Tag: Organization

Mentorships Are The Connections That Bring All The Pieces Together

May 11, 2018By CiOIn In The Middle, To The BossesComments Off on Mentorships Are The Connections That Bring All The Pieces Together

Leadership Lesson: Don’t forgo any part of your personal efficiency and strength, or that of your team or organization, by ignoring the importance of mentorship.

Mentoring is a powerful tool and experience.  Both the mentor and the mentee can gain from the relationship, with each side walking away more refined and better prepared for having partaken in, and extracted advantages from, the relationship.

In order to avoid its underestimation, the mentoring relationship should not be seen as an arrangement in which the mentee and mentor are assigned and the mentee is merely learning and gaining new information from the mentor. There’s more to it than that.

Through mentoring, there is not only a transfer of knowledge regarding the environment from one…

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In Your Leadership: How Do You Help Others Articulate Their Ideas? Part 2

April 20, 2018By CiOIn General Leadership, To The BossesComments Off on In Your Leadership: How Do You Help Others Articulate Their Ideas? Part 2

Continued From Part 1

Leadership Lesson: How do you use the questions here to help bring out what other people are thinking and what they can contribute?

Ideas may exist in people who surround you, untapped, ready for the taking.

They can be harnessed from knowledge others are holding onto while they flesh out the details, knowledge they may not even be aware they hold, or knowledge which can be created through the curiosity they hold, which can also be tapped for vision generation.

Ask yourself these questions about how you interact with others to help them articulate their ideas:                                       

Do you…
…stop to converse with others?

This one…

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In Your Leadership: How Do You Help Others Articulate Their Ideas? Part 1

April 13, 2018By CiOIn General Leadership, To The BossesComments Off on In Your Leadership: How Do You Help Others Articulate Their Ideas? Part 1

Leadership Lesson: Be able to understand how and what it is you can draw out of other people in the form of ideas and contributions.

One of the top markers of effective leadership is the ability to harness the resources at one’s disposal. That can mean anything from the physical resources of machinery, warehouses, and factories, to the physical work of individuals and teams in companies, to the technical work of strategy execution itself.

But it also means tapping into and harnessing the unutilized portions of people’s thinking — the abstract, the conceptual, and the knowledge which don’t stand at the forefront of their mind’s work or expression. It’s not only what they present and make obvious or explicit that is important but also what they hold that they…

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Your Leadership Wake: As A Leader, How Do You Acknowledge Others?

December 22, 2017By CiOIn General Leadership, To The BossesComments Off on Your Leadership Wake: As A Leader, How Do You Acknowledge Others?

Leadership Lesson: How you acknowledge others allows them to feel heard and like a part of the mission, while setting the example for how others serve, work and interact with others.

This previous post had broken down the power and influence of leadership impact and introduced this series of posts covering where the wake from a leader’s actions can be observed and felt.

It outlined how a leader — or anyone, for that matter — can create and leave behind a positive, exhausting, or neutral experience for those around them, based on how they approach different areas such as collaboration, communication, and expression.

It asked us to consider what a leader leaves in their wake.

This post is one of many in the series…

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What People Teach Us: Rex Tillerson – Taking The Pulse Of The Organization You Lead

December 12, 2017By CiOIn CiO BriefsComments Off on What People Teach Us: Rex Tillerson – Taking The Pulse Of The Organization You Lead

Leadership Lesson: We need to listen for and understand what those in our organization — those committed to the mission — need in order to make the mission an ongoing success.

A United State diplomat, in a scathing resignation letter, chided Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and outlined both the deterioration and dysfunction of the U.S. State Department during Tillerson’s tenure, charging that he’s caved under the irresponsible strategy of the Trump Administration.

So, what can we take away from this case when it comes to leadership development?

Yes, this is an extreme example. It’s politics. It’s unconventional. It’s in the era of Trump. All bets are off. Both traditional wisdom and customs are abandoned. And the typical playbook…

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How Is Your Organization Or Group’s Leadership Viewed Differently, Internally And Externally?

June 24, 2017By CiOIn CiO BriefsComments Off on How Is Your Organization Or Group’s Leadership Viewed Differently, Internally And Externally?

Leadership Lesson: For a variety of strategic reasons, it’s critical to ensure the external image of a company to stakeholders reconciles with the experience of the internal stakeholders.

How often have you been in an environment where the external perception of leadership was at odds with the internal perception of that leadership?

In some cases, the public may praise the leadership of a group while the group itself has a negative opinion, for any number of reasons, about that leader.

Or, in other cases, the public scoffs at or has a negative opinion of a leader while the rank-and-file of that group supports him or her.

The latter seems to be the case with Uber and it’s former CEO Travis Kalanick, where a new…

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