Michael Lee Stallard

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Bartholomew’s Church in Manhattan before the start of the memorial service for Frances Hesselbein, my thoughts turned to one of the last days I spent time with the remarkable woman who had led the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. Frances’ attention was entirely on the girl. Sitting in the historic St.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

M INTZBERG’S 20th book, Bedtime Stories for Managers , is a thought-provoking page-turner. (In The theme running through most is that managers/leaders need to get out from behind their desks and see the world from the perspective of their employees and customers. Management is not eating the eggs. Scrambled Eggs.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 27, 2018

Guest post by Dr. Dawn Graham : Spring cleaning, New Year’s resolutions, summer vacations, back to school—these days, everything has a season. But what about career management? Other than when we need a new job, that is. New information and ideas are constantly generated and shared in all professions. Walk the halls.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Guest post from Michael Bungay Stanier: “Coaching” is one of those buzzwords that has been flying around human resources and leadership conversations for a few years now. Another avenue organizations might take involves training people within the organization to take on the role of executive coach. How do we help them get there?

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 1, 2023

The other is not taking a risk to apply for a new job or opportunity, believing that they do not have enough experience or skills sets,” according to Christie Hunter Arscott , author of the book, Begin Boldly. In Begin Boldly , Hunter Arscott turns this thinking on its head. Instead of asking: “How do I balance?”

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 30, 2011

In my last post I introduced Part 1 of my two-part series on the the topic of Managing Millennials (the generation born roughly between 1980 and the mid 90‘s) – Treat Them Like a Celebrity. Today in Part 2, I’m presenting the other key tactic – Create The Progress Bar Effect. Need to contact someone immediately?

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The Center For Leadership Studies

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The team has been strained in the wait, so they and their leader are excited to put the new employee to work. Here’s to hoping the hire lasts more than three months … which is more than the last one did. Openings have outpaced applicants, so workers “shop around” and claim the best offer, even if it comes after starting a new job.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Therefore, it is important that you as an employer or manager are always searching for ways to boost morale in the workplace. Take Their Ideas on Board. One of the first things you should do is consider taking on the suggestions your employees might be able to suggest. Why not bring up this topic at the next time meeting?

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The Center For Leadership Studies

MARCH 30, 2022

But that advantage could be all for nothing: If a company doesn’t offer remote employees a well-planned and executed virtual onboarding process, those new employees could head for greener pastures sooner than expected, leaving the organization holding the bag as far as the time and money invested in that new hire.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

One challenge with those discoveries is that many provided conflicting results regarding who leaders were, what they did and what the most effective style of leadership was. Studies of human motivation, professional growth and development were investigated on a separate track.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 23, 2017

As our business has scaled, one thing that we’ve carried with us each step of the way has been a commitment to experimentation in the workplace. All of our experiments are geared toward one of these buckets, with balance and parity being spread across each. From these studies, our “6 Minute Response” experiment was borne.

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The Practical Leader

JANUARY 29, 2020

Last week, I delivered a 45-minute webinar on Powerful New Approaches to Leadership and Coaching Development. An 11-minute Q & A session followed the webinar presentation. Others find stories/examples more convincing such as Are You Focused on What’s Wrong to Make Things Right?

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Staying motivated is about focusing on something bigger than ourselves—it is often as simple as recognizing the difference you make to others when you follow-up and follow-through to the best of your ability. It can also be the strong vision you have of getting closer and closer to reaching your goals, and being able to set new ones.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Depending on the intention behind the activities this could involve many different components. Depending on the intention behind the activities this could involve many different components. Collaboration team building activities have one aim and that is to make employees better at working together regularly.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 17, 2018

The key lies in turning existing managers into future coaches. One of my personal favorites, though, is this: “Coaching is unlocking a person’s potential to maximize their own performance. That definition comes from Sir John Whitmore, and I think it’s a perfect way to introduce coaching. But what has that really translated to?

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HR Digest

JANUARY 13, 2020

Once you have passed the taxing hiring process and have the offer letter in your hand, it might be time to celebrate, but there is still the final hurdle of facing the first day at work and finding your feet in a new environment. All this is achievable if you plan ahead and do due diligence on what not to do and what to expect.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Everyone complains about their managers, it’s a global phenomenon, but what are the qualities of a good manager that would make them rethink their disagreements? Leadership traits likely also figure on the list as everyone wants to witness and learn from the skills of effective team leaders who know how to inspire the workforce.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

Here's our latest news, events, updates and more – in one easy-to-find location. Check back every week for new listings Below you'll find the highlights from 2023. It’s less than two weeks to go until the highly anticipated CMI Women Conference on Tuesday 16 May. Find out more and reserve your spot on the livestream here.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2020

Despite what many businesses may think, there is a very good chance that they are inefficient in at least one way. Data management systems are incredibly clever and can help make steps that took minutes or even hours and days take seconds. Your new pdx.gold extraction unit should work with the rest of your system, for example.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

Now you’re faced with a new set of challenges as you make the transition to a new job, a new environment, new co-workers. Choose an outfit that makes you feel confident and assured and that fits the culture of your new workplace. From the first day–the first minute–be nice to everyone.

