Lead Change Blog

MARCH 20, 2015

Fifteen years ago, I reinvented myself and started a new career in faith-based social services. This month, COI is undertaking an ambitious Earth Day project titled, KidPower2015 Earth Day Project , with the goal of encouraging COI kids to be leaders in the movement to protect the Earth for future generations.

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Career Advancement

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

After he took the time to pinpoint his big-picture priorities and outline the stepping stones toward those goals, he grew confident in making bold decisions that would help the company achieve its objectives. Set realistic goals. Reevaluate your goals, objectives, and timeframe, making them more realistic where needed.

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Career Advancement

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

After he took the time to pinpoint his big-picture priorities and outline the stepping stones toward those goals, he grew confident in making bold decisions that would help the company achieve its objectives. Set realistic goals. Reevaluate your goals, objectives, and timeframe, making them more realistic where needed.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

When you identify what’s possible, it creates hope, energy, and excitement. You don’t have the time, people, money, and energy to pursue every opportunity that’s identified. First, establish a project team to create a detailed plan. The goal is alignment. Get everyone on the same page pursuing a set common set of goals.

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Career Advancement

OCTOBER 12, 2020

After he took the time to pinpoint his big-picture priorities and outline the stepping stones toward those goals, he grew confident in making bold decisions that would help the company achieve its objectives. Set realistic goals. Reevaluate your goals, objectives, and timeframe, making them more realistic where needed.

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HR Digest

JUNE 5, 2022

When I started my career, I thought that the hard part was over, and I wasn’t looking forward to any career lessons to learn from either. The harsh reality is that every day presents new challenges, and if you want to succeed in your career, you have to learn how to deal with them. But the truth is, I was just getting started.

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Leading Blog

JULY 12, 2019

What matters to the average worker includes career opportunity, meaningful work, a balanced life, a fair wage, and being treated with respect—not increasing output. As a leader or manager, you have to attend to the goals of your board or bosses and to the career aspirations of your workers. A Solution in Four Words.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 24, 2024

“By focusing in specific ways on five key leadership elements— Purpose, Process, People, Presence, and Peace —you can increase your time, capacity, energy, and ultimately your leadership impact,” explains Amy Jen Su , author of the book, The Leader You Want To Be: Five Essential Principles for Bringing Out Your Best Self—Every Day.

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Career Advancement

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Close out those small nagging projects you’ve been meaning to do. Essentially you want to clear out dated projects so you can start fresh. Are there projects or tasks you want to be a part of? Use your goals to focus the content and attract the connections that will help you achieve them. Wrap up loose ends.

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Career Advancement

MAY 25, 2021

After he took the time to pinpoint his big-picture priorities and outline the stepping stones toward those goals, he grew confident in making bold decisions that would help the company achieve its objectives. Set realistic goals. Reevaluate your goals, objectives, and timeframe, making them more realistic where needed.

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Leading Blog

JULY 23, 2021

Their career experience doesn’t provide the context needed to quickly take the best action that will move them forward. However, this doesn’t apply to change initiatives where the type of change, the context for it, and the project team are new. Without it, people spend their energy protecting themselves from harm.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Instead, my goal would be to pursue my highest calling. The pursuit of meaning from my career spawned the Lead Change Group, a global community of people instigating a character-based leadership revolution. I focus my best energy every day elevating purpose and mobilizing the 12 people on my team and the 300 in my organization.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

45 Career Advice Experts Share Their Blueprint for Career Success (Plus Leaderboard)​ Does your career seem to be a struggle at times? It’s why I wrote my book Why Career Advice Sucks™ … to share the stories of my own career success and failures and help you grow your career more quickly.

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Career Advancement

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

After he took the time to pinpoint his big-picture priorities and outline the stepping stones toward those goals, he grew confident in making bold decisions that would help the company achieve its objectives. Set realistic goals. Reevaluate your goals, objectives, and timeframe, making them more realistic where needed.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 6, 2023

Are you scheduling the finish with clear discussions and mutual appointments to conclude tasks and projects? And that type of meaningless work SAPs morale and wastes people’s time and energy, and those are precious resources. Do you and your team hold one another accountable for commitments? Where are we going?

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Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Adjust Your Energy Dial – As a general rule, the bigger the room, the bigger your energy needs to be. My natural energy setting is friendly but low key. When I was getting started in my career as a speaker 15 years ago, I had a client organization where I spoke to 40 or 50 high potential leaders three or four times a year.

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HR Digest

MARCH 29, 2024

Interviewers rarely expect you to bring up the worst mistake of your career and delve into how it broke your spirit entirely. One particular example that comes to mind is when a client requested a significant change to the project scope that I believed would compromise the quality and timeline of the deliverables.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 10, 2024

In Working with Emotional Intelligence , Daniel Goleman, reports, “a study by the Center for Creative Leadership of top American and European executives whose careers derailed, the inability to build and lead a team was one of the most common reasons for failure.” “Just do it” is often their mantra. .”

