Just like a master poker player who looks for the tells of his competitor, the effective leader uses behavior, performance and data “tells” to tip him/her off to the chances of success.
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Evaluating Leadership Training for Results
One of the challenges in evaluating training is how organizations go about measuring and communicating the value of it. Most organizations review how participants have reacted to the training. Employees talk about what they liked or didn’t like about the event itself. In today’s competitive world, that just isn’t good enough.
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Whole Systems Approach to Leadership
We believe that people are complex systems comprised of characteristics and traits that are connected and interdependent. The idea of considering interconnectedness or “whole systems” applies to individual management development as well as to leadership development for organizations.
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What is Micromanaging?
. Most managers would probably prefer to be called anything rather than a “micromanager”. What we see more often than micromanagers are leaders who abdicate essential management responsibilities for fear of being perceived as micromanaging.
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Stranded Effort is Detrimental to Performance
Stranded efforts lead to little chance of meaningful contributions I recently had the opportunity to spend some time with one […]
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Simple Solutions Achieve Results
It seems simplicity is underrated in business. In fact, I think it’s underrated in a lot of different walks of life.
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Managing Without Exceptions is a Key Leadership Skill
Often managers lead by exception. It doesn’t start out that way but can begin to slide when they allow something to occur “just this time”. If they are not cautious, the exceptions can slowly, inevitably creep into everyday activity.
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Commit to Leadership
At any level, the impact of an individual in a leadership or management role is huge. When that impact is bad, it can negatively multiply into the lives of all the people involved.
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