Leadership development: Lessons from the Soccer Field

December 28, 2016 by Wally Bock

Amanda Munsch wrote a fascinating post on the DDI blog titled “Three Leadership Lessons I Learned on the Soccer Field.” Here’s the opening. “My first job after college was as an assistant collegiate soccer coach. Little did I know, that first job would also be my first leadership position. Looking back now, and having read […]




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Free Coaching Exercise: “Focus on the Now”

December 26, 2016 by Sandra Mashihi

This free exercise, and dozens of others, were created for our book, Clueless: Coaching People Who Just Don’t Get It. You can learn more about Clueless by visiting our site or you can buy it from amazon.com today. Purpose of Exercise: This formula for determining approximate days left to live opens clients’ eyes to the […]




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Top Leadership Development Blog Posts this Week: 12/23/16

December 23, 2016 by Wally Bock

Leadership development may be the most important thing any company does. That’s why, every week, I review blogs and other publications that cover leadership development to find the very best leadership development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to posts about overhauling your leadership development program, developing inside leaders, why you should stop trying to […]




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Toss ’em or Keep ’em? What To Do With Harsh Open-Ended Comments in 360-Degree Feedback?

December 21, 2016 by Sandra Mashihi

“A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality.” -Christian Nevell Bovee Open-ended comments have some clear benefits and disadvantages. Participants generally find comments from open-ended questions useful and a great way of clarifying the sometimes confusing quantitative scores (e.g., when rater agreement is low but average scores are moderate or moderately high). Open-ended comments […]




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Leadership development: Find people who want to lead

December 21, 2016 by Wally Bock

Sometimes I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. The Harvard Business Review is a respected and valuable publication. The article title, “Your Leadership Development Program Needs an Overhaul,” certainly caught my attention. The opening paragraph was promising. “Most companies make big investments in leadership development, rolling out intensive internal programs for high potentials, sending […]




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Free Coaching Exercise: “Identifying My Mentors”

December 19, 2016 by Sandra Mashihi

This free exercise, and dozens of others, were created for our book, Clueless: Coaching People Who Just Don’t Get It. You can learn more about Clueless by visiting our site or you can buy it from amazon.com today. Purpose of Exercise: To help clients identify insight or learning contributed by mentors. How to Administer and Use […]




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Top Leadership Development Blog Posts this Week: 12/16/16

December 16, 2016 by Wally Bock

Leadership development may be the most important thing any company does. That’s why, every week, I review blogs and other publications that cover leadership development to find the very best leadership development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to posts about leadership development to become CEO, seven tenets of a good succession process, leadership development […]




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How to Determine the Types of Training/Certification to Interpret 360-Degree Feedback

December 14, 2016 by Sandra Mashihi

 “We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.” -Mother Teresa Most researchers support the idea that some level of training is required to professionally and ethically provide feedback using […]




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Leadership development: Helping old dogs learn new tricks

December 14, 2016 by Wally Bock

Andrea Derler wrote a fascinating piece in Bersin by Deloitte’s Business of Talent titled “A Look Ahead at Leadership 2016/2017.” Here’s one thing that jumped out at me. “Leading others in the new world of work looks profoundly different from managing employees in previous decades. New generations entering the workforce pose major challenges for those […]




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Free Coaching Exercise: Asking Others to Change by Using the DESC Technique

December 12, 2016 by Ken Nowack

This free exercise, and dozens of others, were created for our book, Clueless: Coaching People Who Just Don’t Get It. You can learn more about Clueless by visiting our site or you can buy it from amazon.com today. Purpose of Exercise: Teaches a communication technique used to influence others without defensiveness. How to Administer and […]




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