Leading Effectively e-Newsletter - 2004 Archive Abstracts
December 2004: Training Matters: Finding A Leadership Program That Fits
Whatever your specific leadership challenges, choosing the right training program can be a real challenge for managers. This issue of Leading Effectively examines why open-enrollment programs — also called public programs — can be a smart choice for individuals and organizations interested in enhancing their leadership capacity — and how participants can make the most of them.
- Get a Boost From Open-enrollment Programs
- Why Take a Program?
- Three Views: Leaders Weigh in On Their Program Experience
- Taking it Further: Open Enrollment for Organizations
- Entertainment Plus Leadership: DIRECTV Builds Leadership Capacity Through CCL Programs
- Getting the Most Out of Your Program
- November Poll Results: Leadership Challenges
November 2004: An Infusion of Fresh Ideas
In late September, more than 150 leaders from around the world gathered in Oak Brook, Ill., for the Center's sixth annual Friends of the Center Leadership Conference. Tackling topics such as how burnout and lack of energy affect leaders, what can be learned from successful entrepreneurs, and the challenge and benefits of understanding diversity, conference attendees experienced a two-day infusion of fresh thinking. This issue of Leading Effectively shares ideas and insights from the conference's five keynote speakers.
- Creating a Global Society: Separation Without Separateness
- Leader Fuel: Find Your Energy
- Leadership, Learning, Knowledge and Technology
- Inclusion: What You Don't Know Is Hurting You
- Know When to Lead Like an Entrepreneur
October 2004: Ethics & Leadership
Shoddy ethics. No integrity. Poor character. Untrustworthy.
In this age of high-profile corporate scandals and growing government scrutiny of business, these phrases are all too often associated with leaders and leadership. The gap is widening between many organizations and the faith the public has in them. In this issue of Leading Effectively, we explore ways in which that gap might be narrowed by paying closer attention to ethics, character and integrity and their connection to leadership and leader development.
This issue of Leading Effectively is based on articles from the CCL/Jossey-Bass magazine, Leadership in Action.
- Ethics, Trust and Making Decisions
- A Case for Character
- The Five E's of Character Development
- Look Inward: Self-insight Strengthens Integrity
- A Moral Muddle? Why Organizations Struggle with Ethics
- September Poll Results: Intuition's Role in Leadership
Learning to listen to your "gut" — or intuition — is not a skill that's taught in business schools or in the office, but most seasoned managers put it to use in some way. Often we think of intuition as a random "sense" or an idea that came "out of the blue." Intuition is, in fact, the result of the brain efficiently processing information, patterns and ideas. By developing your intuition, you can learn from experience and confidently make quick decisions, improving the overall effectiveness of your leadership.
This issue of Leading Effectively is based on the CCL publication, Developing Your Intuition: A Guide to Reflective Practice, by Talula Cartwright.
- Taking the Mystery Out of Intuition
- Counter-intuitive: Speed Up by Slowing Down
- Monday Morning Tools: Tapping Your Intuition
- Intuitive Mix: Four Tools for Reflective Practice
- A Leader Transforms: Facing the Unknown with Intuition
- August Poll Results: Developing Resiliency
August 2004: Becoming Resilient: Leadership, Uncertainty, and Learning to Thrive in Times of Change
Managers, the media and academics all cite flexibility, agility and adaptability as essential traits for individuals and organizations in today's fast-paced and uncertain times. But resilience — the ability to recover from change, hardship or misfortune — extends those concepts even further. By developing resiliency, we can not only survive change but also learn, grow and thrive in it. For leaders, resiliency is critical for making decisions in the face of uncertainty and dealing with the personal (and emotional) toll of the unknown.
This issue of Leading Effectively focuses on personal resiliency — what it is and how to hone it. We also share some thoughts on how organizations can become more adaptable and resilient.
- What is Resiliency?
- When Things Go Wrong: Lessons Learned and Bouncing Back
- Relax, It's Only Uncertainty
- Beyond the Leader: Building Organizational Resiliency
- July Poll Results: Effective Influence
July 2004: Influence: Gaining Commitment, Getting Results
Influence. It's an urgent matter for many managers who work with CCL. "How can I influence others more effectively — especially those I have no direct authority over?" they ask. "How do I persuade others to get on board and contribute?" In a recent CCL online survey, 57 percent of respondents said they want to learn more about "managing politics and influencing others." Influence also ranks as one of the most in-demand subjects in CCL's custom leadership development programs.
