Leading Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

Our research on CEOs and their senior leadership teams reveals that regularly reevaluating and adjusting the leadership team is crucial for optimizing a company’s performance over time. Instead, leaders must reassess their leadership teams, from redefining existing roles to creating new roles to altering how different roles interact.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 5, 2019

In any organization, leaders have a choice, they can concentrate on urgent short-term goals, or they can equip themselves with the relationship sensing and building skills they need to balance priority tensions. Building balanced relationships through trust is at the heart of the IFB Model of leadership.

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Cross-Functional Collaboration – Action-learning based leadership development. Additional focus on creating non-traditional collaborations to bring innovation and fresh eyes to how our company goes about managerial-leadership development, team building, decision making, problem-solving, and innovation. 2018, May).

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 21, 2020

First, make sure that you and your top leadership don’t indulge in backstabbing or blame games. Make sure your employees know each other professionally, by sharing individuals’ roles and goals, and socially, by including ice-breakers in meetings or company get-togethers. Sometimes this is a control issue; sometimes just poor planning.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

But a leadership team’s members need to own responsibility for the whole business, not just their individual pieces of it. And nothing brings a team together more than one shared, most important goal. His leadership team identified customer service as the senior leadership team’s—and therefore the division’s—top priority.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

This White Paper is excerpted and adapted from Ultra Leadership: Go Beyond Usual and Ordinary to Engage Others and Lead Real Change (Giuliano, Lioncrest, 2016). The problem is leadership on autopilot. In such an underperforming state, without leadership that can drive real change, organizations are trapped in a vicious cycle.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 3, 2020

When I joined Merchants Fleet as CEO in 2018, I knew I was joining a team of some of the most experienced professionals in the fleet industry. In order to achieve our lofty goals, we had to be willing to change. In my years serving as CEO I have made it a priority to build a living, breathing strategic plan.

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leaderCommunicator

JANUARY 12, 2018

Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts.

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Great Results Team Building

MAY 2, 2023

This helps to keep such individuals in check and ensures that everyone in the team is working towards the same goals. There is a 2018 research study that actually states humans cannot live WITHOUT gossip. Maybe we could focus on something else – like, did you guys hear about the plans for our next team building retreat?”

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 24, 2018

This year, I created a plan for some changes I want to implement. My goals are set up on a daily reminder with daily activity associated. So are you committed to Different for 2018? What plan do you have to keep it in front of you, on your list of priorities? I want to remember Different. It’s up to each of us.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 12, 2019

In the years leading up to 2018, I have spent my time bringing innovation to the financial services space. Changing a process is slow and requires a lot of detailed planning. A good leader takes the team over a predictable and successful road with the ultimate goal to achieve at least continuity if not moderate improvements.

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Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 2, 2023

Interview: Embedding EDI as KPIs: The organisations using inclusion metrics as performance indicators Written by Sonia Sharma-Karia Wednesday 02 August 2023 Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email How do we make equality, diversity and inclusion a measurable goal and an aspect of our strategic success?

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HR Digest

JANUARY 28, 2022

An International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans report showed that most North American employers saved $1 to $3 in their overall health care costs for every dollar spent on an employee wellness program. The state of Wisconsin has something called Well Wisconsin initiative, which started in 2018. Productivity.

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HR Digest

MAY 6, 2021

The HR Digest: When you arrived at DoorDash in 2018, you implemented a number of people enablement programs to scale the company’s headcount by 9x through today. Next, I brought in expertise in critical areas like DEI with the focus of weaving DEI throughout the fabric of the People team and embedding it in our growth plans.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

EQ [or EI], on the other hand, has been found to be directly responsible for between 27 and 45 percent of job success …” 2 And that percentage is even higher for those in leadership positions! It must be noted that Generation Z is wide-eyed and watchful, soaking in and being formed by these leadership lessons. McKinsey & Company.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Welcome to the September Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of development, engagement, productivity, team building, and more. Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog shared 5 Essential Qualities of Truly Great Leadership.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

AUGUST 19, 2019

You don’t have to plan fancy events. Alternatively, you could plan to eat lunch as a group one day per week (everyone can BYO) or plan a bi-weekly happy hour. Clarify their goals and responsibilities and if they don’t have goals, help them set some. Volunteering together does double duty. Share the responsibility.

