Lead Change Blog

JUNE 5, 2018

Sean summarizes, “ An inspirational song can motivate your team and provide that extra boost of emotion that you might need to finish your project successfully… If you want to put together something that will boost your team morale and performance, consider using one or more of these inspirational songs to motivate your team! .

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 9, 2017

Their core competency is imagination. Knowing the kinds of innovators you need to bring to a project is all about knowing all of things you can’t do (well) yourself. DeGraff describes four basic worldviews or approaches to innovation : the Artist, the Engineer, the Athlete, and the Sage.

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Innovation Engineering Core Competence Charisma 190

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MARCH 25, 2013

I felt at the time that this was an unusual request as, after having spent the first 12 years of my working life as a “techie” (Programmer to Analyst to IT Manager), I had spent the next 25 years in sales and business management, my last such role as the President and CEO of a 15,000 person, €5 Billion EMEA based business unit across 25 countries.

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CEO Performance Review Review Learning-by-Doing 217

Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Projects-With-Purpose: Bringing a Community Volunteer Program to Lif e Chatham and Geneca teams at work. By Jess Chipkin , Geneca, Manager of Public and Community Relations. Each project is completed within 48 hours, consisting of both personal and company release time. Just goes to show what great leadership can do!

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Six Disciplines

APRIL 11, 2011

The conundrum is this: executive coaching typically focuses on a thin layer of senior management. These are the core competencies of learning, growing organizations: Formulating strategy. Creating initiatives and projects that support the goals. And while the ROI seems strong, what about the rest of the organization?

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 23, 2014

Today''s guest post is by: Peggy Pedwano Solutions Specialist at Halogen Software As performance appraisal time draws near, managers are all too likely to be dreading the exercise. But even if you haven’t, taking the time to think through the year’s priorities and projects will help you focus your appraisal on what matters most.

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Tips Software Performance Review Core Competence 76

Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 10, 2011

Because you are doing such great work, she’ll soon tap you with her enchanted wand and sprinkle you with sparkly fairy dust and you’ll get that key project, significant promotion, raise, bonus or new career that you’ve been waiting for. She doesn’t exist, and career rewards for your great work don’t just appear.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Today''s guest post is by: Peggy Pedwano Solutions Specialist at Halogen Software As performance appraisal time draws near, managers are all too likely to be dreading the exercise. But even if you haven’t, taking the time to think through the year’s priorities and projects will help you focus your appraisal on what matters most.

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Software How To Performance Review Core Competence 50

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 1, 2014

Today''s guest post is by: Peggy Pedwano Solutions Specialist at Halogen Software As performance appraisal time draws near, managers are all too likely to be dreading the exercise. But even if you haven’t, taking the time to think through the year’s priorities and projects will help you focus your appraisal on what matters most.

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Software How To Performance Review Core Competence 50

Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 13, 2010

The reason why the original draft of their development plans sometimes focus on a big project they want to complete and not their personal behavior or character was becoming clear. On the other hand, it’s so much easier, and less scary, to imagine successfully completing that big old project or getting that coveted promotion.

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Leadership Self-aware Executive Coaching Blog 179

Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 8, 2010

Often what it comes down to is that their manager is not willing to wait for the time it takes my client to make some changes to their leadership. In one notable situation, my client’s manager was fired while my client was on a path to being fired by that same manager. Have you asked what this person needs to be successful?

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Executive Coaching Greenleaf Maslow Blog 202

Coaching Ourselves

JANUARY 12, 2018

To seize this opportunity in the University market, we have started a pilot project called Reflection Cafes. In order to make academic usage scalable and manageable, CoachingOurselves has already developed an electronic portal that enables us to assign specific modules to a group of students within an academic course. Contact-us!

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 26, 2010

This will increase buy-in for the projects you decide to move ahead with. When employees feel truly involved in the company collaboration becomes the norm and the divide between managers and staff melts naturally. Set priorities When you get overwhelmed with new ideas (wouldn’t that be great?,

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Creativity Influence Innovation Brainstorming 183

Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Mike: October 17, 2010 at 10:55 pm Mary JO, I have to say I feel valued every time I can get a project finished on time. Home Who We Are What We Do Services Contact My Favorite Blogs All Things Workplace Bob Sutton – Work Matters Brain Leaders and Learners Bret L. Thank you for sharing it with us. Thanks for the quote.

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Your Voice of Encouragement

JUNE 3, 2011

We recently coached a project manager whose chronic optimism lead to unrealistic expectations for his staff, resulting in high stress, low morale, and poor performance. Surely organizations want people who can logically assess a project and create a system of processes and procedures that ensure quality and minimize errors.

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360-Degree Feedback Core Competence Analysis Open-book 67

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2013

As a recognized discipline, change management has been in existence for over half a century. Given this evidence, is it possible that everything we know about change management is wrong and that we need to go back to the drawing board? Obviously, not every company lets its managers off the hook in this way.

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Six Sigma Management Parcell Kotter 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Core Competencies. Performing market assessments.

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Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

I mean the real, formal, sit down and talk type of meetings that allow the employee, peer, or manager to say whats on their mind. Even though I do talk to and work with my peers and direct reports every day they may not be completely filled in with the details of a project that I’m working on. To discuss priorities. To give feedback.

