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NorQuest Weekly Round-Up May 17
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Here are our favorite articles this week about leadership:
Leadership Now: 5 Leadership Lessons: The Leader as Strategist
Michael McKinney summarizes Cynthia Montgomery’s book, The Strategist. He notes the author says we have reduced strategy to a right-brain exercise and have lost sight of what it takes to lead the effort.
Forbes.com: Google Can Survive Too Much Innovation. You Can’t
This post outlines why leaders need to focus on the best opportunities only, and not invest in every good innovation or idea that comes your way. The result of “idea overload” can burn-out even the best team, or bankrupt your company.
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Everything DiSC® – Profiles for Performance
Posted by: | CommentsOne of the well-known behavioral rules is that people want you to treat them as they would like to be treated. But people do not go around with their needs displayed for all to see. So, fortunately, there are the Everything DiSC®Profiles. These new learning tools are based on the third generation of the research validated DiSC® assessments, and are ideal for helping you become more effective in your relationships with others.
Everything DiSC is® the fastest, easiest way to go – from assessment to action, with tips and strategies to connect better with your co-workers and improve your workplace relationships. Each profile is topic specific with in-depth information, including tips, strategies, and action plans to help learners become more effective.
Each profile is:
- Specialized: application focused programs improve critical people-skills in the areas of management, sales, leadership, communication and more
- In-depth: follow-up tools create a complete learning experience that takes you from assessment to action – fast
- Customizable: will meet your organization’s needs with easy to use features that help you make the program your own
- Personalized: online assessments provide individualized profiles with tips and strategies for development
NorQuest Weekly Round-Up May 10
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Here are our favorite leadership articles for this past week:
Forbes.com: This One Leadership Quality Will Make or Break You
Mike Myatt explored the value of pursuit - the pursuit of excellence, of elegance, of truth, of what’s next, of what if, of change, of value, of results, of relationships, of service, of knowledge, and of something bigger than themselves.
Forbes.com: If You’re Going Through Hell, Keep Going – Winston Churchill
A terrific reflection of the achievements of Winston Churchill, and the leadership lessons he offered during his tenure as Prime Minister during WWII, including, “No matter what kind of shape your business is in, if your attitude is never, never, never give up, you stand a much better chance of succeeding.”
LeadershipNow Blog: What Matters Now
A rave review of Gary Hamel’s new book, “a blueprint for creating organizations that are fit for the future and fit for human beings.”
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Work of Leaders: Vision, Alignment, Execution
Posted by: | CommentsThe Everything DiSC Work of Leaders’Profile is the newest addition to the Everything DiSC family of Profiles. It is classroom training that uses online pre-work, engaging facilitation with contemporary video, and online follow-up to create a learning experience.
First of all, Work of Leaders approaches leadership as a one-to-many relationship, as opposed to the one-to-one relationship of management. It, therefore, focuses on leading a group or an organization toward desired outcomes. For example, Leaders often may be responsible for staff for which they do not have a direct reporting relationship.
Research Based
The Work of Leaders’ Profile is the result of a four year development effort. During this process the work of prominent leadership researchers were analyzed and distilled; including input from more than 300 subject experts at over 150 organizations. The main thrust was to identify leadership behaviors.
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NorQuest Weekly Round-Up May 3
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We do the heavy lifting for you! The best leadership articles from this past week have been compiled and listed below:
Forbes: 7 Character Traits of Charismatic People
Charisma is often the key to success in life and in business. Forbes writer Jennifer Cohen points out that scientists have determined that this quality is 50% innate and 50% trained. The top character traits are reviewed here.
Leadership Freak: How Leaders Shoot Themselves in the Foot
This article reviews how self-defeating behaviors can be the downfall of leaders.
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Evolution of DiSC®: From Graph to Dot!
Posted by: | CommentsToday we are starting a series of Blog Posts on the Everything DiSC® line of products. In today’s post we will begin with a video outlining the evolution of the 
DiSC® products from the long recognized graph model to the new circumplex model. We are very interested in your reaction to this evolution – so would welcome your comments.
This video will highlight the differences between the Classic DiSC® graphs and the new circular model Everything DiSC®.
In future weeks we will talk further about each of the following Everything DiSC® reports:
- Everything DiSC® Workplace
- Everything DiSC® Sales
- Everything DiSC® Management
- Everything DiSC® Work of Leaders
- Everything DiSC® 363 Feedback for Leaders
NorQuest Weekly Round-Up April 26
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Here’s what we think are the week’s best leadership articles and blog posts:
Leadership Now: Why Leaders Can NOT Procrastinate
We are all guilty of procrastinating, but for leaders, the results can damage much-needed client or employee relationships as well as their bottom-line. Author Jason Womack outlines three ways to get going and sustain your productivity.
Leadership Freak: 16 Secrets for Dealing with an Empty Tank
Leaders can lead on an empty tank, notes Dan Rockwell. Some energy drainers are pointed out, and steps to recharging your batteries so you can continue to lead passionately!
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