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The 360° of Directional Leadership
- Managing UP
- Effectively Managing Your Boss* – www.ggci.com/publications/managing_your_boss.pdf.
- www.leadershiptraction.com/?s=managing+up
- Managing DOWN
- Being a Better Boss: Shifting your Perspectives – www.ggci.com/publications/better_boss.pdf.
- Employee Performance Discussions: 10 Important Things a Boss MUST Know How to Say* – Don’t let not knowing what to say – or how to say it – undermine your credibility as the boss. – www.employee-discussions.com.
- The Dangerous Allure of Trust – Why managers should NOT want their direct reports to trust them – www.leadershiptraction.com/articles/trust.pdf.
- Managing ACROSS
- Navigating the High Seas of Teamwork – www.leadershiptraction.com/articles/navigating-the-high-seas-of-teamwork.pdf.
- Managing WITHIN
- Strength-to-Strength: Improving Your Workplace Performance – www.ggci.com/publications/strengths.pdf.
- A Strategic Coach: Having a coach isn’t just for seasoned executives – www.ggci.com/publications/ASTD-April-2005.pdf.
- Additional Resources
Conflict Management
- AVOIDING Conflict is NOT the Goal* – Being able to engage naturally, easily, respectfully, and constructively in the midst of a conflict is something we all can learn – and is something that can serve us all well, once learned. That we can then help others improve their own conflict competencies raises everyone’s game and makes conflict something far less daunting and distressing for everyone, as well – www.leadershiptraction.com/articles/avoiding-conflict-is-not-the-goal.pdf.
- 4 Ways to Manage Conflict in the Office – Guidelines on how to resolve conflict when you’re the new guy in the office – www.ggci.com/Articles/TheLadders-2010-01-05.htm.
- Becoming More Conflict Competent – Another Leadership Development Tutorial – www.leadershiptraction.com/tutorials/conflict-competence/conflict-competence.pdf.
- Additional Resources
Becoming a More Influential Leader
- Leadership Moves: Leadership Development. Simplified – Leadership Moves is an email-based learning series of 32 tips, tricks, and helpful hints to help you to help you have the kind of impact, as a leader, that you’ve always wanted. Delivered right to your email inbox, receive a new Leadership Lesson every two-to-three days – www.leadershipmoves.com.
- Levels of Leadership Success – What it takes to excel as a leader with each subsequent promotion – www.leadershiptraction.com/tutorials/levels-of-leadership-success/levels-of-leadership-success.pdf.
- Elements of Executive Intelligence – A Leadership Development Tutorial – www.leadershiptraction.com/tutorials/executive-intelligence/executive-intelligence.pdf.
- Additional Resources
Executive Courage
- Fostering Executive Courage – A Leadership Development Tutorial – www.leadershiptraction.com/tutorials/executive-courage/fostering-executive-courage.pdf.
- The Five (or Six) Truths About Fear – Key lessons from Susan Jeffer’s Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway … plus a little bit more – //www.ggci.com/blog2/2008/06/five-or-six-truths-about-fear.htm.
- Improve Your Executive Presence – Inc. magazine – www.inc.com/stanford-business/improve-your-executive-presence.html.
Hardiness and Resilience
- Want to Change the World? Be Resilient – A nice piece from the Harvard Business Review blog – //blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/02/want_to_change_the_world_be_resilient.htm.
- The Hardy Executive: Health Under Stress – The research of Savatore Maddi and Suzanne Kobassa about hardiness and resilience that started it all – www.amazon.com/The-Hardy-Executive-Health-Stress/dp/0870943812.
- Control, Challenge, Commitment – A newsletter article about increasing both your hardiness and the hardiness of your staff – /newsletter/2014-03.html.
- Paul T. Bartone – Former student of Maddi and Kobassa, and now an expert in the field in his own right, wrote several excellent articles on hardiness and resilience that can be found here – www.hardiness-resilience.com/publication-downloads/. (Don’t forget to take the DRS-15, designed by Dr. Bartone, and offered here at LeadershipTraction.)
Networking Skills
- How to Create Your Own Good Luck – www.bigthink.com/videos/how-to-create-your-own-luck-2
- How To Improve Your Networking Skills – www.ggci.com/Articles/quest-networking-skills.htm.
- Career Strategist » How to Network Effectively – www.ggci.com/Articles/MSM-March2006.htm.
- How NOT to Network – //youtu.be/2odtqcZRKc0
- Additional Resources
Job Hunting
- The One Hundred Jobs Exercise – A structured approach to helping you identify your Ideal Job – The One Hundred Jobs Exercise
- What I Want to Be When I Grow Up – Another structured approach to helping you identify your Ideal Job – What I Want To Be When I Grow Up
- Name It; Frame It; then Claim It* – A Special Report, for Interviewees, on the Inner-Game of Powerful Interviewing – Powerful Interviewing is more than just answering questions asked. It’s about having – and sharing – a unique, and compelling, point-of-view that starts with your Interviewing Inner-Game – www.ggci.com/nameit.
- 3 Steps to Rate Every Job Offer* – Apply the R.I.G.H.T. Job method to analyze and rate every job offer – www.theladders.com/p/2864/3-steps-to-rate-every-job-offer.
- Should I, or Shouldn’t I? A Decision Matrix Tutorial – Learn how to objectively assess that job offer without having to rely so heavily on your gut feel. It’s an excellent tool for a variety of other important decisions you’re likely to face, too – www.ggci.com/decision-matrix.
- Help Them Say Yes: Provide a 90-Day Plan – www.ggci.com/Articles/TheLadders-2006-03-06.htm.
- What Job Would Make You Happy? – Time for a change. Try this visualization exercise to figure out where you should go next with your career – www.ggci.com/Articles/TheLadders-2010-04-21.htm.
Career Planning and Acceleration
- Creating a Portfolio of Mentors* – An innovative approach to establishing an entire network of mentors interested in your success – www.leadershiptraction.com/articles/TheLadders-2006-09-04.htm.
- Succeed Like a Workaholic Without Having to Actually Be One – www.ggci.com/Articles/workaholic.htm.
- Additional Resources
Leadership Tutorials
Deeper Resources
- “>Short presentations on important leadership development topics to help clarify and focus your thinking and next steps. » www.leadershiptraction.com/leadership-tutorials.
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- Client’s Only Resources (password protected) – www.leadershiptraction.com/clients.
- Pre-Session Worksheet – www.leadershiptraction.com/prep.
Blog
- Tips, tricks, and other assorted ideas about leadership development, career acceleration, and life lessons – www.leadershiptraction.com/blog.
Newsletter Archives
- Visit the archives of the LeadershipTraction newsletter for more relevant, thought-provoking ideas – www.leadershiptraction.com/newsletter.
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