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Jonena Relth Leaders: Providing Feedback is a Gift – Make the Most of It!

I was teaching our COREformance Facilitation workshop to a healthcare client’s trainers this past week with two of my staff, and as always, I learned a valuable tip from the great people around me. Karen, our Director of Learning Services, shared with us how important the feedback she has received from her leaders and peers has been to her personal development. She explained that feedback, whether positive or constructive, is a gift that should be accepted as such. It can be painful to hear con… Continue

Added by Jonena Relth on December 4, 2009 at 8:30am — No Comments

Jonena Relth Learning Innovation Campus in Second Life offers FREE use of Christmas Room & Outdoor Areas for Holiday Parties & Networking

As the Leadership Evangelist for TBD Consulting, I’m very excited to announce that our island in Second Life®, Learning Innovation Campus (LIC), is now ready for individuals and organizations interested to join our campus. Never before has leadership been a more important topic and we look forward to collaborating with leaders from around the globe as we continue to build out the campus. The mission of the incubator is to foster and support the activities of like-minded individuals and companie… Continue

Added by Jonena Relth on December 2, 2009 at 9:00pm — No Comments

Jonena Relth Our Country Needs Transparent Leadership

Thirteen months ago I posted on my blog about the stock market having officially “crashed” losing 20% of its value in a week. Unemployment rates were rising and corporate profits were shrinking. Since then we’ve continued to see large and small businesses alike lay off talented employees as well as many close their doors all together. Last month the recession was officially labeled as turning around and some say it’s over. While this is good news to many, it is going to take our nation and its… Continue

Added by Jonena Relth on December 2, 2009 at 8:30pm — No Comments

Michael Lee Stallard The Blind Side

I highly recommend seeing The Blind Side, a movie about Baltimore Ravens’ offensive tackle, Michael Oher. It’s worth the price of the ticket alone to see Sandra Bullock’s tour-de-force performance as Michael’s adoptive mom, Leanne Tuohy. What I especially like about the movie is that it shows how the right social environment helps people thrive in life. I don’t want to give away the story so let me just say in a nutshell that it was Leanne Tuohy who reached out to Mi… Continue

Added by Michael Lee Stallard on November 28, 2009 at 11:29am — No Comments

Abhishek Mittal Building Accountability for Employee Engagement

Cross-posted from http://abhishekmittal.com Many a times, I find that HR folks rush too fast to make employee engagement metrics a part of KPIs or balanced scorecards. The idea is that there should be a “carrot” to ensure that managers take accountability for their people, otherwise they won’t spend time on open dialogue with their teams and co-create action plans for improvement in engagement levels. I was recently asked if the carrot and stick ap… Continue

Added by Abhishek Mittal on November 6, 2009 at 2:30am — No Comments

Michael Lee Stallard Peter Drucker's Kind of Leader

I don't normally post on Sundays, but today I'm making an exception. Today is Frances Hesselbein's birthday and in her honor I'm posting a chapter I wrote about her from my book Fired Up or Burned Out. Mrs. Hesselbein is the chairman of the Leader to Leader Institute. Recently, she was appointed a Chair for the Study of Leadership at West Point. Mrs. Hesselbein, tha… Continue

Added by Michael Lee Stallard on November 1, 2009 at 2:22pm — No Comments

Stephen Goldberg A study in management

A study of management From: Montreal Gazette | October 23, 2009 Henry Mintzberg's latest book, Managing, draws on observations he made of 29 managers in fields as diverse as business, government health care and the social sector. Read more at Montreal Gazette » The last question of the interview with… Continue

Added by Stephen Goldberg on October 23, 2009 at 8:54am — 1 Comment

Stephen Goldberg The Leader as Facilitator

The days of command style leadership are long gone, yet surprisingly many leaders still use this style of leadership, especially when times are tough and organizations need to stay lean. Of course every style of leadership is appropriate according to the situation, but some people do not know how to balance all styles of leadership for the person and situation. The best style of leadership is participative leadership as this is what drives autonomous teamwork in an organization. Engaged autono… Continue

Added by Stephen Goldberg on October 22, 2009 at 4:11pm — No Comments

Susanne Jacobs Lead From the MIddle

Consider an organisation as a system with interrelated parts (Figure above). Every action within these parts has a reaction. A Leader who can see the whole system would therefore be required in order to constantly shift priorities t… Continue

Added by Susanne Jacobs on October 2, 2009 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Jason Scott "Leadership" Lessons From an Unlikley Source: Carol Burnett

Our cultural view of leadership was, to a large degree, poisoned by the early industrialists who built a system in which all decision making is pushed up the chain of command to a decision making class. All the thinking about how to do a job (everything that makes work nourishing and fulfilling) was the province of managers. In fact, Frederick Taylor famously said that anybody who has the physically ability to handle pig iron cannot have the mental ability to think about how to handle pig iron.… Continue

Added by Jason Scott on September 18, 2009 at 7:00am — No Comments

Debora McLaughlin Put Accountability To Work In Your Organization

Is accountability elusive in your organization? If you're like most leaders, you regularly deal with work force issues that get in the way of your organization's success. Here you have all this talent at your fingertips, yet goals are not being met and your business isn't nearly as successful as you know it could be. It's frustrating! Accountability begins with engagement: a heightened emotional connection to your company that influences your employees to exert greater effort. According to a r… Continue

Added by Debora McLaughlin on September 5, 2009 at 5:30am — No Comments

Derek Irvine Who’s Responsible for Your Engagement?

