Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes
I read somewhere that the large majority of blogs that are started every year never make it three months before the writer quits and leaves the old posts to wither on the vine. So, I’m pretty excited to have made it to the 6 month mark with Reflection Leadership.
I had started writing back in the late summer as a diversion to the daily grind of my job. I had originally started out writing a book that I’d been planning for a couple of years but I wasn’t getting immediate satisfaction out of that kind of [...]
Reading time: 3 – 5 minutes
The other day I ran across this article from John Cook where he wrote about the difference between “Just in Case” learning and “Just in Time” learning and I’ve been thinking about how Just in Case and Just in Time relate to leadership development.
Very simply, Cook describes Just in Case learning as the type of learning we do in school; we are learning things just in case we need them sometime in the future. Just in Time learning is the type of learning we do on the job; we are learning things right at the [...]
Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes
Recently the role I play in my organization has begun to change again and I’m in one of those really great places where I get to define the role and create the systems that I need to be successful. As this all started to happen, I thought it would be a great time to finally read David Allen’s best seller Getting Things Done. I know I’m a little late to this particular party seeing how the book was first published 9 years ago, but I figure better late than never.
Before you tune out thinking “oh [...]
Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes
I’ve been writing quite a bit lately about teams and I wanted to continue with a look at different roles that team members take during team interactions.
When we work on something collaboratively in a team setting we are all trying to accomplish a shared goal. As I’ve mentioned before, one of the best ways to promote teamwork and to create a high performing team is to be a better team member. Part of being a good team member is identifying the appropriate role that needs to be played at any given time.
Jim Clawsen, who is [...]
Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes
It’s time again for the Leadership Development Blog Carnival. This month’s blog carnival is host by Dan McCarthy at Great Leadership. Since it was posted last night, Dan chose as this month’s theme the Academy Awards, calling this the Academy Awards Edition of the carnival.
This month’s edition has 41 great entries and I’m again honored to be included.
As always, the blog carnival does not disappoint. There are a number of posts that I previously read since they are from my favorite bloggers, but there are also a good number of posts I had missed this [...]
