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Leadership Inspirations – Experience, Experiment, Expectations
“The past is an experience! The present is an experiment! The future is expectations! Use your experience in your experiment to achieve your expectations!”
Anonymous
Archive for month: August, 2009
StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 18 – An Interview with Roxanne Emmerich, author of Thank God It’s Monday!
StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve superior results. These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag articles on the StrategyDriven website.
Special Edition 18 – An Interview with Roxanne Emmerich, author of Thank God It’s Monday! explores how to create a workplace environment that engages the hearts and minds of employees and customers; resulting in increased growth and higher profits. During our discussion, Roxanne Emmerich, President and CEO of the Emmerich Group and author of Thank God It’s Monday!: How to Create a Workplace You and Your Customers Love
shares her insights regarding:
the qualities and characteristics of an engaging and motivating workplace- tangible bottom line results companies with engaging workplaces achieve over their competitors
- steps leaders can take to make their organization more engaging and motivating and sustain the cultural change
- how junior managers can drive this organizational transformation
Additional Information
In addition to the outstanding insights Roxanne shares in Thank God It’s Monday! and this special edition podcast are the additional resources accessible from her Thank God It’s Monday website, (www.ThankGodItsMonday.com). Roxanne’s book, Thank God It’s Monday!, published by FT Press can be purchased by clicking here.
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About the Author
Roxanne Emmerich, author of Thank God It’s Monday!, is President and CEO of the Emmerich Group. A member of the National Speakers Hall of Fame, she is listed by Sales and Marketing Management magazine as one of the 12 most requested speakers in the country for her ability to transform negative workplace performance and environments into “bring it on” results-oriented cultures. Roxanne has been featured hundreds of times in leading publications on topics such as leadership for results, employee engagement for bottom AND top-line improvement, profit-rich growth strategies, and a multitude of other workplace breakthrough issues. To read Roxanne’s full biography, click here.
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Business Performance Assessment Program Best Practice 6 – Three Whys Deep
Executives, managers, and individual contributors familiar with the day-to-day workings of their organizations undoubtedly know or have contrived the reason for ‘why things are the way they are.’ Beyond this understanding, sometimes at an unconscious level, these individuals will perceive one or more drivers to these organization shaping whys. What remains unseen and unthought-of are the tertiary and lower level drivers to why the business performs as it does. It is here that truly useful insight can be gained; insight enabling the foundational changes needed to alter the organization’s direction and propel it to the next level.
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Additional Resources
Several other StrategyDriven best practices work in concert with Three Whys Deep to ensure assessment teams reach insightful, value adding, and robustly supported conclusions including:
- Strategic Analysis Best Practice 3 – Identify the Hidden Drivers
- Strategic Analysis Best Practice 3 – Identify the Hidden Drivers (Continued)
- Strategic Analysis Best Practice 4 – Use of Independent Assessors
- Strategic Analysis Best Practice 6 – Multidiscipline Teams
- Decision-Making Best Practice 4 – Identify the Target
StrategyDriven Leadership Conversation Episode 1 – An Introduction to Leadership Effectiveness
StrategyDriven Leadership Conversations focus on the values and behaviors characteristic of highly effective leaders. Complimenting the StrategyDriven Management & Leadership articles, these conversations examine the real world challenges managers face every day that are not easily solved with a new or redesigned process and instead demand the application of soft leadership skills to achieve a positive outcome.
Episode 1 – An Introduction to Leadership Effectiveness introduces the concept of leadership effectiveness by exploring what leadership effectiveness is, the characteristics and behaviors exhibited by effective leaders, and the impacts of organizational culture and situational conditions on leadership effectiveness.
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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Ronald Heifetz, Alexander Grashow, and Marty Linsky, authors of The Practice of Adaptive Leadership
The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
by Ronald Heifetz, Alexander Grashow, and Marty Linsky
The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World by Ronald Heifetz, Alexander Grashow, and Marty Linsky provides guiding questions, worksheets, and exercises to help business leaders make progress even under the toughest circumstances. Readers learn to focus on adaptation rather than execution, orchestrate conflict rather than resolve it, and nurture interdependence rather than self-reliance. Using these tools, leaders build adaptive organizations that are able to thrive an ever complicated world.
Additional Insights: An Interview with Ronald Heifetz, Alexander Grashow, and Marty Linsky, authors of The Practice of Adaptive Leadership, Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
StrategyDriven contributors recently interviewed Ronald Heifetz, Alexander Grashow, and Marty Linsky, authors of The Practice of Adaptive Leadership; receiving many invaluable, beyond the scope of the book insights.
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