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What More Can I Say?

Eric Jacobson

Communications Skills Dianna Booher Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Leadership' And, Booher sprinkles throughout the book many inspiring leadership and communication quotes. Booher has written 46 books.

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“Shift Happens” Video Ignites Discussion on How We Need to Change or We’ll be Changed

The Practical Leader

Last week I ran a highly customized Peak Performance Leadership workshop and facilitated a strategy session in beautiful Colorado Springs. Organizational Restructuring/Building. It’s often way too easy for executives to look out the window and point to changes they want to see in managing change for everyone else.

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6 Reasons Many Leadership Competency Models Fail

The Practical Leader

Most progressive organizations today are using leadership competency models to outline the key skills and behaviors they want to see in their supervisors, managers, and executives. We’ve been guilty of facilitating workshops with management teams pulling competencies out of thin air. Performance (Mis)Management Systems.

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When Smart and Fast Leaders Leave Their Teams Behind

The Practical Leader

I recently ran a Moose-on-the-Table workshop for a major division of a large company going through the wrenching change of a wholesale restructuring and totally refocusing their business. Part of our discussion with this management group was how really bright people can come across as not wanting to hear other ideas.

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What Makes Someone an Engaging Leader

Harvard Business Review

This management team, like many others, has fought to increase profitability through business transformation, restructuring, and cost-cutting, without devoting much thought to keeping employees engaged and connected. You can’t manage what you don’t measure. Leadership development Managing people Morale' Enough said.

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What Makes Someone an Engaging Leader

Harvard Business Review

This management team, like many others, has fought to increase profitability through business transformation, restructuring, and cost-cutting, without devoting much thought to keeping employees engaged and connected. You can’t manage what you don’t measure. Leadership development Managing people Morale' Enough said.

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How a Turkish Bank Became the Employer of Choice

Harvard Business Review

In the next few years, in the wake of a restructuring of Turkish monetary policy, the sector revived. So, within our new talent management project, we instituted an internship program and developed a new program dubbed "Talent Camp" to communicate and promote Garanti's reputation as a premier employer.

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