Skip Prichard

JULY 6, 2020

New managers , or those aspiring to manage a team, often are looking for a playbook to help them get started. And, let’s face it, seasoned managers often need a refresher on some of the basics. How I wish we had an entire day to talk about management and leadership. 4 Things Great Managers Do. 2) Energize.

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Management Diversity Performance Review Review 108

The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 6, 2023

If we’re green and growing , we can smarten up. Off Balance: High IQ Leaders Often Have Lower EQ Many of our audience and workshop participants are STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine) specialists who have been promoted to management positions because of their technical expertise.

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Emotional Intelligence Self-aware Cooper Workshop 97

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The primary motivation for this was to make a positive contribution to society, but there was also a strong belief that speaking up helped to express corporate values. An overwhelming 77.5% of them said that leaders should be taking a stand on political issues, with 62.5% ” Values-based leadership. . ” Values-based leadership.

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Cooper Long-term Politics Energy 117

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The tech media is awash with stories about funding rounds, in large part because the VC community is happy to share press releases around each funding round because they want future investors to pump up the value of their original investment. The risks of this happening are not helped by the lower ethical standards entrepreneurs are held to.

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Press Release Entrepreneur Long-term Ethics 127

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 3, 2018

Is your energy level lower than you’d like? If you are a leader or manager in your organization, communicate an inspiring vision by reminding people of how the work they do is helping others. Costco has a reputation for doing the right thing and its employees rightly feel proud, knowing that they are part of an ethical organization.

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Competitive Advantage Ethics Stress Survey 199

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

I’ve been working with organizations, leaders and managers, and people inside organizations for a couple of years. When you overcome this challenge, where are your focus and energy going? Write it down, answer it, or ask your team members that question and allow their answers to be – no need to follow up.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 22, 2023

ironically) “Just follow the protocol.” That’s a decision for the higher-ups.” Conserving Emotional Energy: Quickly move on without engaging in emotionally taxing conversations. Phrases like ‘That’s a decision for the higher-ups’ can be used to maintain power hierarchies and silence dissenting voices. It is what it is.”

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Strategy P&L Taylorism Taylor 78

Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 3, 2010

As you wait behind the door, you hear your team line up, boots scuffing the ground, weapons cocked. You still set goals for others to follow and make sure everyone performs to the best of their abilities. Some may need specific instructions and constant follow up, whereas others are able to work independently and take initiative.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 20, 2021

Creating the right work ethic involves being willing to work hard and do some of the same jobs you ask of others. You should also follow good timekeeping if you expect your team to follow suit. Continued development can also help staff come up with ideas that benefit the business. Positive attitude. Communication.

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Seminar Training Long-term Ethics 124

Lead Change Blog

JUNE 4, 2019

” Follow Chip on Twitter at @chiprbell. ’ Peter Drucker called her ‘the mother of modern management.’ Mary Faulkner of IA-HR contributed Nobody Likes Performance Management. Rolling out big changes to your performance management? Rolling out big changes to your performance management?

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HR Digest

MARCH 29, 2024

Instead of getting worked up about providing them with a unique idea they’ve never heard of before, it’s more important to know how to answer the behavioral interview questions with a response showcasing who you are. We had a very narrow deadline but thankfully my manager caught the error before I reached out to the client.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 26, 2016

Unfortunately, we also live in a world absolutely jam-packed with distractions and each and every one eats up precious time from our schedule. Clean up your workspace. Colleagues, notifications and emails aside, inanimate objects can be just as big a distraction, so it’s time to clean up your workspace. I speak from experience.

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How To Environment Document Ethics 150

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Just because someone’s box is higher up on the chart does not always mean that they have the most power. For example, take the following case study: One person is a senior vice president, two levels down from the CEO. Influencing up is similar to selling products or services to customers. Focus on making a difference.

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Power Cost-Benefit Analysis Ethics Video 96

Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 1, 2013

of them, Wally Bock from Three Star Leadership, and one of my early blogging mentors, is still a regular contributor and included in this month's edition (Mike Myatt and Mark Stelzner still show up now and then). Lots of managers spend 50 % of their time at work in meetings. presents Which of These is Ethical Leadership?

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JULY 8, 2013

I felt my energy shift. Many years later as I work with companies, I often wonder why most don’t feel energy around the vision they created. You see, in storytelling, as noted by Aristotle, there must be logos (logic), ethos (ethics, credibility, values) and pathos (emotions). Tanvi Gautam, Dean, Graduate School of Business…….I

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Organizations suffer when key people can't effectively influence up. Although knowledge workers may know more about what they are doing than their managers do and have years of education and experience, they rarely know how to effectively influence up. Influencing up is similar to selling products or services to customers.

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Influence Ethics Cost-Benefit Analysis Guidelines 135

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 7, 2013

This post begins by considering the 400 year forest management plans that produce trees for making cognac barrels. I firmly believe that if we redeployed even a fraction of the time and energy we spend focusing on failure toward learning from success, we'd get a lot farther faster.". People may follow, but not with their full spirit.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

The following cities are leading the economic revival in their recovery sectors: Washington , D.C Ranking third in Popular Science ‘s list of ‘America’s Greenest Cities,’ Boston is putting its recovery money toward clean-energy initiatives. Set up your own art studio in Wyoming’s art capital, Cheyenne.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 17, 2015

So many managers don’t understand how to use the hiring process not just to fill a position, but also to truly add value that enriches and complements the company’s culture. Different perspectives and experience from other industries can bring invaluable new energy to your team. It’s also the most difficult. Expand your search.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 18, 2019

Employers like when people have their stuff together as it, more often than not, means they’ll bring that kind of energy to the workplace. First impressions count for a lot when meeting someone – especially a potential boss, so making sure you’re fixed up and looking sharp is important. Work On Your Resume.

