Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Sean Conrad, Respectful Workplace : How to Make Employee Performance Appraisals More Respectful - In many organizations the end of the calendar year means it will soon be time for that yearly activity dreaded by managers and employees alike: performance appraisals.

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JULY 26, 2010

"  Buried in statements like these is the hidden assumption that someone who lacks a particular trait or skill will be unable excel at a given task or project. "  Buried in statements like these is the hidden assumption that someone who lacks a particular trait or skill will be unable excel at a given task or project.

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JUNE 30, 2010

Cohen Full Bio Featured • Leadership • Lifestyle • Media and Technology [link] Why Write A Book « Blog – Just Ask Leadership, Executive Coaching … | All About Books [.] Technology and its role in travel 2.0 Technology and its role in travel 2.0 Pulse Meme Feed What Is Your Brand Against?

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Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 16, 2010

  These featured tweets run the gamut of the leadership spectrum to include materials from a variety of disciplines and topics such as corporate culture, business strategy, employee development, succession planning, leveraging technology, change management, and just about anything else that falls under the broad umbrella of leadership. 

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Sales Wolf Blog

JANUARY 17, 2011

Steve Roesler, All Things Workplace : The Value of Self Awareness - Don't miss Steve's short and insightful post about one of the most important, but frequently overlooked skills possessed by truly great leaders: self awareness. 

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Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 6, 2010

Stephen Warrilow presents How To Manage Change - Putting It All Together posted at Change Management - Practical Strategies For Success , saying that in the current economic climate, all organisations are experiencing the impacts of change and many could now benefit from the practical knowledge of how to lead and manage change. 

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OCTOBER 1, 2010

Personal Accountability Quicknotes Customer Experience Articles Phone Skills Training Telephone Customer Service Articles   Posted on October 01, 2010 at 07:22 AM | Permalink Reblog (0) | | Digg This | Save to del.icio.us | Comments Possibility Maximizer: Rainmaker Group Resources Happy Friday and welcome to the month of October!

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Sales Wolf Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

 If you fall on the "hate them" side of the fence (like so many of us do), Cathy has identified two statistical methods that are particularly important to today's HR professional and offers up some suggestions for procuring these critical skills.  How did you react? . How did you react?

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Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

 The Management Improvement Carnival naturally features posts on how improve your management skills and systems within your organization, but also has a special focus on how this can be accomplished using lean management practices such as Kaizen, Six Sigma, and even Hansei.   Ready to improve your management skills?

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Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 21, 2010

Steve Roesler, All Things Workplace : Ten Ways You Can Be More Persuasive - The power of persuasion is an incredibly important and often misunderstood professional skill. Steve Roesler, All Things Workplace : Ten Ways You Can Be More Persuasive - The power of persuasion is an incredibly important and often misunderstood professional skill.

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Sales Wolf Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Michael Haberman, HR Observations : "Hire Attitude vs. Aptitude": A Lesson From Disney - Southwest Airlines is famously known for having a talent management philosophy of "hire for attitude, train for skill"  Disney - another consistently high performing organization - shares that same philosophy towards employee selection.

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Sales Wolf Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

 Dan has a great post up explaining some of the differences in talent assessments and how to use them in the right situations. " Tom Foster, Management Skills Blog : Why Do People Work?  Dan has a great post up explaining some of the differences in talent assessments and how to use them in the right situations.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2020

A fter reading Gartner’s report on How to Build Leadership Bench Strength , these are my conclusions: HR already invests 23% of its Training and Development budget in Leadership and 27% on the high potential professionals. As Jack Welch said Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself.

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Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 10, 2010

  Attributes such as Personal Accountability, High Empathetic Outlook, Results Orientation, Self Management, Interpersonal Skills, Goal Achievement, Customer Focus, Self Direction, Personal Drive, Persistence, and Initiative. Can one interview candidates to identify Behaviors, Values, and Attributes? 

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Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 9, 2010

Dan McCarthy, Great Leadership : How to be Accountable and Hold Others Accountable - Accountability seems to be all the rage in recent years.    Dan knows accountability when he sees it and seeks to clear the air on how to be more personally accountable and more effective in holding others accountable. 

