Leading Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Young people that believe that their education may be useless and that their career opportunities have fallen apart before they have even started out. As the son of such a man myself, I can imagine the energy—and family support—it took to accomplish what Irineu did. What was the fledgling reporter to do now?

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Career Advancement

AUGUST 12, 2019

Renae Asks: I’m trying to use my time wisely, and that means being strategic in the leadership training opportunities I pursue, as well as the ones I set up for the team I manage. Joel Answers: Let’s start by demystifying what leadership actually means. To many, leadership is an elusive role. As a leader know when to step back.

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Quality Leadership McKinsey Training 166

Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 23, 2021

Of course, leadership is not about being liked. ” I’m thinking about the handful of managers I had over the years who were the epitome of a jerk at work — the bullies who crush courage with their toxic leadership behaviors or who seem to be lacking a moral compass. Your behavior is sabotaging your leadership influence.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 3, 2018

Welcome to the July Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, employee performance and engagement, personal and professional development, productivity, team building, and more. Learning to self-observe is a powerful leadership practice.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 14, 2024

Furthermore, excessive meetings are reported to cost businesses in the United States upwards of $37 billion annually. As an executive leadership coach, I encounter numerous teams seeking to reclaim their time and transform meetings into periods of high efficiency and strategic execution. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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The Practical Leader

JANUARY 31, 2024

It’s a timeless personal and leadership principle I call “ spirit and meaning.” When we feel the most love, passion, or energy is when we are the most alive. It has a high energy spirit. Goals, plans, reports, and numbers take over. Spirit and meaning is a missing link in many lives, teams, and organizations.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 10, 2024

In Working with Emotional Intelligence , Daniel Goleman, reports, “a study by the Center for Creative Leadership of top American and European executives whose careers derailed, the inability to build and lead a team was one of the most common reasons for failure.” That takes leadership skill. How do you know?

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Welcome to the September 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! New Leadership. Cy Wakeman of Reality-Based Leadership provided Three Habits that Zap your Productivity at Work. Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership provided a guest post by Michael Bungay Stanier. This month, we are mixing things up!

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Career Advancement

MAY 25, 2021

“Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time and energy needed to develop yourself.” – Denis Waitley. Through active leadership , you can support your direct reports through these transitions. Through active leadership , you can support your direct reports through these transitions.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 1, 2014

Fortunately, you don’t have to experience every leadership mistake personally in order to grow your skills. Switching from individual contributor role to a leadership role is stressful. With the right planning and attitude, you can avoid all of these leadership failures. You have less energy to think about strategy.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 2, 2024

Do you push your reports to meet only the formal goals set for the team, or are there other goals that employees sometimes also strive to achieve? Have any former employees of yours gone on to have particularly noteworthy careers, either within your organization or elsewhere? What's that like when it happens? If so, how many?

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Because leadership requires working together, it’s important for leaders to demonstrate humility (feeling and displaying deep regard for others’ dignity) to create healthy working relationships. Inclusion goes far beyond calling people together for staff meetings that simply provide face time or share routine reports. Do you see me?

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Ethics Self-aware Competitive Advantage Learning-by-Doing 297

Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

In addition, the book covers: The five elements of wellbeing: career, social, financial, physical, community. Why career wellbeing is the foundation of the best possible life. Organizations demand a person’s full energy at work. Make wellbeing part of career development conversations. Remove abusive managers.

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The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

For many years I’ve been facilitating a 360 assessment and leadership development process for a deeply technical science/engineering association. However, their overall leadership scores are generally well below those of other less technical groups. So weak STEMM leadership effectiveness is especially critical.

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Leading Blog

JULY 12, 2019

What matters to the average worker includes career opportunity, meaningful work, a balanced life, a fair wage, and being treated with respect—not increasing output. As a leader or manager, you have to attend to the goals of your board or bosses and to the career aspirations of your workers. Each of your direct reports?

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The Center For Leadership Studies

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In this time of unrest and change, the role of Emotional Intelligence (EI) in leadership has emerged as the critical skill set for leaders. Having watched the corporate leadership landscape for over 25 years now, I am relieved to see EI getting the attention it deserves! But you can use your leadership to begin the healing process.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 15, 2023

A recent report from the University of Oxford found that transitioning to a net zero economy could be worth at least $12 trillion by 2050. ” Green economy The report highlights the growing calls for a so-called “green economy”, with various countries establishing targets and action plans to deliver it. .

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HR Digest

JANUARY 31, 2024

According to reports, Microsoft is planning to lay off 1900 employees from its 22,000-strong gaming workforce to better align themselves with their strategy to support their growing business. After more than a year of negotiations, Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard was finally completed in October last year, with a $68.7

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Start by sketching out your areas of responsibility, the reporting and governance structure of your organization, and any parties—team members, colleagues, board members—you want to have input into your planning. When you invest in your organization’s future leadership, your influence remains long after you’ve left. Let go and move on.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

We found that a strategic approach to leadership was, on average, 10 times more important to the perception of effectiveness than other behaviors studied. Authenticity & Transparency Career & Learning Energy & Engagement helping managers become more strategic strategic thinking teach strategy'

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Do you push your reports to meet only the formal goals set for the team, or are there other goals that employees sometimes also strive to achieve? Have any former employees of yours gone on to have particularly noteworthy careers, either within your organization or elsewhere? What's that like when it happens? If so, how many?

