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Practical Networked Leadership Skills
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The soft skills you need to lead and succeed in a networked world. This includes: professional learning network, content curation for self-directed learning and professional development, professional learning networks, personal branding, training your attention, self-care and management, managing up and down.
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Beth Kanter
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What else is required for an effective meeting? 
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Beth Kanter's insight:
Does not include networked leadership
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Ask yourself these 10 LinkedIn profile questions to see if you have a awful resume approach or a reputation builder.
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Workers are checking their phones a staggering amount each day, according to a recent survey.
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1. Provide attention-management training. Managing attention is like managing money -- once you spend it, it’s gone. By incorporating attention-management instruction into training sessions and annual reviews, employees will learn techniques to make the best use of their time. For example, the website Mind Tools suggests that employers teach employees how to create action programs instead of to-do lists. Action programs incorporate short-, medium- and long-term goals that help employees prioritize immediate actions, keep track of projects they have delegated and maintain a list of the projects they plan to work on. This more extensive organizational system will help employees better manage their attention and those reporting to them.
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“Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.” Wayne Dyer “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of […]
Beth Kanter's insight:
These habits will rob you of your happiness - avoid them
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Why prestige is the enemy of passion, or how to master the balance of setting boundaries and making friends.
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Gathered here are insights from seven thinkers who have contemplated the art-science of making your life’s calling a living.
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I’ve written about how creativity works in the brain before, and I found it really useful to understand this process. Or, I should say, multiple processes. There’s so much going on in the brain during creativity that science is still trying to pin down exactly how it all works. What we do know is which three parts of the brain work together to help us create and come up with new ideas: The Attentional Control Network helps us with laser focus on a particular task. It’s the one that we activate when we need to concentrate on complicated problems or pay…
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Research has shown that a messy space is more conducive to creativity than a tidy one, so separating your clean and tidy work desk and a messy creative space could be optimal for switching between the two modes of work.
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This raises vital questions. What is the optimal balance between social immersion and creative solitude? Why does interpersonal conflict so often coincide with innovation? Looking at pairs allows us to grapple with these questions, which are as basic to the human experience as the push and pull of love itself. As a culture, we’ve long been preoccupied with romance. But we should also take seriously something just as important, but long overlooked — creative intimacy.The idea of the solitary creator is a myth that has outlived its usefulness.
Beth Kanter's insight:
This raises vital questions. What is the optimal balance between social immersion and creative solitude? Why does interpersonal conflict so often coincide with innovation? Looking at pairs allows us to grapple with these questions, which are as basic to the human experience as the push and pull of love itself. As a culture, we’ve long been preoccupied with romance. But we should also take seriously something just as important, but long overlooked — creative intimacy.
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Many organisations across the world today are putting coaching programmes in the workplace, either hiring external coaches or training their own managers. A ‘coaching culture’ is the goal to pursue, so how can this be achieved? Via David Hain
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In just six years time, the skills you'll be looking for in star employees will be vastly different from those ideal in today's workers. Consider this your crystal ball. Via Gust MEES
Beth Kanter's insight:
Good list of 21st Century work skills.
MyKLogica's curator insight,
July 8, 2014 12:50 PM
En un futuro cada vez más cercano la robotización y la inteligencia artificial hará que desaparezcan muchos perfiles actuales y adquieran valor aquellos profesionales que han desarrollado ciertas competencias. Muy interesantes tanto los agentes del cambio, como las competencias que adquirirán valor, casi todas ellas en relación al desarrollo de capacidades cognitivas y relacionales que, hoy por hoy, son esencialmente "humanas". 
Chris Carter's comment,
July 8, 2014 8:01 PM
Thank you Gust Mees! In an age where we are told such nonsense as 76% of all jobs in 2025 have not bee invented yet, here is an informative infographic that simply makes clear what skills will be in demand. Excellent!
Edumorfosis's curator insight,
July 9, 2014 7:50 AM
Si la universidad no se articula a la altura de los tiempos practicando el conjunto de destrezas necesarias para entrar al mundo laboral emergente, lo harán los profesionales por su propia cuenta. Las micro-firmas se encargarán de desarrollar proyectos o programas dirigidos a profesionales en búsqueda de nuevos horizontes de posibilidades. La Universidad Intelectual ya es cosa del pasado. La Universidad Social es el presente y el futuro de la Hiper-Educación...
