BlogNotions Leadership Newsletter May, 2012

May 13, 2012 • The Looming Leadership Void: Identifying, Developing, and Retaining Your Top Talent • Leaders as Teachers: Unlock the Teaching Potential of Your Company's Best and Brightest â€" Free Book Summary • Delivering Revenue Through Thought Leadership Dan McCarthy Dan is the Director of Executive Development Programs (EDP) at the Whittemore School of Business and Economics. See full bio Chery Gegelman Passionate about People, Character-Based Leadership and Continuous Improvement: Chery is a Truth Seeker, a Dot Connector, Problem Solver and Potential Amplifier. See full bio Kevin Eikenberry Kevin Eikenberry is the Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group , a learning consulting company which helps organizations, teams, and individuals reach their potential. See full bio Andy Uskavitch Andy has held leadership and training positions for the past 25+ years. See full bio Mike Cook Along with being the founder of Vialwork, Inc. a diverse Organizational Development firm, Mike Cook is a published author who has extensive leadership experience helping enhance overall organizational performance. See full bio If you are interested in becoming a contributing thought leader, please contact us. Reprise:Emotional Immaturity Stands Between Many in the Workplace and Full Engagement by Mike Cook "Employees will be unable to engage fully with their work at the levels needed today for sustained periods until the issue of emotional intelligence is adequately addressed as a key strategic issue by management." In virtually every management [...] Read More | Comments Is That You? by Andy Uskavitch Is that you? What does that mean? It means that you’re recognizing someone. It’s a pretty simple example of the word “recognize”, isn’t it? But that’s the point. Recognizing people is simple. Most managers spend more time pointing out mistakes than achievements – even though their staff do more things right [...] Read More | Comments Leading Transformation and Captivating Communities Free Offer available for download. Leading Transformation and Captivating Communities learn how social, mobile, real-time, and all other emerging trends are affecting your industries, communities, or markets. Download the full offer for free here. New Study IDs Best Companies for Leadership​, Innovation by Dan McCarthy Hay Group just released its seventh annual Best Companies for Leadership Study. Is this just another one of those touchy-feely, nice to do awards? Not at all. The Best Companies for Leadership consistently outperform their peers. Over a 10 year period, the Top 20 companies produced a 5.39 percent shareholder return, compared to a 2.92 percent [...] Read More | Comments Training Leaders Before It is Their Turn To Lead by Kevin Eikenberry Part of my team and I are exhibiting at the American Society of Training and Development International Conference in Denver this week. Yesterday, as a part of the conversations we had with participants, several asked if we provide training for people to prepare them for supervisory/leadership roles before they get those jobs. As [...] Read More | Comments What If… The Solution Your Organization Is Seeking Begins By Taking The Air Out Of Your Tires? by Chery Gegelman Several years ago I heard a great analogy about a truck that was driving on a narrow mountain road and got stuck trying to enter a tunnel. The truck could not move forward or backward. Experts tried for hours to figure out what to do. Finally a small child asked, "Why don't [...] Read More | Comments The BlogNotions Leadership Newsletter is Powered by NetLine Corporation. About NetLine | Subscribe | www.blognotions.com NetLine Corporation, 750 University Avenue, Suite 200, Los Gatos, CA 95032 You are receiving this BlogNotions newsletter because you subscribed to it or because you opted-in to receive relevant email communications from NetLine and TradePub.com when requesting free business resources. If you no longer wish to receive email from NetLine's BlogNotions, please click here. To ensure delivery of your Blognotions newsletter, click here for whitelisting instructions. NOTE: This message was sent from an unmonitored e-mail address. Please do not reply to this message. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered.