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The Widening Gap Between Leaders and Up-and-coming Leaders…and What to Do About It

Great Leadership By Dan

people), innovative practices such as job rotation, leadership development through coaching, mentoring, action-learning, and next-generation behavioral performance evaluation must all be considered. To address the leadership crisis from both angles (the need for both enough. people and more importantly the right.

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Retain Your Top Performers

Marshall Goldsmith

Innovative high-technology corporations are currently paying employees large bonuses to recruit top talent. The CEO of a leading telecommunications company recently embarked on an innovative approach. One large consulting and accounting firm recently embarked on an innovative program to identify and cultivate high-potential leaders.

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Great Leaders Make Decisions | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

While the aforementioned qualities are certainly admirable, they are only valuable if they influence or create action. Walt Disney, one of the greatest creative talents and true innovators of our time realized the value of action when he said: “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.&#

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DiSC Team Activity: Steady Changing S–Steadiness Development Activity

Mike Cardus

When people are exchanging cards, some groups will think of “innovative strategies” for circumnavigating the intent of the shuffle rule. If they include creativity and innovation, you may not want to prohibit some of the ideas above. The immediate goal is to lower their time for a first solution once a change is announced.

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Hard Skill, Soft Skill–Team Building Activity

Mike Cardus

Additionally Hard Skill, Soft Skill illustrates how we all operate from different criteria of what a hard, soft skill is. Use the activity as a content reminder; ask people to write what they have learned and the application to work/school/classroom/etc… Then people take turn guessing what the other person has learned and the application.

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NOISE Analysis, an alternative to SWOT. Strategic Planning

Mike Cardus

Scaling Question: Currently the department, organization, team (choose appropriate) operates at X, what does X + 2 look like? Mike will come to you to facilitate the action learning and processing, or can just send you a document with videos and photos of how to do everything you need. How would you know? NOISE Analysis Chart.

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Innovation Isn’t the Answer to All Your Problems

Harvard Business Review

What should leaders do to boost their organization’s ability to innovate? Run an action-learning program to develop the top leadership team’s ability to confront ambiguity. Build an open innovation platform. Hire seasoned innovators. One clear problem innovation can solve is creating new growth.