Who is responsible for employee engagement? Knee-jerk reaction – HR. But what happens when the HR person responsible for engagement is no longer engaged? In this sad post, Venting HR Guy says: "I'm mentally done. I'm burned out. I'm crispy. Stick a monster-sized fork in me and call it a day. What do you do to cure burn out? And who's failing who here? But whose job is it to engage the guy who's in ch… Continue

Added by Derek Irvine on August 31, 2009 at 11:53am — 3 Comments

Derek Irvine One More Engagement Definition * BlessingWhite

This week I wrote on the MacLeod Survey's definition of engagement, Aberdeen's recent definition and now Blessing White's. These posts have generated great discussion. Curious what the network thinks of this one... BlessingWhite’s recent advice to… Continue

Added by Derek Irvine on August 28, 2009 at 3:50pm — 1 Comment

Derek Irvine Achieving an Engaged Workforce * Aberdeen Reports

Continuing our look at recent industry research Aberdeen Group just issued “Beyond Satisfaction: Engaging Employees to Retain Customers.” A few interesting tidbits from the report: Following up on my comments in Monday’s post that there is no single definition for engageme… Continue

Added by Derek Irvine on August 26, 2009 at 3:38pm — No Comments

Stephen Goldberg Leadership and team development question of the week

Each week I post a question on leadership and team development on my blog and public forum on our website. The forum allows people to post their answers. Each week we post the answer to the question according to Fritz glaus co-founder with me of http://threebrainsynergy.com. This weeks question is What makes real teamwork in organizations so difficult to achieve and maintain and so rare to find in today’s w… Continue

Added by Stephen Goldberg on August 25, 2009 at 8:00am — No Comments

George Reavis Presentation - "How Frontline Leaders can Engage Everyone Everyday"

Understanding what separates an engaged person from one who is not. This helps group/team leaders, who are often themselves engaged, to better understand their own engagement and thus help others experience this same satisfaction. The energy from engaging others and the satisfaction of being re-engaged by those same persons through their gratitude for the benefits provided. Also the passion that comes from having your heart and mind in what you are doing and a focus on the daily activities thems… Continue

Added by George Reavis on August 18, 2009 at 8:20pm — No Comments

Debora McLaughlin Do your words promote or demote?

Are you empowering others each time you speak? Have you noticed that whenever you talk to someone, the energy seems to fade away and the other person seems uninterested? Then after the interaction there is a feeling of sadness and your enthusiasm is simply gone. If these things happen, then it is time to analyze yourself and work on your empowering skills. On the other hand, there are those people that whenever you talk to them, you feel energized and inspired. You suddenly seem to be excited to… Continue

Added by Debora McLaughlin on July 31, 2009 at 12:41am — No Comments

Debora McLaughlin Three steps to creating a Pay it Forward Environment

It is true that when you empower other people, you are not only influencing them, but you also empower the people they influence. So when you empower another person, you are actually giving him the power to accomplish something. Thus, you are basically giving others the ability to empower, too. But how will you be able to empower another person? The truth is empowerment is the product of responsibility and authority. When you empower someone, you must also give him the authority to make decisio… Continue

Added by Debora McLaughlin on July 31, 2009 at 12:23am — No Comments

Debora McLaughlin Do Not Be Afraid to Take the Lead

You can empower yourself if you have the knowledge of who you really are and what your real purpose in life is. But it is also important that we touch the lives of other people in order for our lives to be more meaningful. You should get more out of your life. One way of accomplishing this is extending yourself to others who need help. This way, you are empowering others with your life. But it is also important that you analyze first your self if you are really a source of empowerment to others… Continue

Added by Debora McLaughlin on July 28, 2009 at 3:36am — No Comments

Debora McLaughlin Different Influencing Styles

Your behavior as a manager as well as your approach to life in general will greatly affect your success or ultimate failure. That is why it is important to have various styles of behaviors and a wide range of approach. This gives you flexibility and increases your choices in your everyday dealings with other people. It will also help you in the long run in achieving success. For most managers, they usually prefer to use the natural style of influence. But for the flexible managers, they usually… Continue

Added by Debora McLaughlin on July 27, 2009 at 5:04am — No Comments

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