Leadership Development – Blogwatch August 11, 2008

TheManager scoured the blogosphere to bring you these great and not so great posts and articles covering leadership development and management training from the past weekend:

Six Disciplines CEO and New York Times Best-Selling Author, Gary
continues to be a leading force in the state’s technology industry, and we’re excited to contribute to North Carolina’s leadership development.

1001 Free Cover Letter Examples for Consultants at Cover-Letters.com
PR Web (press release) – Ferndale,WA,USA
The author, William S. Frank, is President/CEO of CareerLab®, a career strategy and leadership development firm based in Denver, Colorado USA.

Leadership Development is Essential For Our Communities
What is a community? A community is a group of individuals linked together by underlying similarities such as culture, race, geographic location, economic status, age grouping, sexual orientation, and gender. These similarities unify a

Manager Effectiveness: How Managers “Repair Problems”
admin for The Sage Commander: Monster Productivity Management Training – for Managers, Supervisors and Executives, 2008.

‘Leadership is Dead,’ As Frantic Firefighting, Collapsing Support
These questions together with practical solutions to the challenges faced by today’s executives are included in a new leadership development report,

U.Va. Offers New Leadership Program
The Leadership Development Center at the University of Virginia is pleased to announce the offering of the upcoming leadership program

Choose Your Boss – Results
Earlier in the week I posted a “Choose Your Boss” blog – here. If you remember I wondered “if entertainers, politicians, musicians, actors / actresses, professional athletes, and celebrities would make great business leaders.”

Leading Online – The Future of Virtual Leadership Development
I personally see on-line gaming environments as the evolution of virtual leadership development in the way that my outdoor experiential activities are transforming leaders in the real world. As the director of the Challenge Learning

How Do We Know What We Know?
I found the session very fascinating because there were so many different disciplines brought up that study theory application and utilization – psychodynamic approach, leadership development, action learning, action research,

 

Leadership Development – Blogwatch August 8, 2008

Still a busy week for the Leadership Development blogs – must not be too many moms and dads getting their kids ready to go back to school – and TheManager was able to piece together the best of the Web for your reading enjoyment.

 

Here are today’s best Leadership Development and Management Training blog posts and articles (present company excepted, of course):

The Leadership Trust® Launches New Web Site
Carolina Newswire (press release) – NC,USA
The Leadership Trust® builds leaders from the inside out by offering tuition-guaranteed, personalized leadership development programs with emotional
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IBM Creates Volunteer Teams
Wall Street Journal – USA
and two-thirds of its work force outside the US, is the first to combine international community service and team leadership development in one program.
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Using Virtual Worlds for Leadership Development
By Betsy Carroll
While this may be true, we are interested primarily in the potential of virtual environments for leadership development. Recent research from Stanford University (also see here) indicates that the attributes or behaviors people exhibit
Leading Virtually – http://www.leadingvirtually.com

Leadership Development – Leadership Styles and Training
By Paul McDonald(Paul McDonald)
Ever since we started Impact Factory, lo these many years ago, we have struggled with the whole notion of leadership development or leadership training. Indeed, we have resisted writing about it in much detail because the subject is so
Leaders on Leadership – http://leadersresource.blogspot.com/

Managers, why is your team falling behind?
By admin
admin for The Sage Commander: Monster Productivity Management Training – for Managers, Supervisors and Executives, 2008.
The Sage Commander: Monster Productiv… – http://www.improviselife.com

Bench Strength: Grooming Your Next CEO
By Marco del Carpio (Marco del Carpio)
Indeed, they’ve combined two practices—succession planning and leadership development—to create a long-term process for managing the talent roster across their organizations. In most companies, the two practices reside in separate
My English Times – http://myenglishtimes.blogspot.com/

Does Your Leadership Development Secure Results?
By gyahner
Leadership, leadership development and leadership training are “Hot” issues in today’s business world. A recent Internet search uncovered over 44 million hits on leadership, over 20 million hits on leadership development and 15.7
RightToLead.com – http://righttolead.com/blog

Leadership Development And Jumping Out of Airships
By gyahner
Here’s the secret: The fact that leadership development is viewed as dispensable is not the captain’s making. It’s the crew’s making. The blame lies with the people in charge of the leadership development. They simply have not defined
RightToLead.com – http://righttolead.com/blog

Maximize Your Team’s Strength Via Management Training
By admin
Management training is designed to help you to build the skills that can help you manage and work with people more effectively. Some of the skills that you will develop as part of management training includes team development,
Company Affair – http://www.companyaffair.com

Management Training: The #1 Thing Dreaded by Most Managers
By admin
admin for The Sage Commander: Monster Productivity Management Training – for Managers, Supervisors and Executives, 2008.
The Sage Commander: Monster Productiv… – http://www.improviselife.com

