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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Manage change One of the biggest mistakes is to share the vision, but fail to report back the little successes that contributed to the forward movement of the vision. Some other posts you may enjoy: 5 Strategies To Free Your Team From Organizational Silos Are You Using Dialects To Develop Your Employees’ Skills?

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FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Of course, while there are various technical skills and aptitudes that are required for leadership positions in various industries, one thing that every leader needs to succeed in their role is to be an effective communicator.

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DECEMBER 11, 2012

And they leverage their talent both by getting out of the way – giving people broad latitude to employ their skills and abilities in going about their work – and by tapping into their creative ideas. Employees in high performing companies offer more favorable views of their ability to improve their skills in their jobs (74 percent, +10).

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APRIL 11, 2011

Like the CareerBuilder study, Thomas and Ecker also found that the majority of first-time leaders had no prior management training or support – 57% of managers surveyed said they had to learn their leadership skills through the process of trial and error.

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APRIL 11, 2011

Like the CareerBuilder study, Thomas and Ecker also found that the majority of first-time leaders had no prior management training or support – 57% of managers surveyed said they had to learn their leadership skills through the process of trial and error. Make efforts to ensure those you promote are effective communicators.

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DECEMBER 8, 2015

Build to the Culture People’s first instincts are to hire people with the skills necessary to perform a role, and that is fine as an initial criteria. During our Xbox journey, I hired a number of direct reports and second level managers whose roles were critical to our success, and they all had flaws.

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JULY 12, 2016

When CEO Jeff Skilling proclaimed, “I am Enron,” the energy giant was at its peak. By the time the floodwaters had receded, Skilling was in prison and his name synonymous with one of the largest bankruptcies in U.S. The hubris displayed by Skilling, along with founder Kenneth Lay and CFO Andrew Fastow, didn’t just destroy Enron.

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AUGUST 18, 2015

Communicating is a learned skill, critical for leadership and motivation – the CEO’s primary task. Challenge each of your direct reports to translate this vision for each of their teams. What if we could each get just ten percent better with our communication skills? And oftentimes, they are not even influential.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2016

After all, when it comes to leadership, our ability to succeed in this role involves more than just one skill set or approach, something that’s particularly evident when we consider the increasing demands and ever-changing conditions that shape and define today’s workplace environment.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

If you want people to follow you, they must believe that your words can be trusted, that you have the knowledge and skill necessary to lead, and that you are personally excited and enthusiastic about the future direction in which you are headed. If people don’t believe in the messenger, they won’t believe the message.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Demonstrate high EQ through empathy, self-awareness and maintaining grace under pressure – C-Suite leaders in all three companies would seek out and use 360 feedback, sharing their development plans with their peers and asking for help on the skills they need the most strength in going forward. What’s A CEO To Do?

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AUGUST 16, 2016

Sam said, “He may not have been known for his soft skills, but he delivered the wake-up call I needed. Sam also suggested that Mark meet with his direct reports, and as sort of a mea culpa, share with them his intent to be less of a first responder and focus more on leading the organization forward.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Indeed, findings like those from Google’s Project Oxygen have proven conclusively that the key to succeeding in leadership today is not in those hard skills of yesteryear, but in the so-called soft skills of empathy, compassion, and self-awareness.

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APRIL 19, 2016

And that’s why he wanted his sous-chef to cut all those potatoes – so he could develop his innate skills in order to better learn the techniques involved in classic culinary prep work. Given the findings reported in the Harvard Business Review, leaders everywhere are certainly aware of this and want to do something about it.

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OCTOBER 7, 2014

Social media allows your employees, especially those with highly desirable skills and experience, to promote their knowledge and accomplishments – making key talent more difficult for organizations to hide. You’ll also need to be flexible in responding to employee needs.

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MAY 31, 2016

Most companies have leaders with the strong operational skills needed to maintain the status quo. Distribute responsibility Strategic leaders gain their skill through practice, and practice requires a fair amount of autonomy. Significantly, they encourage the people who report to them to do the same.

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MARCH 17, 2015

Become a Masterful Storyteller When terrorists strike, when the weather wreaks havoc, when the economy nosedives, the media doesn’t just report how many people died, the impact on the Richter scale or the economy, or the total inches of snow, rain, or flooding. Instead, reporters find the people stories.

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