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Resourcefulness Matters: How to Help Your Team Be More Resourceful

Let's Grow Leaders

Like other human resource competencies, resourcefulness needs to be taught and nurtured, through deliberate focus and training. 7 Ways to Help Your Team Be More Resourceful. ” When it comes to resourcefulness, three of the most powerful words you can teach your team are “ How can we ?”

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How Leaders Can Fix a Negative Company Culture

Great Leadership By Dan

Negative responses are often the default when a boss wants to maintain power, or a direct report wants to avoid hassles. Use positive approaches such as appreciative inquiry, which identifies what works when parts of initiatives fail, and which uses brainstorming and strategic planning to arrive at an ideal solution.

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What’s That Musky Smell?

The Practical Leader

Elon Musk is Exhibit 1…where employees are a corporation’s key assets, workers’ greater power comes in threatening to — or actually — walking out the door.” We could really push this further and make the same argument for “human resources.”

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How To Overcome Four Common Challenges To Become A Better Communicator

Eric Jacobson

Many coaching clients find that they need to give Rationalizing a rest before they can engage in potentially rewarding communication, because pessimism certainly has power to limit our opportunities as communicators in our personal and professional lives. She has 18 years of collegiate teaching experience at three universities.

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How to Thrive Against Giants

In the CEO Afterlife

The very best strategies aren’t generated by outside strategic planning consultants who bill thousands of dollars a day. The path upon which I am walking is the one paved by powerful corporate cultures and shared employee values. That doesn’t meant they can’t be strategically powerful.

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Higher Hiring: Are You Trying to Teach Frogs to Fly?

The Practical Leader

After returning from a strategic planning retreat, he passionately exclaimed to Fred, “We’re going to open an air courier division! Who and How You Hire Sends Powerful Signals A robust and rigorous hiring process is much more likely to match the best people with roles that play to their strengths and bring out their best.

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My Best Blogs of 2011

In the CEO Afterlife

The Nuts and Bolts of the Strategic Plan [link]. Strategic Plans have to start with deep strategic thought and the right conviction. How do retired CEO’s spend there time when the power and the glory is gone? A ‘do-more-of-the-same but better’ attitude will surely result in mediocrity.

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