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Sharpe Ethics Follow-up Learning-by-Doing 58

Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 9, 2010

This morning I received an email that Tom Peters was following my tweets. Other good things that happened this week: Jurgen Noop from the Netherlands recognized my blog as one of the top leadership and management blogs. It was a tremendous group with great energy and intelligence. Many thanks, Jurgen! why is everyone smiling?

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Women on Business

JANUARY 3, 2011

Perceval is on a journey of exploration, of individuation, to find himself, to grow up. When he visits the Grail King he sees that the man had been seriously wounded in the thigh, in the area of the testes, that his masculine energy had been compromised. To make matters worse, the land is lifeless without fruit and blossoms.

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 19, 2010

After hearing it I started to break it down to see if I could come up with a new statement for Lead on Purpose readers: Feedback: The word feedback is a technical term meaning “a mechanism, process or signal that is looped back to control a system within itself.&# It’s the energy that drives you throughout the day.

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Blanchard Ethics Taylorism Taylor 145

Marshall Goldsmith

APRIL 5, 2011

Knowledge workers can be defined as people who know more about what they are doing than their managers do. In some cases, these decision makers may be immediate or upper managers – in other cases they may be peers or cross-organizational colleagues. Every organization has limited resources, time and energy.

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Influence Drucker Guidelines Ethics 139

Leading with Trust

JANUARY 27, 2019

Those words feel like a punch to the gut of the employee on the receiving end, and for the leader delivering the bad news, those words create anxiety and many sleepless nights leading up to that difficult conversation. I recently met with a group of HR professionals and line managers to debrief employee termination situations.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JULY 10, 2011

Whether the CEO is driven by personal ethics, a socially changing world, or headlines praising “sustainable” organizations, business is finally responding to the green trend—albeit slower than many would like to see. Houweling’s invested a staggering $50 million dollars into the project; this explains why competition is reluctant to catch up.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 3, 2020

It does not determine your work ethics or your social skills at work. If you are exempt from overtime, then it really doesn’t matter if someone is eating lunch and working - except that it could smell up the office or be messy.”. He maintains that breaks are imperative to maintain concentration and energy levels.

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Consensus Policies Learning-by-Doing Human Resources 86

Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

What is the most ethical action we might take?” Questions can give us a goal in life for fighting, questions can provide a tremendous power and energy to achieve our goals. They take energy, require time, and can sometimes be excruciating. I’d love to hear what you come up with. What keeps us from asking, then?

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 19, 2016

The following is a guest piece by John Rampton on behalf of The Economist Executive Education Navigator. Druskat and Wolff use the following analogy to back-up their point: “a piano student can be taught to play Minuet in G, but he won’t become a modern-day Bach without knowing music theory and being able to play with heart.”

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Surviving Leadership

JUNE 23, 2017

The Monday of any SHRM conference is usually jammed packed and high energy. They challenged HR to stop putting up so many artificial barriers to hiring the best performers; you know, barriers like degree requirements or minimum years of experience. [This post first appeared on the SHRM Blog on June 19, 2017]. I like this trend.

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Experience to Lead

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Simply having an idea or plan and pushing it onto other team members and expecting them to follow just isn’t going to cut it. Having a strong leadership mindset and being a humble leader is about allowing people to manage themselves. Not Celebrating Success Too often, we get caught up in the grind of our work lives.

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Development Self-aware Power Leadership 52

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2014

Resisting those temptations requires energy and effort. But the energy that is essential to exert self-control waxes and wanes. And when that energy is low , people are more likely to behave unethically. Larks tend to get up early, and owls tend to stay up late. Ethics Managing people Risk management'

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Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Initially coined by James Downton in 1973 following his research into charismatic leadership, it was influenced largely by Bernard Bass, and his instrumental book Leadership and Performance Beyond Expectations (1985). Management by Exception (MBE). This is a description that conjures up faith and respect in your leader.

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Leadership Long-term Cooper Charisma 69

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 6, 2019

As technologies such as robotics and artificial intelligence have progressed, there has been considerable time and effort given to the ethics of this development. For instance, many companies are following the lead of the likes of Amazon and Uber in implementing artificial intelligence in their management of employees.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Now 75 and older, they make up less than 2% of the workforce 1 , mostly part-time, to keep active and/or to supplement retirement resources. Known for their disciplined work ethic, they have seen their Boomer children “do better than they did” in education, wealth and professional accomplishment.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 19, 2011

If you’re struggling to come up with cash, your choices of housing and food decrease. The more money you have access to, the less you worry about survival, which frees up your mind from unwanted thoughts. Do you feel a sense of anxiety rising up from your stomach to your throat, or a heavy, weighted pressure in your chest?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2014

It is a mindset that must permeate organizations from top-down as well as bottom-up. The following pointers are offered to companies who communicate with niche publics: Seek and train multi-cultural professionals. Every professional must embrace a set of ethics: Things for which each professional holds himself/herself accountable.

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