Managers… Can You handle change?
By admin
admin for The Sage Commander: Monster Productivity Management Training – for Managers, Supervisors and Executives, 2008.
The Sage Commander: Monster Productiv… – http://www.improviselife.com

 

Leadership Development – Blogwatch August 5, 2008

The editors at AskTheManager.com scoured the Internet to bring you the following highlights from some of the better Leadership Development and Management Training blogs and news sources:

Leadership Development – Secure The Future
By admin
Jay Conger states, “Business organizations are not designed to be great training grounds for leadership development. They are great training grounds for execution of an existing business model and, if [the business model is] right,
The Conskript Den – http://conskript.com/

The Art of Diplomatic Leadership
By admin
London (2001) listed numerous barriers that not only prevent followership development but leadership development as well. Among others, he listed discrimination, sexual harassment, lack of confidence, Role conflict (eg, being a boss and
Avoiding the Drag of the Rat Race – http://competitionplustv.com/

How I think about Leadership Development – Part 4
By matthew keller
Much of leadership development doesn’t ever make it to the front page. So much of it happens over the phone, by developing relationships with other leaders who are desperate for someone to come along side them and lift them higher.
my blogish thoughts – http://mattkeller.wordpress.com

Successful Time Management Training
By James
Staying organized is another easy, yet effective and successful time management training. In fact, did you know that time management and organization go hand in hand? They do. If you are organized, you will spend less time searching for
A Tob Tobz Site – http://tobtobz.com/

Conference helps grow leadership skills
Times Daily (subscription) – Florence, AL, USA
class on how to manage people or how to handle people,” said Kendall Haywood, Alabama Industrial Development Training’s leadership development manager.
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Playing catch-up in virtual leadership development
By carol.morrison@i4cp.com
The survey points out both a concern and an opportunity for leadership development programming. The concern is that only 33% of respondents said their leaders recover to a high or very high extent in the event that glitches occur and
Productivity Blog – http://www.i4cp.com/blogs/newsletter/default.aspx

How to Trust a Leader
By Epic Living
There is more than one way to know if you can trust a leader. But one key way is find their crucibles. If leader isn’t willing to talk about them or can’t seem to remember any, a red flag should go up in your mind.
Epic Living – Leadership Development… – http://epicliving.blogs.com/epic_living/

EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT TRAINING is back!
By MJ(Aaron Tan)
EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT TRAINING (II) 2008 There are more great leaders than brains. The personalized BGF training development program focuses on balancing on these four quadrants of a professional life: Self Management, Business,
INCOVAR – http://incovar.blogspot.com/

Management Training
By britinla
On Tuesday, I attended a training course on Giving Positive Feedback. It was one in a series that all of the company’s management have to undertake. There is one very notable difference between these courses and similar ones that I have
A Brit in California – http://britinla.wordpress.com

The Danger Of Time Management At Work
Whether you choose to create daily to do lists for yourself, use a computerized day planner, or learn to better prioritize your responsibilities, get started with doing so as soon as possible. Read about time management training.
Shaister Miester Do Da – http://www.shaister.com

5 Tips for Inspiring the People You Lead
By webmaster
Find out more about Leadership Development and Executive Coaching Services at Verve Coaching. If you enjoyed this post, subscribe to the Verve Coaching Blog Feed. Add ’5 Tips for Inspiring the People You Lead’ to Del.icio.
Verve Coaching:: Leadership Developme… – http://vervecoaching.com

Leadership Development
Leadership Development: Prepared Hearts, Prepared Minds provides an exciting look at this vital ministry and explores some of the many challenges students face as they prepare for and enter into ministry.
recent posts – blip.tv (beta) – http://blip.tv

Accentuating the Positive to Improve Productivity
Leadership development programs often focus on helping individuals hone specific competencies that organizations have identified as key to managing their particular challenges. Content also tends to center on the nuts-and-bolts skills
i4cp TrendWatcher – http://www.i4cp.com/Feeds.aspx?feed=trendwatcher

Make Time Management Training Work For You by Sheila Mulrennan
Time management training is more of being able to manage the time that you actually have; the ability to make the most out of your time or your day. It is not just about having a day-to-day plan, time management training lets you learn
Make Money Online – http://paul-makemoneyonline.blogspot.com/

Why Doesn’t Management Training Stick?
By admin
admin for The Sage Commander: Monster Productivity Management Training – for Managers, Supervisors and Executives, 2008. …
The Sage Commander: Monster Productiv… – http://www.improviselife.com

 

Leadership Development – Blogwatch July 30, 2008

It’s been a busy week on the Leadership Development blogs – possibly something to do with the rotten economy?

