Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Cross-Functional Collaboration – Action-learning based leadership development. Instead of pulling new and experienced supervisors into a series of classes and lectures, we wanted to engage in action-learning. The approach combines vertical leadership development with an Action Learning philosophy.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 14, 2012

Participants need to be engaged through a variety of creative approaches. Action learning projects. Imagining the future leadership self. Participant led sessions. Participant experts. Breakout/learning groups. Build all possible connections among participants. Team coaching. Study trips.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 14, 2013

I was at a conference recently and the session topic was leadership development and succession planning. One of the participants, an HR manager, raised her hand and asked: “We’ve recently implemented a talent review process, so we’ve done a decent job assessing our leaders, but now we’re struggling with what to do next.

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Review Conference Executive Coaching Planning 229

Rapid BI

JUNE 30, 2012

Action Learning for Leadership Development Introduction When devising any leadership programme, it is important to ensure that as participants students are not only ‘taught’ or trained, but that they have the opportunity to put learning into action.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 19, 2011

According to research from the book Why Woman Mean Business , women now represent a majority of the talent pool, a majority of the market, and better gender balance in leadership yields better corporate performance. BETTER BOTTOM LINE : - Companies with more women in leadership have a 35% higher return on equity.

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Planning Development Metrics Succession 229

Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

At best, leadership development is a fun day out, at worst it is a gut wrenching, annoying exercise that leaves you cringing as someone teaches you to suck eggs. And it is managers’ ability to innovate, collaborate and adapt to a constantly changing environment that are the leadership skills we most need to develop.

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Learning-by-Doing White Paper Leadership Development Diversity 272

Center for Creative Leadership

APRIL 5, 2019

When I ask clients what kind of return they’re looking for from a leadership development initiative, it’s usually in terms of how the initiative can have a visible, measurable impact on the organization. Many factors drive the success of a leadership development initiative. Clarify why participants are in the program.

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Leadership Development Development Succession Leadership 87

Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

As the traditional, hierarchical school of leadership diminishes in significance, a new focus on networked team leadership is emerging to take its place. Leaders are finding themselves members of all kinds of teams, including virtual teams, autonomous teams, cross-functional teams, and action-learning teams. Leadership'

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Team Building Team Teamwork Survey 137

Mike Cardus

MARCH 13, 2013

Participants: 10 – 25. Preparation: Break the group into teams of 3 – 5 participants. Ask each team of 3 – 5 participants to sit at separate round tables (the round tables help although are not necessary). . "How " Flow: Ask each team of 3-5 participants to sit at the tables. Time: 10 – 45 minutes.

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Brainstorming Team Building Team Participative 119

Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 8, 2015

This is shared leadership in action and works on the principle of “I own what I help to create”. And it also means that a new approach to leadership and management is needed. Developing such agile leadership and shifting rigid mindsets is not easy. A worthy aim!

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Agility Short-term Long-term Competitive Advantage 120

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 15, 2012

DiSC Team Building & Leadership simulations and activities can add application and understanding to your existing programs. Contact Mike … to discuss how to increase the learning and utilization of your DiSC training program. For participants to experience a C–Conscientious type culture. Arrowheads. DiSC Objective.

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Team Building Development Team Guidelines 131

Mike Cardus

APRIL 25, 2012

DiSC Team Building & Leadership simulations and activities can add application and understanding to your existing programs. Contact Mike … to discuss how to increase the learning and utilization of your DiSC training program. Facilitator Notes: Be careful and ask the participants to keep an open mind. DiSC Perception.

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Team Building Workshop Learning-by-Doing Team 129

Mike Cardus

MAY 30, 2012

Choose a partner you can assign partners or just let people choose, if there’s an odd number a team of 3 is fine or you can also participate. 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.

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Team Building Team Guidelines Bond 116

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 17, 2011

The Exponent Leadership Process does that. Preparation: Ensure that there is a goal to be discussed, that all the participants know and have understanding of; The What; Quality : What are the expectations of how good completion and effort must be? Contact Mike to make this happen. Planning Path: Corporate TeamBuilding Activity.

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Team Building Planning Team Document 131

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 17, 2011

The Exponent Leadership Process does that. Preparation: Ensure that there is a goal to be discussed, that all the participants know and have understanding of; The What; Quality : What are the expectations of how good completion and effort must be? Contact Mike to make this happen. Planning Path: Corporate TeamBuilding Activity.

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Team Building Planning Team Document 118

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Before the meeting it may prove helpful to decide on a goal (what-by-when) to be achieved or to send some pre-work to the participants for then to think about. 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.

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Strategic Planning SWOT Analysis Planning 158

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

DiSC Team Building & Leadership simulations and activities can add application and understanding to your existing programs. Contact Mike … to discuss how to increase the learning and utilization of your DiSC training program. Objective: For participants to experience a D – Dominance type culture. D – Quick Choice.

Team Building 133

Team Building Team Follow-up Training 133

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 16, 2013

DiSC Team Building & Leadership simulations and activities can add application and understanding to your existing programs. Contact Mike … to discuss how to increase the learning and utilization of your DiSC training program. For participants to experience an S – Steadiness type culture. Steady Changing. DiSC Objective.

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Development Team Team Building Learning-by-Doing 114

Coaching Ourselves

AUGUST 29, 2018

Nathalie is co-author of the book Collaborer et agir | Mieux et autrement : guide pratique pour implanter des groupes de codéveloppement (A practical guide to implementing professional co-development action learning groups) (2017). To learn more: Module launch on September 7, 2018, CoachingOurselves Conference, Montreal.

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Development Workshop Webinar Participative 34

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

workforce — and companies will increasingly grapple with how to accelerate the development of those individuals for leadership positions. When the research showed the growing premium that companies place on high-speed development, we decided to follow up with some of the study’s participants to hear more.

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Development Participative Conference Innovation 15

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 27, 2011

However, in the realm of leadership development, there are a handful of things a leader could do that have the potential to be truly *transformational, life-altering, and help to create a whole new worldview. Attend an intensive leadership development program. No pain, no gain. By “intensive”, I mean a total immersion program.

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Goal Development Mentor Short-term 230

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

Straight out of Argyris''s classic HBR article about why smart people can''t learn," this room is full of people skilled in all elements of leadership except collaborative work and unfamiliar with the messiness of honest, open-ended discussion. Participants learn genuine collaboration while tackling the task at hand.

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Team Argyris Teamwork Conference 9

N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

There is nothing short of a voluminous amount of leadership information being published on a daily basis. Is it because everything valuable in regard to leadership has already been discovered? I believe our world is suffering greatly due to a lack of leadership.

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