 | | | | by Cary Jehl Broussard | Article
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| | | Cary Jehl Broussard is the author of From Cinderella to CEO: How to Master the 10 Lessons of Fairy Tales and Transform Your Work Life and one of the country's top experts in marketing to women and diverse populations. Volunteer Voices sat down with Broussard to find out how women across the country are balancing their personal, professional and volunteer time and to pick her brain for some tips that you can apply to your life. | |
 | | | | by Randy Ransleben | Web Video
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| | Management is a balancing act between hitting the goals put forth by your organization and keeping the people on your team happy, fulfilled and productive. At times, the needs of one side of this equation seem to be at odds with the other. Randy Ransleben will help you get a handle on managing in today's work environment. This video will help you to become a better, more rounded manager and leader in your company.
Time: 26:37
Randy Ransleben is with Ransleben Consulting Services of Houston, Texas and has been coaching business through change. For more information about Randy or to get in contact with him, go to his website www.leadershipandchange.com. | |
 | | | | | Like it or not, taking risks is an inevitable and inescapable part of life. This article by Bill Treasurer outlines the ways you can make risk work for you.
Bill Treasurer is the founder of Giant Leap Consulting, Inc., a courage-building company. Giant Leap’s mission is to help people and organizations be more courageous. Treasurer is also the author of Right Risk: 10 Powerful Principles for Taking Giant Leaps with Your Life. | |
| | | | by Cary Jehl Broussard | Article
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| | | The best Chief Executive Officers I’ve worked for are those who personally shared their vision informally and formally with ALL their constituencies, and did not overlook their most important audience, their employees. And by sharing their vision, I don’t mean just through a press release or email…. CEOs who personally invited and encouraged employees to think like a CEO at all levels. | |
 | | | | by Mike Thompson | Web Video
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| | Purpose:
This video will facilitate building a personal mission statement and gaining alignment with an organization or employer. This video will help you find direction in your career and move beyond simply punching the clock.
Supporting Document:
There is a workbook that is provided for download upon purchase of this webcast. Please print a copy before viewing this webcast.
Description:
Charting a course is necessary to arriving at your desired destination. Just like you wouldn’t embark on an ocean voyage without first plotting a safe course to your destination, it is foolish to try and navigate your career without taking some time to find your north star.
Mike Thompson’s Discover Your Mission Vision & Values gives you the tools you need to discover what drives you, what invigorates you and how to best apply that to your career.
Whether you are a seasoned veteran brushing up your personal mission statement or a young professional just starting out, you will find solid, applicable teaching in this webcast that will bring focus and direction back to your career.
Attention Team Leaders:
Do you want to build your organization’s sense of team? Do you want your employees to have better alignment with your organization’s goals? This video and accompanying workbook will be an invaluable resource on your next team-building/planning retreat. This video will help to elevate the engagement level of your team, and start reaching your organizational goals.
This webcast is one hour and 10 minutes in length, but allot at least an afternoon if not a whole weekend to fully engage with the content. There are eight sections and assignments in this webcast.
Time: 1 Hour 10 Minutes | |
 | | | | by Dave Guerra | Online Book
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| | In this groundbreaking new book, Dave Guerra proposes a stunningly simple way through today's complex world of work, introducing us to a new management science, showing how Superperformance springs from the intersection of an organization's process and its passion. Guerra proposes a simple formula:
Process x Culture = Superperformance.
This book is about the phenomenal year-after-year success of companies who consistently apply this formula. It is about the simple rules that have enabled companies like Toyota, Southwest Airlines, Microsoft, Harley Davidson and others to achieve and sustain super results year after year. | |
 | | | | | | Lead people, manage process. This article from Corpus Optima explains the power of this simple phrase. | |
 | | | | by Joshua Freedman | Article
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| | | Why should leaders care about feelings? Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence and the new Social Intelligence, says the latest science makes a compelling case. He discusses a new leadership imperative for optimizing human performance and the research that makes attention to feelings a bottom-line priority. | |
| | | | by Joshua Freedman | Article
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| | | Daniel Pink discusses his latest book, A Whole New Mind, with emotional intelligence expert Joshua Freedman, and identifies key skills for leaders in a changing marketplace. | |
| | | | by Joshua Freedman | Article
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| | | When the stakes are high, life and death for the people or the company, change will happen – right? Fast Company senior writer Alan Deutschman was surprised that the answer is “no.” He was attending a conference on the future of healthcare where the dean of Johns Hopkins talked about what happens to cardiac patients when they’re told to “change or die.” The incident led to an in-depth analysis of individual and organizational change with a startling conclusion: While change is possible, the usual approach doesn’t work. | |
