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Surviving Success

Nathan Magnuson

Success is a lousy teacher. I recently received a question from a leader who has just completed a season of success. How do you keep your team fully engaged in the wake of success? Success can take a toll on people – mentally, physically and emotionally. Set a New Goal. There’s tremendous power in setting a goal.

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Make Sure to Learn from Your…. Successes

QAspire

But, can we say the same about our successes? When we reach (or beat) our goals, do we conduct a robust ‘after action review’ to get to the bottom of what went right? A similar movement needs to take hold in the failure/success arena! Why do we fail to embrace success as a teacher? Who knows?

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What Is Situational Leadership®? Understanding This Leadership Model

The Center For Leadership Studies

If you fall short, a reasonable first place to start with an “after-action-review” is, What could you (the leader) have done differently? Identify the Task – Leadership initiates with something to do: an objective to fulfill, a goal to accomplish, a task to complete. Did you wait too long to make certain decisions?

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Pre-Animate: Project Planning Team Building Activity

Mike Cardus

Pre-Animate focuses the team on what is needed for accomplishing the goals and objectives. Creating a space for team members to discuss what success will look like, how to get there and creating a deliberate plan to capture what went right, the team purposefully shares knowledge and skills when it can be best used – AT THE START.

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The Boomers are Leaving! – How to Create and Implement a Knowledge.

Strategy Driven

Some knowledge transfer methods to consider are mentoring, social networks, Communities of Practice, After Action Reviews, and storytelling programs. During the design phase you will also establish the goals and objectives of your program. From this point on, it is critical that you follow the needs of your audience.

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Leadership Development Should Focus on Experiments

Harvard Business Review

This helped ensure that the experiments had clear measures of success or failure. Using the continuous process improvement methods that were developed for the experiment, the manager is now working to reach a 30% reduction goal over a longer time frame. One experiment generated a 2.6% One experiment generated a 2.6%

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Bring in Outside Experts to Mentor Your Team

Harvard Business Review

For example, research by Google, reported by Jolt , points out that less than 20% of tech employees in Silicon Valley believes the training they receive fits their goals and needs. For example, successful agile talent is, almost by definition, entrepreneurial. More-formal methods, such as after-action reviews, are useful too.

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