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A Leadership Checklist: 10 Things To Do Right Now To Make It A.

Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

Don’t Dive In Head First – Before you jump into the New Year, full speed ahead, don’t forget to pause and reflect on the year you just experienced – savor the victories, and learn from the setbacks. You’ll feel ahead of the game right away – and that’s a good place to be.

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The One Question Every Successful Leader Must Answer (Even Before.

Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

The supervisor had answered four questions for his team – “What?”, “When?“, “How?”, Put another way, it’s placing the desired result in the proper context for each team member, as well as explaining the importance of each person’s role in achieving that result. He has monitored the resulting team activity and provided useful feedback.

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The Performance Review & Some Ugly Truths | You're Not the Boss of Me

You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 20, 2009

Some bosses don’t actually understand what their employees do or how their roles fit in the organization. And so, when it comes time to complete a performance review on such an employee, they guess and resort to generalities that fail to clearly identify the real contribution the employee has made.

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New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reach That Goal

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 17, 2011

Monday, January 17, 2011 New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reach That Goal Social psychologist, Heidi Grant Halvorson, wrote Succeed to help you understand how goals work, what tends to go wrong, and what you can do to reach your goals or to help others reach theirs.

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Is Your Crisis Management Program In Place?

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Thursday, September 9, 2010 Is Your Crisis Management Program In Place? One way will be to ensure our crisis management plans are in place. Unfortunately, most businesses dont have a plan. Unfortunately, most businesses dont have a plan. Or, dont have a plan that is up-to-date, comprehensive and/or flexible.

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Share The Bad News

Eric Jacobson

JULY 21, 2010

Wednesday, July 21, 2010 Share The Bad News Of course its much easier to share good news with your employees, but its perhaps even more important to share the bad news. Your employees need to know about the health of your company or organization. Your employees need to know about the health of your company or organization.

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Be A Manager Who Makes Decisions

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Tuesday, September 28, 2010 Be A Manager Who Makes Decisions A manager who cant make a decision or who cant make a timely decision will frustrate his/her employees. Some managers make endless requests for data as a way to postpone their having to make a decision. Honor The Legacy Of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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The next time you stay at a Marriott hotel look in the nightstand.

Eric Jacobson

JULY 12, 2010

Monday, July 12, 2010 The next time you stay at a Marriott hotel look in the nightstand drawer for Marriotts booklet that highlights its milestones and tells the Marriott story. In the booklet, youll find the following 12 ways that Marriott practices good leadership AND customer service: Continually challenge your team to do better.

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Good Sample Business Principles

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Is it easy for your customers to: Buy from you? Quickly get answers when phoning your company? You can find more examples of companies with impressive guiding principles in the book, 1001 Ways To Energize Employees. "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reac.

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Are You Doing All You Can To Retain Your Employees?

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 4, 2011

Tuesday, January 4, 2011 Are You Doing All You Can To Retain Your Employees? A survey recently completed by the job-placement firm Manpower that found 84 percent of employees intend to look around for a new job this year, and that is up from 60 percent last year. You would be surprised what they come up with.

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Engage Your Employees.Especially Now

Eric Jacobson

APRIL 26, 2010

Without these actions and in the absence of communication from management, Branham says employees create their own information, which is often worse than the reality. What a great way to make it easy for employees to submit ideas. skip to main | skip to sidebar Eric Jacobson On Management And Leadership Welcome!

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Ten More Ways To Be An Effective Leader

Eric Jacobson

JULY 5, 2010

Monday, July 5, 2010 Ten More Ways To Be An Effective Leader Here are 10 behaviors, techniques and tips you can use to be an effective leader: Respond to questions quickly and fully. Take an interest in your employees and their personal milestone events. Dont delay tough decisions. Be willing to change your decisions.

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How To Give Constructive Feedback

Eric Jacobson

JULY 10, 2010

Saturday, July 10, 2010 How To Give Constructive Feedback Eric Harvey and Al Lucia wrote a booklet called " 144 Ways To Walk The Talk." "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reac. Are You Doing All You Can To Retain Your Employees.

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How Will You Be Remembered As A Leader?

Eric Jacobson

JUNE 8, 2010

Tuesday, June 8, 2010 How Will You Be Remembered As A Leader? As a leader, you likely have asked yourself, "How do I want to be remembered as a leader?" The answer to that question is likely going to be based on the valuable lessons you shared with those you led. But what you cannot do is get back the day you just lived.

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Must-Read Book For Nonprofit Leaders

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Saturday, October 2, 2010 Must-Read Book For Nonprofit Leaders If you lead a nonprofit organization, the one hour it will take you to read Peter F. Druckers book called " The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Organization " will be well worth it. Are You Doing All You Can To Retain Your Employees.

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Learn The Art Of Effective Messaging

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 7, 2010

•what media you can use to convey it. •and other essential elements you need to consider to ensure consistent and effective communication. •what media you can use to convey it. •and other essential elements you need to consider to ensure consistent and effective communication.

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Involve Your Employees

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 15, 2010

Monday, March 15, 2010 Involve Your Employees Youll be a more effective leader if you work hard to involve your employees. Here are 10 ways to do that: Have active ways to listen to your employees. Share information about customer satisfaction with employees.

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Run Better Meetings

Eric Jacobson

JULY 17, 2010

Ask your staff to help set the agenda so theyll know the meeting will be relevant. Set immediate deadlines for carrying out all decisions that are made during the meeting. If you follow these simple five tips you can prove to your team that meetings can be used to get things done! Use an agenda. Can we add this for #6?

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Lessons From Good To Great

Eric Jacobson

JUNE 13, 2010

Sensibly, they went the other way entirely; We should only do those things that we can get passionate about." "To The good-to-great companies understood that doing what you are good at will only make you good; focusing solely on what you can potentially do better than any other organization is the only path to greatness."

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Welcome Ideas At Any Time From Anyone

Eric Jacobson

APRIL 20, 2010

So, as a leader, be sure you dig deep for ideas, and provide an easy way for all employees to make suggestions. Did you know that the idea for the microwave oven came to the inventor, Percy L. You're absolutely right. Are You Doing All You Can To Retain Your Employees.

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Four Tips And Observations For Leaders

Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 5, 2010

Thursday, August 5, 2010 Four Tips And Observations For Leaders I really like these four leadership tips and observations from the book, 1001 Ways To Energize Employees : Nothing creates more self-respect among employees than being included in the process of making decisions. Are You Doing All You Can To Retain Your Employees.

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Read "The Seven Arts Of Change"

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Monday, November 29, 2010 Read "The Seven Arts Of Change" David Shaners compelling, The Seven Arts of Change , shows business leaders that transforming a business only happens when each employee equates organizational change with the process of deep personal growth.

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The Most Useless Word in the English Language (And Why You Should.

Terry Starbucker

MAY 20, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full The Most Useless Word in the English Language (And Why You Should Get It Out Of Your Life) by Starbucker on May 20, 2010 “It can’t be done” “You can’t do that” How many times have you heard these words?

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New Thinking About Employee Retention

Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 23, 2010

Monday, August 23, 2010 New Thinking About Employee Retention Richard Finnegan has written a terrific new book called, Rethinking Retention in Good Times and Bad. One section compares traditional thinking versus new ways to think about retention and the vital role supervisors play in retaining employees. Number one is key.

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