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Employee Growth: How to Better Support Team Member Development

Let's Grow Leaders

In this week’s Asking for a Friend, I speak with Whitney Johnson, author of Smart Growth, about how to support your team along the S curve of employee growth. When I read Whitney’s new book, I was struck by how her model reflected my own journey of taking the leap from Verizon Wireless executive to entrepreneur.

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How to Lead Like a Pig

Next Level Blog

In a truly innovative move, the new management team rewrote the employee handbook giving the green light to profanity and dirty jokes “because a loose, fun, nonlinear atmosphere is important to the creative process. With the newspaper industry being what it is, the employees of the Trib had some choices to make.

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The Rainmaker 'Fab Five' Blog Picks of the Week - A Look Ahead at 2011

Sales Wolf Blog

Michael Carty, XpertHR : Why It's Time for HR to 'Step to the Front' in 2011 Drew Tarvin, Humor's' Office : 5 Work Resolutions You Shouldn't Make (And One You Should) Kaihan Krippendorff, Fast Company : Five Innovative New Year's Resolutions Roberta Matuson, Fast Company : Will 2011 Be Your Best Year Ever ?

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Embrace, then apply

Lead on Purpose

How long did it take to put into practice the things you learned? Conversely, how long did it take to forget the details of the information conveyed in the training? Filed under: Purpose Tagged: | career advancement , services , training , value « Manager vs. ?

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Book Review: Halftime

Lead on Purpose

This is the time when most people focus more on their careers and less on others (and other significant causes). Bob talks about how his career (in TV station business) took off. It provides great advice on how to make your life significant in ways you probably never imagined.

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Credit comes later

Lead on Purpose

Innovative engineers are recognized for their inventions. CEOs are praised for their vision. Top salespeople are rewarded with high commissions. The rewards for applied skill and hard work come quickly after the work is complete.

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Three steps to the next big opportunity

Lead on Purpose

You’ll find satisfaction in knowing you helped someone else, and doing so will benefit your career. Most of the time the new opportunities are not obvious; after all, when things become obvious they are usually past the “opportunity&# stage.

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