Interview with Senator George Mitchell on Negotiation and Consensus Building in Northern Ireland

By Louis Carter / CEO, BPI

Louis Carter, founding CEO of Best Practice Institute Interviews Senator George Mitchell on Negotiation and Consensus Building Global Institute for Leadership Development       Louis Carter (LC):  Mr. Mitchell, thank you again, for giving me the time to interview you -- it's an honor to be s... Read More

Integrating Social Elements with Formal Learning Programs

By Vince Talbot / Learning Manager at Cigna

Integrating Social Elements with Formal Learning Programs By Vince Talbot, Learning Manager, Cigna    Cigna University supports several enterprise-wide leadership programs, i.e. Segment Manager Development (SMDP), Physician Leadership Development (PLDP), The Way We Lead (TWWL), and Leading fo... Read More

Missions, Challenges and Quests

By Christopher L Davis / Senior Learning & Performance Innovation Consultant, Cigna

Missions, Challenges and Quests By Chris Davis, Learning Manager, Cigna    Cigna University developed a series of ten Quests to test the usability of the JAM Social Collaboration platform and as a way of introducing the functionality of the platform in a fun and engaging way.  Missions, Chal... Read More

The Six Factors of Inspired Leadership

By Bpi / Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

In 2005, researchers discovered that inspired leadership is central to influencing individual experiences of spirit at work. It is also strongly linked to six other organisational factors such as positive workplace culture, a sense of community, opportunities for personal fulfilment, and organisati... Read More

Leadership – Views from the Top with Louis Carter

By Bpi / Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

Louis Carter on Linda Sharkey's Show: i Lead – The Leadership Connection Linda Sharkey interviews Louis Carter Leadership – Views from the Top with Louis Carter CEO's and C-Suite leaders have a wide view of how an organization functions and the issues and pressures that are faced. Download... Read More

Super Human Capital - Turn Everyone into Fully Engaged Workforce Superheroes

By Bpi / Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

Super Human Capital: Turning Everyone Into Fully Engaged, Workplace Superheroes Presented by:  Kevin Kruse, NY Times Best Selling Author/Speaker on Leadership | Serial Entrepreneur  Live Webinar  Skills: Coaching  Practices: Employee Engagement, Employee Motivation & Recognition  ... Read More

How Conversations Go Wrong and What You Can Do to Right Them

By Bpi / Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

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Creating a Culture that Rocks!

By Bpi / Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

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The Unique Challenges of HR in Asia

By Bpi / Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

Leadership development specialist Louis Carter identifies the unique challenges that HR in Asia Pacific faces, with case studies from Unilever, HSBC Hong Kong, and Singapore Airlines. In 2005, researchers discovered that inspired leadership is central to influencing individual experiences of spir... Read More

A HARSH NEW REALITY: STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS IS A WEAPON OF WAR

By Doug Poretz / Managing Principal, The Poretz Connection

If you are a decision maker of any enterprise of any size, anywhere in the world, with any mission, you are making a major mistake if you do not – right now – understand that strategic communications is a primary weapon of war.  And, unlike all other weapons of war, where only institution... Read More

5 Ways to Tie Talent to the Biz Strategy

By Louis Carter / CEO, BPI

A five-point strategy Here are five steps to lead your organization into the 21st century by connecting talent to the business strategy. 1. Leadership. Select a team to champion the integration. Harmonising talent management across multiple business units requires leaders with authority, diplomac... Read More

Is Your Brain or Game Sabotaging Your Success?

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You are having a great conversation with a potential new alliance/customer (herein known as "The Newbie") and have provided a very simple solution that addresses her needs. The Newbie says, "Wow your solution seems like the easiest to understand and I really can see it being of great value to me and... Read More

Words Can Come Back to Bite You – Right?

By Tom Leech / Author, Presentations Coach/Seminar Leader, Conference Speaker -- Tom Leech Winning Presentations, Thomas Leech & Associates

We’ve had a run recently on words that come back to poke the senders, top execs in the sports realm. There’s that guy who heads the Russian Tennis Federation, who labeled the tennis super-stars Venus and Serena Williams as "the Williams brothers" and "scary" to look at. Shamil Tarpischev made th... Read More

Global Virtual Teams - Are We Preparing Our Workforce?

By Neal Goodman / President of Global Dynamics, Inc. and Leader of Global/Cross-cultural/Diversity and Virtual Training, Coaching & Consulting, Global Dynamics, Inc

Global Virtual Teams - Are We Preparing Our Workforce? By Neal Goodman and Sue Bray   In the late 1980’s, one of the authors of this article was director of the distance learning program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy NY.  This was before the term “online learning” had even b... Read More

Are We All Biased? Yes- Unconscious Bias in the Organization

By Neal Goodman / President of Global Dynamics, Inc. and Leader of Global/Cross-cultural/Diversity and Virtual Training, Coaching & Consulting, Global Dynamics, Inc

Are We All Biased? Yes- Unconscious Bias in the Organization By Neal Goodman, Ph.D.   Prejudice and discrimination are detrimental to the success of any public organization yet the best available research demonstrates that we all harbor prejudices which can unconsciously. Influence how we act to... Read More

Align and Integrate Your Talent Systems

By Louis Carter / CEO, BPI

ITM means aligning your talent functions to the organization's greater goals. Modern corporations that are succeeding in integrating their talent management functions are beating the competition in recruiting the best talent, getting the most out of the talent they have, and preparing today's tale... Read More

Leadership Lessons from Home Depot Co-founder Bernie Marcus: Give and Help Others and You Will Be Rewarded

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    I am a social change entrepreneur who helps organizations develop their leaders through innovative new methods that challenge and provoke current thinking. Recently, I sat down with Bernie Marcus, co-founder of Home Depot to learn how he became one of the world’s most successful CEO lead... Read More

Involve and Change

By Marshall Goldsmith / #1 Leadership Thinker, Exec Coach, NYT Bestselling Author. Dartmouth Tuck Professor Mgmt Practice

  Steps 6 & 7 of the Marshall Goldsmith Coaching Model, Involve and Change, are the topic of this week's video. These two steps are absolutely critical to the change process.. If you've been watching and doing what I've been teaching in the Leadership Is a Contact Sport series, you are well... Read More

Leadership Is a Contact Sport

By Marshall Goldsmith / #1 Leadership Thinker, Exec Coach, NYT Bestselling Author. Dartmouth Tuck Professor Mgmt Practice

My career as an executive coach began many years ago with a phone call from the CEO of a Fortune 100 company. I had just given a leadership clinic to the CEO’s human resources department. This is what I was doing in the late 1980s – advising HR departments about identifying future leaders in t... Read More

Leadership Is a Contact Sport: Ask

By Marshall Goldsmith / #1 Leadership Thinker, Exec Coach, NYT Bestselling Author. Dartmouth Tuck Professor Mgmt Practice

“Soliciting feedback” is just what the words imply. It is when we solicit opinions from people about what we are doing wrong. As simple as it sounds, it is not always so simple. Most people have two problems dealing with negative feedback. This may not sound like many, but they are big problems.... Read More