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A Personal Lesson Of Leadership Failure And Becoming A Better Listener

Tanveer Naseer

Without question, being an effective listener is definitely a critical skill for leaders to demonstrate, especially as workplaces continue to become more demographically diverse. It's one of the reasons why in so many of my leadership keynotes and workshops I touch on what leaders need to do to become better listeners.

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Simplifying Accountability – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

And when I am asked to define or describe it in my workshops and coaching sessions, I can do so with one word. Find out my simple definition […]. The post Simplifying Accountability – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Why do so many leadership development programs fail?

Great Results Team Building

Way back in January 2014, in an issue of McKinsey Quarterly , a group of researchers attempted to answer this question: “Why do so many leadership development programs fail?” ” They summarized their finding into the four main issues that led to a lack of results in most leadership development programs.

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8 Life Lessons From Yoga Workshop

QAspire

A few years back, I got in touch again by joining a Yoga workshop and gained a new level of awareness about it. This month, I again enrolled for an advanced workshop conducted by a renowned spiritual teacher and a Yogi. Through definite breathing and concentration practices, Yoga taught me to be in the moment. Religiously.

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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

This White Paper is excerpted and adapted from Ultra Leadership: Go Beyond Usual and Ordinary to Engage Others and Lead Real Change (Giuliano, Lioncrest, 2016). The problem is leadership on autopilot. In such an underperforming state, without leadership that can drive real change, organizations are trapped in a vicious cycle.

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Preview Thursday: the New Leadership Literacies by Bob Johansen

Lead Change Blog

The following post is a preview excerpt from the Introduction of the New Leadership Literacies by Bob Johansen. I learned this term at the Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where I have done immersion experiences, workshops, and talks since 9/11. In simpler times, perhaps action orientation was enough to make a great leader.

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Leadership – Unsafe at Any Speed?

Great Leadership By Dan

And here's where our auto design safety analogy comes together with my thoughts on leadership. While leadership can confer ever-increasing levels of power, authority and compensation, it also carries with it greater and greater responsibility, just like automobile manufacturing. Leadership is a responsibility!