Category: Leadership Skills
Transformational Leadership
Webster defines transform as to change in outward form or appearance, composition or structure, character or condition. These correspond to three levels of change: Change in outward form or appearance…
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Managing Leaks
Betty was announcing a set of changes in her organization all at the same time. She wanted to let people know in the right order, make sure they all had…
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Sequential vs. Iterative Onboarding
People that go through The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan approach to onboarding generally get to the end and comment something like "That was just common sense. But I really…
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Beware Unintended Consequences
The CEO and a member of his board of directors were walking down the hall during a break. The board member casually asked how things were going in Japan. (They…
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Get a head start before the start
One of the most effective ways for a new leader to get more done in their first 100-days is to get a head start before day one. In particular, this…
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Bridging the Gap in a Crisis
The heart of The New Leader's 100-Hour Action Plan - Leading Through a Crisis is an iterative approach to bridging the gap between the desired and current state of affairs. …
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Campaign for Change
"We keep doing the same thing over and over again with different labels. We shuffle the people. We launch new initiatives. Nothing sticks. It's frustrating." - Team Leader. Every change…
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Live the message
Gerry was a volunteer with his local life squad/ambulance service. One day he heard an accident while raking leaves in his front lawn. He ran down to the end of…
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Up and Out, In and Down (Part 1)
Rick’s Experience One of my clients named Rick was brought into a finance organization that, for all intents and purposes, was broken. The company had grown rapidly through both acquisition…
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