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November 2020 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

These are all phrases we’ve heard from managers (and executives) recently. People are yearning for human connection, with one another and their manager. Bernd Geropp provided New as a manager – 5 most important tips. How can you manage to do it all—without burning out? Find Bernd on Twitter at @moreleadership.

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Influencers Wanted

Coaching Tip

To find these people, some companies conduct surveys and offer self-assessments to help the employee know themselves better. Executives say the influencers are sometimes already in jobs that reflect their skills—such as a project manager who works with several departments. Buy a Book to take a Self-Assessment. Related articles.

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Managing a Successful Career

Coaching Tip

your intentions are to manage a successful career. Professor Wayne Baker in his book, "Achieving Success through Social Capital: Tapping Hidden Resources in Your Personal and Business Networks" says, "There is deeply rooted myth in North American culture that shapes our behavior. Winning Time Management Strategies.

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Shaking up Yahoo is an effective change management strategy.

Coaching Tip

Increasing one's social capital is all knowing how to share knowledge so it not only adds value to the organization but also to your recognized worth within it. Success = Human Capital (what you know and can do) X Social Capital (who you know and who knows you) X Reputation (who trusts you).

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Decision Making Scenarios

Coaching Tip

Before making an important decision, prudent managers evaluate the situations confronting them — and often fall into one of the eight traps of faulty thinking. The path to reciprocity is indirect: reciprocity ensues from the social capital built by making contributions to others. Barzerman & Neale. The Antidote. Status-Quo.

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Givers give without expectation of immediate return.

Coaching Tip

Traditionally the thinking has been that employers should appeal to workers’ more obvious forms of self-interest: financial incentives, yes, but also work that is inherently interesting or offers the possibility for career advancement. And takers seek to come out ahead in every exchange; they manage up and are defensive about their turf.

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An Integrated Leadership Team

Coaching Tip

If our intention is to manage a successful career, we have to acknowledge that we will be associating with some very smart people, and we will be expected to compete. Some women even associate it with what people do who are controlling, self-serving, dishonest, and even fake. . That’s the secret to success. Ignore at Your Own Risk.

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