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quickpoint: What Middle Managers Do

Leading Blog

What middle managers do is actually much more complex than what either executives or frontline workers do: They manage both up and down, and serve as translators in both directions. The people in the middle were the only ones who could connect the big goals at the top with the details at the bottom, and do so quickly.

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First Look: Leadership Books for July 2020

Leading Blog

Leading with Feeling : Nine Strategies of Emotionally Intelligent Leadership by Cary Cherniss and Cornelia W. This book describes how 25 outstanding leaders used emotional intelligence to deal with critical challenges and opportunities. Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in July 2020.

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Is your Leadership Development Developing Leaders?

Great Leadership By Dan

Remarkably, the most consistent area of incompetence pertains to developing leaders. Getting Soft The issue with leadership development is that there is too much emphasis on the hard skills (technical knowledge, teachable, easy to quantify) and not enough focus on the soft skills (interpersonal skills, subjective, harder to measure).

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The Importance of Negotiation in Leadership

Joseph Lalonde

Developing your negotiating skills can make you a more effective leader, whether you run your own business or work for a company. Someone without negotiation skills will be a less effective leader because they step down instead of stepping up. Firstly, you need to be committed to personal development and the development of others.

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Developing The CEO Within You.

Rich Gee Group

You’re moving on up. Making your way up the ladder, dodging bullets, using every last bit of your intellect and motivation to deftly ingratiate yourself with key decision-makers. EQ – Emotional Quotient (or Emotional Intelligence). The post Developing The CEO Within You. What are some of the techniques used?

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How To Hire The Right Talent For Your Team

Lead from Within

This not only affects team dynamics but also impacts the company’s bottom line, costing organizations up to 1.5 It’s challenging to develop drive later in life, so leaders should focus on hiring for it. One non-negotiable skill is coachability, as it determines a person’s willingness to learn and develop.

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Finding Your Stride as a New Manager

Lead Change Blog

Enough literature is available on developing new skills by new managers. Emotional intelligence. These skills develop by practice. Promoting them and offering them people-management responsibility is setting them up for failure. The bottom-up approach to work must be replaced with a top-down approach.