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Top 12 Development Goals for Leaders

Great Leadership By Dan

I help a lot of leaders create individual development plans using some variation of this process. This time of year (January) is always especially busy. Although every leader I work with is unique, it seems like the development goals end up being somewhat common from year to year. To help you get a head start on your 2010 leadership development plan, here’s a list of development goals that may apply to you too.

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QAspire Blog: Practical Insights on Quality, Management.

QAspire

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Nicholas Bate’s Book ‘Instant MBA’ and Other Great Resources for 2010 Nicholas Bate is a prolific thinker, blogger and author. More than that, he is a wonderful friend. He shared some of his best work with me in 2009, in form of his books and innovatively done cards. With his book titled “Instant MBA" – Think, perform and earn like a top business-school graduate” – I can safely say that I have just completed my “Instant Do-It-y

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A new Leadership Development Carnival

Lead on Purpose

Home About the Blog Michael’s Bio Resources Lead on Purpose Entries RSS | Comments RSS Top Posts Lead on Purpose featured Five leadership practices for improving customer service Five factors of leadership Real-world examples of customer service Leadership and Product Management Five stages of problem solving Guest Post: The Yin-Yang of Product Management -- Market Sensing Book Review: The Leader Who had no Title Market sensing Product manager responsibilities Recent Comments Doug Tay

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"Safe Cognition" - Be Careful What You Let into Your Brain

Building Personal Strength

Cognition. A fancy word for thought. Metacognition. Another fancy word, meaning thinking about the way you think. Just for fun, let's do a little metacognition. Memory happens in the brain, but not in just one place. It happens all over the brain. For example, visual memory happens in the visual cortex, where input from the optic nerve is translated into visual perception - what you "see.

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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World’s Best Companies for Leaders

LDRLB

'Fortune Magazine has compiled a list of ten companies who make talent development a priority and ranked them by who does it best. IBM takes top honors but what comes as a pleasant surprise is the inclusion of GE. While they have suffered through some tumultuous times, it seems they have not abandoned Jack Welch commitment to find and develop new leaders.

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Instinctively Reactive Leaders – Another Cost

QAspire

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Instinctively Reactive Leadership – Another Cost A few weeks back, I wrote about “ toxic leadership ” and how it is a huge cost to organizations. This week, I was led to think about another cost – “reactive leadership”. Leaders cannot be instinctively reactive. Have you ever seen leaders who react to situations and take immediate tactical decisions without analyzing the long-term, strategic impacts of those decisions?

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Thomas Edison on Personal Strength

Building Personal Strength

Five years ago, while living in Florida, my wife and I visited Thomas Edison's winter home and lab in Fort Myers, Florida. I learned that Henry Ford also had a retreat there, only a few hundred feet away. In his lab, Edison was trying to develop an artificial rubber for automobile tires. Many think of him as the inventor of the electric light bulb. Actually, several other people had already created electric light bulbs, but these prototypes were expensive and unreliable.

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Intro to Leadership Theory

LDRLB

'Airport bookstores are crowded with books on leadership, and each one seems to promote a “leadership lack.” They’ll each begin with phrases like “The most pressing issue in organizations is that leaders lack integrity…or empathy…or strategy…or even humor. These books continue by laying out the authors’ simple framework for developing the perfect leader.

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Effort – Invest Your Personal Energy and Get Results

Your Voice of Encouragement

skip to main | skip to sidebar Tuesday, January 5, 2010 Effort – Invest Your Personal Energy and Get Results It isnt easy to give your best effort when you take on a challenging goal. But if youre truly committed and work hard, you can achieve outstanding results. These insights remind you why its worth investing your personal energy in something that really matters to you.

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Boots or Slippers in 2010?

Anese Cavanaugh

So what will you focus on this year? Are you wearing “boots” or “slippers” in 2010? Now I’m all for a good pair of slippers when needed – I can appreciate chilling out, rest, even laziness, with the best of them – and I believe full heartedly that these all have a place in being the most effective human being and leader possible (Tenet 3: Energy & Vitality – “Bootists Check Out and Consciously Disengage”).

