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One vital way to ensure your team’s busy day leads to better results

Let's Grow Leaders

From Counting to Quality: Help Your Busy Team Work Smarter Last week, we talked about meaningful metrics , focusing on the game, not the score, and identifying and isolating the daily habits most likely to lead to success. Busy Day Example #3: The Check the Box Manager This busy day example is one of the most dangerous.

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How To Get Noticed (and Promoted) at Work.

Rich Gee Group

Here's a comprehensive guide to getting noticed—and promoted—at work, complete with action steps and book recommendations to propel your career forward. Understand the metrics by which your performance is judged and aim to surpass them consistently. Present well-thought-out solutions to your manager. Final Thoughts.

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Help Your Team Shift from Busy to Productive

Let's Grow Leaders

Is your team doing what you asked, but they’re focused on counting the metrics, and how busy they are as opposed to the quality metrics of how well they’re accomplishing those tasks? This question came from a reader of Winning Well: A Manager’s Guide to Getting Results Without Losing Your Soul.

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Overloaded at Work: How to Ask For the Support You Need

Let's Grow Leaders

The Strategic Sort: Deciphering What Matters Most Picture this: Your boss slides over a scroll of 27 KPIs and you’re playing a corporate game of ‘Which Metric is Least Tragic?’. As a manager, you want to do what you can to prevent the snowball of overwhelm from picking up speed as it rolls downhill. Here’s what I need.”

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5 Project Management Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Strategy Driven

No matter your company or industry, one thing is true: you’re working on projects. And the truth is that these projects don’t always go well. In fact, did you know that 70% of organizations have suffered at least one project failure in the last 12 months? If you don’t have this, your project will likely fail.

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3 Ways to Prepare for a Better Performance Review

Let's Grow Leaders

It had been an insane but productive year of game-changing projects and really long hours. Here’s what I need…” Laura then gave me a long list of metrics, correlations, and ROI calculations to do. If ROI is too much of a stretch calculate percent improvement in key metrics. I was proud, but exhausted.

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How To Start Your Career Off Right

Eric Jacobson

Gorick Ng is a career adviser at Harvard Collage and during the last four years, he’s interviewed more than five hundred interns, early career professionals, managers, and executives, across the globe. What would you do differently if you could redo the first years of your career? Are you excited to here?

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