Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2020

We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Take these 5 steps to still present yourself as a professional, inspire confidence, and move forward productively. Communication. With Words. Inspiration.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Guest post by Guy Casablanca: Much has been written lately about how leaders can gauge productivity and performance in a virtual world. In the work environment, Zoom sessions have replaced conference room meetings, and email exchanges have replaced in-person interactions. They operate in a fog, unable to focus or concentrate.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Businesses that operate as a collection of independent departments often struggle with cohesion and finding common ground but those with HR as a strategic partner become efficient, uninterruptible success stories. Attending the training and conferences that other team members gain insight from can also be fruitful.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 19, 2017

How many “leaders” are present at your college reunion, your country club, or your annual conference? Do you bump into employees when you are there or other executives? If you are trying to make your operation more efficient, then say so. “To But what happens when you assemble a group of leaders? List your favorite restaurants.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 5, 2021

Today, with the International Space Station in operation and anticipation of a multi-year human mission into deep space, protecting astronauts from the negative effects of disconnection and isolation has become an issue of greater interest to NASA scientists. Protection through Connection. As humans, we’re hardwired to connect.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

So, in today’s post I’ll examine the power of disruption as a key business driver… Disruptive business models focus on creating, disintermediating, refining, reengineering or optimizing a product/service, role/function/practice, category, market, sector, or industry. When was the last time you rolled-out a new product?

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Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 361

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The meeting opened with a welcome message from Dr Ann Francke OBE, chief executive of CMI. It was undoubtedly a productive and fruitful year for CMI Hong Kong, as membership has grown continuously. The KCC is one of the largest and oldest business associations in Hong Kong. Event details here.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 16, 2017

I realized that staying connected with my team, in a way that went beyond memos, e-mails and conference calls, was vital to building the trust that was so needed in this company. I was doing was our first round of operational budgeting then, which happened just a few months after I was hired. So I went with the easiest option.

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Leadership Budgeting Newsletter Bottom-up 196

Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2013

Or, big execution. If you operate a home décor company that strives to connect to style-savvy urban hipsters but your website is cluttered, and very UN-edgy, you’re going to be perceived as anything but hip. It’s not by lowering your pricing or throwing in extra products or services. Need a tangible? Your website.

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leaderCommunicator

JUNE 3, 2014

We’ve all been to the classic planning meeting, at a conference or in an executive’s office, to think through a compelling issue or crisis at an organization. While I’m not in the product promotion business, I was so impressed by a new crowd-sourcing technology I recently encountered that I can’t resist sharing my experience.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 23, 2017

If you’re like most of the managers and executives I speak with in my presentations, workshops and programs, you’re operating in a do-more-with-less environment. A year later, he was healthier, more productive and sitting in a program with a roomful of colleagues who, like himself, were designated high potential leaders.

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CO2

JUNE 28, 2010

RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. Expensive room systems have been deployed in deluxe conference rooms. The way this product optimizes is a sensation. You have to give it a demo.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

The harsh reality is that great numbers of leaders continue to operate in a vacuum by sequestering themselves away in the corner office and attempting to lead from afar. You know the issue of sequestered executives is a real problem when it’s main-stream enough to be made into a prime-time Reality TV show.

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Tony Mayo

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Top Executive Coaching with Tony Mayo About Tony Mayo Newsletter Sign-up Sections Client Comments For Executive Coaches For Executives For Fun For Salespeople Quotes and Aphorisms Recommended Books Technology Tips Videos & Podcasts Popular Posts Twitter Log IX About Tony Mayo Truth or Consequences? Productivity plummeted.

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Mayo Executive Coaching Efficiency Handbook 146

Six Disciplines

MARCH 27, 2015

CEOs of small businesses often appear to believe in myths surrounding the subject of strategic planning and execution - myths that can prove dangerous to the health of their organization. For most executives, there is an almost irresistible urge to problem solve on detailed issues and therefore lose track of the big picture.

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Strategic Planning Planning Competitive Advantage Hotels 70

HR Digest

MARCH 27, 2020

Interpreters mostly work in international events like international conferences, sports arenas, company meetings, media houses, and organizations. Intelligence Operatives or Government Agencies. They can also help people and an audience learn a foreign language, sell products or services, and also make money through advertisements.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 6, 2012

I had a chance to meet Sharlyn recently at a conference, and she is the real deal! I once heard Tom Peters saying that if you are a business traveler, you learn the most not from the corporate executives but from the cab drivers. Lynn Dessert from Elephants at Work presents Why does executive coaching take so long?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

link] Meredith Bell I had the opportunity to meet Kevin recently at a conference and had a follow-up phone conversation with him. link] mikemyatt Hi Amie: Thanks for your comment. I'm sure Kevin appreciates your kind words. Thanks again for stopping by. I appreciate your sharing his wisdom about leadership, Mike.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

With the ever-changing dynamics of the workforce, the stewardship of organizational culture is just as important as strategy, talent, product development, or customer service. Organizations can and must define the culture they desire and intentionally execute a well-thought out road map to shape their future. Jason Richmond.

