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The FBI Way: The Seven C’s of Excellence

Leading Blog

If you haven’t established basic behavioral benchmarks in your business, organization, team, or family, you should. You also can’t spot and avoid the kinds of codes and conduct that threaten your values if you never even develop a strong sense of what it is that you value. They don’t have to be numerous; in fact, they shouldn’t be.

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There Is No Silver Bullet For Solving Global Poverty

The Horizons Tracker

The government wanted to improve the performance of the program, so teamed up with the researchers and partners at the World Bank to devise some additional interventions. The team focused on a sample of just under 5,000 households who were already in the existing program. times larger than costs for the psychosocial package, 13.5

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When Training and Coaching Fail

Lead Change Blog

Sometimes, a skilled employee has a problem behavior that adversely affects team dynamics, morale, productivity, quality, or other business measures. Develop an action plan with her regarding how she is going to work on this particular issue. Employers can shape the company environment—corporate culture, team make-up, etc.

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How Does Public Transport Affect Greenhouse Gases?

The Horizons Tracker

The data collected allows them to understand where riders enter and exit the public transport system, which even though not all passengers use the technology allows the team to provide a reasonable estimate of total usage patterns. “Now we can truly quantify trips in both time and space,” they explain. ”

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Take It, Leave It, or Change It

The Recovering Engineer

During the workshop, I told a story I often tell about a situation in my life where, as a leader of a team, I was confronted with large scale changes that impacted me in ways that I could not change or control. The decision was to do a “cost-benefit analysis&# of our new situation. In my case, I chose to stay.

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Influencing Up

Marshall Goldsmith

By developing your ability to present ideas, and not blaming management for not buying your ideas, you accomplish much more. Similarly, effective upward influencers relate to the larger needs of the organization, not just to the needs of their unit or team. The knowledge worker is expected to take responsibility for being understood.

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Teaching Teenagers to Develop Their Emotional Intelligence

Harvard Business Review

Nobel Laureate James Heckman writes that investment in the education of children’s “non-cognitive” skills — like motivation, perseverance, and self-control — is a cost-effective approach to increasing the quality and productivity of the workforce. You and Your Team. Emotional Intelligence.