Leadership Skills Resources

  • Exploring The Heart of Human Achievement: Six Simple Truths

    Exploring The Heart of Human Achievement: Six Simple Truths

    Learn the six enduring leadership principles that will help aspiring leaders become more effective and respected along their journey.

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  • 2024 HR/L&D Trends Survey: Navigating the High-Expectation Work Environment

    2024 HR/L&D Trends Survey: Navigating the High-Expectation Work Environment

    This year’s survey paints a picture of organizations taking experimental steps during a time of accelerated change.

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  • 3 Heart-Centered Principles of Leadership

    3 Heart-Centered Principles of Leadership

    The best leaders get their egos out of the way and become servant leaders who treat people with love and respect says leadership expert Ken Blanchard.

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  • Four Strategies for Listening so that People Feel Heard

    Four Strategies for Listening so that People Feel Heard

    Use these four communication skills to determine a person's levels of competence and commitment at a task. Once you have a better understanding of these qualities, you can lead situationally!

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  • The Role of Strategic and Operational Leadership Skills: How and When to Use in a Government Setting

    The Role of Strategic and Operational Leadership Skills: How and When to Use in a Government Setting

    Private sector and public sector organizations have three common organizational goals, which must be met for leadership to be labeled effective.

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  • Are You a Directive or Supportive Leader?

    Are You a Directive or Supportive Leader?

    Forty years of Blanchard research has proven that the best leadership style is the one that matches the developmental needs of the person you’re working with.

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  • SLII. Why a Situational Approach to Leadership Makes All the Difference

    SLII. Why a Situational Approach to Leadership Makes All the Difference

    This study investigates the effectiveness of the four leadership styles of the SLII model, which evolved from initiating structure and consideration.

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  • A Head and Heart Approach to Next-Generation Leadership

    A Head and Heart Approach to Next-Generation Leadership

    Ken Blanchard and Scott Blanchard share what’s changed and what’s stayed the same when it comes to focusing people’s energy and efforts toward a shared goal.

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  • 3 Conversations Leaders Need to Master

    3 Conversations Leaders Need to Master

    Learn how to improve the quality and quantity of conversations taking place throughout your organization.

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  • Goal Setting to Improve Performance: 4 Best Practices

    Goal Setting to Improve Performance: 4 Best Practices

    Goal setting drives performance in the workplace. Collaborate, create stretch goals, give feedback on performance, and hold quarterly check-ins says Doug Glener.

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  • Leading with Empathy

    Leading with Empathy

    People want an empathetic leader. Many managers strive to be one. But ask someone to define the term, and you’re likely to be met with silence. Let’s start with the definition. According to...

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  • Core Skills Every Manager Should Master

    Core Skills Every Manager Should Master

    Making the transition from being an individual contributor to a manager can be a dramatic shift.

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  • Managing the Hybrid Work Experience

    Managing the Hybrid Work Experience

    Organizations and their team members can successfully navigate the unique challenges of a hybrid work environment by focusing on the right strategies says virtual work expert John Hester.

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  • Make Career Conversations a Regular Agenda Item in One-on-Ones

    Make Career Conversations a Regular Agenda Item in One-on-Ones

    Why would anyone want to be a career builder when they risk losing the people they develop? It’s a provocative question many leaders answer by not developing their people. But this strategy...

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  • Developing Your Leadership Point of View

    Developing Your Leadership Point of View

    Leaders are not robots; they are human beings with values and worldviews shaped by their own experiences. In the best leaders these lead to a personal leadership philosophy—a leadership point of view.

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  • The No-Os of Leadership with Mike Easley

    The No-Os of Leadership with Mike Easley

    Mike Easley explains why self-awareness and empathy are crucial for anyone aspiring to be a leader—especially a leader worth following.

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  • Meeting the Quota Challenge: Critical Skills Every Sales Manager Needs to Excel

    Meeting the Quota Challenge: Critical Skills Every Sales Manager Needs to Excel

    Learn Blanchard’s point of view on solving the problem of the struggling sales manager through developing their leadership skills

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  • Turning New Hires into Top Performers... Quickly

    Turning New Hires into Top Performers... Quickly

    Hiring and retaining workers is the defining challenge as we move nearer to the post-pandemic workplace.

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  • Building Resilience in Times of Crisis

    Building Resilience in Times of Crisis

    As we all adjust to a changing landscape and a new normal in our personal and professional lives, it is imperative that we each develop an increased capacity to thrive in the face of adversity.

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  • The Three Secrets of the One Minute Manager—Classic Skills for a New Workplace Reality

    The Three Secrets of the One Minute Manager—Classic Skills for a New Workplace Reality

    Ken Blanchard shares how the principles of The One Minute Manager apply in today's remote work environment.

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