The Center For Leadership Studies

MARCH 13, 2019

Level II: Learning – The degree to which learners acquire the intended knowledge, skills, attitude, confidence and commitment based on their participation in the training. The same levels simply needed to be considered from the top-down as opposed to the bottom-up. Your “flow” needs to be top-down, as opposed to bottom-up.

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Bottom-up Training Participative Learning-by-Doing 40

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

When employees get injured at work, this affects their ability to take home a paycheck and it negatively impacts the employers’ bottom line. Colliding with or being struck by an object, 10 percent. Provide ongoing training to make sure all employees are up to date. Falls, slips, and trips, 16 percent.

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Cooper Insurance Travel Bottom-up 63

LDRLB

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Be consistent when it comes to these meetings and what you hope to accomplish, and use a template so that all the participants know exactly what will be covered and can prepare accordingly. But afterward, it’s up to you to be thoroughly updated and follow through where necessary. Have the final say. Something’s wrong!

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Long-term Short-term Bottom-up Business Objectives 144

HR Digest

JULY 6, 2022

So, as commuter trains begin to fill up again and the mug cupboard sees its first meaningful use since early 2020, what are these return-to-office rules? Make sure you have a clear end objective and an organized agenda and weigh in if things start to meander. How am I going to survive back-to-back meetings?

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Flextime Bottom-up Transportation Short-term 52

HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

The process of conducting a performance appraisal can be a daunting task for many managers and HR professionals. Providing effective performance feedback examples and performance appraisal comments can help managers provide constructive feedback that empowers employees to achieve their goals.

Review 105

Review Performance Review Ethics Teamwork 105

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

As one of the most crucial components of modern business, negotiation occurs every day in a variety of forms, and the outcome of these negotiations can significantly impact your bottom line. Successful negotiations serve as the foundation for profitable interactions and allow you to cultivate valuable long-term business relationships.

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Succession Proposal Long-term Active Listening 65

Management Craft

OCTOBER 9, 2011

Last year I had the pleasure of participating in, and winning , the HCI M-Prize competition for management innovation. The contest is put on my Gary Hamel's Management Innovation Exchange (the MiX) and the Human Capital Institute (HCI). Bottom-line. The prizes? Yes, that is fun, but not the most compelling reason.

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HCI Hamel Human Capital Bottom-up 66

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Clarify management values. Usually, management has not yet articulated their own individual values, let alone those of the organization. Identify strategic objectives and goals. Tactics feed into objectives, which feed into goals, which feed into strategy, which feeds into Vision. Generate select strategic options.

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Mission Statement Benchmarking Tactics Strategic Planning 80

Eric Jacobson

MAY 7, 2018

Enable buyers to participate in creating what they want. Prahalad and Venkat Ramaswamy who wrote "We're entering a 'bottom-up' economy in which consumers will migrate to businesses that allow them to be participants in the process of creating what they want." Provide the unexpected that triggers a euphoric response.

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Ramaswamy Open-book Prahalad Bottom-up 50

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

I can sum-up my feeling on this in one word… ridiculous. And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus. In recent months I have observed a decent amount of politically correct discourse on the topic of team building and equality.

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Consensus Team Building Blog Team 388

HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Lockdowns and virus-testing have only begun ramping up in many parts of the world, so the full magnitude of the economic impact is yet unknown. Management gurus are seeking to provide clarity, stability, direction to their employees and customers. Managing Rewards and Mobility. Performance Appraisal. Money talks, honey.

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Short-term Committee Incentives Long-term 59

Skip Prichard

AUGUST 5, 2019

Covey, Sally Helgesen, Alan Mulally, Tim Sanders, and the others who participated. Purpose is the answer to, “What gets you up in the morning?” You start with generosity which is not something that the hardened “focus-on-the-bottom-line” types would focus on as a beginning. Grace offers redemption to us all. John Baldoni. .

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Power Leadership Covey Open-book 88

HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Lockdowns and virus-testing have only begun ramping up in many parts of the world, so the full magnitude of the economic impact is yet unknown. Management gurus are seeking to provide clarity, stability, direction to their employees and customers. Managing Rewards and Mobility. Money talks, honey. 2020 & Beyond.

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Short-term Committee Incentives Long-term 52

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 29, 2008

Set up frank conversations to find out what they would like to be doing, and what drives them to do their best. Keep in mind that job enrichment opportunities often exist outside the boundaries of your unit or group—and as a manager, you are in a better position to seek these opportunities out. Fixing a business or product in trouble.

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Leadership Development Development Mentor Leadership 120

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Quality is not something that managers assign others to achieve. It is a mindset that permeates organizations from top-down as well as bottom-up. Rather than assume all is wrong or right with an organization and take a defensive posture, management must view quality as essential to their economic survival or growth.

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Quality Metrics Strategic Planning TQM 50

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

After the two months, extra meetings to follow-up on the action plan are optional. On top of that, they would end up the process feeling more confident and ready to start (or drop the idea once and for all). 14) Create a structure in top management that will push every day on the above 13 points. Root cause analysis. Processes.

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Deming SWOT Root Cause Analysis TRIZ 28

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

Leadership development and change management tend to be top priorities for many organizations. One major reason organizations struggle is because they treat both leadership development and change management as separate rather than interrelated challenges. We recommend an approach that is both top-down and bottom-up.

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Development Management Bottom-up 8

Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 26, 2014

The higher we move up the organizational ladder, the more our employees let us know how wonderful we are! The bear was about to clamp on an unsuspecting salmon jumping up stream. They must have us mixed up with someone who truly does need to change. Without it, we wouldn’t be so excited about getting up in the morning.

