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Leadership Wisdom

Discovering the Lessons of Experience

By: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL),Rola Ruohong Wei,Jeffrey Yip

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Leadership Wisdom

Discovering the Lessons of Experience

By: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL),Rola Ruohong Wei,Jeffrey Yip

In a fast-paced global economy emphasizing innovation and productivity, leaders need to bring as much wisdom as possible to bear on their daily decisions. They often find themselves pulled between making decisions quickly and making them well. The processes described in this guidebook, inquiry and reflection, can help you develop your capacity to make wise choices. You will begin to see a broad range of possible responses and wisely choose the ones that will work best.

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Do You Really Need a Team?

By: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL),Michael E. Kossler,Kim Kanaga

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Do You Really Need a Team?

By: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL),Michael E. Kossler,Kim Kanaga

Despite all of the attention and accolades that organizations place on teams, they are not always the most efficient way to meet a business challenge. It’s expensive and time consuming to launch a team, and it’s a full-time job to lead a team toward achieving organizational objectives. This guidebook was written to help managers determine if a team is the right tool for meeting a business goal, and explains potential obstacles and challenges to forming a team that can operate at its full potential.

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1118155157

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Ongoing Feedback

How to Get It, How to Use It

By: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL),Karen Kirkland,Sam Manoogian

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Ongoing Feedback

How to Get It, How to Use It

By: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL),Karen Kirkland,Sam Manoogian

If you are a manager who has just completed a leadership development experience, such as attending a program or receiving feedback from a 360-degree instrument, or have just experienced a career transition, such as a promotion or a lateral move to a more challenging position, this guidebook can help. You now realize that it is necessary to develop some new skills, use skills that haven’t yet been tested, or hone current skills and abilities. Such skill work requires ongoing feedback from others to help track progress and give an indication of how much more needs to be done.

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1118155076

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Learning from Life

Turning Life's Lessons into Leadership Experience

By: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL),Marian N. Ruderman,Patricia J. Ohlott

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Learning from Life

Turning Life's Lessons into Leadership Experience

By: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL),Marian N. Ruderman,Patricia J. Ohlott

It’s widely accepted in organizations that experience gained from job assignments and formal training helps managers develop their skills in such areas as implementing agendas, working through relationships, creating change, and increasing personal awareness. If you are a manager who has set developmental goals for yourself, you will be able to achieve those goals through skills you learn and practice both on and off the job. This guidebook shows you how experiences from family relationships, friendships, volunteer work, and personal avocations can enhance your professional growth and effectiveness. This guidebook is for both women and men, to help them achieve a richer and more fruitful interaction between work and personal life.

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1118155122

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The Handbook of Leadership Development Evaluation

By: Kelly Hannum,Jennifer W. Martineau,Claire Reinelt

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The Handbook of Leadership Development Evaluation

By: Kelly Hannum,Jennifer W. Martineau,Claire Reinelt

With the increase in the number of organizational leadership development programs, there is a pressing need for evaluation to answer important questions, improve practice, and inform decisions. The Handbook is a comprehensive resource filled with examples, tools, and the most innovative models and approaches designed to evaluate leadership development in a variety of settings. It will help you answer the most common questions about leadership development efforts, including: What difference does leadership development make? What development and support strategies work best to enhance leadership? Is the time and money spent on leadership development worthwhile? What outcomes can be expected from leadership development? How can leadership development efforts be sustained?

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0787982172

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Return on Experience

By: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL),Jeffrey Yip

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Return on Experience

By: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL),Jeffrey Yip

Leadership is best learned from experience, but learning from experience is not always automatic. This guidebook introduces you to a return-on-experience framework. Using this ROE framework, you actively seek to learn from experience in order to build your mastery, broaden your versatility, and benefit your organization. When you understand and apply the framework in your work and organization, everyday experiences can be transformed into an engine for leader development and organizational impact.

