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David Ellena

The Best Way for New Leaders to Build Trust - Jim Dougherty - Harvard Business Review - 0 views

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  • I spent more than four hours  listening in to client support calls at the call center.  I shared headsets with many of the team, moving from desk to desk to speak to the reps. To say they were surprised is an understatement: Many CEOs never visit the call center, and virtually none do it their first afternoon on the job.
  • Many leaders see their role as directing and giving information, rather than gathering.  There is pressure to “come up with the answer” quickly or risk looking weak.  Too many new leaders believe they’re expected to know the answer without input or guidance. Nothing could be further from the truth.
  • Without trust, it is very unlikely you will learn the truth on what is really going on in that organization and in the market place. 
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  • Without trust, employees won’t level with you—at best, you’ll learn either non-truths or part truths.
  • The best way to start building trust to take the time and meet as many individual contributors as you can as soon as you can.
  • I made this my priority partly because I wanted to know what customers were saying—but also to make an internal statement.
  • Doing this correctly takes time—but less than you might think.
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      David Ellena on 30 Dec 13
       
      I could be trusted with the truth..how powerful
  • Later on my first day at Intralinks, I began arranging meetings with individual contributors. That’s where my learning really began. Over the next few weeks I met with over 60 individual contributors. Not only did I learn a lot, but I convinced them that I cared what they thought and could be trusted with the truth.
  • Instead of just laying this out in an all-hands meeting, I began laying out the plan in one-on-one meetings in which I talked about how each individual’s feedback had helped guide my thinking.
  • None of this could have happened without building the trust of the team. New leaders must remember that many of the best insights on how to fix a company lie with employees further down the org chart. Creating a trusting, honest dialogue with these key personnel should be every new leader’s top priority.
  • David Ellena on 30 Dec 13
     
    Some great advice for new leaders about earning trust
Duane Sharrock

Bringing the world to innovation - MIT News Office - 0 views

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shared by Duane Sharrock on 09 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • mentions: a popular TED talk Smith gave in 2006 and Time magazine’s
  • D-Lab, the project aimed to develop creative solutions to problems facing people in the world’s least-affluent countries — and then hoped those residents would embrace the solutions.
  • thanks to a major new U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) grant to D-Lab and MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning, D-Lab’s instructors and researchers will implement this strategy even more broadly — providing greater continuity to projects around the world, says D-Lab founder Amy Smith, a senior lecturer in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering.
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  • Awareness of D-Lab has grown in recent years, thanks in part to some prominent mentions: a popular TED talk Smith gave in 2006 and Time magazine’s selection of her in 2010 as one of the world’s 100 most influential people.
  • The program now employs about 20 people and encompasses 16 courses that reach about 400 students each year. Even though D-Lab does little to publicize its activities, staffers are increasingly hearing that this program was a major reason why participating students chose to attend MIT.
  • with the new USAID support, “we can harness the alumni of IDDS as a kind of an extremely diverse and dispersed design consultancy,”
  • While some students have already managed to turn class projects into ongoing organizations — building better water filters in Africa, bicycle-powered washing machines in Latin America, and wheelchairs in India, for instance — the new funding should enable more such activities, Smith says, by “incubating ventures and training entrepreneurs.”
  • The emphasis has shifted,” Grau Serrat says, “more from designing for poor people to designing with poor people, or even design by poor people.”
  • Duane Sharrock on 09 Nov 12
     
    Another reason some students are applying to MIT. Undergrads are making a difference globally. "the innovative MIT classes and field trips known collectively as D-Lab, the project aimed to develop creative solutions to problems facing people in the world's least-affluent countries - and then hoped those residents would embrace the solutions." "The program now employs about 20 people and encompasses 16 courses that reach about 400 students each year. Even though D-Lab does little to publicize its activities, staffers are increasingly hearing that this program was a major reason why participating students chose to attend MIT." "All of D-Lab's classes assess the needs of people in less-privileged communities around the world, examining innovations in technology, education or communications that might address those needs. The classes then seek ways to spread word of these solutions - and in some cases, to spur the creation of organizations to help disseminate them. Specific projects have focused on improved wheelchairs and prosthetics; water and sanitation systems; and recycling waste to produce useful products, including charcoal fuel made from agricultural waste."
  • Duane Sharrock on 09 Nov 12
     
    "All of D-Lab's classes assess the needs of people in less-privileged communities around the world, examining innovations in technology, education or communications that might address those needs. The classes then seek ways to spread word of these solutions - and in some cases, to spur the creation of organizations to help disseminate them. Specific projects have focused on improved wheelchairs and prosthetics; water and sanitation systems; and recycling waste to produce useful products, including charcoal fuel made from agricultural waste."
Stephen Mark