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Succession Commitment Follow-up Learning-by-Doing 181

Ask Atma

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Setting up an Agile based environment for any work group or business. It is at heart a new philosophical approach to project management. In this sense, agile is more a way to create a new culture than simply a way to write software or manage a project. This is why agile is such an important part of management 3.0.

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Agility Project Software Short-term 71

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Despite the media coverage of Boomers and how a tidal wave of retirements could impact business, many senior managers are kicking the can down the road, putting off the job of creating a system and process for capturing knowledge. Manager can avoid this by taking some steps now to prepare for the day when key workers leave.

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How To Tacit Knowledge Mentor Intellectual Capital 62

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Followers were expected to keep their heads down, put in an honest days work, and only spoke up when asked. The better employees are attracted to jobs that make a difference to customers, fellow employees, or the communities they live in and they are much more willing to raise objections when they feel inhibited from making that difference.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

While the object of the game is still to drive revenue, the methods have changed. 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. In fact, at Telstra, social media participation is mandatory! Very, very smart.

Media 67

Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

I asked the class: “What steps should the team leader in this case study take to manage different attitudes towards confrontation on the team?”. The Chinese participants listened carefully. As an experiment they presented 20-second animated videos of underwater scenes to Japanese and American participants.

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Objective Participative Long-term Diversity 13

Roundtable Talk

JUNE 22, 2010

the losers that were at the bottom of the heap). In Max’s experience, for teams to be &# on their game&# , leaders need to instill the Five “P’s” of Team Performance: Purpose: be clear on the objective of the team; what are you there to accomplish? RoundtableTalk Where ambitious leaders meet. Skip to content Home Welcome!

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Tips Team Bottom-up Teamwork 34

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

If you were to make a list of up-and-coming business trends, social media strategies would probably be near the top. Actually, scratch that “up-and-coming” part – social media is already here. And before you start building your own Social Nation, you need to have a well-researched game plan. Far from it, actually.

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Media Follow-up Software Newsletter 50

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

” The objective was clear, I wanted to unpack the lessons on how Iron Sharpens Iron ; how you, improve others. My first opportunity to gauge my theory of people-centric leading was speaking to a room filled with young entrepreneurs and employees from various industries who were beginning to enter management positions.

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Globalization Leadership Conference Diversity 276

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2018

Self-awareness seems to have become the latest management buzzword — and for good reason. In 10 separate investigations with nearly 5,000 participants, we examined what self-awareness really is, why we need it, and how we can increase it. (We We are currently writing up our results for submission to an academic journal.).

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Self-aware How To Learning-by-Doing Participative 20

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2012

His days are filled with meetings, often without clear objectives, and the invitations just keep coming in. But what should organizations — people like Michael and those who manage him — read into that conversation? In a 2008 MIT study , researchers investigated meaning by asking participants to build Lego models.

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Participative Bottom-up Creativity Budgeting 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

Three of five marketers use no tools to measure event ROI, and most companies plan and execute events without specific business objectives. So consider what more productive event spending means for the bottom line. No technology can help managers who are unable or unwilling to set goals. Software from firms like Glisser or sli.do

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CRM ROI Budgeting Public Relations 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2014

The tragedy is that countless people died even though both workers and management knew something was wrong. And according to research by the Solidarity Center, less than 1 percent of women in garment factories participate in worker associations in Bangladesh’s export zones. But the tragedy of Rana Plaza isn’t that a building fell down.

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Supply Chain Apparel Bottom-up Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

This team identified objectively measureable indicators of networking activity and combined them into a Connectedness Index. Contrast these with Georgia, Tanzania, and Bangladesh, which come in at the bottom of this 75-country study. And certainly, many managers already have a broad awareness of the value of knowledge networks.

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NGO Bottom-up Report GDP 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

If you're anything like I am, you listen to webinars with one ear, occasionally checking your computer screen if a graph or image is referenced, perhaps catching up on email or articles while the webinar is running in the background. And participation in webinars doesn't generally require an extensive network.

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Webinar Participative Content Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

At best 20 percent of us will succeed at achieving our objectives. Then they present their list of top challenges to the rest of the participants. What I mean is that problems are often framed as a "system issue," a "top management issue," a "supplier issue," or a "direct report issue." Here's what I mean.

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Goal Bottom-up Workshop Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2017

And the big question: Did you speak up? There is no question that objecting to such situations is difficult. In such an environment, employees who are would-be dissenters but are fearful of speaking up may find it difficult to fully engage with their coworkers and leaders and may become less productive.

How To 8

How To Audience Bottom-up Environment 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Skill development is clearly a major priority for companies and managers these days. People are also being asked by their bosses or HR to attend conferences, read case studies, watch videos, and try their hand at simulations, all with the goal of picking up new ideas and techniques. Make it a stretch. Do it fast.

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Project Parcell How To Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2011

After all, my research, and that of many others, reveals that the best managers and leaders are aware of their strengths and weaknesses, and have taken steps to capitalize on the former and neutralize the latter. The bottom line is that, when it comes to rating my behavior, you are not objective. I really should.

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Survey Sample Self-aware Objective 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

While critical feedback can frequently be given objectively and with the purest of motives, it can also be inaccurate and/or nefarious in nature: a coworker who wants to throw us off our game; a boss who has completely unachievable expectations; an employee who is scared to speak truth to power; a friend who projects her own issues onto us.

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Self-aware Report Open-book Participative 8