In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Companies, large and small, cannot survive without great leadership, sound strategy and flawless execution. But the resource that continues to be overlooked by CEOs and Boards is the organization’s Average Joe. A CEO couldn’t ask for a better soldier in the battlefield. Paul set the values example for every employee.

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Hammer Teamwork Middle Management Creativity 258

Chart Your Course

APRIL 7, 2017

It’s about putting the “human” in human resources. Here’s an 8-step guide to begin building credibility, camaraderie, and teamwork as a manager: Listen up! The CEO forwarded the memo to the HR director, with a handwritten note to the employee: “Congratulations on a great job!”

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How To Human Resources Active Listening Skills 154

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 9, 2013

In a hushed tone he tells me: “ Mike, our CEO went to an off-site executive development retreat and wants to change our entire performance appraisal system and he wants it done by the end of the next week!”. Walking into the entrance of a manufacturing plant, I saw a large banner that read: “TEAM Together Everyone Achieves More.”

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Performance Review Handbook System Objective 136

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 7, 2014

Contact Create-Learning Team Building & Leadership to fix this before it happens. Below is a story from a company I consulted & coached the management team. Consulting and examining this with the company CEO, CFO, COO and Sr. If they are “Charismatic” it adds an irritant that only makes things worse.

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Charisma COO CFO Executive Coaching 129

Mike Cardus

MAY 24, 2011

Below is an actual Executive Coaching and Managerial Leadership Training + Development process I facilitated. Contact me to make your leaders & teams better. During these focus group meetings the leadership was able to hear what is needed for continued success and progress within the organization. Resolution.

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Case Study 360-Degree Feedback Execution TRIZ 116

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Continually I see a ideas hap-hazardly put into organizational practice and managerial-leadership ONLY to make matters worse. Leading to Executives, Human Resources and team leaders grasping at the ‘Next Thing’ in order to cut the down on the felt mounting bureaucracy and dis-trust within the organization and team.

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Team Long-term Human Resources Bureaucracy 138

Chart Your Course

JANUARY 13, 2017

Business leadership researchers tell us that the best traits for your CFO are emotional stability and global ethics. The research suggests that sales are highest when the team is highly coachable and under transformational leadership. Your best sales team will find energy from your enthusiasm and creativity.

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CFO Chief Financial Officer Team Ethics 100

Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos and author of Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion and Purpose has created a great place to work. By hiring the right people, they reduce turnover, training costs and insure their team of Zapponians stay motivated and passionate about what they do. 2) Deploy a leadership strategy.

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Newsletter Insurance Class Workshop 165

Chart Your Course

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Over-the-top CEO salaries, mortgage fraud, environmental hazards and more contributed to a distrust of large corporations. To fuel engagement, be flexible about how employees form teams, allowing them to work with or for people they enjoy. Social Responsibility.

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Health Care Education Brand Discount 187

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

Two-thirds of CEOs don''t receive any outside advice on their leadership skills, and yet almost all would be receptive to suggestions from a coach. This makes the coaching environment a rare and safe place to think through various topics against the framework of what is in the CEO''s best interest. What''s behind that?

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CEO Survey Charan Welch 11

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Provide leadership. Top management has as a priority the need to develop and practice People development, skills and team building responsibilities. Human Resources program is active, professional and responsive to the organization. CEO accepts and ideas and philosophies with employees and stakeholders.

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Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Is there a process in place for cultivating, identifying, and appointing not just this CEO, but the one after that? Berra was famous for his “Yogi-isms,” but this one contained an essential truth: inchoate strategies and ineffectual leadership generally go hand in hand. Will he or she collaborate with the board, or fight it?

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CEO Tips Long-term Consultative 8

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 5, 2012

How will we measure progress & Success?

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Mentor Training Process Development 114

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Cross-cultural stimulus: Whatever field you are in, once-a-month take your team on an educational/cultural outing to do or see something that has nothing to do with thier work. E.g. take a team of developers to tour an abattoir, take the human resource team to a museum exhibit on ancient Egypt, or take legal on an outing to a flower show.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. Five years earlier, when he’d stepped into his role, he’d been focused on growing the company that his father, Eric — the previous CEO — had founded.

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Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 11