April 15, 2011

Daniel Pink writes about the power of performance feedback – especially when you are working with Millenials. This generation is used to immediate feedback from their technology, so it’s time they get it from their managers! Workplaces need to change their performance review processes to meet the  communication needs of their staff. Read more here.

April 01, 2011

Emotional intelligence is defined as “the ability to recognize your emotions, understand what they’re telling you, and realize how your emotions affect people around you. Emotional intelligence also involves your perception of others: when you understand how they feel, this allows you to manage relationships more effectively.”  Read more here on the key concepts of Daniel Goleman’s model.

Daniel Pink writes about the power of performance feedback – especially when you are working with Millenials. This generation is used to immediate feedback from their technology, so it’s time they get it from their managers! Workplaces need to change their performance review processes to meet the communication needs of their staff. As the author says: Do it yourself, do it through peers and do it with software.  Read more here.

March 29, 2011

The editors at MindTools say that authentic leaders are often easier to recognize than define, but they all have a few traits in common. Leaders know themselves well, and they never allow someone else to cause them to break their “moral codes.” They put their companies and their teams first, they’re excellent communicators, and they know how to use the right kind of power for the right situation. Here is a wonderful article by Bruna Martinuzzi, describing the “leaves of authenticity”…just beautiful!

One of the most essential leadership behaviors in the Emotional Competence Inventory is Teamwork and Collaboration.   Rather than “building teams”, Harvard business professor Amy Edmonson who studies teams, says we’ve moved onto “teaming”. Read more about it.

Leadership is about going above and beyond the call of duty – or the responsibilities listed on the JobD.  Here’s Rosabeth Moss Kanter’s take on how to go the extra mile. Her first “extra” is Colleagueship which is “considered a sign of whether someone can take on bigger leadership responsibilities in a flat, decentralized organization.”

Read about all 6 here.

Workforce Week is a great source for all things HR.  Read a recent blog post on how  good corporate ethics isn’t just about saying please and thank you:  leaders need to link civility to operations and getting results. Find a roadmap for choosing your organization’s principles of civility here, and more.

March 20, 2011

Mike Myatt, is a Top CEO Coach, author of ”Leadership Matters…The CEO Survival Manual“ and is the Managing Director and Chief Strategy Officer at N2growth. His blog is rich with ideas on all things leadership. Here’s his views on how to help your employees acquire, transfer, apply, manage and leverage corporate knowledge effectively.

http://www.n2growth.com/blog/knowledge-management/

I meet too many leaders who, in the safety of a coaching session, admit to a tremendous lack of caring concern for themselves. It’s not enough to show compassion for others. In fact, it’s empty if you can’t find it for yourself. Kristin Neff is the author of a forthcoming book on the subject and says that people are hard on themselves due to our culture. She says “We have a long history of self-sacrifice and [the belief] that we should put all of our attention on meeting others’ needs. And people really think that self-criticism is an effective motivator, and they believe that if they were kind and supportive to themselves it would mean they wouldn’t work hard, they wouldn’t strive to improve.” Read more here.

March 13, 2011

You have too much to do and not enough brain-space to get it done effectively without losing your mind! Add on to this that, typically, we lose 2 hours a day with interruptions and distractions.  Here’s  a nice round-up of tips from a variety of bloggers on how busy people can manage their time more effectively: