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The Key to Successful Management

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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...

Case Study: Training Effective Managers

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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.

Nudging the Stats on Employee Engagement

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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.”
A foundational soft skill in a manager’s leadership toolkit is “noticing,” a hard-to-teach soft skill responsible for increasing leadership effectiveness, navigating change, and leading through complex and ambiguous times with agility.

Go Ahead — Forget Soft Skills

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Many soft skills can be developed through training, especially for people who are early in their career or in their first leadership job. The problem is that many companies wait a long time to develop people’s soft skills, if they do it at all.