October 29, 2008 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTIONER Title: Time Management Competency: self-development Who benefits: individuals, coaches, organizational consultants Consultant Usage: coaching, training, consulting for organizational effectiveness What’s it about? I had the pleasure recently of coaching a young woman who has exceptional technical skills along with an extraordinary set of skills we attribute to high emotional intelligence. [...]
October 26, 2008 by Ken Nowack
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” Albert Einstein It’s no secret that leaders have inflated views of their skills and competence–we’ve known this for a long time as it’s a consistent finding in all 360-degree feedback research1. What is simply amazing is the gap between self-perception and reality. The prevalence of [...]
October 22, 2008 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTIONER Title: Your Next Job Competency: self-development Who benefits: individuals searching for new job opportunities, coaches Consultant Usage: coaches, internal outplacement consultants What’s it about? “May you live in interesting times.” This ancient proverb is meant as a curse. We may now be living in interesting times. Just read the business [...]
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October 19, 2008 by Ken Nowack
“I can believe anything provided it is incredible.” Oscar Wilde In a new study, 61.3% of the public and 20.2% of professionals believe that a miracle can a save person in a persistent vegetative state and 57.4% of the public said divine intervention can save a person when doctors think treatment just isn’t going to [...]
October 15, 2008 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTIONER Title: Positive Leadership Competencies: leadership, self-development Who benefits: project leads, team leaders, supervisors, managers, executives Consultant Usage: general education, coaching education, referrals, training materials What’s it about? I have been coming across the term “positive leadership” in my never ending search for material for my postings. I decided to delve [...]
October 12, 2008 by Ken Nowack
“Honesty may be the best policy, but it’s important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second best policy.” George Carlin A recent 2008 survey from Blessing White (The State of Employee Engagement) asked 7,500 employees on four continents about how much they trust their managers and senior managers. The results suggested that [...]
October 8, 2008 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTIONER Title: Human Sigma: Managing the Employee-Customer Encounter (2007) Competencies: customer service, leadership, communication skills, empowering others, driving change, strategic planning Who benefits: employees, customers, organizations’ bottom-line Consultant Usage: multiple uses in training and consulting, executive coaching What’s it about? Any professional book with a quote from an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie [...]
October 5, 2008 by Ken Nowack
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” Albert Einstein It’s no secret that leaders have inflated views of their skills and competence–we’ve known this for a long time as it’s a consistent finding in all 360-degree feedback research1. What is simply amazing is the gap between self-perception and reality. In general, leaders [...]
October 1, 2008 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTIONER Title: Finance and Accounting for the non-Financial Manager Competencies: financial management, self-development Who benefits: upwardly mobile non-financial employees, consultants to executives and managers Consultant Usage: coaching referrals, consultant self-development What’s it about? Last week I discussed using this site for review of literature and other sources related to competencies. In [...]
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