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May 2021 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

In the workplace, this manifests as low engagement, high attrition, bullying, toxic culture, harassment, lack of psychological safety and stifled communication. David Grossman of The Grossman Group provided Open-Ended Questions Enhance Employee Communication. Asking open-ended questions is a simple way to do that. Productivity.

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Making Sense of Speed, Agility and Innovation

Leading Blog

In our book OutManeuver we detail a new competitive strategy that leverages speed, agility, insight and innovation to win the most at the least possible cost. Maneuver stands in opposition to existing “attrition” strategy, where firms fight expensive battles over small differences in market share based on essentially similar products.

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Why It’s Time to Rethink Your Company Brand’s Message

Tanveer Naseer

At the moment I’m reading a book on business branding (which I’ll be reviewing in the next instalment of my “Coffee House Book Review” series ) which has lead to some thoughts about the connection between leadership and branding. For some leaders, this might seem like a dubious move.

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Leadership and Work Teams

Great Leadership By Dan

His new book is “Wake up and smell the coffee – the imperative of teams” [link]. Simon operates from London with a Dublin-based support office. He received his doctoral degree for his work on the application of generic frameworks in organization development and is a visiting research fellow at NBS.

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July's Leadership Carnival

Michael Lee Stallard

Learn how to get the most out of blogs, books, seminars and other resources, whether the subject is management, leadership or any other self-improvement effort, the process for using the information is the same. Highlights an eye-opening study which finds that Talent Management systems are gender-biased and talk about what to do about it.

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Enabling Growth: Promotions Are So Yesterday

QAspire

As attrition soared amidst pandemic, companies had to initiate short term measures to retain their best talent which included tactics like special salary hikes, off-cycle pay outs, work-from-anywhere options and offering special learning opportunities. Those open questions I left him with seemed to have worked.

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Talent on Demand

Marshall Goldsmith

With the absence of job security and the likelihood of lifetime employment with one company a thing of the past, the open labor market means you may be investing in talented people who will leave your firm for a competitor. Our internal "pipelines" of talent also prove misleading because of unpredictable attrition.

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