HR Digest

JANUARY 27, 2022

How to write a letter of introduction? What should I include in my letter of introduction? Can I get a job without a letter of introduction? This article will explain what letters of introduction are, explore some examples, and tips on how to write one. What is a letter of introduction? For instance: Hi!

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 31, 2023

The story of this engineering marvel begins with a simple picnic and a letter. While Canadian entrepreneur William Merritt was enjoying a picnic with his wife, they received a letter from their children touring Europe. In this letter, the kids described an impressive suspension bridge they’d seen in Switzerland.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 7, 2016

Welcome to the March 2016 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! They range from how to lead in a crisis to how to develop leadership qualities when things are calm. Bill recaps, “An effective manager is an organized manager — because being organized reduces distractions and removes the unnecessary from your life.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Welcome to the September 2016 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! At a time when our nation is gearing up for major elections, many people claim to have what it takes to lead. ” Follow Anne on Twitter at @bizshrink. Follow Chris on Twitter at @scedmonds. ” Follow David on Twitter at @davidmdye.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

I actually have a hard time separating my business philosophy from my management philosophy. Managing my practice and managing my clients are similar. Meanwhile, the underlying interpersonal dynamics—the methods of creating and managing relationships—are fundamentally unchanged. Develop a sense of humor.

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Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 4, 2023

Can better management and leadership nurse the NHS back to health? Author Nigel Cassidy / Photography Fabio De Paola Some people say the problem with the NHS is too many managers. We visited the current “Trust of the Year” that has nurses queuing up to work there. As much as anything, this is a management story.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2020

They argue that this popular leadership advice glosses over the most important thing you do as a leader: build others up. frameworks that help make thoughtful decisions about starting, growing, managing, and selling a business. Have you ever followed your GPS device to a deserted parking lot? Leadership isn't about you.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 30, 2010

All of this excitement and pride in our daughter’s accomplishments has fostered some reflection and a letter about what I’ve learned in my own work journey. This letter includes my own thoughts on the meaning of work to us as it is such an integral part of what makes us whole and human. They are lucky to find their life’s work early.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Larger firms have ways to develop business but smaller size firms eke out the sales process almost in spite of themselves. To many sales is picking up the phone, or buttonholing someone face to face, to ask if they are interested in what you have to offer. No wonder sales has a bad name. Use it to your best advantage.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 17, 2014

Organizations have many walls that hamper culture, development, and operations. Follow Paul. Follow Jim. Follow Mary Jo. Follow Julie. Follow John. Follow Abby. Dan McCarthy of About.com Management and Leadership shares How to be a More Strategic Manager to find out how. Follow Dan.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

MARCH 16, 2020

From this week forward, The Center for Leadership Studies will be releasing a weekly letter intended to guide leaders at all levels through these difficult and unprecedented times. Managing Through COVID-19: Going Remote. If this has always been important to you as a manager, that’s great. Go back one week.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 26, 2023

Or maybe you don’t, but you dread starting work every day because your manager is driving you crazy? And you sit at your desk every morning thinking of how to deal with a bad boss or bad manager. As a manager or employee, you’ve probably seen your fair share of bad bosses. Do they have consistent on and off days?

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2020

Develop hypotheses, search for patterns, look for outliers, create alternative scenarios to explain the information you’re receiving. Three of the most valuable assets in communicating are the following four-, five-, and six-letter words: data, trust, and intent. “Do Creativity is how we manage our own change.”.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

A well-written IT manager job description will ensure that the right candidate is hired. This is why hiring managers are expected to put in the best work when writing one. Who is an IT manager? An IT manager is a manager that oversees the entire job of the information and technology department.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 27, 2017

The trap comes into play when accountability focuses more on a “ procedure based ” approach that puts great emphasis on volumes of detailed and explicit rules and regulations that generally need to be followed to the letter, “ or else ”. Then, people start getting reprimanded, or held back, or worse yet, fired by these managers.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. The Bezos Letters takes you through Jeff Bezos’ shareholder letters and distills them into growth principles you can apply in your company. Management Advice from Jeff Bezos. It just works.” Jeff Bezos.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

DeLong (Harvard Business Review Press, 2020) Teaching by Heart summarizes the author’s key insights gained from more than forty years of teaching and managing. It illustrates how teachers can both lift people up and let them down. From doctors to teachers to managers to presidents, the more experience the better. Blog Post ).

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

When you have reams of unnecessary policies, approvals required for simple things, and an us-versus-them attitude between managers and employees, you need to step back and look at the level of fear vs. trust in your business. Sometimes we follow rules and we don’t even know where they came from or why they exist.

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Mike Cardus

MAY 23, 2021

The discussions are unique to each situation, but all follow the same rough outline. Each SOLVED letter stands for a different category of questions and way of thinking about your problem. Using the SOLVEDcards, Brandon went through the following process. Brandon presented the following challenge and wrote it on his whiteboard.

