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Employee Growth: How to Better Support Team Member Development

Let's Grow Leaders

When I read Whitney’s new book, I was struck by how her model reflected my own journey of taking the leap from Verizon Wireless executive to entrepreneur. I had no intention of testing my ability to start an international leadership development company. 21:00 How do I help my team with their engagement and development?

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Informational Interviews: Not Just For Rookies

Let's Grow Leaders

I used this technique to move to a completely new side of the business, from Verizon to Verizon Wireless and establish an entirely new network (pun intended). Career & Learning Everything Else career development getting a new job informational interviews networking' Of course I didn’t call them that.

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In Search of the Perfect “Boss”

Lead Change Blog

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. Leadership Development authenticity career development humor mentor'

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The Insiders Guide to Micromanagement

Lead Change Blog

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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3 Factors Inventors Share: How to Change the World

Leading Blog

Marconi companies in other countries would dominate wireless transmissions for twenty years. Realizing the device could be used for high-level heating, he and a Raytheon executive cooperated to develop the microwave oven. Finding no local support, he moved his experiments to England and gained the support of Sir.

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Power Corrupts Sooner than You Think

Leading Blog

Denny Strigl , former CEO and president of Verizon Wireless, recalls in Managers, Can You Hear Me Now? Awareness of this fact is the first step toward managing it. * * * Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. We lose self-awareness and therefore our sense of the impact we are having on others.

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Nine Reasons Managers Struggle

Leading Blog

Former CEO and president of Verison Wireless, Denny Strigl explores nine specific behaviors that leaders do and don’t do that make them serious performers, marginal performers, or failures. In "Managers, can you hear me now?" he says it’s all about behavior. Managers Fail to Build Trust and Integrity. They are consistent.