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Employee Feedback - Avoid These 10 Common Blunders
From the Center for Creative Leadership
Feedback can be uncomfortable to give, but with the right technique it can go more smoothly. Avoid these 10 common blunders when giving feedback to others, taken from the Center for Creative Leadership's guidebook Feedback That Works.
Mistake #1: The feedback judges individuals, not actions Putting feedback in judgmental terms puts people on the defensive. And you've sent the message that you know what is right or wrong.
Mistake #2: The feedback is too vague. Steer clear of generalized, cliche' catch phrases. If you want to really encourage someone to repeat productive behavior, you have to let them know what they did so they can keep doing it.
Mistake #3: The feedback speaks for others. Stick with the information that you know. Dragging a third party's name into the mix only confuses the recipient, who then wonders why others are talking about them behind their back.
Mistake #4: Negative feedback gets sandwiched between positive messages. It may seem like a good idea to unburden the blow of negative comments with positive ones, but the recipient is smart enough to read between the lines, too.
Mistake #5: The feedback is exaggerated with generalities. Avoid those two little words, "always" and "never." It puts people on the defensive because there is usually that one time…
Mistake #6: The feedback psychoanalyzes the motives behind behavior. It could be a divorce, resentment over a co-worker's advancement, or burnout, but whatever you think you know about someone's intents and motives is probably dead wrong.
Mistake #7: The feedback goes on too long. Know when to stop. People need time to process the information they have received.
Mistake #8: The feedback contains an implied threat. Telling someone their job is in jeopardy doesn't reinforce good behavior or illustrate bad behavior. It only creates animosity.
Mistake #9: The feedback uses inappropriate humor. You might use sarcasm as a substitute for feedback, especially if you are uncomfortable giving it in the first place. Keep the snide comments to yourself.
Mistake #10: The feedback is a question, not a statement. Phrasing feedback as a question is too indirect to be effective. And it may even be interpreted as sarcastic. Really?
Learning from your mistakes is important. Have you encountered any of these common mistakes during your career?
http://insights.ccl.org/multimedia/video/10-common-mistakes-in-giving-feedback/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Leading%20Effectively%20-%20September%2015%202015%20(1)
Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time - Jeffrey Pfeffer
Leadership BS? Whoa!! Got my attention. Excellent interview this morning on KSKA - "Here and Now", featuring Stanford Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer. How important is it for a leader to be inspirational? More important that facts, evidence, or ideas?
Here's one segment from that interview.....
......"If you are a leader seeking to actually change a workplace's conditions so as to improve employee engagement, satisfaction, or productivity, or if you are an individual seeking to chart a course to a more successful career, inspiration is not what you need. What you need are facts, evidence, and ideas. Cheering may be helpful at sporting events, but not so much in the nitty-gritty job of fixing workplaces and careers. This chapter lays out the many reasons why inspiration is not only a poor basis from which to attempt serious organizational change but also useless for figuring out how to have more personal success inside work organizations."
Once again, NPR and KSKA delivers!!! Thank you!!!
http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2015/09/15/jeffrey-pfeffer-leadership-bs
Minds work best when turned on
Minds work best when turned on!!!
Whoa!!! Where are we headed in this country when expressions such as..... "America is the land of opportunity" and "I believe the most qualified person should get the job", are deemed offensive by some students? Fine to feel offended, but not file to file a protest against a professor that is challenging your sensitivities Engage and have an enlighten discussion on why you are offended.
