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

Great Leadership By Dan

By some estimates, up to 40-70% of any organization’s management population is currently eligible to retire. people), innovative practices such as job rotation, leadership development through coaching, mentoring, action-learning, and next-generation behavioral performance evaluation must all be considered.

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Retain Your Top Performers

Marshall Goldsmith

The new work contract – where employees take responsibility for their own careers and corporations provide them with career-enhancing but impermanent opportunities – can be as difficult for organizations to manage as it is for individuals. We must manage our human assets with the same rigor we devote to our financial assets.

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Great Leaders Make Decisions | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

A critical part of the talent management life-cycle is leadership development. If your mentoring and training programs don’t focus on the development of action oriented leaders then you are simply breeding obselesence, and utlimately…failure.

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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? For example ‘Communication between sales and production’ or ‘More knowledge of how to use our internal knowledge management system’. How would you know? 1—2—3—4—5—6—7—8—9—10. *. NOISE Analysis Chart.

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DiSC Team Activity: Steady Changing S–Steadiness Development Activity

Mike Cardus

Did the group manage to develop solutions to each major change that produced significant improvement in their time? What recommendations does the group have for managing change at work based on this experience? If we were to operate more in the steadiness quadrant, what would our actions be like amongst each other?

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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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The Leadership Vacuum | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Having been trained by one of the best companies in the world on Leadership Development, (GE), in one of the best action learning environments in the world (a high performance culture), I frown on textbook practitioners. Unless you've actually been in the shoes of your clients, I don't think you have a right to advise them.

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