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What’s Better for You? Peer Coaching or Mentoring?

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You want to accelerate your development as a leader in your organization and think having a mentor to guide you could be a really good thing. Peer coaching is when two colleagues at roughly similar levels in their organization agree to spend regular time in coaching conversations with each other. So, first, what’s the difference?

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How Sales Leaders Can Reclaim the Advantage in a Virtual World

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The National Geographic reminds us that “in evolutionary theory, adaptation is the biological mechanism by which organisms adjust to new environments or to changes in their environment.” The winners are quickly figuring out how to adapt. The first of three types of adaptation is behavioral. That’s what Josh has done so well.

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How to Develop Your Team Like a Real Estate Investor

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Successful investors in real estate or any other sector think through their goals and then develop a portfolio of investments to align with them. You can: Buy : When you need experience or skills that don’t already exist in your organization, you may need to go out in the market and buy it. When you need to sell, you need to sell.

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How to Lead with Influence Instead of Authority

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That trend was predicted for years and, now, suddenly, it’s a reality that will likely permanently alter the way work gets done in organizations. or “What’s supporting and what’s getting in the way of your goals?” Working from home and in other distributed locations away from the office is probably the most prominent example.

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Five Principles for Designing Great Leadership Development Programs

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Before you do anything else on your program, get clear about your goals. It’s a great idea to base the program on a model of leadership, a competency model or a set of core values to serve as an organizing framework but that’s not enough. Briefings to create an environment of understanding and support from participants’ managers.

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Fear Kills

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. | Main | Business Travel Divas Turn Themselves In » July 23, 2010 Fear Kills In case you didnt see it, a report in the New York Times earlier this week offers a stark example of what can happen when the culture of an organization discourages open and honest dialogue. That hurts - the people, and the organization.

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Seven Simple Rules to Create a Fear Based - Next Level Blog

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  Working in a stress inducing, soul sucking environment is never good for one's life expectancy over the long haul.) This will give everyone a sense that they can be dismissed easily since they're not fully capable of doing any job, anywhere in the organization. Most of the time they're not. (At Posted by: David M.

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