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Tips for team leaders
I couldn’t agree more with Carolyn O’Hara’s thoughtful piece on What New Team Leaders Should Do First: “Getting people to work together isn’t easy, and unfortunately many leaders skip over the basics...
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Hire the right rookies
Liz Wiseman’s recent blog post about hiring rookies, Why Your Team Needs Rookies hits pretty close to home. “Hiring managers often view newcomers to their organizations as not only long-term assets but...
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Edit the script to your leadership story
As a consultant, I sometimes work with clients to help them create their Leadership Timeline that essentially paints a picture of their life as a leader. Linkage encourages the leaders we work with to...
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Employee engagement begins at home
I agree with Susan LaMotte’s insightful HBR article Employee Engagement Depends on What Happens Outside of the Office where she writes, “Companies spend over $720 million each year on employee...
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The need for sponsorship is now. (Here’s why)
Organizations that support formal sponsorship create personal responsibility at the highest levels of the organization. This creates momentum and a clear path for the highest caliber team members to...
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3 Must-Haves for Sponsorship Success
We know diversity translates into better ideas, market representation, and, ultimately, dollars. According to a 2015 McKinsey Report, companies with gender and ethnic diversity are more likely to...
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In Leaders We (Don’t) Trust
It can be hard to take a vague construct like trust and turn it into something that we all understand, are aligned on, and know how to create. There are many definitions of trust out there—almost as...
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