About This Blog and an Opportunity to Help Shape it

This blog was started in order to help leaders find cutting edge, research-based, practical tools for improving leadership and leadership development in today’s business world.  The focus is on ethical, results-based leadership. “There are a variety of reasons why CLOs are finding…

What Makes a Successful Leader?

This is a working paper by Richmond, Rollin and Brown on leadership, emotional intelligence and personality type. It includes findings on what makes a succesful leader, and how your view on that question may vary depending on your MBTI type.…

Training Measurement Resource

For those of you who requested more information about training metrics, this 2008 book may be especially helpful to you. By Josh Bersin, it’s called The Training Measurement Book. Check it out on Amazon.com. For New Blog Posts, visit LeadinginContext.com/Blog For more, see…

“Accountability in Human Resource Management”

Jack Phillips, the guru of training measurement has written a book that helps HR executives measure their contribution to the organization’s results and engage senior management in the work of improving performance.  Details available at Amazon.com. For New Blog Posts, visit LeadinginContext.com/Blog For more, see…

The CEO and Human Resources, Working Together

This link takes you to a slideshow about “How CEOs can Inspire Their HR Teams”. It includes some interesting diagrams showing how HR is assuming a more strategic role in the organization. For New Blog Posts, visit LeadinginContext.com/Blog For more, see Linda’s book 7…

Employee Engagement: The Importance of Management

This article called “Employee-Engagement-The-Key-to-Improving-Performance” highlights the importance of management in organizational success. It provides good information for human resource managers about what employees need from management in order to feel engaged in their work. For New Blog Posts, visit LeadinginContext.com/Blog For more, see…

Research Ties Ethics to Business Success

Research Ties Ethics to Business Success    This article provides highlights of the research by Dr. Michael McCuddy, who was honored as having written the best ethics or business law paper of 2007 by the International Journal of Business and Economics. For New Blog…