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Guest post by AIM Senior Research Fellow Dr Samantha Johnson
Once upon a time there was an intelligent, attractive woman named Joan.
Joan was very successful in her field; she was a budding engineer in one of the big four consulting firms.
Joan’s technical skills saw her promoted quickly, not once, but twice. In her new more senior position, she was sent on a prestigious management development program.
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Guest post by Francis X. Frei
This article originally appeared in Harvard Business Review
As the world’s major economies have matured, they have become dominated by service-focused businesses. But many of the management tools and techniques that service managers use were designed to tackle the challenges of product companies. Are these sufficient, or do we need new ones?
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Guest post by Joseph Grenny
This article originally appeared on Harvard Business Review
We all need a coach. Research we conducted at VitalSmarts shows that 97% of employees readily admit to having a “career-limiting habit” — some behavior that will forever hold them back, unless they can learn to change it.
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Guest post by Geoff Smart, Randy Street and Alan Foster.
This article originally appeared in Time.
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Guest post by Anneli Blundell
The game of leadership has changed
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It's become a core goal for organisations: improve the performance of each and every team within the company. It falls on managers and HR professionals to understand the challenges companies are facing and develop a strategy to help staff reach their peak.
Employees are also looking out for these qualities in their managers. A survey from Robert Half earlier this year found that the most desirable quality in a manager is that they can motivate and inspire staff to perform higher.
Motivating staff to perform is about much more than just carrots and sticks.