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The September 5th Leadership Development Carnival at Great Leadership

Just in time for a long holiday weekend, Dan McCarthy is hosting the always exciting and often inspiring Leadership Development Carnival at his home blogging base at Great Leadership.

Aside from the way over the top kind words that he has for me and this blog (Thanks, Dan!), he’s put together a collection of phenomenal essays from some really great writers and authorities in the world of leadership and business.

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It’s Always a Good Time to Practice Your Speaking Skills!

There are few skills that will take you further and help you more than developing your speaking skills. Your writing skills are a close second. While you can hide and some people do get away with dodging the speaking bullet, I’m not sure why you would want to. The fear is overblown.

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New Leader Identification: Exploration Before Promotion!

I talk with a great number of leaders at various levels and stages of their careers about their own experiences in “becoming a leader,” and I’m constantly fascinated by their start-up stories.

Fascinated, that is, the way many drive past a car wreck. Shocked and curious at the same time.

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Management Excellence News, Updates & Coming Attractions

Note from Art: While I’m remarkably sensitive to not creating an infomercial out of my blog, I am involved in a number of exciting activities that I’ve shared with some of you personally. Here’s a bit broader update and a call for speakers and interview subjects.

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Back to School: Teachers are Our Early Leaders-Have You Thanked The Ones that Made a Difference?

With school starting back up in most parts of the country during the next few weeks, now would be a good time to reach out to that teacher from 20 or 30 years ago and let them know that they made a difference. Catch them before they move off into retirement. I believe my former favorite teach just recently retired, and now I’m stuck trying to look him up, when I had almost 30 years to drop him a note at school. Talk about procrastination!

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Want a Great Primer in Leadership? Work for a Bastard and Take Notes

While I wouldn’t counsel you to seek out and work for a b@st@rd as part of your formal mentoring experience, given the ratio of these characters to good leaders in the workplace, chances are you’ll trip across one or more in your career. When you do, take in the experience as a powerful education in how not to lead.

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Twitter and Social Networking: Job Search Power Tools or Time Killers?

One of the best lessons that I’ve learned from working on about two million fix-it and improvement projects with my Dad is to match the right tool to the job at hand. This is particularly true in searching for a job, which can be one of the more vexing projects for many people.

Fortunately, there are a number of interesting new power tools available in the form of social networking platforms, to help today’s job seeker. However, unlike the tools in the picture, there are few guidelines on how and where to to use these tools to good effect.

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