Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Smart Growth : How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company by Whitney Johnson (Harvard Business Review Press, 2022) Growth is the goal. Martin (Harvard Business Review Press, 2022) Over a stellar career, Roger Martin has advised the CEOs of some of the world's most successful companies. Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2023

The oilfield services market has been booming due to the growing energy demand. Service providers must establish key satisfaction metrics and present them to the producer on every job. They also offer specialized expertise in engineering, procurement and construction. Visit [link] to learn more about oilfield support services.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 12, 2024

Figuring out how to inject energy and passion back into the workplace and work will be key. Shanelle Reese, Chief People Officer, Wonderschool The Talent Turnaround 2023 witnessed a seismic shift in the tech landscape, with unprecedented levels of turnover fueled by layoffs, career changes, and a resurgent job market.

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Joan’s voice broke with emotion as she talked about her growing health problems and the steep price her family has been paying for her “successful career.” Problems arise, however, when the metric becomes the only measure of success, when what you achieve is no longer tied to WHY you set out to achieve it in the first place.”.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 20, 2015

Planning : Leaders translate their vision for the organization into team goals and individual goals. Prioritizing : Leaders prioritize the individual goals into team priorities. Monitoring : Leaders are accountable for delivering team goals, so they track team progress against set metrics and milestones.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 20, 2015

He mastered these four career hacks before he turned 25. Scott Mautz of the Make It Matter blog helps us discover a formula that expresses how an organization’s energy is derived, and provides the four questions leaders can ask themselves to avoid sapping precious energy from the quest for breakthrough results.

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Experience to Lead

MAY 30, 2023

They can make a job exhausting and confusing, eating up energy that could be better spent enjoying life beyond the nine-to-five. With leadership training, managers can study the core competencies they need to adapt and grow for their entire career. Most of us can say we have worked with a bad boss before.

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Yet there’s been nothing traditional in sales for the past 15 years thanks, in part, to women making it a successful career path. Yes it is — if you learn how to leverage this new talent by focusing Gen Y behaviors on business goals and setting metrics for results. A few keys: Keep a career plan within their vision.

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Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 10, 2011

The corporate mission statement is further clarification and definition for your dreams and vision and assures you that your goals are aimed at the right target. Values often influence people's choices about where to invest their energies. Goals convert vision/mission into energy. Have economic value. Be realistic.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 5, 2022

When you equip your managers with the essential skills to avoid these mistakes, you’ll achieve results more quickly, have more nimble teams, reduce turnover, build a strong culture, and be able to focus everyone’s energy on serving your customers with better products and services, rather than constantly dealing with internal friction.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

On the equity and inclusion side, like so many people of color (I am Japanese-American), I’ve faced and had to overcome challenges in my pursuit of excellence in my career. Creating equitable opportunities for all is where we are spending a lot of our attention, energy, and resources.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

To make it worth their money, it makes more sense to have everyone return so they no longer have to invest energy in employee engagement for work-from-home employees in addition to those in the office. Consider Goals and Alternatives Before rushing the implementation of your return-to-office policies, consider why you’re making the move.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 30, 2020

Casting one’s mind back to the days when companies used to follow the mantra laid down by economist Milton Friedman and focused their energies solely on maximising the returns for shareholders, and it seems an altogether different era. Some of these have considerably more merit than others.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

We are now in the era of “do-it-yourself” career development. Unfortunately, organizations today are unknowingly leaving employees with skill gaps and blind spots that can derail careers and organizational effectiveness. Here are six things you can do to take control of your own career. Drawn Ideas/Getty Images.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 20, 2011

Why do so many talented, well-led teams, enterprises, and organizations – many of them with clear, reasonable goals – fail to win victories that should have been easily within their grasps? Most employees have been hurt or disappointed, at some point in their careers, by the hand of power in an organization.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

