Tag: leadership skills
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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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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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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We’re all new leaders all the time
Leadership is about inspiring and enabling others to do their absolute best, together, to realize a meaningful and rewarding shared purpose. While a strongly shared purpose remains constant over time,…
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International Executive Transitions
The nice thing about switching countries is that no one (including you) expects you to know anything. You are completely, certifiably, consciously incompetent. Don’t laugh. It’s a privileged state that…
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Wake Analysis on People Development Leadership Skills
You can learn a lot about a manager by the debris he or she leaves in his or her wake. Some managers leave a trail of broken and disillusioned people…
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Start Your Onboarding Process Off Right
Don't begin to recruit anyone until you understand how their role is going to help deliver results that move the organization forward in line with its purpose and priorities. He…
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Red Cross Disaster Services – a Lesson in Motivation
I'm spending this week with the leadership of the American Red Cross Disaster Services - in theory to help roll out an iterative approach to disaster management to 140 of…
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Initiating Changes to the Company Culture in the Onboarding Process
In the vast majority of cases, converging and evolving are the right leadership skills to apply to transition management when onboarding. (Please see my earlier post, "Onboarding Context and Culture".)…
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