Blog Carnival

June 2011 Leadership Development Carnival– Commencement Edition

June 5, 2011

 In early June, a ritual occurs at many high schools across our country— graduation ceremonies, aka the commencement exercise. Commencement means “the act of starting something” and I can think of no better metaphor for leadership development than that of getting something started.  This carnival is dedicated to the Class of 2011—they are the future [...]

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Leadership Development Carnival – May 1, 2011 Edition

May 2, 2011

This month’s Leadership Development Carnival, hosted by Dan McCarthy, is up at Great Leadership. It features the usual wonderful assortment of recent leadership blog posts and as a bonus— Dan writes a great summary to the question “What is a blog carnival, anyway?”  I’ve been contributing to this blog carnival for nearly two years and [...]

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April Leadership Development Carnival

April 3, 2011

This month’s Leadership Development Carnival is being hosted by Sharlyn Lauby, author of the highly lauded HR Bartender blog. Sharlyn is also the president of ITM Group, a training consulting firm that specializes in curriculum design and leadership development. Because I play in that sandbox too, Sharlyn and I have “talked shop” many times via [...]

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March Leadership Development Carnival

March 6, 2011

The March Leadership Development Carnival, hosted by its regular host Dan McCarthy is up over at the Great Leadership blog. Dan has a new gig as Director of Executive Development Programs at the University of New Hampshire, but he remains committed to keeping his blog going. Lucky for us, right? This month’s carnival offers 35 [...]

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Leadership Carnival – A Love Story

February 7, 2011

This month’s Leadership Carnival is hosted by Mark Stelzner, a human resources industry analyst, frequent guest on The HR Happy Hour radio show and founder of Job Angels. Oh, and his day job is running Inflexion Advisors. As if he weren’t busy enough, he’s carved out some time to put together a fantastic love story-themed [...]

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Want Some Cheese with that Whine?

January 29, 2011

Suzanne Lucas, blogger for the Evil HR Lady (and the founder of the HR Carnival) is hosting a food-themed HR Carnival in early February. So, I put on my thinking cap and got to work. Hmmm. . . . HR + Food = Wine-y Employees!  My post below is a nod to all my colleagues in [...]

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DDI’s 20 Best Leadership Blog Posts for 2010

December 16, 2010

Dan McCarthy, author of the blog Great Leadership was asked by talent management and training provider DDI to compile a list of favorite leadership blogs posts from 2010. Dan, in turn, tapped his vast network of leadership bloggers and culled the submissions into the Top 20 for 2010. You can see the full list here [...]

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Five Reasons I Like Lance Haun

December 9, 2010

I met Lance Haun via phone about a year ago after reading his blog post Connecting in Person in the Digital Age. He said to his readers, ““If we haven’t connected yet, let’s make 2010 the year. Seriously”.  So I did. I sent him an email to see if he was interested in connecting and [...]

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Leadership Carnival- Holiday Celebration

December 6, 2010

Dan McCarthy, the author of the top-notch leadership blog Great Leadership hosts a monthly Leadership Carnival. Dan generously shares the wealth and every few months, he invites fellow leadership bloggers to host the carnival on their own blog sites. This month is hosted by the inimitable Jane Perdue, President of the Braithwaite Innovation Group and [...]

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Know When to Get Off The Bus

November 19, 2010

  And Other Life Lessons Learned in Guadalajara        Trish McFarlane over at the HR Ringleader has asked us to dig deep and share a personal story of an event in our lives that helped us chart a new path. She’s going to publish these stories for the Carnival of HR “Game Changing Moments” edition. [...]

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