Leading Effectively e-Newsletter - 2008 Archive Abstracts
December 2008 Issue: Power Plays: How to Use Your Power Wisely
Power is one of the unspoken realities of the workplace - who has power, who doesn't, and why? CCL's Vidula Bal and Michael Campbell share insights from a new study of power and leadership. (more...)
- Do the Right Thing
- Betrayed? 7 Steps for Healing
- MUSINGS: What About Openness?
- Tough Road Ahead? It Might Be Good For You
- A Bleak Economy? Why Learning Matters
- 5 Keys to Self Development
- Ask CCL
November 2008 Issue: Bad Economy? Talent Still Counts
Good economy or bad, employees have choice. Just because they're glad to have a job doesn't mean you have the upper hand. (more...)
- Becoming a Strategic Leader
- Leading Schools
- MUSINGS: A Provocative Proposition
- What's in Your Future? Success or Derailment?
- Top Priority, Still Lacking
- A Portfolio of Experiences
- Ask CCL
October 2008 Issue: Shifting Gears: How to Successfully Move Into a Strategic Role
Moving from an operational role to a strategic role? Remember, the skills that make you a successful operational leader can hold you back as a strategic leader. (more...)
- Warning Signs: Hotshot Leaders May be Clueless
- 6 Keys to Leading in Turbulent Times
- Leading in Second Life
- Learning to Learn
- Going to Extremes
- Three Factors for Learning: Assessment, Challenge and Support
- Ask CCL
September 2008 Issue: Building Better Teams Through Trust: Steps You Can Take
Sue leads a high-profile, cross-functional team. As a star performer, Sue likes to be in the spotlight and is concerned about being upstaged by her teammates. She often keeps information to herself, thinking it gives her power and control. What she is really doing is breaking trust. (more...)
- Leadership Investment Pays Off for Entrepreneurs
- Six Roadblocks for Top-Level Teams -- And How to Get Around Them
- Take Part: World Leadership Survey
- Getting Feedback: The Power of Self-Awareness
- Ready for the C-level?
- The Ways Adults Learn
- Ask CCL
August 2008 Issue: Sins & Virtues - Ethical leadership in a tough economy
Economic news is bleak these days. What role do ethics play in causing -- and solving -- today's complex economic challenges? (more...)
- 7 Jobs of a Mentor
- Talent Trends
- Try This: Leadership at the Movies
- Learning to Lead: Assessment, Challenge, Support
- Competency Conundrum
- Avoiding Derailment
- Ask CCL
July 2008 Issue: Asking Powerful Questions
In the rush to make decisions, you probably spend about 90 percent of your time solving a problem and only about 10 percent examining the problem. The result? You may be solving the wrong problem. Find out how asking better questions will lead to better solutions and improve your decision making. (more...)
- Leadership Lessons: A CCL Development Series
- Think Like a Designer
- Read This: Top-selling Publications from CCL Online
- When Everything is Important
- The War for Talent Takes on Greater Urgency
- What's the Value of Feedback?
- Ask CCL
June 2008 Issue: Raise or Hold? Dealing with Touchy Subjects
No workplace is immune to awkward and unproductive dynamics. A colleague dominates meetings. Resentment between two co-workers undermines team productivity. A desire for a congenial department leads to groupthink and poor decisions. Touchy subjects are going to show up in any team or group. The question is, do you raise the issue or hold off? (more...)
- Own Up, Show Up, Stand Up
- CCL Takes Leadership Essentials to Emerging Countries
- View This: Johnny Bunko
- Leadership Development Overrides Tough Economy
- Who Can Be a Leader?
- Ask CCL
May 2008 Issue: No More Glass Ceiling: New Thinking on Women in Leadership
In 1986, journalists Carol Hymowitz and Timothy Schellhardt coined the term "glass ceiling" to describe the barrier women face in reaching top levels in organizations. One year later, CCL researchers published the groundbreaking book, Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Can Women Reach the Top of America's Largest Corporations?, to help illuminate the experience of women executives. Today, the conversation about women in leadership is changing -- for the women themselves, their coworkers and their organizations. Here we offer an updated take on women leaders, current challenges and new strategies for helping women, men and organizations to make the most of all their talent.
Be sure to check out the related Webinar: Women in Leadership: Navigating the Narrow Band and the Balance Beam
- A New Conversation: The Narrow Band, the Balance Beam and the Labyrinth
- Five Themes, Five Strategies: Lessons for Women Leaders
- Women Execs: Retaining Leaders at the Top
- Attention Moms, Dads and Bosses: Family Commitments Can Make for Better Managers
- Women and Leadership: A Conversation with Sara King
- Results of the CCL Poll: Leadership Image
April 2008 Issue: Building a Leader's Image
Celebrities and politicians are not the only people who need to manage their image. Leaders, too, can benefit from gaining a clear view of their image and taking steps to improve it.
Adapted from a new CCL guidebook, Building an Authentic Leadership Image, this issue of Leading Effectively reveals why a leadership image matters, why you can't fake it and how to hone your image in a way that makes you a more effective leader.
- Leadership Image: Asset or Liability?
- What Message Are You Sending?
- Image Busters: Eight Common Mistakes
- Why Manage Image: A Conversation with CCL's Corey Criswell
- Building an Authentic Leadership Image
- Results of the CCL Poll: Sustainability
March 2008 Issue: Leading for Sustainability
Going green is getting a lot of buzz these days, but what does it take to lead broad and deep sustainability initiatives? How do leaders make the move to minimize their company's negative impact on the environment and society? CCL's Laura Quinn, along with a team from the USA and Europe, including Ellen Van Velsor, Alessia D'Amato and Gina Herzfeldt, has been studying leadership and sustainability. Here, they share insights on the crucial role that leaders play in protecting the earth's resources.
- The Sustainability Advantage
- The Leadership Factor
- A Leadership View: The Triple Bottom Line
- DANONE Poland: Translating Values Into Action
- In Their Own Words: Lessons on Leadership and Sustainability
- Results of the CCL Poll: Coaching
February 2008 Issue: Leadership Coaching
Having a leadership coach sounds like a good idea, but what impact does it really make? Find out how leadership coaches can accelerate your growth as a leader -- and how you can get the most value from them.
- Coaching for Results
- The Coaching Relationship
- Ready for a Coach? What Next?
- Team Dynamics: Coaching Your Team
- Creating a Coaching Culture
- Results of the CCL Poll: Leading Sideways
January 2008 Issue: Crisis Leadership: Making a Difference When Disaster Strikes
Anyone may be a "first responder" when crisis hits close to home. As a leader, how prepared are you to deal with crisis? How prepared is your organization? In this issue of Leading Effectively, we bring you lessons of leadership from people who made a difference when Hurricane Katrina hit Mississippi and Louisiana on August 29, 2005. While few of us may be called to lead in a crisis of the magnitude of Katrina, we will all almost certainly face significant and unexpected crises in our work and lives. Our ability to be effective in a crisis can fundamentally shape the course of our lives after the crisis. What can we learn from a crisis like Katrina about being better prepared?
