Categories: All Categories, Learning and Development
We all have them - moments in our careers (and lives for that matter) that sneak up on us. Moments that you remember as special, as a learning point or a pause for reflection. Recently, I had one of those (and a special thanks to my colleague, Mariah for making it happen).
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Categories: All Categories, Leadership, Learning and Development
We’ve all heard two heads are better than one, right? Collaboration and brainstorming are key to culling the best ideas to the forefront, right? Well, yes and no.
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Categories: All Categories, Leadership, Learning and Development, Performance Management
My brother and I have always been close. One of the many things I love about him is that he has a plethora of great ideas, something to which I always attributed his great success in business.
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I was recently introduced to the poem The Dash by Linda Ellis and it got me thinking about how I’m living my “dash.” The premise of the poem is that at some point we are all represented by a date range — a date of birth and the date we died — but what's most important is the dash in between.
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— 03/07/2012
Categories: All Categories, Facts and Stats
Some quick and compelling information we find interesting...
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Categories: All Categories, Leadership, Learning and Development, Social Good
In the past few months, I celebrated a milestone birthday. One of the wonders of this phase of life is that with the years comes an accumulation of blessings—the most precious in the form of people and shared memories.
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Categories: All Categories, Performance Management
The very idea of the “workplace” is being redefined. Many companies are adopting policies of flexible work hours, work from home options, and the ability to bring your own device to work. Working in this way allows employees the flexibility to work how and when they choose and - most importantly - where they choose.
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Categories: All Categories, Leadership
As we enter this holiday season, and bring authenticity and connection with others into our offices, I want to focus on the responsibility we have as leaders to develop others.
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If the R&R and lazy days of summer have made you less than enthusiastic about work, and you feel your level of productivity slowing to a halt, it’s the perfect time to take advantage of all the “back to school” energy out there and turn your procrastinating into proactive, fulfilling, stuff-you-can-be-proud-of, work.
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Categories: All Categories, Employee Engagement, Leadership
At the HRPS conference in Tucson, Tammy Erickson was one of the featured speakers. I was fortunate to work for and with Tammy earlier in my career and I have always found her insights provocative and wise. Her topic was innovation and she outlined several elements of a comprehensive approach to building a predictably innovative organization--as opposed to an organization that expects innovation to sort of magically appear from a brilliant mind or state-of-the-art lab.
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Categories: All Categories, Leadership
In these times of uncertainty and rapid change, rumors whispered around the water cooler often carry more weight than even the best-written employee newsletters or executive speeches.
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I recently had the opportunity to meet author Rebecca Costa and hear her talk about her book “The Watchman’s Rattle: Thinking our way out of Extinction”.
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At the recent 2011 HR People and Strategy (HRPS) conference, I attended a presentation by David Rock, co-founder of the NeuroLeadership Institute, which helped put some hard science behind what we observe as change professionals on a daily basis.
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Some quick and compelling information we find interesting...
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Categories: All Categories, Employee Engagement, Leadership
Have you ever participated in a meeting and spent half of the meeting trying to decipher what it was about? One way to minimize the chance of someone sitting through your meetings scratching their heads or walking away confused is to set and share clear meeting objectives.
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Categories: All Categories, Leadership
We all know that an appreciation of cultural diversity can be useful to executives operating across multi-cultural boundaries, but what else is important? What distinguishes ‘global leaders’ from ‘domestic leaders’?
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Categories: All Categories, Social Media
Think just because you’ve limited your Facebook profile to just your list of friends you have a handle on your information? Think again.
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Categories: All Categories, Leadership, Performance Management
As managers, we’re told how important it is to give our employees “honest and timely feedback”. Usually, we’re not given much more guidance. Managers are left to fill in the blanks, like - how ‘honest’ do you really need to be?
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Categories: All Categories, Learning and Development
Today, companies in all industries are suffering a growing Skills Gap – a gap between the current capabilities of a company’s workforce, and the capabilities needed to execute their business strategy.
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By Caitlin Strauss
— 05/14/2012
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