 

The editors of AskTheManager.com searched the resources on the World Wide Web to bring you the best blog posts covering Leadership Development and Management Training:

Manager Stress… A Big Problem
By admin
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Go to the carnival for new employee training ideas
By Training Time(Training Time)
Help two influential teams, HR and training, get on the same page when developing management training programs with tips on how to talk to each other from Dan McCarthy at Great Leadership. We can all blame the FLSA for global warming,
Thoughts from Training Time – http://training-time.blogspot.com/

Supervisor burnout and supervisor stress
By admin
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Seven Ways to Improve the Results of Your Leadership Development
By admin
Seldom is leadership development on that urgent list. While perhaps not urgent, few things are of greater importance to the future of our organizations that the conscious and consistent development of our future leaders.
Scscore – http://www.scscore.com

Time Management Training to Use Your Time in a Creative and
By timemanagement
One thing must have been clear to you during your journey to this half way stage of this article on Time Management Training. We are talking about our sincerity in providing you with quality content about Time Management Training.
Time Management Skill – http://www.timemanagement101.com

Entrepreneur Thoughts
By Epic Living
Found this by way of Matthew Scott’s blog. It’s a great piece on how one entrepreneur views being in business for self-with a little advice thrown in. Click here to learn more.
Epic Living – Leadership Development… – http://epicliving.blogs.com/epic_living/

How I think about Leadership Development – Part 1
By matthewkeller
One of the keys to growing a successful organization is in the realm of leadership development. I have a huge heart for growing leaders! This week’s blogs are centered around how I think about reproducing leaders.
my blogish thoughts – http://mattkeller.wordpress.com

 

Leadership Development – Blogwatch July 29, 2008

 

The editors of AskTheManager.com searched high and low throughout the World Wide Web to bring you the best blog posts covering Leadership Development and Management Training:

Leadership Development: Try Harder, Want it More
By Tudor
It took a very cynical view of leadership development experiences. It was also very funny. I showed it to someone. After she stopped laughing, she went off to the photocopier with the newspaper to share a little humour with her friends.
Leaders We Deserve – http://leaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

Why leadership development isn’t always the answer
Congratulations! The personal development plan you enthusiastically signed up to three years ago is complete. You feel full of all the good things you learnt on your journey. You have managed to juggle your job, dissertations and
- http://www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/pm/subjects/learning-training-development/

Sales Management And Leadership. They Aren’t The Same.
By gyahner
He conducts Sales Team Assessments, conducts Management and Leadership development programs, and works with Field Sales Professionals both in the field and in workshops. He has written 3 books and recorded 2 CD’s on Prospecting and
RightToLead.com – http://righttolead.com/blog

Supervisors, Watch Out: Overload May Cause a Crash!
By admin
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Hey Supervisor, Are You Good at “Managing” Employee Personalities?
By admin
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Monster Productivity Management… – http://www.improviselife.com

Prioritizing Tasks
By gyahner
If you feel you need assistance in developing this skill, consider whether additional management training would be of help. The key to sorting out your priorities is to make a list of all the things that need doing.
Call Center Cafe – http://www.callcentercafe.com

Leadership development – quick tip 4
By Denise Taylor, career guide & assessments expert
Whilst working with a client through a development centre recently we looked at ways he could develop himself, here’sa quick tip I suggested that I thought you may also be interested in: To develop leadership skills you could Many of
Unhappy in your job and know… – http://www.amazingpeople.co.uk/blog

 

Leadership Development – Blogwatch July 22, 2008

 

The editors at AskTheManager.com scoured the World Wide Web to bring you these terrific news and views from the Leadership Development blogosphere:

The value stream of succession planning and leadership development
By Jamie Flinchbaugh(Jamie Flinchbaugh)
What’s the purpose of thinking about work as a value stream? Is it just a buzzword? It helps us identify how our activities connect and flow together in order to deliver value to some customer. So let’s look at the process of succession
Jamie Flinchbaugh’s Amazon Blog – http://www.amazon.com/gp/blog/A2DRKJ9QOV82QG

Seeking Sustainability
By Royce Holladay(Royce Holladay)
Think about leadership development programs. A company may invest huge resources in developing a program to identify and develop potential leaders from its own ranks. Structures are established for selecting and supporting these people,
Human Systems Dynamics: Patterns at Work – http://patternsatwork.blogspot.com/

Leadership development – quick tip 4
By Denise Taylor, career guide & assessments expert
Whilst working with a client through a development centre recently we looked at ways he could develop himself, here’sa quick tip I suggested that I thought you may also be interested in: To develop the skills needed fgor persuading and
Unhappy in your job and know… – http://www.amazingpeople.co.uk/blog