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The Employees Rising report reveals that only 30 percent of employees feel deeply engaged with their employers. Most say that their leadership teams, senior management and direct supervisors don't communicate effectively – and it’s their line managers’ time that they appreciate most – in spite of the proliferation of technology and communication tools.
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Beth Kanter's insight:
What is social leadership? Simply put, it’s shifting the focus from you to we. All organizational leaders are part of complex human social networks. The great fallacy of leadership is that leaders control.
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If you are a sucker for great leadership movies like I am --- "Invictus," "Coach Carter" and "Moneyball," just to name a few -- it’s easy to assume that al
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Some traits to avoid
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Post by beth.kanter. ABL - Always be learning! Re-reading and reflecting on the Sam Kaner's book on facilitation techniques. What are your favorite resources for improving...
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resources for facilitation
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Ask yourself these 10 LinkedIn profile questions to see if you have a awful resume approach or a reputation builder.
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If your employees are tuning out or making to-do lists during meetings, they might not be the issue. Help them stay present with these tips.
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Procrastinators waste too much time, but to get over this bad tendency, you need to know why you procrastinate. Dr. Joseph Ferrari of DePaul University has categorised a few basic types of time-wasters, and has solutions for them too.
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#484429103 / gettyimages.com It hardly seems possible, but the time has come when high-potential millennials are assuming leadership roles
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This research comes from surveys of managers of Millennials and offers advice on how to develop leadership skills. Here’s the problem: They’re still young. And in many ways — judgment, emotional intelligence, perspective — they’re still immature. Fast-tracking their career path means that they necessarily skip essential skill-building and seasoning experiences that typically helped their older colleagues make wiser choices. To their credit, they know they need that extra support around critical developmental areas. 1. They are eager to learn and be coached 2. Raise visibility internally with communications and development projects 3 Leverage their eagerness to learn with on-the-spot, on the go coaching. A walk down the hallway is just enough time to praise, offer a tip, or insight that will improve their performance. 4. Bridge Generation Gap - they need help managing and working with older generations. Their informal, team-based, non-hierarchical approach to project management can be hard for older generations to tolerate. Their casual behaviors may be perceived by older co-workers as being disrespectful or insubordinate. All parties may need some guidance in finding common ground when it comes to change (or lack of change, for the millennials, in some instances). 5. Encourage innovative thinking - even ideas that might have been rejected 15 years ago. 6. Revisit assumptions on how and when work best gets done.
Jennifer Eskridge's curator insight,
July 29, 2014 1:01 PM
Thinking succession not only allows for smoother transitions, but when approached as a developmental but allows current leadership to grow into their next role as advocates, advisors, and mentors - roles that while part of leadership cannot always be top priority.
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What do you write down? For most of us, writing consists of emails, task lists, and perhaps the odd work project. However, making time to write down certain things, such as our daily experiences, our goals, and our mental clutter can change the way we live our lives. Here are six different ways that writing things down can change your life, and what you can do to get the most out of each. Via The Learning Factor
The Learning Factor's curator insight,
November 28, 2013 5:25 PM
Writing things down can foster a sense of achievement and progress, expanding our possibilities and increasing our productivity.
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If you’re a chronic rusher, a confirmed multitasker, what’s your reward? What is the quality of work you’re producing? Ask yourself these seven questions.
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Is busyness part of your organization's culture? Here's some good reflection questions on how to recognize it and change culture.
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If you were given a few years to live, how would your life change? More importantly, what would you stop doing? (What do you need to *stop* doing? Via F. Thunus
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People don't underperform because they lack technical skills. People underperform because they lack soft skills.
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Good checklist of skills
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Millennials want to work at a company that is doing good. What used to be considered charitable side projects are now becoming one of the strongest...
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Your social media marketing voice isn't a statistic you can track or a design element you can tweak. But you can plan and practice. Here's what works.
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Are you learning, as an organization and as an individual, as fast as the world is changing? Are you as determined to stay interested as to be interesting? Remember, it’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.