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Mark Murphy is CEO of Leadership IQ, a company focused on researching, understanding, and communicating what makes leaders successful. Mark discusses what differentiates the top 10% of successful leaders. He explains the importance of setting goals that are not only well-defined, but that also challenge employees to learn new skills and capabilities. He also talks about what great leaders do differently from average managers when their employees fail to meet their goals.

This interview contains a wealth of insights about how to maximize the productivity of your employees. Are you doing all you can to get the most from your workforce? Find out by listening to Mark Murphy, this week on Business Execution Radio.

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Jacqueline Moyse, Head of Organisational Development for the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group discusses challenges of maintaining a distinctive and common brand of customer across hotels operating in multiple countries and cultures. Focusing on a key theme of “humility”, Mandarin Oriental invests considerable resources into ensuring leaders fully understand and embrace the unique nature of service that drives Mandarin Oriental’s successful reputation within the hospitality industry.

Learn how Mandarin Oriental has applied concepts rooted in Asian leadership and service practices across diverse cultures ranging from London to Las Vegas – this week on People Performance Radio.

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Nigel Bristow, President and Founder of Targeted Learning shares insights gained from his 20+ year career helping companies maximize the performance of knowledge workers. Nigel shares five key stages of knowledge work: acquiring, applying, creating, sharing, and leveraging knowledge. He discusses the role each stage plays in workforce productivity and the challenges and unique issues associated with moving from one stage to another.

Whether you are a knowledge worker, manage knowledge workers, or just wish you had more knowledge, you will benefit from Nigel’s insights on knowledge work: this week on People Performance Radio.

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Catharine Larkin (profile) is Senior Partner at MICA Consulting Partners, a company that provides clients with assessment driven processes to attract, engage and develop successful leadership at all levels of the organization. Catharine shares stories from over 25 years of experience working one-on-one with C-level leaders to help them achieve business success. She provides insight into the reasons many high potential leaders derail and how to create an environment that promotes leadership success. This interview contains a variety of highly useful insights into leadership performance , including Catharine’s fascinating theory of the “Terrible 33s” and how to manage them.

If you are a senior leader, aspire to become a senior leader, or simply work with senior leaders then you will gain value from learning from Catharine Larkin about why leaders fail and how to help them succeed this week on People Performance Radio.

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Interview: Zoe Hruby from Lominger

This week’s topic is competency development. Dr. Steve sat down with Zoe Hruby from Lominger and discuss how performance challenges are often around behavioral competencies as well as the need to identify and develop future leaders based upon competency assessment.

Founded in 1991, Lominger Limited, Inc., developers of the internationally recognized LEADERSHIP ARCHITECT Suite, equips executives, managers, and human resource professionals in the world’s leading organizations with the tools, research and expertise they need to transform their organizations into best practice centers of leadership. Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Lominger markets its suite of research-based products in 56 countries using internal experts, an international network of associates, a professional consulting division, Lominger Consulting, Inc., and a comprehensive network of strategic alliance and technology partners.