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Frontline Festival: Leaders share tips about professional development

Let's Grow Leaders

This month’s festival gives tips about professional development for leaders. How do you invest in your professional development on a regular basis? He shares that he helps you clarify and develop you thinking on topics you are interested in (plus it can build your reputation and potentially help you find work). Follow John.

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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

This White Paper is excerpted and adapted from Ultra Leadership: Go Beyond Usual and Ordinary to Engage Others and Lead Real Change (Giuliano, Lioncrest, 2016). Research by Gallup, as reported in The State of the American Workplace in 2013, discovered that roughly 70% of workers were disengaged. Where are we? Next Practices.

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StrategyDriven White Paper Advises Leaders on Preventing Catastrophic Industrial Accidents

Strategy Driven

StrategyDriven released Preventing Catastrophic Industrial Accidents , a white paper revealing how high-risk industry leaders can reduce their significant event risk exposure through the cost effective adaptation of key aspects of the U.S. Download the white paper by clicking here. About the Authors. All rights reserved.

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Net Zero Undermined By The Lack Of Skills

The Horizons Tracker

The Levelling Up White Paper makes explicit reference to the Net Zero agenda, stating that the transition “could have large and long-lasting effects on virtually every aspect of the economy, including jobs and skills, infrastructure and technology, and investment and innovation”. This compares to £33,400 for the average UK employee.

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360 Feedback Tools Can Help or Hurt Leadership Development

The Practical Leader

They’ve become a foundation of leadership development efforts because they’re like a GPS unit showing leaders their current leadership effectiveness (“you are here”) and mapping a route to increased effectiveness. This often leads to: Participants feeling beat up by feedback reports. Erosion of confidence.

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Winners Are Born In Difficult Times

Tanveer Naseer

At best, leadership development is a fun day out, at worst it is a gut wrenching, annoying exercise that leaves you cringing as someone teaches you to suck eggs. And it is managers’ ability to innovate, collaborate and adapt to a constantly changing environment that are the leadership skills we most need to develop.

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Poor Leadership Costs Average Organization Over $1 Million Dollars Year

Six Disciplines

A new white paper from The Ken Blanchard Companies shows that poor leadership is costing the average company an amount equal to 7% of their annual revenue. Research from Blanchard shows that direct report productivity can be improved 5-12% through better management practices. The three big culprits? Employee turnover.