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Leadership Caffeine Jam Session #3: All About Tuning Your Communication Skills for Success
Late last year, I kicked off the Leadership Caffeine Jam Session Series of free professional development sessions. These are 50-minute events on the second Friday of every month at noon central, and the format is fast, fun, and filled with idea exchanges on topics...
Leadership Caffeine Jam Session #3: All About Tuning Your Communication Skills for Success
We’re live on January 14 at noon central with the latest (free) Leadership Caffeine Jam Session entitled: The Persuasive Power of the Right Words in the Right Order Said the Right Way. No slides, no pitches, plenty of ideas and interaction!
New Leader Tuesday: A Mistake is a Horrible Thing to Waste
Beyond the certainty of death and taxes, one other absolute in life is that as a leader, you will make mistakes. A great number of them. From misspeaking to making a decision that turns out wrong to a million other areas to show off your humanness, mistakes are part of the learning to lead process. How you choose to deal with your mistakes will help determine people’s perception of you and speak volumes about your leadership character. Here are 6 ideas to help you leverage those moments effectively:
Best of Leadership Caffeine™-How to Deal with Positive Praise
It’s easy to start believing the praise you hear in the hallways about your leadership approach. Easy and dangerous. I’ve always been leery of the unfounded and saccharine-sweet praise that is bestowed upon leaders. While you may call me cynical, I prefer to think of myself as pragmatic. Here are 5 ideas for delicately and appropriately coping with positive praise:
August Leadership Development Carnival and Reading List
This month’s excellent edition of the Leadership Development Carnival is being hosted by Sharlyn Lauby, aka the H.R. Bartender! In addition to a great variety of posts, Sharlyn asked each contributor to share what they are reading this summer, and the results make for a great reading list for the final weeks of pre-Labor Day book consumption.
Let’s Go Curiosity! The Olympics of Human Ingenuity
Against the backdrop of the world’s greatest athletes competing in London, there is an equally exciting and very other-worldly event occurring on a red planet somewhere near earth.
Management Excellence Recap for the Week Ending August 4, 2012
An extended weekend and then some productive business travel reduced the writing and posting time to a dull roar. Nonetheless, these two posts reflect my current reading…from Drucker to neuroscience. Your thoughts and ideas are always appreciated her
Just One Thing: Learn to Fight Your Negativity Bias
We all know people who seem to thrive on the negatives in life. They can look at what is perceived by others as a beautiful picture and spot the flaws, almost taking pride in their role as watchdogs against perfection. Here are 4 ideas and several resources to help reduce your negative self-talk and improve your effectiveness and happiness as a leader and person:
Leadership Caffeine™-To Grow as a Leader, Master a Second Discipline
Of the many important themes espoused by the late and arguably pre-eminent management thinker of the latter part of the twentieth century, Peter Drucker, perhaps the most valuable to us as individuals, is his constant reminder that we are responsible for our own self-development. One of Drucker’s more provocative suggestions as described in William A. Cohen’s enjoyable read, “A Class with Drucker-The Lost Lessons of the World’s Greatest Management Teacher,” is for managers to actively work at developing expertise outside of their chosen field as a tool to preparing to become a senior or strategic leader. (Read More…)
Management Excellence Recap for the Week Ending July 28, 2012
Here’s a quick recap of my Management Excellence blog and other writings during the past week. Enjoy the reading and enjoy your weekend!
Leadership Caffeine™ Podcast-Become the CEO of You, Inc. with Susan Butler
One of the many pleasures of this podcast project is the opportunity it affords to connect with remarkable people. While Susan Butler’s excellent book, Become the CEO of You, Inc., offers great insight, wisdom and guidance for all of us (with an emphasis on aspiring female executives), it is her fascinating, trailblazing biography that serves as true inspiration.