StrategyDriven Leadership Conversation Episode 5a – Relational Leadership: The Building Blocks of Trust, part 1 of 2

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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 5a – Relational Leadership: The Building Blocks of Trust, part 1 of 2 explores how to establish and maintain trust between an organization’s executives, managers, and employees – the foundation without which no organization can be truly successful.

Additional Information

Complimenting the outstanding insights Frank shares in this edition of the StrategyDriven Leadership Conversation podcast are those he shared in a three-part series on Employee Retention:

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About the Author

Frank McIntosh is author of The Relational Leader (Course Technology PTR, Cengage Learning 2010). During his 36 year career, Frank has worked with many of the most recognized companies and executives in the world. He has provided consulting services for peers across the country and helped initiate Junior Achievement programs in Ireland, the Ivory Coast, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Uzbekistan. Frank was inducted into the Delaware Business Leaders Hall of Fame in October 2008, one of 38 individuals so honored and the first not-for-profit executive to receive this distinction in Delaware’s 300 year business history. To read Frank’s complete biography, click here.

For more information regarding this subject, visit Frank McIntosh at his website www.FJMcIntosh.com.

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StrategyDriven Leadership Conversation Episode 4b – Relational Leadership: Attracting and Retaining Top Talent, part 2 of 2

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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 4b – Relational Leadership: Attracting and Retaining Top Talent, part 2 of 2 explores how to attract talented personnel and reduce the undesired attrition of top employees through development of a positive, reinforcing workplace environment where people feel they are valued and have the opportunity to grow.

Additional Information

Complimenting the outstanding insights Frank shares in this edition of the StrategyDriven Leadership Conversation podcast are those he shared in a three-part series on Employee Retention:

Final Request…

StrategyDriven Leadership Conversation PodcastThe strength in our community grows with the additional insights brought by our expanding member base. Please consider rating us and sharing your perspectives regarding the StrategyDriven Leadership Conversation podcast on iTunes by clicking here. Sharing your thoughts improves our ranking and helps us attract new listeners which, in turn, helps us grow our community.

Thank you again for listening to the StrategyDriven Leadership Conversation!

About the Author

Frank McIntosh is author of The Relational Leader (Course Technology PTR, Cengage Learning 2010). During his 36 year career, Frank has worked with many of the most recognized companies and executives in the world. He has provided consulting services for peers across the country and helped initiate Junior Achievement programs in Ireland, the Ivory Coast, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Uzbekistan. Frank was inducted into the Delaware Business Leaders Hall of Fame in October 2008, one of 38 individuals so honored and the first not-for-profit executive to receive this distinction in Delaware’s 300 year business history. To read Frank’s complete biography, click here.

For more information regarding this subject, visit Frank McIntosh at his website www.FJMcIntosh.com.

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StrategyDriven Leadership Conversation Episode 4a – Relational Leadership: Attracting and Retaining Top Talent, part 1 of 2

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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 4a – Relational Leadership: Attracting and Retaining Top Talent, part 1 of 2 explores how to attract talented personnel and reduce the undesired attrition of top employees through development of a positive, reinforcing workplace environment where people feel they are valued and have the opportunity to grow.

Additional Information

Complimenting the outstanding insights Frank shares in this edition of the StrategyDriven Leadership Conversation podcast are those he shared in a three-part series on Employee Retention:

Final Request…

StrategyDriven Leadership Conversation PodcastThe strength in our community grows with the additional insights brought by our expanding member base. Please consider rating us and sharing your perspectives regarding the StrategyDriven Leadership Conversation podcast on iTunes by clicking here. Sharing your thoughts improves our ranking and helps us attract new listeners which, in turn, helps us grow our community.

Thank you again for listening to the StrategyDriven Leadership Conversation!

About the Author

Frank McIntosh is author of The Relational Leader (Course Technology PTR, Cengage Learning 2010). During his 36 year career, Frank has worked with many of the most recognized companies and executives in the world. He has provided consulting services for peers across the country and helped initiate Junior Achievement programs in Ireland, the Ivory Coast, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Uzbekistan. Frank was inducted into the Delaware Business Leaders Hall of Fame in October 2008, one of 38 individuals so honored and the first not-for-profit executive to receive this distinction in Delaware’s 300 year business history. To read Frank’s complete biography, click here.

