Chart Your Course

JULY 24, 2018

Closeup portrait of a successful business team laughing together. Before I dive into my list, however, I think it’s important to lay out who exactly I’m talking about when I mention each generation. How do you appeal to Millennial team members while making Baby-boomers still feel valued?

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General Leadership

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

With a passion for serving others but no plan on how to run a school, they nevertheless established thirty colleges in less than a decade. All of which, mind you, continue to thrive today. Not for selfish gain, mind you. “To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.”. Bertrand Russell.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

It combines decades of pioneering research in leadership development and organizational behavior into a practical, common-sense language leaders can leverage when it is time to lead! This article will provide an overview of each of the four leadership styles. Each of these styles works, and each of these styles doesn’t.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

A theory gives you something interesting to think about. Conversely a model gives you something you can do!” Conversely a model gives you something you can do!” This article will discuss how it is different, its key elements, what it looks like in practice and the impact it can have on an organization.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

Perhaps you are familiar with the Situational Leadership ® Model but could use a quick refresher to refine your understanding. Or perhaps you have never heard of the Situational Leadership ® Model but are interested in learning whatever you can about viable methodologies with proven track records for developing leaders.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

As such, we field questions like these on an ongoing basis from a variety of stakeholders: Can you identify and define the characteristics of the Situational Leadership ® Model? Every style works, and every style doesn’t! Each of us has a preferred or natural style of leadership.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 5, 2017

Stewardship is about using what you have in service to others.” ” This month’s carnival may just inspire you to go a step farther in using your strengths to serve others. .” ” This month’s carnival may just inspire you to go a step farther in using your strengths to serve others.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

The HR Digest: Looking back at your journey, could you highlight a pivotal moment or decision that significantly influenced your path to becoming the Senior Vice President and Chief People Officer at The Coca-Cola Company? The HR Digest: In a 2021 interview, you mentioned evolving leadership approaches.

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The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 27, 2021

You’ll rarely hear effective leaders say, “They ought to do something about that.” ” As Geoffrey Bellman writes in his book, Getting Things Done When You Are Not in Charge, “You may be thinking, ‘But someday I will be in charge of the committee (or agency or division or team) and I will change things! .”

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 10, 2020

This is an excerpt from How to Listen and How to Be Heard by Alissa Carpenter. Leveraging Individual Strengths for the Team. While at work, have you ever encountered these scenarios? Have you been a part of a brainstorm session where a few people seem to have all the ideas while others silently listen?

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HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

To make the most of performance appraisals, it’s important to use performance appraisal examples that reflect your organization’s culture and values. Using obscure words and unique expressions can help keep your employees engaged and motivated to improve their performance. But what makes an effective performance review?

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

a person or a team at varying levels of task-related ability and willingness to perform the task) The leader will always have a choice! Here are examples of the Situational Leadership ® Model used in four separate (and very different) settings. The short answer to that question is no.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

For you reading pleasure, this month's Carnival offers up a Fall harvest of posts from some of the best leadership bloggers from around the world. Just when I think it's right, I hit "preview", and it's a complete surprise each time. Think of it as leadership graffiti. (-: Bon appétit! Corporate culture guru S.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

Think of any top performing CEO and you’ll find that to the one, they possess an uncanny ability to focus on highest and best use activities. To this day I’m amazed at how many CEOs still own tasks, roles, projects, and responsibilities that should be delegated to others.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

AUGUST 28, 2023

In specific terms, what’s different? In specific terms, what’s different? Only 22% of employees feel their manager has a clear direction for their team. Only 22% of employees feel their manager has a clear direction for their team. Likewise, there will always be leaders, and there will always be followers.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 1, 2020

Alain Hunkins has released Cracking the Leadership Code that helps you demystify leadership. Alain Hunkins has released Cracking the Leadership Code that helps you demystify leadership. We have very little idea of how little we know. We’re not designed to know how little we know.” Decipher the Leadership Code.

