Dan McCarthy, founder of the blog Great Leadership and host of the monthly Leadership Development Carnival keeps it simple this month and offers us a straight-forward carnival. No theme– just 27 excellent essays on leadership. Speaking of keeping it simple, you can see my carnival entry titled The KISS Model of Leadership Development. Other interesting titles include The Cruel, Bitter and Crushing Taste of Dumptruck Feedback (go, Art Petty!) and Tanmay Vora’s Lessons from a Cab Driver.

Check out the latest Leadership Development Carnival here.

The March Leadership Development Carnival is up at Dan McCarthy’s Great Leadership blog. This month’s theme is going “green”, as in celebrating the Irish in all of us. I’m pleased to be featured as a lucky Shamrock– thanks, Dan!

Go on over to the carnival to see 7 things employees want to know in a department reshuffe, how to recognize your star performers, how good leaders become bad bosses and 21 more great leadership essays.

As a bonus, Dan has included a hilarious video clip of the always-entertaining Muppets doing a tearful rendition of Danny Boy.

Dan McCarthy from the blog Great Leadership has pulled together a year-end review of leadership blog posts from 2011. He asked contributors to the leadership development carnival to submit their favorite post of 2011. You can see the summary here, along with each blogger’s commentary on why it made the list.

Good leadership reading to start the year off right!

Hello, readers!

In addition to The People Equation, I write for a couple of other blogs. Several of those pieces published this past week, so here’s a rundown in case you want to peruse additional content related to human resources, leadership and being workplace savvy:

December Leadership Development Carnival
Becky Robinson, Director of Social Marketing for The Kevin Eikenberry Group is hosting the December Leadership Development Carnival. The carnival typically runs as one (huge!) post the first Sunday of each month. Becky and Kevin decided to shake things up a bit and this week Becky is featuring 10 – 12 posts each day. It is, as she says, “Our gift to you this season is the opportunity to slow down and savor each group of posts in this carnival.” See the carnival segments here: Part One, Part Two, Part Three and Part Four. (Part Five was in the works as of the writing of this post. If you click on any of the other links, Part Five will be featured when it publishes.)

If you want your submission to be considered for a future Leadership Development Carnival, check out the Carnival Guidelines courtesy of regular host (and founder of this carnival) Dan McCarthy.

SmartBlog on Leadership
Every two weeks, members of the Lead Change Group community write for Smart Brief Media on their leadership blog. Last week was my turn, so I offered up Is Stress Ruining Your Leadership Development Efforts? It’s my take on how executives often shoot themselves in the foot by creating pressure-cooker “learning” environments. 

Over at the Women of HR site my post Bully Boss or Tough Boss. How to Tell the Difference is gaining traction. Bullying was on my mind when I wrote this a few weeks ago (due to a personal experience), and the topic surfaced in a huge way this week over at Erin Schreyer’s blog with the post It’s Up to Us to Teach Our Kids to Lead! This is powerful stuff; I encourage you to read this post and the many heartfelt comments that people left.

Also at the Women of HR—Editor-in-Chief Lisa Rosendahl has lined up an excellent series based the manifesto Six Rules Women Must Break In Order to Succeed. Starting December 12^th, Women of HR writers share their thoughts and reactions to this manifesto.

Newsletter Offer

Finally, this isn’t a blog, but it’s a resource you might enjoy. I issue a monthly (ok, more like quarterly) e-newsletter that features tips for becoming workplace savvy. My December newsletter featured tips for holiday office etiquette, a recommended reading list for business books and more. It’s a companion to my blog, so the content is complimentary, not a duplication of my blog posts. Click here if you want to sign up. I don’t sell my lists and I promise to respect your privacy.

The November Leadership Development Carnival is up at Dan McCarthy’s Great Leadership blog. No theme this month, just a straight-up presentation of 45 great essays on leadership. Go on over to the carnival to see how leaders can be both bold and humble, 5 reasons for leaders to engage in social media and letting go of your need to be right.

Got a leadership-themed post you’d like to submit for consideration? Scroll to the bottom of the November carnival post on Dan’s site for a link to the carnival submission form. Not all submissions are published, but if selected, you’ll get some great exposure.

