Scott Patchin

People-Centered Leadership

People-Centered Leadership

Commit to building strong relationships with your people as a fundamental part of leading toward growth; read more about People-Centered Leadership

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Executive Coaching

Executive Coaching

Develop the areas that will most impact your performance and learn while working; read more about Executive Coaching

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trUTips

trUTips

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Learning Resources

Learning Resources

If a selection has an * I recommend it as a gift to a new leader and/or team member. Before you give a gift, please read this gift-giving advice. Managing More Effectively *One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard *Managing Right for the First Time by David C. Baker...

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Talent Management Templates

Talent Management Templates

Onboarding Talent Team Member Fact Sheet Role Summary and Focus (a performance and engagement focused job description) Developing Talent - Tools (for more info see trU Tip #15 - Development Plans) Performance Conversations - Feedback Form Template Performance...

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Articles

Articles

2-3-2011  CORP! Magazine Article—Left Brain? Right Brain? How About No Brain? Will the call to innovate and lean-up work for your organization? As the recovery unfolds, here is a little wisdom on how to get people engaged at a level that will help you achieve some of...

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Worksheet – Rocket Fuel Reading

The Entrepreneurial Operating System depends on a great relationship between the Visionary and Integrator. Rocket Fuel helps with that, and this study guide directs a conversation between these EOS leaders to help them apply it to improve their effectiveness as...

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Wait Not – Waste Not

Wait Not – Waste Not

In the age of lean thinking waste has become a focus. While the focus is often financial and physical waste, the waste to our organization of waiting is often overlooked.

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Simple but not Easy

Simple but not Easy

Simple and not easy characterizes many choices we have to make as leaders. Simple blurs the resistance that keeps us from moving forward with decisions that are not easy.

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Time for a Career Check-up?

Time for a Career Check-up?

Stephen Covey called it “Sharpening the Saw.” It is that time when we step back and take a look at where we have been, where we are, and where we are going.

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Mind the GAP

How do leaders effectively manage their personal growth and the growth of their organization? It boils down to MIND THE GAP, and here is a keynote workshop I did for a group of economic development professionals in Michigan. It includes tools and techniques (including the Entrepreneurial Operating System) I use to help them Create / Manage / Own the GAP.

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