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October 2017 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Willy Steiner of Executive Coaching Concepts provided The Importance of GRIT – My Recent Adventure in the Wild. As a leader, you own curing this problem in your environment. Mary Ila Ward of Horizon Point Consulting provided What is Diversity and Why Does it Matter? Find David on Twitter at @davidmdye. Resilience.

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5 Steps to Thinking in New Boxes

Leading Blog

Use prospective thinking “Prospective thinking means taking a more expansive, long-term view of things, staying open to all sorts of possibilities, and doing your best to stay fully aware of what is happening both within and outside your organization or your immediate environment.” Step 3: Diverge.

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Frontline Festival: Leaders Share about Having Fun

Let's Grow Leaders

Michelle Cubas, CPCC, ACC, of Positive Potentials, LLC advises that in today’s stressful work environment, fun must be baked into our workflow to offer comic relief. Diversity of experiences is a must! Oscar Wilde. Even though you are growing up, you should never stop having fun. Nina Dobrev. Follow Michelle. Follow Chris.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2021

Leading Blog

The political environment in the United States as elsewhere is driven by fear-based narratives. Instead of keeping strategic deliberations within the C-Suite, they open up strategic initiatives to a diverse group of stakeholders—front-line employees, experts, suppliers, customers, entrepreneurs, and even competitors.

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October 2017 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Willy Steiner of Executive Coaching Concepts provided The Importance of GRIT – My Recent Adventure in the Wild. As a leader, you own curing this problem in your environment. Mary Ila Ward of Horizon Point Consulting provided What is Diversity and Why Does it Matter? ” Find Julie on Twitter at @julie_wg. Resilience.

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7 Ways to Encourage a Team to Be More Innovative

Ron Edmondson

Creative thoughts are often fueled better outside your normal environment. ” Be sure to welcome diversity of thought. Create an environment where innovation and outside-the-box thinking is acceptable. Teams I lead learn soon that when I travel I return with some fresh perspective – even some wild ideas.

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Why Amplifying Colleagues’ Voices At Work Benefits Us All

The Horizons Tracker

Working in the wild. It provided the researchers with an opportunity to test if the same results would emerge in a real-life setting as they did in the experimental environment.

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