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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. The Training and Development section of our website has over 100 blogs, articles, and book excerpts on this topic that’s been at the center of my career. You can build only on strengths.

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3 Ways to Encourage Knowledge Flow

Michael Lee Stallard

Lafley’s long career in marketing had taught him how to glean insights by listening to P&G’s customers. Key to its success is an environment in which participants feel safe to share their ideas and opinions. I like the term Peter Drucker once gave the contributions of educated employees who shared an opposing point of view.

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4 Reasons to Lead with Questions

Michael Lee Stallard

Over my career I’ve witnessed time and again how people who are ordered to implement a set of actions do so with little commitment and effort. Another worthwhile resource is Peter Drucker’s 5 Most Important Questions by Peter Drucker, Frances Hesselbein and Joan Snyder Kuhl. Talking Improves Engagement. Who is our customer?

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Powering with Passion and Teaming with Energy

The Practical Leader

” The Heart Part: Partnering, not Patronizing Countless organizational studies show that autonomy, participation, “having some say,” and a modicum of control in the workplace are vital to energizing, engaging, and boosting discretionary effort. Highly effective leaders see people as partners.

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Leading From Within: Shifting Ego, Ceding Control, and Rising Empathy

Great Leadership By Dan

Autonomy is a key one that impacts leaders’ positions and roles which has been found to be a critical component for increasing employee engagement and thence productivity, as noted already by Peter Drucker decades ago, especially in relation to knowledge workers.

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Is Your Leadership Creating an Energy Crisis?

The Practical Leader

One morning, I asked a group of very quiet participants a series of questions about their organization’s climate and leadership effectiveness. Once I found my life work and pursued career choices that really turned me on, my health miraculously improved. I was getting very few responses. This was going nowhere fast.

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What Peter Drucker Had to Say About Automation

Harvard Business Review

” If Peter Drucker were around, I don’t think he’d hesitate to serve up an answer: Neither. Drucker, who had watched this struggle play out many times over many years, believed that the inexorable march of machines was neither a panacea nor a complete catastrophe. Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age.