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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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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. Architect : Bankable plan.

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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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The Value of Value Chain Analysis in Transforming Your Business

N2Growth Blog

For example, determining skill gaps and training staff could be core activities here; Perform – which contains a collection of core work activities that support the key mission of the department. Once fully documented, the value chain represents the transformation team’s recommended work environment.

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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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How Courageous Leaders Address Fear In The Workplace

Tanveer Naseer

Seek out opportunities to gain new skills and understandings One of the core psychological needs we all share is competence – not just in the traditional sense of being able to do our jobs well, but also in the context of being challenged to stretch our existing competencies and grow new ones. The Role Leaders Play In Developing Great Teams.

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Creating a Successful Fleet Operation Means Investing in Employees

Strategy Driven

As a trade, mechanics require a long lead time and many labor hours to gain skills and experience, especially with the technology and alternative fuels of complex and heavy equipment continuously changing. The inability to hire and recruit new employees has impacted maintenance service levels and can be detrimental.