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Defining Leadership

Why Your Organization Requires Leadership Now

CMOE Team asked: The economic slump is likely to affect businesses with a recession in the horizon. Because of this, businesses are rethinking operations to provide quality services and products while lessening the volume of workers. Human resource and development centers like the Center for Management and Organization Effectiveness (CMOE) have training options that reflect […]

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Leadership Mistakes

Leadership Development is Essential for Humanity and the World

Dr. Mario Barrett, Ph.D. asked: Global warming, poverty and starvation, and hostility among nations are some of the major problems that still remain in today’s world. These problems directly impact the quality of life of millions of people around the world as it relates to macro level issues (such as the depletion of wildlife, natural […]

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Leadership Styles

Leadership Development is a Matter of Perspective

Tom Hanson asked: My friend John has cancer. Has for a couple years now. I hadn’t talked to him in several weeks. So I called him at home and his wife picked up the phone. I heard her say; ‘John and his two sons and his dad are in South Dakota hunting. It will be […]

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Leadership Mistakes

What Kind of Leader are You?

Kate Mercer asked: t your vision, your passion, and your strategy and plan. So why is it that despite displaying appropriate leadership competencies, you sometimes fail? In practice, there is one factor that distinguishes success and failure in leadership: the leader’s flexibility of style. Do you pride yourself on involving and engaging your team members […]

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Defining Leadership

Mission and Vision Statements for Government Leadership Development

Don Midgett asked: It would be hard to measure the public’s surprise at the recent call for supervisory leadership training in Federal agencies. Fair or not, the persona of federal management practices does not encourage the idea of “soft skills” used to develop employees and the success of their tasks. At a current event sponsored […]

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Defining Leadership

Leadership Skill: Leaving A Leadership Legacy

Harvey Robbins asked: Take a look at all the leaders who have left a positive legacy of organizational effectiveness, and what do you find. Breadth, depth, and talent. But what do they actually do? They develop themselves, they develop others, they develop big ideas, and they develop high performance cultures. They leave a legacy by […]

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Transformational Leadership

How Behavioral-Based Coaching Is Being Used Today

Kris Koonar asked: Behavioral coaching is being used in a variety of ways today. It has become extremely important for coaches to be successfully trained in behavioral coaching and be able to go to the very root of the individual problems and provide adequate and realistic solutions. Coaches work with the clients and help them […]