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Annual Board Evaluations: A Gateway to Sustained Board Effectiveness

N2Growth Blog

By conducting these assessments regularly, organizations can gain a deeper understanding of their board’s capabilities and identify areas for development and improvement. It helps identify areas for development and improvement within the board. To evaluate board dynamics, a comprehensive and objective approach should be adopted.

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Is Your Leadership Creating an Energy Crisis?

The Practical Leader

” These are a bit extreme, but we’ve heard variations of these thoughts over the years in focus groups to survey a Client’s organizational culture. One morning, I asked a group of very quiet participants a series of questions about their organization’s climate and leadership effectiveness.

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X or Y: Are You Patronizing or Partnering?

The Practical Leader

” The Theory X leaders at the retreat had trouble seeing the disconnect between endorsing HR’s plans for engagement focus groups and gathering input; with their inclination to mandate office facetime. But the executives were in favor of HR developing a talent management and engagement strategy. ” OK, Boomers.

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Don’t Be a Leader of Stupid Rules

Lead Change Blog

But, when the time comes for the cows to be transported to market, herding can become a challenge. Create an on-going virtual customer focus group focused on policies, procedures and practices. Clearly there are circumstances where rules are crucial to safety, ethics and fairness. This is not a plea for revolt.

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How to Ignite and Sustain Organizational Growth

Skip Prichard

With the ever-changing dynamics of the workforce, the stewardship of organizational culture is just as important as strategy, talent, product development, or customer service. He helps companies build strong sustained revenue growth through by developing energizing office cultures. The right culture attracts and retains better talent.

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An Interview with Mark Schoenwald President/CEO of Thomas Nelson

Ron Edmondson

Here is an interview with Mark Schoenwald: How do you keep up with current trends and the market in our industry? Also, get out of the office and get into stores and online to understand the focus of merchandising and promotions. The message is work ethic counts. I was interested in learning from Mark’s leadership.

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You Need a Community, Not a Network

Harvard Business Review

Members of a community — as opposed to a simple network — expect relationships within the group to continue, and they even hold one another accountable for effort and performance. When networks develop into communities, the results can be powerful.