Mike Cardus

MARCH 29, 2020

Well-conducted debriefs can improve team effectiveness by 25% across a variety of organizations and settings.” ” Debriefs: Teams Learning From Doing in Context. Have you wondered how to facilitate a team debrief through a learning and review process? What Makes a Team Debrief Effective?

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 8, 2015

So how do agile organizations square the circle – obtaining the speed, innovation and flexibility they want – while employees get the fair deal, at least in terms of development, flexibility and empowerment, they want? To build an agile organization requires a revolution in conventional management thinking and practice.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 14, 2012

Learning journals. Organization assessment questionnaires. Action learning projects. Case analysis. Reflection papers. Reflection session. Managerial exchange. Individual assessment tools. Personal coaching. Team coaching. Study trips. Simulations and role plays. Peer consulting on a personal case.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Edwards Deming described the purpose of an organization in The New Economics , 1993, on page 51, as: The aim proposed here for any organization is for everybody to gain – stockholders, employees, suppliers, customers, community, the environment – over the long term. CONTINUE YOUR DEMING JOURNEY.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 26, 2012

Action Learning : A type of leadership development program where participants work on real projects and learn at the same time. Bench Strength : Used in succession planning, a measure of how strong or weak an organization’s succession plans or talent pool is. As a noun, it’s often some kind of instrument, or test.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 9, 2013

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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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 25, 2012

Mike also serves as President of the World Institute for Action Learning. Michael Marquardt is Professor of Human Resource Development and International Affairs at George Washington University.

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leaderCommunicator

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Learn the four key steps to building engagement in your organization. Disengagement is felt around the world at a global level, and it effects organizations and teams on a personal, immediate level. And when it comes to earning your employees’ trust, it’s all about aligning words with actions.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 5, 2017

And when there is that gap between how we want to be perceived and how we are actually being perceived, we need to take action. Learning to recognize your leadership gap is the factor that determines your greatness as a leader.” We need to rethink how our behaviors are perceived by those around us. How can I serve you?”

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

In the US alone, US$ 156 billion is invested in learning and development every year, or US$ 1,182 per employee (1). And even though classroom training (live and virtual) is perceived to be the least effective (2) , over 50% of organizations report using it (3). The following is a guest post by Therese S.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 19, 2011

It’s not that complicated to do, it just takes a boatload of commitment, most importantly, from the leader of an organization, along with the support of a strong HR leader. Many organizations just focus on the end game, often for compliance purposes, then wonder why there’s never any improvement. Viability of candidates.

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Lead from Within

MAY 9, 2017

If you hold back, people will know something’s going on, and they’ll fill the gap with gossip, paranoia, and suspicion—wreaking havoc on the culture of your organization. They know that honest hearts produce honest actions. Learn more about the TRUTH TELLER in my new book: The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 14, 2013

Otherwise, they’ll do what most organizations do – spend a lot of time identifying and assessing potential leaders, and then drop the ball on developing those high potentials. Action learning programs are often used for high potentials, where they work on real company issues and learn at the same time.

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Joseph Lalonde

APRIL 30, 2018

While everyone in your organization matters, not everyone can be a part of every story. You will find some players in your organization will fit better at certain times than others. Or maybe you’re not getting things done because it’s all talk and no action. Learn when to talk and when to shut up.

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Center for Creative Leadership

APRIL 5, 2019

When I ask clients what kind of return they’re looking for from a leadership development initiative, it’s usually in terms of how the initiative can have a visible, measurable impact on the organization. One third of the class answered with some version of “I was told to be here by HR/the organization.” Ready to Take the Next Step?

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Edwards Deming described the purpose of an organization in The New Economics , 1993, on page 51, as: The aim proposed here for any organization is for everybody to gain – stockholders, employees, suppliers, customers, community, the environment – over the long term.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

But too often we overlook the profound impact these changes have on our organizations. 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.

