Journal Your Way To More High-Paying Clients
Henry DeVries
APRIL 26, 2022
There are many benefits associated with keeping a daily journal. Here are comments from the creators of two new planning journals, along with my reviews.
What's Servant Leadership?
Organizational Talent Consulting
MAY 8, 2023
Have you ever wondered what servant leadership is? Maybe you already understand the basic concepts but have questions about how servant leadership differs from other leadership styles or if a servant leadership approach is appropriate for your team. For example, consider two employees walking down a hall.
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Servant Leadership: Principles, Popularity, and Payoff
Rick Conlow
MAY 17, 2023
Grasp Servant Leadership principles, popularity, and payoff to begin to excel as a leader. With employee engagement and retention on a decline this leadership approach is long overdue. Robert Greenleaf first introduced the Servant leadership style in his 1970 essay, “The Servant as Leader.”
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Are You Destined to Repeat Leadership Mistakes?
Organizational Talent Consulting
SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
Self-understanding is essential to breaking leadership bad habits. But, the bad habits of leadership that we have all witnessed or engaged in are not destiny. An inside-out approach to leadership development is essential for breaking bad habits. link] Attribute 1: Leadership personality traits and habits. consistency).
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Why Character Matters in Leadership
Organizational Talent Consulting
MAY 15, 2023
Leadership behaviors guide actions, but a leader's character determines how and if the leader acts. Great leadership is a combination of competence, character, and commitment. Leadership creates moments not defined by policy or procedures - situations where leaders have to choose between right and right.
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Journaling Can Boost Your Leadership Skills
Strategy+Business
MAY 14, 2018
See also "How Journaling Can Help Leaders Achieve Their Goals." Stepping away from the screen and putting pen to paper allows the brain to reflect, process, and find patterns.
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1 Leadership Assessment Tool You Need to Try
Organizational Talent Consulting
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Embracing leadership assessment can build your capacity to navigate complex challenges and steer your team and organization to success. Here is what you need to know about leadership and the five keys to 360-degree assessment success. Why 360-degree assessment matters 360-degree leadership assessment has been around for over 25 years.
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How Leadership Self-Awareness Improves Financial Performance
Organizational Talent Consulting
JULY 10, 2023
Unfortunately, self-awareness is rare in leadership. A global study found that 95% of leaders think they are self-aware, but only 10-15% met the criteria to be considered self-aware on essential leadership competencies related to empathy, trustworthiness, and leadership performance.
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Does Effective Leadership Really Matter?
Organizational Talent Consulting
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
Compelling evidence indicates that leadership moderates company performance and results. But, maybe you feel the importance of effective leadership is often overstated and are somewhat skeptical of the real impact leadership has on a business. Great leaders achieve great results and create great company cultures.
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Leadership: Why Gratitude Really Matters Now
Organizational Talent Consulting
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
Gratitude is a leadership superpower. A global study of 14,800 knowledge workers across 25 countries revealed that 74% of employees are looking to company leadership for help dealing with workplace stress and 49% of leaders are themselves struggling with anxiety. Leadership is more than making someone do something.
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4 Emerging Leadership Styles and Why You Should Care
Organizational Talent Consulting
APRIL 24, 2023
Taking action amid economic uncertainty and operating in a digital workplace with an increasingly diverse workforce necessitates leaders to adapt their leadership styles. Here is what you need to know about the similarities and differences in motivations and characteristics behind four emerging 21st-century leadership styles.
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3 Reasons to Invest in A Leadership Development Program
Organizational Talent Consulting
JUNE 27, 2022
When companies look for a competitive advantage, there is often talk about making leadership development investments. But during these conversations, leadership development programs are typically questioned. The truth is that leadership is more than a position, and event-driven development often fails to create lasting change.
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2 Leadership Tactics for Motivating Your Team
Organizational Talent Consulting
OCTOBER 3, 2022
Here are two leadership tactics that are proven to create optimal work motivation conditions. Tactic 2: Servant leadership How you lead makes a difference. Servant leadership is an emerging 21st-century leadership style. This paradigm stands in stark contrast to traditional transactional leadership. Empowerment.
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Leading by Lending a Hand to Others
Harmonious Workplaces
JANUARY 25, 2024
Strong manager-employee relationships through great leadership leads to positive outcomes After hearing so many people talking about the Apple TV show Ted Lasso and using it in the context of business leadership, I had to see what caused all the buzz. The show has captured my attention and a little of my heart.
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Leadership: Transforming the Inner You
Organizational Talent Consulting
MARCH 21, 2022
These leadership actions are observable habits shaped by your inner game. Forming good habits and breaking leadership bad habits includes understanding and transforming the inner you. Although not frequently discussed in the workplace, a leader's virtues, character, and values are foundational attributes to effective leadership.
