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Why Managers Don’t Listen (Poor Listener Syndrome): and the Cures!

Great Leadership By Dan

We are born with the ability to listen, yet somehow managers, at some point in their careers, seem to forget how to use this natural born gift. Listening is one of the most consistently lowest rated behaviors in 360 degree feedback assessments for managers. Listening isn’t rocket science. Or a half day training program?

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Changing Leadership Behavior

Marshall Goldsmith

While I am best known as an executive coach, coaching represents only 25% of what I do. We then get paid only after our coaching clients have achieved a positive change in key leadership behaviors as determined by key stakeholders. I believe that many behavioral coaches are paid for the wrong outcomes.

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Self-Assessment

Marshall Goldsmith

As an executive coach, I work with supremely successful people who need to change some behaviors. The man I coached--let's call him Mike--wasn't amoral and unethical like Gekko, but he had some competitive fires that made him treat people poorly. This should have been the apex of Mike's young career.

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Younger and Older Executives Need Different Things from Coaching

Harvard Business Review

Eric, 33, a high-potential vice president at a financial services firm, was elated to be selected by his supervisors to receive executive coaching. In coaching, while Eric focused on learning ways to motivate the talent on his team, he didn’t address deeper issues, like his perfectionism, that could hold him back in the long run.

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Why The Best Hospitals Are Managed by Doctors

Harvard Business Review

Doctors were once viewed as ill-prepared for leadership roles because their selection and training led them to become “heroic lone healers.” The emphasis on patient-centered care and efficiency in the delivery of clinical outcomes means that physicians are now being prepared for leadership. ” But this is changing.

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Why Your Peers Can't Stand Working With You | Aspire-CS

Persuasive Powerhouse

Scott is also an executive coach, speaker, and blogger. He is a former Fortune 500 HR executive, president of The Eblin Group and graduate of Davidson College, Harvard University, and Georgetown University’s leadership coaching certificate program, where he is also on the faculty. Why is that?

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