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Performance Review: How to respond to frustrating or lazy performance feedback

Let's Grow Leaders

Speak Up to Get Better Feedback in Your Next Performance Review. A few years ago, I wrote “Avoid These Infuriating Phrases in End-of-Year Feedback” to encourage managers to stop making stupid comments when giving a performance review. How to Respond to the Most Infuriating Kind of Performance Review.

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Why Leaders Need To Develop Their Middle Managers

Eric Jacobson

The book, Power To The Middle , shows how managers are the crucial link between a company’s ground floor and top brass. However, new KcKinsey research reveals that this outdated perspective needs to change and that well-developed managers are the strategy that companies must prioritize to succeed today,” they add.

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How to Develop a Great Strategic Leadership Offsite Agenda

Next Level Blog

Over the course of this year, I’m going to develop the agendas and facilitate around a dozen strategic offsites for C-Suite executives and their senior leadership teams. With all that experience, I’ve learned a lot about how to develop and write an agenda that gets a leadership team engaged to create meaningful insights and outcomes.

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December 2018 Leadership Development Carnival: A Year in Review

Lead Change Blog

Welcome to the December Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share our leadership experts’ favorite posts from 2018 on the topics of communication, creativity/inspiration, development, engagement, productivity, and more. It’s a management disease – Poor Listener Syndrome (PLS)! Development.

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August 2021 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Welcome to the August 2021 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Development. Jon Verbeck provided Preparing to Finish Well Using a Mid-Year Review.

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How to Ditch Performance Reviews

Lead Change Blog

Are annual performance reviews necessary? Dr. David Burkus, a highly regarded business school professor and author of Under New Management , challenges the traditional and widely accepted principles of business management and proves that they are outdated, outmoded, or simply don’t work — and reveals what does.

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How Important Is Coaching in Professional Development?

Leading Blog

I’ve seen many breakthrough moments when people from all walks of life set their sights on developing new thoughts, actions, and habits. A S A LIFELONG communication skills coach, I was asked recently by one of my colleagues how important individual coaching attention is for a person to learn and grow at any stage of their career.