The Practical Leader

AUGUST 30, 2023

Managers often hire consultants to help them solve major organizational problems. Many ideas are sifted through, and the most relevant one presented to management along with the consultant’s recommended action plan. Managers are hearing them for the first time. The outside company then prepares a summary report.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

They are subject matter experts in their field, the brightest minds, and equipped with the immense technical skills and experience to be at the helm of the world’s most powerful and disruptive companies. Here is why your organization should be interested in partnering with an executive coaching company.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Credentialed researchers have been investigating the topic of motivation in the workplace for quite a while (massive understatement!). Motivation/Hygiene Theory (Herzberg, 1966). The elements of work that resulted in job-related satisfaction ( motivators ). The Hierarchy of Needs (Maslow, 1954).

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LDRLB

MARCH 12, 2019

There comes a time when the job of motivation falls upon everyone. Maybe it’s because you’re a senior leader or team manager, or maybe it’s because those individuals are not doing their jobs well enough to motivate your peers. But there is a simple way to spike motivation when both intrinsic and extrinsic efforts have failed.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 29, 2020

What motivates you in your business? Discrimination motivated me and I pushed harder, worked tirelessly, looked past boundaries, dug into my creativity, and became a top salesperson in the first company, and opened a business in the printing/publishing field with my specific niche some years later. About the Author.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Our second most popular leadership article covers how to prevent senseless feedback from zapping your team’s motivation. A Manager’s Guide to Better Decision Making. How to Give Your Team the Energy They Need. Unfortunately, negative feedback is destructive and all-too-common.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 12, 2023

” A survey by e-mail productivity company, Gated, found “82% of people say e-mail is their primary means of communication at work, 74% feel guilt or stress over e-mails they haven’t read or replied to, and 67% of people feel overwhelmed by their inbox.” It’s an efficient information management tool.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 8, 2024

This isn’t always the case in the workplace, of course, and a recent study from the University of Washington explored the dynamic of having a manager who is younger than you are. Status incongruence emerges when those markers don’t apply to a manager, and especially when subordinates have higher status markers than their boss.

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 10, 2024

Utilize management interviews, employee surveys, and even customer feedback , but don’t stop there. Partner with cultural anthropologists to analyze company rituals, communication styles, and decision-making processes. Remember, culture isn’t just perks or dress code; it’s the fabric that holds a company together.

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Leading Blog

JULY 9, 2012

Jim Shaffer, author of The Leadership Solution , believes that top companies are guided by these three best principles: They value their people. Here’s another thing we all know: Because our people are free moral agents, they will not robotically assent and bring their energy to bear on the situation. It’s not a plant newspaper.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

There’s Chief Executive’s 2012 40 Best Companies for Leaders , Fortune’s 25 Top Companies for Leaders , and the just published Hay Group Best Companies for Leadership Study and Top 20. It’s no surprise that the same companies appear on these lists year over year.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2023

A powerful vision creates the will to make change happen and harnesses the energy that will be needed. It motivates individuals and organizations to commit to achieving the overall goal — no matter the number of roadblocks that get in the way. Who knows, maybe one of your visions could be the next Amazon.com.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

10 Signs Your Company Culture Needs a Fix. Interestingly, the leadership teams at struggling companies are often confounded to understand the reasons for their firm’s “underperformance” Company culture is often to blame. Here are 10 signs that your company culture needs a fix: 1.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 16, 2023

This means you need to dedicate time and energy to actually get to know your team and learn how to work well together. Of course, a great team needs leaders to provide a clear direction that inspires and motivates their teams to achieve greatness together. or our book Courageous Cultures. Check out David’s book for more on this.

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 15, 2010

Small actions to connect with people around you are called “Micro-Connections.&# These actions boost enthusiasm and energy in the work environment. Greenwich, Connecticut), people would think you were strange. why is everyone smiling? why is everyone smiling? why is everyone smiling? why is everyone smiling?

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 10, 2024

Utilize management interviews, employee surveys, and even customer feedback , but don’t stop there. Analyze previous company rituals, communication styles, and decision-making processes. Remember, culture isn’t just perks or dress code; it’s the fabric that holds a company together.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 16, 2019

Simply put, leadership is the art of inspiring, motivating, empowering, supporting, and assuring a group of people to act towards achieving a common goal. Unfortunately, the term is often confused with management, which can be defined as the process of dealing with or controlling things or people.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 3, 2020

We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog shared Time Management Strategies & Prioritizing. Here are five ways to effectively manage your energy.”

