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Choosing the Best Motivational Leadership Speakers

Career Advancement

Some are purely motivational—firing up your employees to perform—and some offer factual case studies and industry examples to show how to elevate managing skills, build a cohesive team, or maximize productivity. They’re willing to maintain a continuous relationship with you to give employees the mentoring they need if you desire.

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Managing Across Generations: Leadership Coaching Success Story

Mike Cardus

Leadership Coaching & Development Case Study from the Exponent Leadership Process. “I The Mentoring Program. The mentoring program was intended to create connection between generational staff. I also conducted workshops on effective mentoring and perceptual awareness of one’s communication and behaviors.

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The Big Picture of Business- Professional Education Necessary for Company Success

Strategy Driven

Employees and executives are rarely mentored on the people skills necessary to have a winning team. Team building must be part of the corporate Vision first, not as a series of exercises delegated to trainers. 5) Teaching, Mentoring. (6) Learning, Growing, Mentoring. Training is rarely allowed to be extensive.

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What to Do When an Online Community Starts to Fail

Harvard Business Review

As the HBS case study on Yelp details, the company’s early success was based in part on the creation of the “Elite Squad,” a user group in the “low thousands” whose active participation was rewarded by invitation to parties in their cities. Emphasis mine.). Think hashtags and @-replies on Twitter.) Information & technology Internet'

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Make Sure Your Team’s Workload Is Divided Fairly

Harvard Business Review

Delegating work to your team may sound like a straightforward task of management, but, in fact, it’s complicated. ” Morgenstern suggests setting aside one or two hours at the end of each week for “delegation strategy and review.” Devote time in your schedule for thinking through your strategy for delegating.

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How to Manage an Insecure Employee

Harvard Business Review

“When someone doesn’t have the confidence to be proactive or to take on what you’re asking them to take on, you can’t just delegate and move on,” she says. ” You might also consider asking your insecure employee to be a “mentor or coach” to another team member. Don’t. Be a martyr.

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How to Manage a Perfectionist

Harvard Business Review

They tend to be impatient with or hypercritical of others and they're not good at delegating. "On Accept that they may not be good managers as they are likely to demand too much of their people (see "hypercritical" and "bad at delegating" above). Case Study #1: Find a better job fit. Case Study #2: Redirect the focus.

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