 | | | | by Bruce Honig, Honig IdeaGuides | Online Book
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| | | This workbook is an excellent guide and resource for making your meetings more productive and engaging. It provides detailed descriptions of meeting concepts and tools/techniques. It is organized into 3 areas: Concepts: All of the basic concepts for running effective meetings. It includes: keys to effective meetings, the meeting process, room-set-up, meeting roles, dealing with difficult situations, problem solving process, facilitating, 14 keys to collaborative teams and more. Tools: tools for running meetings - includes templates for agendas and action planning, warm ups, idea generation processes, decision making processes, and ways to evaluate the meeting. Recording: principles for recording ideas and meeting content. | |
| | | | by Bruce Honig, Honig IdeaGuides | Online Book
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| | | This handbook provides the concepts and simple, easy-to-use tools and exercises for cultivating creativity and innovation in you as well as for others. It is divided into 4 sections that correspond to the four key methods of developing creativity and innovation (focus on these four methods and your creativity and innovation will bloom): Blocks and Barriers, Exercise and Practice, Tools and Techniques, and Awareness and Education. | |
 | | | | by ContextThinking.com | Online Book
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| | | Develop your critical thinking in 1 day in your home, office, or on the move. Use universal instellectual standards to check the quality of your thinking and reasoning about an issue or problem. | |
 | | | | | | This article goes through 10 reasons why teamwork is unnatural and specific actions leaders can take to foster teamwork. It allows for a great discussion with your team. | |
 | | | | by Bill Thomas | Online Book
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| | Explains how leadership roles and styles can generate, exchange or amplify the energies of employees and improve the quality of your human capital assets. Helps leaders inspire, coach and cultivate the potential of their organization's human resources and talent pool. You will learn three better ways to lead people: 1) how simple but effective leadership skills can solve most problem situations, 2) using key objectives or goals of leadership training courses and executive development programs to elevate your daily performance; 3) how to apply strategic leadership behaviors to empower, engage and encourage higher levels of employee commitment and increase supervisory or management excellence.
Length: 28 Pages | |
| | | | by Bill Thomas | Online Book
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| | Provides leaders with methods, processes and strategies for critically thinking about, evaluating and planning actions they need to help develop their understanding of people, information and their operational realities. Emphasizes the cognitive, evaluation and innovative aspects of leadership behavior and tasks. It explains the essential activities, attitudes and attributes leaders must master to become innovative, facilitative, productive agents, managers and champions of change.
Length: 22 Pages | |
| | | | by Bill Thomas | Online Book
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| | Explores the 'inner-game' and the universal practices of personal, professional and organizational leadership. Examines the foundation of strength great leaders stand on, including personal values, curiosity, positive mental attitudes, commitment and more. In depth descriptions of 35 keys of leadership power, 21 ways to increase your leadership effectiveness, 7 elements of vivid visions, developing strategic plans and leadership agendas, the source of wisdom and native emotional intelligence, managing knowledge or service workers, the discipline of leadership strategy, quality improvement strategies, enriching human capital, leadership behaviors, styles and roles. Diagrams include the core components of human capital, a cognitive map of organizational leadership as well as an action-based research learning model.
Length: 217 Pages | |
 | | | | by James H. Saylor | Online Book
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| | This is a self guided workbook for any organization, group, team, or committee seeking to create a common focus. This book provides guidance for performing strategic planning, creating a vision, developing a mission, determining organizational values and setting goals. Specifically, creating a common focus considerations include:- Focus on the future with a vision
- Orient everyone toward a common mission
- Communicate principles with a value statement
- Use a strategic planning process
- Seek action
This VICTORY Guide provides:- 9 essentials for creating a common focus
- 4 key processes for effective strategic planning
- 6 step worksheet for creating a vision
- 7 step worksheet for developing a mission
- 6 step worksheet for determining organizational values
- 5 step worksheet for setting goals
- and more!
Length: 102 Pages | |
| | | | by James H. Saylor | Online Book
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| | LEARN HOW TO USE CONSENSUS DECISION MAKING
This is a self guided basic business workbook for any team, group, and committee seeking to use consensus decision making. Specifically, using consensus decision making requires:- Communicating
- Opening team members minds to new ideas
- Nurturing ideas of all team members
- Sharing information
- Encouraging everyone's participation
- Nurturing active discussion; don't vote
- Supporting ideas that are best for everyone
- Understanding that differences are strength
- Seeking win/win solutions
This VICTORY Guide provides:- 9 reasons to use consensus decision making
- 4 critical times to use consensus for a decision
- 3 other methods for decision making
- 12 step process to reach a decision by consensus
- step-by-step worksheet to guide consensus decision making
- and much more!
