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Mastering the Middle: Unlocking Your Company's Hidden Potential.

Rich Gee Group

A Game-Changing Blueprint for Empowering Middle Managers Designing and delivering a top-notch middle manager program is all about delivering relevance and value. First, you must understand who your middle managers are and what they're grappling with. Recognize their needs. Understand their pain points.

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Different Types of Managers: Which one are you?

HR Digest

Managers are the people that lead a team, give instruction, and see that an organization’s goals are achieved, be it production, branding, or more. In Organizational parlance, there are four types of managers, the c-suite executives, the mid-level, the frontline managers, and the team leaders. Middle managers.

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The No-Boss Workplace: Can Great Leadership Be Crowdsourced?

Terry Starbucker

Last summer, the local startup Treehouse , a producer of online education courses, decided to create a no-boss workplace by eliminating all the manager positions from its 61-person workforce, thus creating the ultimate “flat” organizational structure. That’s right – aside from the CEO, there are zero managers.

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How to Humanize Leadership

Leading Blog

As leaders, we operate within a web of people relationship systems, and the health and power of these relationships are dependent upon the level of trust we carry within ourselves. What goes on between people; employees, customers, suppliers, financiers, management, the board, etc. Reflection Fuels.

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How to Ignite and Sustain Organizational Growth

Skip Prichard

It’s HR’s Job: While HR certainly plays a significant role in the development and management of policies that can help or hurt culture, it’s the responsibility of everyone inside the organization to create and maintain a thriving culture. Middle managers are instrumental in creating a deep personal commitment to change.

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Preview Thursday: Developing a Positive Culture Where People and Performance Thrive

Lead Change Blog

In spite of the evidence that people and performance thrive in a positive organization, the majority of organizations still operates from the “mechanistic mindset” that manages people like human resources. Even managers told me they couldn’t change their dreadful workdays! Emotions are judged and dismissed as soft.

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Layoffs Rarely Pay Off: Here are 15 Alternatives

The Practical Leader

These leaders operate from core values of partnership and participation. Many research reports showed that layoffs sometimes provided short-term relief but hurt most companies in the long-term: A study in the Academy of Management Journal , found that big layoffs often create even bigger turnover spikes soon after.

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