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Delegation Energy Goal Report 91

Center for Creative Leadership

AUGUST 26, 2019

Our series of industry trend research reports — created using our flagship 360-assessment tool, Benchmarks® for Managers — shows that great similarities exist among leaders across industries including healthcare, pharmaceutical, financial, tech, energy, and government (civilian). Army Leadership Trend Report.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 29, 2024

In Working with Emotional Intelligence , Daniel Goleman reports on a study by the Center for Creative Leadership of top American and European leaders whose careers derailed, “the inability to build and lead a team was one of the most common reasons for failure.”

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 9, 2019

Employees are more proactive, more present, and more productive with the application of their discretionary energy. ? This survey also reports that 65 percent of Fortune 1000 executives who were concerned with the upcoming “talent drain” believed trust is a factor in this voluntary turnover.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The Coronation marks a new era of leadership, vision and progress under the British monarchy. The session was entitled “Technology and Business Collaboration: Leadership and Management” and was moderated by Dr Alan Miller CMgr FCMI (former CMI Hong Kong Regional Board Member).

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 7, 2013

Welcome to The January 2013 Leadership Development Carnival: Best of 2012 Edition! Each of the leadership bloggers below were asked to submit their best (i.e., I'd say that's pretty darn efficient leadership development. Believe it or not, this is my number one leadership/management related post. What should I do?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 2, 2019

Guest post from Dianna Booher: A reporter for Newsday called recently for a comment about his story on executive stress and the connection to email. As I shared stats from my organization’s recent survey, the reporter passed along comments from a CEO he’d just interviewed: “Email interrupts me all day long. It’s 1:30.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Do you push your reports to meet only the formal goals set for the team, or are there other goals that employees sometimes also strive to achieve? Have any former employees of yours gone on to have particularly noteworthy careers, either within your organization or elsewhere? What's that like when it happens? If so, how many?

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JANUARY 8, 2012

However, I must say this was the most boring meeting of my career. I was observing a four-hour team meeting of the company’s president and his eight direct reports. Sitting around a table, one at a time each person reported what was happening in his or her area. The president asked questions. There was no real discussion.

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Energy Report Team Efficiency 214

Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

These workers leave for a variety of reasons, including limited career growth and pay. Eagle Hill reports that replacing a mid-level employee – including hiring and training costs, in addition to lost revenue and lost productivity – can add up to 150% of that employee’s salary. He also extols the virtues of self-leadership. “A

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Charan Attrition Morale Survey 257

Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 8, 2018

It’s been reported that the average American adult spends in excess of 10 hours per day in front of a screen. Nearly 80% of Americans now report being afflicted by stress. In addition, Americans report stress levels that are consistently above what they believe is healthy. Consider the following data.

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Joan’s voice broke with emotion as she talked about her growing health problems and the steep price her family has been paying for her “successful career.” Goals, plans, reports, and numbers take over. Profit, wealth, or careers can become goals in themselves rather than the means to fulfilling our deeper, more meaningful destinies.

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Simon Motivation Energy Metrics 69

The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Jack Zenger just published a 10-minute podcast addressing the key leadership issue — Why Do So Many Managers Avoid Giving Praise ? He reports that 37% of people taking Zenger Folkman’s self-assessment don’t give positive reinforcement. Our energy levels are charged from internal and external sources.

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Energy Positioning Follow-up Survey 64

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 10, 2016

Guest post from Suzanne Bates: When I started my first career in television news so many years ago, the term “employee engagement” had been invented. I worked hard, stayed late, and gave my all, because I was on a mission to excel in my career and do something that mattered. But it was irrelevant to me. It’s a pressing issue.

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Team Quality Survey Learning-by-Doing 120

Coaching Tip

APRIL 17, 2011

They will lift the trajectory of your career and speed your progress. What follows are excerpts from chapters taken from “The Corner Office: Indispensable and Unexpected Lessons From CEOs on How to Lead and Succeed,” by Adam Bryant on these five leadership qualities: Passionate Curiosity. There’s an energy from people who have it.

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Succession Leadership Execution Quality 147

CoachStation

AUGUST 26, 2022

The risk of not getting leadership and culture ‘right’ are significant. It’s about understanding how important leadership and engagement are. We’ve also learned that one in two employees have left a job to get away from a manager and improve their overall life at some point in their career.

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Motivation McKinsey Attrition Influence 130

Eric Jacobson

JULY 28, 2021

Do you push your reports to meet only the formal goals set for the team, or are there other goals that employees sometimes also strive to achieve? Have any former employees of yours gone on to have particularly noteworthy careers, either within your organization or elsewhere? What's that like when it happens? If so, how many?

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