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OCTOBER 10, 2019

Ian Hesketh and Sir Cary Cooper : Which style of leadership behaviour is the most effective has been the challenge for most executives for many years. Ethical Leadership is proven to improve employee wellbeing and promotes extra-role effort. Ethical Leadership is proven to improve employee wellbeing and promotes extra-role effort.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2014

It’s hard to land a management position when you don’t have the title “manager” on your resume, or be able to provide specific examples of your management experience. So what’s an aspiring manager to do without holding formal management positions? career paths management careers management jobs'

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AUGUST 16, 2018

While enjoying a live performance, it became obvious to me that, in addition to hearing great music or watching talented dancers, I was also seeing examples of good leadership. What an example of leadership and followership in action. That’s leadership! Members of the John F.

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APRIL 7, 2014

Welcome to the April 2014 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! For this month’s Carnival, I asked our community of leadership development experts the following question: “ Wouldn''t it be great if we could teach managers how to coach? I find that managers have many misconceptions about what it means to coach.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 11, 2012

"Leadership is about managing energy, first in yourself and then in those around you.". Professor James Clawson , author of Level Three Leadership. I can’t help but think of current examples from professional football. So what can a manager do to create more penguins and less polar bears? Start with yourself.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

There are rich leadership lessons to be learned from politics and sports. Given that I try to avoid politics in this blog, please allow me the indulgence of referencing a headline from my favorite sport to make a point about leadership: Chiefs' Romeo Crennel fires himself. Select and hire capable first-line managers.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 6, 2018

The fact is, they still share many of the same traits as their older counterparts (First-Wave Millennials)—raised to feel special, high achieving, tech-savvy, but Second-Wavers (born 1995 – 2004) have some distinct differences that are making managers sit up and take notice. Companies would be well served by following PwC’s lead.

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MARCH 12, 2019

Guest post from Fiona Murden : In 1998 I graduated from business school feeling I knew all there was to know about leadership. I began work as a management consultant and much of what I’d learnt was very quickly thrown out of the window. As a result, those critical aspects of good leadership become even more important.

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OCTOBER 28, 2011

I introduced Jim to Great Leadership readers a few weeks ago with a post called "A Four-wheel-drive Diamond in the Rough Leadership Model". In this second installment, Jim offers his take on the difference between managers and leaders. Note: today, 10/28/2011, is the 4 year anniversary of Great Leadership.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 15, 2018

Do the regional managers remind you of the Fantastic Four? I’d guess it’s unlikely that you think of your leadership team in this way. So you might be surprised when I say that many companies including yours are following a Superhero leadership strategy. And the research suggests it’s probably not working.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

This is a basic truth I learned early on in my business career, and it has sustained me throughout a succession of leadership roles — right up to my present work as an executive coach. I knew it felt good, and now I saw first-hand how Tupperware effectively used recognition to motivate and retain quality consultants and managers.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 22, 2013

So what would a five-year leadership Individual Development Plan look like? It’s only an example, but includes what I’d consider to be proven best practices for leadership development. It’s only an example, but includes what I’d consider to be proven best practices for leadership development.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 13, 2012

Four universal truths about management: 1. Managers are responsible for the performance of those that report to them. One of the core responsibilities of a manager is to take action when an employee’s performance is not up to par. In other words, they feel their manager is a nag. Performance issue. Not testing your code.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Not surprising, I found that one of the most significant drivers of employee engagement is One’s Immediate Manager and all aspects that make up that relationship between a manager and his or her employees, that is, the bond that is created by effective leaders with those they lead.

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APRIL 20, 2017

But we all know people in the business world who do a terrible job in leadership positions: awful bosses, disengaged department heads, ineffective team managers, and otherwise bad bigwigs in nice offices who make the work environment an unpleasant one. This leadership dynamic is based in micromanagement, rooted in a fear of failure.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 29, 2013

Green : With the great Nelson Mandela struggling with health issues, we’ve been thinking a lot about the general phenomenon of leadership. His example convinces us that ethical leaders display deep selflessness and an absence of the two deadliest of Pope Gregory the Great’s “seven deadly sins” – pride and envy.

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JANUARY 14, 2013

For example, I don't know a lot about art history and I really don't care to learn about it. However, for a manager, being unskilled in leadership and not wanting do do anything about it is a recipe for failure. Being "retired on the job" isn't about age - I've seen it happen to as many younger managers as older ones.