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1118163621

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Developing Tomorrow's Leaders Today

Insights from Corporate India

By: Meena Surie Wilson,Center for Creative Leadership (CCL)

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Developing Tomorrow's Leaders Today

Insights from Corporate India

By: Meena Surie Wilson,Center for Creative Leadership (CCL)

Today's large business organizations in India have a voracious need for effective managers and talented leaders; but demand far exceeds supply. This timely and practical book offers thoroughly-researched pointers on how Indian managers can become high-performing business leaders. The leadership development curriculum proposed in these pages is based on extracting lessons from on-the-job experience. Given that the workplace is the medium through which the essentials of leadership are learned, executives and managers at all levels need to know which experiences matter, what are the foremost lessons learned, and how learning occurs. Developing Tomorrow's Leaders Today offers a complete template for effective leadership, including: The seven experiences vital for developing leadership ability The 11 lessons in leadership essential for managerial effectiveness Over 50 stories and 100 wise quotations from today's senior executives that portray how leadership acumen sharpens over time Reflective exercises, self-assessments, and guidelines for self-improvement The underlying research was conducted in cooperation with the Tata Management Training Center in Pune, India, and captures the experiences and leadership lessons learned by over 100 senior Indian business leaders. As such, it offers readers both a compass and a map for traversing the terrain of leadership development. In these pages, early and mid-career managers will find a roadmap for steering their careers towards the higher echelons of executive leadership. Senior executives, at the top of their game, will find a systematic and proactive approach to cultivating the leadership talent that their organizations will require in the future. Global executives operating in India will find out how leadership and management are practiced in India.

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0470827149

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Making Creativity Practical

Innovation That Gets Results

By: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL),Stanley S. Gryskiewicz,Sylvester Taylor

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Making Creativity Practical

Innovation That Gets Results

By: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL),Stanley S. Gryskiewicz,Sylvester Taylor

Creative solutions can be challenged and defended in the pursuit of profitability. But first, creativity must be demystified. A process that targets innovation provides leaders with just such a problem-solving approach. The goal is to produce high-quality ideas that are appropriate to the task—which means groups and organizations can implement them with less risk. Work with the targeted innovation process consists of activities in five areas: stating the problem in a way that encourages creative problem solving, learning and understanding different problem-solving styles, learning and understanding creative pathways and their relationship to problem solving, generating ideas, and evaluating those ideas. Targeted innovation reconciles creativity with management. Managers can use it to solve problems that meet their organization’s call for innovative answers to current challenges.

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1118155238

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Leadership Coaching

When It's Right and When You're Ready

By: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL),Douglas Riddle

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Leadership Coaching

When It's Right and When You're Ready

By: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL),Douglas Riddle

Leadership in the top management ranks is often an isolated business. Many managers recognize that to focus their personal development plans they need the uninterrupted time and attention of a skilled, objective facilitator. This guidebook is for managers who are considering leadership coaching as a tool in their personal leadership development. It describes what leadership coaching is and cna help you decide whether it is appropriate for your situation. You'll also learn how to locate and select a qualified coach with the professional and personal credentials and characteristics that match your development needs so that you can achieve the goals you've set.

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Leadership Wisdom

Discovering the Lessons of Experience

By: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL),Rola Ruohong Wei,Jeffrey Yip

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Discovering the Lessons of Experience

By: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL),Rola Ruohong Wei,Jeffrey Yip

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Three Keys to Development

Defining and Meeting Your Leadership Challenges

By: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL),Henry Browning,Ellen Van Velsor

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Three Keys to Development

Defining and Meeting Your Leadership Challenges

By: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL),Henry Browning,Ellen Van Velsor

During the course of your career, you are likely to have many different kinds of developmental experiences. You may be assigned to or seek out a challenging position that tests your limits. You may establish a relationship with a mentor. You may feel called to provide leadership for some community activity. Or you may seek out further training and educational opportunities, such as formal leadership development programs. All of these different experiences share a common path—they are avenues toward personal and professional growth. These experiences may make you feel as if your learning and development were accelerated. What caused that acceleration? How do you keep the learning momentum going once the experience ends? This guidebook shows you how to enhance the value and impact of developmental experiences.

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1118163613

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Preparing for Development

Making the Most of Formal Leadership Programs

By: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL),Jennifer W. Martineau,Ellie Johnson

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Preparing for Development

Making the Most of Formal Leadership Programs

By: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL),Jennifer W. Martineau,Ellie Johnson

Managers attend leadership development programs for any number of reasons. Sometimes an organization will nominate a specific manager for a program, or send all high-potential managers through a series of development programs. Some managers seek out development programs on their own as part of their personal career objectives. If you’re scheduled to participate in a leadership development program, or if you’re considering such a program, you can substantially increase the benefits to yourself and to your organization by preparing for the development experience. This guidebook will show you how to prepare yourself and how you can help prepare your colleagues and your work environment to make the most of a formal development program.