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Surviving Leadership

MAY 14, 2018

I had an opportunity to talk to Bobby as he prepares for his 2018 SHRM National Conference session Once Upon a Time There Was a Mountain of Paper , on Tuesday, June 19 at 7:00 AM. A lot of organizations find themselves in a ‘gotta move NOW’ situation and don’t make plans for the future.” Like all HR tech, you need to have a plan first.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

AUGUST 19, 2019

You don’t have to plan fancy events. Alternatively, you could plan to eat lunch as a group one day per week (everyone can BYO) or plan a bi-weekly happy hour. Clarify their goals and responsibilities and if they don’t have goals, help them set some. Volunteering together does double duty. Share the responsibility.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Not planning sufficiently. When it comes to managing a project, there is simply no getting around planning, no matter how tedious or boring you may find it. This is because there will not be a clear definition of overall goals, what you need to achieve, who has what role, and what they are responsible for. Being exclusive.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Unfortunately, we were not taught the best methods of working with others in achieving desired goals. Questions to ask entrepreneurs: Do you have goals for the next year in writing? Are the long-range strategic planning and budgeting processes integrated? Are planning activities consolidated into a written organizational plan?

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 8, 2019

Dodsworth, an entrepreneur, owns an automobile manufacturing company, who sells his company and retires without a plan for his future—not unlike many real-life entrepreneurs. As couples get older and consider retirement or changing their work relationship, many have not considered a plan for the future. They look ahead by looking back.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 30, 2020

68% of Americans felt “anxious” or “extremely anxious” about keeping their families safe (The American Psychiatric Association, 2018). 47% of Americans report feeling alone or left out (Cigna US Loneliness Index, 2018). I ask the listener to help me identify a plan that will address the problem and preserve the relationship.

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Steve Farber

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Welcome to the fourth quarter of 2018! Things are going to happen whether you like them or not: year-end meetings, planning for next year’s projects, 2019 budgets, parties, wrap-ups—you know the drill because it’s the same one as last year. If your employees aren’t involved in planning some of the year-end rituals, get them involved.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 16, 2018

Set goals for what you’re going to work toward in the coming years and include specifics for how you’ll achieve each one. Adopting more technology solutions will allow your employees to be more productive and you’ll be happier because you’ll be achieving your goals at a quicker rate. Strong Leadership. A Plan for Problems.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2018

Strategy : planning, tactics, organizational development. Culture and Mission : values, customs, beliefs, goals, objectives, benchmarking. Research leads to planning, which is the best way to accomplish tasks and benchmark success. The more strategic and Big Picture in scope, then planning reaps long-term rewards.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 6, 2020

They provide a unique window on the impact overly controlling, self-centered leadership styles can have on others: “Regarding the letter you sent, the heart of your servant is ill, when my lord said: Don’t you know how to read a letter? What are the enduring qualities of great leadership?

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

It’s more than simply clumsy leadership. In his 2018 annual letter to CEOs, Larry Fink, Chairman and CEO of global investment company, BlackRock, Inc., Demonstrate the leadership and clarity that will drive not only [your] own investment returns but also the prosperity and security of [your] fellow citizens.”. We all know that.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2018

Copyright 2007-2018 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame is now out in all three e-book formats: iTunes , Kindle , and Nook. You just finished reading The Big Picture of Business - Pave and Refine the Company Way, Corporate Culture ! Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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HR Digest

JULY 15, 2019

That’s almost 3 times increase from the number (26%) expecting disruptions in 2018, according to Mercer’s data which also revealed that over 50% of executives expect automation and AI to replace 25% of their organization’s current jobs this year. However, work disruption story will be grossly incomplete judging with only these insinuations.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. Author of two best-selling leadership books.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2018

We also explored several decades of research on that subject published in HBR; and we reflected on our own experience in the area of leadership development. Take the case of Dominic Barton, who served as the Global Managing Director of McKinsey & Company from 2009-2018. These are not mysterious and certainly aren’t new.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

The Volkswagen leadership set a new overarching goal for the company: to become the world’s largest automaker by 2018. What’s your plan for defending your purpose despite short-term temptations? How will you plan for them, and plan to protect your organization’s purpose despite them?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has said that by 2018 it wants 90 percent of its payments tied to value. Whatever their approach, the providers shared a common goal of excellence and efficiency in patient care—and a willingness to innovate to get there. Sustaining Results Achieved Through the Lean Methodology.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

We also invested significant leadership time in performing final interviews for all roles — from medical assistants to physician leaders — to ensure that each team member would strengthen the team’s dedication. Put simply, they’re rewarded for doing well by our patients. Collaborative behavioral health. Our results.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

“We are trying to use the index to change corporate behavior,” said Mark Wiseman, chief executive of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, the lead investor in the initiative. Some leadership teams have served as guiding examples of how to overturn short-termism and reorient their enterprise. ” Many did.

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Steve Farber

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Here’s My Four-Point Plan to Use It To Engage Employees and Show The World What Your Company Values. Training magazine’s 2018 survey of more than 500 learning and development professionals showed that belief in the power of social media is real; 72 percent of respondents said they believe social media has “a meaningful impact” in business.

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