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Developing a Leadership Training Program for High Potentials: A Case Study

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Developing a Leadership Training Program for High Potentials: A Case Study. Successful organizations know what skills are required for a leader to be effective for the organization to meet its long term strategic goals and grow and prosper. Long term vision/goal setting and the ability to communicate that to the organization.

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Is your Leadership Development Developing Leaders?

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As I wrote Building Blocks — Case Studies of a Serial Entrepreneur , I realized that over the years, I toiled with many of my failures, but I never analyzed the variables of the successes. Shamis is CEO of Winding River Consulting and the author of Building Blocks— Case Studies of a Serial Entrepreneur.

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45 Executive Development Program Tools and Techniques

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A great executive development program should be more than lots of lectures and a few case studies. Goal setting. Participants need to be engaged through a variety of creative approaches. Participant led sessions. Participant experts. Volunteer intervention. How to be a curious learner. Social networking tools. Program website.

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23 Telltale Signs it’s Time to Fire Your Executive Coach

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You find out you’ve been a part of a research project or case study and didn’t give your consent. At the end of the day, you’re not making sufficient progress towards your development goals. Your coach brings bagfuls of their own personal issues to the table that are getting in the way of your coaching relationship.

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The Trouble with Control

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Many of these leaders are well intentioned, they do just want to help their direct reports or expedite progress toward a goal. .” · “I am not above doing the dirty work alongside you. I am just being a servant leader.” But too often, it just gums up the works as things grind to halt waiting for executive review.

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20 Best Leadership Movies; Break Out the Popcorn

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Movies, like a case study, offer real-life portrayals of examples of leadership in crisis. The key that turns entertainment into a foundation for dialogue and learning, according to Turregano, is purposeful viewing — watching the film with a goal in mind.

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How to Get the Most Benefit from an Executive Development Program

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Most executive development programs are heavy on the pre-work and evening work – case studies, assessments, interviews, etc…. Meeting with your manager prior to a program to set learning goals and expectations, and after a program to review learnings and action plans – helps you hold yourself accountable.

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