I've been teaching as an adjunct instructor at Alaska Pacific University for nearly 20 years. I've offended some students with comments I've made over the years, but not to this extent. Occasionally my progressive side leaks out to the extent some students take offense with a particular view. The difference is I've used those times for energized discussion and engagement.
I don't shy away from having deep and meaningful dialogue with my students. The #1 goal I have for my students is that will hopefully leave the class better thinkers. Becoming more aware of the belief systems that limit and narrow our thinking can be a huge undertaking. So, being challenged as an instructor (really, a facilitator) is welcomed. However, being willing to be challenged should be equally welcomed. To avoid confronting one's beliefs constricts and limits your capacity to grow intellectually. It also limits your awareness of other, and possibly, valid views and beliefs.
Stimulating article. One of the authors, Jonathan Haidt, is a favorite. His book, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, is one I've used in some of my classes.
Here's an overview of his book....."Why can't our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding.
His starting point is moral intuition—the nearly instantaneous perceptions we all have about other people and the things they do. These intuitions feel like self-evident truths, making us righteously certain that those who see things differently are wrong. Haidt shows us how these intuitions differ across cultures, including the cultures of the political left and right. He blends his own research findings with those of anthropologists, historians, and other psychologists to draw a map of the moral domain, and he explains why conservatives can navigate that map more skillfully than can liberals. He then examines the origins of morality, overturning the view that evolution made us fundamentally selfish creatures. But rather than arguing that we are innately altruistic, he makes a more subtle claim—that we are fundamentally groupish.
It is our groupishness, he explains, that leads to our greatest joys, our religious divisions, and our political affiliations. In a stunning final chapter on ideology and civility, Haidt shows what each side is right about, and why we need the insights of liberals, conservatives, and libertarians to flourish as a nation."
Bill Moyers interview with Haidt.
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=bill+moyers+jonathan+haidt&FORM=VIRE2#view=detail&mid=96F365C070DAFDD8225296F365C070DAFDD82252
College students are increasingly demanding protection from words and ideas they don't like. Here's why that's disastrous for education.
THEATLANTIC.COM|BY GREG LUKIANOFF AND JONATHAN HAIDT
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/
McKinsey on Leadership
The top four (4) of the 20 leadership behaviors the survey listed were the following:
• Be supportive.
• Operative with strong results orientation.
• Seek different perspectives.
• Solve problems effectively.
See the complete story for more information on each of these four behaviors most associated with being an effective leader.
Decoding leadership: What really mattersNew research suggests that the secret to developing effective leaders is to encourage four types of behavior.
January 2015 | byClaudio Feser, Fernanda Mayol, and Ramesh Srinivasan
http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/leading_in_the_21st_century/decoding_leadership_what_really_matters?cid=other-eml-ttn-mip-mck-oth-1506
CLI Expands into the Lower 48
Welcome to the CLI blog: HARMONICS: Fine-Tuning the Workplace
Crossroads Leadership Institute (CLI) continue to expand into the Lower 48 with the opening of an office in Albuquerque, NM. CLI has been offering organizational consulting, facilitation, and conflict resolution services since 1989.
We hope you will peruse our new website for an overview of who we are, and what we offer. Please call or email with any questions or inquiries on how we may be of support to you and your organization, or community.
Dick LaFever, President
www.consultcli.com
Email: cli@ak.net


