Great Results Team Building

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How to Give Your Team Advice That Gets Results

Great Results Team Building

One of the most difficult skills for a teammate or leader to learn is how to give people on your team advice that gets results instead of resentment. I have since learned that there is an effective process of four steps to offering advice that can even help to strengthen your relationships while it improves team performance.

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Three Powerful "F" Words to Use With Difficult Teammates

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Second, it is important to remember that unsolicited advice is easily interpreted as an attack, that might cause your teammate to become more defensive than grateful. Samuel Taylor Coleridge once said that β€œAdvice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.”.

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7 Ways to Build Relationships that Improve Teamwork in Your Office

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It’s great advice to focus on them, but HOW can you do that effectively ? Ask for advice. People love to be asked for their perspective or opinion – and by requesting their advice, you allow them to share their ideas and feel respected for their experience. We like people who make us feel good about ourselves!

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Sustained Success Requires Your Team to Be Coachable

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But we are NOT always interested in appreciating, accepting, and applying the advice or feedback from others that would ALLOW us to improve. The β€œ willing to change ” part of that equation is the most important. Because we all want to be better…. Sometimes we get complacent.

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How Awareness Accelerates Your Leadership Growth and Improves Team Culture

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Ineffective leaders make assumptions and refuse to seek the advice or perspective of others. But Leader Awareness is not as Strong as Many Think… In fact, according to the Science of Success , β€œβ€œWhile 95% of people believe they’re self-aware, in reality, just 10% to 15% actually are.”

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How to Reduce Stress and Delegate Leadership on Your Team

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When you are used to chiming in and offering advice or instruction… when you are used to having your day interrupted by questions… you actually train yourself to be a prisoner of your own poor leadership. STEP THREE – Trusting (back away, let them own it). For many leaders, this step may be the most challenging.

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Two Unexpected Ways to Earn the Attention of Your Distracted Team

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Don’t ask them Ask for β€œadvice,” people see themselves as partners. And advice versus feedback significantly increases both the amount and quality of responses. Watch your pronouns.

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