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How Important Is Coaching in Professional Development?

Leading Blog

I’ve seen many breakthrough moments when people from all walks of life set their sights on developing new thoughts, actions, and habits. Some folks who want to share advice or questions for us to ponder don’t have our best interests at heart. Of course, this is sort of like asking a baker if bread is worth baking.

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Why Identity and Intersectionality Matter for Diversity and Democracy

leaderCommunicator

The Plank Center for Leadership in Public Relations works to “develop and recognize outstanding diverse public relations leaders, role models, and mentors to advance ethical public relations in an evolving, global society.” Video of the original closing remarks can be watched here.

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Smarten Up: Hone Your EQ Edge

The Practical Leader

Off Balance: High IQ Leaders Often Have Lower EQ Many of our audience and workshop participants are STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine) specialists who have been promoted to management positions because of their technical expertise. IQ tests were developed to measure this intellectual strength and power.

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The August 2011 Leadership Development RoundTable Challenge: A Coaching Dilemma

Persuasive Powerhouse

You and Rob set about to design a development plan for Rob including some goals to increase his listening skills, decrease his impatience, engage the team in problem solving, and be more outwardly appreciative of their efforts. Coaching and development can’t be jammed down someone’s throat. You begin coaching Rob.

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To Develop Others, Start With Yourself

Marshall Goldsmith

While listening to Steve speak so openly to coworkers about his efforts to develop himself as a leader, I realized how much the world has changed. Even fewer candidly discussed that feedback and their personal development plans. He communicated clear expectations for ethics, values, and behavior.

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5 Critical Skills You Will Need to Hit the Ground Running After College

Leading Blog

They participate in campus life but too often from the sidelines, so they lack and deep engagement in activities that provide much needed skills for the job market. They fail to cultivate relationships with professors or staff on campus who might lend advice or act as mentors. Be Curious, Ask Questions, and Be a Learner for Life. “We

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Lying to ourselves

CEO Blog

Success has a thousand fathers, failure is an orphan; in any success in which multiple groups/individuals participate, each tends to ascribe the lion’s share to themselves. They were asking for advice on how to sell more. 5 - Try to develop a second way to source business. 20/20 Hindsight Bias: aka “I knew it all along”.