Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 20, 2013
'Leadership development used to be easier. Early in my career, my team was small, and I was in HR leading other HR folks. We all spoke the same language, and everyone believed in leadership development. Then a move out of HR to a team 50 times the size in a union environment. More tricky, but [.] The post Leadership Development Made Easy appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
N2Growth Blog
AUGUST 20, 2013
'By Brian Layer , Chair, Organizational Development, N2growth. Years ago, I picked up a pearl of wisdom from coaching great, John Wooden. Make each day your masterpiece! Living at that level is a powerful and challenging concept. Most of us fall short and it‘s easy to blame our circumstances and those around us for their distraction. Yet, a leader has a duty to perform at the highest possible level and an honest assessment may reveal days laden with missed leadership opportunities.
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Lead Change Blog
AUGUST 20, 2013
'Posted in Leadership Development Growing up on the plains of South Dakota, the month of August rolled in as a transition time. Our summer was nearly over and the routines of school would once again be upon us. The days were hotter than the usual summer days yet the promise of cooler weather was in reach. During the days [.].
Tanveer Naseer
AUGUST 20, 2013
'When it comes to leadership, there’s a common understanding that true leadership doesn’t require formal titles or roles. Rather, it involves our ability to inspire and rally those around us to commit their talents, creativity, and insights towards a shared purpose, and then doing whatever we can to help them to succeed in that effort. It’s looking at leadership from that lens that’s compelled me to share these three important lessons – along with one of my own – from a m
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Lead Change Blog
AUGUST 20, 2013
'Posted in Leadership Development Light Your World Reviews [link] Today’s world, for the most part, has been framed in a mechanistic model based on Newton’s laws of the physical universe. Of course this model continues to be both valid and useful. In fact, this model of thought gave rise to the tremendous breakthroughs in the industrial age. Yet could it be this mechanistic model [.].
Women on Business
AUGUST 20, 2013
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Leadership Freak
AUGUST 20, 2013
'Alarmists are irritating. They push the panic button at the first hint of smoke. They see what might go wrong and yell fire. While you’re dealing with “real” issues, they’re dealing with things that might happen. Reject the temptation to ignore “alarmists” who bring up potential problems. The land of leadership is the land of […].
Engaging Leader
AUGUST 20, 2013
'This episode takes a step back from specific gamification solutions to discuss the bigger picture of this hot, but still-emerging trend. Why are game-inspired tactics becoming popular to engage employees in employees in areas such as collaboration, wellness, and retirement planning? What are examples of complete solutions, small steps, and low-tech approaches?
Tony Mayo
AUGUST 20, 2013
'Another good reason to avoid jargon, shibboleths, and technical terms with colleagues and prospects. It makes you sound untrustworthy, even criminal. Listeners naturally wonder, “What are you hiding behind those obscure references, technical terms, and acronyms?” For good reason. The word jargon originally meant unintelligible noises resembling speech, like the twittering of […].
Lead from Within
AUGUST 20, 2013
'We all have experienced difficult events, emotional hurts, and serious mistakes. Life is never without struggle, and the way to live it on life’s terms is to accept ourselves as we truly are, and embrace the journey. The heart of struggle is an important part of our leadership’s journey. It identifies our limitations and our pain—and our quest to move through them despite of them.
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Tony Mayo
AUGUST 20, 2013
'CEOs and their Boards agree. Executives need coaching on delegation, listening, and conflict resolution. Are you ready to get to work on these aspects of your job? –What CEOs Really Want from Coaching Gretchen Gavett Harvard Business Review.
Engaging Leader
AUGUST 20, 2013
'Many organizations are now introducing one or more HSA medical options for employees, or re-emphasizing their existing HSA option(s) for them. “As a result of rising premiums and the uncertainty being brought on by the Affordable Care Act, industry experts expect more employers to use account-based plans like high-deductible health plans. A March Towers Watson […].
leaderCommunicator
AUGUST 20, 2013
'Last week we covered the recent case of AOL CEO Tim Armstrong firing an employee (Patch creative director, Abel Lenz) publically while on a conference call of 1,000 employees. It was all caught on tape. And it wasn’t until four days after Lenz was fired that Armstrong sent AOL employees an apology for his behavior. Now, as part of our CEO communication critique column - Hit or Miss’ive – we’ve assessed his apology email to employees and aren’t impressed.
First Friday Book Synopsis
AUGUST 20, 2013
'I have an observation. Change – really changing in almost any way – is really hard. And rare. The observations are endless. People lose weight – and gain it back. People start exercising – and two years later, have pretty much quit. You remember the Heath brothers terrific book: Switch: How to Change When Change […].
