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Guest Post: Begging For Leadership Won’t Get You A Pocket Full of Change

Lead on Purpose

Although Toyota’s leadership style promotes employee involvement, the working environment of one of their factory sites was not motivating its front-line workers. Kaizen is the Japanese philosophy of continuous incremental improvement in life that Toyota has incorporated into its leadership style. Communication is key.

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CMI Highlights

Chartered Management Institute

This aims to support employers to embed EDI into decision-making on occupational standards, apprenticeships and technical qualifications and build a skills system that allows everyone, regardless of their background, to access high-quality training. All of us at CMI are excited to continue supporting the CMI community throughout 2023.

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What U2 and the US Navy Have in Common: Connecting with Core Employees

Michael Lee Stallard

This is problematic when you consider the Navy’s sophisticated surveillance, navigation and weapons systems and the importance of maintaining the readiness of national defense. Clark changed legacy systems that made sailors feel devalued. One such system was the Navy’s job assignment process. why is everyone smiling?

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0510 |Les McKeown: Full Transcript

LDRLB

It talks about the 4 underlying key leadership styles and visionary, operator, processer, synergists that determine which stage an organization settles into. What I’ve discovered is again and again, is it’s actually the underlying leadership style inherent in the business that has the biggest impact.

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Why Women Stay Out of the Spotlight at Work

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, most women rejected the executive, self-promoting leadership style in favor of a mission-oriented, communal style. Similarly, Tanya, a professional development coach, rejected executive leadership style in favor of a team-based approach.

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Why Women Stay Out of the Spotlight at Work

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, most women rejected the executive, self-promoting leadership style in favor of a mission-oriented, communal style. Similarly, Tanya, a professional development coach, rejected executive leadership style in favor of a team-based approach.

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Guest Post: Change Management Models

Change Starts Here

I am a process guy by training, but I make my living from change management. I work for a large organisation and I spend my life trying to fix things: processes, systems and policies – those sorts of things. Changing systems and processes is easy, but unless you can change people’s behaviour as well then your new process is worthless.

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