Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 16, 2020

Culture Change is Dangerous to One’s Career Someone might come to the conclusion that a person leading organizational change will risk losing their job. After a 15-year career leading successful teams, Chris founded his consulting company, The Purposeful Culture Group, in 1990.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 7, 2021

After a 15-year career leading successful teams, Chris founded his consulting company, The Purposeful Culture Group, in 1990. Chris has also served as a senior consultant with The Ken Blanchard Companies since 1995. Chris Edmonds is a sought-after speaker, author, and executive consultant.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 16, 2017

Some are chasing a higher salary, but nearly equally important is the desire for a better opportunity inside or outside their present company. Employers underestimate the importance of personal and career development on employee retention, vastly overestimating the importance of salary and benefits. This is a marathon, not a sprint.”

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 8, 2017

Guest post by Dianna Booher : Millennials drop an employer quicker than they leave a boring party when they see no career-growth opportunities. Career development is the cool calling card––a powerful tease to job seekers you’d like to have join your team. They actually want these career-development opportunities for themselves.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 1, 2019

For example, in many companies, the most valued employees are those who force order, control chaos, and take decisive action. In doing so, they thwart their employees’ development and keep themselves mired in tasks they don’t have time for—and should have outgrown at this point in their careers.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

I’ve been very lucky throughout my career to be attracted to jobs and opportunities where I’ve worked with people who share my values and life principles. Day-to-Day Decisions and Behavior Reveal a Person’s Values You likely have seen these behaviors in the workplace during your career: ? and much learning resulted!

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 13, 2017

They help employees harness their natural abilities, guide the development of their skills, and support them along an internal career path. Staff member stay dedicated to the company and its mission; employee retention remains high; and in time, the organization gains its next generation of leaders. Hire exceptional people.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 4, 2018

He most likely does not have had a high paying career as a cashier, but he does create a joyful work environment! After a 15-year career leading successful teams, Chris founded his consulting company, The Purposeful Culture Group, in 1990. Chris has also served as a senior consultant with The Ken Blanchard Companies since 1995.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Ironically, they are extremely collaborative, but they still require hands-on individualized attention when it comes to their career path and goals. Companies would be well served by following PwC’s lead. Consulting form PwC has a unique approach to this issue. Professional Development This is a big one.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

I’ve written about these and other crucial tools for helping leaders improve relationships, gain executive presence and succeed in my new book, The Heart of a Leader: 52 Emotional Intelligence Insights to Advance Your Career. She is also author of The Heart of a Leader: 52 Emotional Intelligence Insights to Advance Your Career.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 26, 2018

Principles – Christine Poon, a top executive at Johnson & Johnson, put it this way to the Forum: “A company’s values can provide a powerful inspiration and ultimately shape everything about the company.” But wait, there’s more! A list like the 9 Ps is a trellis that can help their own ideas grow. Sander Flaum, M.B.A.,

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DECEMBER 3, 2020

we were able to build upon many of the old habits and traits that had worked in the past to quickly transform into the fastest-growing company in our industry. At companies I have led, we did exhaustive exercises to uncover the values of the organization. The values are in the company already, you just have to listen for them.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Guest post from Karlin Sloan: As a leadership development consultant, I have spent my career with people in business, NGOs, government, and not-for-profits who are focused, competent, talented and who have a deep sense of their personal power to impact those around them. Recently, those same people are having doubts.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Mentoring also demonstrates to the new hire the benefits of an open culture where employees share knowledge, generate ideas and work together to build a successful company. Consider conducting regularly scheduled stay interviews, where you ask your current employees why they enjoy working for you and your company. Can I trust you?

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 9, 2019

This study made an important link – one that had not been demonstrated before: manager behavior, specifically keeping promises and demonstrating company values, generates hard dollar profits. Of this group, 48 percent say that a lack of honest communication from company leaders was their primary reason for that decision.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 9, 2020

Eagles soar above the crowd, doing great things for customers and the company. They don’t get mired in policies that don’t work; they maneuver around stupid policies to serve the customer and the company fairly. After a 15-year career leading successful teams, Chris founded his consulting company, The Purposeful Culture Group, in 1990.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 1, 2017

And not because people changed, but because companies stopped honoring the implicit contract that permeated American business: you work hard and the company will take care of you. Better to have people proud of their association with you, than actively preferring not to recommend your company as an employer or a provider.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Information, Communication and Feedback on Performance —With presumed employment for life largely a thing of the past, employees want more than ever to know how they are doing in their jobs and how the company is doing in its business. Start telling them how the company makes money and how it spends money. Bob Nelson, Ph.D.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 21, 2021

