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	<description>Leadership, team and intercultural coaching</description>
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		<title>Formal Mentoring Programs: Training Matters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetIn formal mentoring programs, training for the participants is critical to the success of the mentoring partnership. Mentoring is an intimate learning relationship that requires intentionality to make it work. Too often I hear about programs that weren’t successful and have resulted in formal mentoring programs getting a bad rap. There are many benefits to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauriehunt.com/2012/03/formal-mentoring-programs-training-matters/</link>
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		<title>Developing Engineering Leaders of Tomorrow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetI was delighted to lead a workshop on “Diversity and Inclusion on Teams” for a class of engineering students at the University of Toronto last week. As part of the university’s Leaders of Tomorrow program, students can obtain a certificate in Team Skills. Engineering. Leadership. Team Skills. Diversity and Inclusion. How remarkable! All these critical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauriehunt.com/2012/01/developing-engineering-leaders-of-tomorrow-2/</link>
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		<title>Developmental Networks: The Basics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetAn important aspect of career advancement is the establishment of a diverse developmental network which is defined as “a set of relationships an individual has with people who take an active interest in and action to advance the individual’s career by assisting with his or her personal and professional development.” -Higgins &#38; Thomas, Constellations and Careers. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauriehunt.com/2011/11/developmental-networks-the-basics/</link>
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		<title>The Chaordic Path: At the Edge of Chaos Innovation Emerges</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetChaos. Not knowing. Confusion. Uncertainty. These are not words that we typically include in describing the environment we want to create to solve problems. More likely these are often the descriptors we are actively seeking to eliminate. And yet, it’s at the edge of chaos and order that innovation lives. It is also the exact [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauriehunt.com/2011/10/the-chaordic-path-at-the-edge-of-chaos-innovation-emerges/</link>
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		<title>Micro-inequities: From Road Races to the Boardroom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetOn Sunday I ran a 10k race in beautiful central Ontario. When I picked up my kit bag, my t-shirt was men’s size small/medium which was the smallest shirt they had. Too big. Again. Not a big deal you say. Not really. Except that I have so many men’s t-shirts from running races that do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauriehunt.com/2011/08/micro-inequities-from-road-races-to-the-boardroom/</link>
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		<title>Complex Social Problems: The Change Lab Approach</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetLately I’ve been thinking a lot about how to make lasting systemic social change. There are lots of methodologies and best practices and training programs around that serve a good purpose and yet the problems they are intended to resolve are still prevalent, in some cases getting worse. Last week I attended a Change Lab workshop [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauriehunt.com/2011/07/complex-social-problems-the-change-lab-approach/</link>
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		<title>Decision making: Slow is fast. Sometimes it’s ok to not know.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetWhat is so fearful about saying “I don’t know”? Who made up the rule that we have to know all the time? That there is something wrong if we don’t know? No such rule exists. In fact, the more we can slow down and be ok with &#8216;not knowing&#8217;, the better ideas we’ll have and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauriehunt.com/2011/07/decision-making-slow-is-fast-sometimes-it%e2%80%99s-ok-to-not-know/</link>
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		<title>Teams exist to produce results but are they good at it?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetRecently I was in a meeting with a few colleagues talking about co-developing a customized leadership program for a client. When it came time to decide how we’d actually create the program, one person said “well we all know the best way to develop a program is to lock yourself in a dark room and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauriehunt.com/2011/05/30-teams-exist-to-produce-results/</link>
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		<title>Achieving My Really Big Goal – Epilogue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetOn April 18th I ran the 115th Boston Marathon. I achieved my really big goal. However it didn’t turn out exactly as I anticipated. My finishing time was 4 hours 27 minutes – a full 30 minutes slower than my qualifying time!! And the weather conditions were perfect – 55 degrees and a strong tailwind. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauriehunt.com/2011/04/achieving-my-really-big-goal-epilogue-3/</link>
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		<title>Five Part Practice for Achieving Really Big Goals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetI’m running the Boston Marathon on April 18th for the first time. I’m very excited. It’s been a really big goal for me since my first marathon in 1995. Since then I have run 15 more marathons in my effort to qualify to run Boston. For those of you not in the running community, Boston [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lauriehunt.com/2011/03/five-part-practice-for-achieving-really-big-goals/</link>
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