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Several years ago we came up with a great idea for a new leadership-development offering we thought would be valuable to everyone. We had research demonstrating that when people embarked on a self-development program, their success increased dramatically when they received follow-up encouragement. We developed a software application to offer that sort of encouragement. People could enter their development goals, and the software would send them reminders every week or month asking how they were doing, to motivate them to keep on going. We invested a lot of time and money in this product.
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Jack Zenger is the CEO of Zenger/Folkman, a leadership development consultancy. He is a coauthor of the October 2011 HBR article “Making Yourself Indispensable” and the bookThe New Extraordinary Leader: Turning Good Managers into Great Leaders(McGraw Hill, 2019).Connect with Jack on LinkedIn.
Joseph Folkman is the president ofZenger/Folkman, a leadership development consultancy. He is a coauthor of the October 2011 HBR article “Making Yourself Indispensable” and the book The Trifecta of Trust: The Proven Formula for Building and Restoring Trust(River Grove, 2022).Connect with Joe on LinkedIn.
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