Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Welcome to the October 2015 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival. With football season well underway as well as the upcoming World Series (along with many other sports), it’s a great month for sports analogies! Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog submitted Is it a Myth? Let’s Get Started.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 24, 2014

My career as an executive coach began many years ago with a phone call from the CEO of a Fortune 100 company. It’s to help people identify a personal habit that’s annoying their coworkers and to help them eliminate it so that they retain their value to the organization. Developing as a leader is a difficult endeavor. (If

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 6, 2020

But in the very best leaders McClelland discovered three critical characteristics that acted as controls on their use of power and control that made all the difference – greater emotional maturity, high self-management and a participative, coaching leadership style (think of great professional sports coaches).

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 29, 2020

No matter what industry or organizational structure—business, politics, nonprofit, religious, entertainment or sports—examples abound where leaders have violated their trusted role and experienced a public downfall. Responsive leadership focuses on the people—the humanity—within the organization to achieve organizational success.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 11, 2012

Nor is it just about assessing yourself against a competency model, and attacking your weak spots with a development plan. While those can both be effective leadership development strategies, they won’t help you to be an authentic leader. Authentic leadership development: look to your past to figure out what’s important to you today.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 26, 2019

I T SHOULD go without saying that coaching as opposed to just managing people, is the key to developing high-performance organizations and teams. These primary environments could represent one’s dorm room, home, place of work, government, sports team, nature, and especially one’s body and mind. Leaders must be coaches.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Welcome to the February 2015 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! It seems that sports frequently provides an opportunity for leadership analogies! Beth writes, “Organizations often have to shift their goals due to the rapidly changing landscape. Follow Anne on Twitter at @bizshrink.

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Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Despite the diverse range of industries--business, sports, technology, finance, education, and the arts--each of these successful institutions share a common bond: they are world-class industry leaders and have repeatedly outperformed their competition. "At People Defining a behavioral code for the organization. Related articles.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

Many years later, French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace developed Bayes’s idea into a powerful theory, which we now know as the Bayes Theorem. Bayes is relevant to modern leaders because it can help them develop an approach to uncertainty that is less deterministic and more probabilistic. Here is a simple explanation of it.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 10, 2011

Because you are doing such great work, she’ll soon tap you with her enchanted wand and sprinkle you with sparkly fairy dust and you’ll get that key project, significant promotion, raise, bonus or new career that you’ve been waiting for. She doesn’t exist, and career rewards for your great work don’t just appear.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

They are not a leader because their position entitles them to be; they see leadership as a verb, a skill to continue to develop and hone. I have grown up around high-performance sport. High-performance in the context of sport covers a process that goes like this. A growth mindset means they operate with: 1. Curiosity 3.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

DECEMBER 28, 2010

I fear for these senior leaders and their organizations. Suggestions for C-suite executives Be open about your own learning and development. Don’t think for a second that leaders throughout the organization don’t notice the absence of discussion about c-suite development and learning.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. Impact, growth, and performance of the organizations they lead. Take stock of the progressive development plans and programs they’ve made available to the workforce.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 16, 2017

Employers underestimate the importance of personal and career development on employee retention, vastly overestimating the importance of salary and benefits. Leaders who fail to invest in skill development for team members implicitly enforce a rigid hierarchy that inhibits innovation.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

There are rich leadership lessons to be learned from politics and sports. Given that I try to avoid politics in this blog, please allow me the indulgence of referencing a headline from my favorite sport to make a point about leadership: Chiefs' Romeo Crennel fires himself. as team's defensive coordinator.

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 8, 2018

At the time Cooke was a very successful serial entrepreneur, in the media and sports arenas. How do he and other great leaders develop this seemingly uncanny ability to make the right decisions so quickly? Over my career I figured out that too much complexity in an organization, and too much data, can hamper the doers.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 4, 2014

In his new role, he is responsible for building a broader organization. Will Jackson end his career in a blaze of glory or will the Knicks and New York City reduce him to smoldering ashes? Although most leaders focus on task excellence and results, Jackson also focuses on developing relationship excellence.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 6, 2010

Successories Motivational Products Talent Managment Magazine Testing and Assessments - An Employers Guide to Good Practices Testing and Assessments - DOL The Rainmaker Group - Possibility Maximization An amazing group of people commited to making a difference in the world they live - one soul, one organization, one Customer Experience at a time.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership announces a penalty in Individual Development Plans are Worthless….if Chris Stowell at the Center for Management and Organization Effectiveness finds fertile ground on Scorecards: Putting for Dough. article was featured in the October Leadership Development Carnival. if No Action is Taken.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2014

In the history of every industry – manufacturing, tech, entertainment, sports, all industries – there have been many examples of talent that was overlooked only to be discovered at a later moment. At times the talent was recruited by someone else, too late for the incumbent organization to reap the benefits of their talent pool.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 14, 2021

The pair explore why women’s careers continue to be limited and show how individuals, managers, and organizations can work to eliminate the gender gaps that endure to this day across the economy. The vast majority were at least two decades into their careers, and over 40% were more than 30 years along.”

