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April 2015 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Welcome to the April 2015 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival. Management changes, or our strategic plan is rebuffed, or people simply don’t perform the way we think they will. Bruce Harpham of Project Management Hacks submitted Why Showing Appreciation To Your Team Makes A Difference.

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Best Leadership Books To Read In 2015

Eric Jacobson

But, the general consensus was that if someone recommended a book that inspired them or taught them how to be a better leader, the book was worth their time. Here is the list of all 235 books, in alphabetical order. Top Books About Leadership. Top Books About Leadership. Top Books About Leadership.

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Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) Business

Coaching Tip

In the volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) business landscape expected to continue for 2015, leaders face many challenges , requiring aggressive, sustained talent management strategies to prepare them for success. Two times more likely to place value on interacting over managing skills.

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We Close Only The Low Hanging Fruit

Strategy Driven

Indeed: the time it takes buyers to manage changes they’ll face from bringing in your solution is the length of the sales cycle. And you’re not helping them manage the change. I developed Buying Facilitation® to manage that problem for my own sales team. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Steps Along the Buying Decision Path

Strategy Driven

It’s because the sales model does not include the skills to facilitate the larger part of buying decisions – those idiosyncratic, behind-the-scenes, change-management-driven processes that are private and we can’t be part of. Change Management stage. Discussions include managing resultant change. Consensus stage.

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Resistance to Guidance: Why Sales, Coaching, and Leadership Practices Falter

Strategy Driven

Simply, a system – for the sake of this article families, corporations, or individuals – is: a collection of policies, beliefs, agreements, goals and history, uniquely developed over time, which. Let’s begin to think of managers, sellers, leaders, and coaches as true consultants who can hear what their clients mean.

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The Diversity Dividend: How Balancing Your Leadership Team Can Pay Off

Strategy Driven

iv Their consensus is that a lack of diversity in executive teams is less about overt discrimination than it is about unconscious biases toward affinity: people tend to hire people like themselves. January 2015. ” Linda Yueh, Chief Business Correspondent, BBC News January 25, 2015 [link].