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Declare Your Independence

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There is a tribal culture in every company. Some companies create hierarchical kingdoms with sovereign leaders, some are more like families with leaders acting in parental roles to take care of everyone.
There are multiple drivers of employee engagement, from pride in working for the company to having a voice in the way things operate. However, the impact of the relationship with the direct manager is a constant.

Learning to Ask

2 min read
In the past, we have been taught that we need to have all the answers. As leaders, we feel the need to be “in charge.” In order to do that, we have to know how everything works, the ins and outs of the job of each person who reports to us – and on...
In 1991, Professor Joseph Rost published a painstakingly well-researched manuscript titled “Leadership for the Twenty-First Century.” A sizable portion of Dr. Rost’s treatise reviews and classifies definitions of leadership that have been identified...

Are You Being Truly Collaborative?

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The word “collaboration” is thrown around a lot these days. What do organizations mean when they tell their leaders to use a collaborative leadership style?

Freeing Your Leader Within

1 min read
Building the readiness of any leadership pipeline can find powerful challenges in a no-normal world. Let’s face it, in an era of totally disconnected events, it is often a matter of opinion as to whether human skills development even pays bottom-line...