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Align your core values with natural strengths and skills in order to achieve genuine, lasting impact on your professional and personal life.
Individuals, business owners, partners and groups seek out Linda Levin to help them recognize the challenges that have been holding them back and align their core values with the strengths, skills and capabilities that they already possess in order to achieve their highest goals.
   
Linda Levin
6 Office Park, Suite 304
Birmingham, Alabama 35223
205-871-2322
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Louder than Words
In his new book, Louder than Words, 10 Practical Employee Engagement Steps that Drive Results (2010, BLKB Publishing), Bob Kelleher helps leaders identify why employee engagement is a pressing issue for their companies and backs it up with interesting case studies and compelling statistics that show the link between high performance and engaged employees.
He walks the readers through the process of creating (and sustaining!) a fully engaged workforce. This simple guide will take the theoretical concept of employee engagement and turn it into practical steps toward application. After reading this book, you will be convinced of the value that employee engagement can bring to your organization.
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Welcome to the Achieve Change Today Community!
Are you achieving the change you want in your life? My intention is to support you in becoming a stronger, more effective leader by providing you with information and resources that you can immediately put into practice.
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Regards,
Linda Levin, PCC
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What Is Your Career Strategy?
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Is your career on the right path? Are you strategizing for your professional future, or are you simply on auto pilot? Many people never truly know if their career is headed in the right direction, they simply follow the path of least resistance. Now is a great time to set a career strategy into motion.
Of course, change is inevitable, and no matter what goals you strive for, development is at the core of any change. Many people seem to have stagnated, and are on an irreversible career path, based on response to past circumstances and experiences. Is that you?
Give your career the boost it deserves by putting the past where it belongs–in the past. It may be useful for learning purposes; think of it as providing you with the core knowledge necessary for creating a better future.
Next, determine which parts of your professional past provided significant learning. Sift through your bank of experiences and decide how you can maximize what worked and ignore or eliminate what did not.
Finally, cultivate your connections and work with gratitude. Successful people realize that each of their accomplishments has come with the help and perseverance of others. A persevering attitude of gratitude will ensure that your connections continue to strengthen as you move forward in your career, job and life.
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Organizational Strategy that Works!
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One of the critical issues that leaders face is not necessarily creating a strategy, but actually executing it throughout the ranks of the organization.
Think of execution as a set of linked activities that carry out the critical changes and development efforts that you have worked so hard to create. Since leaders are trained more in planning than they are in execution, they tend to be more comfortable with strategy creation than implementation. Let's take a moment to look at the next step - turning planning into doing.
The most successful strategic outcomes are best achieved when the "rank and file" is also part of the planning and formulation process. We have all read about how critical "buy-in" is, and that adage still rings true. The greater the overlap between the doers and the planners, the more success you will have.
What else can you do to ensure success? Managers must take execution into account while they are formulating plans. In other words, execution is not an afterthought. All execution decisions cannot be taken at once. However, the formulation and execution overlap is critical to carrying out your plans.
In addition to being played out over longer periods of time, strategy implementation always involves more people than strategy formulation. That presents additional problems. Communication down the organization or across functions becomes a challenge. So what can you do to make the execution process as smooth and successful as possible?
1. Develop a logical model that works for your company.
2. Keep the overlap between strategy and execution at the forefront at every stage.
3. Foster information sharing, coordination and clear accountability.
4. Develop a culture that supports a robust execution process.
As a leader, you are driving the strategy and execution process. All too often, plans fade when they reach the middle manager level. Confront this issue head on by integrating them into the process from the beginning.
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Employment Trends with Lee Colan
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Our author this time is Lee J. Colan, Ph.D. Dr. Colan is the author of 10 books, with most of them being translated into several languages. He is an expert in personal, team and organizational leadership. In addition to 25 years of hands-on industry and consulting experience, Lee earned Master's and Doctoral degrees in Industrial/Organizational Psychology.
Tell us about the prevailing themes in leadership right now.
I’m a big believer in stepping back and looking at broader trends. Over the past year, we have been seeing engagement concerns coming to the surface again. In the previous six months, we were seeing plenty of resources out there, because of supply and demand. For example, if you are walking through the desert and see a puddle, you still are in the middle of the desert. Essentially, the broader trend is that there is much more demand than there is supply (of qualified employees). The leaders who are being proactive right now realize that there is still a desert, so they are focused on acquiring and engaging good talent..
How are organizations handling employee development differently than in the past?
Many companies are looking for workers who are further along in their careers. Employers are wondering how to effectively tap into them; maybe it’s not a traditional structure, but leaders are trying to soak some knowledge from them. Even though the young leaders are there with their energy, organizations don’t want to lose the skills and experience of the older employees.
Why are leaders grappling with employee engagement?
They know the concept, but are wondering what to do; the “how to” of employee engagement seems overwhelming or at best, unclear. This applies across the board.
Essentially, people are trying to deal with continuous, rapid change. Envision going into the ocean, where you get hit with one wave, and before you stand up, another one hits you again. This environment means that rapid learning and immediate application are important.
Lee Colan's latest title, Engaging the Hearts and Minds of All Your Employees: How to Ignite Passionate Performance for Better Business Results, can be purchased from Amazon.com.
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