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First Look: Leadership Books for January 2024

Leading Blog

At the same time, these meetings are the core of a direct report's experience and development at work, including how well they engage and attach to their role, perceive the effectiveness of their manager, and envision their future at the organization. So how do we sustain performance, while avoiding burnout and maintaining balance?

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New Year’s Leadership Development Goals 2017 Edition

Great Leadership By Dan

It’s also a good time to set leadership development goals, either as part of a formal development planning process, or just because it’s a proven way to continuously improve as a leader. I’ll read Daniel Goleman HRB article “ What Makes a Leader ”. I need to spend more time coaching and developing my team. Delegate more.

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Why Teams Often Don’t Work and How to Build Them

The Practical Leader

In Working with Emotional Intelligence , Daniel Goleman, reports, “a study by the Center for Creative Leadership of top American and European executives whose careers derailed, the inability to build and lead a team was one of the most common reasons for failure.” You are not using all your strength,” the scout replied.

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5 Ways Leaders Can Raise Their Emotional Intelligence

Lead Change Blog

Consider the research of psychologist David Goleman at nearly 200 large, global companies in which he found that truly effective leaders are distinguished by a high degree of emotional intelligence. Without being tuned into your emotions, you may project stress or anger onto your team, confusing and disillusioning them.

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Don’t Let STEMM Leadership Be an Oxymoron

The Practical Leader

For many years I’ve been facilitating a 360 assessment and leadership development process for a deeply technical science/engineering association. We often discuss how very smart leaders with deep technical expertise frequently direct rather than develop others. Their team members call this micromanagement.

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Reality Checks Leaders Must Give Themselves in 2016 (Part One)

Lead Change Blog

You need strong foundational work and pillars that may take months if not years to develop. If your geeked-up project team along for the ride doesn’t know what direction they’re headed or why they’re being steered in that direction, then you need to stop, put that bus in reverse, park, get everyone off and start over.

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Is Your Leadership Creating an Energy Crisis?

The Practical Leader

Do you have data, or are you just projecting what you’d like it to be? In Working with Emotional Intelligence , Daniel Goleman reports, “The leader is a key source of the organization’s emotional tone. Dozens of Ways to Block or Boost Energy Which five would best recharge and energize your team/organization?

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