Everyone
Great news! After a grueling 8 months of leading an organization by day, evenings in B school obtaining an MBA and spare time split between family friends and volunteer leadership roles, I am happy to announce that I finished school and am taking the summer off. Well I am still going to lead my organization, […]

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Developing Leaders was given a special honor the other day. Terrance Seamon the author of a great blog called Here We Are Now What? asked Ron to be a guest blogger on a series called Leading in the Crisis. A look at how we can use our leadership abilities to get through the recession we find ourselves […]

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Right here.
I have discovered something peculiar about people searching on the search engines. Those that find this site seem to ask questions like the title of this post. I discovered this because the most hit posts on the site are questions about leadership. So we will do a small experiment as see if we get […]

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We received a question a while back asking about how to deal with someone promoted into a manager role who clearly did not deserve it. Someone who is not leadership material can reek havoc on an organization if improperly promoted. How should a follower deal with such a person? Should they suck up to them, tolerate them, […]

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Well that’s all folks. Over the past two weeks we have talked about many aspects of retention.
Learn What it is and What it is Not
Developing a mindset to maximize retention starts with an understanding of what retention means. It is not a keep everyone mentality. Rather we keep the high performers, coach average performers into […]

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 Hiring!!!
Lets take a step back in time. You may not be able to go back and rehire your entire team but you certainly have control over who is brought in to the team in the future. This makes an effective hiring process a critical aspect of your teams success and ultimately the success of your […]

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 Alright you know what the organization needs, you have defined positions and you are effectively managing employees against expectation everything is running smoothly…or so you thought. This is about where our scenario at the start of this series kicks in. someone comes through your door to announce they are leaving.
Relationships Matter
There is another important aspect […]

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Wow!
The past two days I had an almost indescribeable opportunity. But then this is a blog right so I will attempt to describe it anyway.
I attended a Manager Tools conference. What the heck is a manager tools conference you ask.
Manager Tools is a website, podcast and management consulting company. The founders Mike Auzenne and Mark Horstman […]

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Employee Assessment
I thought you were talking about retention you might ask. We are! The process of retention requires a fundamental understanding of who to retain, who to let go, who to develop further who to transfer to a different position. We cannot simply skip to the end and say how can I retain my people. […]

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Do you know what talent you need?Businesses do not start in well organized and structured entities with HR OD departments and work specialization in place. They are far more organic and messy than that. They start of with an inspiration of a single person or a small group and if they are healthy and have […]

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