How to create inspired and effective teams.
http://www.astd.org/Publications/Magazines/TD/TD-Archive/2013/08/Cultivating-Growth-and-Innovation
How well can you function without technology? As leaders, we may need to disconnect to reconnect.
http://www.astd.org/Publications/Blogs/Workforce-Development-Blog/2013/07/Disconnect-to-Reconnect
Here’s a hard look at some forward-thinking areas of management theory (not due to their validity but owing to their advocates), as well as a way that game theory may be used to detect and thwart such chicanery.
http://www.astd.org/Publications/Blogs/Workforce-Development-Blog/2013/07/Game-Theory-and-the-Advancement-of-Management-Science-Part-2
Motivation and engagement lead to enhanced employee performance. We now know that money plays a limited role in fostering motivation and companies need to create constant engagement starting with the job, work environment, empowerment, equitable conditions and other things beyond work to create strong bonds with the organisation.
http://www.astd.org/Publications/Blogs/ASTD-Blog/2013/08/Eight-Ways-to-Boost-Employee-Morale
Organization results fall into three buckets: employee results, customer results, and investor results. Rising awareness of social responsibility suggests a fourth bucket: community results.
http://www.astd.org/Publications/Blogs/Workforce-Development-Blog/2013/07/Org-Results-What-Comes-First
Over the past 20 years, we’ve identified leaders who had remarkable abilities to influence change—rapidly, profoundly, and sustainably. Here are three things effective leaders do to influence remarkable and repeated success.
http://www.astd.org/Publications/Blogs/Workforce-Development-Blog/2013/07/Three-Ways-Effective-Leaders-Influence-Change
After working with teams for over 20 years, I have found that team unity is the result of two very important ingredients coming together: 1) when people care about their team’s goal and 2) when people care about their teammates.
http://www.astd.org/Publications/Blogs/Workforce-Development-Blog/2013/07/Two-Main-Ingredients-That-Create-Team-Unity
Most of us view leaders like this: Standing high and mighty on a mountaintop thinking about strategies and ways to inspire people with their noble vision for the business.
We view managers as doing the grunt work to make sure all that vision stuff gets carried out.
http://www.astd.org/Publications/Blogs/ASTD-Blog/2013/07/At-Work-Best-Leaders-Heads-Arent-in-the-Clouds
The people in your team, your function, and your organization are living a story. It’s a dramatic journey of heroes, and it is unfolding right now. As a leader, you are the narrator, and your role is to comment on the story and help people make sense of it.
http://www.astd.org/Publications/Blogs/Workforce-Development-Blog/2013/07/You-Live-and-Lead-in-a-World-of-Stories
Ego development should be a major component of leadership development. We need to understand our shadow side (dark side) so that we cast more “light” than “darkness” in our organization or whenever we are in positions of influence.
http://www.astd.org/Publications/Blogs/Workforce-Development-Blog/2013/07/Leaders-Dont-Let-Ego-Win