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Measuring Career Development Success
Metrics and data are the name of the game today. Since what gets measured gets managed, organizations and the leaders running them are constantly searching for ways to quantify the impact of their initiatives and efforts. Some dimensions - like sales or customer...
What’s Your ‘Leader-Print’?
This article first appeared at Lead Change Group in July 2012. Ever wonder why there are more than 350,000 leadership titles on amazon.com? The plethora of models, seminars, speakers, authors, and books on the topic confirms something I’ve been thinking for a while:...
Coaching: Made Easy – Part 2
This is the second of a two-part series on a topic that’s near and dear to leaders everywhere... but one that may have become overly complex and burdensome. In the first installment published last week, I provided a simple roadmap for ensuring coaching success and...
Coaching: Made Easy – Part 1
This is the first of a two-part series on a topic that’s near and dear to leaders everywhere... but one that may have become overly complex and burdensome. In this first installment, I’ll provide a simple roadmap for ensuring coaching success and I’ll begin to...
Leading Online and Socially
Technology and the explosion of communication it’s enabled has transformed nearly every industry, discipline, and field. Leadership is no exception. Today, leaders everywhere can engage in focused and effective development with a quick mouse click. Famous authors and...
How Family Friendly are you Really
Guest Post by Beverly Kaye and Sharon Jordan-Evans I'm delighted to share a guest post from my friends Beverly Kaye and Sharon Jordan Evans. They are the co-authors of the bestseller Love 'Em or Lose 'Em: Getting Good People to Stay... the fifth edition of which is...
Growth: It’s No Longer Optional
“Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.” - John Maxwell This has been a favorite quote of mine for some time... a good reminder to take advantage of the happenings around us and leverage them toward personal or professional development. But looking at it in the...
Before Competence
I finally got around to reading Before Happiness by Shawn Achor over the holidays. It’s an insightful book that describes how we must learn to see the world through a more positive lens which allows us to summon the motivation, emotion, and intelligence necessary to...
Pre-solution: The Forgotten Step Before Resolutions Can Take Hold
As 2013 draws to a close, it’s seductive to make declarations about how things (including ourselves) will be different in the coming year. Daily exercise Kind words to the crotchety co-worker No sugar The list goes on. The problem is that too frequently we jump to...