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Exploring The Heart of Human Achievement: Six Simple Truths
Learn the six enduring leadership principles that will help aspiring leaders become more effective and respected along their journey.
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2024 HR/L&D Trends Survey: Navigating the High-Expectation Work Environment
This year’s survey paints a picture of organizations taking experimental steps during a time of accelerated change.
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Read Article3 Heart-Centered Principles of Leadership
The best leaders get their egos out of the way and become servant leaders who treat people with love and respect says leadership expert Ken Blanchard.
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Read ArticleFour Strategies for Listening so that People Feel Heard
Use these four communication skills to determine a person's levels of competence and commitment at a task. Once you have a better understanding of these qualities, you can lead situationally!
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Read PublicationFueling Pharma's Future: The Pivotal Role of Inspired Leadership
The pharmaceutical industry faces many challenges such as fierce competition for talent, high turnover rates, and the significant cost of employee replacement.
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The Role of Strategic and Operational Leadership Skills: How and When to Use in a Government Setting
Private sector and public sector organizations have three common organizational goals, which must be met for leadership to be labeled effective.
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Are You a Directive or Supportive Leader?
Forty years of Blanchard research has proven that the best leadership style is the one that matches the developmental needs of the person you’re working with.
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SLII. Why a Situational Approach to Leadership Makes All the Difference
This study investigates the effectiveness of the four leadership styles of the SLII model, which evolved from initiating structure and consideration.
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Read ArticleA Head and Heart Approach to Next-Generation Leadership
Ken Blanchard and Scott Blanchard share what’s changed and what’s stayed the same when it comes to focusing people’s energy and efforts toward a shared goal.
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View On-Demand Webinar3 Conversations Leaders Need to Master
Learn how to improve the quality and quantity of conversations taking place throughout your organization.
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Read ArticleGoal Setting to Improve Performance: 4 Best Practices
Goal setting drives performance in the workplace. Collaborate, create stretch goals, give feedback on performance, and hold quarterly check-ins says Doug Glener.
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Read ArticleLeading with Empathy
People want an empathetic leader. Many managers strive to be one. But ask someone to define the term, and you’re likely to be met with silence. Let’s start with the definition. According to...
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Core Skills Every Manager Should Master
Making the transition from being an individual contributor to a manager can be a dramatic shift.
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Read ArticleManaging the Hybrid Work Experience
Organizations and their team members can successfully navigate the unique challenges of a hybrid work environment by focusing on the right strategies says virtual work expert John Hester.
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Read ArticleMake Career Conversations a Regular Agenda Item in One-on-Ones
Why would anyone want to be a career builder when they risk losing the people they develop? It’s a provocative question many leaders answer by not developing their people. But this strategy...
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Read ArticleDeveloping Your Leadership Point of View
Leaders are not robots; they are human beings with values and worldviews shaped by their own experiences. In the best leaders these lead to a personal leadership philosophy—a leadership point of view.
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Read ArticleThe No-Os of Leadership with Mike Easley
Mike Easley explains why self-awareness and empathy are crucial for anyone aspiring to be a leader—especially a leader worth following.
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Meeting the Quota Challenge: Critical Skills Every Sales Manager Needs to Excel
Learn Blanchard’s point of view on solving the problem of the struggling sales manager through developing their leadership skills
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Turning New Hires into Top Performers... Quickly
Hiring and retaining workers is the defining challenge as we move nearer to the post-pandemic workplace.
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Building Resilience in Times of Crisis
As we all adjust to a changing landscape and a new normal in our personal and professional lives, it is imperative that we each develop an increased capacity to thrive in the face of adversity.
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