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Five Ways to Spot a Leader in the Wild

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When you’re hiring for a leadership position one of the most elusive qualities is actual leadership. You can usually assess a person’s skills and experience level with some accuracy by using a variety of interview techniques, references, or auditions. Leadership is always harder to get a grip on. Indeed, Davis et al.

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Leadership Evolution: In a World Of Big Change, Do The Great Lessons Endure?

Terry Starbucker

That’s the nature of our vocation called leadership. But there’s an interesting question that bears some deep thought here: “While all these other things may change, do the fundamental lessons of great leadership remain timeless?”

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7 Ways to Get Your Leadership (AND Your Team) Over The Hump

Terry Starbucker

With nearly 30 years of experience in my rear view mirror, I can best describe the process of successful leadership as somehow getting a giant boulder up, and then over, a steep hill – a boulder not only filled with the accumulated weight of our talents and expectations, but with those of our teammates as well.

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Of Moose and Managers

The Practical Leader

It centers on a workshop the central character, Pete Leonard, is forced to attend to improve his leadership as a manager in a tech services company. It’s having the courage to strengthen our leadership in the face of daily management crisis and technical issues pulling us down into the minutiae of details.

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Heart Restart: Touching the Why

The Practical Leader

He continually referred to them during meetings and planning sessions. He even helped the company expand its leadership development programs to include role descriptions, personal feedback, and coaching on how to strengthen spirit and meaning. In today’s environment, this is one of the toughest aspects of leadership.

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Effective Leaders Know the Power of Climate Control

Great Results Team Building

Rather than traditional “command and control” style of leadership, Sir Ken Robinson, during a recent TED talk , shared that effective leaders should focus instead on “climate control.”. I felt that was tremendously insightful, as leadership styles determine the culture of most organizations.

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Idealized Futures and Team Building Cover Stories

Mike Cardus

Following each team sharing, we had a great discussion about the meeting goals, and used the ‘Cover Stories’ as a reference point for the planning and development of future goals. We broke into two groups and each had a ‘Cover Story’ template a bunch of markers and 30 minutes. What do you think? Could ‘Cover Story’ be useful with your team?