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Blog Greenleaf Maslow Follow-up 124

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

One such skill is portfolio management , the application of systematic tools for reducing risks and maximizing the return on investments. You then manage the risk and return in the portfolio by adjusting the mix and amount of investments, since it is unlikely that all of them will rise or fall to the same degree simultaneously.

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Management Core Competence Project Bond 8

Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Praising, for example would be when a leader will make it a point to let an employee know that they did a good job on a specific task or project. Too often leaders and managers miss out on marking achievements and innovations… their own as well as those of others!

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Leadership Blog Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 257

Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 10, 2010

I also believe that attitude projection is a key determining factor to the opportunities that life provides for us. Managers need to make sure they often use these feel good comments to keep spirits high in the workplace. I am a firm believer in the fact that attitude is everything. I enjoyed reading this post.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2010

As a job seeker, my advice is to not focus on one core area of expertise but think of complementary avenues you may pursue to increase your chances of finding interesting work. These alternate avenues will serve to give you added insight should you decide to return later on to your core competency.

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Audience Newsletter Core Competence Tips 50

Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Many believe that when they request feedback from their staff, peers, and manager that they will hear the unvarnished truth about their performance; seldom does that happen. I think there are so many of us that avoid the slightest bit at confrontation with management. I encourage my clients to ask for feedback from others.

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Follow-up Blog Self-aware Learning-by-Doing 229

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

You also have to retain, direct, and eventually promote them — something that managers from other backgrounds can find daunting. Modern design schools increasingly encourage this, demanding that graduates be familiar not just with a traditional creative skillset, but with ethnography, finance, coding, and a host of other competencies.

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Management Creativity Licensing Core Competence 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Creating and Capitalizing on the Best New Management Thinking. Part of our initial response was to rank management gurus according to the measurable influence of their ideas; we were the first researchers to use scholarly methods to do so. For example, a British study showed the precise ways in which management gurus in the 1980s U.K.

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2017

Early on, CSAA IG’s executive team recognized that to create a culture of innovation, the organization needed to do more than embrace individual innovation projects. There’s nothing worse for a company’s innovation culture than soliciting ideas and doing nothing with them.

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Insurance Innovation Core Competence Disruptive Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Compensation committees often start by tying bonuses and long-term incentives to goals related to compliance and risk management. That approach pleases some stakeholders, but it may put the focus on issues far removed from the company’s core mission.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

I repeatedly hear from young entrepreneurs that, as fund managers come in, they introduce too many controls for cash flows, income projections, budgeting, risk analysis, financial modeling – the list is endless. Third, who do you want on your core team? Start-ups can’t be assessed using conventional business metrics.

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Entrepreneur Core Competence COO Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

This helps us develop habits that make it easier to manage all the distractions and requests that can blow us off course – not just the digital ones. Digital overload also makes us into more sophisticated and efficient technology users, because the skills we use to manage overload transfer to other areas of our work.

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Guidelines Efficiency Goleman Core Competence 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

Not surprisingly, our topic model suggests that radical innovation are related to topics such as organizational culture and capabilities, social and human capital, and project management. So what does that mean for managers and their companies? Similarly, the literature on radical innovation has a clear focus on people.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Business Model Human Capital 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

Although this seems counterintuitive to corporate leaders charged with top line growth, they demonstrated an Innovation Management best practice called "Systemic Authenticity.". It is the world's first broad look for statistics underlying Innovation Management practices. and What are our Core Competencies?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2013

To harness these students'' talents, the course''s final project invited them to help real organizations by performing a strategic analysis of an existing firm''s business operations. Today''s students are astute, have work experiences, and in many cases, have already developed a set of core competencies.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

First, remember that innovation, like any other important organizational process, can be managed. It sends the signal that these are not the projects that people should bet their careers on. Rather, it's a throwback to an era when the importance of a business was directly correlated to the people and assets it had under management.

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Process Innovation Diversity Budgeting 17

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

But it''s tough to do that, especially when most management systems are so focused on individual performance, undermining the very teamwork you''re hoping to encourage. As a team manager, you can support the right behaviors with things that are in your control. If you give yourselves an A, it''s something worth celebrating.".

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Team How To Case Study Hamel 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2011

While we often measure and manage the latest "what" in business — the leaf — the thing that creates high performance growth is the underlying "how" — the river. For the purpose of this discussion, I want to assume the core competency, the "why" of the business, is known.). But it's also wrong. It's old school.

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Micromanagement Open-book Parcell Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Immediate and radical change within small teams spearheading projects from the bottom up. Increase R&D spending in emerging markets and focus it on local needs: Harman's core competency is engineering, and Paliwal shifted the engineering function's center of gravity from Germany and the United States to key emerging markets.

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Chief Technology Officer CTO Constraint Engineering 13

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

Actually, this project started probably three or four years ago when Paul’s last book came out, which is called Jumping the S-Curve. They were using sort of these old models of that’s not a fear, that’s not core, that’s not our core competency, etc. The managers just don’t have the tool set often to operate.

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