Lead Change Blog
AUGUST 5, 2015
The startling truth is that 70% of employees are disengaged at work–checked out. That’s a real dilemma for the companies trying to do more with less, which is of course all of them. The answer to winning back disengaged employees (and keeping the engaged employees, well, engaged) isn’t pay, perks or promotions. It’s meaning – that is, giving work a greater sense of significance, and thus, making work matter.
General Leadership
AUGUST 5, 2015
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Women on Business
AUGUST 5, 2015
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Leading in Context
AUGUST 5, 2015
By Linda Fisher Thornton. When I was singing with a local chorus, I took some voice lessons. My teacher had me start by singing scales while she listened. After my voice cracked, I explained that I had trouble "hitting the high notes." I explained that I was an Alto, not a Soprano and the high notes seemed way out of my reach.
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Great Leadership By Dan
AUGUST 5, 2015
New managers are often not prepared to manage a department budget. Read my latest post over at About.com Management and Leadership for 9 essential tips to avoid some of the most common budgeting mistakes made by rookie managers.
Leadership Freak
AUGUST 5, 2015
You care about coaching because it’s the path to energy, responsibility, fulfillment, and results at work. You also care because the workforce desires opportunity, purpose, development, mentors, and coaching.
Leadership and Management brings together the best content for leadership and management professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Engaging Leader
AUGUST 5, 2015
David hired me to help communicate and reinforce his division’s long-term vision and business strategy with their 1,200 employees. About a year into our relationship, we were holding a weeklong strategic planning meeting with the key leaders on his team. On one of those days, during a lunch break, I ran up to my hotel […].
In the CEO Afterlife
AUGUST 5, 2015
In Theodore Levitt’s The Marketing Imagination , the renowned marketing professor said there was no such thing as a commodity, only people who think like commodities. Differentiation is still the name of the marketing game. Distinction in service, image and promise allows a brand to occupy a piece of a customer’s busy mind. More importantly, differentiation is the brand’s raison d’être, its reason for being that causes customers to think of it when they are ready to shop.
Coaching Tip
AUGUST 5, 2015
The job changing process is a learning experience. You learn what has changed in the marketplace since the last time you searched for a job. You recognize that you don't send out your resume to get an interview and don't wear your flip-flops to interviews. You learn about all the new and interesting ways to use social media to uncover job openings and expand your network of contacts.
ReImagine Work
AUGUST 5, 2015
Managers can read books, get trained, practice and plan, and still your employee may toss you something you don’t anticipate. But you can handle it. The key is asking good questions and really listening. When you give feedback to your employees, it’s your job to guide them toward awareness and responsibility, hope and action, one step at a time.
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Anese Cavanaugh
AUGUST 5, 2015
Heads up, my friends! This is a completely new style of blog post—one I’ve never written before, but one that needs to be written because I so want you to know about what’s coming around the corner. For those of you who know me, or who’ve been close to me this last year, this will be a recap and update. For those of you new to me…thanks in advance for celebrating this milestone with me, for coming to this site, and for participating in this work in whatever way you do.
First Friday Book Synopsis
AUGUST 5, 2015
Bernie Roth is the Rodney H. Adams Professor of Engineering at Stanford University. A longtime veteran of the Stanford design scene, he first came to the Stanford Design Division faculty in 1962. His most recent activities have moved him more strongly into experiences that enhance peoples’ creative potential through the educational process. His primary intention… Read More Bernard Roth: An interview by Bob Morris.
Strategy Driven
AUGUST 5, 2015
We all recognize diversity is important yet difficult to attain. We recognize that with diversity we're capable of creating all that's possible; without diversity we limit who gets heard, who gets to lead, what knowledge we deem important, what we teach our children. Indeed, mis- and under representing categories of people cost an unimaginable price in money, possibilities, and life.
Eric Jacobson
AUGUST 5, 2015
AMACOM's (of the American Management Association) sixth edition of the best-selling book, The First-Time Manager -- originally published in 1981 is a must-read for new managers and leaders in business. One of my favorite sections of the book is the one about class in a manager : Class is treating people with dignity. Class does not have to be the center of attention.
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From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.
Ron Edmondson
AUGUST 5, 2015
I started in ministry much later in life. I was 38 when I began vocational ministry. But, I love the opportunities I have to invest in young pastors. I’m encouraged by what I see in this generation of pastors entering church work. They want to learn and grow from older leaders. I consistently try to convince them I’m not the guy to listen to, but they keep asking for advice, so I keep sharing.
Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 5, 2015
Nothing will improve your team’s productivity faster than better communication. Having a deliberate process and cadence of communication will save hours of lost time, productivity and drama. If you don’t have a formal plan, or haven’t spoken with your team recently about how communication is going, it’s worth taking the time to communicate about communication.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 5, 2015
Fifteen years ago, Fort Bonifacio in the Philippines was a former military base still dotted with barracks built in World War II. Thanks to an aggressive privatization and conversion program, Bonifacio Global City — as the base is known today — is a modern, bustling financial district lined with blocks of skyscrapers, shopping malls, and luxury condos.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 5, 2015
Fran Melmed is the founder of context , a communication and change management consulting firm. She spends her days performing communication audits for organizations and meeting with clients. Sounds like a recipe for a sedentary workday, right? On the contrary. Fran is part of a growing trend known as walking meetings or “walk and talk.” A walking meeting is simply that: a meeting that takes place during a walk instead of in an office, boardroom, or coffee shop where meetings are comm
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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.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 5, 2015
The managerial feedback was excellent — crisp, clear, and constructive. Its tone was caring, compassionate, and compelling. Each criticism was consequently heard, acknowledged, and understood. Message received; next steps agreed. A potentially awkward and painful conversation became a bonding experience. It was a best-case scenario. Fifty days later, alas, nothing substantive had changed.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 5, 2015
In my research on innovators, I like to draw the distinction between “path finders” and “path creators.” Rarely does the metaphor seem so apt as in the case of Federico Bastiani. He is the originator of the “social streets” movement now spreading across Italy, so the innovation he created literally involves a path: the street in which he and his family live in Bologna.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 5, 2015
Investing in technology can help lift people out of poverty, and investments that use technology for development are good for business, creating millions of new customers. But the development landscape is littered with projects that never got past the pilot stage. When the seed funding from philanthropies or governments runs out, if projects haven’t signed up enough paying users, there’s nothing to fuel growth.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 5, 2015
Courtesy of Manuel Ferrol. Last week I visited Finisterre, an ancient Spanish port and fishing village, where my grandfather was born. He, like many others, was forced to emigrate to Argentina at the end of the 19 th century, leaving land, family, and friends in search of employment, since jobs were increasingly scarce at home. This photograph from the period, O home e o neno , shows a man and his son crying as some of their dearest relatives board the boat to Buenos Aires.
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Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 5, 2015
Selling has always been more about the buyer than the seller. So any effective sales model must adapt to changing buying protocols, not ignore or resist them. This is a big transition for firms whose marketing, sales-training and enablement tools, and wider organizational processes reflect outdated assumptions about purchasing in their markets. For a century, buying has been framed in terms of moving a prospect from Awareness to Interest to Desire to Action (AIDA).
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