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 12, 2023

Early in my business career, I worked as a team leader on a high-level project. As a result, this lone team member did all they could to sabotage the project, and it was ultimately a failure. Vision Clear business goals are almost always the key to success in both the short and long-term.

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QAspire

JULY 1, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Taking a “Project View&# of Improvement and Change Initiatives Yesterday, over a cup of coffee, my friend asked me about my first book and what was my approach towards writing it. I said that I took “project approach&#. Now, that’s a goal - a project for you.

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Great Results Team Building

MARCH 21, 2023

Whether it is a Fun List of 31 “would you rather” Questions to help keep the conversation moving or employee productivity apps made to organize your projects, you can always find an engaging way make your office more connected and productive than ever. One thing that makes Slack an incredible tool is the number of app integrations.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Such employees will still turn up and play their part but with none of the enthusiasm necessary to improve the work or project outcomes from previous performance numbers. Whether in their actual assignments or due to irrational working conditions within the workspace, the work circumstances can greatly affect how the work is executed.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Create policies that promote energy efficiency, reduce waste and water conservation. Simply asking your employees to turn off all of the lights before leaving can make a huge difference in energy conservation and how they feel about the environment. Share knowledge and resources that can help someone achieve their goal.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 28, 2015

I am regularly asked if I am all in with regard to some project, initiative, or cause. When you pour maximum effort into something, you are burning energy at a high rate. If you are completely devoted to a work project, you have little or nothing left over for other aspects of life which should claim some of your attention and energy.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2023

The oilfield services market has been booming due to the growing energy demand. From project management to technical support, these firms can help their clients manage the risks and costs of drilling operations. They also offer specialized expertise in engineering, procurement and construction.

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Thin Difference

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

I’ve had a chance to work with many memorable leaders so far in my career. While the “good leaders” and “ bad leaders ” occupy space in my memory bank, only a handful of those leaders have altered my career. It moves a team towards a goal while also tending to individual growth. Others I remember less fondly.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 10, 2021

The harsh reality is that few entrepreneurs become successful in their careers, irrespective of whether you use money or popularity as metrics to measure success. Let’s face it: everyone wants to be a ‘successful’ entrepreneur. Hard work does pay off; you just need to be in the right mindset to follow through with it.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Posted in Career Development Leadership Development “A ‘squeaky wheel’ isn’t the highest priority project. In many organizations, it gets the grease, while projects with greatest potential to bring about business results get delayed or set aside.” It’s the loudest or most noticed.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 4, 2016

Do you have a dream, goal or passion that consistently fuels you? And that’s a big problem, because much of your value as a leader is found in your ability to uncover your people’s hidden energy and motivation. Remember that time last month when you told your team you’d provide Starbucks every morning during this big project?

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 22, 2021

“By focusing in specific ways on five key leadership elements— Purpose, Process, People, Presence, and Peace —you can increase your time, capacity, energy, and ultimately your leadership impact,” explains Amy Jen Su , author of the book, The Leader You Want To Be: Five Essential Principles for Bringing Out Your Best Self—Every Day.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 20, 2022

Lastly, we will cover a list of soft skills not many people consider when looking for a job or expanding their career opportunities. . Teamwork refers to working together toward a common goal. This skill shows up when you work with another person towards a shared objective, whether it’s a project team or a family.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Set the ground rules by reminding yourself, and those around you, that the holidays are fleeting; your career isn’t. Know your limitations: If you are not a high-energy person, ready for the next day or next big project on a slimmer sleep schedule, keep the holiday reveling to a minimum.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Earning stacks of money, starting a family, and going on expensive vacations are goals that we can all probably relate to but they are not the right answer when asked about career goal examples. Attending a conference in your field might be a goal for someone who is passionate about sharing their expertise with others.

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The Office Blend Blog

JULY 5, 2021

At a root level, this topic occupies a good deal of bandwidth within my own career & with those of clients, whether that energy is selection or development focused. The Goal Test. Goals are a funny element to ponder, because we are endlessly told to acquire them — but never how to “give them the boot”?.

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Engaging Leader

AUGUST 15, 2013

Erik and Jesse discuss the common themes Erik has seen after conducting so many interviews about personal productivity, including: Goals and priorities. Time and energy. When Jesse started his career a couple decades ago, the Franklin planner was huge in the area of time management. Distraction and focus. App: TextExpander.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Do you create opportunities, projects, and positions for all of your people to grow professionally and in turn grow your company? Do they feel that the road ahead is littered with debris and speed bumps that will derail their goals or confidence in the organization (or both)? Yellow flag. A red flag means to stop the race immediately.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Workplaces that retain top people give them access to meaningful learning opportunities—they enable people to be energized by their projects, to perform at their best, and to advance their skills and move forward professionally. There’s no room for advancement. There’s no room for advancement. They’re exposed to dysfunction.

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