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Training and Development: Top Ten Lessons Learned

The Practical Leader

I took Dale Carnegie sales, public speaking, and management training courses and got turned on to personal and leadership development. I studied and started using coaching and development approaches with my direct reports and later as a sales trainer. Everyone is given extensive skill development.

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Leadership Team Dynamics: Culture Change Begins Here

The Practical Leader

We found that the shortfalls in the division’s levels of engagement, service, and productivity reflected the leadership team’s effectiveness. Their individual and collective leadership was weak. And he realized it started with his own leadership behaviors. He was determined to avoid coughing up a culture hairball.

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Is Your Leadership Creating an Energy Crisis?

The Practical Leader

One morning, I asked a group of very quiet participants a series of questions about their organization’s climate and leadership effectiveness. His observation points to a big leadership problem, “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. I was getting very few responses. This was going nowhere fast.

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Millennials Speak! 5 Future Leadership “Must Haves”

Marshall Goldsmith

You need an “equal say” in your company’s future leadership. Those companies are much less likely to find the best and most comprehensive leadership qualities and candidates, because they are limiting their view of the world. My proof is based upon work between Accenture Consulting (with the Alliance for Strategic Leadership).

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Dan Pontefract: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

He also holds the role of Head of Learning & Collaboration at TELUS where he is responsible for the overarching leadership development, learning and collaboration strategy for the company where he introduced the TELUS Leadership Philosophy and the Learning 2.0 framework […].

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Dan Pontefract : Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

He also holds the role of Head of Learning & Collaboration at TELUS where he is responsible for the overarching leadership development, learning and collaboration strategy for the company where he introduced the TELUS Leadership Philosophy and the Learning 2.0 framework […].

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Leading From Within: Shifting Ego, Ceding Control, and Rising Empathy

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Sophie Wade: Leadership is in the midst of a major makeover. Autonomy is a key one that impacts leaders’ positions and roles which has been found to be a critical component for increasing employee engagement and thence productivity, as noted already by Peter Drucker decades ago, especially in relation to knowledge workers.

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