The Practical Leader

MARCH 13, 2024

As I wrote about the accountability mess , a good person in a bad system or process sets that them up for failure — and blame. About 85% of the time the fault is caused by the system, processes, structure, or practices of the organization. These core systems either boost or block performance.

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Experience to Lead

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Whether you’re training Olympic athletes or spearheading a start-up destined to be the biggest name in your industry, knowing how to lead a team to success takes consistent work. Either way, understanding that true leadership means leaving room for growth is crucial to becoming the best leader you can be.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Leadership is about hope. These foundational leadership skills will make all aspiring executives more effective in their roles today and lift the trajectory of their careers. The political environment in the United States as elsewhere is driven by fear-based narratives. And that feeds our approach in society at large.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2019

T HE RESPONSIBILITIES that fall under a leadership title vary significantly at each company. Still, one thing is true for all—organizational leadership must be effective for teams to succeed. Without effective leadership in place, organizations can’t achieve their goals, and employees may start looking for jobs elsewhere.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Additionally, the CPO works towards enhancing employee training and development programs to effectively nurture talent and equip employees with the necessary skills to excel in their roles. They focus on enhancing employee training and development programs to nurture talent and improve skills.

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Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

How better management invigorates healthcare Words Nigel Cassidy The world’s best-performing healthcare organisations are led by trained medical leaders. A decade on from Sir Bruce’s wise words, surprisingly few doctors are appointed to senior leadership positions. Want to learn more about how better management can revive healthcare?

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 6, 2021

Welcome to the April 2021 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Julie Winkle Giulioni shared Career Success 2.0: Communication. Development.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 3, 2020

Recently a training director asked for a customer service training workshop. As we discussed what she was looking for, it became clear she wanted “customer courtesy” or “smile 101” training. This has been a recurring issue throughout my consulting career. But it doesn’t last.

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Rich Gee Group

AUGUST 31, 2023

Public opinion, in this digital age, can make or break careers. Have a Core Support System The role of a strong support system—whether it's family, friends, or trusted colleagues—can't be overstated. Action : Make it a point to have regular check-ins with your support system.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Posted in Leadership Development As an avid proponent of Chief Learning Officer Magazine and events, I make a point of perusing most everything that comes across my desk from them. Their recent magazine had an interesting article by Glenn Llopis from the Center for Hispanic Leadership. Email me today !

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 4, 2019

Welcome to the June Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, team building, and more. Chip Bell shared The Secret Sauce of Leadership Communications. Karin writes: “Your employees go to training.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Roughly speaking, we have two thinking systems. Daniel Kahneman, who won the Nobel Prize for his research on behavioral economics, calls them System 1 and 2. I think autopilot system and intentional system describe these systems more clearly. The autopilot system corresponds to our emotions and intuitions.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 11, 2021

That there remains a gender gap in leadership roles is sadly still undeniable, despite efforts and legislation designed to improve matters in recent years. “This can only exacerbate the slow progress of women moving more fully into senior leadership roles—something that organizations and society must be fully attentive to correcting.”

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CO2

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

What is Bad Leadership? Bad leadership encompasses a range of behaviors, qualities, and styles that negatively impact an organization , its employees, and its goals. Here are some key aspects that define bad leadership: Poor Communication : Bad leaders often fail to communicate effectively with their team.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 7, 2014

I am a business leadership coach who deconstructed and recreated the system we use for hiring. Along with becoming very critical of the “old” system that typically gets bad [.] Career Development Workplace Issues Apprenticeship hiring Training'

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 7, 2021

A trauma, critical care and acute care surgeon by training, Dr. Ivy grew up in the U.S. Following the Navy, he completed a fellowship at Yale in surgical critical care then held a series of increasingly senior leadership positions at hospitals in Connecticut. I came out of it and have gone on and had a good career.”. And I did.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Welcome to the February Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, productivity, development, engagement, team-building, and more. Wally Bock of Three Star Leadership shared Things We Don’t Say Often Enough. Communication.

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Rich Gee Group

MARCH 19, 2014

We all know the common and famous careers out there. Did you know there are many great career paths that are ‘hidden’ from the normal news mainstream? Careers we probably know exist if we really thought about it, but we tend to forget them when we look at the entire career picture. BEST JOB EVER.

