Leading Effectively e-Newsletter - 2007 Archive Abstracts
December 2007 Issue: Take Action: 5 Challenges to Face in 2008
Get ready to take your leadership skills up a notch or two in the New Year. In this issue of Leading Effectively, we offer ideas and actions to help you enhance your approach to five common challenges.
- Challenge: Getting Noticed -- in a Good Way
- Challenge: Desperately Seeking Innovation
- Challenge: Is Anyone Listening?
- Challenge: Going with your Gut
- Challenge: Learn from Mistakes... And Repeat Successes
- Results of the CCL Poll: Leading Sideways
November 2007 Issue: Unbalanced Influence: How Myths and Paradoxes Shape Leaders
As a leader, you've probably thought about how you can best influence others. But have you considered who and what influences you? CCL's Pete Hammett, author of Unbalanced Influence, describes leadership myths and paradoxes that influence and shape today's leaders.
- Under What Influence?
- The Myth of Effective Leadership
- Myth of Effective Decision Making
- The Myth of "Elegant Reasoning"
- 4 Paradoxes: Opposing forces offer new wisdom
- Results of the CCL Poll: Building Relationships
October 2007 Issue: Leadership Networking: Relate, Collaborate, and Get Things Done
Forget the idea of networking as schmoozing and collecting business cards. For leaders, networking is about relationships and collaboration. Read on to find out about the demand for leaders who are savvy relationship builders -- and how you can take a leadership approach to networking.
- Data Points: Relationship Skills In Demand
- Relationship Skills Can Be Learned
- Leadership Networking: It's About Relationships
- 6 Ways to Strengthen Your Network
- Quality Counts: Map Your Network for Best Results
- Results of the CCL Poll: Leadership in Balance
September 2007 Issue: Leadership in the Balance
Creating a balanced life involves more than time management or parceling out your efforts among competing demands and desires. This issue of Leading Effectively introduces another way of thinking about balance and explores the payoff for leaders and organizations that make the effort for equilibrium.
- Balancing Act: Shifting to Find Equilibrium
- Are Balanced Leaders Better Performers
- Benefits of Balance
- Life Beyond Work: Retaining All Generations
- Rethinking Balance: A Conversation with CCL's Joan Gurvis
- Results of the CCL Poll: C-Level View
August 2007 Issue: The C-Level View: Leadership Insights from Top Executives
The ranks of the C-level executive are elite, but anyone eyeing the leadership ladder can learn a thing or two from senior leaders. In this issue of Leading Effectively, we draw on CCL's work with CEOs and other top execs, many of whom have attended our Leadership at the Peak program. You'll find insights for developing your long-term leadership potential. Plus, we'll give you a sneak preview of five trends that matter most to CEOs -- and should matter to you.
- Be Ready: Senior Execs Weigh in on Five Trends
- Lessons Learned from Executive Churn
- Crafting Your Leadership Image
- The Legacy of Leadership
- The Right Stuff: 16 Competencies for Effective Leadership
- Results of the CCL Poll: Conflict Competence
July 2007 Issue: Learn to be a Conflict Competent Leader
Conflict is inevitable for leaders, and it exists at the root of some of their best ideas and at the core of many of their worst failures," according to Craig E. Runde and Tim A. Flanagan, authors of Becoming a Conflict Competent Leader: How You and Your Organization Can Manage Conflict Effectively. This issue of Leading Effectively will help you minimize the destructive face of conflict and encourage more positive outcomes.
- Conflict: What's Going Wrong?
- The Cost of Conflict Incompetence
- Conflict Competency: What Does It Take?
- Calming Conflict
- Getting Started: Improve Your Ability to Lead Through Conflict
- Results of the CCL Poll: The Stress of Leadership
June 2007 Issue: The Stress of Leadership
Everyone faces stress, but what is the impact of stress on leaders? In this issue of Leading Effectively, we discuss the reality of leadership stress, what causes it and ways to cope. Plus, find out why exercising is (really) the best thing leaders can do for themselves and their organizations.- Why Study Stress?
- Causing Stress: Demands on Leaders
- Stress Busters: Tips for Dealing with the Stress of Leadership
- A Leader's Best Bet: Exercise
- Stress Reactions
- Results of the CCL Poll: Global Context
May 2007 Issue: Meeting the Demand for Global Leaders
We can fly halfway around the world in a day and connect with people in any time zone with just a few keystrokes. For leaders, working globally is increasingly familiar -- and yet effective global leadership eludes many organizations. This issue of Leading Effectively is designed to help you and your organization become more effective working across distances and among different cultures.- Global Leaders: The Reality of Multiple Complexities
- Leading From a Distance
- A Big Balancing Act: Local Vs. Global
- A Global Leader's Guide to Navigating Culture
- What Does It Take? Competencies for Leading Globally
- Results of the CCL Poll: Politics in the Workplace
April 2007 Issue: Political Skill: Leaders Need to Have It
Political skill at work is widely misunderstood and often maligned. This month, Leading Effectively looks at some of the connections between political skill and effective leadership. We also reveal some steps you can take to become more adept at navigating workplace politics.- What's Wrong With Office Politics?
- Politics at Work: A Conversation with Gerald Ferris
- Six Aspects of Political Skill
- Improve Your Political Skill
- Politics of Self-Promotion: Using Visibility to Benefit You, Your Team and Your Organization
- Results of the CCL Poll: Evaluation
March 2007 Issue: The Power of Evaluation
In the work place, evaluation takes many forms: job evaluations or performance reviews, cost-benefit analyses, production or quality assessments and so on. We evaluate -- formally or informally -- how well we are doing. When it comes to leadership development, high-quality evaluation can play a powerful dual role as a reporter of outcomes and influencer of future actions. In this issue of Leading Effectively, we turn to The Handbook of Leadership Development Evaluation to show you ways to bring an evaluation mindset to your role of developing leaders.- The Value of Evaluation
- Evaluation Basics
- Talk About It: Ways to Strengthen Leadership Development Evaluation
- Evaluation Mindset: A Quality of Good Leadership
- Strategic Evaluation: A Long-term, Big-picture Approach
- Results of the CCL Poll: Leadership & Communication
February 2007 Issue: Leadership and Communication
Good communication underlies much of effective leadership. Communication is part and parcel of building relationships, leading change and implementing strategy -- all typical tasks of leadership. This issue of Leading Effectively explores key ideas about sharing your vision, communicating character and "active listening."This issue of Leading Effectively is adapted from three CCL publications: Communicating Your Vision by Talula Cartwright and David Baldwin, Active Listening by Michael Hoppe and Building Character: Strengthening the Heart of Good Leadership by Gene Klann.
- Communicating the Vision
- Beyond Words: Communicate with Actions and Attitude
- Listening and Leadership
- The Big 6: Active Listening Skill Set
- How to Improve Your Listening Skills
- Results of the CCL Poll: Retiring the Generation Gap
January 2007 Issue: Retiring the Generation Gap
Are you seen by younger employees as out of touch or stuck in your ways? Or maybe you struggle to gain credibility with older colleagues or your boss? CCL's Jennifer Deal says many leaders and many organizations suffer from conflict and confusion tied to generational perceptions and misconceptions. Here, we help demystify generational differences and show ways leaders can work effectively with all generations.This issue of Leading Effectively is adapted from a new CCL publication: Retiring the Generation Gap: How Employees Young and Old Can Find Common Ground by Jennifer J. Deal (Jossey-Bass/CCL, 2006).
