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How to Complete an Individual Development Plan | Thoughts for the.

Nathan Magnuson

Home / Human Resources / How to Complete an Individual Development Plan. How to Complete an Individual Development Plan. Perhaps you’ve heard of the professional growth tool called the Individual Development Plan (or IDP for short). Think of performance as the “test” and development as the “lesson.”

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Five Ways Leaders Turns Doubters into Doers

Chart Your Course

Effective June 2013, all employees were required to work in the office. said, “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus.”. This past February Yahoo!’s s fledgling CEO Marissa Mayer made her first misstep. In a company-wide email, she announced Yahoo! was changing its telecommute policy.

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Great Leadership Comes with a Counterintuitive Approach

Great Leadership By Dan

Coming to a consensus around vision and direction can be time intensive simply because people who don’t interact are likely speaking to each other for the very first time, and frankly don’t trust each other. Maybe it was the conclusion of a big project, or a close to the fourth quarter of 2013.

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Leading in a World of Change: Lessons from Downton Abbey

Great Leadership By Dan

You can read more on mastering this difficult balancing act in the Hay Group 2013 Best Companies for Leadership study. They allow you to cast a worldwide net to gather ideas, connect to sources of knowledge and experience, and build consensus throughout your organization, no matter how large it is.

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How Corporate Boards Connect, in Charts

Harvard Business Review

We plotted shared directorships among 176 large companies in 1976 and 2013, two years that followed a major global economic crisis. Fast forward to 2013 and we see a remarkable change — try toggling between the two years in the graphic below. Board Interlocks, 2013. Interlocks, 2013. SOURCE Eelke M. © HBR.ORG.

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Mary Barra Brings Teaming to General Motors

Harvard Business Review

GM’s bankruptcy and bailout four years ago earned it the nickname “Government Motors,” a reference to both the $80 billion lent by the US government (repaid in full in December, 2013) and to the bureaucratic, top-down management GM executives had used to try to reverse the company’s tailspin.

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How One Hospital Improved Patient Handoffs for the Long Term

Harvard Business Review

Despite the development of numerous techniques and tools to structure patient handoffs and improve the transfer of communication, we haven’t seen much improvement in reducing medical errors. By the end of 2013, nurses reported over 20% of patient handoffs still had missing information. Adopting a more systematic process.