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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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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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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 1, 2019

Guest post by Bill Treasurer : Leadership is typically associated with action—with trying, doing, and achieving. However, there’s another side to leadership that focuses on the followers: trust. To make matters worse, many leaders and managers work in organizations layered with forced hierarchies and inherently distrustful systems.

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Lead from Within

APRIL 19, 2024

As an executive leadership coach, it’s important to ensure that my clients address these challenges. Provide ongoing training and development opportunities to help them stay up-to-date with AI’s evolving capabilities. Employees have less time for peer learning, and AI-enabled digital tools continuously adapt on their own.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2020

We’re changing jobs more than ever and pursuing multiple careers and projects simultaneously. Take a moment to consider how many jobs you’ve had and how many careers you’re yet to embark upon? As humans, what we crave are open, fluid, and personalized systems. I N 1984 a typical business competency would last 30 years.

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Lead from Within

APRIL 12, 2024

Empower Human-Machine Collaboration: Encourage collaboration between humans and AI systems. Provide training and opportunities for growth. Be open to adjusting your leadership style and strategies as the AI landscape evolves. Use data-driven decision-making to guide your strategic choices and optimize business operations.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

FlexJobs’s Career Pulse Survey ascertained that 65 percent of respondents wanted to keep working remotely while 32 percent wanted a hybrid model. It is often easier for employees to move ahead in their careers when they switch jobs and that is exactly what they resort to. In addition, Remote.co

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Leadership BS by Jeffrey Pfeffer, is a very important book. Pfeffer wants to know why, in spite of the thousands of leadership books, blogs and seminars are there so many leadership failures? It’s not surprising that students of leadership often become disillusioned upon entering the workplace. He’s right.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 26, 2019

When retention is poor, leaders spend valuable time interviewing and training rather than making progress. Give Opportunities for Development Leaders often assume that opportunities for development and career growth only come with a promotion. She is a leadership strategist and founder of Awake Leadership Solutions.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

In this captivating interview with The HR Digest , Josh Bersin opens up about the transformative milestones that have defined his remarkable career. As the CEO of The Josh Bersin Company, he anticipates monumental shifts in the HR landscape and urges organizations to embrace systemic HR and AI technologies.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

45 Career Advice Experts Share Their Blueprint for Career Success (Plus Leaderboard)​ Does your career seem to be a struggle at times? It’s why I wrote my book Why Career Advice Sucks™ … to share the stories of my own career success and failures and help you grow your career more quickly.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Welcome to the February 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! ” As I’ve seen in my own leadership journey, that’s often the choice that leads to new and exhilarating paths. Beth recaps, “Beth Beutler refreshes us on an important leadership skill—saying ‘no’ with grace.” Let’s Get Started.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 6, 2012

Welcome to the May edition of the Leadership Development Carnival ! A blog "Carnival" is typically a collection of recent blog posts organized around a common theme, in this case, leadership development. She's also been a consistent Twitter supporter of Great Leadership. Jennifer V.

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Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Reprinted with permission from the book, Outward Bound Lessons to Live a Life of Leadership by Mark Brown, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. Crafting purpose comes from a leader’s own value system. Product designers and engineers worked on creating a filtration system that was affordable and easily transportable. Serving Others.

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 6, 2021

The book, Step Up , shows readers how to step up to the plate during six critical leadership moments. The book's two authors awhile back shared these insights with me: A Conversation with Henry Evans and Colm Foster, authors of Step Up What is a “leadership moment”? What are common misconceptions about leadership?

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The Center For Leadership Studies

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

When you actively consider the people that have made contributions of significance to the field of global leadership development over the years, you don’t get too far down that list before Marshall Goldsmith’s name appears. Ponder, just for a moment, how different leadership was back then—in so very many ways. Daunting tasks!

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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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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 14, 2012

Unless you are an heir to a throne, people usually don’t begin their careers leading a large organization. Charan, Drotter, and Noel wrote about six leadership passages in their classic book The Leadership Pipeline. However, they use the terms “leadership” and “management” interchangeably. There’s a big difference, right?

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HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

In an exclusive interview with HR Digest, Trent Henry, EY’s Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), shares key strategies driving EY’s commitment to diversity, innovation, employee well-being, and leadership development. Through Henry’s insights, HR professionals gain valuable perspectives on navigating HR leadership in a dynamic environment.

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