Feedback and coaching – that’s the focus for the April “Front Line Festival” leadership blog carnival, hosted by Karin Hurt (aka @LetsGrowLeaders). Karin is a practicing leader for a Fortune 15 company and she writes the blog Let’s Grow Leaders. There are oh-so-many great posts to help you develop yourself and others as a leader. Karin has them…
Workplace Dynamics
A Shift in Leadership Thinking
In part one of this series, Turning the Hierarchy Upside Down author Marilyn Jacobson and I discussed the central premise of her book, Turning the Pyramid Upside Down: A New Leadership Model. Dr. Jacobson posits that in the global, hyper-connected business environment executives must redistribute power to get the maximum number of minds focusing on…
Trust as a Renewable Resource
According to a trust infographic I published last week, trust is a scarce resource. But it doesn’t have to be. The stats in this infographic challenged me to think about how to look at trust not as a finite commodity, but rather a renewable resource – one that grows abundantly if given the proper nuturing….
7 Deadly Sins of Phone Conferencing
I attend a lot of conference calls. The ideas in this post seem like common sense to me. Because I hear these infractions at least twice a week, it must not be common sense to everyone. So, I’m spelling it out right here: Some of you are completely clueless about your phone conference ineptitude. When…
The Carnival of HR – Fall Colors Edition
Welcome to the Carnival of HR. I’m pleased to be this week’s host. Here in the great Mitten State, we’re being treated to a spectacular display of fall colors, courtesy of several hardwood tree species. The human resources function has a lot of “local color” as well, so I’ve segmented our Carnival into four main…