Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

I recently attended a thought-provoking presentation about the future of work by futurist Jim H. Lee. During the presentation, he referred to a growing workforce condition he calls the “donut hole,” a situation that has been created by the desire and need for aging Boomers to work longer. As Boomers stay put in their positions, Lee explained, there is little room left for Gen Xrs to move up, so instead they move on to other jobs or start their own businesses.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Today’s guest on the Answers From Leadership podcast is Karin Hurt. Karin is a keynote speaker, leadership consultant, and MBA professor. Karin helps leaders improve business results by building deeper trust and connection with their teams. As a former Verizon Wireless executive, she has over twenty years of experience in sales, marketing, customer service, and human resources.

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Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Failure to bring up disappointing performance is cruel, not compassionate. Apart from intervention, negative trajectory accelerates. When silence is painful, not golden: Silence when performance disappoints prolongs pain, increases stress, and affirms mediocrity. Eventually. pain increases to the point that it overcomes reluctance to address uncomfortable issues.

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Leading in Context

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

By Linda Fisher Thornton There are many changes in progress that will impact your leadership and your business this year.

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Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Failure to bring up disappointing performance is cruel, not compassionate. Apart from intervention, negative trajectory accelerates.

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Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Failure to bring up disappointing performance is cruel, not compassionate. Apart from intervention, negative trajectory accelerates.

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Chart Your Course

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Do You Care About Me? Gallup began measuring employee engagement in the 1990’s. In June 2013, only 30% of the workforce were fully engaged in their jobs. Since then many companies have tried to defeat worker apathy by implementing various programs and other initiatives. Despite these efforts most organizations have only seen a two-point increase over the past couple of years.

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David A Fields

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Prepare your consulting practice for the new year by identifying the specific, granular actions that will grow your firm. But what should you ponder to determine those actions that will make next year waaay better than this year? When evaluating the success of their year, consultants often review metrics like revenue, profit per partner, utilization and leverage.

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Chart Your Course

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

No Cost and Low Cost Reward & Recognition Strategies to Boost Performance. Employee engagement is a major issue affecting today’s workforce. During this fast-paced webinar you will learn about many no-cost and low-cost reward and recognition techniques. Discover how to design peer recognition programs such as “Roast, Toast and Boast” and “Quest” programs to boost motivation and teamwork.

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Ron Edmondson

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

There is a fine line of when to jump into the leading position. I work with lots of young leaders. And, they ask the question a lot of whether I think they are ready to be in a lead position. And, I want to be helpful. Don’t misunderstand – most of these people are leaders now – they are usually leading some area of ministry, but they aren’t in the “leading position” They aren’t yet the senior leader – but they believe they want to be someday.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Most executives I talk to feel like they’re drowning in data and yet anyone and everyone within the organization is telling them they need more and more data! Do you ever feel overwhelmed with all the things you need to worry about, let alone the collection of “big data” with the belief that data might help you generate better customer relations, or a more loyal customer!?

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

With only one month left of 2016, it's not too early to start identifying your New Year's Resolutions for 2017. To get you started, how about selecting one or more of these 70 New Year's resolutions for leaders? Perhaps write down five to ten and then between now and December 31, think about which couple you want to work on during 2017. Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths an

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My Own Coach

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

One of the benefits of coaching is raising a leader’s self-awareness. Here is a simple exercise to help you get to know yourself better. The post Raising Self-Awareness: Writing Your Own Credo Memo appeared first on My Own Coach Limited.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Marion Barraud for HBR. Global talent and customers are more gender balanced than ever before. Women make up half the U.S. workforce , drive 80% of consumer buying decisions , and represent 60% of global university graduates. Gender balance is a big business opportunity, with huge economic implications. It boosts bottom-line results , drives growth with new customer insights, and enhances productivity with better talent acquisition and retention.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Here are a selection of tweets from November 2016 that you might have missed: Learn to Respond, Not React! by @coachgoldsmith. Teaching Your Firm to Survive a Crisis by @artpetty. Telltale Signs That You Lack Emotional Intelligence by Travis Bradberry @talentsmarteq. Political Anger Is Showmanship, Not Leadership by @JohnBaldoni. If you want innovation in an organisation , no single boss should have the power to kill an idea. - @profhamel.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Divani (not her real name) is a senior analyst at a large telecommunications firm. She proudly describes herself as her department’s “resident cheer-upper.” As she says, “I have always been the person that people turn to for support…I listen really well and I like to listen, I like to help.” But the year before I spoke to her, Divani’s organization was going through a major change initiative: “I already had so much on my plate and so many colleague

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Calls for teamwork in health care are as persistent as they are hard to heed. Over the past decade, a growing number of observers, ourselves included, have called attention to the need for providers to coordinate better across specialties, shifts, departments, and even organizations (for example between primary care and urgent care facilities) to produce safe, affordable, high-quality care.

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In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Activist investors who expect to raise returns by influencing strategic decisions are having a meaningful impact on many industries from consumer-packaged goods to aerospace and defense. And the odds that your company, or industry, may find itself targeted by an activist are going up. Activists launched 159 campaigns in 2015 focused on shareholder value maximization, nearly double the 88 that were launched the year before.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Warning labels are everywhere. They alert us to the risks of eating unhealthy foods, smoking cigarettes, taking prescription drugs, driving cars, using power tools, and performing many other activities. Ideally, these warnings provide requisite risk information, allowing people to decide for themselves whether an activity or a product’s benefits outweigh its risks, whether to take those risks, and, if so, with what precautions.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

A year before Bear Stearns failed during the financial crisis, there were signs that the Wall Street firm was in trouble. During July 2007, two of Bear Stearns’ large hedge funds were failing. What was CEO James Cayne doing at the time? That month, he spent ten “working” days either playing golf or the card game bridge. The popular press is littered with anecdotes of chief executives failing to carry out their duties with the vigilance that shareholders desire of them.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

The declaration of surrender was touted as a triumph: “ Microsoft Loves Linux ,” the headline read, but just a decade earlier, the firm’s then CEO, Steve Ballmer, had called Linux a cancer. The all-powerful tech giant had lost and lost badly — to a ragtag band of revolutionaries, no less — but still seemed strangely upbeat.

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