The Practical Leader

MAY 15, 2024

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. That got me reflecting on decades of my journey in this field.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

In the text that follows you’ll hear Sam’s views on leadership, the state of the market, and you’ll be introduced to his retirement ambitions and the future challenges for the boardroom, following his return to Perth, Australia. I have been extremely fortunate to have had a very varied career. On with the interview.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Welcome to the November 2016 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! As I was reviewing this month’s submissions to the Leadership Development Carnival, I was wishing we could all get together in a room to exchange these ideas more deeply and directly. Then it’s no surprise that you’re not moving up in your career.

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Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 4, 2023

Can better management and leadership nurse the NHS back to health? Getting multiple partners to support each other to the hilt within a healthcare system may feel obvious, but nationally it's far from a given. Author Nigel Cassidy / Photography Fabio De Paola Some people say the problem with the NHS is too many managers.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 8, 2023

This is important, as, in leadership conversations, women are often expected to display a combination of competence and warmth due to gendered societal expectations of them. If they’re unable to display this potent mix, they can often face negative career consequences.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

HR strategies for business growth focus on the hiring and retention of the right talent, but they can also involve active participation in key business decisions by bringing in a grounded angle to the discussion. It is often easier for employees to move ahead in their careers when they switch jobs and that is exactly what they resort to.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

A 360-degree appraisal system provides an elaborate set of criteria to evaluate an employee. Edwards and Ewen’s 1996 book 360° Feedback: The Powerful New Model for Employee Assessment & Performance Improvement is one of the earliest discussions of the 360-degree feedback systems but the multi-rater concept goes as far back as WWII.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 16, 2023

One morning, I asked a group of very quiet participants a series of questions about their organization’s climate and leadership effectiveness. His observation points to a big leadership problem, “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. I was getting very few responses. This was going nowhere fast.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Welcome to the February 2015 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! For those of you who watched the Super Bowl this weekend, did you gain any leadership takeaways? It seems that sports frequently provides an opportunity for leadership analogies! Let’s Get Started. Anne Perschel, Ph.D. , Jennifer V.

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Women on Business

AUGUST 28, 2012

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE : How do you create teams that employees actually want to be a part of and are excited and motivated to participate in? Georgia Feiste of Lead Change Group says that the path to powerful and effective leadership iscommon purpose. She explains: ← Leader Athletes: Training Long for the Long Run.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 30, 2024

Community awards examples include Business of the Year Award, Excellence in Leadership and Service Award, Small Business of the Year Award, New Business of the Year Award, and Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Having any volunteer experience will help them ahead in their career. For that, you can start a community awards program.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

Whether you are new to studying leadership or have practiced and studied it for many years, I am sure you will benefit and enjoy the leadership lessons today’s post provides. One of your first leadership lessons is “A subordinate’s trust in their leader is the most important factor in the success of any organization.”

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Leading Blog

JULY 10, 2019

M ANY of today’s leaders are saying: I know leadership is about people, not tasks; effectiveness, not efficiency. The Benefits of Engaging Leadership. They listen…then collaborate on how they might support their emerging leader’s goals to leverage their strengths, nurture their natural skills, and achieve their career goals.

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The Practical Leader

JUNE 21, 2023

For most of my career, I’ve been a “monomaniac on a mission” about integrating change and development efforts within a systemic culture development process. Balancing Management and Leadership We use our compass model during many Leadership Team Retreats for assessment and implementation planning.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 9, 2011

(Terry’s Note: Hi all – Today I’m introducing a new series of posts, written by guest writer Adam Tenenbaum , called Front Line Leadership. Adam is currently right in the middle of his leadership journey, overseeing a large staff at a very successful retail operation.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 5, 2010

Michael Lee Stallard Insights on Leadership and Employee Engagement Home About Hire to Speak Press Kit July’s Leadership Carnival Published by Michael Lee Stallard on July 5, 2010 03:56 am under E Pluribus Partners Every month I participate in a leadership carnival with several bloggers whose work I respect.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 3, 2020

Servers not served by their managers and the organization’s systems and processes don’t produce happier customers. In fact, training them to care about customers often backfires since they become even more frustrated with apologizing to customers and finding workarounds for systemic problems. But it doesn’t last.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 18, 2014

DDI Senior Vice President, Leadership Solutions stated, “A staggering 63 percent of the survey group never had a formal mentor and considering that 67 percent rated mentorship as highly important in helping to advance and grow their careers—this indicates a critical gap in businesswomen’s development.” Byham, Ph.D.,

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

Working with a group of executives that are all re-starting their academic careers in pursuit of an Executive MBA is a challenge that I welcome. Here is what one participant had to say about the Team Building & Leadership Program; I had attended a few retreats and participated in several team building exercises over the years.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 20, 2015

Next month’s Festival is all about “Spring Cleaning” for your leadership or team (e.g. Wally Bock of Three-Star Leadership reminds us that breakthrough results and business success take more than smarts. He mastered these four career hacks before he turned 25. New participants welcome. Follow Bruce. .

