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How to Bring Out Your Best in the New Year

Organizational Talent Consulting

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 to Use Reflection to Bring Out Your Best in the New Year

Organizational Talent Consulting

Leadership is about recognizing and leveraging the gap between stimulus and response to make a choice rather than a knee-jerk reaction. Using a leadership 360 assessment is one proven tool to improve critical reflection. This is one leadership assessment you need to be using. Biases are always present but not always visible.

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We May Not Have a Clear Path, But We Each Have One

Harmonious Workplaces

L&D, goal-setting theory of motivation, and leadership training took shape during those five years with the band. In 1997, Jim promoted me from CSR (customer service representative) to assistant manager of Blockbuster within a few months just prior to my graduation from college. That’s a lot of bending!

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Are You A Future-Ready Leader?

Organizational Talent Consulting

And a huge knowledge and skill shift that is looming will serve as a leadership validation test. Innovations are changing the nature of work, and many jobs are getting disrupted by process automation and robotics. As the world changes people and businesses must change too. Effective leaders are good learners.

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4 Steps to Develop More Motivation

Organizational Talent Consulting

Psychology is the same whether starting a more challenging workout, an advanced leadership certificate, or an undesired task at home or work. However, the most significant leadership challenge often comes from accurately identifying the high-probability behavior. Why work motivation matters. Master ABA. Fishbach, A. & Morris, E.

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Leaders Who Get Change Right Know How to Listen

Harvard Business

When presentations expert Nancy Duarte and I analyzed successful change initiatives, or movements , in business and society, we found that their leaders invested a lot of time in early listening tours and then empathically and systematically articulated their vision to one stakeholder group after another — even in the face of pressure to act.

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The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Harvard Business

Ranjay Gulati, the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration at HBS, heads the Advanced Management Program — which empowers executives with the management expertise and cross-functional perspective to drive performance across domains, industries, and borders. “It doesn’t happen overnight.