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quickpoint: What Middle Managers Do

Leading Blog

I N Power to the Middle: Why Managers Hold the Keys to the Future of Work , authors Bill Schaninger, Bryan Hancock, and Emily Field contend that middle managers are crucial to the new world of work. They came to realize that they needed middle managers more than ever. What kind of qualities and skills does the job require?

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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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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.

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Great Leadership Trains

Career Advancement

Some people are born with an inherent ability to get others to follow them. Leaders’ honesty and ability to follow a set of ethics in all of their work affects their ability to influence their followers. Leadership requires enormous drive, hard work, good stress-management skills, and enthusiasm.

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5 Ways to Help Leaders Manage Bullies in Their Organization

Lead from Within

Here are five effective ways to help leaders manage bullies in their organization: Establish clear policies and procedures for addressing bullying. Be sure to follow up on any reports and take appropriate action to address the situation. Provide training on what constitutes bullying and how to prevent it.

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How to Effectively Train Employees

HR Digest

Asking the right questions before selecting or designing an employee training program can help determine whether the handpicked approach is the right solution or whether there’s an immediate need for performance issues to address. Why is it important to train employees? What are the key points of effective employee training?

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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? .

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