The latest Carnival of HR has come to town and it’s a scary one. Jessica Miller-Merrell, author of Tweet This! and creator of the Blogging 4 Jobs site has assembled a Halloween-themed list of HR blog posts that’s some trick, some treat and even a bit of “smell-my-feet”.  

Head on over to the Scary HR Carnival and find out why I’ve never had a bad boss, we need to put the “human” back into HR and why storytelling is a key business skill.

Hello, readers of The People Equation!

Today I have three fantastic resources to share with you.

First of all, please check out the Recognition at Work blog hosted by the recognition experts at Baudville. As you may recall, Cori Curtis wrote a wonderful three-part series for The People Equation on workplace recognition practices.  Now, I’ve returned the favor and have written a blog post for Recognition at Work called Recognition:  It’s All Good. Right? Wrong.

Secondly, I’ve got another great round-up of leadership and management blogs for you to peruse. This one comes courtesy of bestcollegesonline.com. This is a slightly different spin on the typical business leadership compendium; this time it is for recent college graduates. Even if you’re a few (ahem) years out of college, I still think this is an excellent list. See it at 50 Best Leadership Blogs for the Brand New Grad. My gratitude goes out to the folks at Best Colleges Online for including The People Equation in Management section.

Finally, the Carnival of HR rolled into town this week and is hosted by Neil Morrison at his blog Change-Effect. Any blog that has the word “frippery” in its masthead is certainly worth a look. It gets even better: Neil has teed up the 19 HR and Leadership posts with such flair and humor, it’s a must-reaad. See it all in the October 12, 2011 Carnival of HR.

This month’s Leadership Development Carnival is hosted by Lynn Dessert, author of the cleverly named Elephants at Work blog.  As in “elephant in the room.”  There are twenty leadership bloggers featured this month. Check it out here.

Next month’s carnival will be hosted by Dan McCarthy at Great Leadership. If you have a leadership themed blog you’d like Dan to consider, see the carnival sidebar on his blog for details.

Mackinac Bridge, Lake Huron side

Hello, People Equation readers! While I was away this week enjoying the amazing beauty of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and Mackinac Island, there were two interesting blog happenings related to talent management that I thought you’d like to know about.

What Would You Do?

First, Mary Jo Asmus posted the August Leadership Development Roundtable Challenge on her blog Aspire Collaborative Services. This month as our roundtable host, Mary Jo offers us a case study called A Coaching Dilemma. In this scenario, Rob, a mid-level manager has agreed to work with a professional business coach to “up his game”. The leadership development dilemma is that Rob’s progress has stalled and the coach is wondering how to proceed.

Leadership bloggers Art Petty, Dan McCarthy, Mary Jo Asmus, Scott Eblin, Sharlyn Lauby and yours truly will provide our brief (200 words max!) responses at Mary Jo’s blog. Our guest blogger is Gwyn Teatro, certified coach and author of the blog You’re Not the Boss of Me. (LOVE that blog name!) You can join in too by providing your suggestions in the comments section of Mary Jo’s blog.

Just to make it interesting, you can also vote for your favorite response, so click on The August 2011 Leadership Development RoundTable Challenge: A Coaching Dilemma to vote now. Mary Jo will announce the results on August 17^th, 2011.

Welcome to . . . the Jungle?

Secondly, Brett Starr of the blog All Business is Personal hosted the HR Carnival earlier this week. He’s collected over two dozen blog posts on HR, Leadership and Social Media in his post Welcome to the Jungle…I Mean, Carnival of HR

Enjoy your reading!

This month’s Leadership Development Carnival is now up at Great Leadership, hosted by Dan McCarthy.

In honor of the U.S. Independence Day holiday, Dan has bestowed firecracker nicknames upon all of this month’s contributors. There are 45 outstanding essays on leadership featured. So, head on over to the July  Leadership Development Carnival to find out who’s sporting awesome names like Shagadellic Mojo, Screaming Vampires and Space Monkey.

 Happy reading!

Jennifer “Texas Cyclone” Miller