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3 Critical Skills of Effective Leaders.

Rich Gee Group

This means an array of capabilities like coaching, mentoring and how to give constructive feedback which reinforces the behavior and motivation of your peak performers. At the end of the day, you need to build a leadership style that creates trust, sets a clear vision and guides your entire team toward greater performance and profit. .

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How to Stop Being “Them” and Start Being “Us”

Next Level Blog

Sit In with the Front Liners – In our Next Level Leadership® group coaching program , we have high potential leaders shadow senior leaders for a day. So a senior director in operations might hang out with the company CFO for the day or a VP in IT might sit in with the CEO. The leadership team members didn’t lecture or drone on.

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My Best Blogs of 2011

In the CEO Afterlife

I began blogging about leadership, strategy, marketing and life last February. In this post, I compare the ineptitude of BP against the leadership of Rudy Giuliani during a much bigger crisis. For as long as I can remember, the person bonded to the CEO’s hip was the CFO. Does a Mentor Have to Breathe?

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Embrace Struggle as an Art to be Mastered

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Leadership is often a struggle. My friend and former Microsoft CFO Frank Gaudette (now deceased) used to say: “I reserve the right to wake up smarter every day.” Your support team can include your family, friends, peers, coaches, mentors, and, if you are lucky, your boss. Guest post by Steven Snyder. You can’t do it alone.

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6 Important Elements of an Executive IDP Process

Great Leadership By Dan

By "mass customization", I'm referring to the the need to address very unique leadership development needs for an organization's top executives, while at the same time, doing it in a consistent, measurable, effective, and scalable way that yields a strong return on investment.

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Women in Leadership: The Dirty Little Secret

Roundtable Talk

Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook , has been an outspoken advocate for women in leadership. Well… at least, she had lots to say about women in leadership on her TEDTalk. Which brings me to an ugly truth that I was once told about women in leadership: Some women like being the only one at the table. Sandberg didn’t make a peep.

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Oh dear Mr. Clark… can't you do better than that?

Roundtable Talk

And, I had to wonder, how motivating did Colleen Johnston, CFO, TD Bank Financial Group find that comment? And, quite frankly, no amount of “internal mentoring programs” and “industry awards” can hide the disconnect between what you’re talking and what you’re actually walking. And, that’s my rant for today. Happy leading!

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