Leading Effectively e-Newsletter - September 2007 Issue

September 2007

Leadership in the Balance

Creating a balanced life involves more than time management or parceling out your efforts among competing demands and desires. This issue of Leading Effectively introduces another way of thinking about balance and explores the payoff for leaders and organizations that make the effort for equilibrium.

Articles

Balancing Act: Shifting to Find Equilibrium
Do you feel that you never have enough time or energy? Are you pulled in too many directions? It may be time to re-think what work-life balance means to you. (more...)

Are Balanced Leaders Better Performers
Don't sacrifice balance for career success -- it might backfire, suggests CCL's Joan Gurvis. Research from CCL shows that work-life balance improves a leader's effectiveness. (more...)

Benefits of Balance
Encouraging employees to find time for their families and life outside of the office is good for business. According to Fortune magazine's latest ranking of the 100 Best Companies to Work For 2007, four of the best 25 companies also received high marks for promoting a healthy work-life balance. (more...)

Life Beyond Work: Retaining All Generations
To retain employees of all ages, organizations need to address expectations of the job, career and compensation. An organization's attitude toward employees' life outside of work is also a factor. (more...)

Rethinking Balance: A Conversation with CCL's Joan Gurvis
If you are on a quest for balance, temporarily put aside your calendar and instead consider the bigger picture. CCL's Joan Gurvis shares her ideas for rethinking balance. (more...)

Results of the CCL Poll: C-Level View
In our August 2007 Leading Effectively e-newsletter, readers were asked several questions about their own experiences compared to those of CEOs. A total of 128 readers responded to the poll. CCL expert Corey Criswell summarizes the results. (more...)

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Further Your Development

CCL is a proud sponsor of the
Best of Talent Management Summit
November 12-14, 2007
San Francisco, CA

This event brings together the world's foremost talent management experts, thought leaders and experienced practitioners to share the tools, models, leadership skills and overall implementation plans executed during successful talent management initiatives. Attendees are offered a genuinely unique immersion learning experience through a combination of visionary keynote presentations, best practice case studies and small, focused learning teams. Participants and team leaders alike will have the shared opportunity to discuss and debate principles and methods learned throughout the presentations and then apply them to their own real and current challenges in small action learning groups.

CCL faculty member Cynthia McCauley will present a concurrent session entitled "Using Challenging Assignments to Develop and Retain High Potentials"

To register for the Summit at a rate of $1,495 ($200 off the regular conference fee), call +1 781 402 5555 or visit Linkage's Web site and mention Priority Code 07TM-FC03.

CCL Workshop on Innovation:

Workshop on Innovation: Understanding the Human Principles for Sustaining Innovation
November 13-15, 2007
Singapore

This workshop, part of CCL's Innovation Series, is intended for those senior leaders and managers who are charged with the responsibility of leading the innovation effort within their organizations. Topics include:

How to be an innovation leader
The human principles necessary to sustain innovation
Measuring the current innovation culture within an organization
Designing and implementing a full culture of innovation
How to redesign an existing culture to meet innovation goals

Space is limited to 24 participants. To register, please contact either Jenni Maxson in the U.S. by telephone at +1 336 286 4016, e-mail at maxsonj@ccl.org or Jane Koo in Singapore by telephone at +65 6854 6009, e-mail at kooj@ccl.org. Register before October 15 to receive the event fee discount.

Upcoming CCL Leading Effectively Webinars

Leading in 24/7
September 25, 1-2 p.m. ET
Price: $50

Managing Conflict
October 9, 1-2 p.m. ET
Price: $50

Program Spotlight

CCL open-enrollment programs the Leadership Development Program (LDP^®), Foundations of Leadership, the Looking Glass Experience, the Women's Leadership Program, and the African-American Leadership Program provide the chance to address balance in the context of setting career and leadership goals.