Nathan Tallman, GA, Central Michigan University Leadership Institute
By ruinvolved
Being involved in other leadership development programs, LeaderShape was ‘kicking it up a notch’. Being intensely involved for 6 days of leadership developing and networking, this is what makes leaders great. After being a participate
RU Involved? – http://ruinvolved.wordpress.com

Understanding leadership cultures that enable innovation
By chuck(chuck)
Since this module was part of a broader leadership development program that had been custom developed for one company, I also designed the exercise to deliver on the broader program goal of network and colleague development.
Leadership Metaphor Explorer™ – http://lmeccl.blogspot.com/

Developing Leaders
By Christopher B. Brooks(Christopher B. Brooks)
My hat goes off to Kara Powell and her team at Fuller, my people at North Park University, the team at UYWI, the DeVos Urban Leadership Initiative, and all of the others out there who are developing free leadership development tools for
Do UC What IC ? – http://christopherbennett.blogspot.com/

Practicing Leadership
By Marshall@MarshallGoldsmith.com (Marshall…
The consistent and ongoing misassumption of almost all leadership development programs is “if they understand, they will do.” This assumption is not valid in any aspect of our lives, and leadership development is no exception.
Marshall Goldsmith Blog – http://www.marshallgoldsmithlibrary.com/blog

 

Why Your Best Salesman Will Fail as Sales Manager

It seems odd that the best salespeople do not make the best sales managers. But that is, unfortunately, the truth.

 

Empirically speaking, this seems to be a function of “how” those salespeople became great. More often than not, truly great salespeople have some internal “it” that makes them great. They have trouble explaining the “it” to others, and more importantly, they cannot teach “it” to anyone. They just have “it.”

 

Look at the example of Ted Williams (the last man to bat over .400 in Major League Baseball). When Ted tried his hand at managing a ball team he failed – miserably. Why did he fail? Because he expected everyone to be as naturally gifted as he was. There are debates, but one of the traits that made Ted Williams such a great hitter was that he had extraordinary eyesight. He could see precisely where on the ball he hit each and every pitch. You can’t teach eyesight.

 

Likewise, a great salesperson cannot teach traits such as a high tolerance for rejection or the ability to read body language. Since they acquired these traits through nature and not nurture, they cannot easily transfer them to someone born with thin skin or a lack of social awareness.

 

The best sales managers, just like the best baseball managers, come from those who had to work very hard to get where they got. They were generally average or just above average performers, and they watched and learned from the greatest in their game. Because they had to teach themselves to sell (or play baseball), they are best equipped to teach others.

Leadership Development – Blogwatch July 17, 2008

The editors at AskTheManager.com scoured the World Wide Web to bring you news and views from the Leadership Development blogosphere.

The art of leadership
Bangkok Post – Thailand
I’m hearing a lot of interest in leadership development these days. Last year, both The Economist and Fortune magazine ran articles on the importance of
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Unsung Heroes
By absolute
We have always said that our staff and student interns are the “unsung heroes” in what we do, and once again they proved this to be true. On Sunday night there was a car accident involving some Hero Holiday staff, student interns and
Absolute Leadership Development – http://absolute.org

Making Sense of Distributed Leadership: Exploring the Multiple
By Mayrowetz, D.
Conclusions: While not dismissing any particular definition, the author encourages those who use the descriptive definition to focus more on making connections to school improvement and leadership development. The author also encourages
Educational Administration Quarterly… – http://eaq.sagepub.com

David Allen Speaking on Voice America Leadership Development News
By owstarr
Relly Nadler on Voice America Leadership Development News. Here’s a link to the streaming version of this very interesting show that includes a wide ranging discussion on GTD with David answering many questions on how to become more
GTD Times – http://www.gtdtimes.com

Leadership skills top priority for recruiters
Online Recruitment – UK
Leadership development can also be a great attraction tool”, she adds. “People who see themselves as future leaders will want to work for you.
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Leadership Development can’t just be of Leaders
By David Malouf –(David Malouf –)
Implication: NOT every leader can/should be involved in this scope of Leadership Development. It is, much more so, a very different kind of leadership development that is not for every leader (due to history, genetics, etc.).
History Repeats, Pendulums Swing,… – http://anotheroption.blogspot.com/

Overcoming the 5 Dysfunction’s of a Team
By coreypaxton
Thank you to everyone who came to the Leadership Development gathering last night. I have gotten some good feedback and hope that the material that we covered is applicable to your groups. If you weren’t able to be there and want to get
Visio Dei Leadership Development – http://visiodeileaders.wordpress.com

Leadership Development And Jumping Out of Airships
A German silent film melodrama depicts an airship bombing London during World War I Lit up by searchlights and strafed by fighters, the crippled airship loses altitude as the captain frantically jettisons dispensable gear to lighten
Leadership – http://ezineseeker.com/Business/leadership/