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How To Middle Management Reputation Short-term 108

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Innovation luminaries like Coca Cola, General Electric, Shell Oil innovate effectively because they have structural elements in common, and they work to avoid a number of key pitfalls executing innovation work. Alphabet (Google) moved their social innovation lab (Jigsaw) out of the organization so that it could operate independently.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 5, 2015

We came up with a cover letter to go with the shirt, personally signed by me, and then, at our weekly management conference calls, I started to hand them out. I went into this long monologue about how we were missing something in our operations. And it certainly helped make my field visits more productive and meaningful.

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Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

It often helps if the executive in charge is not from IT, but from operations or marketing, and that there are close links with customer-facing and other operational roles. As speaker Bernard Marr put it at CMI’s National Conference: “ what the hell is Big Data? But there’s still a big question for a lot of people.

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Leadership Styles Human Capital Ethics McKinsey 83

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Most people are more products of pop culture than they are of training. Executives amassed knowledge “in the streets,” through non-traditional sources. When repackaged years later, executives vigorously enjoyed the rediscovery process. Non-profit organizations operating more business-like. Helping others.

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Strategic Planning Planning Ethics Learning-by-Doing 50

Deming Institute

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Ravi Roy at the 2016 Deming Institute conference. It seems for the most part what is easiest to fit in the existing framework of how things are done without making people uncomfortable (especially people with power, executives etc.) In this Deming podcast Ravi Roy discusses teaching Deming’s ideas at Southern Utah University.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2015

Advanced tools for creating and testing new products and the operations that will make them are all around us. They are not only changing the economics of innovation and operations, they are also pushing the frontier of what’s possible. The Future of Operations. Insight Center. Sponsored by GE Corporate.

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Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

Successories Motivational Products Talent Managment Magazine Testing and Assessments - An Employers Guide to Good Practices Testing and Assessments - DOL The Rainmaker Group - Possibility Maximization An amazing group of people commited to making a difference in the world they live - one soul, one organization, one Customer Experience at a time. .

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Blog Human Resources Human Capital Talent Management 124

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Leaders focused on products, profits, processes, and procedures are aiming too LOW. The churches I had previously worked with operated from the the philosophy this is church, and if people want it they will come. Thanks for laying out key success factors. In addition, you mention game changes are “relational.&#

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

One of the by-products of being high-profile is that you get hangers-on. This was not a scheduled conference call, and I felt blind-sighted. This is a creative way of re-treading old knowledge to enable executives to master change rather than feel as they’re victims of it. Some are groupies, and some are outright users.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

He had to ask her four more times, including once on a conference call with the whole executive team, before she finally relented. We shouldn’t execute programs that don’t serve the business. Upon arriving, she flatly refused the CEO’s offer of the CHRO role.

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Quinn Execution CFO Forrester 13

Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 13, 2010

Successories Motivational Products Talent Managment Magazine Testing and Assessments - An Employers Guide to Good Practices Testing and Assessments - DOL The Rainmaker Group - Possibility Maximization An amazing group of people commited to making a difference in the world they live - one soul, one organization, one Customer Experience at a time. .

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

These differences in philosophy and approach frequently differentiate those who advance to and succeed at the executive level — and those who stay in the ranks of middle management. These are all useful things to do, and successful executives invest time in them periodically.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

He has recently aquired ownership of The Whiteboard Sessions (a conference designed for leaders & strategy). Nadia Guevera serves as the executive director. After confering with the elders and leaders in the town, she was told that it cost money to go to school. but you’ll not find that here. but you’ll not find that here.

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

.&#. Moving Forward In An Uncertain World posted at Epic Living – Leadership Development Career Management Training Executive Life Coaching Author. Erik Samdahl presents Emotional Dimwits Need Not Apply posted at Productivity Blog. It’s an effective way to keep them engaged and focused on operational goals.&#.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

PL and CM: Coherent companies – those that possess a capabilities system that aligns their strategy with their product/service portfolio – generate superior performance over time, which is what we call the coherence premium. We believe coherence confers a substantial premium, and we’ve measured it.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Gesture-based productivity apps. By materializing thought in physical gesture, we create a stable physical presence that… productively impacts the neural elements of thought and reason,” observes one study. In what situations (one-on-ones, conferences, or team meetings) am I learning new and challenging things, according to the data?

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Productivity Products Learning-by-Doing Software 9

Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

For well over a century managers have achieved increasing productivity on ever larger scales by dividing and subdividing work into smaller and smaller units. The modern corporation that has evolved as a result consists of many specialized functional departments, such as sales, engineering, marketing, manufacturing, operations, and finance.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Competition without relationships turns products and services turn into commodities. One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. Then come down—whether it is getting published or getting a new product into stores. Proceed with extreme caution.

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