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Various selectors removed from Twitter Bootstrap stylesheet to reduce page load time.
## Overview
*Removed these selectors from Bootstrap 3 to reduce page load time:
* glyphicons;
* text-selectors (not text-aligns like text-justify, text-nowrap, etc);
* blockquote-special (all but standard blockquote selectors);
* kbd;
* has-[] (all has-selectors, you can use .alert in place of);
* breadcrumb;
* pagination;
* pager;
* jumbotron;
* tooltip;
* popover;
* media-directions
* progress bars
* btn only has default and btn-link attrs. but info, success, danger, warning minimal (backgrounds only)
* Included images to relplace font-awesome icons
* 4 icons created only, .png files with attributes

## Motivation
Main motive is to create a faster loading CSS file. The overhead on a slower computer was bogging down my editor. I use Bluefish on a 64 Linux Mint Intel i3 with 4GB of RAM. This should be good enough but several editors do not like loading the page with large files.

## Installation
* none, really. Just use stylesheet as is or partial out even more.
* Test file ("tests.html") to check usage in production.

## Contributors
Open for contributions.
Thanks Twitter Bootstrap

## License
Licensed under MIT License (MIT).
http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

## ToDo
- remove btn-groups

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Biografia
La vita di Basilio si intreccia con il contrasto tra l'Arianesimo e il Trinitarianesimo: la disputa sulla natura e consustanzialità del Figlio e del Padre vedeva infatti quattro schieramenti, quello dello homooùsion (sostenuto da Atanasio di Alessandria) per cui il Padre e il Figlio erano consustanziali, quello dello homoioùsion (sostenuto da Basilio) per il quale il Figlio era quasi della stessa sostanza del Padre, quello dello anòmoios (posizione dell'Arianesimo promossa da Ezio di Antiochia) secondo il quale Padre e Figlio era di sostanza diversa dal Padre e quello dello òmoios (sostenuto da Acacio di Cesarea) secondo il quale il Figlio è simile al Padre.

Nel 336 il vescovo anti-ariano di Ancira, Marcello, venne dichiarato decaduto dal sinodo di Costantinopoli, in cui le posizioni ariane ebbero il sopravvento; Basilio venne decretato a succedergli. Iniziò allora una serie di deposizioni e reintegri di Marcello e, conseguentemente, di Basilio: nel 337 (morte dell'imperatore Costantino I) Marcello venne reintegrato, ma due anni dopo Basilio ritornò alla propria sede; nel 340 Marcello ebbe il sostegno di papa Giulio I, ma solo nel 343 Basilio venne dichiarato decaduto dal concilio di Sardica, a maggioranza trinitaria.

Il nuovo imperatore Costanzo II si schierò nel partito dellhomoioùsios. Basilio e Eustazio di Sebaste entrarono in contrasto con Ezio di Antiochia durante il secondo concilio di Sirmio e lo denunciarono presso il cesare d'Oriente Costanzo Gallo, il quale lo condannò a morte, condanna che non venne eseguita; fu poi Costanzo II stesso, su indicazione di Basilio, a mandare in esilio Ezio. Accadde però che nel terzo concilio di Sirmio (359), Costanzo sposasse la formula del'hòmoios, letteralmente "[Figlio] simile a Dio", propugnata da Acacio di Cesarea in quanto, per la sua vaghezza, ritenuta adatta a fungere da compromesso tra le varie posizioni. Nel 360 Basilio venne allora esiliato.

Agiografia
Secondo l'agiografia Vita e atti del prete martire Basilio, Basilio sarebbe stato un martire, e come tale viene venerato dalla Chiesa ortodossa, il 22 marzo e il 28 giugno. All'interno dell'agiografia Basilio si trasforma in un difensore dell'ortodossia contro i pagani e gli ariani; avrebbe persino difeso l'oppositore del Basilio storico, Marcello, quando questi sarebbe stato deposto dagli ariani per essere sostituito da uno di loro (in realtà lo stesso Basilio).

L'agiografia lo vuole martirizzato per volere dell'imperatore Giuliano, cugino di Costanzo II e suo successore, il quale si era convertito dal Cristianesimo al Paganesimo: Giuliano l'avrebbe fatto arrestare e, indispettito dalla sua perseveranza nella fede, torturare e uccidere.

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Santi per nome
Santi del IV secolo
Vescovi del IV secolo
Santi della Chiesa ortodossa

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Truecaller: Caller ID, Spam Blocking and Call Record are a free to use mobile application developed that find mobile number details globally given a phone number who are either using this app or other phonebook contact are synced and has an interested Caller ID service in order to archive call-blocking functionality and social media integration. It has more than 250 million users around the world who can use it make their communication safe and efficient. Truecaller is developed and published by True Software Scandinavia AB, and you can download it on almost all mobile platforms such as Android, iOS, Windows Phone, and BlackBerry. It also is known as a communication application and allows you to send and receive unlimited messages to your friends and family around the world, automatically identify every unknown SMS, block spam messages and much more. One of the most interesting features about this application is that it offers built-in call recording feature that automatically records each your call. Truecaller also includes core features such as Caller ID, Block Spam, see the name of unknown numbers, and flash messaging, backup call history and much more. Unlike most of the applications, it is also available to use in Premium version that comes with lots of new tools and features.
I wonder if all the above apps also copy your contact list like truecaller?