leadership Archive

  • teresa carroll

    Military | Executive MBA – Command Master Chief Teresa Carroll Sets Course on a New Career Using GI Bill

    The Navy offers training as well as opportunity to learn and work in many different special technical fields as well as different environments such as aviation, surface ships, and submarine force. The most important skill that the Navy teaches sailors is leadership – from the...

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  • Time to Pause

    Time to Pause

    Maybe the work hasn’t changed, but how we work has drastically changed in the last 25 years. What managers and leaders face today is that their lives are busy, and they will only get busier. Yes, we have become more efficient, but we should and...

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  • What Is Needed to Be Effective in Today’s World

    What Is Needed to Be Effective in Today’s World

    If you don’t have highly creative people in positions of real author­ity, you won’t get innovation,” writes Darrell Rigby, Kara Gruver, and James Allen in their Harvard Business Review (HBR) article “Innovation in Turbulent Times.” Their main argument? Creative people “typically imagine a whole picture...

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  • Book Review – Leadership: More Than a Minute

    Book Review – Leadership: More Than a Minute

    More Than a Minute: How to Be an Effective Leader and Manager in Today’s Changing World By Holly Green This book provides the reader with valuable tools and practi­cal guidance to develop and grow as effective managers and leaders. Green gives the rationale and thought...

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  • Book Review – Leadership: Stress Effect

    Book Review – Leadership: Stress Effect

    A 2010 release, The Stress Effect focuses on stress, but also covers solutions to stress factors. Decision making is approached in many ways – through cognitive intelligence influences and emotional intelligence.

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  • Coaching Sound Off

    Coaching Sound Off

    Student | Eric Perkins Training Specialist, Mission Federal Credit Union I was a big believer of coaching prior to attending SDSU’s coaching classes. However, what I discovered is that I needed more information to be a more effective coach. There was a lot that I didn’t know, and the class only encouraged...

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    Change Behaviors to Change Results | The Spirit of Coaching

    In your lifetime the likelihood of working with a coach is pretty high. There are plenty of coaches out there: sports, life, health, per­sonal, career, and so on. However, in business, coaching is still a relatively new concept.

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  • Customized Training from SDSU has its Advantages

    Customized Training from SDSU has its Advantages

    Just think of the advantages when your company provides on-site, customized training. These days, businesses, organizations and government agencies face new challenges. There are technological advances; new managers who need the right training; mergers and acquisitions that bring diverse corporate cultures together; downsizing that requires...

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