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Change Starts Here
AUGUST 20, 2013
'It’s been said organizational change tends to die in middle management. Executives, often the originators of change, are committed to seeing it through. Employees on the front line may even see the benefits of change. Managers in between may even claim to be on board, but still change falters. Why? Because when a manager expects his or her employees will be uncomfortable, disappointed, frustrated or any other negative emotion with the change, it’s really easy for them to deflect the
First Friday Book Synopsis
AUGUST 20, 2013
'Here is one of the most thought-provoking articles I have read in several years, written by Dave Kerpen for LinkedIn. He lists his “Top 10 Workplace Movies of All Time” while duly acknowledging that there will be disagreements about inclusions, exclusions, and order of rank. Fair enough. However, I have seen all of his ten […]. Bob''s blog entries 9 to 5 (1980) Dave Kerpen''s "Top 10 Workplace Movies of All Time" Dr.
Management Excellence
AUGUST 20, 2013
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First Friday Book Synopsis
AUGUST 20, 2013
'LAND HO!: A still from “Embrace Ambiguity,” a video by the old salts of IDEO’s New York office. The team wrote the script, hand-built the sets, then filmed and edited the clip themselves. To watch the video, please click here. * * * Fog is always present at IDEO, and not just at our San […].
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Building Personal Strength
AUGUST 20, 2013
'I once coached a young man I’ll call Jeff, who told me he had a problem with low self-esteem. So I asked him to tell me about something he had accomplished, something he was proud of. At first he said he couldn’t think of anything. I pushed him for an example, and he finally said, “Well, I recently finished nursing school. Is that what you’re talking about?
Eric Jacobson
AUGUST 20, 2013
'If you''re like many leaders, you''re "too busy" to exercise on a regular basis. And, you don''t give yourself time to renew and refresh. Truth is, there are ways to fit exercise and healthful habits into your busy day that will pay off in dividends. From Experience Life magazine, here are 10 tips for how to fit even just moments into your day (at work, on the road and at home) to help you become more healthful: Make a plan to exercise.
Strategy Driven
AUGUST 20, 2013
'Most managers would acknowledge that the use of efficient metrics is a key component to the successful planning, tracking, and execution of projects. Although the definition of those efficient metrics can be relatively easy when the project is small in schedule and resource size, the task can be much more challenging when considering the proper tracking metrics for a larger project.
Eric Jacobson
AUGUST 20, 2013
'Here are some of my favorite quotes from the new book, Out Think , by G. Shawn Hunter: When the rate of change inside an organization is slower than the rate of change outside an organization, the end is in sight -- Jack Welch The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The truly dangerous thing is asking the wrong question -- Peter Drucker If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples, then you and I will each have one apple.
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Ron Edmondson
AUGUST 20, 2013
'I am frequently asked how we spur momentum where I lead. I have been blessed to be part of some tremendous seasons of momentum in the churches where I have served as pastor or planter. We are in another season of momentum now. I am quick to point out that God is ultimately in control of His church. I get no credit and don’t want it. But I am also not afraid to point to what God has done through His people.
Eric Jacobson
AUGUST 20, 2013
'Missed a promotion at work? Leading a team of employees that is frustrating you? Out of work and searching for a new job? Mind full of negative thoughts? Then, take a couple hours to read the Brian Tracy''s book, Kiss That Frog! In the book, Tracy and co-author, Christina Tracy Stein , present a step-by-step plan that addresses the root causes of negatively to help you: uncover blocks that have become mental obstacles transform those obstacles into stepping-stones to achieve your fullest potent
Rajesh Setty
AUGUST 20, 2013
'I have participated in several charity:water fundraising drives in the past few years. Today at Inbound conference, the “Water Walk” experience made me want to do a lot more for this organization in the future. Reading is not (always) believing. Right on their mission page, Charity:Water invites everyone to experience the problem: We invite you to put yourself in their shoes.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 20, 2013
'Reports of the death or deliquescence of Google''s "20% time," which allows employees to devote one day a week to side projects, may well be exaggerated. They certainly inspire less controversy than Yahoo''s targeted euthanizing of telecommuting. But both emphasize the importance of Silicon Valley''s most precious value-added differentiator: technical talent.
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Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 20, 2013
'This post was coauthored by Lisa Bodell. Many people envision the upper rungs of the corporate ladder as an inspired, innovative place where leaders spend their time on stimulating projects that shape the organization''s future. But this vision is not always a reality. In many companies today, even the most tenured individuals are just as bogged down with policies and procedures as their entry-level colleagues, if not more so.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 20, 2013
'Penn State University''s wellness program has become every human resources director''s worst nightmare: national news. Partly this is because two of the school''s professors — Matthew Woessner and Brian Curran — did a much better job organizing their colleagues in opposition to the wellness program than, for example, CVS employees did when they were subject to a similarly intrusive program.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 20, 2013
'Decades of studies have demonstrated that male law firm partners earn considerably more than their female colleagues. Even when data is controlled for such variables as billable hours, origination, seniority, and law firm size, the gender gap persists. And yet women have been 40-50% of law school students for decades. This is not a pipeline problem; this is a discrimination problem.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 20, 2013
'Businesses mostly seek to avoid risk. Leaders equate risk with potential failure, so organizations have morphed into hierarchical, fixed systems to constrain variability within an acceptable range that has become progressively narrower. As a result, in recent years, innovative ideas have been stifled and entire industries have fallen into the death spiral of cost/price cutting commoditization.
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