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Training and Development: Top Ten Lessons Learned

The Practical Leader

Waayyy back in the early days of my career, I was a young door-to-door sales rep and then sales manager with Culligan Water Conditioning. I took Dale Carnegie sales, public speaking, and management training courses and got turned on to personal and leadership development. You can build only on strengths. What’s the point?

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5 Steps to Develop Team Goals

Skip Prichard

Adapted, and reprinted with permission from Career Press. Strive to Be an Excellent Leader and Manager. The research literature on leadership finds that the most effective leaders are excellent managers and excellent leaders. “Leadership is about determining the right results and management is about achieving results.”

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Powering with Passion and Teaming with Energy

The Practical Leader

In A Tale of Two Managers: Command versus Commitment , I contrasted two leaders, Denise and Joel. Denise balances management and leadership very effectively. Joel is out of balance with a techno-management approach. She sees people as adults who are generally self-managing. Denise cares about people.

Energy 52
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My 2020 Story and a Few Lessons Along the Way

QAspire

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. Health is a system you cannot hack. Managing our attention is the key to well being.

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Is Your Leadership Creating an Energy Crisis?

The Practical Leader

Some managers will complain about a declining work ethic. When we look at 360 assessments or engagement surveys, it’s clear that a more accurate response to these managers is; nobody wants to work for you. Brand management is an inside job. External brand management is multiplied or minimized by workplace culture.

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June 2019 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

’ Peter Drucker called her ‘the mother of modern management.’ Mary Faulkner of IA-HR contributed Nobody Likes Performance Management. Rolling out big changes to your performance management? Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog shared Benefits of Hiring a Professional Keynote Speaker.

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A Leadership Paradigm Shift

Coaching Tip

Today's successful organizations have transcended the old style management paradigm. The "greatest generation" example of one job-one career was supplanted by Baby Boomers who averaged 11 jobs between the ages of 18 and 44. For many, the armed services was their first "model" of management. Communication was strictly top down.