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Tag Archives: leadership
Leadership Styles and Perception
A common question during interviews as well as performance reviews is: what is your leadership style? Although this is a pertinent issue for a variety of reasons, one of the core, underlying issues of leadership style pertains to how well … Continue reading
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Tagged leadership, managing, managing people, perception, results, style
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Future Leaders
Each year I have the privilege of attending a conference for future leaders that brings together young, “up and coming” employees from a variety of organizations. While they come to the meetings to increase their knowledge of different ideas and … Continue reading
Why We Allow Bad Bosses
Regardless of the name on the building, we all work for a person: the boss. Considerable research points to the importance of the relationship between employees and their supervisor for engagement, productivity, and longevity and most of us would agree … Continue reading
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Tagged bad boss, leadership, reasons for allowing bad leaders
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Getting Our Way
As a first post of 2014, a reader recommended that I talk about how we might improve our chances of getting what we want this year. As most of us know, our chance of attaining our own wants and needs … Continue reading
Do We Really Want High Performers?
We all at one time or another dream of possessing an “all-star” team that performs beyond expectations and never ceases to improve. Similarly, when things go wrong, the first thing we look to is usually reasons for a lack of … Continue reading
Good Boss, Bad Boss
Some of us are lucky enough to have worked for someone that inspired us and made us more motivated and productive than we thought possible. Regrettably, most of us would agree that the opposite occurs much more often. How many … Continue reading
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Tagged bad bosses, effective leaders, good bosses, leadership
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Leader Selection
Most of us at some point in our career decide that being a leader would be a worthwhile endeavor. Not all of us attain a position of authority, but most of us have the thought. The desire strikes people in … Continue reading
Leader for All Occasions
I recently attending a planning retreat where the warm-up exercise involved picking which superhero you would want to be. As each participant named the standards like Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman, those called on later in the process tried to … Continue reading
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Tagged elements of leadership, leadership, succcessful leadership
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Tired Leaders
This week I attended a series of workshops with human resource leaders and had the wonderful opportunity to learn from those that do “the incredible” every day. Repeatedly, I heard attendees talk about how tough it is for HR leaders … Continue reading
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Tagged leadership, managing people, tired
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Best Work Environments
In the last post, we discussed how leaders affect the work environment. Intentionally or unintentionally, the actions we take as leaders define the nature of our workplace, compatibility of our workforce to our environment, and the resulting outcomes. Although we … Continue reading