The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 26, 2023

Leaders require honest and constructive feedback to improve their performance and help them identify their blind spots. Feedback identifies areas for growth, enhancing communication and the workplace’s overall effectiveness. Encourage a culture where positive and constructive suggestions are welcome beyond formal evaluations.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In so doing it will distinguish burnout from cyclical job or task-related regression, and will also provide strategies for employees and managers to consider for enhancing workplace health. Elusive Energy–Work-related stamina is declining. What Is Workplace Burnout? With burnout, everyday movement and routine become a struggle.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Satisfiers , which positively impacted workplace motivation, were largely a function of higher order needs (i.e., Strong Management : ( Higher/Lower Order Needs; Motivator/Hygiene Factor ) Employees are motivated by managers that establish/negotiate clear performance expectations and provide timely, performance-based feedback.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

AUGUST 28, 2023

It is also very much about hiring people with the propensity to learn new things, operate effectively in an environment defined by ambiguity and successfully manage the conflicts that will inevitably present themselves. Upskilling and Reskilling One thing we know is that when change hits, performance readiness shifts.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

By decreasing anxiety, meditation may be able to boost resilience and performance under stress. A mindfulness practice can help you slow down enough to manage your emotions and respond with empathy and logic. Enhancing creativity. Developing self-awareness. Building resiliency. Building resiliency. Controlling anxiety.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 28, 2019

Self-awareness and self-management are important skills; people with EI move the entire team forward, not just themselves. They must have a positive attitude. They must have a positive attitude. A positive outlook often signifies a resilience and fortitude that can benefit your organization. They must value teamwork.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

There is little doubt that the best performing firms on the planet have exciting and healthy cultures – think Google, Southwest and Nike – while other organizations seem to be in a constant state of struggle to reach their full potential. Your people don’t feel that they have what they need to perform at their best.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JANUARY 6, 2022

Conversely, if you are selling a sophisticated product or service to a customer you will actively engage with on a recurring basis, establishing and enhancing your reputation as a true partner is paramount (i.e., With that as a backdrop, when we find ourselves in positions to influence others (sales, management, parenting, etc.),

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The Center For Leadership Studies

AUGUST 28, 2023

They take imperfect information, connect people to it, and serve as an energy ambassador tasked with the responsibility of creating movement in a desirable direction. Own your readiness to perform! Not surprisingly, Gen Xers frequently fall somewhere in the middle of these generational extremes when it comes to all things “technology.”

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

What shifts must learning and development professionals make in order to create an environment of continuous learning that accelerates development and quickly and positively impacts the business in real and tangible ways? Where are we? 90% of leaders think an engagement strategy is important while only 25% of organizations have one (ACCOR).

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Mills Scofield

JULY 27, 2014

Air Force has graciously written this post for my blog. Shortly thereafter, the Department of Energy conducted a careful study of the site''s residual pollution and concluded that the clean-up and closure of the facility would require a comprehensive effort on a scale that had never been attempted in United States history.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

OCTOBER 20, 2023

First and foremost, a confident leader values the outcome they are pursuing. It energizes them. As the saying goes, it is literally “what keeps them up at night!” That pursuit can take the form of solving a problem, responding to an unforeseen challenge or diving into an opportunity. Spoiler alert—it’s crucial!

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The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Yet, what happens when managers hear people ask for more communications? Like confusing activity with accomplishment, most managers confuse information with communications. Tomorrow we publish my January blogs in the February issue of The Leader Letter ( click here to subscribe and receive by email). Few hands go up.

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LDRLB

MARCH 20, 2011

I’m very happy to say that a recent article in the Academy of Management Journal provides the best credible evidence so far for a link between psychological engagement and employee performance. The article is entitled “ Job Engagement: Antecedents and Effects on Job Performance, ” by Bruce Rich, Jeffrey LePine, and Eean Crawford.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JANUARY 12, 2021

An exceedingly bright and consistently energetic member of our team at The Center for Leadership Studies (CLS), who for all intents and purposes is just starting her career, approached me recently seeking wisdom : Her : “You know how we are always saying that Situational Leadership ® is a language of performance management and change management?”.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Paul LaRue of The Upwards Leader contributed 6 Ways To Enhance Your Communication Effectiveness. If you want to be more consistent and effective in enabling your team to perform, then consider these ways to enhance your communication.” Welcome to the September Leadership Development Carnival. Communication.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Posner , authors of the international best-seller and groundbreaking leadership book, “ The Leadership Challenge ”, to my blog. I did not feel management set the kind of example that I wanted to abide by.” Max Brown, I’m delighted and honoured to welcome James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. I just used to say, ‘A big company.’”

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 2, 2020

Eileen McDargh shared Faced with Loss, Managers Must Understand Context. Eileen explains: “Now more than ever, managers need to heed close attention to the individual concerns of team members. Eileen explains: “Now more than ever, managers need to heed close attention to the individual concerns of team members.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 29, 2010

I call this ‘managing yourself smart,’ and here are some guidelines to help navigate social media. As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation. Inspire and motivate.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 22, 2010

As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation. The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies.

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Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

What is the number #1 book you recommend for learning how to become a better leader (boss/manager or leading self)? What is the number #1 book you recommend for learning how to become a better leader (boss/manager or leading self)? Why does poor leadership seem to be such an epidemic in government, business, and nonprofits?

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. No one is equally expert at both.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Here’s how to get your creative juices flowing so that you can out-think and out-earn your competition. The lightbulb. An idea that to anyone other than its creator(s) may have seemed like an insane thing to invest much time, money, or effort in bringing to fruition. That’s fine. You don’t have to.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2014

You’re already thinking about what you’ll do when get into your new position. Smarts get you through the gate, but everyone in your cohort of incoming hires has the hard skills required to qualify for the position. All across the country, this year’s soon-to-be graduates are revving up to start their careers. You may be one of them.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. The millions of customers in its database represent the gamut of buying histories, buying propensities, profitability, demographics and cost to serve.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

But just because you know that a network is important to your success, it doesn’t mean you are devoting sufficient time and energy to making it useful and strong. On a scale of one to five, how important is having a good network to your ability to accomplish your goals? Don’t worry about who they should be. Teach you new things.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

From Hollywood and sports to executive search firms and HR departments around the globe, everyone seeks that special mix of natural abilities and attitudes that will make performance pop. A few months ago, Douglas Conant wrote a terrific blog post on how to find talented candidates for a job. We live in a world mad for talent.

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

million blog articles are being published every day. 65 Content Marketers List the 44 Content Marketing Agencies Crushing It (Plus 70 Tips & 78 Myths Dispelled) ​Digital marketing is becoming harder to ignore as we now live in a world of internet ubiquity. The answer to that depends on your goals, budget, etc., 8 Stellar Ones.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

While per capita labor productivity is steadily improving, the core performance of the corporations themselves has been deteriorating for decades. The strategy works, temporarily putting more cash on the positive side of the balance sheet. Companies deserve to work this way as well. There’s no such thing as “big enough.”

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