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Good leadership isn't about advancing yourself. It's about advancing your team. John C. Maxwell

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Development Goals for Leaders

January 10, 2010
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| Categories: Leadership

Another great post by Dan McCarthy on 12 development goals for leaders. He is spot on for the 12 development goals for leaders. There are additional ones suggested in comments on his post, but I quite like the 12 he lists. Thank you Dan. Head over to his post for more. Strategic thinkingListeningCoachingFinancial acumenCross-functional knowledge and perspectiveIndustry, competitive, and customer knowledgeLeadership presenceChange leadershipRemote managementCollaborationTalent managementTime management

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The Year That Was 2009

December 26, 2009
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Here’s a look back at the popular posts on this blog and where readers came from during 2009. Top 10 posts: eLearning and Content Development Salaries in India. Also in the list were posts inviting participation in the survey and the 2008 salary survey findings.Rules for Kids and Teenagers for Facebook UsageInstructional Designer CompetenciesGetting Started with Instructional DesignLearn and Lead (About)Blogs by Indian Learning Professionals and CompaniesWeb 2.0 Quotient - version 1.1Indian Learning Professionals on Twitter, updated list hereInnovation in Indian Learning Industry5 Reasons Why You are Not Being Promoted…

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Top Learning Resources of 2009

December 24, 2009
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| Categories: Learning, Lists, PLE, Resources

2009 was a continuation of my journey of online self-learning. I share with you the top learning resources from my PLE (personal learning environment) for the year 2009. I have found these valuable in my learning during the year. This is definitely not a comprehensive list. Here are my top learning resources for the year 2009 (in no particular order): Twitter has been one of the most valuable learning tool for me this year. You can find the learning professionals I follow here and here.Stephen Downes OLDaily newsletter – The…

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Do Your Systems and Processes Promote the Right Culture?

December 17, 2009
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| Categories: Collaboration, Creativity, Orgnization culture, Process, Systems

I couldn’t help but smile when I saw this Dilbert strip. It also got me thinking. Are your systems and processes promoting the right culture that you want in your organization? You may have the most sophisticated systems and processes but if they stifle creativity, prevent collaboration, encourage fiefdoms and generally make it hard to work with each other in the organization, I recommend relooking at them. It would be great if we designed the systems and process keeping in mind the organization culture we want to create. Start with…

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What is Innovation?

December 17, 2009
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| Categories: Innovation, perspective, Reflection

Talking about innovation always opens Pandora’s box (see comments on my post Innovation in Indian Learning Industry). Wikipedia defines innovation as: a new way of doing something or "new stuff that is made useful". It may refer to incremental and emergent or radical and revolutionary changes in thinking, products, processes, or organizations.According to Merriam-Webster, innovation is:Main Entry: in•no•va•tionPronunciation: "i-n&-'vA-sh&nFunction: noun1 : the introduction of something new2 : a new idea, method or device Another site RealInnovation.com says: An innovation can be big or small. Brand-new or just a bit different,…

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Innovation in Indian Learning Industry

December 10, 2009
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| Categories: eLearning, India, Industry, Innovation, Trends

Will Thalheimer wonders what is the state of innovation in the Indian learning and performance industry in his recent blog post. He comments on the NY Times report on India’s anxiety over the slow pace of innovation and wonders what the situation is in the learning industry. Will Thalheimer is a learning-and-performance consultant and researcher who specializes in helping clients build more effective learning interventions. I guess it depends on what we call innovation. No I am not getting into an academic debate on what is innovation, primarily because I…

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Do you ‘Get’ Social Networking?

December 10, 2009
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| Categories: Social Media, Social Networking

What came first – chicken or egg? Most people don’t get benefit of social networking because they don’t have a large enough network. And then they don’t build their network because they don’t get the benefit. Have patience. After all if it takes 10,000 hrs to become an expert, how can you expect to get benefits from social networking by simply creating accounts on various social networking services but not actually using them?

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Convergence on Social Media – When Not to Use

November 30, 2009
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| Categories: Convergence, Social Media, Social Networking, Tips

So LinkedIn now allows you to update your status with your Twitter updates. There are already applications that help you post your Twitter updates to Facebook. And then there’s FriendFeed that allows you to consolidate all your social activity and push that on Facebook and other social media sites. Not to mention other aggregation services, RSS feeds, email alerts, etc. etc.Seems like a cool thing, surely. Well almost. If your social network across different social media services looks like below, then posting the same update on different services makes sense.…

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First Impressions of Google Wave

November 26, 2009
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| Categories: Google, Google Wave, Review, Tools

I got a Google Wave invite and didn’t really know what to do. I was quite lost when I first logged on. It took me about a week before I actually started exploring and figuring it out. I am still at it. Here’s what you can do when you get a Google Wave invite. Add the person who sent you the invite in your Contact list.Start a wave thanking the person who sent the invite. This is getting your feet wet.I think the Contact list shows your Google contacts who…

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