Bank Exam News | Online Education - 0 views

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shared by Stephen Mark on 05 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Stephen Mark on 05 Dec 12
     
    Online Education news for bank clerical exam dates, IBPS exam, bank PO exams, SBI exam, preparation materials including question papers, guide books and more.
Stephen Mark

New Syllabus Results Tough Exam Question Papers- Stress Unlimited - 0 views

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shared by Stephen Mark on 26 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Stephen Mark on 26 Mar 12
     
    The exam question papers are rolling out and both schools and students are going through high stress. The sole reason behind the disturbed environment is the new syllabus which is offering tricky questions too hard to be solved within limited examination hours.
Stephen Mark

CBSE 10th Results Declared: 99.66 % Pass in Chennai Zone - 0 views

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  • Stephen Mark on 22 May 12
     
    Get latest news on CBSE 10th results of Chennai, pass percentage, marks obtained, topper of 10th class results and many more results news on Extraminds.
Stephen Mark

Score 90 to Get Direct Admission in Oxford University| CBSE News - 0 views

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  • Stephen Mark on 03 Apr 12
     
    Toppers of CBSE exam and ICSE exam will get direct admission in Oxford University. More CBSE news about school admission, board exam, results and many more. Collect sample papers, exam question papers of previous years and score 90 percent in exam.
Stephen Mark

IIT-JEE 2012 Results Declared- Check Now!, Website to Check IIT Results, IIT JEE Rank |... - 0 views

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  • Stephen Mark on 18 May 12
     
    Latest IIT JEE News about IIT JEE result 2012 on 18th May. Get websites to check results online along with All India Rank in JEE 2012 for admission in Indian Institute of Technology across India.
David Ellena

LeadLearner: Help your New Teachers Catch their Breath - 0 views

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  • David Ellena on 28 Sep 14
     
    Have some new teachers this year? Help them breathe
Don Lourcey

Rodrigo Baggio's Persuasive Leadership - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review - 4 views

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  • Don Lourcey on 25 Mar 10
     
    Rodrigo Baggio's Persuasive Leadership. Notice these featured points: Bring people together who aren't connected, Design new business models by combining players and resources in new ways, Persevere with an idea until you see success, Don't rely on credentials, but on the power of your ideas, Persuade others to see the possibility of your ideas and join you in the pursuit, Empower others to also make change. Think on these questions: (1) Why are should these features define the essence of leadership in your schooling organization,and (2) how will you not only lead change, but how will you specifically make these critical features relevant to the work you are doing to lead?
Jeff Mann

Fathers disappear from households across America - Washington Times - 0 views

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  • Jeff Mann on 27 Dec 12
     
    Fifteen million U.S. children, or 1 in 3, live without a father, and nearly 5 million live without a mother Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/dec/25/fathers-disappear-from-households-across-america/#ixzz2GG7sqtIx Follow us: @washtimes on Twitter
Stephen Mark

CBSE Will Award Full Marks - 0 views

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  • Stephen Mark on 23 Apr 12
     
    Latest CBSE News about CBSE XII engineering graphics exam 2012 and CBSE awarding full marks for question
Stephen Mark

CBSE 12th Result on 28 May - 0 views

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  • Stephen Mark on 28 May 12
     
    Latest news about CBSE 12 results on 28 May, website to check 12th results, SMS service to get results, telephone numbers and email registration service to get 12 class results.
Courtney Jablonski

Teachers carry their views on evaluations from online to Albany | GothamSchools - 0 views

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shared by Courtney Jablonski on 11 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • The teachers’ goal was to devise recommendations based on teachers’ own experience for what measures districts should consider when evaluating teachers, and how heavily each of those measures should be weighted.
  • focused on breaking down “the culture of ‘closed doors’”
  • Under the state’s teacher evaluation deal passed last May, teachers will be given a score on a new 100-point scale, with 40 of those points determined by student achievement data.
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  • The remaining 60 points will be determined through “local assessments,” which will take forms that must be negotiated by school districts and their local unions. The law leaves open what those assessments could look like. Newly-developed tests or portfolio demonstrations of student work are two ideas that state officials have mentioned as possibilities.
  • One aspect of the local assessments is clear: they all must meet new regulations that are currently being developed by a state task force led by Deputy Education Commissioner John King.
  • The group ended up recommending that the 60 points be spread across five different evaluation measures, giving the most weight to observations by school administrators and other teachers in the school. A sixth measure — student portfolio work — was considered but abandoned, because the increase in paperwork for teachers seemed too high for the value the portfolios would provide for the evaluations, Anderson said.
  • Courtney Jablonski on 11 Feb 11
     
    If you were to design the new teacher evaluation system, what would you include? What opportunities would you want this evaluation system to bring to light?
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