HR Digest

MAY 19, 2024

Any leader who believes in a gentle, supportive approach to management must pause to ask themselves, “What is positive leadership?” This is where the concept of positive leadership comes into play–a transformative approach that can profoundly impact organizational culture, employee engagement, and overall productivity.

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HR Digest

APRIL 7, 2023

Ethical Behaviors for Building Workplace Trust Workplace integrity can be built over time when trust is established in an organization. Leaders and managers should communicate with their teams regularly and clearly, making it an ethical behavior. This article discusses effective strategies for building trust in the workplace.

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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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HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

Providing effective performance feedback examples and performance appraisal comments can help managers provide constructive feedback that empowers employees to achieve their goals. Responds to feedback constructively and with an open mind. Provides clear and constructive feedback to colleagues and team members.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Regular board evaluations and leadership assessments provide valuable insights into the board’s dynamics, functioning, and overall effectiveness. Their expertise in leadership advisory and executive coaching solutions brings a valuable outsider perspective to the evaluation process.

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Mark Sanborn

JUNE 28, 2023

Becoming a great leader takes time, but there are things you can do today—right now—to improve your leadership. Commit to expanding your knowledge, staying updated on industry trends, and seeking out new perspectives. Develop Authentic Relationships Great leadership is built on real relationships.

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HR Digest

MAY 8, 2024

If you want to grow in your career, constant evolution and progress are essential, and requesting constructive feedback is one way to push you further in your journey. Image: Pexels Asking for Feedback at Work—Exploring the Pros and Cons Requesting constructive feedback comes with its own set of challenges and complications.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 26, 2019

Too often people stop focusing on their personal learning and development once they reach a leadership position. It’s important to not just stay up to speed on the technical aspects of your team’s work, but also on general leadership and management practices. Leaders show they are dependable by following through on commitments.

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CO2

JUNE 18, 2014

by Gary Cohen 21 Obstacles to Leadership. Not learning to work with and motivate another generation of workers who have different work ethics and values. Failure to commit. These obstacles can undermine and derail great leadership. The post 21 Obstacles to Leadership appeared first on Elements of Leadership.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 27, 2012

Consider, for example, the following three lessons these leaders ascribe as being key to their collective success as an organization, and how the Costa Cruises leadership’s failure to do the same has now cast some serious doubt about the future viability of their organization.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 4, 2016

Welcome to the July 2016 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Although mid-summer is a time when many of us slow down (as we should), this compilation of excellent cutting-edge leadership thinking will help motivate you to hit the ground running when your vacation or other summer relaxation period ends. Let’s Get Started.

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 10, 2016

Integrity can be defined as always interacting with others ethically and honorably. People with integrity aspire to the highest ethical standards and expect the same behavior of others. They approach their work with honesty, and having made a commitment, keep their word. Integrity: An Essential Component of Servant Leadership.

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

” “We encourage constructive dissent!” Warner Burke has pointed out that “knows how to influence up in a constructive way” scored last place on managerial effectiveness in all items when people evaluated their managers in NASA – immediately before the Columbia space shuttle exploded.

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Ethics Guidelines Executive Coaching Construction 122

CO2

JUNE 18, 2014

21 Obstacles to Leadership. Not learning to work with and motivate another generation of workers who have different work ethics and values. Failure to commit. These obstacles can undermine and derail great leadership. The post 21 Obstacles to Leadership appeared first on CO2 Partners. Not trusting subordinates.

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Leadership Mentor Resistance Executive Coaching 60

Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 7, 2016

Too many crisis plans focus on external issues and the media rather than providing a simple, sensible, constructive, achievable response strategy. Include specific executive leadership instructions in all plans and response scenarios. The Grand Strategy is a 5-step leadership-driven process. Note the word “process.”

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HR Digest

AUGUST 13, 2023

Establishing guidelines for respectful and constructive communication to ensure that discussions remain productive and inclusive. Encouraging transparency, trust, and ethical behavior at all levels of the organization to foster a culture of integrity and accountability.

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Environment Positioning Strategy Diversity 52

Nathan Magnuson

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

At the end of the day, no one should feel guilty for profits that are earned legally and ethically. Construction companies can donate not just materials for charity projecst, but also expertise. One of my favorite organizations, Chick-fil-A, places a high value on organizational leadership as well as chicken sandwiches.

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How To Conflict of Interest eBook Consultative 151

Skip Prichard

AUGUST 25, 2019

” Those words are printed on the back cover of Five Frequencies: Leadership Signals that Turn Culture into Competitive Advantage. I followed up with the authors to learn more about their leadership philosophy. But you should pick a longer time horizon for calculating ROI on your leadership choices.

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Competitive Advantage Leadership Analysis Tips 97

Leading with Trust

AUGUST 18, 2019

Competence – Too often people stop focusing on their personal learning and development once they reach a leadership position. It’s important to not just stay up to speed on the technical aspects of your team’s work, but also on general leadership and management practices. Here’s a good place to start: Show. What are their interests?

