Lead Change Blog

JUNE 5, 2017

Welcome to the June 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Bill Treasurer of Giant Leap Consulting provided How to Manage Your Boss. Bill recaps, “Leadership isn’t always about managing your direct reports. Sometimes you have to know how to ‘manage up.’

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 13, 2018

Last month we had the opportunity to sit down (virtually) with Marcella Bremer to talk about her work in developing a positive culture in the workplace, her new book, Developing a Positive Culture , and the Positive Culture Academy (classes start April 2nd). What made you decide to write Developing a Positive Culture ?

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 26, 2019

As a business coach and people developer, I address the needs of my clients during an initial in-depth discussion. Many years of working as a management consultant, coach and mentor tell me the exact opposite is often the case. Making those missteps will lead a leader, manager, team or organisation potentially into a negative spiral.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 8, 2015

The biggest mistake managers make when developing their people is that they don’t spend enough time doing it. Even imperfect development beats what many employees telling me they’re getting–nada. Good managers spend at least 10-20% of their time developing their people. Let’s be real.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Posted in Leadership Development Self Leadership I’ve been conducting training on manager/employee communication for years. In one class a few weeks ago I heard the same phrase over and over, and realized it holds the key to a breakthrough.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 9, 2018

One of the most important skills for any manager is listening. We are born with the ability to listen, yet somehow managers, at some point in their careers, seem to forget how to use this natural born gift. Listening is one of the most consistently lowest rated behaviors in 360 degree feedback assessments for managers.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 23, 2014

It happens on teams, it happens in training classes, it happens on dates. She’d brought in extra training, introduced a clever incentive program, stack ranked and managed the outliers, implemented every best practice she could find, and even invited her boss in for a quick motivational talk.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 13, 2023

And today, when our manager asked us for our ideas, that credit stealer immediately chimed in and shared MY idea as if it were her own. What to Say if Your Boss isn’t Acknowledging Your Contributions I (Karin) once taught an evening MBA class called, “Dealing with Difficult People at Work.”

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2020

With this cybersecurity background, I was recruited to run another security company that had developed a clever computer card implementation of the emerging virtual private networking standard. With this impressive implementation, it had managed to enter into an agreement with a much larger, high-profile player in the industry.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 2, 2023

It’s fair to say that class plays a significant role in whether people get into the C-suite or not. Indeed, research shows that workers from working-class backgrounds are over 30% less likely to be recruited into a managerial role than their middle-class peers.

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Anyone can develop the skills necessary to be an effective leader. In this blog post, we will discuss 10 ways that you can develop strong leadership skills during your adolescence. Joining clubs and teams is a great way to develop leadership skills. Leadership is not a quality that is innate in some people and not others.

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 15, 2010

In most organizations only 25 percent of employees – the managers and the stars — feel included. Typically, the overwhelming majority of employees feel that senior management does not value them or their contributions. Employees can take up to four hours of classes each week. Not so at Pixar.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2020

Developing the Leadership Team. If people on a leadership team don’t believe that the leader sees team development as one of his or her most critical roles, they’re not going to take it seriously, and it’s not going to be effective. Managing Subordinates (And Making Them Manage Theirs). Think about it this way.

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 3, 2023

Great Results Teambuilding is the home of the April 2023 Leadership Development Carnival… And it is an honor to host this impressive version of monthly curated articles with insights that will equip you to become a more effective leader! Solving the Talent Development Puzzle We don’t often know who’s on first or what’s on second.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 23, 2021

Using the baby step approach develops students who are comfortable and who, instead of being so paralyzed with fear that they can’t move, feel ready to learn. In swimming class, making lessons fun is easy: “Let’s see who can splash the most water out of the pool by kicking their legs as straight as possible!”

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 29, 2014

She has a diverse background of executive leadership experience in sales, customer service, call centers, human resources, merger integration, training and leadership development-- the last 20 years of which have been with Verizon. Change Management Workplace Issues micromanagement people management Self Development'

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The class gap Of course, it should be said that Cornell research found that this belief in the importance of a good work ethic was shared across the political spectrum, but it’s also true that conservatives are more likely to believe that their successes are due to their own efforts and liberals to accept the role external forces played.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

To compete as a world-class company, world-class executive leadership is required. Instead, they focus on bringing immeasurable value to your executive search by deeply understanding the company’s current and future needs while using best-in-class research and assessment practices to source the world’s best leaders.