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Living 13 miles away from Loudon, New Hampshire, places me next door to New England’s largest sporting venue, the New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Flags are given in organizations as well, but in a more subtle sense. Is the race – the opportunity to develop, promote, and build your people – a green flag? White flag.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Mayberry, former linebacker for the Chicago Bears and now keynote speaker and global expert in leadership development, culture change, and organizational performance, took the lessons he learned on the field and in the locker room straight to the boardroom. Additionally, it should be unique to your organization.

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

But with competitive career stakes down the road, students need to continually be looking for leadership opportunities on campus. Students can gain leadership skills through opportunity programs like internships, joining campus organizations and seeking out military training in some instances. Develop employer-desired skills.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Being antagonistic just for the sport of it isn’t. Often they [contrarians] haven’t acquired the tactical skills of developing their ideas. Present your thoughts less in terms of how they benefit you and more in terms of how they benefit the team, organization, community, etc. The disagreeable messenger killed his own idea.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Mayberry, former linebacker for the Chicago Bears and now keynote speaker and global expert in leadership development, culture change, and organizational performance, took the lessons he learned on the field and in the locker room straight to the boardroom. Additionally, it should be unique to your organization.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 25, 2017

Even in organizations that invest in leadership development struggle with helping new leaders fully comprehend what it means to lead. On occasion, even experienced employees will act childish, like grown-up toddlers wearing bigger clothes and sporting larger and more fragile egos. The problem is the unpredictability.

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Experience to Lead

MAY 30, 2023

Let’s explore the purpose of executive leadership training, the benefits it brings to organizations and how to measure its impact in the long-term. An executive leadership training program is specifically designed to help senior executives develop the skills and competencies necessary to lead at the highest levels of an organization.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

With the end of the 2014 Sochi Winter Games on Sunday, many of us are now returning to our regular work routines and viewing habits, having a deeper appreciation for the world of sports and the power of the human spirit.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 14, 2018

Brian Dodd is the Director of New Ministry Relationships for Injoy Stewardship Solutions an organization founded by John Maxwell. While Timeless will resonate with Christian leaders, the principles apply across all organizations and contexts. Apex Leaders are part of selfless, humble teams who are committed to each other’s success.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2016

In any sport. He amassed 126 wins in his 29-year NFL head-coaching career. Without great PEOPLE , there are no great businesses, no great TEAMS, no great organizations, no great families, no great companies, and no great brands. YOU are a LEADER of your business, your TEAM, your family, your organization. Louis Rams.

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ReImagine Work

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

It doesn’t really matter what phase of your career you are in. Build satisfaction in areas of your life such as family and relationships, social life, physical activity, sports, hobbies, art, spirituality, community, etc. Perhaps your organization or leaders should do whatever it is you want them to do. What should you do?

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 30, 2022

For instance, a recent report from the UK government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport found that over half of businesses have a basic skills gap. By contrast, the Cybersecurity Workforce Gap is the number of additional professionals that organizations need to adequately defend their critical assets.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 26, 2017

The best leaders in sports history were not mesmerizing characters. While the captains of Tier One often did ugly things, they did so while operating within the fuzzy confines of the rules of sports. They’re motivated by the prestige the role conveys rather than a desire to promote the goals and values of the organization.”

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

A great way to think about this is to consider how a sports team works together to achieve a common goal. That unlike our parents’ generation, we won’t be working for the same organization for 20-30 years after which we get a gold watch to thank us for our many years of service.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 25, 2017

Though 95% reported that teams serve an important function in organizations, less than 24% of respondents prefer to work on teams. Although it can be innate “wired” behavior, it is often likely that it is “acquired” behavior , learned through watching the dynamics in the family , school, sports, or the community.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 31, 2011

Being Canadian, I’m sure it comes as little surprise that I’m not much of a baseball fan (growing up, hockey, football and soccer were the sports I preferred playing). When it comes to baseball heroes, few are as well-known and revered as Babe Ruth, or as he’s affectionately known by baseball fans “the Bambino”.

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