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6 Ways to Use Your Journal to Become a Better Leader

Lead Change Blog

Journaling can be one of the easiest, least expensive, and most effective parts of your personal leadership development. Most effective because your journal can be the centerpiece of your leadership development. Plus, a good journaling habit makes all the other parts of leadership development work better.

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How Do I Build Leadership Tenacity and Grit?

Let's Grow Leaders

Making enough professional development available. 11:00 Getting into leadership development with your team. Do after-action reviews. A “no-finish line” attitude. Life-long learning. Be the lead learner. Model a growth mindset. Harness the collective genius of the group. Schedule the finish.

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Team Learning from reviewing what works and how to improve

Mike Cardus

Do you facilitate a team debrief or after-action review? When a team continually shares, identifies what did and did not work, plus discovers what to do better in the future – the team gets better. In a variety of forms, debriefs are found across a wide range of organizational types and settings.

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Complexity patterns recognition and back to work examples

Mike Cardus

One of the best ways to work with complexity patterns is to create create a cadence of habit with your team and self to gather information in the present and review that information regularly. . Debriefs or after-action reviews develop this cadence or habit. . Distinctive Working Well Small Improvements .

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28 Leadership Development Recommendations for your Individual Development Plan

Great Leadership By Dan

Welcome to the September edition of the Leadership Development Carnival ! For this month’s edition, I asked an all-star cadre of leadership development bloggers, authors, and consultants to submit an answer to the following question: “We all know that individual development plans (IDPs) need to be tailored for each leader.

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What Is Situational Leadership®? Understanding This Leadership Model

The Center For Leadership Studies

If you fall short, a reasonable first place to start with an “after-action-review” is, What could you (the leader) have done differently? You may not want to be judged, or think it is fair, but you will be. For example: Your department or division signed up to deliver certain outcomes.

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Leadership Development Should Focus on Experiments

Harvard Business Review

Leadership development represents a huge and growing investment for most organizations. Industry research, for example, shows that companies spent more than $24 billion on leadership and management training worldwide in 2013, an increase of 15% from 2012. Reversing this means that companies start at the end — with results.