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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...
Leadership brand positioning: 5 warning signs why you may not make the leadership cut
Through our consulting engagements with our global clients, Shockingly Different Leadership is seeing an increasingly clear profile of those individuals who have been identified as “leaders of tomorrow” for their organizations or industries. A significant key to this...
Position Possibilities: Solving the Mystery of How to Influence People In Your Niche Market or Audience
This post is part two of a 4-part series on The E.P.I.C. Method, a step-by-step process on how to catapult your own competitive advantage by building a strong, differentiated leadership brand. Catch up by reading part one here. Learn more about the science of...
Establish Relevance: The Forgotten Tactic That Intensifies Your Competitive Advantage
This post is part one of a 4-part series on The E.P.I.C. Method, a step-by-step process on how to catapult your own competitive advantage by building a strong, differentiated leadership brand. Learn more about the science of differentiation and our featured...
Top 3 Leadership Branding Development Trends We Saw In 2014
As we at Shockingly Different wind down the year with our final client engagements, we thought we'd share a few quick observations on leadership branding development that we've seen this year, based on our experiences with wonderful clients, just like you!...
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