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December 2018 Leadership Development Carnival: A Year in Review

Lead Change Blog

Dan shares: “ Listening is one of the most consistently lowest rated behaviors in 360 degree feedback assessments for managers. Shelley Row provided The Check Engine Light: Are You Looking Under Your Hood? Shelley shares: “ You have an internal check engine light.

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To Help Others Develop, Start With Yourself

Marshall Goldsmith

I just reviewed my 360-degree feedback. His leadership team reversed the company’s poor image and engineered an amazing turnaround – ultimately becoming the Forbes’ most-admired company. I have been working on becoming a better coach for the past year or so. My coworkers have been helping me improve.

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To Develop Others, Start With Yourself

Marshall Goldsmith

I just reviewed my 360- degree feedback. His leadership team reversed the company's poor image and engineered an amazing turnaround. Listen to what General Mills CEO Steve Sanger recently told 90 of his colleagues: 'As you all know, last year my team told me that I needed to do a better job of coaching my direct reports.

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Vision: A Story and a Fortune Cookie

Building Personal Strength

I first learned about 360-degree feedback in 1987. It was a new technology at the time, used primarily to give bosses what was called "upward" feedback about their leadership and management. First, my son agreed to take over as software engineer, and he has been with my company ever since—over twenty years.

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Self-Assessment

Marshall Goldsmith

I just reviewed my 360-degree feedback. At Northrop Grumman, CEO Kent Kresa and his leadership team reversed the company's poor image and engineered an amazing turnaround. I have been working on becoming a better coach for the past year or so. I'm still not doing quite as well as I want, but I'm getting a lot better.

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CEOs Need to Get Serious About Sales

Harvard Business Review

The best CEOs call on their management toolkit to transform sales into a growth engine by focusing on three actions in particular: Crank up the analytics. For example, use regression analyses of performance and 360-degree feedback data to determine training priorities. It's not enough to set budgets and set goals.

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What Separates Great HR Leaders from the Rest

Harvard Business Review

Over the last five years, Zenger Folkman has collected 360-degree feedback data on 2,187 HR leaders. Only in HR, Engineering, and Safety do male senior leaders score higher than their female counterparts. These differences, while small, are statistically significant.