Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

The bottom line is, aside from your method of choice, how you say things is as important as what you say, particularly when it comes to building social capital. What is social capital and why is it important? If they scowl at your email, text or call, your social capital is low. You can’t BUY this.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 3, 2020

Welcome to the March 2020 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Eileen McDargh contributed Cracking the Leadership Code: The Secret to Resilient Leaders.

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Career Advancement

MARCH 20, 2017

“Leadership is intentional influence.” Successful influencers cultivate alliances with people across the company who are in positions of leadership or who have strong social capital. Higher-ups as well as people they supervise come to them for advice and ideas. Leadership isn’t about having a title.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 7, 2011

In short, trust is a form of social capital that enhances performance between individuals, within and among groups, and in larger collectives, like organizations, institutions and nations. You didn't have to be the hero every day; someone would always step up and help the group succeed.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

But effective cooperation, particularly in a setting as complex as health care, requires more than a resolve to play well together; it requires leadership to explicitly recognize the need to build social capital across the organization, and implement a strategy accomplish it. Ultimately, the key to success is authenticity.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

The most forward thinking companies are adopting some form of Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) to assess the value of customers to their bottom lines. And in today's increasingly networked, social-media-infused reality, that's missing a whole lot of customers who can generate value far beyond anything they buy.

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