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Leadership Irony: To Accomplish More, Do Less

Great Leadership By Dan

On the agenda, was a business simulation that was akin to an outdoor scavenger hunt. The participants were divided into small groups and each team was asked to spend a few hours strategizing and developing a plan that would lead to the best and fastest way to find items and “collect” associated winnings. Change the scenery.

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Creating Purposeful Leadership Development Training Programs

The Regis Company

Even as an executive leadership development company, our team found ourselves falling into the same captivating trap of infusing these enticing tools in our programs wrapped in the comfort that these tried and true principles were the backbone of traditional design. Why is this important?

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Leadership Development is not Supposed to be FUN

Great Leadership By Dan

Leadership development via a round of golf : “Transforms today’s managers into tomorrow’s leaders by combining experiential leadership development methods with simulation (including a unique business simulation on the golf course!).”.

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Feeling Ambivalent About Your Boss Hurts Your Performance Even More Than Disliking Them

Harvard Business Review

Research shows that when people have a good relationship with their leaders, they’re more motivated, they perform better, and they’re more likely to go the extra mile to support their team. and the rest of the participants were undergraduate students at a UK university who engaged in a business simulation.

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Research: We’re Not Very Self-Aware, Especially at Work

Harvard Business Review

While you may have discovered your “type,” “profile,” or “style,” it probably did little to make you a more effective leader or team member. The net result can be harmful to development and performance and, as we observed, the effectiveness of teams. First, when individuals were less self-aware (i.e.,

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GC33: Playing a Better Game of Business | with Simcha Gluck of FreshBiz

Engaging Leader

They accomplish this through workshops based on their award-winning FreshBiz board game (also soon to be released in digital format), the book The New Entrepreneurz, and the plug-and-play FreshBiz Training Kit for trainers and managers to take teams through transformational learning experiences.

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Games Can Make You a Better Strategist

Harvard Business Review

People Express, for example, is a business simulator that provides players with a rich inside perspective on starting and managing an airline. In each simulated time period, the player makes strategic decisions and receives feedback from past decisions—on how fast to grow, how to set prices, or how aggressively to advertise.