Tagged: leadership development

What New Managers Need to Know… and How We Educate Them – (Part 1 of 2)

What New Managers Need to Know… and How We Educate Them – (Part 1 of 2)

When you hire a new manager in your organization how do you prepare them to actually manage people in your unique environment?  Is it the same process whether you hire from the outside or promote from within or whether they have some supervisory experience or have never managed a person in their life?  Often we mistakenly assume that because someone has survived the interviewing and assessment process and been selected for the job that she […]

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Leadership Lessons from the Frontlines of Poverty Alleviation

Leadership Lessons from the Frontlines of Poverty Alleviation

While preparing for a work project in Guatemala to establish a health and water cooperative in conjunction with New DenverChurch www.newdenver.org, I wanted some perspective on the most effective practices for providing assistance in developing countries.  My concern is that in spite of the lengthy war on poverty waged in the United States since the 60’s, and billions of dollars of foreign aid ($2.3 trillion spent by Western nations since World War […]

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