Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Tough times are an opportunity to drive change and innovation. I’m not talking about panic-driven change, rather well though out process improvements and innovation. Think task forces, committees, action learning, and Kaizen workshops. Same goes for the way you treat your customers and the community.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 8, 2015

To compete effectively, speed, innovation and intense customer focus are of essence. So how do agile organizations square the circle – obtaining the speed, innovation and flexibility they want – while employees get the fair deal, at least in terms of development, flexibility and empowerment, they want?

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 29, 2018

Her strengths in generating alternatives and seeing the big picture allow her to be at the forefront of innovation and engagement year after year. For Alaina, the VP of HR for a healthcare organization, diverging is common practice.

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Mike Cardus

MARCH 29, 2020

Have you wondered how to facilitate a team debrief through a learning and review process? In a recorded webinar (below) I share with a management team the team debrief or after action learning process called Distinctive: Working Well: 100 Days Better.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 16, 2013

When people are exchanging cards, some groups will think of “innovative strategies” for circumnavigating the intent of the shuffle rule. If they include creativity and innovation, you may not want to prohibit some of the ideas above. The immediate goal is to lower their time for a first solution once a change is announced.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Use the activity as a content reminder; ask people to write what they have learned and the application to work/school/classroom/etc… Then people take turn guessing what the other person has learned and the application. Mike is your answer. He will create and develop customized activities and simulations for what you need.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 4, 2010

What can we learn from this? Reference: Original idea from the book; GameStorming : A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers: Lo Tech Social Network game; p. How can these ideas be brought to the office, home, community, classroom? Mike is your answer.

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Team Building Learning-by-Doing Process Objective 95

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Mike will come to you to facilitate the action learning and processing, or can just send you a document with videos and photos of how to do everything you need. Mike is your answer. He will create and develop customized activities and simulations for what you need. Contact Mike ( mike@create-learning.com ).

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The Center For Leadership Studies

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Endurance in the business of custom learning development is a key indicator that a provider is agile, innovative, responsive and able to consistently exceed client expectations.

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Mike Cardus

MARCH 13, 2013

Mike will come to you to facilitate the action learning and processing, or can just send you a document with videos and photos of how to do everything you need. He will create and develop customized activities and simulations for what you need. Contact Mike ( mike@create-learning.com ) Phone – 1.716.629.3678.

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Brainstorming Team Building Team Participative 119

Center for Creative Leadership

APRIL 5, 2019

This may take some creativity and innovation on your part. How can you use e-learning and technology to stretch and enhance your development efforts? Will they be on a panel to evaluate action-learning projects? Can senior leaders take on the role of trainer in programs?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

What should leaders do to boost their organization’s ability to innovate? Run an action-learning program to develop the top leadership team’s ability to confront ambiguity. Build an open innovation platform. Hire seasoned innovators. One clear problem innovation can solve is creating new growth.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

In 2016, former American Express CEO Ken Chenault tasked chief human resource officer Kevin Cox with finding new opportunities that would drive innovation and revenue growth. Their reasoning: Five years from now, successful companies will increasingly employ innovative business models that no one currently thinks are feasible.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

But lessons learned in a classroom or on a ropes course rarely translate to the crucible of real life. This is what organizational development types call "action learning," and it has two essential ingredients. Participants learn genuine collaboration while tackling the task at hand. Talent management'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2015

Each member of the team was responsible for devising a project-based learning activity that would serve his or her own developmental goals while also contributing to the success of the firm.

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Metrics Learning-by-Doing Goal Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

It originated in the military as a way to learn quickly in rapidly changing situations and to address mistakes or changes on the field. In business, debriefing has been widely documented as critical to accelerating projects, innovating novel approaches, and hitting difficult objectives.

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Tools Root Cause Analysis Team Objective 8

N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

Before I go any further, today’s rant should not be construed as a call for elitism, but rather a call for authenticity, innovation and professionalism. As leadership advisors and coaches we counsel our clients on the need for change and innovation, but have we become the proverbial shoe maker without shoes?

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