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Training and Development: Top Ten Lessons Learned

The Practical Leader

Waayyy back in the early days of my career, I was a young door-to-door sales rep and then sales manager with Culligan Water Conditioning. I took Dale Carnegie sales, public speaking, and management training courses and got turned on to personal and leadership development. That got me reflecting on decades of my journey in this field.

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Is Your Leadership Creating an Energy Crisis?

The Practical Leader

One morning, I asked a group of very quiet participants a series of questions about their organization’s climate and leadership effectiveness. His observation points to a big leadership problem, “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. I was getting very few responses. This was going nowhere fast.

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4 Reasons to Lead with Questions

Michael Lee Stallard

Over my career I’ve witnessed time and again how people who are ordered to implement a set of actions do so with little commitment and effort. Another worthwhile resource is Peter Drucker’s 5 Most Important Questions by Peter Drucker, Frances Hesselbein and Joan Snyder Kuhl. Leadership Insights of a Hostage Negotiator.

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Powering with Passion and Teaming with Energy

The Practical Leader

Denise balances management and leadership very effectively. He’s the poster boy for making STEMM leadership an oxymoron. Is Your Leadership Engaging or Enraging? Work with your team members to get their input on how their jobs can be enriched and broadened to align with their personal strengths, passions, and career goals.

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Leading From Within: Shifting Ego, Ceding Control, and Rising Empathy

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Sophie Wade: Leadership is in the midst of a major makeover. Autonomy is a key one that impacts leaders’ positions and roles which has been found to be a critical component for increasing employee engagement and thence productivity, as noted already by Peter Drucker decades ago, especially in relation to knowledge workers.

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Incorporating 160 Effective Performance Phrases in Your Performance Appraisal Review Templates

HR Digest

LEADERSHIP Leadership skills aren’t just about being a boss or a manager. And when leadership skills are valued and encouraged in the performance evaluation process, employees are more likely to take ownership of their work, seek out new challenges, and contribute to the overall success of the organization.

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Just Be You

Marshall Goldsmith

Do you participate in hiring decisions or developing leaders? Rapid change is the order of the day, with global mergers, acquisitions and shifts--and the resulting talent and leadership challenge will likely determine the success or failure of your organization between now and 2020. I was lucky to spend time with Peter Drucker.