Leadership Weekend with Gary: Apples, Cars, and Halt

Posted on February 4, 2012 by Gary B. Cohen

Asking Questions with APPLE Asking questions is critical to great leadership. Remembering to ask questions can be difficult for new leaders. If you are struggling with asking questions, try this acronym, APPLE! Ask the right question. Right questions are open-ended and encouraging. They help others imagine new solutions. Pause after you ask the question. Accept silence, even [...]

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How Important Are Informal Leaders?

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Cheryl Dilley

There are many articles out there asking questions like:  Are great leaders born or bred? And there are many answers to this question. I like this quote as an answer: “Leaders born to be bred.” Hierarchy or Not Most of us realize that leadership does not have to come from the top in order to be [...]

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I Heard the Boss On Christmas Day (apologies to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

Posted on December 18, 2011 by George Brymer

I heard the boss on Christmas Day A familiar call at home to say, And in text and tweet The words repeat Of cease your mirth, get back to work! And thought how low the boss had come, The bottom of all leaderdom, It seemed so wrong This forlorn song Of cease your mirth, get [...]

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Leaders: Is Johnny in Trouble Again?

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Monica Wofford

What happened??? I simply said “Let’s chat” and it created chaos!?!? Has this happened with you? When you want to coach an employee and you say “Let’s chat in my office,” does it create confidence or chaos? Does it inspire great anticipation of your guidance, or gossip and the child-like “UUUuuuuuuummmmm, Jooohhnny’s in trouuuuble!” If it’s [...]

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The Leaders Library: 4 Steps to Embrace Change

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Thomas Meloche

Our one constant is change. If you were on the top of the heap five years ago, where are you today? If you haven’t learned how to embrace change, you are now at least 50% irrelevant. The truth is, the half-life for most tactical business knowledge is five years or less. Change is inevitable, except [...]

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Little Johnny in the Workplace

Posted on July 31, 2011 by David Williams

Little Johnny in the Workplace Almost every kid gets a trophy these days And it doesn’t even matter if they know how to play Win or lose, it’s still just the same For “God forbid that our children feel pain!“ Our children grow up in liberal schools Taught to believe each one of them “cool“ [...]

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On Leadership and the Promise of Coaching

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Tom Cocklereece, DMin, LBCT

In the last twenty years a new profession of coaching burst upon the scene. From the local workout gym to the main street workplace; from the boardwalk to the boardroom, professional coaching has made inroads in many facets of life. In 1999 Frederic M. Hudson said this in The Handbook of Coaching: “Adult coaching is [...]

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