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How to Get Executive Buy-In for Leadership Training

The Center For Leadership Studies

Getting buy-in from key stakeholders is one of the biggest challenges when implementing a leadership development program —especially if it’s a new program. If you don’t have full buy-in, your training won’t be a success (if it even gets off the ground, that is). Try selling a vision, not a specific training program.

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Motivating, Mentoring and Measuring – Leading Unfamiliar Organizations

General Leadership

Rather than flying F-15s , I was in charge of flight simulators, contract negotiations and syllabus development. As John Kotter wrote in his article Accelerate! , “Communicate the vision and the strategy to create buy-in and attract a growing volunteer army.” If your people need training, make it happen. ” Measuring.

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Great Leadership Comes with a Counterintuitive Approach

Great Leadership By Dan

Great leadership is certainly associated with strong instincts and intuition, but intuition and instincts are shaped by training and more importantly, greatly augmented through experience. Guest post from Shaun Spearmon : People often say that great leaders are born that way (i.e I wholeheartedly disagree.

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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. Simply put, culture drives performance.

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Book Review of “The Culture Cycle: How to Shape the Unseen Force that Transforms Performance”

The Practical Leader

John Kotter and James Heskett’s classic book, Corporate Culture and Performance , is an organization development classic. leadership, recognition, job opportunity, personal development). Retention : Lower recruiting, hiring, training, and lost productivity costs because of greater employee loyalty.

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Buy-In – The Imperative Strategy

Strategy Driven

In providing research and developing training programs for various large corporations about managing change, we find that the biggest stumbling block for employees from top-down is lack of buy-in. This means gaining buy-in from stakeholders by developing a sense of urgency that will spark the initial motivation and get things moving.

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Book Reviews and My Recommended Reading List

The Practical Leader

In the past few months I’ve been asked by workshop participants and readers for my recommendations on organization improvement, leadership, or personal development books. I have read about 30 leadership books including Maxwell, Kouzes & Posner, Kotter, and Schein. The theme is Executive global leadership. .”

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