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Liz Ryan Reflects: A Decade Shaped by Human-Centric Revolution

HR Digest

We cannot assume that because someone implemented what was the best practice in the 1940s or 1960s, but it’s still the way we should be operating today. I suggested that he break up the competitive situation by meeting with candidates early in the process, to understand their goals and share his goals with them.

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Leadership at the Symphony

Great Leadership By Dan

I wondered if the conductor would lead differently in the presence of a star but it sounded as if she and the conductor were almost operating as one as she played her solo with the conductor bringing the orchestra in to provide background and harmony. This piece featured a world-famous violinist.

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Guest Post: Three Ways to Increase Trust and Eliminate Drama

Lead on Purpose

Create an Employee Handbook. Where there is no employee handbook, there will be a lot of confusion. Besides the mission statement, there is no other communication tool more important than the employee handbook. Teach Standard Operating Procedures. Develop Written Job Descriptions. Ready to Stop Workplace Drama?

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5 Tips To Successfully Transition From Rookie To Leader

Tanveer Naseer

Leadership programs often emphasize the operational mechanics of leading – planning, organizing, budgeting, or content that leans more toward management, such as delegating, time management, and giving feedback. Thus, you have to constantly be stretching people toward higher goals and standards. Doing otherwise breeds complacency.

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How to Be an Education-First Leader and Why It Matters

Thin Difference

Communicate Your Learning Goals from the Onset. This extends past asking your team to read a handbook or attend a seminar. You need to communicate the specific goals and expectations you have for their skill development, and equip them with the tools and support they need to reach those goals.

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A Closed-Loop Strategy Execution System

Six Disciplines

In their 2008 book "The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage" (Harvard Business School Press), Harvard professors Dr. Robert S. Set Goals That Lead ). Plan Operations: improve key processes; develop sales plan; plan resource capacity; prepare budgets. Kaplan and Dr. David P. Discipline I.

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Current Method / Better Way Matrix Team Building Activity

Mike Cardus

Can break inertia (stuckness) in how your project team operates. When options for goals and implementation are established everyone has a well developed (and known) understanding of the steps. Using this information the team can start to develop goals and implementation steps. Current Method / Better Way Matrix.