Lead from Within

MAY 5, 2020

Lead with speed and agility. Leadership based on collaboration and not control—trusting that people are smart and know what to do—fosters the commitment and energy your team needs to tackle the crisis and to continue a journey of growth when it’s over. When everything is shifting, people need a North Star to navigate by.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Like a river rapid that quickly finds its ways around the boulders, going with the flow means being adaptive, agile and curious. The force of our desires is a source of energy and momentum for our lives if we let it flow. Our corporate conditioning as well as constant onslaught of information disables us in this regard.

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The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

For many years I’ve been facilitating a 360 assessment and leadership development process for a deeply technical science/engineering association. We often discuss how very smart leaders with deep technical expertise frequently direct rather than develop others. Their team members call this micromanagement.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

In an in-depth conversation with The HR Digest, Lisa Chang, the Global Chief People Officer at The Coca-Cola Company, reflects on pivotal moments that shaped her career trajectory. This dilemma forced me to evaluate my career path and what mattered most. For me it is impact. In the U.S.,

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Mellisa Patrick CMgr MCMI, CMI’s programme development manager, attended the event to engage with potential new partners, including universities, colleges, and technical and vocational education and training (TVET) providers. We look forward to more collaborations with different organisations and insightful engagement events in the new year!

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QAspire

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Like a river rapid that quickly finds its ways around the boulders, going with the flow means being adaptive, agile and curious. The force of our desires is a source of energy and momentum for our lives if we let it flow. Our corporate conditioning as well as constant onslaught of information disables us in this regard.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2017

Those skills, while uniquely human, are not what we are typically trained to do and require a deal of messy personal development. But what if you could know yourself just a little bit better—and with this small improvement, get a big payoff…not just in your career, but in your life? New skills will be needed. Uniquely human skills.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 30, 2020

I began 2020 with a firm plan to execute a significant mid-career transition that involved voluntary movement out of a rewarding senior leadership role, relocating family, reuniting with my parents and (hopefully) start new assignments. We are far more adaptable, agile and resilient than we think. My 2020 Story. Optimize the whole.

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QAspire

AUGUST 30, 2015

Anderson titled “ The Robot Takeover is Already Here ” where she says – “Skills young people should be learning to be prepared for a career in 2020 include: The ability to concentrate, to focus deeply. I read an interesting (and long) post by Janna Q.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

At any level of the organization, leaders can develop a new, positive dynamic by focusing on each employee’s personalized needs, demonstrating respect for the employee and allowing trust to build, thereby increasing engagement as well. Adjusting for each person and engaging them from a more equitable position takes attention and sensitivity.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

Negative thoughts and worry leave less energy for creative solutions. When you develop your ability to change your action plan as things evolve, that agility will help you in tough times. To develop that ability, you have to spend frequent time in your discomfort zone. Here are 10 habits we would all do well to emulate.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Do you have boundless energy or mesmerizing charisma? 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. Great insights Susan.

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Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

To succeed, a leader must learn to balance their relationships, time, strategic efforts and personal development. Not only does it provide tools and resources for those transitioning into a leadership role, it also includes development strategies for management teams who are overseeing the growth of new leaders. Leaders are developed!

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 2, 2014

we are contending with wave after wave of jobs moving overseas, markets that whip up and down, and energy prices rising at an unprecedented rate. And how do we develop their skills and careers? StrategyDriven Leadership Conversation Episode 3 – Agile Balance. In the U.S., What kind of alliances will we need to make?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

One of Rochet’s first tasks was to create a leadership development program that equipped executives with the knowledge, mindset, and ways of working the company would need to grow in the digital age. Help Employees Embrace Agility. Agility is key to success when undertaking digital transformations.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

If you ever want to lie awake at night, go ahead and think about your "one thing" — the one thing you were born to do, the one career you were built to succeed at, and the one person you were destined to spend the rest of your life with. If something strikes a chord, reallocate more time and energy to it.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

And because organizational change tends to be driven by those who most acutely feel the pain, it’s often line managers who are the strongest champions for “talent tech”: innovations in how firms hire people, staff projects, evaluate performance, and develop talent. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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Technology Talent Management Process Management 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

All too often, individual leaders seek — indeed are incentivized — to protect and optimize their own domains, and find themselves locked in energy-sapping internal turf wars, rather than working with peers to align and improve across the entire enterprise.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2016

.” In light of this dual purpose, running an effective one-on-one meeting “requires real cognitive agility,” says Margaret Moore , CEO of Wellcoaches Corporation and co-author of Organize Your Emotions, Optimize Your Life. ’ It’s a great way to start a one-on-one because it creates positive energy.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2016

And this is the perfect time of year to set personal development goals and start making progress on them. Take charge of your own development. In this assessment, you can compare your priorities with how you actually allocate your time and energy. Then, if you want more information on the different styles, read this article.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2015

The idea is that if you’re a valuable employee, the company wants to get as many years as they can out of your career — and those years may not all be in a row. ” This is popular in Silicon Valley now, and “is probably showing the way to talent and career management over the next decades.”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2016

Was this a deliberate attempt to imprison employees and stifle their energy? ” These trust taxes and dividends are real and essential for leaders to understand as they develop their trust-building competence. How to Develop the Trust-Building Skill. The really good news is that developing trust is a learnable skill.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2018

By the time we’d grown to a couple hundred employees, all that dissipated energy had begun to yield diminishing returns. I had made the decision to refocus all of our product development, sales, and marketing efforts on the marketing director. “But it’s backfiring in scale-up mode. We gave it a run, and we moved on.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

As the boss, your goal is to have all your employees operating at their peak level of energy, efficiency, and motivation—which can be a challenge when it comes to leading a team comprised of introverts and extroverts. How do you manage these vastly different personalities and work preferences?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

If the hum of your career has become so deafening that you struggle to hear those other parts of your life, you’re not alone. Having one identity does not automatically diminish another, and trying to turn identities on and off can waste time and energy. Create connections between identities. Manage your boundaries.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Helping people develop their potential—enabling them to articulate and become the self they want to be, are capable of being, and that best serves them and others in the short and long term—is what we as individuals and leaders strive toward. Blog Post ). A New Way to Think : Your Guide to Superior Management Effectiveness by Roger L.

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