Job Descriptions
How useful is your job description? Does your actual work reflect your official role? Is what you are doing anything like the job description that you replied to from a recruiter or a website? Do you even know what your job description say? Many people we talk to, front-line managers as well as HR leaders, […]
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- Oct, 19, 2015
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Oct, 19, 2015
Television as a Leadership Tool
Last spring I got an interesting question: Completely random, but regarding the blog: have you considered tying it into Mad Men in some way? Given the popularity of the show, you could review parts of certain episodes by looking at the management style of Sterling Cooper. Things are a bit different these days, of course…just […]
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- Posted in Leader Development
- Oct, 16, 2015
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Strategic Meetings
We know it is important not to go overboard when it comes to meetings. People have meetings to plan other meetings, they hold meetings to complain about how many meetings they have…too often it gets to be too much. But sometimes — sometimes — they can be very important and very useful. And THESE meetings, […]
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- Oct, 14, 2015
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Newbie-havior
Last week we wrote about channeling your new employees’ motivation while helping to develop them. A reader pointed us to an article from a few years ago by Nadira Hira that offered some useful ideas for helping your new employees make the transition into your organization. Getting your newbies used to their new environment and […]
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- Oct, 12, 2015
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You Don’t Have to Be the Star
When you go into a leadership role, the world does not need to revolve around you. Successful companies in Asia are seeing the need for less emphasis on “the leader,” and more emphasis on “leadership.” With more employees retiring than there are coming into the workforce, and with companies trying to grow in the face […]
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- Oct, 09, 2015
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