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 20, 2015

Fifteen years ago, I reinvented myself and started a new career in faith-based social services. COI kids will be participating in this joint project with fourth graders at Hollywood Central Elementary School and the children at the Light of Future School #1 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. One of these programs is Children of Inmates, Inc.

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The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

.” In another organization, I was facilitating a development workshop with a few “prisoners” as participants. Actually, calling them “participants” was generous. They’d been forced to attend and weren’t participating in our discussions. ” Leadership is emotional.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Submissions due March 11th– new participants always welcome, please use this form. According to Wally Bock of Three Star Leadership , great bosses come in all shapes and sizes. Jesse Lyn Stoner of Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership says that great leaders are great listeners. Give us your best fresh insight!

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 24, 2012

In my current role as Director of Executive Development Programs at the University of New Hampshire , I’ve had the opportunity to observe and interact with hundreds of our program participants. However, there’s an important variable that I may have the least control over – but matters as much as anything else – and that’s the participant.

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HR Digest

JULY 14, 2022

In an exclusive interview with The HR Digest, Hope calls for a commitment to flexible working, diverse recruiting, and leadership in creating cultures of diversity, equity and inclusion. Second, it’s important to embed your evidence-based DEI strategy into your systems and processes to drive equity.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 23, 2023

Denise balances management and leadership very effectively. He’s the poster boy for making STEMM leadership an oxymoron. Is Your Leadership Engaging or Enraging? Work with your team members to get their input on how their jobs can be enriched and broadened to align with their personal strengths, passions, and career goals.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 14, 2018

The second stage is ideology , in which people begin to do their own thinking but buy into a thought system that claims to have an answer for everything. Employees and managers in the autonomy stage are ready for mature leadership. Training in ethical analysis can play a key role in developing ethical leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 22, 2013

valued by an organization’s leadership, just take a peek at the agendas for their business review meetings, board meetings, operations reviews, quarterly shareholder meetings, sales meetings, or any other kind of management meeting that permeates a busy executives’ calendar. Hold your leadership team accountable. Take notes.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2015

When I began my career, I set my sights on one day being a manager, maybe even a director. What I learned within a short span of time is that titles and org charts are invisible to the definition of leadership. In his book, Leadership is an Art , Max DePree asks the question, “Do your employees walk around like they own the place?

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Coaching Tip

AUGUST 1, 2016

Change agents create new cultures by fostering relational dynamics among participants that include more respectful interactions and broader systems thinking. This leadership can be exercised by virtually anyone who recognizes his or her power as a coach and role model. Can't Get Enough Leadership , . Related articles.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

For example, before launching a new performance review system this year – dubbed Performance Everyday and hinged on our culture elements – we used crowdsourcing and other tools to hear directly from 3Mers about how to best improve our approach. . What is that one leadership practice you wish to start as we buckle up for the ‘new normal?’.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

Ask lots of questions; be friendly and interested but don’t participate in gossip or negativity. As you start to build new systems for processing information, responding to requests, keeping track of projects and time, work to also build the habits of upkeep that will make those systems work. THE LEADERSHIP GAP.

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Nathan Magnuson

JANUARY 28, 2013

Or it could be a group of high potential employees being groomed for additional leadership responsibilities down the road. A good rule of thumb is to match mentees with mentors who are 1-2 steps ahead of them in terms of career level, competency, certification, etc. Choose a System for Mentors/Mentees to Connect. Mentoring 101.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

In November, the You Matter Marathon is being held, when participants hand out one You Matter card to one person a day to remind people that they matter. We are free to choose our spouses, careers, house, car, and president – of course within practical boundaries, but still. Do you think that you matter at work?

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HR Digest

JANUARY 18, 2019

The problem is: the corporate system is constantly evolving and little is being done to comply with the entire change with respect to employees’ behavior. A learner-centric model in the workplace is playing a huge role in trailing a befitting employee training system. Methods to improve employee development support system.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 24, 2010

What key actions will help me to align myself to those values and belief system? Establish quality circles or improvement/quality focus groups and rotate people to give everyone a chance to participate. Train your middle managers on quality to build a right leadership ecosystem. How will those actions add value to organization?

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