Speaking of leaders: Archive

Feb 26th

Trust and Ethical Leadership

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Apr 27th

31 Points of Creative Tension for Leaders

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Mar 20th

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Mar 11th

Formulas for Succession Planning

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Mar 8th

Culture Planning

Leaders drive culture. Followers shape climate. http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs036/1103244715077/archive/1104460638965.html

Feb 10th

Let's get to work on one of the 9 C's of...

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Jan 24th

How do you connect character to leadership?

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Nov 23rd

What makes for effective leadership? Consider the...

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Oct 24th

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Sep 30th

Linkedin Subgroup on Leadership Development

Join us on Linkedin. I have just launched a new subgroup for the Twin Cities HR Association on the topic of leadership development. Join the dialogue! Dick Daniels, President The Leadership Development Group ddaniels@theleadershipdevelopmentgroup.com www.theleadershipdevelopmentgroup.com

Sep 19th

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What leaders will you develop?

Here are four ideas to help you answer that critical question. http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs036/1103244715077/archive/1103484813072.html

Jun 22nd

Corporate Culture and Climate

Leaders shape the CULTURE and CLIMATE of an organization. CULTURE is based in corporate values and describes the IDEAL. Among the leadership ideas of vision, mission, values, and strategy…VALUES represent how we ideally work together as employees and with vendors and customers in order to accomplish the vision and mission. CLIMATE describes the reality of daily life in comparison or...

Apr 23rd

TGIF

Remember in the rhythm of life that the weekend provides you an opportunity to step away from the barrage of leadership demands to re-create physically, emotionally, and spiritually so you can re-calibrate your leadership values for the week that follows. Dick Daniels, President www.theleadershipdevelopmentgroup.com ddaniels@theleadershipdevelopmentgroup.com

Mar 19th

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Why leadership development is important

A recent webinar with eCornell identified seven positive business benefits of a leadeship development initiative. See their white paper: 5 Ways to Improve Your Leadership Development Program…Online. Financial return Employee engagement and retention Building bench strength Strategic and competitive advantage Enhanced productivity and faster resolution of problems Continuous...

Mar 10th

Capacity Building

Earlier I mentioned the framework of the Three Buckets of Leadership: Character, Capacity, and Competency. Capacity building is an intentional initiative to contribute to the leadership development of high potential employees. The idea of “capacity” implies that people may have different levels of leadership capacity. As a result, the leadership development plan is determined by...

Mar 10th

+ Character...Foundational to Leadership

Yes, + character! Character can be - or +. We have identified 36 different character qualities. These are the specific behavioral indicators of the kind of person we are in relationship to other people. Those behaviors can be lacking (-) or can be one of our behavioral strengths (+). Whether you are discussing abilities, interests, or character…everything about us needs intentional...

Mar 4th

Three Buckets of Leadership Development

I had the opportunity to spend Saturday afternoon with the Executive Team of the Minnesota American Marketing Association. I presented the three buckets of leadership development through a process of identifying one leadership development priority in each bucket: Bucket #1: Character - the foundation of leadership development Bucket #2: Capacity - the strengths mix that identifies the...

Feb 8th

Seven Questions for Leadership Development

Are you developing leaders effectively? 1. Do you have a succession plan for all levels of key leadership roles? 2. Do you have a system to attract, develop, and retain the leadership talent needed? 3. Are you satisfied with the effectiveness of an existing leadership development process? 4. Is your leadership development initiative aligned with your strategic business outcomes? 5. Are...

Feb 6th

Leaders and Followers

They are two sides to the same coin. You don’t have one without the other. Both sides have their strengths and their non-strengths. In the Gallup literature on strengths, one of their recent books touches on this subject of leaders and followers: Strengths Based Leadership. Take a look at the five things that strong teams have in common (p.71f). Here is a teaser. Number five is that...

Dec 20th

The Best Book I've Read

One of the insigntful books I read while in graduate school is Virginia Satir’s book: The New Peoplemaking. Satir was a pioneer in family therapy. If you want to learn something about how people grow and develop, then this is worth your reading. It is now clear to me that the family is a microcosm of the world. To understand the world, we can study the family: issues such as...

Dec 17th

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The Leadership Skill of Collaboration

Effective companies are moving from a hierarchical model to a networking model. This applies to work within companies and between companies. Research at the Center for Creative Leadership has identified collaboration as a leadership competency that is needed and is in short supply moving into the future. An insightful resource is the newest book from Gallup Press: Power of 2: How to Make the...

Dec 16th

Connecting the Dots of Leadership Development

It all starts with capacity. Where is an individual in the arena of leadership potential? What is their ultimate leadership capacity that makes it worth the investment of getting them prepared for the next level of leadership assignments? The Nine Box assessment is a helpful 360 approach to sort out the capacity question. Once a company is ready to make the investment then the development...

Dec 15th

12 Questions for Change Communicators

Carol Kinsey Goman has written an insightful list of 12 questions for change communicators. Google the title and the pdf will show up. Carol is the President of Kinsey Consulting Services. Check out her website: www.CKG.com. Q1 - What is the employees’ perspective? Q2 - Did you “set the stage” for change? Q3 - How will you track employee perceptions? Q4 - Do you have...

Dec 14th

Measuring Leadership Development Effectiveness

Earlier this week I listened to an eCornell webinar with Ed Cohen of the Nelson Cohen Global Consulting Group. He was asked about measuring the effectiveness of leadership development initiatives. He said it goes beyond a cash optimization question. What is the resulting impact on customers? On the employee? Measurement must look beyond the completion of a training event and look at the...

Dec 13th

Competency based leadership development

At The Leadership Development Group we are affiliated with the Center for Creative Leadership. This competency-based leadership development resource provider has been a global thought leader in research-based approaches to this corporate movement of developing talent. They make the case in this statement: As the environment in which organizations operate has grown more competitive and...

Dec 12th

Integrated Leadership Development

Leadership development initiatives must focus on the competencies that are connected to the strategic business priorities. Join our conversation on how to effectively connect the dots. Our website will be online by January 1, 2010. www.theleadershipdevelopmentgroup.com

Dec 12th

The first rule of leadership, Benjamin Franklin

I just celebrated another birthday. One of the gifts was a new book by Walter Isaacson, American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane. In the chapter on Benjamin Franklin, Isaacson identifies Franklin’s first rule of leadership: It’s easier to accomplish things if you don’t worry about getting the credit…Franklin took satisfaction in...

Dec 9th

The Leadership Development Group

Our website will be available by January 15, 2010…www.theleadershipdevelopmentgroup.com

Dec 9th

The Next Evolution in Leadership Development

A webinar today at 1pm (EST). This looks interesting. Go to: GoToWebinar.Notifications@citrixonline.com. Dick Daniels President, The Leadership Development Group Minneapolis, MN dickd@mark1.org

Dec 8th

Speaking of Leaders...

Leadership development for emerging, mid-level, and senior leaders provides a return on investment to the company or organization. Most importantly it leads to employee engagement, retention, and attraction in the battle for today’s best leaders. At the Leadership Development Group we are passionate about helping companies build an internal, accelerated, and integrated leading culture. ...

Dec 8th