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What’s Lost in Finding Your Strengths 8 Aug 2013 | 06:27 pm
There has been a strengths movement sweeping this country. Just recently we led a webinar with the Center for Creative Leadership. About 60 percent of the audience of senior HR and Learning & Developm...
Does the Strengths-based Approach to Leadership Development Work? Two Points of View 7 Feb 2012 | 12:43 am
Along with the rise of the Positive Psychology movement, an approach to leadership development that emphasizes strengths has gained popularity. This method encourages leaders to identify their areas o...
Theory-driven Personality-based Leadership Development 7 Feb 2012 | 12:40 am
This session includes four presentations that collectively demonstrate how Robert Hogan’s Socioanalytic theory of personality can inform the development of managers into better leaders. It features an...
The how and the what of leadership 7 Feb 2012 | 12:36 am
Psychological theories view leadership as a social influence process, where leaders use interpersonal behaviors to motivate followers to contribute to group goals. On the other hand, business-oriented...
Employability and career success: Bridging the gap between theory and reality 7 Feb 2012 | 12:33 am
Dramatic changes in the nature of work since World War II and current levels of persistent unemployment make employability an important public policy issue. Employability is defined as the capacity to...
An evolutionary view of climate and culture 7 Feb 2012 | 12:29 am
This chapter provides an account of how our evolutionary history as group-living and culture-using animals might have shaped our general expectations about how we should be treated when acting as memb...
Destructive Leadership In and Of Organizations 7 Feb 2012 | 12:23 am
This chapter provides a refined and integrative definition of destructive leadership that establishes the construct as a broad category containing narrower facets at the intersection of leadership and...
New book “Fear Your Strengths” out April 1, 2013 6 Sep 2011 | 05:55 pm
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Personality, Leader Behavior, and Overdoing It 3 Jul 2011 | 11:18 pm
This study tested theory-based predictions about relationships between an expanded representation of the Five Factor Model of personality and interpersonal-, task-, and change-oriented leader behavior...
Strengths, Strengths Overused, and Lopsided Leadership 2 Jul 2011 | 11:13 pm
Riding the growth of positive psychology, strengths-based development has become a popular approach to helping managers become better leaders. This school of thought advises managers to maximize their...