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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 26, 2011

The STAR method is a behavioral interviewing method that organizations use to explore predictors of performance. How can we transfer these team & personal actions that led to these results back to your team (organization, community, family, etc…)? click here for the how-to book. Here is the Model – from MIT Careers Office.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 29, 2018

Linking Leadership to Learning. For Alaina, the VP of HR for a healthcare organization, diverging is common practice. Merriam-Webster defines diverging as “moving or extending in different directions from a common point.”

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The Center For Leadership Studies

DECEMBER 4, 2020

As organizations redefine their talent development strategies, many are looking to outsource custom learning development to accelerate and enhance their offerings. The disruptions we experienced in 2020 reinforced the critical role that L&D plays in equipping and enabling the workforce to meet current and emerging business needs.

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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 12, 2012

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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Mike Cardus

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

The majority of problems within teams and organizations comes from unclear goals. I recently led this Team Development activity with a company of Environmental Consultants and it created a great discussion about the knowledge and lack of knowledge about the goals of the Organization and the people who work there. What’s The Goal?

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Mike Cardus

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Phrases and acronyms that may be confusing to other departments and cultures (for global organizations and teams). 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. Materials: Laminated Puzzle (supplied below).

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Our people need to see that their leaders are not afraid, that we believe in our organization, and that we are committed to success. Think task forces, committees, action learning, and Kaizen workshops. As leaders, we all need to learn how to lead during tough times, and how to turn around a struggling organization.

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Mike Cardus

MARCH 13, 2013

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. Michael Cardus is the founder of Create-Learning an experiential based consulting, facilitation, training and coaching organization.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 17, 2011

It unifies the organization and your planning process to make your team and leaders better. 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. The Exponent Leadership Process does that. Contact Mike to make this happen.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 17, 2011

It unifies the organization and your planning process to make your team and leaders better. 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. The Exponent Leadership Process does that. Contact Mike to make this happen.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

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. When an organization stops learning they begin dying. My message is a simple one…stop pondering and pontificating make a decision and take action.

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Leaders are finding themselves members of all kinds of teams, including virtual teams, autonomous teams, cross-functional teams, and action-learning teams. As the traditional, hierarchical school of leadership diminishes in significance, a new focus on networked team leadership is emerging to take its place. Life is good.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 16, 2013

See if they can identify some ideas that will help them organize and act even though they will not know what the change will be. 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. Facilitator Notes.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

We heard this leadership dilemma from multiple companies that participated in our research on the leadership perspectives of C-suite executives and millennial leaders, which was co-produced by our three organizations, The Conference Board, RW2 Enterprises, and DDI. Johnson & Johnson.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

But this contextual change does impact how sales people must navigate the needs of clients and customers as well as their own organizations. If you want to see big-data analytics in action, don’t just go to Google or Facebook. Selling is increasingly a research-based activity. Each group has its own operating procedures.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2015

Identifying meaningful homework for career development starts with asking questions about the employee’s developmental goals, such as: What would you like to learn during the next quarter? What roles in the organization would you like to learn more about? What projects would you most like to work on?

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Join a non-profit board, committee, organization, or just spend a day helping those less fortunate. You’ll learn about courage, determination, inspiration, and hope, both from those you are helping and from the die-hard volunteers you’ll work with. In that case, it could be transformational.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2016

In many organizations, the typical off-boarding process is a whirlwind of project wrap-ups, paperwork, and exit interviews. “If the employee is really unhappy with the organization,” this could be a challenge, Leonard acknowledges. Who should be involved? And how do you motivate the departing colleague to cooperate?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2012

This strategy uses a different set of management processes focused on speedy action, learning through failure, and a premeditated approach to market experimentation that creates instant feedback. To be successful, new ventures must eschew these theories and instead rely on effectual marketing planning.

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Coaching Ourselves

AUGUST 29, 2018

Nathalie is co-author of the book Collaborer et agir | Mieux et autrement : guide pratique pour implanter des groupes de codéveloppement (A practical guide to implementing professional co-development action learning groups) (2017). To learn more: Module launch on September 7, 2018, CoachingOurselves Conference, Montreal.

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