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Organizational Health and Performance: Beyond Performance 2.0

Leading Blog

So, any change effort will be more successful when you focus on both performance and health. Considering that most change efforts only succeed 30% of the time, Scott Keller and Bill Schaninger (both McKinsey partners) put forth a change model to increase the odds of success (upwards of 79% of the time) in Beyond Performance 2.0.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2015

Leading Blog

He illuminates an aspect of self-awareness that is so vital to a leader’s success. Steve is a great object lesson in someone who masterfully improved his ability to make better use of his strengths and to effectively mitigate those aspects of his personality that got in the way of those strengths.” Blog Post ). And we can too.

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70 New Year's Resolutions For Leaders For 2015

Eric Jacobson

With only one month left of 2014, it''s not too early to start identifying your New Year''s Resolutions for 2015. Perhaps write down five to ten and then between now and December 31, think about which couple you want to work on in 2015. To get you started, how about selecting one or more of these 70 New Year''s resolutions for leaders?

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3 Reasons to Automate Your Business in 2015

Strategy Driven

But we’ve got some thoughts on why you should at least consider ways to automate business processes in your organization and be more efficient in 2015. The software should then present you with a narrow list of actions that work with the object you’ve targeted. Then go forth and do more in 2015. Reason 1: To Err is Human.

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The Success Delusion

Marshall Goldsmith

The more successful we become, the more positive reinforcement we get – and the more likely we are to experience the success delusion. I am successful. Therefore, I must be successful because I behave this way. Our belief in ourselves helps us become successful. I behave this way. Why We Resist Change.

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High Performing Employees

Career Advancement

He wanted to groom his high-performing employees for success , growing their leadership skills. According to a 2015 Gallup study, half of all employees who resign leave because they don’t like their bosses. Create a Succession Plan (and Communicate It). he wondered. Provide Plenty of Guidance.

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How to Prevent Redundant Performance Improvement Conversations

Great Leadership By Dan

What they’ve often missed is isolating the very specific behaviors that must change for the employee to be successful. Isolate and breakdown the behaviors you need to see shifted before success can be declared. Yes, your primary objective in this conversation is to inspire behavioral change. Do you know the best way to do that?

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