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Study Shows Power of Leadership Behaviors Supported by Management Systems and...
A new study was recently published by the global management consulting firm, Boston Consulting Group (BCG). In partnership with 12 worldwide management organizations like The Conference Board, American...
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Is There a Place for Ego in Effective Leadership?
A few months ago I posted a blog on “What’s Your Me/We Ratio? based on a salient observation made by Donald Cooper in his newsletter about managers’ use of “I” and “my,” rather than “we” and “our.”...
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Use This 10 Point Checklist for a Leadership Check Up
As we’ve been preparing for this year’s only open/public Leading @ the Speed of Change workshop, I’ve been reflecting on the key leadership points that have emerged from working with thousands of...
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Six Core Values of Organization Development
Nine years ago this month, I published the first issue of The Leader Letter. As I was compiling last month’s blogs into tomorrow’s Ninth Anniversary issue, culture and organization development emerged...
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Leadership Matters – We Must Build Capacity
Leadership is fast resembling the famous Mark Twain quote about the weather – everybody’s always talking about it but nobody does anything about it. Based on their ongoing research, The Conference...
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Manifesto for a Leadership Development Revolution
I’ve been delivering keynotes, webinars, facilitating workshops, and discussing our Strengths-Based Leadership Development System for the past month with many highly experienced HR, Learning, and OD...
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9 Ways to Get Over Your Feedback Fears
Canadian Thanksgiving Day was earlier this month. That holiday Monday was cool with bright sunshine and blue skies. After our traditional Oktoberfest Family Day lunch (Kitchener-Waterloo celebrates...
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Building Organizational Muscle: Why Building Strengths Pay Greater Dividends...
Last week I met with an HR VP to discuss lifting organizational performance through leadership and culture development. The company was doing well and growing through a few strategic acquisitions....
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Is Your Culture Anchored in Strengths or Weaknesses?
Most organizations we’re working with today have declared a set of values. Posters, slides, banners, screen savers, newsletters, flyers, and framed parchments proclaim what the organization stands for....
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Coaching Survey: Big Need for Skill, Feedback, and Measurement
My last blog reported on our Building Extraordinary Coaching Skills webcast where I outlined 6 Steps to Building a Coaching Culture with Exceptional Leaders. During the webcast more than 80% of the...
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Study Shows Power of Leadership Behaviors Supported by Management Systems and...
A new study was recently published by the global management consulting firm, Boston Consulting Group (BCG). In partnership with 12 worldwide management organizations like The Conference Board, American...
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Is There a Place for Ego in Effective Leadership?
A few months ago I posted a blog on “What’s Your Me/We Ratio? based on a salient observation made by Donald Cooper in his newsletter about managers’ use of “I” and “my,” rather than “we” and “our.”...
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Use This 10 Point Checklist for a Leadership Check Up
As we’ve been preparing for this year’s only open/public Leading @ the Speed of Change workshop, I’ve been reflecting on the key leadership points that have emerged from working with thousands of...
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Six Core Values of Organization Development
Nine years ago this month, I published the first issue of The Leader Letter. As I was compiling last month’s blogs into tomorrow’s Ninth Anniversary issue, culture and organization development emerged...
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Leadership Matters – We Must Build Capacity
Leadership is fast resembling the famous Mark Twain quote about the weather – everybody’s always talking about it but nobody does anything about it. Based on their ongoing research, The Conference...
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IBM Study Shows Why Only 20% of Change Efforts Are Highly Successful
Recently I’ve been reviewing our lessons learned on organization and culture development. This is in preparation for our June 17 webinar on Leading a Peak Performance Culture. “Making Change Work …...
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Making People Stronger for Organizations and Organizations Stronger for People
Decades of research shows that many leadership development programs have little impact on creating lasting behavior change. Sometimes called “spray and pray” or “sheep dipping,” many efforts provide...
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Forget Forecasts and Predictions, Build an Agile Organization
A couple goes to a fair, where there’s a large, impressive-looking machine. The husband puts in a coin and receives a card telling him his age and what kind of person he is. He reads it and gets...
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Are Urgent Operational Issues Crowding Out Your Strategic Effectiveness?
There are many reasons leadership teams allow their priorities to be badly distorted. Things that matter most — team dynamics, key strategic priorities, and organization change and development efforts...
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Same Old Approaches = Same Old Results
Our organizations desperately want and need much stronger leadership and coaching at all levels. But most organizations aren’t significantly improving employee engagement, customer satisfaction,...
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