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Steve Jobs - Three Stories

Building Personal Strength

What if you could get a free pass to the front row to hear Steve Jobs give the commencement speech at Stanford? Well. "You've got to find what you love. This is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life. And the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.don't settle.

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Book Review: Drive

LDRLB

'On New Year’s Day, I had the opportunity to listen in to a teleconference given by Daniel Pink on what he’ll be focusing on in 2010. Ever since I encountered his TED talk , I’ve been a fan of Daniel Pink and I have been waiting to read his new book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. Dan makes the case that our old understanding of how to motivate followers is not sufficient in today’s world.

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Survey: Online Forum Contributors More Influential Online and Offline vs. Non-Contributors

Managing Communities

PostRelease, the forums-based advertising platform, and research company Synovate have released the results of a survey aimed at determining the influence of people who contribute to online forums, as opposed to those that do not. They polled 1,000 citizens aged 18 and older in the lower 48 United States from November 19 through 23. They found [.]. Tags: Generating Revenue Thinking.

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Make A Plan

Eric Jacobson

As you establish goals for your team this New Year, be sure to include making a plan as part of your five-step process. Keep in mind that those five steps of goal setting are: Set goal Make plan Get to work Stick to it Reach goal Often, too many managers simply tell their team the goal, but fail to map out the specific steps of the plan to reach that goal.

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5 Ways to Improve DE&I in the Workplace

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are critical for an organization’s success. And companies that take bold action to help ensure an inclusive workplace will win every time. Discover how your company can create a culture that celebrates DE&I while achieving higher revenue and growth.

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Tony Robbins' Pillar #3 - Remove Barriers to Action

Building Personal Strength

If you haven't viewed the previously posted videos about Pillar #1 and Pillar #2 , you should do so. They're really brief, worth your time. Now Pillar #3. Can you put these three insights into action? A good first step is to relate Tony's concepts to you personally. Write down the answers to these questions. 1. Focus on your passion, your core motivation.

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Are You Living and Working at Your Peak?

Women in the LEAD

Women in the LEAD A B O U T U S H O W T O C O M M E N T Recent Posts WOMEN: LEADERSHIP is How TO BE WOMEN: Love, Respect and Leadership WOMEN: Is Negative Thinking Holding You Back? GRATITUDE: Journey to Ones Calling WOMEN: CLAIMING YOUR WINGS WOMEN: Challenged and Overwhelmed? A Remedy Powerful, Focused, Highly Intentional Living WOMEN: The Art of Great Presentations Inner Life, Outer Success WOMEN: See Your Own POTENTIAL Rumi Tells Us Archives January 2011 December 2010 November 2010 October 2

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ManagingCommunities.com’s Most Popular Posts of 2009

Managing Communities

photo credit: Eustaquio Santimano Happy New Year! With 2009 in the books, I thought that it would be fun to take a look back at the most popular posts made here on ManagingCommunities.com in 2009. Here are the top 10: 1. Dealing with Suicide On Your Online Community or Forums: How You Can Help and Protect [.]. Tags: ManagingCommunities.com.

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When the Grasshopper Teaches the Master | You're Not the Boss of Me

You're Not the Boss of Me

You’re Not the Boss of Me Skip to content Home About Me About This Blog ← I Love/Don’t Love Christmas…You? Distraction…A Challenge to Good Leadership → January 5, 2010 · 1:37 am ↓ Jump to Comments When the Grasshopper Teaches the Master My son has been helping me learn more about Social Media. He is the one who turned me on to the joys of blogging.

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No Ego: How Leaders Can Cut the Cost of Drama, End Entitlement and Drive Big Results

Speaker: Cy Wakeman, M.S., CSP, President, Reality-Based Leadership

Most HR leadership philosophies are grounded in two completely faulty assumptions — “change is hard” and “engagement drives results.” Those beliefs have inspired expensive attempts to keep change from being disruptive to employees. What these engagement programs actually do is create and reinforce feelings of victim-hood and leave employees unprepared to adapt to real changes that are necessary for the health and profitability of their enterprises.

