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Accelerating Your Development as a Leader: A Guide for Leaders and Their Managers
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Accelerating Your Development as a Leader: A Guide for Leaders and Their Managers

by Robert Barner
February 2011
Intermediate to advanced
261 pages
7h 37m
English
Pfeiffer
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Job Demand Features: The Heart of the Crucible

The secret to making intelligent choices regarding your professional development is to take the time to construct a composite profile that clearly identifies, from all of the many defining characteristics of your career target, those few elements that represent the most important demand features associated with this position. Demand features are job characteristics that:

  • Present you with the biggest adaptive challenges, in other words, work situations that are difficult to master and that typically require you to build totally new skills;
  • Have been important in determining the success or failure of people who have held this position;
  • Are aspects of the job that are likely to receive the greatest ...
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