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Leadership Networking

Connect, Collaborate, Create

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Leadership Networking

Connect, Collaborate, Create

By: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL)

Networking is essential to effective leadership in today's organizations. Leaders who are skilled networkers have access to people, information, and resources to help solve problems and create opportunities. Leaders who neglect their networks are missing out on a critical component of their role as leaders. This book will help leaders take a new view of networking and provide insight into how to enhance their networks and become effective at leadership networking.

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1118155343

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Reaching Your Development Goals

By: Cynthia D. McCauley,Jennifer W. Martineau,Center for Creative Leadership (CCL)

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Reaching Your Development Goals

By: Cynthia D. McCauley,Jennifer W. Martineau,Center for Creative Leadership (CCL)

You have just completed a formal feedback experience—perhaps a management development program, performance review, or 360-degree instrument—and through your feedback from superiors, peers, and subordinates you have learned that you have some behaviors that need changing or skills that need development. You’ve set goals for improvement and your impulse is to start working on them as soon as you can. This guidebook describes three strategies to use as you continue to develop your capacity to lead: seeking challenging assignments at work and away from the job, training for specific skills, and building relationships with people who can support your efforts.

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1882197372

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The Human Side of Knowledge Management

An Annotated Bibliography

By: Pamela S. Mayer,Center for Creative Leadership

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The Human Side of Knowledge Management

An Annotated Bibliography

By: Pamela S. Mayer,Center for Creative Leadership

The technology behind knowledge management is familiar to many managers, but the human side of knowledge management is less familiar. For example, how do motivation and learning affect the individual's acquisition and transfer of knowledge, and how do group dynamics mediate the role of knowledge in an organization? This book reviews the literature that addresses the human side of knowledge acquisition, transfer, and application. The author presents these annotations and a view of knowledge management that provides support for leaders who must capture the information available within their orga.

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Leadership Coaching

When It's Right and When You're Ready

By: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL),Douglas Riddle

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Leadership Coaching

When It's Right and When You're Ready

By: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL),Douglas Riddle

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Leadership Networking

Connect, Collaborate, Create

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Connect, Collaborate, Create

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Finding Your Balance

By: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL),Joan Gurvis,Gordon Patterson

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Finding Your Balance

By: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL),Joan Gurvis,Gordon Patterson

Balance isn’t an issue of time, but an issue of choice. It’s about living your values by aligning your behavior with what you believe is really important. Aligning your behavior with your values is much like any other developmental experience; the basic process involves assessment, challenge, and support. You need to determine where you are, define where you want to go, and then put into place the tools you need to get there. Balance is about more than how you spend your time. It’s about how you live your life. It’s about recognizing that you have control over the choices you make and aligning your behavior with your values.

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Choosing an Executive Coach

By: Karen K. Miller,Center for Creative Leadership (CCL),Wayne Hart

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Choosing an Executive Coach

By: Karen K. Miller,Center for Creative Leadership (CCL),Wayne Hart

As managers move higher in an organization, it can be more difficult for them to get accurate and unbiased input about their performance and leadership skills. Many recognize that to focus their personal development plans they need the uninterrupted time and attention of a skilled, objective professional - an executive coach. This guidebook is for managers who are considering executive coaching as a tool in their personal leadership development. It describes what executive coaching is and can help them decide whether coaching is appropriate. Readers will also learn how to locate and select a qualified coach with the professional and personal credentials and characteristics that can help them achieve their goals."--Publisher's website

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1882197631

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Interpersonal Savvy

Building and Maintaining Solid Working Relationships

By: Center for Creative Leadership

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Interpersonal Savvy

Building and Maintaining Solid Working Relationships

By: Center for Creative Leadership

The success of your daily interactions with others, whether during formal meetings or encounters at the water cooler, can make or break your success in the workplace. Having interpersonal skills will allow you to motivate, inspire, and successfully lead others, as well as further your own career development. This guidebook will show you how, through self-awareness and strategic implementation of behaviors, you can utilize interpersonal savvy to make the most out of negative situations, develop and lead others, and create a positive working environment despite daily challenges and hardships.

