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How to Leverage Your Skills with the Most Valuable Leadership Practice

Let's Grow Leaders

These are certainly valuable.And when we ask the tens of thousands of leaders and managers we’ve worked with about the most valuable practice they’ve learned through our work together, one the most frequent answers is to “Check for understanding. Then do it again the next day. It’s not flashy or charismatic.

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Action Learning: A Recipe For Success

Marshall Goldsmith

I have observed one leadership development process that builds leaders and helps companies make money at the same time - action learning. After seeing how action learning worked at GE and IBM, I am surprised that more companies don't do it. Action learning is a structured process with four essential elements: 1.

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How to Explain Leadership Development to a 5th Grader (A Leadership Development Glossary)

Great Leadership By Dan

It’s one of the ways we “professionalize” the unique work that we do in order to sound and feel important. You’re not new in the field, but you still don’t know the jargon, and you find yourself pretending that you do; 3. That’s all well and good, except when: 1. You’re new in the field and don’t yet understand the jargon; 2.

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The Remarkable Power of the Truth Teller

Lead from Within

Lying is both ubiquitous and consequential—but why do we lie? Science says we learn to deceive as toddlers. If you’re in a powerful position or leadership role in which people look up to you, you’re expected to lead in integrity and truth. They know that honest hearts produce honest actions. inaccurate things.

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How to Avoid Your Leadership Gap

Leading Blog

In The Leadership Gap , Lolly Daskal address this gap—what it is, why it happens, and what we can do about it. What is the gap between who I am and who I want to be, and do I know what it is I still need to learn?” Learning to recognize your leadership gap is the factor that determines your greatness as a leader.”

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The Widening Gap Between Leaders and Up-and-coming Leaders…and What to Do About It

Great Leadership By Dan

Succession planning programs are meant to address the need for strong leaders, however the gap between those currently in leadership positions and the next wave of leaders is growing by the day, and these programs have not been designed to keep up with the accelerated pace dictated by this dramatic shift in demographics.

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How to Involve Participants in a Leadership Training Program

Great Leadership By Dan

I do and I understand”. -- Confucius. Even the most brilliant, credible, and talented instructors with the most dazzling PowerPoint slides won’t guarantee participants in a leadership training program are actually going to learn anything. However, the learning is usually more personalized and meaningful to each participant.