All Posts Tagged With: "leadership skills"

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Thanks to Gary Winters for a Great List!

Here is part of a recent post on Gary Winters’ blog, The Leadership Almanac.  He provides leaders with a great list to help them know if they’re on the right track as leaders. What I like about the list is that is focuses on the followers. I often work on websites. It’s amazing how often [...]

1Feb2010 | Jo Ellen Roe | 1 comment | Continued
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E-Mail Is Not the Way to Announce Big Change

I was talking to a friend of mine not long ago, and she told me about a big change brewing where she works.  Several decentralized organizations are merging into one. Leaders say that job reduction is not the primary motivation for this change, but people, says my friend, are “a little nervous.” The news of this change [...]

7Apr2009 | Jo Ellen Roe | 0 comments | Continued
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How to Be Respectful When You Might Not Want to Be

At a place I used to work, a core value was “Respect.” I always wondered why we had to name that as a core value.  Shouldn’t it just be given that people show respect to each other? It should be, but unfortunately, it’s not. How do you define respect? Some people at that company seemed [...]

8Mar2009 | Jo Ellen Roe | 1 comment | Continued
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Slacker Manager Has It Right

From Slacker Manager: Think fast: How much do you know about your team? “The point of this is not to think about EVERY possible thing you can know about your team. The point is, you need to know what IS important to each member of your team, and make it important to you.” Wally’s Comment: [...]

19Feb2009 | Jo Ellen Roe | 1 comment | Continued