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Organizational Effectiveness

A Leadership Fail for Black Friday

November 21, 2011

As I write this, it is four days prior to Black Friday, long considered the kick-off to the start of the retail industry’s crucial holiday shopping season.  Every year, Black Friday starts earlier. Now, Thanksgiving Day is the new Black Friday. Many retail chains have announced plans to open at some point on Thanksgiving Day [...]

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4 Roles Every Project Team Needs

November 16, 2011

Over at the HBR Blog Network author Michael Schrage says that CEO’s should assign their top creative thinkers to fix up the organization’s most boring and ineffective processes. He says that this shift in thinking—putting the brightest employees on the “most trivial/scut work” projects will send a powerful signal to the organization: “Improving efficiency and [...]

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Creativity is a Vital Skill for Leaders

October 20, 2011

The following post is written by Erin Palmer, a recent college graduate. When she contacted me to ask if she could write a guest post on creativity and leadership, I was thrilled because of her point of view: that of the follower, not the formal leader. Please read on to find out what this young, [...]

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Leadership’s Role in a Successful Employee Recognition Program

September 21, 2011

5 Ways Your Leadership Can Make a Difference This is the second in a three-part series on employee recognition, written by guest contributor Cori Curtis, Certified Recognition Professional. The first in the series was Employee Recognition: Why the Lighter Side of Business has Serious Results. Today, I’m writing to leaders. You may have dabbled in [...]

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Executive Guide to Integrated Talent Management

August 25, 2011

True confessions time: even though I’m in the field of talent management, I’ve never been 100% clear on exactly what that term encompasses. Ironic, isn’t it? Some folks in the industry focus on recruiting and hiring practices, others on employee skill development. Now, there’s a book on the market that corrals all the various facets [...]

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Are You an Opinion Leader?

May 25, 2011

Imagine for a moment that top management at your workplace surveyed all members of leadership asking, “Who are the most respected and influential individuals regardless of job title in our organization?” Would your name appear at least 10 times in the survey results? If so, then you might be an opinion leader, as defined by authors [...]

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Following. It’s the New Leadership

May 19, 2011

If you find yourself still thinking about a three-minute video clip six days after you first saw it, chances are it had a pretty powerful message. That’s definitely the case for me as I reflect on the hilarious, but insightful video clip shown at the TEDx Grand Rapids event last week. The video features Derek [...]

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Safety in the Workplace

March 30, 2011

5 Tips for Creating a “Speak Up” Culture   Phil is the president of a mid-size company that has a huge safety problem. If you were to tell him this, Phil would scoff and proudly show you his company’s OSHA records. It’s true that Phil’s company does a great job protecting the physical safety of [...]

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Free E-Book on Employee Engagement

March 2, 2011

If you haven’t connected with Ben Eubanks yet, you don’t know what you’re missing. Ben’s a Human Resources professional  who’s blessed with endless energy, great ideas and best of all—enthusiasm for his profession. He’s started creating monthly e-books (I swear, he must never sleep!) based on a theme that’s relevant to those of us in [...]

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Making the Most of Leadership Assessments

February 4, 2011

I was talking “leadership assessment” with two colleagues the other day. Both are employed by large organizations well-known for their people development practices.  We were exploring the merits of assessing for leadership qualities, both as a pre-employment screening tool and for development purposes after the leader is hired.  Not surprisingly, there were varying opinions—which assessments [...]

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