News from Center for Creative Leadership
Senior-level Trade-offs: What Experienced Leaders Need to Know
Tue, 08/31/2010 - 11:49Oliver was recently promoted to lead a business unit at his company. Chloe is a regional director of operations. Both are at a pivotal point in their careers: skillfully leading a function or division is not only critical for their own personal success, but also to the success of the organization.
Categories: Organizational Leadership
How to Create a High-Learning Team
Tue, 08/31/2010 - 11:49Putting the right people on a team doesn't guarantee success. The most effective, high-performing teams are committed to learning.
Categories: Organizational Leadership
What's Going on With Top Talent?
Tue, 08/31/2010 - 11:49Dealing with problems has been, understandably, the top priority for most executives, senior managers and HR professionals in recent years. But, if you haven't been paying much attention to your top talent, go-to experts and in-the-pipeline leaders, it's time to start.
Categories: Organizational Leadership
Competition to Collaboration
Tue, 08/31/2010 - 11:49Dr. Sally Shumaker, senior associate dean for research at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, is passionate about translating the science of biomedical research into real-world patient care.
Categories: Organizational Leadership
Five New Leadership Competencies for Troubled Times: An article by author and executive coach David Noer
Tue, 08/31/2010 - 11:49Leadership in a time of uncertainty, downsizing and economic decline is much more complex, gut-wrenching and emotionally draining than in boom times. In today's environment, effective leaders need to do much more than the traditional planning, organizing and controlling of the past.
Categories: Organizational Leadership
Is There a Creativity Crisis?
Tue, 08/31/2010 - 11:49Innovation and creativity are needed to solve problems, develop new products and services, and spur economic and societal well-being. But is American creativity declining?
Categories: Organizational Leadership
The Power of Feedback-Intensive Programs.
Tue, 08/31/2010 - 11:49Feedback-intensive programs have been at the heart of CCL's work for more than thirty-five years. What is involved and is there a "right" time to go?
Categories: Organizational Leadership
An American Idol Who's 'French'?
Tue, 08/31/2010 - 11:49CCL's Gina Eckert discusses the unexpected leadership relevance of Star Trek's Captain Picard.
Categories: Organizational Leadership
New Book Explores Overlooked Keys to Executive Success
Tue, 08/31/2010 - 11:49How do talented managers develop into effective senior leaders? Extraordinary Leadership: Addressing the Gaps in Senior Executive Development proposes some groundbreaking answers, providing strategies and tools to round out leadership skills and create a steady pipeline of top executives.
Categories: Organizational Leadership
Is a Bear Market Bullish for Employee Engagement?
Tue, 08/31/2010 - 11:49Center for Creative Leadership research finds improvements in employee satisfaction and job commitment during a tough economy.
Categories: Organizational Leadership
Millennials in the Workplace
Tue, 08/31/2010 - 11:49If you have an interest in the work style of Millennials and how they differ from other generations, 12 articles in a special issue of the Journal of Business and Psychology, edited by David Altman and Jennifer Deal of the Center for Creative Leadership, thoroughly explore the subject.
Categories: Organizational Leadership
CCL CEO John Ryan: Four Ideas for a Positive Workforce
Tue, 08/31/2010 - 11:49It's very possible for people to change and become more effective professionals in the process. In a BusinessWeek.com column, CCL CEO John Ryan explores how to encourage them to do it.
Categories: Organizational Leadership
CCL's Bill Pasmore Asks "Who Will Run Your Company?"
Tue, 08/31/2010 - 11:49CCL senior vice president Bill Pasmore explores the importance of aligning leadership development with long-term strategy in "Who Will Run Your Company?", which appears in the Summer 2010 issue of Conference Board Review.
Categories: Organizational Leadership
Center for Creative Leadership Adds WorkPlace Big Five Profile to Flagship Program
Tue, 08/31/2010 - 11:49When the Center for Creative Leadership's flagship Leadership Development Program (LDP)® rolled out in June in its revised format, it included a new broad-based personality assessment - the WorkPlace Big Five Profile 4.0™.
Categories: Organizational Leadership
Identity Shift: Managing Others to Get Results
Thu, 07/22/2010 - 13:50Stepping into a management role isn't just a change of task - it's a fundamental shift of identity. To be successful, first-time managers must make the transition from a person who gets the work done themselves to a person who gets work done through others.
Categories: Organizational Leadership
How to Lead a Collaborative Team
Thu, 07/22/2010 - 13:50What do you do when teamwork doesn't work? The solution is collaboration, says CCL's Edward Marshall, and, yes, it is possible.
Categories: Organizational Leadership
Leadership: Try To See It My Way
Thu, 07/22/2010 - 13:50Leaders everywhere need to develop and adjust their behaviors to work in a global environment. But what works well in one setting may not in another.
Categories: Organizational Leadership
Oxygen for Innovation
Thu, 07/22/2010 - 13:50Christiaan De Wilde, CEO of international biotech firm Innogenetics, has a background in finance and an eye for innovation.
Categories: Organizational Leadership
Prepare for Change
Thu, 07/22/2010 - 13:50An interview with Chris Musselwhite, President and CEO of Discovery Learning. Musselwhite, president and CEO of Discovery Learning, believes top leaders need an accurate picture of how the people and the systems affect their organization's ability to change and adapt. He recently spoke with CCL about why change is such a challenge.
Categories: Organizational Leadership
A Declaration of Interdependence.
Thu, 07/22/2010 - 13:50In a column for the Harvard Business Review's six-week blog series, "Imagining the Future of Leadership," CCL's Charles Palus argued that our interdependent reality requires companies to create a new kind of leadership culture.
Categories: Organizational Leadership
