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Great Leadership Trains

Career Advancement

To get there, she knew she had to focus on growing her leadership skills. Within a couple of months, her boss had remarked about her growing leadership competencies and suggested she might be a prime candidate for a directorial position one day. Some people are born with an inherent ability to get others to follow them.

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How to Ensure High ROI Training

Let's Grow Leaders

?. Nothing burns time, energy, and leadership credibility like wasted training. Three specific mistakes undermine training. You’ll also get eight practical ways to overcome these mistakes and ensure high ROI training to help your people and your business. Include leaders as teachers and transform your training.

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Leaders Coaching Leaders: One Secret to Sustainable Leadership Development

Let's Grow Leaders

As organizations flatten and people continue to work remotely, it will take more than an executive sponsor to ensure your leadership development sticks. You need leaders at every level engaged with your training as leader coaches to facilitate application and learning. How to Create a More Sustainable Leadership Development Program.

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Empathy: The Top Leadership Skill for Today’s Work Environment

Leading Blog

Recently, a large study ranked empathy as the most important leadership skill in the workplace. The appeal of empathic leadership extends beyond conventional office environments. Former Navy SEAL commander Mark Divine trains athletes, SWAT teams, first responders, and aspiring SEALS to combine mental toughness with intuition and heart.

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Diversity Training That Changes People

Lead Change Blog

Ralph Brandt, organizational development consultant and managing partner at RDR Group, initiated a landmark study to find out whether diversity training really changes people. To see if there was any scientifically measurable difference in those trained to be inclusive and committed to practicing it. Learn more and register here.

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Stop Training Your Employees To Not Try

Joseph Lalonde

They all give up. The new monkey gives up after repeated attempts. They’ve been trained not to try anything outside of the norm. They’ve been trained to not try. They’ve been trained to not try. Yet you can do it by doing the following. The remaining monkeys each attempt a banana retrieval.

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The Morning After: 6 Sure-Fire Ways to Ensure Your Training Sticks

Let's Grow Leaders

And I’m almost certain I’ll still be a better leader the following week, and maybe even the week after that. If you’re like most managers, you’ve left more than one training program with good intentions, only to fall back into old behaviors. So how do you make the training stick? . Make it your own.

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