Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 24, 2016

The term “drive performance” is popular in a bottom-line, transactional world made up of managers and executives who lead through their positional authority. When a vision addresses all three of these questions for team members, a tremendous amount of energy is unleashed. What greater good do we serve?

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

By looking into HR technology for HR metrics and insights for better workforce management , companies can plan ahead based on their workforce capabilities instead of over or underestimating what is possible. Attending the training and conferences that other team members gain insight from can also be fruitful. billion by 2026.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 24, 2012

In former roles, in managing leadership development programs at large companies, I would always take the time to talk to participants before and after they attended an external executive development program. Most executive development programs are heavy on the pre-work and evening work – case studies, assessments, interviews, etc….

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Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

The cost of attracting, recruiting, hiring, training and getting new people up to speed is tremendously more costly as well as more wasteful than most realize. DISC Certification Training Program. Our DISC training programs and assessments help hire the right people, reduce conflict, improve communication and unleash team performance.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

By studying swings of the pendulum (likelihoods of failures), one better understands their progress. Failures Make the Best Case Studies – Case studies of success and failure form the basis for planning, improvement, training and other business practices.

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Six Disciplines

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

If there is one maxim which describes the frustration many C-suite executives and senior level managers feel when trying to trying to get a strategy executed, it is: “People know what they are supposed to do. Change Adoption Phase 3: Trained Learning. They just don’t do it.”. Things will likely go wrong.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Editor’s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. The innovative system promised to reduce local governments’ energy consumption and maintenance costs and improve their constituent relationships.

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The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Last week I was facilitating a two-day development retreat with a management team in Western Canada. I wrote about this evidence-based leadership approach last month in Leadership Cross-Training is Powerful and Revolutionary. Linear or traditional training can work well to improve weaker areas.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

If all went well, Blue Sky would soon be using Prime's components in its energy-efficient cars and trucks. "At Lin Dachun, the VP and general manager of the automobile electronics unit, cheered. The only person not applauding was Wang Xiguo, the engineer who had led the development of Prime's power train technology.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2012

First-ever article on Dick Clark, as a business case study. Thanks to great mentors, I learned to be my own best self, a visionary thinker and a repository of great case studies. People are more products of the pop culture than they are of formal business training. It is important to link nostalgia to the future.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Organizational careers don’t look the way they did before,” says Peter Cappelli, professor of management at the Wharton School and coauthor of Managing the Older Worker. It’s more common to see someone younger managing someone older.” Generation-based employee affinity groups are a waste of time and energy, he adds.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Despite the media coverage of Boomers and how a tidal wave of retirements could impact business, many senior managers are kicking the can down the road, putting off the job of creating a system and process for capturing knowledge. Manager can avoid this by taking some steps now to prepare for the day when key workers leave.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Managing a perfectionist can be challenging but it's not impossible. In many cases, this compulsive behavior can be the thorn in the side of a great performer. "I Stomberg Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School and the author of Flying Without a Net. Case Study #1: Find a better job fit.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

Managing your star performers should be no sweat, right? How do you manage someone who is knocking it out of the park? Whether your star performer has just joined your team or has been working for you for a while, here are some tips on how to manage her. “Give her training responsibilities,” she adds.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Despite the media coverage of Boomers and how a tidal wave of retirements could impact business, many senior managers are kicking the can down the road, putting off the job of creating a system and process for capturing knowledge. Manager can avoid this by taking some steps now to prepare for the day when key workers leave.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2011

Dirty Little Secrets : Why buyers can’t buy and sellers can’t sell and what you can do about it by Sharon Drew Morgen Every day, business people face critical buying decisions – from new software to revamped website design to employee training programs. She then presents the same situation using Buying Facilitation ®.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

When we launched the Harvard Business Review/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation last year, we aimed to enlist the most progressive practitioners and thinkers in the collective effort of reinventing what we call "the technology of human accomplishment." To that end, we will be launching the second HBR/McKinsey M-Prize in September.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

. “What I’ve learned about myself as a leader, as an executive, is — I’ll be blunt — I’m a pretty mediocre manager. ” While she’s utterly confident in herself, she just doesn’t identify as top management. She’s happier to think of herself as a data scientist , a computer geek.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation. The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies. Very, very smart.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

