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Is give-and-take an old-fashioned notion?

Lead Change Blog

While companies provide wages in exchange for work, less care is taken with providing training and development, minimizing bias, not expecting 24 x 7 email availability, and consulting employees on issues that concern them. Six people volunteered to develop a workbook for a nonprofit workshop. What’s Being Pondered.

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Let’s Stop Pushing “Development” as a Cheap Replacement for Training

Great Leadership By Dan

A slightly abbreviated version of this post was recently published in Smartblog on Leadership : True confession time. Sales reps were trained in their products and how to sell them, scientists went to conferences, engineers were offered continued training to keep their skills up to date, and new managers were trained how to manage.

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Situational Leadership® Helps you Create a Safe Working Environment

The Center For Leadership Studies

I am proud to teach Situational Leadership ® every day. Even as 14+ million managers have gone through the program in some form or fashion, it remains a comparatively untapped resource and strategy for many of the urgent leadership challenges in our world today!

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Five Proven Paths to Training Pull-Through

The Center For Leadership Studies

Hands down, the Achilles heel of every learning and training professional is determining how to help the people we sent to training—or trained ourselves!—to As one of the coaches involved in our recent research study on sustaining virtual leadership development, I saw three encouraging things firsthand.

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August 2018 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Welcome to the August Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, creativity and inspiration, development, productivity, team building, and more. Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership provided A 5-Step Training Plan to Think like a Navy SEAL.

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5 Leadership Lessons: Redesigning Leadership

Leading Blog

In Redesigning Leadership , he—with co-author Becky Bermont—pulls the leadership lessons from the ups and downs of his time there. Leadership is never easy and it is made more difficult by what I perceive is a growing sense of entitlement we all feel in our culture. It’s not all good or bad, but it is something to deal with.

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Getting Small

Let's Grow Leaders

This principle holds true and it holds true for your leadership and your work. It’s hard to believe we’re in season 12 of Leadership Without Losing Your Soul already. In 1845, you couldn’t find a single suspension bridge used for trains anywhere in the world. Getting Small. I’ll give you a hint.

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