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Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

29 Leadership Experts Share Their Top 19 Leadership Competencies & Behaviors for Success (Plus Leaderboard) It seems that the world has a lack of leadership these days, doesn’t it? Why does poor leadership seem to be such an epidemic in government, business, and nonprofits?

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Leadership Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Open-book 102

You're Not the Boss of Me

DECEMBER 28, 2013

More importantly, if they fail to constructively accommodate these differences, they will also fail to create an environment in which people from each generation are willing to do their best work. For instance, legal and ethical boundaries are permanent fixtures in any reputable company and must be strongly enforced.

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Diversity Construction Webinar Training 97

Frank Sonnenberg Online

MARCH 14, 2019

His FrankSonnenbergOnline was named one of the “Best 21st Century Leadership Blogs” and his thoughts are among the most frequently quoted on the Internet. In addition, make your feedback constructive; critique the act rather than demeaning the person; and give actionable advice rather than speaking in broad generalities.

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Advice Short-term Follow-up Ethics 77

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2017

Our research in Egypt , Zimbabwe , and India shows that organizations should view the prospect of building a strong ethical reputation in such environments as an opportunity, and consider the costs of resisting corruption as an investment in building such a reputation. Ethics Can Be a Differentiator.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JANUARY 5, 2013

More importantly, if they fail to constructively accommodate these differences, they will also fail to create an environment in which people from each generation are willing to do their best work. For instance, legal and ethical boundaries are permanent fixtures in any reputable company and must be strongly enforced.

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Diversity Construction Webinar Training 88

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

To get you started I will expand on the list that MIT research scientist Peter Gloor calls the “genetic code” of collaboration: learning networks, ethical principles, trust and self-organization, knowledge sharing, and transparency. The key is to develop determination and commitment for the process. Here is how it could look: i.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

Following are a few of the ways Admiral Clark and his leadership team built bridges so that everyone felt connected and a part of the Navy. We are committed to something larger than ourselves: the protection of America’s interests around the world and democracy.” He encouraged what he referred to as “constructive friction.”

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Employees must buy into the process by offering constructive input. Willingness requires complete and never-ending commitment by management. In order to complete the chain, organizations must insist that suppliers, professional services counselors and vendors show demonstrated quality programs, as well as ethics statements.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

It’s tempting to think leadership also follows a continuum, one anchored by bad and great, with good somewhere in between. This deeply rooted belief reassures us that leadership follows a predictable pattern, and that through hard work and experience one can progress along the drawn line. Leadership is not one-dimensional.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

We believe the strength of any team is in the followers and there can be no leaders without followers, but the vast majority of research to date has focused on the leadership side of this equation. It is worth keeping in mind that some jobs have clear leadership requirements; virtually all jobs have followership requirements.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2015

Addictive organizations show frozen feelings and ethical deterioration. Walls and filters have been established which insulate top management from criticism (which is viewed as harming the chain of armor, rather than as potentially constructive). Commitment from workers drops because no corporate culture was created or sustained.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

There is no doubt that we need transparency to know what is happening in our organizations, and that we can use the information in constructive ways that reduce wrongdoing. Consider, for example, research I and several collaborators published in Leadership Quarterly. The consequences of too much transparency. Promote forgiveness.

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How To Ethics Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2017

But my research into the social psychology of power suggests that — without exculpating corrupt individuals — we also need to take a hard look at the social systems in which they commit their abuses. And they behave in an impulsive fashion — they violate the ethics of the workplace.

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Chris Brady

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

When I make a commitment to someone, I stick with them through thick and thin. My life demonstrates that almost anything worthwhile requires a long term commitment. I am committed to fight for justice. Once I have committed to something, there is no stopping me.   They are individually individualistic. 

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Learning-by-Doing Follow-up Commitment Long-term 59

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2011

At Starbucks, that has meant contributing both money and time to meet local needs in the communities it serves, promoting sustainable farming communities and ethically sourcing coffee, and packaging and transporting its products with sensitivity to their environmental impact. He's now proved, for a second time, that his approach can work.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

These and other changes are evidence of a steady and growing recognition that today’s gender imbalance are a business and leadership issue. Slowly but surely, the shift from the 20 th century view that “gender imbalance is a women’s problem” to the more 21 st century “gender imbalance is a leadership challenge” is beginning to take root.

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Diversity CEO Skills Training 8

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

My advice is find something you can commit 100% of your effort to, and you will succeed. Prioritise the commitments that provide the highest return. However, it's also the MOST CRITICAL skill in senior management and leadership positions. Be able to receive and give constructive feedback. What are your values?

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Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2015

I told Claire two stories about leaders as a better way of understanding mindfulness and leadership choices. For both Randy and Natalie, cultivating mindfulness means being able to see the patterns at play, become less reactive, and make clearer leadership choices. Commit to doing one activity per day more mindfully.

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