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

That’s what Brand Positive co-founder Sean Pillot de Chencey teaches in his book Influencers & Revolutionaries: How Innovative Trailblazers, Trends and Catalysts Are Transforming Businesses. What’s your definition of innovation? Instead, they should pose the question ‘how can we know this for certain?’ Economic Disruption.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Where Dan lost me was on point #4 – Teams Decide by Consensus. In recent months I have observed a decent amount of politically correct discourse on the topic of team building and equality. The gist of the argument seems to be that for teams to be productive, employees have to feel “empowered&# by having an equal voice.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 14, 2014

In business, leadership infrastructure is the sum total of all the management systems, processes, leadership teams, skill sets, and disciplines that enable companies to grow from small operations into midsized or large firms. Without them, we’re Mom and Pop, and that’s all we ever will be, no matter how much cash flow we generate.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

While much has been written about what leaders are, today’s post will highlight eight areas that will help you quickly pinpoint what leaders are not. However in the text that follows I’ll address how to spot ineffective leaders by assessing six critical areas of leadership DNA.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

Trust me when I tell you that being out of touch is never a good position to find yourself in as the CEO. I rarely come across leaders who couldn’t benefit from being more meaningfully engaged on both a broader and deeper basis, and hope that today’ post will encourage you to do just that… ENGAGE.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

If so, you likely have issues with conflict. Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. It will find you whether you look for it (good idea – more later) or not.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

I could go on ad-nauseum with this line of thinking, but I’m sure you get the point by now. The reality is that you can find someone who will tell you that anyone of the options mentioned above constitutes best practices, so who is right and who is wrong? Oh, and what about development methodology?

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

And this can’t be just your run-of-the-mill, 300-750 word article due to the explosion of content on the web. Stop and ponder that for a minute; then think about whether your content is truly invaluable against that backdrop. The answer to that depends on your goals, budget, etc., 8 Stellar Ones.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

In it, he describes  how real estate investor Sam Zell and his minions destroyed the culture of the Chicago Tribune and other great newspapers in its holding company. After he used the Trib’s own retirement plan as leverage to buy the company, Zell brought in as CEO a former morning zoo style radio shock jock named Randy Michaels.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

In business, your personal brand needs to leave a lasting impression or you risk being ignored. This can be the result of your voice, off-the-wall persona, whacky facial hair, or any other number of unique things. The only way to establish yourself as a leader is to identify your core values and the impression you want to leave.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 21, 2012

Science tells us that men and women use different parts of their brains and consequently have different behaviors that lead to different leadership styles. One is no more effective than the other; but joined holistically within a balanced leadership team, can lead to a better business outcome.

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QAspire

AUGUST 5, 2010

Here are a few ways you can use power of storytelling: As a speaker/presenter, you can use stories to capture the imagination of audience. As a business leader, your biggest challenge is to keep your people engaged with your mission and with their work. Listen to their stories as well. Show them the future.

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HR Digest

APRIL 25, 2024

Psychometric assessments can be your secret weapon! Discover how these tests go beyond resumes, providing data-driven insights into a candidate’s abilities (numerical reasoning, anyone?) We’ll explore psychometric assessment types and how they can empower your recruitment strategy. and personality traits.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

So what determines whether execution brings life or death to your strategy? It’s not what you think. It’s how you think. The mental models that inform strategy are usually different from those that determine implementation. Execution is an odd word. Why are they being so defensive?”

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

How to grow revenues? How to profitably service existing customers? You probably didn’t answer, “How to implement effective marketing.” However, under-investing in marketing is short-sighted, and this article will explain how “smart marketing” can be a key driver of business growth.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Social Nation : How to Harness the Power of Social Media to Attract Customers, Motivate Employees, and Grow Your Business by Barry Libert It’s time to join Social Nation and prosper! The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

Her team clearly loved working with her, and she was considered a high potential in the organization. Tony knew her extremely collaborative style made her well-liked by her team and other business units, who were always asking her to be on interdepartmental committees, but to him it seemed needlessly time consuming and conflict averse.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

How can you ensure that your company has innovative teams? Based on our experience building innovation teams and consulting for Fortune 500 companies on setting up innovation processes, a key component that has proven to be paramount but consistently neglected is psychological assessment. Why does this even matter?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2018

Listen to Angelia Herrin, Special Projects editor for Harvard Business Review, interview Dr. Terri Cooper, Principal and Chief Inclusion Officer of Deloitte Consulting, as she discusses six attributes of leaders who display the ability to not only embrace individual differences, but to potentially leverage them for competitive advantage.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2017

You got the job. How should you assess the salary as well as the other perks? Which publicly available information should you rely on? How should you try to get a better deal? And what’s the best way to decline an offer if it’s not the right job for you? Shift your mindset.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

He seemed particularly charged up about his colleague, Leslie, a peer who was overseeing a team that had interdependencies with his own team. They had been in a cross-functional team meeting earlier in the week when Leslie had shared a set of new parameters and next steps for working with one of their key vendors.

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