QAspire

JUNE 1, 2014

Welcome to the June 02nd 2014 Carnival of Leadership Development. I am thankful to carnival leader Dan McCarthy for allowing me to host this event - a wonderful collection of very practical insights on Leadership Development. Read more in his post “ GM’s Heart Failure ” ( @scedmonds ).

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 31, 2023

The idea was deemed far too risky, and most engineers wrote it off as an unsafe proposal. The story of this engineering marvel begins with a simple picnic and a letter. a dynamic engineer with a knack for promotion. This was the starting point of the bridge that took another seven years and a different engineer to complete.

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Letter Engineering Travel Follow-up 234

Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

Welcome to the November 6, 2011 edition of leadership development carnival! Guy Harris presents Three Power Phrases to Disarm a Verbal Aggressor posted at Guy Harris: The Recovering Engineer , saying, "How do you respond to coworkers or colleagues when they are verbally aggressive? Here are three phrases that might help.".

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QAspire

MARCH 25, 2014

In American Management Association’s critical skills survey 2012 , respondents emphasized on 4 C’s ( C ritical thinking and problem solving, Effective C ommunication, C ollaboration and team building and C reativity and innovation) as their key priorities for employee development, talent development and succession planning.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Training 185

CoachStation

JULY 21, 2023

As part of our occasional series chatting with industry leaders, we recently spoke with engineer and senior leader, Wes Davis. His story is an interesting one, with Wes focusing much of his time and development on the topic of leadership within engineering, rather than simply learning and applying the technical aspects.

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Engineering Industry Development Team 246

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 3, 2014

Grbavac has more than 25 years of experience in sales, marketing and organizational development, and he was involved in managing sales groups and re-engineering corporate structure and culture at industry-leading organizations such as Jantzen and VF Corporation. change leadership Richard Grbavac William Seidman'

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

Welcome to the September, 2011 Leadership Development Carnival - Back to School Sale! Yes, it's back to school shopping time, and this month's Carnival gives leaders and aspiring leaders a shopping cart full of leadership development supplies. So stock up, and enjoy your reading! Not than anyone is keeping score.

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Leadership Freak

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Here’s part of “The Little Blue Engine.” We were Christmas shopping in downtown Bangor, Maine. We laughed like children. Years later, we’d read all his poems to our one girl and two boys. ” It shocked us. The [.].

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Engineering Books Leadership Development Development 173

Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Posted in Leadership Development Each month in our newsletter, we feature an interview with one of our Instigators. Linda Freeman, who began her career as an engineer with the U.S. in Environmental Engineering at Stanford University and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering at the University [.].

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Chemicals Engineering Newsletter Leadership Development 300

Next Level Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

I began to write about that question in a pre-pandemic post I wrote back in 2019 on five principles for designing great leadership development programs. One of the principles in that post was to create a narrative thread for the leadership program and pull it through every element of the program.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 1, 2013

Posted in Change Management Leadership Development Self Leadership Value Creation No one likes to fail. Failure is the engine of innovation. Change Management Leadership Development Self Leadership Value Creation failure lead practice success' Failure feels like losing.

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Engineering Leadership Development Innovation Development 333

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 9, 2024

trillion in 2022, investing in leadership development, especially for frontline managers, is crucial to safeguard an organization’s digital transformation. Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer certification: A significant 1,454% jump. With disengaged workers costing organizations more than $8.8

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Skills Trends Emotional Intelligence Advertising 86

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 1, 2008

I was responsible for employee and leadership development for a company that went from 80,000 employees to under 50,000 in the eight years I was there. Teach leaders how to write a good IDP (Individual development plan) that includes a variety of activities, not just costly training programs. You’ll save on travel and time.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 26, 2012

Posted in Leadership Development Your computer is a unit. Engineers have predictably mapped out how your computer and air conditioning unit works and performs under a variety of conditions. You have an air conditioning unit. Unit is a measurement with a definite value. Sparing you an [.].

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Engineering Definition Leadership Development Development 290

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2018

He could have bawled out the engineers and technicians behind the mechanical prop, demanding that they somehow find a way to carry out his vision. He has taught leadership since 1998 at the undergraduate, masters, doctoral and executive levels. Spielberg could have insisted on the shot. But he didn’t.

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Innovation Film Leadership Engineering 277

Leading Blog

MARCH 8, 2019

That position humbled me and taught me lessons about leadership that I still use today, some 20 years later. Back then, the vast majority of Akamai’s 100 engineering staff had been recruited directly from MIT and other top universities. He is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT.

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Chief Technology Officer Leadership Engineering Teamwork 306

The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Lord Kelvin was a highly decorated and recognized 19th century British mathematical physicist and engineer. And as I described in Manifesto for a Leadership Development Revolution , I too became trapped by the current “bedrock” paradigm of needs analysis, gap analysis, and improvement planning. The guy was a genius.

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Leadership Development Development White Paper Leadership 68

Leadership Freak

APRIL 6, 2020

The Little Blue Engine begins, The little blue engine looked up at the hill. His light was weak, his whistle was shrill. He was tired and small, and the hill was tall, And… Continue reading →

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Engineering Succession How To Leadership Development 145

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 3, 2008

Most of us have heard of the concept of "leader's teaching leaders" - Noel Tichy commercialized the concept in his 2002 book, The Leadership Engine. Here's 10 practical ways to get leaders involved in leadership development programs: 1. Make sure you have executive sponsorship for any and all leadership programs.

