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You’re Back from Your Leadership Development Program. Now What?

Harvard Business

Executives who go through leadership development programs often come back with new energy and purpose, ready to transform their teams, themselves, and their organizations. But it can be challenge to gain traction, sustain momentum, and achieve durable post-program results. Success requires determined effort and patience.

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Why Top Performers Don’t Always Make Great Managers

Effective Managers

Skills and Knowledge Have they developed the managerial and leadership competencies needed for success? Application Do they value the new kind of work enough to fully commit their energy and effort to it? As consultants, our job is to help organizations build leadership capacity with intention, not assumption.

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5 Essential Competencies for Executive Leadership

Consulting Matters

From that perspective, leadership is leadership and executives merely have a larger scope and span of control. Politics is all about horizontal leadership or, in other words, leading across organizational boundaries.” Shares leadership with appropriate internal partners. POLITICAL SAVVY. The Bottom Line.

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5 Essential Competencies for Executive Leadership

Consulting Matters

From that perspective, leadership is leadership and executives merely have a larger scope and span of control. Politics is all about horizontal leadership or, in other words, leading across organizational boundaries.” Shares leadership with appropriate internal partners. POLITICAL SAVVY. The Bottom Line.

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The Best Leaders Have a Contagious Positive Energy

Harvard Business

Researchers found that it supersedes charisma, influence, power, personality, attractiveness, and genius.

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The Restorative Power of Small Habits

Harvard Business

But a narrow focus on burnout ignores another key part of wellbeing — the more subtle but equally important ongoing maintenance of one’s energy, especially through the daily challenges of leadership. The authors identify five key energy batteries: physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and social.

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Research: Informal Leadership Comes at a Cost

Harvard Business

Taking on these duties can have a significant negative impact on employees’ energy levels and job satisfaction.

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