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Power Articles: Leadership

Are You Ready for Tomorrow, Whatever It Brings?

Learn how executive teams, mid-level managers and front line supervisors thrive in today’s challenging environment. It’s no longer business as usual.  Make sure your leaders are up to the task.

1. Develop Tomorrow's Leaders Today

  • Why Succession Planning Can't Wait
    Are you prepared for unexpected events such as the death, defection or retirement of key personnel, especially the CEO/Executive Director? Will you be thrown into chaos? Learn five key strategies for successful leadership succession.
  • Are You Ready for Tomorrow’s Brave New World?
    A landmark study, by the American Society of Training and Development, revealed emerging workplace trends that will affect all organizations – public, private, governmental, educational and even small businesses. Learn 5 key trends and 5 ways to prepare your organization.

2. Get Off To a Strong Start

  • How Good a Boss Are You?
    If I went to your staff and asked them this question: "Do you work for a jerk?" What would they say? Here is a quiz to help you evaluate how good a boss you are. Learn the top 10 pearls of wisdom from successful bosses.
  • New Rules For New Leaders
    It's no longer business as usual during these times of great uncertainty and also great opportunity. We're seeing leadership emerge as the most important element of business -- the ability to get results. Learn 25 life leadership life savers and time savers.
  • Credibility: It Can Make or Break You
    Credibility is the working asset in every relationship, both personal and business. People have credibility with each other or they don't. You can not buy it, trade for it, or even go on eBay for it. Learn 10 ways to boost your credibility quotient.
  • What You Can Learn From Successful Leaders
    Nobody is perfect, including people in charge. We recently polled successful leaders and many acknowledged making mistakes in their career. Here is a sampling of their biggest goofs. What can you learn from them?
  • What Got You Here May Not Keep You There
    According to recent studies, nearly half of all new leaders fail in the first 18 months.. Many of them were surprised to discover that what got them there — from working nonstop to sweating the small stuff — wasn’t enough to keep them there.

3. Don't Stop Now, Lead the Change

  • Get Everyone On Board the Change Train
    An effective strategic plan should be a roadmap to success, not a document that languishes on someone's self or drawer, soon to be forgotten. Three tips to turn strategy into action into success.
  • I'm Committed, Why Isn't Everyone Else?
    Most people don't resist the idea of change as much as they resist being changed. Here are the most common reasons and the tactic to turn it around --- how to turn change resistance to change commitment.
  • Start Out On the Right, Not the Wrong Foot
    When the change message is not well presented, people tend to respond by sitting on the fence, dragging their feet or even worse sabotaging the change effort. Here are six steps to stop that from happening.

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