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Leadership and Work Teams

Great Leadership By Dan

If this premise and the figures above are accepted it would suggest that only 10% of team leaders are high performing, enabling their teams, whilst 40% of leaders are failing in their leadership tasks, whilst the remaining 50% are barely holding in there! Sounds complicated? Not really. Are you leading your team with the appropriate style?

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Master your Metrics

Lead Change Blog

Customer attrition, decline in repeat customers, fewer new customers, decreasing average sales, and margin deterioration are lagging indicators of diminishing relevance. Customer attrition, declining repeat customers. This enables them to enhance operating efficiency, with the goal of earning and sustaining relevance.

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Recovering Your Company Culture

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Company culture is one of the most widely discussed parts of the recruiting process, and takes strong leadership from the top to course-correct when things have gone astray. I recently spoke with Greg, an Executive Vice President who runs global operations for a multi-billion-dollar, multinational company.

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Building Trust Through Behavioral Integrity

Great Leadership By Dan

In that piece, he described his team’s efforts to examine a specific hypothesis (“Employee commitment drives customer service”) in the US operations of a major hotel chain. Sharon Allen, Deloitte’s chairman of the board, notes that, by focusing on talent management and retention strategies, “executives may be able to reduce attrition.”

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What is Great Leadership?

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Ted Bagley: All organizations worry about leadership, from the mom and pop community businesses to the giant global entities both domestic and international. Good leadership is defined as proper training, rewarding, assisting, coaching and respecting those who “carry the load”.

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#Leadership: Humanizing Our Approaches

QAspire

We need more revenues, better margins, higher utilization, more leads, strategic diversification, differentiation, operational efficiency, lower attrition, strategic focus, branding et al. We need to humanize our leadership approaches and communication to build a system where intrinsic motivation is more likely to happen.

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“I Quit”: Why Employees Quit and How to Retain Them

HR Digest

A high attrition rate is a costly challenge for any business. Push factors such as poor leadership, lack of career development, lack of recognition, or unclear career paths may compel an employee to leave, start thinking about other options, talking to recruiters, or looking at ads on the internet, etc. Poor leadership.