Category: Team & Culture
How the Red Cross’s Charley Shimanski Inspires Others with Communication at the Heart of the Mission
Charley physically and emotionally puts his arms around people and draws them close to him, making them feel better about themselves. He does this face-to-face, one-on-one, and with his equally…
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Altering Balance of Consequences: An Essential Part of Transition Management
Image via Wikipedia Changing behaviors is tough. Three helpful leadership skills include: Assessing the current context and culture Mapping the supporters, detractors, and watchers Moving everyone one step, starting by…
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Generating Ideas with the Atom Accelerator in Your Head
My brain is getting bombarded with ideas from all sorts of different directions. I thrive on this and am constantly looking for ways to feed more stuff into the mix. …
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Finding Your Voice is an Essential Leadership Skill
"The King's Speech" won best picture last night. Marvelous. Seeing that movie got me thinking about how important it is for leaders to find their voice. Turns out others have…
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Inspiring and Enabling Disagreement is a Core Leadership Skill
How do you react when someone disagrees with one of your ideas? Does your fight or flight instinct click in? That is, of course, the natural response honed by millions…
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Why Preparing in Advance is Priceless: How Ajay Banga Prepared for his New Leadership Role
Looking back on the transition, Ajay said Bob did a “masterful” job at allowing him to settle in and pick up pieces step-by-step without all the external and internal pressures…
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Griffin Out of Time – When a Shock Fails
Time Inc's CEO, Jack Griffin, just became one of the 40% of executives who fail in their first 18 months of onboarding, getting fired 6 months into the job ostensibly…
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A Shocking Approach by New UK Prime Minister David Cameron
Whether or not you agree with the direction the United Kingdom’s new Prime Minister, David Cameron, is taking the country, there can be no doubt about his sense of urgency…
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Managing Time while Onboarding is a Critical Leadership Skill
Mark was new in his job. He went to his boss for help with the 12 projects he was working on. "Can you help me sort these into A, B,…
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