Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

Whether you are new to studying leadership or have practiced and studied it for many years, I am sure you will benefit and enjoy the leadership lessons today’s post provides. One of your first leadership lessons is “A subordinate’s trust in their leader is the most important factor in the success of any organization.”

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Chart Your Course

APRIL 6, 2015

employees who use the career community website. When that much of the workforce — 42% of women surveyed and 34% of men — feel they’re under-compensated for their work, employee motivation and performance suffer. Case Studies/White Papers Finding top talent Hiring Human Resource Management' Union Pacific.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 14, 2018

To illustrate this, we need look no further than one of the most famous case studies in professional ethics. How does one motivate staff to acquire this competence and apply it? Employees and managers in the autonomy stage are ready for mature leadership. The problem was not bad people, but bad thinking.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

Prepare to be inspired, impressed and motivated by personal, real-life stories and case studies from 70 women leaders in the new book, Wisdom Warriors , authored by Carol Seymour. Experiencing the lives and careers of other women who are just like us," is why I wrote the book."

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 7, 2013

We first get an agreement with our coaching clients and their managers on two key variables: 1) what are the key behaviors that will make the biggest positive change in increased leadership effectiveness and 2) who are the key stakeholders that should determine (one year later) if this change has occurred. That is just not what I do.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

Learning is a lifelong pursuit , and motivating senior team members to develop their skill sets is just as important as mentoring new and mid-career members of the team. Employees and managers worry about job stability, and taking part in developing individualized career plans for your talent is a critical way to retain them.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Learning is a lifelong pursuit , and motivating senior team members to develop their skill sets is just as important as mentoring new and mid-career members of the team. Employees and managers worry about job stability, and taking part in developing individualized career plans for your talent is a critical way to retain them.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 2, 2018

Prepare to be inspired, impressed and motivated by personal, real-life stories and case studies from 70 women leaders in the book, Wisdom Warriors , authored by Carol Seymour. Experiencing the lives and careers of other women who are just like us," is why I wrote the book."

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Case Study Human Resources Banking Learning-by-Doing 50

Eric Jacobson

APRIL 30, 2017

Learning is a lifelong pursuit , and motivating senior team members to develop their skill sets is just as important as mentoring new and mid-career members of the team. Employees and managers worry about job stability, and taking part in developing individualized career plans for your talent is a critical way to retain them.

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Management How To Mentor Ethics 50

Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

They could leave and hope to find another job in their profession, they could stay and grit it out or they could stay and try to improve their career prospects by joining in on the Animal House leadership style.   Still, it’s really easy for leaders with titles to underestimate the impact of their leadership footprint.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

In addition to improving existing programs and practices, the effort led to a dedicated diversity talent acquisition team and greater HBCU and HSI partnerships, a sponsorship program to support career advancement, and other programs. What would you say have been the most interesting transformations in your career?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2011

In all kinds of places this past week — from Twitter feeds to boardrooms — people discussed Steve Jobs's career at Apple as a kind of informal but very important case study. Yes, we are impressed with how Jobs steered Apple toward market leadership and a series of financial home runs these past ten years.

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CoachStation

MARCH 7, 2016

Understanding your purpose, what motivates you and most importantly using this knowledge to advantage is key to your success, both professionally and personally. It is my story that I would like to share via an abbreviated version of Maddy’s case study questions and my answers. Why do you do what you do?

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Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

Others leave for better and more interesting career opportunities. This book is packed with loads of practical advice, tips, case studies, suggestions and examples that not only retain, but also engage and make your people as productive as possible. The media is sounding more optimistic. Includes free shipping globally.

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Chartered Management Institute

JANUARY 17, 2024

Leadership in Local Government CMI has partnered with the Social Market Foundation to explore the role that quality leadership and management can play in improving local government effectiveness. The strategy needs to include a funding increase for councils to improve recruitment and retention of staff across all levels.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 21, 2015

For most employees, the only time they’ve been asked about their career aspirations was back when they interviewed for a job at their organization. Through these stories and case studies we’re reminded how leaders need to provide every employee with the opportunity to contribute to your shared purpose [ Share on Twitter ].

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Then, of course, we had the fascinating story of Jet Blue flight attendant Stephen Slater pulling the metaphorical rip cord on his 20 year career. One is that, until this week, Slater had an exemplary career with Jet Blue. I can’t stop reading about this story – there are so many layers to it. How about that issue of stage presence?

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Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2012

First-ever article on Dick Clark, as a business case study. Motivating pop culture piece designed to foster better, more successful companies. I started out my career by aspiring to be like Dick Clark. Thanks to great mentors, I learned to be my own best self, a visionary thinker and a repository of great case studies.