Length: 12 Pages | |
| | | | by James H. Saylor | Online Book
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| | LEARN WHAT IT TAKES TO BECOME A PROGRESSIVE LEADER
This is an introduction to being a progressive leader. Specifically, progressive leaders:Lead by exampleEstablish a common purposeAct to develop a superior organizationDrive excellenceEnhance othersReinforce progressThis VICTORY Guide provides:- definition of progressive leadership
- why progressive leadership
- 6 key elements for progressive leaders
- 6 fundamental questions leaders must ask everyday
- 7 guidelines to lead by example
- 8 considerations to develop a superior organization
- 7 actions to drive excellence
- 7 methods to enhance others
- 7 guidelines to reinforce progress
- 6 step action process to become a progressive leader
- a progressive leader assessment
- and much more!
Length: 27 Pages | |
| | | | by James H. Saylor | Online Book
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| | LEARN THE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS FOR ANY ORGANIZATION
This is an overview of the MANAGING FOR VICTORY System. The system includes practical, proven processes in a simple to understand acrostics based format to dramatically innovate your organization’s management system.
MANAGING FOR VICTORY shows you how:- Visioning creates a common focus
- Involving everyone establishes a superior organization
- Continuously improving achieves excellence
- Training, educating, coaching, facilitating, mentoring develops a learning culture
- Owning the work process fosters empowerment
- Recognizing and rewarding builds high performance
- Yearning for victory ensures success
This VICTORY Guide provides:- 3 major reasons for using MANAGING FOR VICTORY System
- 7 benefit of the SYSTEM
- 10 essential beliefs of the philosophy
- 5 critical element of the foundation
- 9 requirements of the VICTORY framework
- 8 considerations for using customers to drive VICTORY
- 5 actions to create a common focus
- 7 elements to establish a superior organization
- 5 specific methods to achieve excellence
- 5 steps to develop a learning culture
- 3 guidelines to foster empowerment
- 7 critical actions to build high performance
- 7 elements to ensure success
- 6 characteristics of progressive leaders
- and more!
Length: 108 Pages | |
| | | | by James H. Saylor | Online Book
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| | LEARN HOW TO FOSTER OWNERSHIP OF WORK PROCESS
This is a practical guide for any organization seeking to foster ownership of work processes. This book provides leaders or managers specific guidelines to:- Organize for ownership
- Walk the walk of empowerment
- Nurture pride
This VICTORY Guide provides:- 3 key elements to foster ownership of work processes
- 7 activities to organize for ownership
- 5 reasons to organize for ownership
- 5 essentials to walk the walk of empowerment
- 5 actions to nurture pride
- 5 step to provide an excellence organizational environment
- 4 considerations to reinforce the value of individual contributions
- 6 requirements for investing in people
- 7 actions to display progress
- 6 steps to establish pride communication system
- action process to measure your commitment to work
- and more!
Length: 23 Pages | |
| | | | by James H. Saylor | Online Book
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| | LEARN HOW TO ENSURE SUCCESS IN ANY ORGANIZATION
This is a practical guide for any organization seeking to ensure success. This book provides leaders or managers specific guidelines to:- Support change
- Use passion
- Choose to deal with difficult issues
- Create progressive thinking
- Encourage calculated risk
- Study and learn from success and failure
- Seek optimum technology
This VICTORY Guide provides:- 7 key elements to ensure success
- 6 processes to support change
- 7 essentials to use passion
- 4 steps to deal with difficult issues
- 5 activities to create progressive thinking
- 4 step process for taking calculated risk
- 4 methods to study and learn from success and failure
- 10 considerations to seek optimum technology
- 7 step action process to produce success practices
- and more!
Length: 48 Pages | |
| | | | by James H. Saylor | Online Book
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| | LEARN HOW TO RECOGNIZE AND REWARD TO BUILD HIGH PERFORMANCE
This is a practical guide for any organization seeking to build a high performing organization using recognition and rewards. Specifically, recognizing and rewarding to build high performance includes:- Satisfy people with the organizational environment
- Act to create a recognition system
- Take time for praise
- Institutionalize celebrations
- Systematize rewards
- Foster rewards for teams
- Yield high performance
This VICTORY Guide provides:- 7 essentials for recognizing and rewarding to build high performance
- 5 keys to satisfy people with organizational environment
- 9 actions to create a recognition system
- 6 step process for giving praise
- 7 considerations to institutionalize celebrations
- 7 actions to systemize rewards
- 4 essentials to foster rewards for teams
- 5 requirements to yield high performance
- 7 step action process to optimize individual in organization
- and more!
Length: 37 Pages | |
| | | | by James H. Saylor | Online Book
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| | LEARN HOW TO DEVELOP A LEARNING CULTURE
This is a practical guide for any organization seeking to develop a learning culture. Specifically, developing a learning culture involves:- Launch the learning organization
- Establish a learning system
- Allow self-development
- Record development activities
- Name learning achievements
This VICTORY Guide provides:- 5 processes to develop a learning culture
- 9 steps to launch the learning organization
- 6 actions to establish a learning system
- 8 essentials to allow self development
- 6 activities to record development
- 4 methods to name learning achievements
- 7 step action process to develop individual competencies
- and more!
Length: 32 Pages | |
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