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Next Level Blog

APRIL 24, 2019

When Dad left active duty in the Navy, he and Mom had to make a decision about where to live and set up a dental practice. They moved back there even though Dad had the skills and background to set up shop in a city where he could have made a lot more money. There were a few lessons for me from reading Gary’s letter.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 29, 2014

She wanted to ask her new boss for a later start date so she would have more time to “tie up loose ends.”. Consider these thoughts: It is ironic this issue tripped me up so badly because I believe my normally rigorous adherence to my Golden Rule was a major reason, from early on, I was viewed as a leader at Greenwich Capital.

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Next Level Blog

APRIL 21, 2020

First developed by Warren Benni s and Burt Nanus and popularized by the U.S. Up until now, the period following the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the 2008 – 2009 financial crisis have been among the most often cited examples of VUCA environments. The first four steps aren’t just sequential; they’re also iterative.

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The Practical Leader

JANUARY 18, 2023

Brains follow hearts to where they’re valued. too often managers point out what’s wrong while failing to recognize what’s right. Some managers realize the need for positive reinforcement and try to provide some sort of recognition. As I wrote in Do You Focus on the Field of Wheat or Stone on the Hill? ,

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 9, 2013

“Successful transition is the last act of a great leader.” - Francis Hesselbein I recently asked readers to submit their burning leadership development questions. This question from Joseph: As a leader, we''re supposed to developing our replacements. Do notify your manager first, and provide a formal letter.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

It often seems easier to wrap things up quickly and let an employee leave quietly without stirring up too much trouble, but skipping an exit interview might be a poor choice. An exit interview is a formal discussion between a manager or HR personnel of a company and an employee leaving the company.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Start by drawing up a list of leaders you admire who might be good candidates for a relationship. Make your request: Once you’ve decided which leader you want to approach, find a way to reach out to them—in person if possible, or by email or phone or letter. The One Aspect Of Crisis Management That No One Talks About.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 8, 2014

and “where did you grow up?” These questions typically open the door for you to ask follow-up questions. Develop the Habit of Emphasizing Positives – The psychologist Barbara Frederickson found that individuals in the workplace were healthier at higher ratios of positive to negative emotions.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 5, 2013

Welcome to the August 5 th , 2013 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! For this month’s Carnival, I asked an all-star collection of leadership experts the following question: What is one piece of advice would you give to a new leader/manager? Dan McCarthy, from Great Leadership : “ 25 Tips for New Managers.”.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Attendance at a leadership development program does not guarantee behavior change or improved results as a leader. Here are three differentiators that will produce a greater return on leadership development investment: 1. At the end of the program, and on the way home, c reate an individual development plan (IDP).

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LDRLB

JANUARY 8, 2019

While it might be tempting to just tell your current boss you are done and leave that day, or to “ghost” and just stop showing up to the office, there is an established, professional, norm to resignations and following it will better ensure your move away from that company will mean you’re moving towards greater success.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 15, 2010

If I need to use that letter in a word, which does become an issue when I need to spell my last name or express gratitude in a document or email, I have to come up with different ways to get to it. Another way I’ve managed to deal with the loss of this letter is to type a word and then select the command for an automatic spell review.

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QAspire

JANUARY 22, 2014

The second is not speaking up when it matters. Effective listening is a leader’s primary responsibility – an obligation towards the followers. Three words made up from the same letters. Subscribe via RSS , Connect via Facebook or Follow us on Twitter. Not listening is one of the two biggest wastes.

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The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

During a leadership development workshop, we were discussing the keys to building accountability and ownership. Many of us have been lashed with the accountability whip wielded by a manager playing “gotcha games.” The purpose of performance discussions should be mutual learning and development.

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HR Digest

MAY 13, 2024

Despite this, the Tesla layoffs news indicates that almost the entire team responsible for the management of EV charging is being eliminated. “…we have done a thorough review of the organization and made the difficult decision to reduce our headcount by more than 10% globally.

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The Practical Leader

JANUARY 5, 2021

A few years ago, I facilitated a workshop with managers struggling to stay positive during a very difficult time. I demonstrated this by forming a circle with my index finger and thumb, encircling my eye with it, and thrust my finger and thumb encircled eye right up to the dot on the flipchart page.

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The Practical Leader

JULY 29, 2020

Ensure senior managers are leading efforts to recognize, celebrate, and appreciate small wins. Provide plenty of training, follow-up, encouragement, and personal examples for leaders to give personal one-on-one recognition and thanks. Make recognition immediate. Focus on helping people and teams leverage their strengths.

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Ron Edmondson

OCTOBER 6, 2021

I was once a division manager for a large sales team and sales were down due to the economy. If people are willing to jump ship before they even have their future income lined up, it is often a sign of a toxic culture. The toxic culture basically mutes them and they never live up to their full potential.

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