For more information regarding this subject, visit Frank McIntosh at his website www.FJMcIntosh.com.

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‘Woman Up’ (and Win in Business): How Valuing Traditionally Female Strengths Gives You an Edge in a Changing World

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To date, the caring, nurturing side of women has gone mostly unappreciated in the workplace. But as social media takes hold and changes the way we do business, organizations that understand the importance of these qualities are the ones that will grow and prosper.

We’re all aware of the glass ceiling, the wage gap, and the grim statistics that reveal women’s struggles for workplace equality. And a report from the Government Accountability Office shows that from 2000 to 2007 the number of women managers increased by only 1 percent (and they’re still paid less than their male counterparts). But something happened during this same seven-year span that is about to dramatically shift this lopsided picture – the rise of social media.

That’s right. As social media transforms the way the world does business, the qualities that make women women will become more valuable than they’ve ever been before.

There have been countless studies on gender differences. And no matter how you interpret them, they come to two general conclusions: Males are aggressive; females are nurturing. Men are competitive, combative, and individually centered. Women are collaborative, communicative, and community-centered.

Indeed, a 2008 issue of the McKinsey Quarterly noted that women tend to make deeper emotional connections with colleagues and business partners. Women leaders tend to exhibit more social and emotional skills – sharing, caring, and putting others first.

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About the Author

Barry Libert is the author of Social Nation: How to Harness the Power of Social Media to Attract Customers, Motivate Employees, and Grow Your Business. He is Chairman and CEO of Mzinga®, the leading provider of social software, services, and analytics that improve business performance. Barry has published five books on the value of social and information networks. He is a regularly featured keynote speaker at industry associations and for leading companies on the power of social media. He has been published in Newsweek, Smart Money, Barron’s, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times, and he has appeared on CNN, CNBC, and NPR. Barry currently serves on the Board of Directors at Innocentive and The SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. To learn more about Barry, click here.

StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 53 – An Interview with Randy Dobbs, author of Transformational Leadership

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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 53 – An Interview with Randy Dobbs, author of Transformational Leadership examines what it takes to achieve real and meaningful organizational change in a way that improves overall performance and ultimately enhances the bottom line. During our discussion, Randy Dobbs, author of Transformational Leadership: A Blueprint for Real Organizational Change, share with us his insights, approaches, and real-world experiences regarding:

  • the importance of having earnings as a transformational goal and how to link that goal to an organizational change
  • personal qualities, characteristics, and attributes transformational leaders embody
  • the ‘secret sauce’ of transformational change and how a leader creates it
  • basic building block steps to achieving real organizational change
  • signs the organization has achieved a true transformation and won’t revert back to past habits or the way it used to be done
  • achieving and maintaining a balance of both personality and style and knowledge, skills, and experiences among members of the senior leadership team
  • when inheriting a leadership team, how to identify who on that team should stay, who should go, and what role each person should fill

Additional Information

In addition to the incredible insights Randy shares in Transformational Leadership and this special edition podcast are the resources accessible from his website, www.DobbsLeadership.com.   Randy’s book, Transformational Leadership, can be purchased by clicking here.

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About the Authors

Randy Dobbs, author of Transformational Leadership, is a Senior Operating Executive at Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe; one of the largest and most successful private-equity firms in the United States. Randy rose to become a CEO in a General Electric Company business with the encouragement and coaching of high-level executives including the legendary GE Chairman, Jack Welch. In a string of GE positions of increasing responsibility, Randy excelled as a turnaround specialist who transformed every organization he led and established a winning record of improved earnings. More recently, Randy used the same ‘secret sauce’ to transform and improve earnings as CEO of Philips Medical Systems, North America, and USIS, a leading global security services provider, where he led 7,000 knowledge workers to a new understanding of how to work together to achieve business results. To read Randy’s complete biography, click here.

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