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Choosing Change
Talent Management, March 2008
In my last column, I talked about when people and organizations should consider a change (short answer: immediately). This month, I’d like to talk about how they can effect change.
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The Best Time to Change? Right Now!
Talent Management, February 2008
As talent professionals adapt to the changing business environment and prepare for a “new kind of employee,” they’re considering how to completely transform their strategies.
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Stop in the Name of Leadership
Talent Management, January 2008
The recognition and reward systems in most enterprises are geared to give credit for doing something good. We rarely get credit for ceasing to do something bad. Yet, they are two different sides of the same coin.
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Very Superstitious
Talent Management Magazine, November 2007
Success can make us superstitious in how we behave. Specifically, four beliefs — that we have the skills, the confidence, the motivation and the choice to succeed — lead us to this mindset.
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Blindsided!
Talent Management Magazine, September 2007
If we're lucky, every once in a while, something or someone comes along and unexpectedly opens our eyes to our faults and helps us strip away a delusion or two about ourselves. It doesn't happen often, and it can be tough to take initially. But when it does occur, we should consider ourselves lucky.
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Behave Yourself
Talent Management Magazine, July 2007
There's a reason I devote so much energy to addressing interpersonal challenges in successful businesspeople: The higher up they go, the more their problems are behavioral.
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Sharing is Caring
Talent Management Magazine, May 2007
Withholding key data is extremely counterproductive — inhibiting or suppressing vital information for any reason eliminates value. So, why is this such a common problem?
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Failure to Communicate
Talent Management Magazine, April 2007
As anyone who regularly checks this space knows, I am a big proponent of good communication in businesses. The quality of information flow within an organization often is a good indicator of the quality of the organization, period.
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Partners, Not Employees
Talent Management Magazine, March 2007
Gone are the days when leaders could be — indeed, were expected to be — aloof and unapproachable, handing out orders from on high like some sort of demigod. Because of revolutionary transformations in the business world, though, the traditional relationships between employees and employers have changed.
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Is Winning Everything?
Talent Management Magazine, February 2007
Is winning everything in business?
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Mission Control: Putting Our Purpose Above Our Goals
Talent Management Magazine, January 2007
At the surface level, “purpose” and “goal” seem to be very similar. In fact, my thesaurus tells me they’re synonyms.
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The Dennis Mudd School of Quality
Talent Management Magazine, November 2006
As an executive coach, I have a unique compensation system — I only get paid if my clients get better.
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It’s Hard to Leave
Talent Management Magazine, September 2007
Life transitions are usually far more difficult than we imagine. It’s easy to talk about letting go — it’s just hard to do it.
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Questions That Make a Difference Every Day
Talent Management Magazine, July 2006
In the past several months, I have had more than 1,000 participants in my training programs write their own questions. The results are very revealing and sometimes even profound.
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Acting Like a Professional or Acting Like a Phony?
Workforce Performance Solutions Magazine, May 2006
Think about your job. As a professional, is your job consistent with the person that you really want to be?
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Acting Like A Professional or Acting Like a Phony?
Talent Management Magazine, May 2006
Like great actors, inspirational leaders sometimes need to be consummate performers. When they need to motivate and inspire people, they do it.
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Their Commitment Might Mean More Than Our Insight
Workforce Performance Solutions Magazine, March 2006
My friend, Dr. David Ulrich, is a highly respected thought leader, wonderful person and perhaps the world’s top HR consultant. Dave once taught me that effective performance can be seen as a function of the quality of an idea times the employee’s commitment to make it happen (EP = QI x C).
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Don’t Delegate More—Delegate More Effectively
Workforce Performance Solutions Magazine, January 2006
When C-level executives are asked what change they could make to become a more effective leader, one of the most common answers is, “I need to delegate more!”
My caution to these executives is always the same: Don’t delegate more. Delegate more effectively.
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Bashing the Boss
Workforce Performance Solutions Magazine, December 2006
According to a recent survey by Badbossology.com and Development Dimensions International, a majority of employees spend 10 or more hours per month complaining or listening to others complain about bad bosses—and almost one-third spend 20 hours or more per month.
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When I Get Better At…
Workforce Performance Solutions Magazine, October 2005
Nathaniel Branden, Ph.D., a psychologist and author of about 20 books, has a wonderful exercise that helps answer the question, “Is this change really worth it?”
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The Best Advice I Ever Received
Workforce Performance Solutions Magazine, August 2005
I learned a great lesson from Case. Real leaders are not people who can point out what is wrong. Almost anyone can do that. Real leaders are people who can make things better.
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The Danger of Denial
Talent Management Magazine, June 2005
We all have an incredible ability to deny what we don’t want to see coming—even though it may be obvious to everyone around us.
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Why Don’t We Ask?
Workforce Performance Solutions, April 2005
Why don’t most of us ask—even though we know we should? We don’t ask, because we are afraid of the answers.
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Why Don’t We Ask?
Talent Management Magazine, April 2005
Why is asking so important? In the Information Age, leaders must manage knowledge workers.
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