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

We then get paid only after our coaching clients have achieved positive change in key leadership behaviors – and become more effective leaders – as determined by their key stakeholders. I believe that many leadership coaches are paid for the wrong reasons. We do not work with leaders who are not really motivated to change.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 16, 2008

Guest post from Brad Smart , Author of Topgrading: How Leading Companies Win by Hiring, Coaching, and Keeping the Best People : I don’t know about you, but early in my career I was very disappointed with my hiring track record. Thirty years ago I began studying why almost EVERYONE’S hiring record was so bad. Prove it,” you say.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

While this sounds simple enough at face value, I have consistently found that one of the most often overlooked leadership attributes is that of a positive attitude. As a CEO, how can you expect to inspire, motivate, engender confidence, and to lead with a lousy attitude? The simple answer is that you can’t…it just won’t work.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. And yet black women’s advancement into leadership roles has remained stagnant , even as the number of them in professional and managerial roles has increased. What made their ascent possible? How did (or didn’t) managers play a role?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Social Nation : How to Harness the Power of Social Media to Attract Customers, Motivate Employees, and Grow Your Business by Barry Libert It’s time to join Social Nation and prosper! Whether you are a manager or not, managing yourself smarter is important to your career as well as to your personal life.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Where is leadership when we need it? In sixteen historical studies, Jan-Benedict Steenkamp reveals lessons for today’s leaders from decisions that changed history. “Leadership is the ability of an individual to influence others to achieve a common goal.” –Jan-Benedict First, leadership is relational.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2017

At some point in your career, even if you’re not a salesperson, you’re going to have to sell something — whether it’s your idea , your team, or yourself. “Many of them tell me that sales is something they never want to do in their careers.” What should you focus on first? What the Experts Say. .

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2014

How do you stay motivated? “It’s important to have focus,” says Joseph Weintraub, the founder and faculty director of the Babson Coaching for Leadership and Teamwork Program. Your ultimate aim is to “move your organization forward and propel your career,” he says. Career planning Article.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Cultivating compassion for these kinds of colleagues, however trying they may be, is a good place to start, according to Rich Fernandez, the CEO of the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute. Ask yourself: “What motivates this person? Case Study #1: Be kind and be curious about your colleague’s perspective.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

How do you motivate someone much older or much younger than you? As people work longer and delay retirement, internal career paths have changed. Organizational careers don’t look the way they did before,” says Peter Cappelli, professor of management at the Wharton School and coauthor of Managing the Older Worker.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2018

Almost every high-performing health care organization we studied was led by a medical professional (something that academic research has also found ). He was 58 and already retired from an illustrious career in ophthalmology when he founded the nonprofit Aravind Eye Hospital in 1976.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

Although leadership talent is normally distributed, 80% of people think they are better-than-average leaders. The most effective way of doing this is by tapping into the leader’s motives and values. Create a Culture Where Difficult Conversations Aren’t So Hard. Jim Whitehurst.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

” If a formal promotion is not possible, or your employee is not quite ready for one , think creatively about ways to sharpen her leadership skills. “Don’t assume you know what motivates them.” Ask, ‘What motivates you and how can I help?’” You’ll need to talk to your star, too.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

Knowing and communicating your career goals is challenging for even the most ambitious and focused person. In today's work world, careers take numerous twists and turns and the future is often murky. You have to clarify for yourself what you aspire to do with your career before you can communicate it confidently to others.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2012

"It's very rare people don't want to know the news even if it's bad," says Michael Useem, the William and Jacalyn Egan Professor of Management at the Wharton School and author of " Four Lessons in Adaptive Leadership." Question your motives. You should also question whether or not your motives are manipulative.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Yelling was an integral part of their leadership and management styles. Harvard Business School recently published and popularized a case study of Sir Alex Ferguson , Manchester United’s recently retired manager and the most successful coach in English Premier League history. Ferguson was a fantastic leader and motivator.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2016

But trying to figure out whether a particular direct report is management material is not always straightforward, says Anna Ranieri , executive coach and author of the forthcoming Connecting the Dots: Telling the Story to Advance Your Career. Forget that someone earlier in your career showed faith in you. ” Assess experience.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

As a manager, your goal is to keep your team engaged, productive, motivated, and happy. ” It’s important to talk openly about how career paths can diverge. If they’re motivated enough, your response will “become fuel for them to tackle the next challenge,” says Halvorson. What the Experts Say.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Remember: No matter how large Contect gets, it will stay agile and motivated. And he thought independence was a great motivator. The two men went way back.

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