Business studies: general

To build morale, pride, and spirit, a leader needs certain characteristics and skills.

On-the-job experiences are crucial for managerial development, and managers learn the most when they approach them with a variety of learning tactics.

As a leader, you have different roles to play with your direct reports.

The Impostor Syndrome is a well-researched, well-documented phenomenon that occurs when successful and intelligent professionals feel they do not deserve their accomplishments and that they have faked their way to success.

No matter where you are in your career, you've probably dealt with some form of organizational change.

In today's business world, the complexity and pace of change can be daunting.

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More and more managerial challenges require leaders to be accountable-to take initiative without having full authority for the process or the outcomes.

If your team isn’t getting results, you may think the problem starts with a failure in leadership.

An essential book on leadership development and coaching, Compass is the go-to reference to help you-and the people you develop-provide the leadership needed in any circumstance to galvanize teams, groups and entire organizations.

Trust is a mechanism of people’s decision-making processes that mediates nearly every interaction in their lives.

Driving impact while managing resources are what most organizations strive to balance in their leadership-development efforts.

Lead 4 Success sets your development as a leader on the right track, focusing on the four fundamental skills that fuel the thoughts and drive the actions of leaders who make a difference: SELF-AWARENESS-understanding who you are and what you have to offer, LEARNING AGILITY-the capability to absorb new information,process it, and use it to meet new challenges quickly and decisively, COMMUNICATION-the ability to establish shared understanding and convey a vision for the future INFLUENCE-the power to persuade others to act on that vision.

Everyone has a reputation.

Effective feedback, whether it's meant for your boss, your peers, or your direct reports, is built around three ideas.

Experience is vital for a leader's success, but merely having an experience (such as a challenging new job, a stretch assignment, or an unexpected hardship) isn't enough.

Influence is an essential component of leadership.

Conflict is inevitable, in everyday life and-especially in today's increasingly non-hierarchical organizations-in the workplace.

With the aid of this action guide, you will determine what and how much you are learning, what parts of your job holds key challenges, and what strategies you might adopt to derive maximal learning from these experiences.

Influence is an essential component of leadership.

Trust is a mechanism of people's decision-making processes that mediates nearly every interaction in their lives.

This is the first edition of this title.

Team success isn't inevitable.

If you want to be an effective leader—at any level—you should pay attention to vision.

Peer conflicts that arise from incompatible goals or from different views on how a task should be accomplished can usually be resolved.

Managing the demands of the workplace and the responsibilities of the rest of your life can be tricky, especially when you’re a driven leader who wants to succeed.

Experience Explorer(TM) Facilitator's Guide: Yesterday's Lessons to Tomorrow's Success is part of the Experience Explorer tool.

Do you feel like you're faking it?

You, as an individual leader, are in the best position to have a significant amount of influence over your talented employees.

This fieldbook aims to put many of the skills and insights gained by participants who have attended management programs through the Community Resource Exchange (CRE).

This publication features the insights of a group of experienced professionals on both sides of the issue.

The Facilitator's Guide details all key workshop procedures - including setup, administration, and follow-up - and provides you with reproducible PowerPoint slides.

The Learning Tactics Inventory profiles a person's preferred learning behavior, outlines the consequences of overuse of each tactic, and explores ways to adopt new learning strategies and behaviors.

Ancient Chinese philosopher Lao-Tzu is often credited with the phrase, "e;The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Some executives use coaching to learn specific skills, others to improve performance on the job or to prepare for career moves in business or professional life.

This guidebook provides an introduction to the basics of leader-coaching, including a structure and a set of guidelines to conduct effective formal and informal coaching conversations with your direct reports.

Giving effective feedback is essential in leadership, as it promotes open communication, provides tangible information employees can act upon, and empowers employees to get things done.

Influence is an essential component of leadership, especially in a nonprofit environment.

Managing the demands of the workplace and the responsibilities of the rest of your life can be tricky, especially when you’re a driven leader who wants to succeed.

Managing the demands of the workplace and the responsibilities of the rest of your life can be tricky, especially when you're a driven leader who wants to succeed.

No matter where you are in your career, you've probably dealt with some form of organizational change.

Advancing in an organization is often a top priority for leaders, but a narrow organizational and personal perspective can severely limit your ability to advance.

Having interpersonal skills will allow you to motivate, inspire, and successfully lead others, as well as further your own career development.

This guidebook outlines the benefits of effective delegation and the fears and concerns that can prevent or hinder it, then offers four key ideas that leaders can use to enable better delegation.

Influence is an essential component of leadership.

Ambition is a good thing, but too much of it can cause problems.

You, as an individual leader, are in the best position to have a significant amount of influence over your talented employees.

A dynamic, interactive tool designed to stimulate creative, insightful conversations in and among groups about leadership.

Even in the midst of economic upheaval, organizations need to recognize that selecting, developing, and managing the right leadership talent will help them not only survive but thrive when the economy eventually rebounds.

This Center for Creative Leadership® publication contributes to a greater understanding of adaptability and the cognitive, emotional, and dispositional flexibility it requires.