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Weight Watcher Ron - My Role Model for Commitment and Goal Achievement

Building Personal Strength

Since Thanksgiving, the same thing happened to me that happens to millions of Americans during the holidays - I gained more than 5 pounds. Parties, family gatherings, food, wine, football, basketball, snacks, beer. Woo-hoo! If that isn't enough to drive me to a New Year's resolution, I don't know what is. During that same period of time, a good friend of mine LOST more than five pounds!

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2010: The Precious Present of a New Year

Women in the LEAD

Women in the LEAD A B O U T U S H O W T O C O M M E N T Recent Posts WOMEN: LEADERSHIP is How TO BE WOMEN: Love, Respect and Leadership WOMEN: Is Negative Thinking Holding You Back? GRATITUDE: Journey to Ones Calling WOMEN: CLAIMING YOUR WINGS WOMEN: Challenged and Overwhelmed? A Remedy Powerful, Focused, Highly Intentional Living WOMEN: The Art of Great Presentations Inner Life, Outer Success WOMEN: See Your Own POTENTIAL Rumi Tells Us Archives January 2011 December 2010 November 2010 October 2

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A Leadership Checklist: 10 Things To Do Right Now To Make It A.

Terry Starbucker

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full A Leadership Checklist: 10 Things To Do Right Now To Make It A Great Year by Starbucker on January 3, 2010 As a leader, I’ve learned that getting off to a great start in a new year is very important. Over the course of my career I’ve assembled a very handy annual New Year’s “Checklist&# that helps get me focused and ready for the challenges to come in the

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How Do You Define SUCCESS?

Your Voice of Encouragement

skip to main | skip to sidebar Friday, January 8, 2010 How Do You Define SUCCESS? When I was in high school, the senior class voted for individuals who were standouts in some area, such as "Most Popular" or "Most Athletic." I was voted "Most Likely to Succeed." And I have had many successes in my life. I graduated first in my class in the College of Education at Virginia Tech.

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10 HR Metrics to Track in 2024

Discover the power of HR metrics. Master recruiting, control skyrocketing labor costs, and reduce turnover rates. Get insights into key metrics like Time-to-Fill, Cost-per-Hire, and Turnover Rate. Equip your business for success in 2024.

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Brian Tracy's Thoughts on Personal Development

Building Personal Strength

Brian Tracy has been one of the most intelligent and articulate voices in personal development for the past 25 years. In this brief video, he reveals some empowering insights about what it means to be a "life-long learner.".the inevitable plateaus in learning, and how being aware of them can encourage you to new heights.the difference between "chance" and "luck.

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Quality and Quantity – Compliance and Excellence

QAspire

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Quality and Quantity – Compliance and Excellence Going by numbers is a great way to stay in control (or at least feel that way). Numbers are exciting. But when you choose to go by numbers alone, the tradeoff can be huge. Numbers should map with a purpose, else they can mislead. Consider the following conversations.

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The Calender: A Measurement of Time and Life

Women in the LEAD

Women in the LEAD A B O U T U S H O W T O C O M M E N T Recent Posts WOMEN: LEADERSHIP is How TO BE WOMEN: Love, Respect and Leadership WOMEN: Is Negative Thinking Holding You Back? GRATITUDE: Journey to Ones Calling WOMEN: CLAIMING YOUR WINGS WOMEN: Challenged and Overwhelmed? A Remedy Powerful, Focused, Highly Intentional Living WOMEN: The Art of Great Presentations Inner Life, Outer Success WOMEN: See Your Own POTENTIAL Rumi Tells Us Archives January 2011 December 2010 November 2010 October 2

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The Value of Hard Work - A Personal Story

Building Personal Strength

Is your birthday a big deal to you? I’m the kind of guy who doesn’t like to celebrate his birthday. I like to say, “If you want to give me a present, for heaven’s sake don’t wait until my birthday!” I also say, “On my birthday I’ll be one day older than the day before.” I like the idea that every single day of my life is the most special day, not just the one day marking my birth all those years ago.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

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.