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The Returning to Work Handbook: Reflections and Strategies for Employees

The Center For Leadership Studies

This handbook is designed to guide employees navigating this transition through the lens of Situational Leadership ® by providing strategies that will help you process the change that has occurred and evaluate your goals and performance, as well as the tools to “Take Charge” of your own performance.

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5 Steps to Give Autonomy without Blowing Everything Up

Leadership Freak

One goal of managing is to supervise less. The bigger the employee handbook the more you need to supervise. Managers work too hard because they supervise too much. Giving autonomy to supervisors scares the crap out of incompetent managers. Bureaucrats become block autonomy with regulations. Control requires management and supervision.

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Six Essential Practices to Grow Your Leadership

Leading Blog

T HE Harvard Business Review has enlisted the expertise of Ron Ashkenas and Brook Manville to create the Leader’s Handbook. The context of leadership has changed, but the fundamentals of leadership have not. The Harvard Business Review Leader’s Handbook is designed to help you grow your leadership.

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Managing Company Culture Anthropologically

Leading Blog

Seventy percent of corporate “change programs” fail to achieve their stated goals. Ethnography is premised on empathy, and the goal is to understand a given culture from the “natives’” point of view — through their eyes, in their words. The goal was to help employees put their family needs first.

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The Returning to Work Handbook: Reflections and Strategies for Managers

The Center For Leadership Studies

This handbook is designed to help managers navigate this transition through a new lens, by helping them process the change that has occurred and providing strategies for evaluating their teams’ goals and performance.

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How To Reach Your Goals

Eric Jacobson

Social psychologist, Heidi Grant Halvorson , wrote Succeed to help you understand how goals work, what tends to go wrong, and what you can do to reach your goals or to help others reach theirs. In her 260-page book, Halvorson covers : • How to set a goal that you will pursue even in the face of adversity. •

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How To Reach Your Goals

Eric Jacobson

Social psychologist, Heidi Grant Halvorson , wrote Succeed to help you understand how goals work, what tends to go wrong, and what you can do to reach your goals or to help others reach theirs. In her 260-page book, Halvorson covers : • How to set a goal that you will pursue even in the face of adversity. •

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