The implication is that women "choose" to gear down their careers in favor of work-life balance. And there are some short-cut metrics at each level to evaluate how we're doing. Key Metric: birth rates. Key Metric: the divorce rate. Men are increasingly sharing in this guilt. This is nonsense.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 5, 2018

The leader is the outside force that provides the acceleration – the energy that propels the business forward. On the other hand energy is our friend, helping us to push our way ahead. I became an energy conduit, inoculating my teammates from falling prey to complacency and injecting excitement and a desire to constantly improve.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

But it's important to know the difference between a one-time error in judgment and a decision to pursue a critically flawed strategy — in fact, your future career may depend on knowing the difference. I would recommend a few corporate household remedies: Refocus on the goal. Gather more information and improve your metrics.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2012

They fail to assess each subordinate's ability to operate independently and don't put in place the "eyehooks" of implementation — the check-ins, milestones, and metrics — that promote predictable execution. 2) What skills do I need on my team to accomplish our goals and allow me to play that value-added role?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2018

We are approaching the pursuit of work-life balance with the same obsessive (and oppressive) energy as we do our careers. It seems likely that the values driving us to be workaholics in the first place are also encouraging us to “optimize” ourselves by using metric-driven “hacks.”

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Case in point is Wal-Mart CEO, Lee Scott, who is so concerned with diversity mandates that Wal-Mart officers are held financially accountable by tying officer incentive bonuses to achieving diversity goals. Interesting points about the metrics involved – good feedback for women leaderhsip bloggers. Personally, I am not affronted.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

But many professionals find themselves in networking meetings where the goals are murkier. It may be to do a favor — say, a friend asks you to advise his sister-in-law on career opportunities. Next, align your personal goals with the type and duration of your meeting. What projects are you most excited about and why?

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HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Through a combination of efficiency projects and the use of renewable energy, we are on pace to reach our carbon emissions goal ahead of schedule. In fact, we are more than 90% of the way to our 2025 emissions reduction goal. A critical component of the DEI strategy is our commitment to measurement and metrics.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2018

We need a metric for humanity to evaluate the human capacity and connection among caregivers and patients. A mentor told me early in my career that only 20% of healing involves the high-tech stuff. The goal is to restore a sense of joy to their work. Develop metrics around technology deployments that are noted above.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

But each of us can likely remember a time in our career where we said it, or heard it. Alignment matters because it decreases the amount of energy it takes to go from A to Z. While you may still get from A to C or even to K with some misalignment, you are living with friction and energy loss. the goals are aligned.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

At the recent Sustainable Brands Metrics conference , Audrey Choi from Morgan Stanley presented some fascinating research on investor attitudes, with particular focus on Millennials. How much of your energy comes from clean, renewable sources? How ready are you to answer these kinds of tough questions from your employees and customers?

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 7, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Don’t Be A Victim of Success (Keep Climbing) by Starbucker on March 7, 2010 You set a goal, and with a lot of hard work, you hit it. One note: just as we inhale and exhale, so does the energy of a team. Work Happy Now!

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Succession Learning-by-Doing Career Short-term 160

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

But while performance goals are always top of mind for managers , many overlook the role of employee work-life balance in driving that performance. 92% feel they’re now better able to prioritize all their responsibilities and goals. Everything looks delicious, but we can’t eat it all (though we might try).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

As such, organizations spend enormous amounts of time and energy defining jobs, roles, and goals — and then figure out who to reward or punish when things go well or poorly. One of the most sacred tenants of management is the need for clear accountability. Third, appoint process champions.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Criteria for Progression : Outline the factors, such as skills development, experience, or performance metrics, that contribute to an employee moving within the salary band. Instead, energies can be focused on figuring out the logistics and viability of what the company needs.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 11, 2014

Urgent always trumps important in such team members, so although they’re getting a lot done, but not necessarily making progress toward bigger goals. Sure customer service metrics improve, but financials suffer. Encourage them to pilot their ideas before spending significant energy on large scale implementation.

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