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Former Verizon Wireless CEO Teaches Leadership Lessons In New Book

Eric Jacobson

Former Verizon Wireless CEO Denny F. Strigl offers a revealing insight into how he led the company in his new book, Managers, can you hear me now? -- co-authored by Frank Swiatek.

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How to Prevent Redundant Performance Improvement Conversations

Great Leadership By Dan

It’s a skill you can refine, and it’s a skill that will serve you well. A former Verizon Wireless executive, she has over two decades of experience in sales, customer service, and Human Resources. You may not roll out a successful performance improvement conversation on your first try. Keep at it.

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Sharing Data Helps Us Remain Healthier

The Horizons Tracker

They were asked not only to wear a Fitbit fitness tracker, but also to log their food intake in an app and weigh themselves on a wireless scale. The program began with a weekly group session where participants learned behavioral skills. “And weight that is initially lost tends to start to be regained.”

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How To Ask Remarkably Better Questions To Encourage Great Ideas

Great Leadership By Dan

A former Verizon Wireless executive, she was named to Inc. How to Ask Your Team For Their Great Ideas If you want your teams great ideas, you need to do more than ask questions. That helps, but it’s not just that you ask. In Courageous Cultures, leaders ask regularly and skillfully. Magazine’s list of great leadership speakers.

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How To Be A Good Coach. And, What Not To Do.

Eric Jacobson

Former Verizon Wireless CEO, Denny F. Coaching Coaching Employees Coaching Skills Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management' Strigl offers these tips for how to be a good coach to an employee. He explains that good coaches help performers by: Keeping them focused. Giving them objective, helpful feedback.

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Good Coach Versus Bad Coach

Eric Jacobson

Former Verizon Wireless CEO, Denny F. Coaching Coaching Employees Coaching Skills Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Great Coaches' Strigl offers these tips for how to be a good coach to an employee. He explains that good coaches help performers by : Keeping them focused. Giving them objective, helpful feedback.

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Are We Really Prepared for a More Automated Future?

Lead Change Blog

education system for focusing on teaching skills that will effectively be automated in the future. I’ve now come to realize, however, that reinvention skills need to be taught at all ages. by Jeff Selingo. Selingo’s piece criticizes – in my opinion rightly so – the U.S. Because of its resistance to change, of course.

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