Team Effectiveness

May Leadership Development Carnival by Dan McCarthy

May 7, 2012

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 [...]

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The KISS Model of Leadership Development

May 3, 2012

Has developing future leaders at your company become a complex web of activities? With formal processes like talent reviews, individual development plans, and high-potential candidate reviews, it’s no wonder that you feel swamped and put leadership development on the back burner. There is another way to develop leaders. I suggest that when you are overwhelmed [...]

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Video Book Review of The PRIMES

April 16, 2012

I loved this book! See why: Watch it all the way through to get a bonus tip on how apply the book’s ideas to your team performance challenges.          

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Tag-Team Workplace Coaching

November 3, 2011

Sometimes, a person’s boss just isn’t the right person to do the coaching. Consider this story, as told to me by my client Pete: Pete was part of a new product ideation team tasked with creating a proposal for the company president. On the day of Big Presentation to the president Liz, the team gathered [...]

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The Golden Rule of Listening: How to Speak Loud and Clear without Opening Your Mouth

June 24, 2011

  About a month ago, I read an excellent guest post on Great Leadership by Tim Eyre. I liked his writing style so much that I asked if he’d be willing to share some thoughts on The People Equation. He said “yes” and what follows is an insightful observation about the power of listening. Guest [...]

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Announcing the Leadership Development Roundtable Challenge

June 15, 2011

Dan McCarthy, host of the blog Great Leadership is trying out something new. This month, he launched the Leadership Development Roundtable Challenge and I think it’s something you’ll want to check out. This is how it works: Once a month, a leadership blogger will host a “challenge” question that highlights a typical dilemma or challenge [...]

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Driving with Values

March 22, 2011

Today’s post comes to us courtesy of leadership consultant and author David Burkus. His new book, The Portable Guide to Leading Organizations explores 39 different theories related to leadership, management and strategy.   By Guest Author David Burkus   I recently worked with a coaching client who had stalled out. This mid-level insurance broker had [...]

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Black Friday and Employee Burnout

November 26, 2010

Early in my career I was a Human Resources Generalist for Marshall Field’s department stores. Autumn was a busy time for the HR department as we ramped up the hiring and training for the seasonal staff. Black Friday was the official start to our industry’s busiest time of year—a fiscal “make it or break it” [...]

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Employees Can’t Get No Satisfaction

January 14, 2010

With a clumsy nod to the Rolling Stones’ classic tune, it appears to be true: since 1987, workers have become steadily less satisfied with their work.  This is according to research results released last week by The Conference Board.  What’s more, it’s not a generational thing: satisfaction is decreasing amongst all ages groups.  While the [...]

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What’s It Hurt To Ask?

October 16, 2009

I just returned from conducting on-site meetings for a new client.  The CEO of this company hired me to help his employees make the transition to a new organizational structure. We’re doing a series of input meetings, SWOT analyses and informational interviews.  Something that one of the employees said this morning is really sticking with [...]

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