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New Year’s Leadership Development Goals 2017 Edition

Great Leadership By Dan

For many leaders, it’s a time to reflect on accomplishments for the past year and establish goals for the upcoming New Year. It’s also a good time to set leadership development goals, either as part of a formal development planning process, or just because it’s a proven way to continuously improve as a leader. Delegate more.

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How To Get More Out Of Your Employees

Strategy Driven

In addition to attending courses outside of work, sit down individually and go over goals and performance reviews with your staff. Go to www.ticketsales.com and purchase tickets to a popular concert in the area and make it known to your staff that you’ll be watching how they do on the next project. Delegate Appropriately.

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How to Create a Dynamic Business

Strategy Driven

Put simply, if a manager only ever delegates tasks he or she doesn’t want to do and is forever cutting corners while doing as little work as possible, no staff member is going to feel motivated to work hard – and why should they be? Creating a streamlined working environment will keep everybody working together toward a common goal.

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A Study of Thousands of Dropbox Projects Reveals How Successful Teams Collaborate

Harvard Business Review

Dropbox gave us access to project-folder-related data, which we aggregated and anonymized, for all the scientists using its platform over the period from May 2015 to May 2017 — a group that represented 1,000 universities. Overall, we analyzed data for roughly 400,000 unique users working on about 500,000 separate projects.

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HBR’s Best on Saying No to More Work

Harvard Business Review

Like many professionals, I used this month to reflect on what I wanted to accomplish in 2017. I tried to keep my list of goals short and focused , but I went into the year with a lot on my plate. This article has a very useful 2×2 matrix on deciding which goals and tasks to prioritize, elevate, delegate, or tolerate.)