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How to Get the Most Benefit from an Executive Development Program

Great Leadership By Dan

In my current role as Director of Executive Development Programs at the University of New Hampshire , I’ve had the opportunity to observe and interact with hundreds of our program participants. Most executive development programs are heavy on the pre-work and evening work – case studies, assessments, interviews, etc….

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Idealized Futures and Team Building Cover Stories

Mike Cardus

Develop 2 to 5 action items that can be implemented in this next year for improvement in the organization. Develop focused areas of what we do well for our community and what we need to improve in our service offerings. We broke into two groups and each had a ‘Cover Story’ template a bunch of markers and 30 minutes. What do you think?

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Leadership Evolution: In a World Of Big Change, Do The Great Lessons Endure?

Terry Starbucker

4) Develop a Zen-like mantra of goals that permeate the minds of all your teammates, and watch great stuff happen. Do these lessons still work, even in my (very) different world? Three years on I would amend this to “Take the Time to Hire Well, and Then, Trust Them ” because it all starts there.

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How to Perform at Your Best in 2016

Next Level Blog

Many of us have a long list of goals. Personal improvement, better health, professional accomplishments, stronger relationships, big projects, financial goals – any or all of those and others could be on your list. What difference would it make if you could boil all of that down to one simple and memorable goal?

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Why Grow Strong Character? - 15 Quotes

Building Personal Strength

Often when writing from this blog I refer to an important concept I call personal strength. Your struggles develop your strengths. If the voice in your head is saying, "What's he talking about?" here's some background. Check this. But if the voice in your head is saying, "Why should I be concerned?"

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4 Barriers to Effective Communication & What to Do About Them

You're Not the Boss of Me

There are many factors that make up what we refer to as “culture” but to me, cultural difference is about attitudes and beliefs that come from our personal environment and experience. As such, two people could get the same message but interpret it in two entirely different ways simply because their frames of reference and language differ.

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Climbing the Ladder of Inference

You're Not the Boss of Me

However, it is a goal of mine to ensure fewer occurrences. Mom, not really understanding what her son was on about, asked him what was not right, at which point, I said, “ I think he’s referring to me. It was developed by Chris Argyris and made known in Peter Senge ’s book The Fifth Discipline. I was trying to help ”.

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