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RapidStart Leadership

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

They made you a new manager. Whatever you did to become a new manager is probably not enough to help you be successful there. In this post I’ll give you six things to focus on in your first week as a new manager so you can get started on the right foot. Open Notebook, Open Mind.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 24, 2023

If you’ve ever had to conduct a task with a two-line description of what is expected of you and have then gotten yelled at for failing to complete the assignment correctly, you know just how passionately you’ve wanted to give your employers feedback on how to improve internal communication at work.

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

One of the biggest assets in anyone’s life is a generous network. We came up with a few unsubstantiated traits based on the people we know who are great connectors: 1) hard working (it does take work to network); 2) humble (now that’s pretty arrogant of me to say!); ” No one’s going to throw you in jail.

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Great Results Team Building

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

Have you ever looked out across a busy street and noticed a group of people with one person trailing behind looking incredibly uncomfortable? One of the first things that you should do when including this type of person in your team is to make them feel welcome like you would with any other new member. Welcome the Wildcard.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

In your work environment, you manage four main personality types. No one style is superior or inferior – they all complement each other. I’ll introduce you to the virtues and vices of each style, and then I’ll explain how to counter the extremes. In crises, you want an Eagle on your side.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 3, 2023

A part of you might be considering excuses that you can successfully use to get out of attending these parties but you don’t need us to tell you that you will be expected to attend, one way or another. The additional fear of making a mistake and compromising your whole career just does not fit the festive atmosphere nicely.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 1, 2020

One of the more fascinating aspects of the coronavirus pandemic has been the speed of change in healthcare providers, such as the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). Healthcare data is one of the NHS’s most precious resources. Data literacy.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 19, 2019

Before answering, consider these stats : Wikipedia users publish 600 new pages every minute. Meanwhile, almost 50,000 new photos are uploaded to Instagram every minute. quintillion bytes of new data posted online each day. Bundled together, this deluge of videos, posts, texts and tweets make up about 2.5

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 26, 2015

So, whenever I’d have a staff conference call or meeting, I would always set aside 10 minutes and introduce a “ leadership lesson of the week ”. I also asked that the lesson be passed on to the field managers and supervisors that weren’t on the call – what I used to call “ training the trainers ”.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

While a formal mentoring relationship – meaning one that takes place in a monitored program within an organization – is the ideal, sometimes an informal mentoring relationship is what’s available. Here are eight steps to follow: Step #1: Identify one or two specific leadership skills you feel that you could improve through mentoring.

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CO2

OCTOBER 16, 2012

“How to Prepare for a Meeting without Getting Eaten Alive” should be the name of one of Harvey Mackay’s books. Late last week I was having breakfast with my dear friend Ken Fink, who does wealth management for billionaires. He selects speakers who will move participants to a new level of performance.

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CO2

OCTOBER 16, 2012

“How to Prepare for a Meeting without Getting Eaten Alive” should be the name of one of Harvey Mackay’s books. Late last week I was having breakfast with my dear friend Ken Fink, who does wealth management for billionaires. He selects speakers who will move participants to a new level of performance.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

While this is so useful, and we have more insight than ever before, the minute you make an important decision, it’s highly likely that new data will come along and completely change your direction. Again, this isn’t a bad thing, as a change in the business model just means a new opportunity for growth.

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Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 5, 2010

But of all of the things he shared, one thing struck me in such a way that I am still thinking about over 24 hours later. They look for good ideas – they look through lots of ideas to find ones they think have a real chance for success. He said that when striving for innovation, leaders should think like venture capitalists.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 14, 2019

Guest post by Mustafa Shraim , ASQ Fellow and Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering Technology and Management, Ohio University. If the outcome can be measured, like the commute time to work or school, one can easily show fluctuation from one day to the next. The first mistake is called tampering.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

Whether you are new to studying leadership or have practiced and studied it for many years, I am sure you will benefit and enjoy the leadership lessons today’s post provides. I recently asked him some questions based on his work. “A There is some very good news here. How to Earn Trus t and Lead Teams. Mark Brouker.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2010

The group had a good time with it and one leader said one of his takeaways for the day was that he was going to introduce stretching into his team meetings. Every day is different and is its own day – One of the things that the yoga instructors like to say is that no two days on the mat are the same. 

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