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Changing Yourself and Your Reputation

By: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL),Talula Cartwright

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Changing Yourself and Your Reputation

By: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL),Talula Cartwright

This book offers help in making changes--and in getting people to notice them. Changing is hard work. One part of that work is the change itself. You must decide to change and then make the change happen. That in itself is a big accomplishment. But what if you're doing all that work and making significant changes--and no one notices? It can be very discouraging! But take heart! This book shows you how to move on with the second part of the work, the follow-through: getting people to notice that you are changing.

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Giving Feedback to Subordinates

By: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL),Raoul J. Buron,Dana McDonald-Mann

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Giving Feedback to Subordinates

By: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL),Raoul J. Buron,Dana McDonald-Mann

If you’re a manager with people who report directly to you, it’s important that you give them feedback on their behavior and performance. Most of your employees want to do a good job. Many are unaware of the impact of their behavior on their job performance, for good or bad. Feedback from you, their manager, can help them identify what they are doing well and build on those skills, correct problems, and develop new abilities that improve not just their personal lives but also the organization in which they and you work. This guidebook will tell when you should give feedback, how you should deliver it, and how to manage its results.

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1118155106

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The CCL Handbook of Coaching

A Guide for the Leader Coach

By: Sharon Ting,Peter Scisco

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The CCL Handbook of Coaching

A Guide for the Leader Coach

By: Sharon Ting,Peter Scisco

Coaching is vital to developing talent in organizations, and it is an essential capability of effective leaders. The CCL Handbook of Coaching is based on a philosophy of leadership development that the Center for Creative Leadership has honed over thirty years with rigorous research and with long, rich experience in the practice of leadership coaching. The book uses a coaching framework to give a compass to leaders who are called to coach as a means of building sustainability and boosting performance in their organizations. The book explores the special considerations that leader coaches need to account for when coaching across differences and in special circumstances, describes advanced coaching techniques, and examines the systemic issues that arise when coaching moves from a one-to-one relationship to a developmental culture that embraces entire organizations.

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0787976849

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Using Your Executive Coach

By: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL),Wayne Hart,Karen Kirkland

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Using Your Executive Coach

By: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL),Wayne Hart,Karen Kirkland

If you are a manager or executive who is beginning a coaching engagement or who is considering a developmental plan that calls for an executive coach, you need more than a desire to improve your leadership capabilities. You also need to understand how to get the most from your work with a professional coach. This guide can help you to understand the unique nature of a coaching engagement and to assess your readiness to embark on this method of professional development. The book describes the three main elements of a coaching engagement—assessment, challenge, and support— and provides information on how you can collaborate with your coach in each of these aspects to get the maximum benefits from coaching. You will also learn how to recognize and overcome your resistance to the disruption and discomfort brought about by the behavioral changes that coaching addresses.

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Communicating Across Cultures

By: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL),Don W. Prince,Michael H. Hoppe

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Communicating Across Cultures

By: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL),Don W. Prince,Michael H. Hoppe

If you are a manager anywhere in the world, you are almost certainly dealing with people of nationalities and cultures different from your own. In multinational business environments, communicating effectively with people who have languages, customs, and expectations different from yours is a necessary skill. If you are a manager anywhere in the world, you are almost certainly facing this kind of multicultural situation. This guidebook explains how to become aware of cultural differences, how to recognize when cultural differences pose a leadership challenge, and how to adapt your communication style to enhance your effectiveness as a manager.

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1118155114

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Critical Reflections

How Groups Can Learn from Success and Failure

By: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL),Christopher T. Ernst,Andre Martin

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Critical Reflections

How Groups Can Learn from Success and Failure

By: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL),Christopher T. Ernst,Andre Martin

Critical Reflections is a process that leaders can use to help their groups learn lessons from key events, positive or negative. The basic process is short and simple. It begins with a key event and includes three stages: exploring—reliving the event and sharing perceptions of what happened; reflecting—reaching an understanding of how and why it happened; and projecting—harvesting lessons for the future. The goal is to create a specific action plan that will set the stage for a productive future.

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Feedback That Works: How to Build and Deliver Your Message, Second Edition

By: Center for Creative Leadership

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Feedback That Works: How to Build and Deliver Your Message, Second Edition

By: Center for Creative Leadership

Effective feedback, whether it's meant for your boss, your peers, or your direct reports, is built around three ideas. One, focus on the situation. Two, describe the other person's behavior you observed in that situation. And third, describe the impact that behavior had on you. The result is a message that is clear and that can inspire action and productive change

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