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Enabling Growth: Promotions Are So Yesterday

QAspire

He was looking for growth in a complex maze of managerial biases from his team lead, stringent organizational processes and many other constraints. We climb our way up through the winding roads with sharp turns.” Jay applied for that role – a sharp turn from his current profile and past skills.

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Don?t Forget To Take Care Of Yourself

Joseph Lalonde

By failing to take care of yourself, you put your team at risk. You can take care of yourself (without neglecting your team). Attend conferences and workshops. Stimulating your mind so you’re taking in new content and “stretching” your brain will keep you sharp and up-to-date on important trends and insights.

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Leadership Training For Executives

Experience to Lead

To manage these challenges, executives are called on to adopt a long-term perspective on organizational strategy while staying in tune with the present-day needs of clients, customers and team members. Executive leadership programs are typically structured as a series of workshops, seminars, and experiential sessions led by industry experts.

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Blocks to Creativity and Innovation. Tools to Release Creativity and Innovation

Mike Cardus

These problems can be real you have to figure out a way to keep your pencil sharp or manufactured this is your iPad and Apple examples. Innovation is a repeatable system-that-drives behavior in people, that are goal driven (by a Manager, themselves, or a customer), to fix an existing problem OR to fix an hypothesized future problem.

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How to Lead Like a Pig

Next Level Blog

In a truly innovative move, the new management team rewrote the employee handbook giving the green light to profanity and dirty jokes “because a loose, fun, nonlinear atmosphere is important to the creative process. This should be understood, should not be a surprise and not considered harassment.”

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A New Year: A New Book of Blank Pages

The Practical Leader

I used to love the sharp, fresh smell of ink and paper as I opened a new book and heard the creak of the spine cracking. Our workshop was at the beautiful Fairmont Resort in the picturesque Blue Mountains just west of Sydney. Books don’t seem to smell that way anymore. As always, the goal is to move from knowing to doing.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Rod MacKenzie – Executive Vice President, Chief Development Officer for Pfizer, member of Pfizer’s Executive Leadership Team. Former HR Director and member of executive management team at the National Irish Bank. Facilitates workshops on vision, mission and values integration. Co-inventor of darifenacin (Enablex ).