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First Look: Leadership Books for December 2013

Leading Blog

Lead & Influence : Get More Ownership, Commitment, and Achievement From Your Team by Mark Fritz. Beyond the Job Description : How Managers and Employees Can Navigate the True Demands of the Job by Jesse Sostrin. The Way of the SEAL : Think Like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed by Mark Divine with Allyson E.

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25 Coaching Questions to Create your 2013 Leadership Development Plan

Great Leadership By Dan

Creating an Individual Development Plan (IDP) is a great way to capture those actions and increases your chances of keeping your commitments to yourself. Managers, once you’ve created your own plan, use the questions to coach your employees to create their plans. Purpose and commitment: 1. You manager, a mentor, a coach?

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Can a Manager be a Coach?

Great Leadership By Dan

Originally posted at Smartblog on Leadership 5/23/2013: Can a manager be an effective coach? Then again, a lot of managers think they are already coaching when what they are really doing is a lot of teaching, advising and telling — or, worst case, micromanaging (think Pointy Haired Boss from “Dilbert” ). O = options.

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How Employee Engagement Drives Customer Satisfaction

N2Growth Blog

They take ownership, deliver on their commitments, in and outside the organization, and are passionate about satisfying the customer because they own the results of their work. It’s about an emotional commitment where employees choose to go the extra mile and give the very best of themselves at work.

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10 Communication Practices To Stop in 2013

leaderCommunicator

As we begin 2013, I thought it might be useful to share what’s on the “Outs” for this year. Start the year off strong with a commitment to stop those bad habits that get in the way of getting the results you want, and being your best self. Make 2013 the year you commit to more phone and face-to-face conversations.

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Leaders: Still Making Progress On Your 2013 New Year's Resolution?

Eric Jacobson

Which one of the 70 tips for how to become a more effective leader did you select as a 2013 New Year''s Resolution? This list was published last December in my blog, about the time many leaders were identifying their professional and personal goals for 2013. Foster mutual commitment 34. Admit your mistakes 35.

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The Importance Of Corporate Venturing During Covid-19

The Horizons Tracker

The paper highlights how corporate venturing is a rapidly expanding endeavor, and corporate investments in startups have grown from 980 in 2013 to 3,232 per year today. A second paper, from the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM), highlights how corporate venturing can help organizations to survive the pandemic.