Marshall Goldsmith

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How to Lead People Who Know More Than You Do!

Marshall Goldsmith

By Marshall Goldsmith, Alan Mulally & Sam Shriver / Training Industry Magazine Fall 2016. Peter Drucker presented a very simple definition: “Knowledge Workers are people who know more about what they are doing than their boss does.”

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Hey HR, Can You Really Be Effective Internal Coaches?

Marshall Goldsmith

Definitely. Training : Many external coaches are specialists. HR professionals often have to know about many topic areas and may lack training or experience for coaching in some specific client needs. Many of the great HR professionals I know can manage confidentiality, have great credibility, and are well-trained as coaches.

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A Radical New Approach to Employee Engagement

Marshall Goldsmith

Who is really being trained? Who is really being trained? Who is being trained? I am merely pointing out that ideas which are not implemented definitely will not work! The goal of the program developers is to develop popular programs. Who learns to take responsibility? The speaker! Who learns to take responsibility?

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The #1 Most Dysfunctional Belief of Successful People!

Marshall Goldsmith

After years of medical training, many doctors thought that the constant reminders, especially when delivered by subordinate nurses, were demeaning. Change is possible when we recognize that this stern allegiance to our self-definitions is pointless vanity. The lesson is this: the less we focus on ourselves the more we benefit.

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How Good Do You Want to Be?

Marshall Goldsmith

A few decades ago, my friends and colleagues Frank Wagner and Chris Coffey took the lead in creating Stakeholder Centered Coaching® , a training certification to help coaches learn and apply the philosophy, principles, and practices that I had developed to help successful leaders get better. You don’t have a Ph.D.

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The Most Important Thing You Can Do If You Really Want to Change

Marshall Goldsmith

Many years ago, a VP participant of a training session I facilitated asked me the perfectly reasonable question, “Does anyone who goes to one of these leadership development programs ever really change?”. Why would people go through a training, promise to implement what he/she had learned, and then not do it? I thought about it.

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Building Partnerships

Marshall Goldsmith

Leaders are trained to challenge their managers when they believe that the direction they are being given is not in the best interest of the client. When today’s competitors may become tomorrow’s customers, the definition of “winning” changes. People have memories.