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Become a Sponge: Seek Out and Soak Up Information

Tom Spencer

According to Balter, a sponge is someone who tirelessly seeks out and absorbs new information. By employing these strange metaphors, Balter was trying to highlight how hard some individuals are willing to work to seek out, absorb, and use new information to gain an advantage and break through barriers. They read voraciously.

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Companies Are Facing New Challenges – Are You Keeping Your Leadership Training Current?

Clarity Consultants

In order to promote growth and support productivity, companies need to update their leadership training to address the challenges of today. How to Keep Your Leadership Training Current. Keeping your leadership training current takes effort, but it isn’t as challenging as it appears on the surface. Contact us today.

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Strategic Leadership Skills that Matter Most

LSA Global

When Strategic Leadership Skills Are Required for Success Just as it takes a different set of skills to transition from an individual contributor to a successful new manager , it takes a different mindset and skillset (what we call Strategic Leadership Skills) to succeed as a strategic leader. Strategic leaders have a broader charter.

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Leadership Challenge: Empower Employees for Extraordinary Results

Makarios Consulting

Posner underline this truth in their classic work, The Leadership Challenge, when they define “Enable Others to Act” as the fourth of The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership®. This phrase is taken from the GWC tool, which is part of the Entrepreneurial Operating System ® (EOS®). Kouzes and Barry Z. their team is asking for.

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Why you need a COO or operations manager

Asamby Consulting

Why you need a COO or Operations Manager. Either their operations have grown quite a bit or they are in the midst of growing. Many founders and CEOs ask us this question: Do I need an operations manager? But there are a few questions: Why is it necessary to hire an operations person? We answer with a resounding yes.

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Do You Need to Improve Leadership Mindsets at Work?

LSA Global

Maybe It’s Time to Improve Leadership Mindsets at Work. Ineffective executive teams tend to operate in silos , micromanage their teams , or make misaligned leadership decisions. Leadership Mindsets versus Leadership Skills Can’t top tier leaders just focus on improving certain leadership knowledge, skills, and behaviors?

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How Future-Proof Are Your Leadership Skills?

Organizational Talent Consulting

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.