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The Majority of Americans Now Report No Gender Preference for a Boss

Gallup has been asking American workers about their preferences in the workplace for years and...

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Learning True Leadership Requires Hard Work

“There is nothing impossible to him who will try.” - Alexander the Great

In my time as a leadership development...

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Music is powerful. It can alter moods, inspire, bridge divides, and bring people together. It also has an uncanny way of sticking with us.

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5 trends for Leadership Development in 2018

Each year, learning and development professionals face similar questions: Where should we invest our time and...

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Our most-loved and best tidbits of knowledge from 2017

As each year comes to a close, it’s good to reflect on new skills, goals, and successes from the past year...

Assess your current leadership development maturity and start planning for the future

The mindset of continuous improvement is one that HR and L&D professionals are familiar with. After all,...

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Shift focus from keeping up to getting ahead of change

In some ways, HR and L&D professionals are at the forefront of a lot of organizational change. Not only are we...

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Feedback helps leaders learn to let the action show

Feedback is the most beneficial way of knowing how our behavior is contributing to engagement and performance....

Learning from Exposure engages leaders in different ways

Effective leadership development models satisfy a variety of learning needs using methods from on-the-job learning to coaching to exposure....

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Envision yourself as a better leader

One of my favorite parts of Learning Leadership by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner is chapter eight. Simply titled...