Developing Gen Y Leaders

April 10, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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What leadership competencies do newly minted Millenial employees need to develop, from the get go? And what strengths do they, as a cohort, bring to the workplace? We hear so much "gen Y bashing" these days. We hear the stereotypes: unfocused, texting obsessed, ADHD prone, the world owes me recognition and, BTW, I'm pretty well ready for the C-suite…now! The Center for Creative Leadership set out to learn more. They conducted a study of about 500 managers and reported the results last year … [Read more...]

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Developing Leaders for the Horizon

March 11, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Leaders Make the Future, Ten New Leadership Skills for an Uncertain World by Bob Johansen

They say Wayne Gretzky was a step ahead of other players because he skated to where the puck was going to be. Are you developing your up-and-coming leaders for where your markets and your environment are going to be? Will your leaders be prepared for the daunting complexity that's coming? Or are you preparing them for today or maybe just the next year or two? The Leadership Circle, whose 360 assessment profile and Culture Survey we use with our clients, says that even today's (forget about … [Read more...]

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Plant Your Talent Investments in Fertile Ground

January 28, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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I recently heard an interesting presentation by Holly Kortright, Senior VP, HR of Deltek. She was talking about where her company has decided to direct their available resources for employee capacity development. They target four areas: High Potentials for leadership positions High Performers People possessing critical, hard to replace, skills People in key positions (e.g. long experience and intimate knowledge of key work processes) With the US government entering a time of … [Read more...]

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Reactive vs. Creative Mind-sets…and Results

February 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment

At the core of The Leadership Circle (360 degree assessment) model are the Reactive tendencies and Creative competencies. If you look at the circle itself, you will see Reactive structure of mind represented by the lower half of the circle and Creative structure by the upper half. When leaders operate from the Reactive mind-set they are, of course, able to achieve at least some level of results through their people. The problem is that, as research shows, at some point they hit a ceiling. … [Read more...]

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Develop Your Leadership Competence Asynchronously

January 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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It being New Year's time again, Bill George recently blogged about "Five Resolutions for Aspiring Leaders." He talked about things you can do to develop yourself, beyond what you do in your direct job: such as finding a mentor, setting up a mastermind type group with other emerging and aspiring leaders,volunteering in the community in a leadership role, and traveling beyond your nation's borders. If you are serious about growing your leadership potential, these are all excellent … [Read more...]

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Accelerate Your Growth with a Mastermind Group

September 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Bill George, an author whom I have reviewed and whom I respect, has just come out with a new book, True North Groups. This is a more structured version of the classic "mastermind group" which many of my speaker colleagues have formed or joined. This new publication just reminds me to urge you to form or join a mastermind group. For over a decade I have belonged to a group of 12 owners of non-competing businesses. Since this blog is for managers, I suggest you form your group around fellow … [Read more...]

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Leadership Lessons from the Top 20 Corporations

January 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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The respected consulting firm, Hay Group, has just announced the release of its 6th Annual Best Companies for Leadership study. The top 20 are major corporations with a global presence. Collectively, over the last five years, they have generated shareholder returns that are 36 times better than those from the Standard & Poor 500 companies. To start with, it is worth noting the overall conclusion from the survey: "The Top 20 Best Companies for Leadership are at the forefront of a … [Read more...]

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Book Review – Immunity to Change

January 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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By Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey Harvard Business Press, 2009 ISBN #978-1-4221-1736-1 Subtitle: How to Overcome it and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization The exciting work being done these days in leadership development is not around the skills of leadership. It goes much deeper, tackling the core assumptions and habits of thought that stop OK leaders from becoming great ones. It maps a leader’s journey of growth alongside the route of natural adult … [Read more...]

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No Choice: You Have to Take Your Own Path

January 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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The late great expert on mythology, Joseph Campbell, used to tell a tale from the days of King Arthur. One day during a feast, the Holy Grail appears high in the great room but draped in a veil. Then it disappears. The bold Sir Gawain proposes that the knights all go off to find the cup and behold it unveiled. Just about all of the knights choose to follow existing paths through the forest, none of which lead anywhere near the grail. It turns out that to have even a chance of glimpsing the … [Read more...]

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This Year…What is Your “Edge for Development?”

November 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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People with a strong business and entrepreneurial sense are always praising the merits of focusing. They focus on their strategic priorities. They focus on the numbers, benchmarking wherever it makes sense. They focus on the company's core values, unique selling proposition, and so on. They do so because it is the best way to optimize their resources to generate the highest possible results. So, if focusing is proven to create business results, does it also create results in your own … [Read more...]

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