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The soul of a start-up, nimble leadership, flexibility and control

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By Elisabeth Goodman, 5th August 2019 Remember Gary Hamel’s article last November about how to retain employee engagement in growing and large organisations? The latest issue of Harvard Business Review (July – August 2019) carries two articles that provide some stimulating and converging ideas about how to achieve employee engagement through a combination of control …

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Revisiting the positive qualities of more traditional methods of recruitment

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By Elisabeth Goodman, 27th May 2019 Peter Cappelli, George W. Taylor Professor of Management at the Wharton School, and director of its Centre for Human Resources, has written a really helpful overview of how newer methods of hiring have lost some of the positive qualities of more traditional methods. (See: Your Approach to Hiring is …

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Working across silos – leadership in the matrix and in multi-functional projects

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By Elisabeth Goodman, 14th May 2019 Working across silos – an enabler for developing leadership skills I recently delivered one of RiverRhee‘s and PERLA‘s Transition to Leadership courses where we share, amongst other information, Michael D Watkins’ “7 seismic shifts” for new leaders. An essential skill, when moving into a leadership role, is the ability …

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Influencing skills for Project Management – lessons from the military

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By Elisabeth Goodman, 27th April 2019 Project is the APM’s (Association for Project Managment) regular publication for its members.  This spring’s issue carries a fascinating article by Ben Hargreaves, editor of Project, featuring Emma Dutton MBE.  The article describes how she has founded a consultancy, the Applied Influence Group, to apply what she has learnt …

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Finding that ‘sweet spot’ for collaboration

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By Elisabeth Goodman, 3rd April 2019 Exploring ways to find the “sweet spot” in collaborating with others is a particularly salient topic in the current political climate.  Thomas Kilmann’s model is an excellent guide on how to do this, which we illustrate in RiverRhee’s training on Assertiveness, and in our management training on Dealing with …

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Creating effective “personal learning clouds” for leadership development

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By Elisabeth Goodman, 25th March 2019 The March-April 2019 issue of Harvard Business Review features an article by Mihnea Moldoveanu and Das Narayandas on “The future of leadership development” (pp. 40-48).  The article focuses on the need to build “personal learning clouds”(PLCs) that embrace remote learning platforms to compensate for the shortfalls of more traditional …

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A more effective approach to feedback?

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By Elisabeth Goodman, 4th March 2019 How to give ‘negative’ feedback is one of the most frequent questions posed by delegates on RiverRhee’s management courses.  It’s a topic we get into during our course on Performance Management and Development too.  And it’s a question that arises when we explore the difference between coaching and mentoring. …

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Inspirational Leadership – through the lens of Emotional Intelligence

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By Elisabeth Goodman, 5th February 2019 Here we are at the twelfth and last of the booklets that I have been working my way through in these blogs, and in my RiverRhee newsletters (see full list in the notes below.) Each booklet has provided me with some terrific insights, and ones that we have also …

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Effective leadership in innovative organisations – some insights

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By Elisabeth Goodman, 24th January 2019 Harvard Business Review has come up with another insightful article on what makes for effective leadership. This time, Gary P. Pisano shines a light on what leaders can do to channel potentially chaotic creative talent into cost-effective and productive behaviours and outcomes. (The Hard Truth about Innovative Cultures, HBR …

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New Year resolutions! Adopting a positive attitude

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By Elisabeth Goodman, 29th December 2018 What better topic to select from Daniel Goleman et al’s Building Blocks of Emotional Intelligence, as we prepare for a new year, than booklet #5 on “Positive Outlook”?! What is positive outlook? According to the definition in the booklet, “Positive outlook” is about: Seeing the positive in people, situations …

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