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 24, 2020

This week, I want to start with three basic physical routines that are essential to stress management – eating, moving and sleeping. Do what you can to develop a workout routine that mixes cardiovascular endurance, strength building and flexibility enhancement. Work out – In addition to getting up and getting out, you need to work out.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 30, 2011

You see, leadership development and succession are only positive practices if they’re applied to those worthy of the investment. Leadership teams who view themselves as a protected class are leadership teams not living-up to their obligations and responsibilities. As mentioned above, anything can be taken to unhealthy extremes.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2023

It is rife with struggles related to managing the emerging responsibilities of adult life. If ownership or management of a family enterprise is an expectation, the pressures only mount. Those in the emerging adult stage (ages 18 to 28) are in a critical time for ownership development. This entails: 1.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 20, 2010

They were your class presidents, team captains, club leaders, and the people who held virtually all the available leadership positions you can imagine early in life. They were those unflappable individuals that seemed to just have that “it&# factor.

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Chartered Management Institute

JANUARY 31, 2024

And their parent body is on side as well, so they’re managing all those stakeholders.” From 2017–2023, an average 30% of UK schools and colleges received an Ofsted rating of “inadequate” or “requires improvement” for their leadership and management. But if those are the “very best schools”, what of the rest?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 14, 2021

” Another person I spoke with said, “My manager was all about us working remotely until he realized that he’s an extrovert and now had no one to talk to. They included those moments of silence where they gathered their energy, reviewed the content they’d prepared, and did the work to deliver a best-in-class show.

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Leading Blog

MAY 31, 2021

Class Takeaways: The Industrialist’s Dilemma by Allison Felt via @StanfordGSB Five lessons in five minutes—learn how to survive disruption and turn headwinds into tailwinds. Use Courage—Not Fear—To Manage Your Team by @btreasurer. Use Courage—Not Fear—To Manage Your Team by @btreasurer. Leadership lessons from C.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Self-development is more about igniting the fire from within instead of external factors. External influences only act as facilitators to the goal of development. The goal could be to quit smoking, become more available to your family, take classes to learn new skills or practice philanthropy.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Take stock of the progressive development plans and programs they’ve made available to the workforce. Shook has created the engine known for attracting, developing and retaining great talent who enjoy Accenture’s collaborative, innovative, and highly diverse culture. and a development manager at Oracle Corp.

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2019

Turn Enemies Into Allies : The Art of Peace in the Workplace (Conflict Resolution for Leaders, Managers, and Anyone Stuck in the Middle) by Judy Ringer. But before you can successfully guide others in managing disagreements, you must be able to manage yourself—your mindset, presence, and behaviors.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2018

To quote a recap from Sonia Nieto, In this study, several classes of children in grades one through six were given a nonverbal intelligence test (the researchers called it the “Harvard Test of Influenced Acquisition”), which researchers claimed would measure the students’ potential for intellectual growth. But how does one earn trust?

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2020

Teaching by Heart summarizes the author's key insights gained from more than forty years of teaching and managing. The book's goal is to help readers learn about the intricacies of teaching and managing, and to impart lessons about how teachers can create a unique teaching atmosphere. Develop leaders!

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Leading Blog

APRIL 24, 2020

Through all of this, he’s “developed a framework—a set of principles, mindsets, and self-talk—that may help others on their quests.” The Manager excels at managing teams and delivering results without a limited focus on organizational strategy or trajectory. The Administrator manages process with predictability and efficiency.

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Leading Blog

JULY 19, 2013

However, the research ended up with a narrow focus on more extreme examples of consumer behavior that could be more readily classed as fanaticism. Loveworks follows Brian''s books Basics: Online Marketing (2010) and Basics: Marketing Management (2011). And herein lies the difficulty for behavioural analysts.

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Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Article: I developed an understanding of what leadership looks like in local government Written by Dave Waller Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email Impact is a CMI-linked programme to help graduates enter local government. Please login to the left to confirm your registration and access the article.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2022

❧ On HBO in the mid-2000s: It just felt like there were a bunch of people who were trying to manage for retirement. Everything in the offices is first class. They vowed to follow the data wherever it took them. Let’s not rock the boat. ❧ 2008: It was a very comfortable company. There’s a gym. There’s a cafeteria.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 24, 2010

In today’s post I’ll quickly examine the merits of developing your listening skills. Listen to those that confront you, challenge you, stretch you, and develop you. Take a moment and reflect back on any great leader that comes to mind…you’ll find that they are very adept at reading between the lines.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 3, 2021

We follow the acronyms, rules, and checklists we’ve learned from the innumerable books we’ve read, classes and symposiums we’ve attended, and mentors whose wisdom we’ve sought. Perhaps it’s because as managers, we face a horde of challenges. Mid-level directors and managers don’t fare well either. Try something completely new.

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Leading Blog

MAY 21, 2020

If you didn’t read George Eliot, then you missed a master class on how to judge people’s character. Management consultant and educator Gary Hamel , on seeing the future: “Companies fail to create the future not because they fail to predict it but because they fail to imagine it. Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog.

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