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Leadership Habit Jailbreak: Overcoming 5 Common Objections
Organizational Talent Consulting
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
But it’s normal to have objections and doubts about investing in developing better leadership habits. In the review and analysis of four separate studies in different industries, it was discovered that leadership effectiveness could account for up to as much as 45% of an organization's performance.
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One Leadership Development Self-Assessment for True Success
Organizational Talent Consulting
MARCH 6, 2023
Leadership creates dilemmas between right and right. The answer can be found in greater awareness of proven leadership principles, reflection, and practical tools that busy leaders can successfully apply. Here is one leadership development tool that creates the clarity you need to achieve your goals. That goes for life too.
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Is Networking a Distraction or Important Leadership Skill?
Organizational Talent Consulting
JUNE 13, 2022
Here is what the evidence suggests about networking and whether it is a distraction or an essential leadership capability. However, not all studies reveal a consistent positive association between networking and effective leadership. link] Conclusion: Is Networking a Distraction or Important Leadership Skill? 46 (4), pp.
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5 Leader as Leadership Coach Fails to Avoid
Organizational Talent Consulting
MAY 16, 2022
Many businesses are trying to build coaching skills, but leadership habits take time to change. Does being a leader and leadership coach have to be that hard? Leadership is a relationship. Too often companies make narrow investments into leadership development with little to no results to show. The truth is it doesn’t.
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Journaling Can Boost Your Leadership Skills
Strategy+Business
MAY 14, 2018
Stepping away from the screen and putting pen to paper allows the brain to reflect, process, and find patterns.
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6 Steps to Creating Better Leadership Habits
Organizational Talent Consulting
AUGUST 8, 2022
If you choose to create better leadership habits – let me suggest that you consider the following six steps. What is the best way to create a new leadership habit? Conclusion: 6 Steps to Creating Better Leadership Habits. With a bit of planning, you can create better leadership habits. Lasting change begins with a choice.
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How Future-Proof Are Your Leadership Skills?
Organizational Talent Consulting
JANUARY 2, 2023
You might be entirely on board and curious about how work and leadership will be different in the future. No leader sets out to become obsolete, and developing leadership habits is a competitive advantage. Why develop future-proof leadership skills? Well-equipped leadership makes a difference.
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How Journaling Can Help Leaders Achieve Their Goals
Strategy+Business
MAY 14, 2018
For more insight, read "Journaling Can Boost Your Leadership Skills." Tips for clarifying your thoughts and testing new ideas.
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Transformational Leadership: Changing Culture to Fuel Financial Success
Organizational Talent Consulting
AUGUST 7, 2023
An Examination of the Importance of Leadership Behaviors and Attributes on Shaping Culture Executive Summary Organizational culture is a critical factor in financially successful companies. Leaders with dynamic transformational leadership attributes and behaviors are effective culture change agents.
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Is Stress Killing Productivity? Here's How Leaders Improve Efficiency & Wellbeing
Organizational Talent Consulting
APRIL 8, 2024
A global study of 14,800 knowledge workers across 25 countries revealed: 49% of leaders and 42% of non-managers are struggling with anxiety 74% of those surveyed are looking to company leadership for help dealing with workplace stress. Life-Changing Leadership Habits: 10 Proven Principles That Will Elevate People, Profit, and Purpose.
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4 Ways to Improve Your Leadership Communication Effectiveness
Organizational Talent Consulting
MARCH 28, 2022
Effective leadership is communication. A few things about effective leadership communication are proven based on several studies over the past two decades. With these recommendations, you can focus on the critical few proven leadership communication solutions that create business results. Why Leadership Communication Matters.
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How to Identify and Accelerate the Right Leadership
Organizational Talent Consulting
APRIL 11, 2022
A lot of businesses are experiencing a leadership shortage. CEOs need a strong leadership pipeline to thrive, but it's not easy to build. In fact, perceptions of leadership effectiveness and readiness often differ between executives and the frontline. Leadership development investments don't have to be a big gamble.
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52 The Smart Intern – Practicing Self Observant Leadership
Tom Spencer
MARCH 9, 2019
One of those techniques involved practicing Self-observant Leadership (‘SOL’). What is self-observant leadership? How to practice self-observant leadership? Recording your reflections in a journal will help you keep track of your progress, and have your plan written down so that you can refresh your memory from time to time.
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Why Leadership Knowledge And Skills Are Overrated
Organizational Talent Consulting
MAY 2, 2022
Ask yourself each question and journal what comes to mind. Consider themes rather than specific points shared and, as needed, edit or delete points you journaled. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92 (6), 1087–1101. Journal of Career Assessment , 24 (2), 240–252. Don't filter. Just write it down. Schaffner, A.
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Embracing Selfless Love in the Workplace
Organizational Talent Consulting
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
The following short video from leadership guru Ken Blanchard provides some thoughts on the power of servant leadership in today's workplace. The Leadership Character Insights Assessment measures an individual's character through self-assessment or 360-degree assessment using behavioral anchors. link] What is selfless love?