If he really can’t do the job either training is necessary, or a career readjustment is necessary (my euphemism for firing someone). If you’ve promoted from within or a new manager is hired from outside the company, the manager must be friendly but he can’t be friends. He is making excuses about why he didn’t do his job. No favorites.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 17, 2017

Guest post from Patty Alper “Employees want to be part of something that is bigger than a company. Companies can let those skills develop on their own – e.g. through the growth of the individual as he or she is exposed to more work-based situations, and as he or she must resolve corporate problems and adjust to new organizational scenarios.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 6, 2019

A Genie (actually an HR Vice-president at a former company) once asked me, “ Dan, if you could make a wish and only do one thing for leadership development, what would it be?” You see, this was a company that was going through some tough belt-tightening, and we spent a lot of time making hard choices as to what to keep and what to cut.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 22, 2007

It used to be if a hard charger wanted to advance in a company, moving to another location every 2-3 years was an accepted part of the unwritten deal. One company I know of had a leadership development strategy that in practice was referred to as “ 2x2x2 ”. IBMers used to joke that IBM stood for “I’ve been moved”.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 25, 2018

But the company leaders didn’t leave it at that; they acknowledged the hard work ahead by saying, "That's all in the past. There are many other examples of sports teams and company teams around the globe that had talent, leadership, and heart, but were unable to finish. It drives everything that happens in your company.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 13, 2014

This question from Jennifer: “Can you give us some tips and tricks for 1X1 meetings with your boss, including how to prepare for the meeting and ways to discuss your career and goals?” Make sure you include development (including career development) as a regular agenda item.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

In my culture work with senior leaders, I help them craft an organizational constitution--a formalized statement of agreements showing how they will deliver promised performance (KPIs) in alignment with company values (WPIs). Chris has also served as a senior consultant with The Ken Blanchard Companies since 1995.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Give Opportunities for Development Leaders often assume that opportunities for development and career growth only come with a promotion. Ideally, a special project will help a team member prepare for the next level in his or her career by building new skills and knowledge in alignment with his or her interests.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 22, 2013

Guest post by Great Leadership monthly contributor Beth Armknecht Miller: I recently had the opportunity to have a conversation with the president of a privately held company as part of research for a book I am writing on talent management and development within small to mid-size companies. What has helped to shape you as a leader?

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 27, 2014

Recognizing that his successful career, nearing its end, had been filled with constant falling into temptation to over-explain, he confided to me that his default mode was to dump on his subordinates and give them lengthy lectures. I just wish I knew this at the beginning of my career.” I was floored by his candor.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Unfortunately, as a manager, chances are, at some point in your career, you will have to deal with some kind of office etiquette issue. We had one of these at a former company I worked at. so it’s better to be cautious and smart instead of making a mistake that gets you and your company in legal hot water. Talking too loud.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 13, 2015

A few years ago, I worked for a company that was acquired by Sun Microsystems. He noted correctly that, as a Silicon Valley company, Sun offered a very different organization compared to the companies I had worked for. Intentionally find someone who will push you and take you to the next level in your career and development.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 19, 2020

People, companies and entire industries have had to pivot and reinvent themselves. Not only are employees happier, creative and energized, but companies that promote collaboration are five times as likely to be high performing. They just happen to know what those obstacles will be in advance, so they can proactively deal with them.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

After a 15-year career leading successful teams, Chris founded his consulting company, The Purposeful Culture Group, in 1990. Chris has also served as a senior consultant with The Ken Blanchard Companies since 1995. Chris Edmonds is a sought-after speaker, author, and executive consultant.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

In fact they were all burned out in their careers fried, fizzled, and done. Moreover, burnout is also showing up in the bottom line of the company and having a shocking impact. When it’s your team that’s burned out, it’s has extremely negative consequences on you and your career. It’s just not healthy.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 22, 2018

Fortunately, in my career, I was provided with examples of what this meant, not just from Matt, but from working with a number of strong leaders. Build great teams In the early dark days as CFO of Footlocker, we had a struggling company that was deeply in debt. Being the leader is a big responsibility.”

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 8, 2019

After a 15-year career leading successful teams, Chris founded his consulting company, The Purposeful Culture Group, in 1990. Chris has also served as a senior consultant with The Ken Blanchard Companies since 1995. Chris Edmonds is a sought-after speaker, author, and executive consultant.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Annual performance reviews focus only on what’s born out of hard skills and tend to boil your people down to metrics around what they’ve done for your company. The general goal of these meetings is to determine a number that your company thinks your employee is worth. What Is a Success Plan? Pursue your people and do it on purpose.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 24, 2018

After a 15-year career leading successful teams, Chris founded his consulting company, The Purposeful Culture Group, in 1990. Chris has also served as a senior consultant with The Ken Blanchard Companies since 1995. Chris Edmonds is a sought-after speaker, author, and executive consultant.

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