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Leadership Development Development Welch Leadership 120

Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 26, 2021

Tammy Cravit is a data engineer, friend, and advocate for LGBTQ inclusion. And, ultimately we were able to work together as we brought a leadership development program to her company. This email exchange led to a series of important and meaningful conversations on authenticity and LGBTQ inclusion.

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Career Letter Insurance Books 273

Leadership Freak

MAY 8, 2019

” Trust is the engine of team… Continue reading → A reader asks, “Maybe a post on how to proceed when relationships have been eroded among team members? With a small team, I find it especially challenging.”

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Engineering Team How To Succession 165

Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 23, 2021

Now, I want to take a question that came in this week from a program that we’re doing leadership development program. And that’s the kind of encouragement that’s going to be most effective for you as a leader. And I thought this was an insightful question with regard to encouragement. (

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Power Project Long-term Collins 329

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 3, 2020

First, I had to align our leadership team to drive the service-oriented, flexible and innovative culture. Next, we implemented formal and informal leadership development for our most influential leaders to instill the culture and teach others the way. Finally, I believe in fun—fun drives culture.

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System Chief Executive Officer Innovation CEO 228

Chart Your Course

MARCH 17, 2015

Leadership is the engine that drives successful organizations. According to a recent Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends report: GLOBAL organizations today must navigate a “new world of work”—one that requires a dramatic change in strategies for leadership, talent, and human resources. Why are we falling behind?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Here are a few that people in jobs ranging from nursing home administrator to mechanical engineer are working on this week: For a client who’s finding their voice – participate in every meeting you attend for one month; for one who finds it hard to focus – document and prioritize a task list, then share it with your boss to become more aligned.

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Development Self-aware Executive Coaching Mentor 248

Leadership Freak

APRIL 8, 2019

Follow-through is the engine of progress. Poor follow-through, poor results. 3 dangers of poor follow-through: People don’t respect you. Procrastination drains your energy like a dripping faucet. Team performance drops. People end up… Continue reading →

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Team Engineering Follow-up Energy 117

The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 18, 2023

This faulty pathway to “leadership development” is discouraging, demotivating, and proven to be 2 to 3 times less effective in changing behavior. Lack of Planning: There is no clear personal development roadmap for leveraging a leadership strength from good to great other than “try harder.”

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Micromanagement Energy Consensus Advice 116

Rich Gee Group

MARCH 19, 2014

The average salary for a welding engineer is $48K to $101K. Technical Writing - There is a wide variety of sub-specializations which lean more toward engineering, how-to’s, or investigations. Even at a little company, there’s more random stuff than you would think (DNA, DEA, bacteria, electrical engineering, IT, etc.)

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Career Real Estate Engineering Education 192

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 31, 2018

Jobs brought a highly distinctive design vision that keyed-in on user experience and an eye for engineering excellence that few could match. Apple is in an industry where fresh ideas, fast thinking and constant change are keys to success.

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Leadership Welch Benchmarking Consultative 195

Mike Cardus

APRIL 29, 2013

Contact Create-Learning Team Building & Leadership to fix this before it happens. Jackie had recently been hired as vice-president of engineering. Prior to her new role she was director of engineering. Case-Study going from “Big Enough” to “Too Small” in competence for the role.

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Case Study Leadership Engineering Team Building 150

The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

For many years I’ve been facilitating a 360 assessment and leadership development process for a deeply technical science/engineering association. However, their overall leadership scores are generally well below those of other less technical groups. STEMM Leaders Are Less Effective.

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Leadership Emotional Intelligence Goleman Crisis 59

Lead by Adventure

AUGUST 22, 2014

While pursuing his 5-year Mechanical Engineering course in the University, he pastored two Baptist Churches in the province of La Union. He graduated with a BS in Mechanical Engineering in April 1991. Leadership Development Leadership Stories Member Spotlight' How can people pray for and support you?

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Seminar PR Engineering Training 147

Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 4, 2013

Great leaders encourage leadership development by openly developing themselves. Today, many of the world’s most respected chief executives are setting a positive example by opening up, striving continually to develop themselves as leaders. All good leaders want their people to grow and develop on the job.

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Development 360-Degree Feedback CEO Open-book 180

Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Whether you lead a multinational company, a human-service nonprofit, a team of three engineers trying to solve a stubborn problem, are a parent, or a community volunteer, in your role as a leader you give and receive truly significant gifts nearly every day of the year. So, how can we actively invoke gratitude? Follow Michelle.

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Power Follow-up Wilde Tips 180

Leadership Freak

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Peter Drucker Wrong questions when promoting from within: When you need a supervisor for a team of engineers, the question isn’t, “Is this potential… Continue reading → “The truly dangerous thing is asking the wrong questions.”

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Drucker Engineering Team Succession 100

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 31, 2013

What if the Little Engine that Could – “I think I can, I think I can, I think I can” – was wrong? Traditional wisdom says self-affirmation builds optimism and confidence. Dispel doubt, discouragement, and fear by repeating things like: “I’m awesome.” “I I can do this.”

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Engineering Influence Books Leadership Development 200

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Strategy should include, inform, and integrate with leadership development, talent management, organization design, and proactive culture management. Many organizations are either planning or already have strategic initiatives underway in leadership development, talent management, organization design or culture management.

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