How to Prevent Leadership Development Failures
The traditional path for Leadership Development focuses on the improvement and refinement of skills, and the understanding of models that aid in the diagnosis of which skill to apply in which situation.
This Doesn’t Work
This approach, is not proving to be beneficial for numerous reasons, including the lack of any element of measurement. Organizations continue to invest a significant amount of money and time without being sure of what benefits are being accrued. Managers are ending up overburdened by multiple, sometimes complex and conflicting, leadership models to analyze situations. Continue reading
5 Rules the Best Leaders Use for Reducing Workplace Conflict
Is your company plagued with co-worker versus co-worker or leadership versus employee disagreements and petty hostilities? Just because you don’t openly see the workplace conflict doesn’t mean it isn’t present. In many organizations these things are under the surface and live in a passive-aggressive form. In either case, whether apparent or not there are some steps you can take to deal with damaging and unproductive conflicts in the workplace. Continue reading
8 Key Questions to Overcome 360 degree Feedback Problems
When it comes to 360-degree feedback, be warned that it is much easier to lose trust than to build it.
In the beginning, 360 assessments were seen to be a development tool. They were not conceived to be used as a tool for performance appraisal. As their use has grown, however, they have come to be used by some organizations for evaluation, not just for development. This has pulled the rug out from under the original intent and caused a lot of problems for many. Continue reading
The Best Leadership Advice I Never Took
Have you ever been given a really good piece of leadership advice… and then didn’t follow it? Did you later regret not following it? I did. And I have. And I learned a lesson from it.
I hope it might be instructive to share my own lesson with you.
30 Years ago yet seems like yesterday
It happened over 30 years ago. I remember it well. I was 20 then. College student. Enrolled in Naval ROTC. Training to become a leader in the Marine Corps as a Marine officer upon graduation. Each summer, we ROTC students went through various sorts of military training. Continue reading
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