Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 23, 2017

When companies talk about talent development, retention, and succession planning, words like “cross-training,” “knowledge transfer,” and “redundancy” tend to crop-up. I’m a big fan of these techniques, as they work in organizations large and small. By developing a workforce this way, companies create employees with overlapping skill sets, skills that may be applied intra-departmentally or inter-departmentally.

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Career Advancement

JANUARY 23, 2017

Guest Post by Deborah Shames. I confess. To this day, I experience anxiety before delivering a keynote or leading my business group. I have trouble quieting my mind and sleeping the night before. I imagine everything that could go wrong, and question whether I’ve prepared enough. This may not sound like a surprising admission, since 74 percent of the US population surveyed in 2013 shares a fear of public speaking.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 23, 2017

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 23, 2017

One of the greatest business books ever written isn’t even considered a business book. Many people call it a religious tome. That book? The Holy Bible. Image by Dwight Stone. There’s so much wisdom contained within the good book. We can read the Bible and learn how to lead others, take care of our families, and treat others. But business leaders often overlook the wisdom of the Bible.

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Lead on Purpose

JANUARY 23, 2017

In many ways, creating new technology based products and services has become much easier in recent years. With mobile apps, software as a service (SaaS) and other new tools, the cost of turning ideas into real products has significantly decreased.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 23, 2017

Pride, like many words in the English language, can be complicated. Pride, as a noun means delight, pleasure and joy – a feeling of deep satisfaction; and it also means arrogance, vanity and egotism – an excessively high opinion of one’s self. Pride is also a verb, meaning to take satisfaction in. Why the vocabulary […]. The post The Role of Pride in Effective Leadership appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 23, 2017

Eric Budd’s presentation at the 2016 Annual Deming Institute Conference: An Exercise in Operational Definition. The exercise Eric uses in the presentation shows how much variation can show up in data – just from how the data is collected. And in this example the data even has an operational definition used in collecting the data. Most data used in business does not have operational definitions known to both those collecting the data and those using it.

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 23, 2017

He looked up from the back deck and said he was going to fly. “How are you going to do that?” his mom asked.

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Rapid BI

JANUARY 23, 2017

For training, managers are required to undertake a training needs analysis (TNA) on their people. One of the hardest things to do in any job is start with a blank sheet. The post Training Needs Analysis Template – TNA sample appeared first on RapidBI.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

If you’re caught up in conflict with someone, there are a few practical strategies that can help you resolve the situation. These strategies include seeking compromise, taking the other person’s perspective, being humble, trying to forgive, and not casting blame. But personal conflicts are precisely when we are least likely to use these strategies.

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Rapid BI

JANUARY 23, 2017

So you are thinking of going freelance, setting up your own training business. This short piece collates my experiences and those of other freelance providers. The list is presented in a (near) logical order, however the order presented is indicative and not a prescription. Not all elements will be necessary for your business or business model so use this as an ideas base.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

Most of us assume that if we want to change people’s behavior, we need to change their incentives. For example, after I published research and advice on collaboration in professional service firms , I heard from a surprising number of people who wrote to ask questions like, “Maybe it’ll work in a partnership, like a law or consulting firm, but what about in my company, where employees aren’t owners and can’t change the rules?

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Steve Farber

JANUARY 23, 2017

Chapter 27. I drove the winding road up the cliff overlooking the deepening Pacific and took in the ridiculously beautiful view. The sun was heading down in the sky as I was driving up the road toward Agnes’s house. I was more than a little curious about what kind of place I would find. Agnes struck me as simple and unpretentious, and I expected her house to be the same.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

It’s a given that you want your boss’s trust. But what if your boss shares things he shouldn’t, trusting that you will be more discreet than he? Maybe he tells you information you shouldn’t know about your peers. Or he gossips about people in other departments. What should you do when your boss is indiscreet? Is there a way to call out unprofessional comments and behavior without risking your relationship — or your job?

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Management

Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 23, 2017

How we took an idea to multi-site to reality. I like to see dreams and goals become reality. In my personal experience, however, and from viewing the experiences of others, most of us have more ideas than we have reality. Figuring out how to implement our ideas is the hardest part of the process it seems. I hope this post helps. Allow me to share an example of how an idea can become reality in my world.

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Steve Farber

JANUARY 23, 2017

Chapter 27. I drove the winding road up the cliff overlooking the deepening Pacific and took in the ridiculously beautiful view. The sun was heading down in the sky as I was driving up the road toward Agnes’s house. I was more than a little curious about what kind of place I would find. Agnes struck me as simple and unpretentious, and I expected her house to be the same.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

Great leaders, especially in large organizations, aren’t really people. They’re mental images. They may be flesh and blood to the senior team and the assistants in the C-suite, but to people in outer orbits, from operational departments to business units, they are imaginary constructs. Employees create pictures of what leaders seem to be, based on the bosses’ accumulated emails, tweets, speeches, and videos, plus whatever tidbits are picked up here and there.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 23, 2017

Defending a series of false statements by the official White House spokesman and administration advisers suggest that invoking "alternative facts" is not untruths. For example, the White House's Kellyanne Conway says voters didn't care about the issue of Mr. Trump's taxes. The fact is Mr. Trump was the first presidential candidate from a major party since 1976 to release no tax returns.

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