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APRIL 13, 2017

Guest post from Angela Sebaly : As a leadership coach, I’ve spent decades observing hundreds of people who have strikingly different backgrounds and equally diverse approaches to leadership. This is just one example among many. It is, quite simply, part of the process of effective leadership.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Guest post from Rosalinda Randall : Are you ready to consistently set a good example? Are you leadership material? You may not be leadership material if: you give in to your moods. You may not be leadership material if: you are not “available” to others. Being an effective leader is a task not everyone can do.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2013

That''s where you, Great Leadership readers and supporters come in. I may even ask a lot of experts and use it for an upcoming Leadership Development Carnival. AND – and as an added bonus, if use your question , I’ll send you a free copy of The Great Leadership Development and Succession Planning eBook. Now bring it on!

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

That guy references always include a list of specific examples of behaviors, in an effort to hopefully educate that guy readers (because there are so damn many of them). What about that guy managers? Do you frequently complain about your manager, “the company”, your peers, your suppliers, or your customers? How about you?

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

No, I'm not talking adding the latest management and leadership buzzwords or jargon to your repertoire. And if they do come up with examples of how similar ideas have been tried in the past and have not worked, use the phrase "Up until now." Dan McCarthy is an expert in leadership and management development.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Other times it involves imbedding structural elements into your overall management and leadership system, but in both cases it works. Car salesmen, for example, are trained to not directly ask a customer if he or she wants to buy the car they were looking at because that leads them to a binary option and potentially a fast, “No.”

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JUNE 27, 2013

Leadership is one of "those" important topics about which there is no shortage of information. But despite all that has been written or said concerning leadership, there are still some important areas that are all but ignored. Leadership always comes before management. Successful leadership is dictatorial in nature.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Likewise, in the workplace, etiquette makes you a welcome addition to a leadership team. Although nursing education has focused on leadership and management, etiquette has been the missing link for success in the workplace. Let’s discuss five situations where etiquette can help you target your leadership potential.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 16, 2012

And what ensued after each one of these examples (and I’m sure you can cite others), nothing less than turmoil and its subsequent consequence; i.e., plummeting stock prices. From my perspective, succession planning and its sister initiative, talent management, must both be ingrained in a corporate culture. Sounds good, right?

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

A high-performance leader is one who is intentional about their leadership. They are not a leader because their position entitles them to be; they see leadership as a verb, a skill to continue to develop and hone. It is no different with leadership. Leadership gets the team going and management keeps it going.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 4, 2012

If you’re in charge of your organization’s training, talent management, succession planning, or HR function, when’s the last time you talked to your C-level executives about leadership development? Within the last few months - I talk to our C-level Execs on a regular basis about leadership development. Pick one answer: A.

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AUGUST 1, 2019

Guest post by Bill Treasurer : Leadership is typically associated with action—with trying, doing, and achieving. However, there’s another side to leadership that focuses on the followers: trust. For example, in many companies, the most valued employees are those who force order, control chaos, and take decisive action.

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OCTOBER 7, 2011

Even the most brilliant, credible, and talented instructors with the most dazzling PowerPoint slides won’t guarantee participants in a leadership training program are actually going to learn anything. For example, people standing and checking their emails are signs of low energy and engagement.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

leadership style. In the US, new online firm Betterment has made it remarkably easy for ordinary customers to set up and manage investment portfolios. Chase Bank, for example, is opening “all-in-one” branches in California. Jean-Marc Laouchez is the global managing director for the Financial Services sector at Hay Group.

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JANUARY 7, 2013

Welcome to The January 2013 Leadership Development Carnival: Best of 2012 Edition! Each of the leadership bloggers below were asked to submit their best (i.e., I'd say that's pretty darn efficient leadership development. Believe it or not, this is my number one leadership/management related post.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 22, 2012

When you’ve been a manager for a long time, or are used to working with lots of managers, you sometimes forget how hard it is for an employee to approach their boss to discuss something that’s bothering them. As a manager, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been on the receiving end of these kinds of discussions. Me: “Really?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 10, 2018

This suggests a new type of leadership – one that Jeff Walker and his coauthors have referred to as “shapers”. Social ventures and NGO’s, of all shapes and sizes, can help catalyze the innovation ecosystem, for example, by creating market transparency through labeling initiatives or motivating corporate action through boycotts and protests.

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JANUARY 14, 2021

Without a focus in your values, a clear definition of each value, and integrating your values into your hiring and performance management system, your values will remain hollow words. Here’s an example of the value “Working Together”. And the very best questions are really a request, “Tell me about a time…” “Share an example of…” 2.

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JUNE 24, 2013

“The truth is that no one factor makes a company admirable; but if you were forced to pick the one that makes the most difference, you’d pick leadership.”. When it comes to leadership development, the commitment of the CEO and top dogs is the #1 most important success factor. Thomas Stewart. How can this be?

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JANUARY 30, 2014

To be the organization of choice, for example, suggests that we offer the right products, at the right price, through the right distribution channels while providing the right customer experience. ü Managers will need education on how to manage the process to optimize results rather than managing the activities of people performing the work.

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