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How to Bring Out Your Best in the New Year
Organizational Talent Consulting
JANUARY 8, 2024
As we begin this new year, I encourage you to spend some quiet time reflecting on this past year - the unforeseen challenges, the changes you made to your leadership habits, and what is most important. Why critical reflection matters Reflection is a powerful leadership tool. Biases are present in all leaders. Open-mindedness.
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How Journaling Can Help Leaders Achieve Their Goals
Strategy+Business
MAY 14, 2018
For more insight, read "Journaling Can Boost Your Leadership Skills." Tips for clarifying your thoughts and testing new ideas.
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Is Leadership Success Really Found in the Word "No"?
Organizational Talent Consulting
MAY 23, 2022
Research has demonstrated that leaders scoring in the bottom 10% in willingness to ask for feedback ranked in the bottom quartile of leadership effectiveness. But, those leaders scoring in the top 10% of willingness to ask for feedback ranked in the top quartile of leadership effectiveness. The Journal for Quality and Participation.
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How to improve your meetings
Halo Psych
APRIL 17, 2024
Based on my experience, not just of the past few months, but of many years working across all sectors, leadership teams from different sectors have more in common than not. This matters in part because the CEO and the board or leadership team they head up are the most expensive people on the payroll. Bluedorn, A.C., Turban, D.B. &
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The More Senior Your Job Title, the More You Need to Keep a Journal
Harvard Business
JULY 7, 2017
The best thinking comes from structured reflection — and the best way to do that is keeping a personal journal. I started keeping a journal when I took over a manufacturing research, software, and consulting firm. A journal is an effective, efficient, private way to take a similar break.
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How to Activate Team Creativity and Innovation
Organizational Talent Consulting
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Enhancing an employee's self-leadership capability improves self-awareness, inspiring experimentation with new ways to solve existing challenges. Innovative Workforce Development Step #5: Leadership Style There are several well-researched employee and company benefits associated with servant leadership , such as creativity.
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How Executive Leaders Build Trust
Organizational Talent Consulting
AUGUST 28, 2023
Building trust is increasingly challenging and vital for executive leadership teams. Why executive leadership trust matters "The reliance on the character, ability, strength, or truth of someone or something." Distrust in society is breeding polarization. The goal is to create positive attitudes toward change and support for change.
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Nurturing Psychological Safety in the Workplace Through an Age-Diverse Lens
Harmonious Workplaces
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
Establishing clear communication channels and recognizing their leadership potential can enhance psychological safety. Maxwell Leadership. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 32 (18), 3777–3804. Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies , 19 (3), 341–354. Oakland, CA: Berrett-Koehler.
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Amplify Your Brand Image by Writing Books with Roberta Matuson
Consulting Matters
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
I have witnessed her remarkable journey from a start-up consulting business owner to an established expert with five published books and author of articles featured in Fast company, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Forbes. And most importantly, we could all learn a thing or two from Roberta's new book, "Can We Talk?"
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Change Readiness?—?Essential but Oft-Omitted
Harmonious Workplaces
DECEMBER 12, 2023
During the month of October, I had the pleasure of learning Organizational Development (OD) and Change Leadership from The Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. Leadership Support: Leaders must champion change and cultivate an environment that encourages adaptability. Is your organization ready for it?
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The Long Game with Author, Speaker, Consultant, and Broadway Lyricist Dorie Clark
Consulting Matters
JUNE 1, 2023
Clark, a consultant and keynote speaker, teaches executive education at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and Columbia Business School, and she is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Long Game , Entrepreneurial You , Reinventing You and Stand Out , which was named the #1 Leadership Book of the Year by Inc.
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Does Your Team Hoard Information?
Harmonious Workplaces
NOVEMBER 17, 2023
Leadership should exercise mindfulness and keen observation of the warning signs of information hoarding with individuals and groups. Creating a Culture of Openness: Leadership should actively encourage and model knowledge-sharing behaviors. The following examples of leadership styles have their uses and their weaknesses.
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How to Destroy an Enemy (or Your Business) from the Inside
Organizational Talent Consulting
JANUARY 23, 2023
Here are the parts I found especially compelling from the manual and the proven leadership countermeasures you can deploy. Here are the three motivation tactics identified in the manual and the leadership countermeasures you can successfully deploy. As stated bluntly in the manual, "purposeful stupidity is contrary to human nature."
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The Right Questions Can Reveal the Right Problems
Harmonious Workplaces
JANUARY 17, 2024
The Power of Effective Questioning The heartbeat of organizational analysis and development lies in a consultant’s ability to ask questions and truly listen openly and objectively, as Hodges writes in “Consulting Capabilities for Organizational Change” within the Management Consulting Journal (2021). Management Consulting Journal, 1( 1).
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