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"7 Critical Leadership Mistakes: What Every HR Executive"
January 11, 2007
Presented by Dr. Mitchell Kusy, Organization Development Consultant, Author
Leaders are making mistakes that are far more open to public scrutiny than ever before. When leaders are challenged by conditions of growing uncertainty and the need to work at lightening speed, critical errors are not only unavoidable but also rampant in organizations today. Enter: the HR executive who is often both the first and last resort for leaders who fail.
In this session, you’ll explore the behind-the-scenes look at a first-of-its-kind national research study Mitch conducted, with co-researcher Dr. Louellen Essex, on the 7 most career-debilitating and organization-derailing mistakes leaders have made. This session also explores specific recovery strategies and how HR executives can serve as coaches in this regard. Mitch will also discuss the 2 fatal errors from which a rebound is next to impossible, in which the leader needs to be coached to leave the organization voluntarily or be fired.
This research led to their recent book Breaking the code of silence: Prominent leaders reveal how they rebounded from 7 critical mistakes, which will be given to the first 25 registrants. In this book, their interviews with world-famous leaders are analyzed from the perspective of what successful leaders have done to recover from any of these 7 major blunders.
Stay tuned as Mitch also provides the results of his latest national research study linking leadership mistakes and toxic personalities! You’ll discover how HR executives should coach leaders who must deal with the devastation caused by these toxic individuals who poison teams and systems in organizations.
Recovery from any of these blunders is what Mitch believes is now becoming the latest leadership competency—a key resume builder. It is a leadership hallmark that, when properly executed, can transform a negative situation into a badge of success. These recovery strategies are far from the common "pull-yourself-up-from-your-bootstraps" approaches that many leaders have taken. They are designed to help every HR executive improve his or her own mistake-recovery mechanisms—and get a heads-up on the competition by coaching leaders in their own organizations on recovering from mistakes successfully and rapidly.
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