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Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 2, 2010

 However, this is an area of responsibility that many managers struggle with and consequently avoid or half-heartedly engage in due to a lack of understanding of how to effectively develop important skills in employee team members.

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Sales Wolf Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Tom Foster, Management Skills Blog : Three Ground-rules for the Accountability Conversation - Holding a conversation with an employee about performance problems can be a difficult and even nerve-racking thing for many managers to do.  Michael offers up three great tips for "bagging" a great mentor.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 18, 2010

Tom Foster, Management Skills Blog : Put Out Fires, or Work on the System? - Tom Foster, Management Skills Blog : Put Out Fires, or Work on the System? - At times we have all felt like we are running from one fire to the next in an effort to keep the whole place from burning down.

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Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2010

You might say they "eat their own dog food"   Much of the data and information that The Conference Board produces is available free of charge via its website and can greatly help to improve your leadership effectiveness and business management skills.

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Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 23, 2010

Tom Foster, Management Skills Blog : Band-Aid Fixes - Tom wants to know if you are constantly applying the same old band-aid fixes to management problems that just don't seem to go away. Guy Kawasaki, American Express Open Forum : 5 Ways to be Persuasive - Looking for some tips to help persuade others to support your point of view?

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Sales Wolf Blog

APRIL 30, 2010

  It seeks to help its subscribers improve their leadership and managing skills by providing leadership best practices, cutting edge leadership research, case studies and real world examples of successful leadership development, and interviews, insight, and commentary from business thought leaders. 

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Sales Wolf Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

  Lorrie reports on a recent survey of successful HR executives that looks at the common traits, skills, and backgrounds that many high ranking human resources executives share.   So have the folks at I4CP.    Sean provides six reasons why talent management is a strategic imperative. . 

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Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 2, 2010

  They uncover research that suggests, despite what is commonly believed, the ability of an individual to quickly and easily bring their talents and skills to bear with a new employer is not nearly as reliable as one would expect. 

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

For example, one CEO of a large technology firm oscillated between major expansions (e.g. For instance, think of all the zigzags in strategic direction the old Hewlett Packard took as it went through four CEOs in a decade: first, the focus was on technology innovation, then it was on growth through acquisitions, and then on efficiency.

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JUNE 21, 2012

As the up-and-coming vice president and CEO candidate for a Fortune 500 technology corporation sat before the CEO for his annual review, he was baffled to discover that the feedback from his peers, customers, direct reports, and particularly from board members placed unusual emphasis on one potentially devastating problem: his listening deficit.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Bill’s passion an his sales skills were clearly evident, but his presentation came across as a wannabe self-help guru more than a CEO of one of the world’s best software companies. The highlight of the day for me was when Jack Welch took center stage, and center stage he took. What’s the ROI on a handshake?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

If I recall correctly, Jack Welch wrote that you can only have one priority, you need to pick which it will be. Now both my sons are doing the tough balancing act, but their priorities are keeping their leadership skills sharp – leading family and companies. link] Bert Decker Great post Mike. Be well Gwyn.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Great leaders are like a sponge when it comes to the acquisition of knowledge, the development of new skill sets, and the constant refinement of existing competencies. Who would follow a person who's thoughts and skills are out dated. It includes books by Peter Drucker, Charles Handy, Charles Koch, Jack Welch, and Bob Sutton.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

Zhou departed in 2005 and went on to found Qihoo 360 Technology, a $12 billion company that now trades on NASDAQ. Unlike other Chinese leaders we had met with, Ma was willing and eager to hire executives who had more skills and experience than he did in areas where he was less strong. Although he didn’t have a U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Ask people how to develop a good corporate culture, and most of them will immediately suggest offering generous employee benefits, like they do at Starbucks, or letting people dress casually, as Southwest Airlines does. I’m not just talking about the obvious problem of managers who treat their employees poorly.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

The very idea of leading people in jobs is changing with the democratization of work and the continued advance of digital technology. Digital technology is increasing the complexity and options associated with this plurality of work. Welch Leadership Center at Crotonville where leaders from other organizations (e.g.,

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