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How did that person get to be a leader? featured at David Dye’s Leadership blog

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“As an HR manager, it’s amazing what people will tell you. Depending on the organization, there comes a time when the peer group at a certain level is not healthy. ” Thanks David for featuring my post and adding your own comments about about unhealthy leadership and what we can do about it. I’ve seen this.

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Show People the Leader You Are In a Moment

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I had facilitated the process for my part of the organization. He heard about an employee that the managers in my organization had chosen to let go. You never know when you will face a leadership moment. Her leadership inspired me to want to live up to her expectations. We had gone through a downsizing event.

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Topic of pro-human workplace featured on Dana Theus’ Coffee Break show

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What IS a “pro-employee” organization. In our discussion, we covered topics like the bottom line impact of employee engagement and disengagement, when business IS personal, what being human at work means, bullying and character-based leadership among other things in our 31 short minutes. You can find the recording here.

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You can learn to be a leader in the most unexpected places

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Over the sound of the espresso machine I hear Lydia, the manager at my favorite coffee shop. She’s talking with a barista who is training to be a shift manager. She’s a coffee shop leader, not a coffee shop manager. I subsequently interviewed Lydia about how she developed her management style.

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If We’re Not Human At Work, What Are We?

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I’ve been receiving a series of emails lately from a highly regarded organization with the subject line “How to Be More Human at Work.”. Until those of us who have some degree of influence or leadership take responsibility for cultivating our own humanity, we aren’t getting anywhere. Aren’t we being human all the time?

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Can We Have Different Motivations at Work?

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I commend him on wanting to see the humans beings in his organization grow, develop and succeed. We have a wide range of jobs in organizations. Managers, why do you think that some of your very talented employees are satisfied with being in the middle of the pack?”. Recognition from top management. Salary increases.

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Is Cooperation the New Efficiency?

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I was a mainframe systems manager. For instance, I would manage my work around their biggest printing and delivery days, etc. But given your level in the organization I think it might be better for you to present this to them. She said she had never really thought about it that way. It was early in my career.

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