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Can You Deliberately Practice Soft Skills?

Persuasive Powerhouse

A recent comment by a reader on an older post, “ It Takes Time to Make Great Leaders ” sparked my thinking about whether leaders can truly “practice” the soft skills involved in leading in a deliberate way. Does it take ten years to pull all of these skills together to make a great leader?

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Flux: 8 Superpowers for Thriving in Constant Change

Kevin Eikenberry

Are you experiencing flux or continuous change? Here is another obvious question: Would you like to thrive in times of change (like now)? Would you like some concrete tactics to help you deal with the realities and emotions of constant change? Chances are you are almost laughing at how obvious your answer is.

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Organizational Health and Performance: Beyond Performance 2.0

Leading Blog

Create a compelling long-term change vision, set midterm aspirations along the path, and guard against biases in the process. Assess : Skill-set requirements. Forecast demand for skills and understand skill “supply” dynamics, and then identify how any gaps will be closed. Advance : Leadership placement.

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28 Leadership Development Recommendations for your Individual Development Plan

Great Leadership By Dan

Welcome to the September edition of the Leadership Development Carnival ! For this month’s edition, I asked an all-star cadre of leadership development bloggers, authors, and consultants to submit an answer to the following question: “We all know that individual development plans (IDPs) need to be tailored for each leader.

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How Courageous Leaders Address Fear In The Workplace

Tanveer Naseer

Unfortunately, when it comes to courage in leadership, we often have a wrong impression of what that means. When it comes to courageous leadership, the image that often comes to mind is of a leader who is not just assertive in the face of uncertainty, but who also exudes a sense of fearlessness regarding the situation before them.

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levels of work and pattern recognition for sales and marketing

Mike Cardus

We need richness in experience and to hear + seek smarter, skilled, experienced people to add ‘flavor’ to our sales and marketing. . And that decreases the number of patterns you can see and make sense of, therefore reducing your ability to change with the market. Now, what can we do differently?

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Creating a Successful Fleet Operation Means Investing in Employees

Strategy Driven

In the last five years, Public Works leadership have taken many actions to build a sustainable future. The continuous challenges of recruitment, onboarding, and retaining mechanics led the Public Works leadership to reevaluate their approach to staffing. Background.