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

In the Global Culture Survey 2018 by The Katzenbach Center, a whopping 80% of respondents say their organization’s culture must evolve in the next five years for their company to succeed, grow, and retain the best people. Complexity is distracting; comprehensiveness is wasted energy. But you need to keep it simple. Keystone Behaviors.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 28, 2023

It’s no longer solely about the financial bottom line; today, companies understand that a motivated and engaged workforce is the driving force behind sustained growth. It involves a deeper emotional commitment to the company’s mission and values. Employee engagement encompasses more than mere job satisfaction.

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 21, 2012

At the core of of what has been called motivation is to value something. Specific values are the things the we will currently give priority to, seek to satisfy, spend our energy pursuing. This is incredibly evident in management positions. In what ways do your values motivate the work you do? Jaques 1994).

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

you might put your energies into time-consuming campus outreach programs, complicated recruitment campaigns, or expensive technology. may shift your focus to internal motivation and performance management strategies. When we ask broad questions, we invite a lot of wasted energy. 360-degree feedback was too specific.

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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. For managers, leadership isn’t one-size-fits-all. Unfortunately, this can be an overwhelming process for new managers to undertake without support.

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Career Advancement

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

However, she had mastered her current role in her publishing company and really wanted to get promoted to a higher-level position. They instill feelings of confidence and motivate their workers. Here’s the good news: If you have the motivation, you absolutely can master the necessary skills to become a star leader.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 24, 2016

Why aren’t they motivated? Your younger team members can be an incredible source of talent, energy, and productivity. Keys to cultivate motivated, energized teams that get more done, solve problems on their own, and make everyone around them better. Why don’t they understand? Why won’t they put in the time?

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Early in my career, I reported to Harold, a leader who proudly described his MBE approach – “management by exception.” Numerous managers realize that need and at least try to provide some sort of recognition. The next week his manager “thanked him” with a very expensive bottle of wine. Phony Flattery.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Not surprising, I found that one of the most significant drivers of employee engagement is One’s Immediate Manager and all aspects that make up that relationship between a manager and his or her employees, that is, the bond that is created by effective leaders with those they lead.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

This is an excerpt from Management Productivity Multipliers by Gerald Kraines, MD. Similarly, managerial leadership— when properly practiced—enables employees in a team, department, or company to accomplish far more than they could on their own. “The energy of the mind is the essence of life.” ” -Aristotle.

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Chart Your Course

APRIL 6, 2015

The top 25 companies for pay and perks. On Friday, Glassdoor released its first report on the top 25 companies for compensation and benefits. When that much of the workforce — 42% of women surveyed and 34% of men — feel they’re under-compensated for their work, employee motivation and performance suffer.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JANUARY 12, 2021

An exceedingly bright and consistently energetic member of our team at The Center for Leadership Studies (CLS), who for all intents and purposes is just starting her career, approached me recently seeking wisdom : Her : “You know how we are always saying that Situational Leadership ® is a language of performance management and change management?”.

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

When it comes to tradition, the challenge today is how to motivate the next generation to work in old-fashioned (read: unsocial as in media and societal interactions) work cultures. How do companies motivate and manage a generation of workers who grew up receiving awards and prizes for just showing up?

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Career Advancement

AUGUST 12, 2019

Renae Asks: I’m trying to use my time wisely, and that means being strategic in the leadership training opportunities I pursue, as well as the ones I set up for the team I manage. Anyone with the motivation to lead can develop core leadership qualities. Poor leadership can lead a company to failure. —Vince Lombardi.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Guest post from Hilary Grosskopf : Managing a team can sometimes feels more like managing a revolving door. When team members lose interest and motivation, they soon start to look for a new opportunity that fills this void. Positive acknowledgement is a form of energy for team members.

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The Practical Leader

JANUARY 18, 2023

too often managers point out what’s wrong while failing to recognize what’s right. Some managers realize the need for positive reinforcement and try to provide some sort of recognition. ” Recognition, celebration, and appreciation are powerful and renewable energy sources. It starts with valuing people.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Ever wonder what is the best path to effective management? The Internet is notorious for offering more resources than we could ever dream of needing on how to achieve the best management style, or on how to translate your business management degree into a training strategy that works best for your company.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 7, 2018

David writes: “Every company, no matter the industry, deals with difficult problems and issues each day. All companies and entrepreneurs have to send invoices sometimes. But when you get a new job as a manager, you aren’t told that.” Susan Fowler of Smart Brief provided Is Motivation What You Think It Is?

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 5, 2020

We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Bill explains: “It doesn’t matter what industry you’re in, what company model you have, or even what your unique career goals are. Communication.

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