves inviting the leader’s direct reports to purposely kick him or her in the emotional keister. One of the most effective ways of doing this is having the leader go through a 360-degree feedback process, where the people they are leading rate the leader’s style and performance.

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5 Ingenious Ways to Make Your Small Business Environmentally Friendly

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Large businesses and corporations have a significant advantage over SMEs and freelancers when it comes to lowering their carbon footprint. And I say this from personal experience, for I have worked in both environments. This might sound odd. How can a huge conglomerate make the process of being environmentally friendly easier than a sole trader? Surely a larger building, countless staff and significant product output will result in a carbon footprint the size of a large crater?

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