Great Leadership By Dan

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Building Commitment on Your Team

Great Leadership By Dan

They’ll step in wondering just what kind of commitment they can expect from you, and many will wonder if they can measure up to the standards on your team. Commitment is a foundational requirement for loyalty, and loyalty for trust. When you do, you’ll build the kind of commitment in your followers that lasts a lifetime.

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Unwrapping and Managing Difficult Employees

Great Leadership By Dan

The next step is getting them to commit to change and taking action. How committed are you to changing on a scale of 1-10? What would it take to increase your commitment by 1 point? Coaching your difficult employee to understand the impact they have on others and themselves is your first step to mitigating the problem behavior.

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Hit Songs and Great Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

COMMITMENT Being disciplined begins with commitment. Gathering a strong commitment from those we lead will have the greatest impact on achieving the positive results we are responsible for producing. So how do we inspire a level of commitment that will move the needle within our organizations?

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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. When employees believe their bosses have behavioral integrity, their commitment goes up. ? Their research methods and analysis discovered: ?

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What It Takes to Be a Leader

Great Leadership By Dan

It’s a test of your ability to hold yourself 100% accountable to follow through on what you promise (or commit) to doing. What we should be doing is committing to taking action ourselves and holding ourselves accountable for the goals we set out to do. We can’t simply rely on others if we expect to be leaders. So where do you begin?

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Playbook for a New Leader’s First 90 Days on the Job

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Creating a culture of trust, open communication, accountability, recognition, and commitment to a common vision is the #1 job of a leader. 3) Build Multiple Relationships Within your first week on the job, host 1-hour on-boarding meetings with each of your direct reports.

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Elevating Your Leadership Game

Great Leadership By Dan

The best leaders make all of this look effortless, but the great ones I’ve worked with are committed to getting better. Ongoing development – the learning, commitment, resilience, and effort – is often what separates great leaders from everyone else. Great leaders have a learning mindset. Those projects certainly cannot be ignored.