This month, CCL offers three opportunities to learn more about influence. This issue of Leading Effectively offers a chance to learn and to practice ways of influencing others. A new CCL guidebook on the topic — Influence: Gaining Commitment, Getting Results — has just been published. And on July 14, you can benefit from the advice of CCL experts on influence, David Baldwin and Curt Grayson, by joining us for an interactive, live online discussion on Influential Leadership (see below.)
- Influence: A Leadership Essential
- Resistance, Compliance or Commitment?
- How Do You Influence?
- Monday Morning Tools: Preparing a Plan of Influence
- GlaxoSmithKline: Regional Sales Reps Focus on Influence
- June Poll Results: Evaluating the Impact
What are the outcomes of leadership development efforts undertaken by you and your organization? What is their impact on your career and the well-being of your organization? At CCL, we believe it is critical to develop effective ways to assess the impact and value of leadership development. So whether you are focused on your own leadership or have responsibility for developing the leadership of others, this issue of Leading Effectively will help you understand how to evaluate the results of your efforts.
- Why Evaluation Matters to Managers
- Beyond ROI: Considering Impact
- Five Steps for Evaluating Leadership Development
- How Evaluation Works: The Method Matters
- A Tale of Two Companies
- May Poll Results: New Approaches to Leadership
Since CCL's founding in 1970, a simple principle has been at the heart of our work: transforming ideas into action. We know leadership isn't just about theory. It's about what works now and how you can prepare for what's down the road. In this issue of Leading Effectively, we help you take action by sharing practical insights from our newest book, The CCL Guide to Leadership in Action: How Managers and Organizations Can Improve the Practice of Leadership. Based on material from CCL's periodical Leadership in Action , this new book features a collection of articles that offer relevant ideas and useful tips for enhancing your leadership development and practice. Five of those articles have been abridged for this month's issue of Leading Effectively.
- Making the Connection: Leadership Skills and Emotional Intelligence
- Nine Keys to Good Leadership
- Adaptability: What It Takes to Be a Quick-change Artist
- Throwing the Right Switches: How to Keep Your Executive Career on Track
- Putting Some Life into Your Leadership
- April Poll Results: New Approaches to Leadership
In this issue of Leading Effectively, we look at how leadership amounts to much more than merely the sum of its parts. In other words, effective leadership takes more than developing skilled individual managers — it also requires connections, relationships and systems. Drawing on the newly released second edition of The Center for Creative Leadership Handbook of Leadership Development, as well as other published works by CCL faculty members, we explore here how organizations can tackle today's complex leadership challenges through greater connectivity, creativity and continuity.
- Developing Leaders ... And A Whole Lot More
- New Organizational Competencies: Versatility and Connectivity
- Complexity Ahead? Focus on Leadership Tasks, Not Leaders
- Facing Complex Challenges Through Exploration
- March Poll Results: Targeted Innovation
Most of us are taught to solve problems and to approach work through logic and analysis. Yet the kinds of challenges many leaders face today are not always easily solved by such approaches. In an environment where ambiguity, complexity and a fast pace are the norm, fostering innovation and new ways of thinking is an essential managerial skill. In this issue of CCL's e-newsletter, we'll begin to demystify the creative process.
- Monday Morning Tools: Practical Creativity
- Landmarks: Guidelines for Choosing a Creative Path
- Complex Challenges, Creative Solutions
- Harness the Waves of Change with "Positive Turbulence"
- February Poll Results: Reality LD: How Leaders Develop in the Context of Difference
Leader development is not a "one size fits all proposition." Yet, much of what is believed about leaders and their development ignores the reality of difference. Over the years, CCL has come to understand how difference — whether gender, race, culture or other defining characteristic — contributes to the experience of leading and learning.
- What's Different About Different?
- Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Understanding the Choices & Tradeoffs of High-Achieving Women
- Race & Leader Development: Assumption of Similarity, Reality of Difference
- Crossing Cultures: Developing Leaders In a Global Context
- Global Managers: Leading Across Difference is the Norm
- January Poll Results: The Development of Teams
Making Teams Work: Steps and Structures for Building Effective Teams
You know you need a team. So what's next? As a team leader, you can help establish structures, norms and processes that can make the difference between a team that is effective and one that is not. This issue of the CCL e-Newsletter describes a number of key ingredients for successful teams.
- Start it Right: Set Course for Empowerment
- Getting Clear: Four Keys to High-performance
- Conflict Happens: How to Make Team Conflict Productive, Not Destructive
- What to Look For: Maintaining Team Performance
- December Poll Results: Your View on Ideas Presented in The Center for Creative Leadership Handbook of Leadership Development
