Shifting the focus from the managers to the employees risks a diffusion of accountability that, over time, will lead to less feedback. Training professionals who are committed to building strong leaders need to stay the course and double down.
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IESE Business School has launched a new Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Management Initiative, a multidisciplinary project that will look at how artificial intelligence is impacting management, and prepare executives to put Al to use.
It is becoming difficult to ignore that the most significant factor impacting people’s happiness and performance at work is their manager. However well paid the role, if a manager’s people skills are lacking, employees are more likely to feel...
It’s actually pretty easy to be the boss. All you need to do is put on your boss hat and play boss. It’s a lot trickier to be a leader. Much is written on the subject of leadership, mostly because there are still many places where it’s not working...
15Five, provider of people management software, announced a new educational component to its key business offerings, the Best-Self Academy. Backed by scientific research, the platform provides managers with training materials to build skills.
Dr. Tim Rahschulte, CEO of the Professional Development Academy, has identified a growing and persistent problem in today’s corporate reality – a lack of adequate leadership training for frontline managers.
What separates a Machiavellian approach from a genuine desire to manage with less “in-your-face” control and direction is the genuine desire to foster others’ self-motivation and ability to lead. You can be lead from behind without even knowing it.
Some of your organization's most difficult challenges likely come from working with others. An effective manager training program will enable your leaders to resolve conflicts, improve your workplace culture and boost profits.
Despite a healthy budget spent on leadership development each year, we continue to see Gallup polls that identify approximately one-half of the workforce as “not engaged.” Worse, an additional 16.5% are “actively disengaged.”
In 2008, Google sought to answer a common question that many companies ask: What makes a great manager? Its leaders not only wanted to hire great people but also develop great managers.