How can you reset the expectations of your manager and coworkers? But when you give all your attention to work, you eventually pay a steep price, according to Stewart Friedman, professor of management at the Wharton School and author of Leading the Life You Want: Skills for Integrating Work and Life. What the Experts Say.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2015

It could be that your home life is taking up more of your energy than usual. Burnout — the mental and physical exhaustion you experience when the demands of your work consistently exceed the amount of energy you have available — has been called the epidemic of the modern workplace. Or maybe you’re just bored.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Mornings consisted of lectures and case studies in a traditional classroom in the Stanford Business School; this was the “clean models” part of the program. Exposing people to a conference, a few speeches, or a bit of training isn’t enough to fuel scaling. Change management Customer service Informal leadership'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

Cohen, a professor of management at Babson College and author of Influence Without Authority. It takes up energy, and “prevents our ability to solve anything.”. Tread carefully with your manager. If you handle the situation with grace, your manager will be impressed. Case Study #1: Take a friendly approach.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2013

A 130-year-old energy conglomerate, Black Hills doubled its workforce to about 2,000 employees after an acquisition. Like many energy companies, a combination of challenges — an aging workforce, the need for specialized skills, and a lengthy timeline for getting employees to full competence — created a significant talent risk.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Yelling was an integral part of their leadership and management styles. Harvard Business School recently published and popularized a case study of Sir Alex Ferguson , Manchester United’s recently retired manager and the most successful coach in English Premier League history. They yelled. Is that bad?

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 3, 2007

I've had the opportunity to become a student of the "Topgrading" methodology for talent management. An article in the November, 2007 issue of Training and Development (“The Positive Payoff”) conveys that common viewpoint. Management requires a lot of skills, many of which are necessary, not just desirable. So, you’re fired!”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

The best managers know to coach their employees , but what if someone doesn’t want your help? Resistance to coaching takes many forms,” says Amy Jen Su, managing partner of Isis Associates, an executive coaching and leadership development firm and coauthor of Own the Room: Discover Your Signature Voice to Master Your Leadership Presence.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

How well you react to and manage daily stressors “impacts your relationships with other people, with yourself, and how others perceive you,” she says. Train yourself to recognize “your physiological signs of stress,” says Gonzales. Case study #1: Think positive thoughts. Here are some techniques to do just that.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

How well you react to and manage daily stressors “impacts your relationships with other people, with yourself, and how others perceive you,” she says. Train yourself to recognize “your physiological signs of stress,” says Gonzales. Case study #1: Think positive thoughts. Here are some techniques to do just that.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2012

It is often costly to career momentum and earnings as much as it is a boon," says Amy Wrzesniewski, an associate professor of organizational behavior at the Yale School of Management and coauthor of " Turn the Job You Have into the Job You Want." While the former might require approval from your manager, the latter often doesn't.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2016

What do you need to change as the manager and what do you need to ask your direct report to do differently as well? But nothing quite beats a face-to-face, one-on-one meeting, says Elizabeth Grace Saunders , the author of How to Invest Your Time Like Money , and the founder of Real Life E Time Coaching & Training. Be curious.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

When you’re developing your personal management style, you should observe how others lead , according to Ibarra. Case Study #1: Focus on the opportunity and set small, achievable goals. To accomplish it, he set a goal of completing three sections of Excel Everest, a training program, each week. Watch and learn.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. ” When we talk with corporate executives around the country, they almost always ask the same question: Can managers and CEOs really accomplish their business goals while also advancing society’s goals?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

As one of the most serious industrial accidents in history, the Gulf explosion should be a great case study for corporate leaders across the globe who are trying to manage risk in hazardous activities involving complex technology.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

An important part of your job as a manager is making sure everyone on your team has the right amount of work. Delegating work to your team may sound like a straightforward task of management, but, in fact, it’s complicated. “As a manager, you’re thinking about: What matters to our customers and shareholders? .”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

It's common knowledge that helping employees set and reach goals is a critical part of every manager's job. Employees want to see how their work contributes to larger corporate objectives, and setting the right targets makes this connection explicit for them, and for you, as their manager. What about personal goals?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

How do you build a relationship with a manager who isn’t good at relationships? Socially awkward managers are more common than you might think, according to Annie McKee, senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and author of the forthcoming How to Be Happy at Work. How do you get past his social awkwardness?

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