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Dual Focus- The 2 things leaders must always do
In a recent article by The Motley Fool, entitled 5 Leadership Lessons From Exceptionally Successful CEOs, Cognizant CEO Francisco D'Souza emphasized the importance for leaders to maintain a dual focus of understanding change and moving quickly. In D'Souza's view, the...
Leadership Skills – How to Grow Them Without a Promotion
Don’t you hate it when you are focused on growing your leadership skills in hopes of receiving better future opportunities but there is not an opportunity for a promotion in sight? Today's employers are focused on flattening their organizational charts in order...
4 Career Mistakes Leaders Can’t Afford to Make
Do you ever feel like progressing your career as a leader in your profession is really hard? Are you afraid of making major career mistakes? You're not alone. Why aren't more leaders succeeding? For a large percentage of the population, leaders have made career...
Info Briefing Session and Registration Now Open for 2017-18 EPIC Leadership Accelerator
For Immediate Release September 27, 2017 Media Contact: Karan Ferrell-Rhodes 770-384-1103 - karan@shockinglydifferent.com SHOCKINGLY DIFFERENT LEADERSHIP ANNOUNCES LAUNCH OF ENROLLMENT OF ITS 2017-2018 CROSS-INDUSTRY HIGH POTENTIAL LEADERSHIP PROGRAM...
4 Anticipatory Retention Strategies For HIPOs During Emotionally Charged Times
Anticipatory retention strategies are proactive approaches to retaining your employees before they begin looking for greener pastures at competitor companies. Read below to see how you can retain your treasured human assets! As I read Aaron Hurst’s LinkedIn...
4 Personal Leadership Tactics to Kickstart 2017
There is no way to get around it. Being relevant matters, and demonstrating strong personal leadership is a key factor which drives the perception of your relevance in the minds of others. If you are an employee in the workforce, being relevant drives the level...
3 Leadership Tips for Delivering Bad News
Effectively delivering bad news is an essential leadership skill when developing your Executive Presence as a leader. Executive Presence is one of the 7 critical leadership competencies of high potential leaders. Every leader, at some point in their careers,...
Conducting a Job Task Audit- How High Potential Leaders Reinvent Their Jobs
High Potentials don’t get that title by being average. They love to take the reigns to lead others to a better reality - and this includes helping their employers determine where their time is best spent at work, through job task audits. Within organizations,...
Pow-wows + Perspectives: Leadership Tips From The Pros
What is 1 characteristic that differentiates a superb leader from a great leader? Marvin Powell: Great leaders will always make engagement a part of their leadership DNA. As their own levels of enthusiasm, dedication, and caring increase, so does the...
4 Powerful Tips To Optimize Your Leadership Program Alumni
If you are not using your leadership program alumni in your current programs, you are really missing out on a great development and retention strategy! This past June marked the end of the latest cycle of a 2-year development program for one of my corporate retail...
Registration Now Open for 2016-17 EPIC Leadership Accelerator
For Immediate Release SHOCKINGLY DIFFERENT LEADERSHIP ANNOUNCES LAUNCH OF LEADERSHIP PROGRAM SPECIFICALLY FOR HIGH POTENTIAL LEADERS ON THE BRINK OF THEIR NEXT BIG ROLE Accelerator helps next-gen leaders become “ready-now” to take on immediate leadership...
Winter 2016 Executive Roundtable
Do you or your organization possess a passion and/or accountability for maximizing the untapped talent of high potential and high performing leaders? If so, you are invited to join Shockingly Different Leadership’s Winter 2016 Executive Roundtable. If you are not...
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