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Believe in Your Potential & Believe in Theirs, Too
This Executive Edge looks into how to grow as a leader and effectively develop your team. Topics cover setting clear expectations for the team and defining each team member’s role, understanding the impact of your title, and how to live your values at work. Good leaders know that they must pay attention to the needs […]
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What Is Your Legacy?
A legacy for leaders is a reflection of their success in leadership and life. It’s an evolutionary journey that may include detours, but overall it should be about continuous self-improvement. In this Edge, we help you consider your long-term impact, your daily support of the person you’d like to be, and controlling changes in the […]
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The Strategic Value of Managing Talent
In many businesses, the main tool for creating value is employee knowledge, skills, and capabilities. In fact, talent has been recognized as the most important force creating strategic value for an organization. This Edge explores executive onboarding, talent-managing capabilities, hiring the right people, and developing team members. To gain sustainable competitive advantage, leaders must understand […]
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Holding Yourself Accountable in Leadership
One of a leader’s top responsibilities is holding others accountable. That entails setting clear guidelines, communicating goals and objectives, following up to ensure fulfillment of responsibilities, providing feedback on performance, and coaching those whose performance is not satisfactory. However, a leader cannot expect to hold others accountable successfully if they are not holding themselves accountable […]
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Build and Extend Trust
Leaders who do the right thing consistently, especially when there’s a cost or consequence, can be considered truly trustworthy. As we learn in this Executive Edge, successful leadership requires trust and extending trust can reap rewards in how it inspires and motivates employees. Leaders on all levels will gain self-satisfaction and confidence when they learn […]
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Your Employees Are Watching You
The way you present yourself to your employees is the way they will describe you to others. In this Executive Edge, the emphasis is on the image you project, which may not sync up with how you view yourself as the leader. Topics include the impact – good and bad – of what you say […]
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What Good Leaders Are Made Of
Much of effective learning is through example and this is the premise behind this issue of Executive Edge that looks at what good leaders are made of. Some of the examples of good leaders and their lessons for strong leadership include current and former CEOs: Randall Tobias (Eli Lilly and Company); Jack Welch (General Electric); […]
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How to Be an Aware Leader
One of the best skills on which leaders can improve is to increasing their awareness of what motivates them. Being emotionally and mentally aware allows you to balance your workload to meet new challenges, get day-to-day work done and innovate. In this issue of Executive Edge, we look at how to be an aware leader […]
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When Decisions Might Fail
Consistently making good decisions is key to personal and professional success and, conversely, poor decision-making can lead to a string of disastrous consequences for you and your company. Businesses rise and fall on the decisions of their leaders. This Executive Edge looks at elements that can lead to bad decisions, including failure-prone practices, falling into […]
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What It Takes to Be a Generous Leader
Leaders gain stature by exhibiting the qualities that followers can admire and choose to emulate. Leaders who focus on sharing their time, knowledge, skills, ideas and connections with others are likely to earn the allegiance of those who work with them. Businesses benefit, too, especially from the alignment of shared values and a common purpose. […]
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Obstacles That Can Threaten Your Leadership
The path of leadership is fraught with obvious challenges and some that are not so obvious. In this issue of Executive Edge, we look at some of the more subtle challenges, which are often self-generated and in some ways are more lethal to a career. Handling the power that comes with an upwards career climb, […]
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Encourage Workplace Learning
An organization that commits to learning increases the potential of creating a growth environment where people at all levels will thrive and grow, and the organization itself will be positively transformed. This issue of Executive Edge looks into what it takes to build a learning organization, how to develop a workforce of learners, establish a […]
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