Leading Effectively e-Newsletter - July 2009 Issue

July 2009

In Your View

Have you experienced a crisis in your organization or community that required you to lead in unexpected ways?

Take Note

Is there still a war for talent?
The battle for top talent isn't what it was just a year ago. But having the right talent at the right time may be more important than ever. (more...)

Find a Focus
Are you seeking new skills, more responsibility or eyeing a job change? If so, you'll benefit from focused career-development strategies. (more...)

From the Blog

Successful journalist Philip Delves Broughton gives it all up to attend Harvard Business School and then writes about it. CCL's Craig Chappelow reviews Broughton's book, Ahead of the Curve, which chronicles the author's personal experiences and perceptions as an HBS MBA student. Read Craig's review, including a satisfying postscript.

Leading for Tomorrow
Win or lose talent with today's decisions

The next six months will be a critical time for organizations. Talent will be won or lost based on the decisions you are making now. (more...)

Learn a New Approach to Business Innovation

By applying innovative thinking to leadership tasks, a creative climate begins to emerge. Through this new climate of innovation leadership, you as a leader, empower others to take initiative.

CCL and Continuum, a global innovation and design consultancy, are offering a workshop — "Innovation Leadership: New Ways of Business Thinking" — September 15-16, in Boston. This program will help you apply new ways of thinking to resolve challenges in your organization and create opportunities for new products, services and processes needed for business success.

Attend this concise, practical workshop for only $575, and confirm your attendance by calling 1-336-545-2810. Look for more details in an upcoming issue of Leading Effectively.

How Do You Adapt to Change?

In these times of change, how easily do you adjust and adapt? (more...)

Strategic Learning: The Secret to Implementing Strategy

Many executives believe that setting strategy is easy. Implementing strategy is the true challenge. (more...)

Creating a Leading Culture

As vice president of Vought Aircraft Industries' Advanced Aero-Solutions Division, Joy Romero, along with her team, is responsible for delivering the aft fuselage section of the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The 787 program — with the first flight scheduled this year and the first customer delivery in 2010 — represents a radical change in the way Vought and Boeing do business. (more...)

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Leadership Lessons: A CCL Development Series

A Crisis Refresher: Leading well in times of trouble

Financial crisis has been making headlines and straining our organizations in recent months. For some time yet, the economic crisis may intensify, then ease, then intensity again, keeping leaders and employees on edge. What form of crisis might we face tomorrow? (more...)

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Events You Won't Want to Miss

August 5:
CCL Webinar
Feedback That Works

August 26:
CCL Webinar
Leadership: Creating a Clear and Compelling Vision

September 9:
CCL Webinar
Seven Keys to Successful Mentoring

Did you know ...
That leaders who exercise are more effective on the job?

CCL's Fitness and Leadership research shows that regular exercise and effective leadership go hand in hand.

Leaders who exercised regularly were rated significantly higher on leadership effectiveness by their bosses, peers and direct reports than leaders who didn't exercise or who exercised sporadically. Investing time in regular exercise, even if it means working fewer hours, correlates with your being perceived as a more effective leader.

In their book "Managing Leadership Stress," Vidula Bal, Michael Campbell, and Sharon McDowell-Larsen describe the research and share how exercise can help you cope better with the stresses and demands of your position.

COMPLIMENTARY Webinar:
Measuring ROI in Leadership Development

With the economic downturn bringing layoffs and hiring freezes, budget cuts, mergers and consolidations and outsourcing of learning functions, we must show the value of learning and development. Investments in leadership development can improve bottom-line financial performance, help organizations attract and retain talent and drive a performance culture. But we must be able to demonstrate this impact in order to convince the C-level of the value of these investments.

CCL and the ROI Institute are offering a free Webinar from 1 to 2 p.m., August 6, to demonstrate the value of using the ROI Methodology™ to measure the impact of leadership development programs. The Webinar will be followed by a "Measuring ROI in Leadership Development" workshop on September 14-18, on CCL's Greensboro campus. Workshop participants will earn an ROI Certification.

The Webinar and workshop are designed for anyone who needs the skills to measure the impact of leadership development programs. This includes those who need to demonstrate the ROI and business impact of coaching, leadership development, management development, organizational change and executive development. Presenters will be Jack Phillips, chairman of the ROI Institute and Jennifer Martineau, CCL's group director of Global Research.